# Botticelli - May 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 3, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407 "2019-05-03T03:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/241 "2019-05-28T05:13:19Z")
What the heck – here’s my “Are you Onlyname?” question: DQ: Are you L’Tol (later known as Lytol), from Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/242 "2019-05-28T12:16:32Z")
My best guess is Lucien from the Dreaming, but that’s not it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/243 "2019-05-28T13:31:12Z")
Right you are, **SCA** , as to Asimov and Heinlein. > [@SCAdian](#): > > …DQ: Are you L’Tol (later known as Lytol), from Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series? I am not. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/244 "2019-05-28T14:18:31Z")
Are you Loophole from George R. R. Martin’s Wild Card series? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/245 "2019-05-29T03:48:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you Loophole from George R. R. Martin’s Wild Card series? I am not. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/246 "2019-05-29T16:05:53Z")
OK, time’s up (and then some), and I am His Imperial Majesty Leonidas IX The distant-future Emperor of Humanity in Niven and Pournelle’s first-contact classic _The Mote in God’s Eye_ (1974) and several other books and short stories: [The Mote in God's Eye - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/247 "2019-05-29T16:09:33Z")
Good one! It’s been awhile since I read that. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/248 "2019-05-29T16:41:59Z")
I was wondering if I’d ever heard of you, but I have. I’ve even read that book – when it first came out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/249 "2019-05-29T17:02:04Z")
Completely unknown to me. I’d have never gotten that one. On to M! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/250 "2019-05-29T21:50:41Z")
Thanks. I’d mentioned him in IQs in several prior rounds. **SCA** , you should re-read \*Mote \*- let me know what you think the second time 'round! Right, then. On to M ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/251 "2019-05-29T21:57:48Z")
And **SMV** , if you like sf, I recommend the book highly. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/252 "2019-05-29T22:17:52Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Lamont Cranston’s girlfriend? 2. Are you Hercule Grytpipe-Thynne’s French flunky? 3. Did Edwin A. Robinson call you a “child of scorn”? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/253 "2019-05-29T23:58:04Z")
IQ1: Did you have a romance with Peter Townsend? IQ2: Were you #1’s grandmother? IQ3: Did you and your father both serve as First Sea Lord? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/254 "2019-05-30T04:40:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Lamont Cranston’s girlfriend? > 2. Are you Hercule Grytpipe-Thynne’s French flunky? > 3. Did Edwin A. Robinson call you a “child of scorn”? Dunno x3. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you have a romance with Peter Townsend? > IQ2: Were you #1’s grandmother? > IQ3: Did you and your father both serve as First Sea Lord? Also dunno x3. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/255 "2019-05-30T11:14:02Z")
1. Do you return to the Fifth Dimension when you say your name backwards? 2. Did you initiate the Great Leap Forward? 3. Did you write _The Naked Ape_? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/256 "2019-05-30T12:12:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you have a romance with Peter Townsend? > IQ2: Were you #1’s grandmother? > IQ3: Did you and your father both serve as First Sea Lord? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Also dunno x3. Princess Margaret. Queen Mary, wife of George V. Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: Living (if real) or would be alive today if real (if fictional)? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/257 "2019-05-30T12:18:10Z")
IQ1: Are you QB for the Atlanta Falcons? IQ2: Are you QB for the Cleveland Browns? IQ3: Are you QB for the Kansas City Chiefs? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/258 "2019-05-30T12:53:16Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Lamont Cranston’s girlfriend? > 2. Are you Hercule Grytpipe-Thynne’s French flunky? > 3. Did Edwin A. Robinson call you a “child of scorn”? > Dunno x3. #1 was Margot Lane. #2 is Moriarty (on the highly acclaimed BBC radio wireless-type series _The Goon Show_) #3 was Miniver Cheevy (from _Spoon River Anthology_) DQ: Last name starts with M? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/259 "2019-05-30T13:03:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And **SMV** , if you like sf, I recommend the book highly. Thanks! I’m not usually a sci-fi guy – I prefer fantasy – but I’ll check it out. IQ1: Did you write _Billy Budd_? IQ2: Were you an earlier First Sea Lord (under Pitt), and the last person in the UK to be impeached (for improper use of public money)? IQ3: Were a possibly-apocryphal American colonist who jumped in to take her husband’s place on a gun crew, when he was killed in the Battle of Monmouth? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/260 "2019-05-30T17:09:14Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Do you return to the Fifth Dimension when you say your name backwards? > 2. Did you initiate the Great Leap Forward? > 3. Did you write _The Naked Ape_? Not Mr. Mxptxl (sp?), not Mao Zedong and dunno. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you QB for the Atlanta Falcons? > IQ2: Are you QB for the Cleveland Browns? > IQ3: Are you QB for the Kansas City Chiefs? Dunno x3. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > … > > IQ1: Did you write _Billy Budd_? > > IQ2: Were you an earlier First Sea Lord (under Pitt), and the last person in the UK to be impeached (for improper use of public money)? > > IQ3: Were a possibly-apocryphal American colonist who jumped in to take her husband’s place on a gun crew, when he was killed in the Battle of Monmouth? Not Herman Melville, dunno, and not Molly Pitcher. M. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with M [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407.md?page=14)