# Botticelli - May 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 5, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186 "2020-05-05T15:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 8
**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, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/141 "2020-05-29T23:44:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you and a New Zealander succeed where George Mallory failed? > IQ2: Did you die aboard your ship, which was hidden at Lincoln Island? > IQ3: Are you the best-known Norwegian Ridgeback? > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Not Tenzing Norgay > 2. Not Lord Nelson > 3. Not Norbert Correct. Captain Nemo. Correct. DQ: Originally appeared in prose fiction? ---
**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, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/142 "2020-05-30T02:11:58Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a property dispute with Gottfried Leibniz? > 2. Were you a singer whose birth name was Eunica Waymon? > 3. Were you onstage at the Oscars when a nude man streaked the stage? > > 1. Take a DQ > 2. Not Nelson Eddy? > 3. Not David Niven #1 was Isaac Newton (over the right to be called the creator of calculus). #2 was Nina Simone. Correct on Mr. Niven. DQs: 1. Created by an American author or authors? 2. Created after 1899? ---
**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, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/143 "2020-05-30T03:37:51Z")
Previous IQs: Did JFK wish you a happy birthday by phone just hours before he was slain? - FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner Are you executive director of the Planetary Society? - Bill Nye the Science Guy Were you (probably erroneously) quoted as having said, “Get there fustest with the mostest”? - Confederate cavalry leader Nathan Bedford Forrest DQs: Has ever appeared in a movie? Considered a good guy? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? Were you a tragic heroine of Tolkien’s early writings? Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/144 "2020-05-31T06:35:38Z")
I am N: 1. Not real 2. Not male 3. First name starts with N. 4. Originally appeared in prose fiction. 5. Has appeared in movies 6. Considered a good guy > [@](#): > > IQs: > > Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? > Were you a tragic heroine of Tolkien’s early writings? > Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not Numinor? Or, alternatively, take a DQ 3. I am not Eliot Ness? Or take a DQ ---
**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 31, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/145 "2020-05-31T11:02:07Z")
DQs: 1. Created by an American author or authors? 2. Created after 1899? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/146 "2020-05-31T13:03:35Z")
I am N! 1. Not real 2. Not male 3. First name starts with N. 4. Originally appeared in prose fiction. 5. Has appeared in movies 6. Considered a good guy 7. Created by an American author 8. Created after 1899 ---
**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 31, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/147 "2020-05-31T19:18:29Z")
IQs: 1. Are you aka The Tin Woodman? 2. Are you aka Ruggedo and Roquat? 3. Is Ojo the Lucky your nephew? ---
**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 31, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/148 "2020-05-31T22:56:15Z")
IQ1: Were you credited as the author of ERB’s first book? IQ2: Were you David’s younger brother, Eric? IQ3: Were you the best-known Stratemeyer Syndicate heroine? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/149 "2020-06-01T06:11:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you aka The Tin Woodman? > 2. Are you aka Ruggedo and Roquat? > 3. Is Ojo the Lucky your nephew? 1. I am not Nick Chopper 2. I am not the Nome King 3. I am not … Numbi? > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you credited as the author of ERB’s first book? > IQ2: Were you David’s younger brother, Eric? > IQ3: Were you the best-known Stratemeyer Syndicate heroine? 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t know 3. YEss!! I am Nancy Drew!!! Well done, SCAdian! ---
**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:** [June 1, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/150 "2020-06-01T11:34:00Z")
Good one, SCA! Played right to your strengths. Ojo’s uncle was Unc Nunkie. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/151 "2020-06-01T11:38:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Good one, SCA! Played right to your strengths. > > Ojo’s uncle was Unc Nunkie. I knew it was Nu something. Time to reread. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/152 "2020-06-01T17:12:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you credited as the author of ERB’s first book? > IQ2: Were you David’s younger brother, Eric? Norman Bean. (It was supposed to be Normal Bean, but a typesetter thought the _l_ was a typo and “corrected” it.) Ricky Nelson. I actually had my favourite Nero Wolfe question as #3, but then I realised Wolfe had already been used. I am **C**! ---
**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:** [June 1, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/153 "2020-06-01T18:40:13Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a sea-sick sea serpent who hung around with a kid with a beany-copter cap? 2. Were you Agamemnon’s unfaithful wife? 3. Are you a bald-headed Canadian comic on _Who’s Line Is It Anyway?_ ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/154 "2020-06-02T05:58:13Z")
Congrats, **SCAdian**! Too late to move this to a new thread for June? Previous IQs: Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? - Nathanael Greene Were you a tragic heroine of Tolkien’s early writings? - Nienor Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? - Nathan Hale, America’s first spy ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/155 "2020-06-02T10:53:25Z")
1. Are you a bearded dragon on a fictional TV show whose royal owner thinks is a real dragon? 2. Are you an author probably best known for the book **Woman of the People**? 3. Did you play Cricket in the TV series _Hawaiian Eye_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/156 "2020-06-02T12:31:59Z")
Err, by fictional I mean it isn’t reality TV or a documentary. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186/157 "2020-06-02T13:55:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Congrats, **SCAdian**! Too late to move this to a new thread for June? [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=897405](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=897405) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2020/853186.md?page=7)