# Botticelli - May 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 2, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823 "2022-05-02T17:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 26, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/201 "2022-05-26T18:49:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you run for two offices simultaneously in 1960? > Did you do the same in 1988? > A former Cabinet secretary, was your last public appearance in 1922? Respectively: I am not Lodge. I am not Lloyd Bentsen. I am not Robert Lincoln. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Do you know what evil lurks in the heart of men? > IQ2: Did you travel to Laputa, Luggnagg and Japan? > IQ3: Are you a sheepish lion? IQ1: I am not Lamont Cranston. IQ2: I am not Lemuel Gulliver. IQ3: I am not Lambert. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with L 4. would be alive today if real, in recent version 5. American 6. not from a work of prose 7. from film or television, not originally but very soon after first appearance 8. first appeared before 1980 ---
**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 26, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/202 "2022-05-26T18:58:35Z")
DQ: First appeared after 1959? ---
**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 26, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/203 "2022-05-26T19:41:14Z")
Previous IQs: Did you run for two offices simultaneously in 1960? - Not Lodge, but Lyndon Johnson (for US senator and VPOTUS) Did you do the same in 1988? - Yes, Lloyd Bentsen, for the same two jobs _and_ taking advantage of the same Texas law A former Cabinet secretary, was your last public appearance in 1922? - Yes, Robert Todd Lincoln, at the dedication of his father’s monument in Washington, DC DQ: Main character of that work of fiction? IQs: Are you a prominent liberal law professor who’s been mentioned as a possible SCOTUS appointee? Did you once wait outside your home while your wife was in bed with a lover? Was your first big film role in _Winter’s Bone_? ---
**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 26, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/204 "2022-05-26T20:08:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a prominent liberal law professor who’s been mentioned as a possible SCOTUS appointee? > Did you once wait outside your home while your wife was in bed with a lover? > Was your first big film role in _Winter’s Bone_? Respectively: I am not somebody Lawrence. I am not James Lawrence. I am not Jennifer Lawrence. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with L 4. would be alive today if real, in recent version 5. American 6. not from a work of prose 7. from film or television, not originally but very soon after first appearance 8. first appeared before 1980 9. first appeared before 1959 10. usually a main character in ensemble, never appears alone ---
**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 26, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/205 "2022-05-26T21:00:18Z")
IQs: 1. Do you have a brother named Rerun? 2. Did you star in _Safety Last_? 3. Did you write _The Song of the Chattahoochee_? ---
**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 26, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/206 "2022-05-26T21:35:43Z")
Previous IQs: Are you a prominent liberal law professor who’s been mentioned as a possible SCOTUS appointee? - Laurence Tribe Did you once wait outside your home while your wife was in bed with a lover? - Sir Laurence Olivier (married to Vivien Leigh) Was your first big film role in _Winter’s Bone_? - Yes, Jennifer Lawrence DQs: Good guy? From comics? IQs: Did you express your wish to aliens to be given Australia? Were you married to a famous actor on a farm in Ohio? Was a typical lunch for you an apple and a glass of buttermilk? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/207 "2022-05-26T21:59:38Z")
IQ1: Were you a vicious plantation owner in what was one of the first best-selling American novels? IQ2: Are you a uniballed bicyclist who sometimes does triathlons? IQ3: Are you a simian secret agent? ---
**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 26, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/208 "2022-05-26T23:25:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you have a brother named Rerun? > 2. Did you star in _Safety Last_? > 3. Did you write _The Song of the Chattahoochee_? 1. I am not Lucy van Pelt. 2. I am not Harold Lloyd. 3. I am not Longfellow? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you express your wish to aliens to be given Australia? > Were you married to a famous actor on a farm in Ohio? > Was a typical lunch for you an apple and a glass of buttermilk? Respectively: I am not Abraham Lincoln. I am not Abraham Lincoln. I am not Abraham Lincoln. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Were you a vicious plantation owner in what was one of the first best-selling American novels? > IQ2: Are you a uniballed bicyclist who sometimes does triathlons? > IQ3: Are you a simian secret agent? IQ1: I am not Simon Legree. IQ2: I am not Lance Armstrong. IQ3: I am not Lancelot Link. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with L 4. would be alive today if real, in recent version 5. American 6. not from a work of prose 7. from film or television, not originally but very soon after first appearance 8. first appeared before 1980 9. first appeared before 1959 10. usually a main character in ensemble, never appears alone 11. good 12. originally from comic books/strips ---
**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 26, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/209 "2022-05-26T23:29:16Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Do you have a brother named Rerun? > > > 2. Did you star in _Safety Last_ ? > > > 3. Did you write _The Song of the Chattahoochee_ ? > > 1. I am not Lucy van Pelt. > 2. I am not Harold Lloyd. > 3. I am not Longfellow? Correct, Correct, and Sidney Lanier. DQ: Originally from a comic strip? ---
**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 27, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/210 "2022-05-27T03:47:44Z")
DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with L 4. would be alive today if real, in recent version 5. American 6. not from a work of prose 7. from film or television, among other things 8. first appeared before 1980 9. first appeared before 1959 10. usually a main character in ensemble, never appears alone 11. good 12. originally from comic books/strips 13. originally from a comic strip, then very soon after appeared in film shorts, later comic books and eventually television ---
**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 27, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/211 "2022-05-27T14:22:15Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a friend and neighbor of Snuffy Smith? 2. Are you the title character of an Otto Soglow strip who doesn’t speak? 3. Are you Mandrake the Magician’s friend, the Prince of the Seven Nations? ---
**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 27, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/212 "2022-05-27T20:45:32Z")
Previous IQs: Did you express your wish to aliens to be given Australia? - Not Abraham Lincoln, but Lex Luthor, in _Superman 2_ Were you married to a famous actor on a farm in Ohio? - Also not Abraham Lincoln, but Lauren Bacall, when she got hitched to Bogie at Malabar Farm Was a typical lunch for you an apple and a glass of buttermilk? - Also not Abraham Lincoln, but… no, wait, sorry, yes, you’re right. This was Abraham Lincoln. DQs: DC or Marvel character? Has superpower(s)? IQs: Were you White House chief of staff in the Bartlet Administration? Were you deputy White House chief of staff in the Bartlet Administration? Were you White House counsel late in the Bartlet Administration? ---
**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 27, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/213 "2022-05-27T22:02:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a friend and neighbor of Snuffy Smith? > 2. Are you the title character of an Otto Soglow strip who doesn’t speak? > 3. Are you Mandrake the Magician’s friend, the Prince of the Seven Nations? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not the Little King. 3. I am not Lothar. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you White House chief of staff in the Bartlet Administration? > Were you deputy White House chief of staff in the Bartlet Administration? > Were you White House counsel late in the Bartlet Administration? Respectively: I am not Leo McGarry. I am not Josh Lyman. I am not Mrs. Landingham. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with L 4. would be alive today if real, in recent version 5. American 6. not from a work of prose 7. from film or television, among other things 8. first appeared before 1980 9. first appeared before 1959 10. usually a main character in ensemble, never appears alone 11. good 12. originally from comic books/strips 13. first appeared in comic strip, then very soon after appeared in film shorts and comic books and eventually television 14. not DC or Marvel character 15. does not have superpower(s) ---
**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 27, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/214 "2022-05-27T23:17:49Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Are you a friend and neighbor of Snuffy Smith? > > > 2. Are you the title character of an Otto Soglow strip who doesn’t speak? > > > 3. Are you Mandrake the Magician’s friend, the Prince of the Seven Nations? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not the Little King. > 3. I am not Lothar. #1 is Lukey. Correct on the others. DQ: Human? ---
**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 28, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/215 "2022-05-28T03:27:08Z")
DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with L 4. would be alive today if real, in recent version 5. American 6. not from a work of prose 7. from film or television, among other things 8. first appeared before 1980 9. first appeared before 1959 10. usually a main character in ensemble, never appears alone 11. good 12. originally from comic books/strips 13. first appeared in comic strip, then very soon after appeared in film shorts and comic books and eventually television 14. not DC or Marvel character 15. does not have superpower(s) 16. anthropomorphic ---
**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, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/216 "2022-05-28T16:21:42Z")
IQs: 1. Was your strip a spin-off from _They’ll Do It Every Time_? 2. Did your strip usually finish with you having fallen out of bed in the final panel? 3. Are you Li’l Abner’s Pappy? ---
**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 29, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/217 "2022-05-29T00:36:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your strip a spin-off from _They’ll Do It Every Time_? > 2. Did your strip usually finish with you having fallen out of bed in the final panel? > 3. Are you Li’l Abner’s Pappy? 1. I am not the Born Loser? 2. I am not Little Nemo. 3. I am not Lucifer Yokum. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/218 "2022-05-29T09:34:54Z")
IQ1: Are you one of Donald Duck’s three nephews, the one whose name starts with L? ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/219 "2022-05-29T15:39:38Z")
I am indeed Louie Duck! Next game goes to Chock. ---
**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, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/220 "2022-05-29T17:21:33Z")
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