# Botticelli - May 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 30, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367 "2023-04-30T13:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**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 24, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/321 "2023-05-24T17:41:04Z")
DQ: Known for sports? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 24, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/322 "2023-05-24T17:46:12Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a sex droid referred to on _Archer_? - Not Fred, but Fister Roboto Were you the action guy on _FYI_? - Yes, Frank Fontana, in the _Murphy Brown_ show-within-a-show Did your callous dad say he wished you, and not your older brother, had died? - Yes, Faramir, in _LOTR_ DQ: Died after 1990? IQs: Were you RNC Chair in the Eighties? Did you command Hill Street Station? Was it said, by local men learning English, that you ate worms? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/323 "2023-05-24T19:00:42Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > IQ1. Were you Scrooge’s former employer? > > IQ2. Did you play the part of the answer to IQ1 in “a Muppet Christmas Carol”? > > IQ3. Did you play the part of the answer to IQ2? > > IQ1. I am not Fezziwig. > IQ2. I am not Fozzie-wig. > IQ3. I am not Frank Oz-iwig. as predicted swept all three > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Buck, since you asked the same DQ as someone else, ask something different. typed too slow Replacement DQ: DQ: Known for political, or military leadership or for their membership in the nobility? IQ: 1. Were you one of two giants who built a castle for the gods? 2. Were you his brother the other giant? 3. Were you the payment they were supposed to get for building said castle? ---
**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 24, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/324 "2023-05-24T19:41:53Z")
I’m back! > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a Brazilian race car driver who won the Indy 500 twice? > 2. Are you an American race car driver who won the Indy 500 four times? > 3. Were you murdered three years ago tomorrow? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not George Floyd. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you RNC Chair in the Eighties? > Did you command Hill Street Station? > Was it said, by local men learning English, that you ate worms? Respectively: I am not Frank Fahrenkopf. I am not Frank Furillo. I am not Frank Burns? > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ: > > 1. Were you one of two giants who built a castle for the gods? > 2. Were you his brother the other giant? > 3. Were you the payment they were supposed to get for building said castle? Take 3 DQs. DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with F 4. dead 5. not known for the arts 6. American 7. died after 1960 8. not known for science 9. not known for sports 10. died after 1990 11. known for political, or military leadership or for membership in the nobility ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/325 "2023-05-24T19:50:39Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ: > > 1. Were you one of two giants who built a castle for the gods? > 2. Were you his brother the other giant? > 3. Were you the payment they were supposed to get for building said castle? From Wagner’s Ring Cycle 1. Fasolt 2. Faffnir 3. Freya (After negotiations they instead took a pile of treasure including a ring that is not unlike Tolkien’s) DQs: 1. Former US senator or Congressman? 2.From a Southern state? 1 DQ reserved ---
**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 24, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/326 "2023-05-24T19:56:56Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a Brazilian race car driver who won the Indy 500 twice? > > 2. Are you an American race car driver who won the Indy 500 four times? > > 3. Were you murdered three years ago tomorrow? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not George Floyd. #1 was Emerson Fittipaldi. #2 was A. J. Foyt. Correct on George Floyd. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 24, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/327 "2023-05-24T21:34:26Z")
Swept me! Frank x3. IQs: Were you the son of two fictional psychiatrists? Were you one of those two? Were you killed by the FBI near East Liverpool, Ohio? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/328 "2023-05-24T23:27:49Z")
IQs 1. Were you an eccentric wizard (and as it turned out something greater) who assisted the heroes of the lance in the dragon lance Chronicles. 2. Are you a Nobel prize winning Physicist who also had an interest in safe cracking. 3. Are you a Mayor of New York who was the subject of a popular Broadway Musical. ---
**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 24, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/329 "2023-05-24T23:40:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the son of two fictional psychiatrists? > Were you one of those two? > Were you killed by the FBI near East Liverpool, Ohio? Respectively: I am not Frasier Crane, Jr. I am not Frasier Crane. I am not Pretty Boy Floyd. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you an eccentric wizard (and as it turned out something greater) who assisted the heroes of the lance in the dragon lance Chronicles. > 2. Are you a Nobel prize winning Physicist who also had an interest in safe cracking. > 3. Are you a Mayor of New York who was the subject of a popular Broadway Musical. 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Richard “Any questions?” Feynman. 3. I am not Fiorello! La Guardia. DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with F 4. dead 5. not known for the arts 6. American 7. died after 1960 8. not known for science 9. not known for sports 10. died after 1990 11. known for political, or military leadership or for membership in the nobility 12. former congressman, among other things 13. not from southern state ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/330 "2023-05-24T23:46:52Z")
DQ: Due to your once stumbling down the stairs from an airplane was your clumsiness a frequent SNL joke in the 70’s. ---
**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 25, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/331 "2023-05-25T00:40:36Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > DQ: Due to your once stumbling down the stairs from an airplane was your clumsiness a frequent SNL joke in the 70’s. I am indeed **Gerald Ford**! Next game goes to Buck. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/332 "2023-05-25T01:10:54Z")
Thanks, De\_La\_Rue, for picking someone I’d actually heard of 🙂 Next round: I am “M” [![](https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/IzNEbStd9HqsUMw9EhUxsVAFjfLAURUte9M0N9BOO5k3qk1-FfWJ_wINlck2e9R6RFw=w240-h480) ](https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/IzNEbStd9HqsUMw9EhUxsVAFjfLAURUte9M0N9BOO5k3qk1-FfWJ_wINlck2e9R6RFw=w240-h480) ---
**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 25, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/333 "2023-05-25T19:23:38Z")
Good goin’, Buck! IQs: 1. Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? 2. Did you have a hit with _The Twelfth of Never_? 3. Did you win the Indy 500 in 1969? ---
**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 25, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/334 "2023-05-25T20:12:17Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Thanks, De\_La\_Rue, for picking someone I’d actually heard of F hadn’t been used lately and there was [this question](https://learnedleague.com/question.php?97&1&4) in the just-started new season of the online trivia competition I’m doing, so I just went with it. IQs: 1. Did you wear no. 23 for the Bulls? 2. Do you “fly like paper, get high like planes”? 3. Are your notebooks radioactive? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/335 "2023-05-25T20:27:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? > 2. Did you have a hit with _The Twelfth of Never_? > 3. Did you win the Indy 500 in 1969? Take 3 DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you wear no. 23 for the Bulls? > 2. Do you “fly like paper, get high like planes”? > 3. Are your notebooks radioactive? 1. I’m not Micheal Jordan 2. I’m not Muhammad Ali? (It sounds similar to the well known Butterly and bee) 3. I’m not Marie Curie ---
**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 25, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/336 "2023-05-25T20:33:45Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. I’m not Micheal Jordan > 2. I’m not Muhammad Ali? (It sounds similar to the well known Butterly and bee) > 3. I’m not Marie Curie 2 was in fact rapper M.I.A. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 25, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/337 "2023-05-25T20:33:56Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? > > 2. Did you have a hit with _The Twelfth of Never_? > > 3. Did you win the Indy 500 in 1969? > > Take 3 DQs #1 was Montague Summers. #2 was Johnny Mathis. #3 was Mario Andretti. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with M? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/338 "2023-05-25T20:44:10Z")
DQ 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with M ---
**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 25, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/339 "2023-05-25T21:15:58Z")
Been a minute since I participated in this game, but what the hell. IQs: 1. Were you the manager of an early baseball team, famous for never wearing a uniform in the dugout and moving your players around the diamond by means of a rolled-up scorecard? 2. Are you a quick-witted Lancashire-born comedian and long-running team captain on the British panel show _Would I Lie To You_? 3. Are you a character from _The Threepenny Opera_, subject of songs by Berthold Brecht and, later, Bobby Darin? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/340 "2023-05-25T21:20:04Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > - Were you the manager of an early baseball team, famous for never wearing a uniform in the dugout and moving your players around the diamond by means of a rolled-up scorecard? > - Are you a quick-witted Lancashire-born comedian and long-running team captain on the British panel show _Would I Lie To You_? > - Are you a character from _The Threepenny Opera_, subject of songs by Berthold Brecht and, later, Bobby Darin? take 3 DQs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367.md?page=18)