# Botticelli - May 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 5, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159 "2024-05-05T15:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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 9, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/41 "2024-05-09T04:17:27Z")
Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed # Doctor Tarr from this 1845 Poe short story (at the bottom of the article is a link to the story itself): [The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_System_of_Doctor_Tarr_and_Professor_Fether) And here’s [the 1976 Alan Parsons Project song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1E9mjvGYq8) you referred to. Well done, **Prof. P.**! ---
**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 9, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/42 "2024-05-09T12:37:27Z")
Thank you. Onwards to… [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.7VX6x_CthaOPf5ZZnYDAsQHaHa?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.7VX6x_CthaOPf5ZZnYDAsQHaHa?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) ---
**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 9, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/43 "2024-05-09T13:14:31Z")
G it is. IQs: Are you AKA Tharkun? Does your husband have arguably the silliest alternative name in Middle-earth? Were you Aragorn’s mom? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/44 "2024-05-09T13:46:18Z")
Congrats! 1. Did you write the Parasol Protectorate series? 2. Were you a Wisconsin Senator who founded Earth Day? 3. Did you play Nick Stokes on **CSI**? ---
**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 9, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/45 "2024-05-09T15:39:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Qs: > > Are you AKA Tharkun? > Does your husband have arguably the silliest alternative name in Middle-earth? > Were you Aragorn’s mom? I am not Gandalf. I am not Galadriel. I am not Gladys-Jean Wolfstomper, D.D.S. > [@kitap](#): > > - Did you write the Parasol Protectorate series? > - Were you a Wisconsin Senator who founded Earth Day? > - Did you play Nick Stokes on **CSI**? 1. I am not Gail Carriger. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 9, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/46 "2024-05-09T16:42:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Qs: > > > > Are you AKA Tharkun? > > Does your husband have arguably the silliest alternative name in Middle-earth? > > Were you Aragorn’s mom? > > I am not Gandalf. > I am not Galadriel. > I am not Gladys-Jean Wolfstomper, D.D.S. > … Yes, yes (Celeborn = Teleporno) and [spit take] no. It was Gilraen, actually. DQ: Real? IQs: Are you a plant-based being which can only verbally express itself by introducing itself? Did you chill with the Lilliputians and the Yahoos, among others? Are you the top dude in Downton Abbey? ---
**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 9, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/47 "2024-05-09T16:56:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes, yes (Celeborn = Teleporno) and [spit take] no. It was Gilraen, actually. Three sure things in life: death, taxes, and that @Elendil_s_Heir will ask a Botticelli question about Teleporno, and @Prof.Pepperwinkle will ask one about the Goon Show. ---
**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 9, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/48 "2024-05-09T17:06:25Z")
Just one more service I offer. 😉 ---
**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 9, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/49 "2024-05-09T17:16:48Z")
So, on to the OGs, fr fr: IQs: 1. In response to a writer who complained about your “alien and uninspiring court”, did you retort, “I may be uninspiring, but I’m damned if I’m alien!”? 2. Did you once hold your hand in a candle flame, to show your toughness and loyalty to a leader on whose behalf you committed burglary? 3. According to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, did you once spend fifty years hiding in the body of a man called Miles Davis? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/50 "2024-05-09T17:28:07Z")
Tarr and Fether. Never let it be said Poe didn’t have a sense of humor! Congrats, @Prof.Pepperwinkle ! IQs: 1. Are you a football coach who had a cameo on the final episode of _Ted Lasso_? 2. Are you a football coach who won Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks? 3. Are you the eldest child of a famous TV blended family? ---
**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 9, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/51 "2024-05-09T20:33:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a plant-based being which can only verbally express itself by introducing itself? > Did you chill with the Lilliputians and the Yahoos, among others? > Are you the top dude in Downton Abbey? I am not Groot. I am not Lemuel Gulliver. Take a DQ. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. In response to a writer who complained about your “alien and uninspiring court”, did you retort, “I may be uninspiring, but I’m damned if I’m alien!”? > 2. Did you once hold your hand in a candle flame, to show your toughness and loyalty to a leader on whose behalf you committed burglary? > 3. According to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, did you once spend fifty years hiding in the body of a man called Miles Davis? #3. I am not Gabriel? Take 2 DQs. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a football coach who had a cameo on the final episode of _Ted Lasso_? > 2. Are you a football coach who won Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks? > 3. Are you the eldest child of a famous TV blended family? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 9, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/52 "2024-05-09T20:34:06Z")
**DQ:** 1. Real ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/53 "2024-05-09T21:16:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. In response to a writer who complained about your “alien and uninspiring court”, did you retort, “I may be uninspiring, but I’m damned if I’m alien!”? > > 2. Did you once hold your hand in a candle flame, to show your toughness and loyalty to a leader on whose behalf you committed burglary? > > 3. According to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, did you once spend fifty years hiding in the body of a man called Miles Davis? > > #3. I am not Gabriel? Correct on #3. #1 was King George V, in response to H.G. Well’s comment on his court. #2 was G. Gordon Liddy. DQs: 1. Female? 2. American? IQs: 1. Were you a poet featured in a limerick, the first line of which was “There’s a wonderful family called Stein”? 2. Were you a slave and swineherd who earned his freedom squiring for his master’s son, Wilfred of Ivanhoe? 3. Are you a singer known as the “Mexican Madonna”? ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/54 "2024-05-09T21:27:15Z")
Previous IQs: Are you a plant-based being which can only verbally express itself by introducing itself? - Yes, Groot Did you chill with the Lilliputians and the Yahoos, among others? - Yes, Lemuel Gulliver Are you the top dude in Downton Abbey? - Lord Grantham DQ: Living? IQs: Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? In an HBO miniseries, did you advise a French ambassador to “Tread carefully, sir”? Did you tell Harry Truman he was too old to rejoin the Army? ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/55 "2024-05-09T21:41:57Z")
**DQ:** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Dead ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/56 "2024-05-09T21:43:22Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a poet featured in a limerick, the first line of which was “There’s a wonderful family called Stein”? > 2. Were you a slave and swineherd who earned his freedom squiring for his master’s son, Wilfred of Ivanhoe? > 3. Are you a singer known as the “Mexican Madonna”? 1. I am not Gertrude Stein. Take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? > In an HBO miniseries, did you advise a French ambassador to “Tread carefully, sir”? > Did you tell Harry Truman he was too old to rejoin the Army? 1. I am not George Henry Thomas. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not George S. Patton (?) ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/57 "2024-05-09T21:49:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a poet featured in a limerick, the first line of which was “There’s a wonderful family called Stein”? > > 2. Were you a slave and swineherd who earned his freedom squiring for his master’s son, Wilfred of Ivanhoe? > > 3. Are you a singer known as the “Mexican Madonna”? > > 1. I am not Gertrude Stein. > Take 2 DQs. Correct on Gertrude Stein; the limerick is, _There’s a wonderful family named Stein There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein. Gert’s poems are bunk, Ep’s statues are junk, And no one can understand Ein._ #2 was Gurth the Swineherd, from Scott’s _Ivanhoe_ #3 is Gloria Trevi DQs: 1. Known from the arts? 2. Last name begins with “G”? ---
**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 9, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/58 "2024-05-09T22:01:29Z")
**DQ:** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Dead 5. Not known from the arts 6. Last name begins with “G” **but** sometimes his last name is confused as being his first name. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/59 "2024-05-09T22:05:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Are you a football coach who had a cameo on the final episode of _Ted Lasso_? > > 2. Are you a football coach who won Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks? > > 3. Are you the eldest child of a famous TV blended family? > > Take 3 DQs. #1 was Pep Guardiola, who has coached for FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. #2 was Joe Gibbs, who has coached for the club now known as the Washington Commanders. #3 was Greg Brady. DQ1: Died before 1900? DQ2: Known from politics or the miltary? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 9, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/60 "2024-05-09T22:22:58Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > @Elendil_s_Heir will ask a Botticelli question about Teleporno Or Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159.md?page=4)