# Botticelli - Nov 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 2, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569 "2020-11-02T18:22:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/1 "2020-11-02T18:22:02Z")
So here we are, new month, new people to discover. My letter is A ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/2 "2020-11-02T18:25:29Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a Steve Ditko character with Randian morals? 2. Were you a 16th Century portraitist who made characters out of food? 3. Are you the king of Dictionopolis? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/3 "2020-11-02T18:32:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Were you a Steve Ditko character with Randian morals? > - Were you a 16th Century portraitist who made characters out of food? > - Are you the king of Dictionopolis? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not the … unique… Acrimboldo 3. Take a DQ ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/4 "2020-11-02T19:04:20Z")
IQ1: Are you head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs? IQ2: Are you head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? IQ3: Are you QB of the Green Bay Packers? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/5 "2020-11-02T19:09:38Z")
IQ1: Have both Hank Pym and Scott Lang taken on your identity? IQ2: Are you an animated tough police detective resembling a pair of buttocks? IQ3: Are you always optimistic that the sun will come out tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/6 "2020-11-02T19:13:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs? > IQ2: Are you head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? > IQ3: Are you QB of the Green Bay Packers? Take a DQ Take a DQ I am not Aaron Rodgers (HA! We beat the Packers yesterday!) > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Have both Hank Pym and Scott Lang taken on your identity? > IQ2: Are you an animated tough police detective resembling a pair of buttocks? > IQ3: Are you always optimistic that the sun will come out tomorrow? I am not Ant-Man Take a DQ I am not Annie ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/7 "2020-11-02T19:51:25Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - Were you a Steve Ditko character with Randian morals? > > > > > - Were you a 16th Century portraitist who made characters out of food? > > > - Are you the king of Dictionopolis? > > 1. Take a DQ > 2. I am not the … unique… Acrimboldo > 3. Take a DQ #1 is Mr. A. #2 is correct, Arcimboldo. #3 is King Azaz from the book _The Phantom Tollbooth._ DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/8 "2020-11-02T20:19:56Z")
IQs: 1. Did you sing “Skater Boi”? 2. Were you a tall, bearded US president during the Civil War who wore a stovepipe hat? 3. Are you David Lynch’s comic strip character, a canine “bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis”? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/9 "2020-11-02T20:35:59Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you sing “Skater Boi”? > 2. Were you a tall, bearded US president during the Civil War who wore a stovepipe hat? > 3. Are you David Lynch’s comic strip character, a canine “bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis”? I am not Averil Levigne I am not Abe Lincoln Take a DQ **The letter is A** 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/10 "2020-11-02T20:47:25Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Have both Hank Pym and Scott Lang taken on your identity? > > > IQ2: Are you an animated tough police detective resembling a pair of buttocks? > > > IQ3: Are you always optimistic that the sun will come out tomorrow? > > I am not Ant-Man > Take a DQ > I am not Annie Correct, Assy McGee, Correct DQ: Alive? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/11 "2020-11-02T20:55:00Z")
**The letter is A** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/12 "2020-11-02T20:58:27Z")
IQ1: Did your brother deny knowledge of your murder, sarcastically asking if he was your keeper? IQ2: Are you an American missionary known for wearing a tin pot as a hat? IQ3: Did you scream in vain when Lucifer killed the czar and his ministers? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/13 "2020-11-02T21:20:27Z")
IQ1: Did your brother deny knowledge of your murder, sarcastically asking if he was your keeper? IQ2: Are you an American missionary known for wearing a tin pot as a hat? IQ3: Did you scream in vain when Lucifer killed the czar and his ministers? I am not Abel I am not Johnny Appleseed Take a DQ ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/14 "2020-11-02T21:45:37Z")
Yes, Yes, Anastasia (Romanova) from a tortured rephrasing of the lyrics to the Rolling Stones’ _Sympathy for the Devil_ DQ: Last name starts with A? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/15 "2020-11-02T22:25:51Z")
**The letter is A** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased 4. Last name does not begin with A @ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness I had thought of going with Johnny Appleseed, but since his actual last name is Chapman and my apparent inability to clarify things well… I changed direction. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/16 "2020-11-02T22:34:47Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > > > > IQ1: Are you head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs? > > > IQ2: Are you head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? > > > IQ3: Are you QB of the Green Bay Packers? > > Take a DQ > Take a DQ > I am not Aaron Rodgers (HA! We beat the Packers yesterday!) Andy Reid, Bruce Arians, congrats! DQ: American? DQ: Known for the Arts? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/17 "2020-11-02T22:45:07Z")
IQ1: Did you and Menachem Begin win the Nobel Prize? IQ2: Did you play Tom Havelford in _Parks and Recreation_? IQ3: Did you play Ben Wyatt in _Parks and Recreation_? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/18 "2020-11-02T23:50:37Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I am not Averil Levigne > I am not Abe Lincoln > Take a DQ 3 was the Angriest Dog in the World. IQs: 1. Do you appear on the US twenty-dollar bill? 2. Did you voice Hollyhock, a relative of BoJack Horseman? 3. 50 B.C.: all Gaul is divided into three parts…except for your small village, which still resists the Romans? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/19 "2020-11-02T23:56:25Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you and Menachem Begin win the Nobel Prize? > IQ2: Did you play Tom Havelford in _Parks and Recreation_ ? > IQ3: Did you play Ben Wyatt in _Parks and Recreation_ ? Take a DQ I am not Aziz Ansari I am not Adam Scott? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Do you appear on the US twenty-dollar bill? > 2. Did you voice Hollyhock, a relative of BoJack Horseman? > 3. 50 B.C.: all Gaul is divided into three parts…except for your small village, which still resists the Romans? I am not Andrew Jackson Take 2 DQs **The letter is A** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased 4. Last name does not begin with A 5. I am not American 6. I am partially known for The Arts ---
**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:** [November 3, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/20 "2020-11-03T01:03:03Z")
IQ1: Did you direct three adaptations of works by Daphne du Maurier? IQ2: Are you sometimes considered to be the Father of Comedy, with such works as The Frogs and The Birds? IQ3: Did the late Sean Connery play you in Terry Gilliam’s _Time Bandits_? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569.md?page=2)