# Botticelli, Nov. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 31, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093 "2022-10-31T20:23:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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 8, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/121 "2022-11-08T19:18:49Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the grandfather of the author of the book _Jaws_? > > 2. Did your radio show feature a car (a Maxwell) that was notoriously hard to start? > > 3. Were you a bald jazz band leader who left music to follow a career in comedy movies? > > DQ > Not … Jack Benny? > DQ #1 was Robert Benchley. #2 is correct. #3 was Ben Blue. DQs: 1. Created after 1980? 2. Main character? ---
**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:** [November 8, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/122 "2022-11-08T19:22:48Z")
**B** 1, Fictional 2. Male 3. Only known name starts with ‘B’ 4. Not originally from a work of prose fiction 5. Created after 1900 6. Not from a song 7. Created after 1950 8. Not created by Americans 9. Not an American character 10. Might, after a fashion, be alive today 11. Originally from a movie or television show 12. European creator(s) 13. Human 14. Did not first appear in a movie 15. Created after 1980 16. Not the main character ---
**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:** [November 8, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/123 "2022-11-08T19:25:26Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Africa’s answer to a certain count from Transylvania? - Yes, that guy: [Blacula - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacula) Did you create and run _Hill Street Blues_? - Stephen Bochco Have you played, during your long career, a con man, a senior military officer, a top CIA man and a mythical Greek king? - Brian Cox, in _The Music Man, X2, The Bourne Supremacy_ and _Troy_ DQs: Bad guy? European character? IQs: Were you Edward Cullen’s sweetie? Did you possess Special Agent Dale Cooper? Did you become the Star Child? ---
**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 9, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/124 "2022-11-09T02:11:39Z")
IQ1: Do you frequently have a cunning plan? IQ2: Did you write _Waiting for Godot_? IQ3: Did your mother’s shooting death traumatize generations of children? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/125 "2022-11-09T03:16:51Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Do you frequently have a cunning plan? > IQ2: Did you write _Waiting for Godot_? > IQ3: Did your mother’s shooting death traumatize generations of children? I’m going to rudely ignore EH’s post, because yes, I am indeed Blackadder’s dogsbody, **B** aldrick. That went a little quicker than I’d expected… ---
**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 9, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/126 "2022-11-09T13:38:20Z")
Good play, **Chock**! ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/127 "2022-11-09T16:48:19Z")
Yes, indeedy! Congrats, **CFOHG**. Previous IQs: Were you Edward Cullen’s sweetie? - Bella Swan, in the _Twilight_ books and movies Did you possess Special Agent Dale Cooper? - The evil spirit BOB, on _Twin Peaks_ Did you become the Star Child? - David Bowman, in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ ---
**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:** [November 9, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/128 "2022-11-09T18:19:49Z")
You would have gotten three DQs for that, and if Chock hadn’t asked about Baldrick his other two IQs would have resulted in 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:** [November 9, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/129 "2022-11-09T20:38:40Z")
Ah, well. The road not taken… 😉 ---
**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 10, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/130 "2022-11-10T00:04:10Z")
Nice. The “could be alive today, after a fashion” hint helped once I remembered he was still alive at the end of the millennium time travel special. And I don’t know much non-British European television. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ2: Did you write _Waiting for Godot_? > IQ3: Did your mother’s shooting death traumatize generations of children? Samuel Beckett, Bambi Next up… **C** [![](https://www.nicepng.com/png/detail/353-3535228_letter-c-png-design.png) ](https://www.nicepng.com/png/detail/353-3535228_letter-c-png-design.png) ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/131 "2022-11-10T14:50:59Z")
IQ1: Are you lost and gone forever? IQ2: Did one of your followers attempt to kill President Ford? IQ3: Did you associate with a lion named Fred? ---
**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 10, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/132 "2022-11-10T14:54:14Z")
IQs: 1. When Dorothy Parker was told you were dead, did she say “How can they tell?” 2. Did you write the Father Brown mysteries? 3. Did you voice the dragon in the first _Pete’s Dragon_ movie? ---
**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 10, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/133 "2022-11-10T17:16:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you lost and gone forever? > IQ2: Did one of your followers attempt to kill President Ford? > IQ3: Did you associate with a lion named Fred? Not darling Clementine Not Charles Manson - Squeaky Fromme went to my high school DQ > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - When Dorothy Parker was told you were dead, did she say “How can they tell?” > - Did you write the Father Brown mysteries? > - Did you voice the dragon in the first _Pete’s Dragon_ movie? 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:** [November 10, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/134 "2022-11-10T18:37:02Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - When Dorothy Parker was told you were dead, did she say “How can they tell?” > > - Did you write the Father Brown mysteries? > > - Did you voice the dragon in the first _Pete’s Dragon_ movie? > > 3 DQs #1 was Calvin Coolidge. #2 was Gilbert K. Chesterton. #3 was Charlie Callas. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with 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:** [November 10, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/135 "2022-11-10T18:39:05Z")
IQs: 1. Did Mary Richards laugh and then cry at your funeral? 2. Were you aka Hawkman? 3. Did Julius say you had “a lean and hungry look”? ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/136 "2022-11-10T18:39:53Z")
IQs: Were you the only bearded Elf in all of Middle-earth, as far as we know? Did you forge the ring that Gandalf eventually wore? Were you AKA Saruman? ---
**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 10, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/137 "2022-11-10T18:46:20Z")
**C** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with C ---
**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 10, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/138 "2022-11-10T18:54:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did Mary Richards laugh and then cry at your funeral? > 2. Were you aka Hawkman? > 3. Did Julius say you had “a lean and hungry look”? Not Chuckles the Clown DQ Not Cassius > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the only bearded Elf in all of Middle-earth, as far as we know? > Did you forge the ring that Gandalf eventually wore? > Were you AKA Saruman? DQ Not Ciridan Not Charkey with an S ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/139 "2022-11-10T19:38:40Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Are you lost and gone forever? > > IQ2: Did one of your followers attempt to kill President Ford? > > IQ3: Did you associate with a lion named Fred? > > Not darling Clementine > Not Charles Manson - Squeaky Fromme went to my high school > DQ correct correct Super Chicken DQ: Created after 1950? IQ1: Were you the star of the Restoration? IQ2: Were you #1’s father? IQ3: Were you a noted USE naval officer _not_ married to a princess? ---
**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 10, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/140 "2022-11-10T19:59:22Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did Mary Richards laugh and then cry at your funeral? > > 2. Were you aka Hawkman? > > 3. Did Julius say you had “a lean and hungry look”? > > Not Chuckles the Clown > DQ > Not Cassius Correct, Carter Hall, Correct 1 DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093.md?page=8)