# Botticelli - November 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 6, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104 "2018-11-06T23:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 6, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/1 "2018-11-06T23:35:03Z")
Rules [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli_(game)). Previous thread for October [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=863311). Having guessed correctly in the previous round, I, W. De La Rue, host this round. I am C. ---
**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 7, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/2 "2018-11-07T04:56:27Z")
IQs: Did Al Franken say of you, “I like [this senator] more than most of his Republican colleagues. And I hate [this senator]”? Did a political foe concede that you “probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove”? Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? ---
**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 7, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/3 "2018-11-07T14:14:53Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write about Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot? 2. Were you one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the story about Watergate? 3. Were you a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school whose work influenced the French Impressionists? ---
**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 7, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/4 "2018-11-07T23:59:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Al Franken say of you, “I like [this senator] more than most of his Republican colleagues. And I hate [this senator]”? > Did a political foe concede that you “probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove”? > Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? Respectively: Take a DQ. I am not Simon Cameron. Take a DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write about Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot? > 2. Were you one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the story about Watergate? > 3. Were you a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school whose work influenced the French Impressionists? 1. I am not Agatha Christie. 2. I am not Carl Bernstein. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/5 "2018-11-08T02:23:26Z")
Correct on Agatha and Carl. Camille Corot was the landscape painter who influenced Monet and Renoir. DQ: Real? ---
**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, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/6 "2018-11-08T21:33:51Z")
Previous IQs: Did Al Franken say of you, “I like [this senator] more than most of his Republican colleagues. And I hate [this senator]”? - Ted Cruz Did a political foe concede that you “probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove”? - Yes, Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s crooked first SECWAR Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood DQs: Real? Male? IQs: Were you the hapless PM in the first season of the original British _House of Cards_? Were you a patrician Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? Are you the current Duke of Cornwall? ---
**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 8, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/7 "2018-11-08T23:26:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the hapless PM in the first season of the original British _House of Cards_? > Were you a patrician Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? > Are you the current Duke of Cornwall? Respectively: Take a DQ. Take a DQ. I am not Prince Charles. DQs: 1. fictional 2. neither male nor female, but has a female name ---
**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, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/8 "2018-11-09T00:50:17Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the goldfish in Disney’s _Pinocchio_? 2. Were you the title character in a 1980’s sci-fi adventure that also featured Melanie Griffith? 3. Are you the Great Gonzo’s chicken girlfriend? ---
**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, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/9 "2018-11-09T04:41:13Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the hapless PM in the first season of the original British _House of Cards_? - Charles Collingridge Were you a patrician Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? - Charles Seymour Are you the current Duke of Cornwall? - Yes, Prince Charles Charles x3! DQs: Non-human? First appeared since 1950? IQs: You are fictional. Is your dad a patent lawyer? Are you a robopsychologist in the works of Isaac Asimov? Are you the best-known person from Plymouth Notch? ---
**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 9, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/10 "2018-11-09T04:51:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the goldfish in Disney’s _Pinocchio_? > 2. Were you the title character in a 1980’s sci-fi adventure that also featured Melanie Griffith? > 3. Are you the Great Gonzo’s chicken girlfriend? 1. I am not Cleo. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Camilla. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > You are fictional. Is your dad a patent lawyer? > Are you a robopsychologist in the works of Isaac Asimov? > Are you the best-known person from Plymouth Notch? I am not Calvin. I am not Susan Calvin. I am not Calvin Coolidge. DQs: 1. fictional 2. neither male nor female, but has a female name 3. non-human 4. first appeared after 1950 ---
**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, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/11 "2018-11-09T17:15:33Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the goldfish in Disney’s Pinocchio? > 2. Were you the title character in a 1980’s sci-fi adventure that also featured Melanie Griffith? > 3. Are you the Great Gonzo’s chicken girlfriend? > 4. I am not Cleo. > 5. Take a DQ. > 6. I am not Camilla. Correct, Cherry 2000, Correct. Non-human usually means robot/AI, alien or animal. Hmmm. DQ: robot or AI 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 9, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/12 "2018-11-09T19:18:54Z")
Swept me! Calvin x3. IQs: Are you an AI in the HALO universe? Are you Harrison Ford’s wife? Were you the last human being aboard the spacecraft USS _Discovery_? ---
**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, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/13 "2018-11-09T19:27:42Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a protocol droid who speaks Bocce? 2. Are you Harlequin’s great love? 3. Did the Mystery Men battle you in their eponymous film? ---
**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 10, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/14 "2018-11-10T00:17:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you an AI in the HALO universe? > Are you Harrison Ford’s wife? > Were you the last human being aboard the spacecraft USS _Discovery_? Respectively: I am not Cortana. I am not Calista Flockhart. …take a DQ? I would think the last living human being on _Discovery_ was Dave Bowman. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a protocol droid who speaks Bocce? > 2. Are you Harlequin’s great love? > 3. Did the Mystery Men battle you in their eponymous film? 1. I am not C-3PO. 2. I am not Columbine. 3. I am not Casanova Frankenstein. DQs: 1. fictional 2. neither male nor female, but has a female name 3. non-human 4. first appeared after 1950 5. not a robot or AI 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 10, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/15 "2018-11-10T06:08:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > …3) I am not Casanova Frankenstein… That’s _Doctor_ Casanova Frankenstein to you. Previous IQs: Are you an AI in the HALO universe? - Yes, Cortana Are you Harrison Ford’s wife? - Yes, Callista Flockhart Were you the last human being aboard the spacecraft USS _Discovery_? - Dr. Chandra (Bob Balaban) is the last off in _2010: The Year We Make Contact_ DQ: Alien? IQs: Were you a killer car in a Stephen King novel and later a movie? Did you no one believe your prescient and accurate warnings? Were you the pen name of a French author and the subject of a recent Keira Knightley movie? ---
**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 10, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/16 "2018-11-10T15:10:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a killer car in a Stephen King novel and later a movie? > Did you no one believe your prescient and accurate warnings? > Were you the pen name of a French author and the subject of a recent Keira Knightley movie? I am not Cassandra or Colette, but I am indeed Christine! Next round goes to Elendil’s Heir. ---
**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, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/17 "2018-11-10T18:31:03Z")
Woohoo! Thanks, **DLR**. Our next letter is naturally D ---
**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 12, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/18 "2018-11-12T18:33:08Z")
:: taps mic :: Is this on? ---
**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 12, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/19 "2018-11-12T21:25:52Z")
A few busy days there. IQs: 1. Did you famously NOT invent baseball? 2. Did you compose _The Sorcerer’s Apprentice_? 3. Are you a Marvel mercenary who appeared in _Deadpool 2_? ---
**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 12, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/20 "2018-11-12T22:22:17Z")
IQs: 1. Did you betray Samson? 2. Is someone in the kitchen with you? 3. Were you a naturalist born the same day as Abraham Lincoln? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104.md?page=2)