# Botticelli - Oct. 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 5, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262 "2020-10-05T13:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/141 "2020-10-10T11:57:28Z")
DQ Roundup for **B** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with B 4. Did not die in story 5. Did not first appear in print 6. First appeared after 1930 ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/142 "2020-10-10T11:59:18Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > - Did you play the naive older housemate in a comedy that 30 years later has a cult like following? > - Were you the number one pin up during WWII? > - Are you a fictional character from Minnesota found on millions of grocery store items? not Betty White, not Betty Grable, not Betty Crocker ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/143 "2020-10-10T12:00:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you Lincoln’s AG? > Were you JFK’s national security advisor? > Did you paint, among other things, the emergence of Venus from a giant clamshell? DQ x 2, not Botticelli ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/144 "2020-10-10T12:08:53Z")
(Discourse isn’t letting me reply to Chock’s post) not Beavis and Butthead, not Barbara Bach (I actually remember her from the flop _Up The Academy_) ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/145 "2020-10-10T12:16:30Z")
deadcat: IQ1: Are you one of the farmers in Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox? IQ2: Were you a market stall trader who sold Slade’s Noddy Holder his famous hat before striking the big time as a rock star yourself? IQ3: Did you die while leaning against the mantelpiece “just to prove it could be done” (at least, according to Douglas Adams)? me: Take 3 DQs ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/146 "2020-10-10T13:09:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Not the Blob, DQ x 2 2 (spent a lot of pages proving that 1+1=2) was Bertrand Russell; 3 (author of _Animalia_, _The Eleventh Hour_, other picture books) was Graeme Base. IQs: 1. Were you working in the lab late last night, when your eyes beheld an eerie sight? 2. Do you (and others of your kind) live on the cube planet of Htrae? 3. Did you endear yourself to voters by playing the sax on _The Arsenio Hall Show_? DQs: 1. first appeared after 1980? 2. from film/TV? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/147 "2020-10-10T13:28:20Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s AG? - Edward Bates Were you JFK’s national security advisor? - McGeorge Bundy Did you paint, among other things, the emergence of Venus from a giant clamshell? - Yes, Botticelli (sorry, I’d missed the earlier reference to him) I had asked “Would be alive today, if real?” and you replied, “Did not die in story.” With respect, **K\_O** , I don’t think that’s entirely responsive. Someone might not die in a story set in 1066, but they would assuredly be dead by now. DQs: DId you smash a folk singer’s guitar and then offer a half-hearted apology? Did you play that guitar smasher? Did you travel under the name “Mr. Underhill”? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/148 "2020-10-10T14:31:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DId you smash a folk singer’s guitar and then offer a half-hearted apology? Yes, I am **John Blutarsky**. The reason I didn’t do the “Would be alive if real” answer properly is because John Belushi died 3 years after Animal House, and the epilogue credits showed Blutarsky became a senator. I’m pretty sure he would have died from some kind of misadventure before today, but who knows. Chris Christie is still alive. Rob Ford isn’t. Grats EH! ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/149 "2020-10-10T14:39:13Z")
That was quick! Congrats @Elendil_s_Heir ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/150 "2020-10-10T18:23:52Z")
1. Any of Boggis, Bunce, or Bean. 2. Farokh Bulsara, better known as Freddie Mercury. 3. Bramwell Bronte, the less well known brother of the 3 famous authoresses. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > deadcat: > IQ1: Are you one of the farmers in Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox? > IQ2: Were you a market stall trader who sold Slade’s Noddy Holder his famous hat before striking the big time as a rock star yourself? > IQ3: Did you die while leaning against the mantelpiece “just to prove it could be done” (at least, according to Douglas Adams)? > > me: Take 3 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:** [October 10, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/151 "2020-10-10T20:27:54Z")
Thanks! A funny character in a great movie. Here’s the scene: [Animal House Guitar Scene - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_hCqO6UQs) Other previous IQs: Did you play that guitar smasher? - Belushi, of course Did you travel under the name “Mr. Underhill”? - Frodo Baggins, in _LOTR_ Lemme think of our next letter… ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/152 "2020-10-10T21:07:00Z")
Let’s go with # **O** ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/153 "2020-10-10T21:50:55Z")
Wow, missed a whole round! Good going, EH! IQs: 1. Did you write _The Art of Love_? 2. Did you fail to create Project Omega? 3. Are you Superman’s Pal? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/154 "2020-10-10T21:58:39Z")
IQs Were you one of the longest serving Speakers of the House? Did you get your start writing for The Simpson’s and SNL? Were you an Irish writer who went to prison for “lewd acts”? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/155 "2020-10-11T01:56:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Art of Love_? > 2. Did you fail to create Project Omega? > 3. Are you Superman’s Pal? Not Onan, dunno, and not Jimmy Olson. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQs > Were you one of the longest serving Speakers of the House? > Did you get your start writing for The Simpson’s and SNL? > Were you an Irish writer who went to prison for “lewd acts”? Not Tip O’Neill, Conan O’Brien or Oscar Wilde. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/156 "2020-10-11T02:22:06Z")
IQ1: Did you play TV’s Son of TV’s Frank in the MST3K reboot? IQ2: Did you play Derek Zoolander’s arch rival Hansel McDonald? IQ3: Are you the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senator in history? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/157 "2020-10-11T03:46:45Z")
IQs 1. Did your on/off beau murder your dad, driving you to madness? 2. Did you recently host a Q&A after a fundraiser for The WI Dem party? 3. Are you Katy Perry’s baby daddy? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/158 "2020-10-11T03:59:45Z")
IQs: 1. Did you end a radio production by saying “If your doorbell rings and nobody’s there, that’s no Martian, it’s Halloween”? 2. Did you write _Down and Out in Paris and London_? 3. Did Dennis Nedry have a photo of you on his desk? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/159 "2020-10-11T12:04:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you write _The Art of Love_ ? > > > 2. Did you fail to create Project Omega? > > > 3. Are you Superman’s Pal? > > Not Onan, dunno, and not Jimmy Olson. #1. Good joke, but it was Ovid. #2 was Aristotle Onassis. Correct on Jimmy. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Last name starts with O? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/160 "2020-10-11T16:33:19Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you play TV’s Son of TV’s Frank in the MST3K reboot? > IQ2: Did you play Derek Zoolander’s arch rival Hansel McDonald? > IQ3: Are you the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senator in history? Dunno, not Owen Wilson, and not Orrin Hatch. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQs > > 1. Did your on/off beau murder your dad, driving you to madness? > 2. Did you recently host a Q&A after a fundraiser for The WI Dem party? > 3. Are you Katy Perry’s baby daddy? Not Ophelia, dunno and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you end a radio production by saying “If your doorbell rings and nobody’s there, that’s no Martian, it’s Halloween”? > 2. Did you write _Down and Out in Paris and London_? > 3. Did Dennis Nedry have a photo of you on his desk? Not Orson Welles, dunno and dunno. O. 1. real 2. last name starts with O [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262.md?page=9)