# Botticelli, Oct. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 30, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516 "2022-09-30T17:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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 2, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/41 "2022-10-02T22:32:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Dorothy Parker and not Dracula. 1 (Nimrod Wildfire) was Davy Crockett. DQ: died after 1965? ---
**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:** [October 3, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/42 "2022-10-03T05:51:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Are you the title character of an office-related comic strip that was recently dropped from over 70 newspapers? > > IQ2: Do all the folks 'round Brownsville say you’re crazy 'cause you walk down town with a suitcase in your hand looking for a mysterious dark-haired man? > > IQ3: Was Muttley your sidekick? > > Not Dilbert, dunno and not Dastardly Dick. Correct Delta Dawn, from the Tanya Tucker song of the same name Correct - or Dick Dastardly DQ: Known for business? Still holding 2 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:** [October 3, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/43 "2022-10-03T12:42:40Z")
Swept me! IQs: 1. Are you a pseudonym of Washington Irving’s? 2. Are you a Dickensian orphan who may or may not have died in your book? 3. Do you and the Comfortable Camel appear in _The Royal Book of Oz_? ---
**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 3, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/44 "2022-10-03T15:25:11Z")
1. Were you BoJack Horseman’s green-jacketed writer friend? 2. Did you ask “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” 3. Did you appear in _The Shining_ and a TV movie about G. Gordon Liddy–then quit acting altogether, to eventually become a biology professor? ---
**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:** [October 3, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/45 "2022-10-03T17:15:06Z")
IQ1: Did you insist this is not a puppy love? IQ2: Were you the rational member of a pair of paranormal investigators? IQ3: Did you produce _Gone With The Wind_? ---
**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 3, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/46 "2022-10-03T20:09:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a pseudonym of Washington Irving’s? > 2. Are you a Dickensian orphan who may or may not have died in your book? > 3. Do you and the Comfortable Camel appear in _The Royal Book of Oz_? Dunno, not Little Dorritt and not Dorothy Gale. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you BoJack Horseman’s green-jacketed writer friend? > 2. Did you ask “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” > 3. Did you appear in _The Shining_ and a TV movie about G. Gordon Liddy–then quit acting altogether, to eventually become a biology professor? Dunno, not Frederick Douglass and dunno. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Did you insist this is not a puppy love? > IQ2: Were you the rational member of a pair of paranormal investigators? > IQ3: Did you produce _Gone With The Wind_? Dunno, not Dr. Dana Scully and not David O. Selznick. D. 1. real 2. dead 3. first name began with D 4. male 5. died after 1950 6. American 7. died before 1980 8. not known for the Arts, as such 9. not known for politics 10. not known for sports 11. born before 1900 12. died before 1965 13. known, in part, for business ---
**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 3, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/47 "2022-10-03T20:17:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a pseudonym of Washington Irving’s? > > 2. Are you a Dickensian orphan who may or may not have died in your book? > > 3. Do you and the Comfortable Camel appear in _The Royal Book of Oz_? > > Dunno, not Little Dorritt and not Dorothy Gale. #1 was Diedrich Knickerbocker. #2 was Edwin Drood (Dickens’ last, unfinished work. Little Dorrit marries at the end of her story.) #3 is technically correct, but I had in mind the Doubtful Dromedary. DQs: 1. Known for a specific event? 2. Unusual first name? ---
**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 3, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/48 "2022-10-03T21:26:17Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you BoJack Horseman’s green-jacketed writer friend? > 2. Did you ask “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” > 3. Did you appear in _The Shining_ and a TV movie about G. Gordon Liddy–then quit acting altogether, to eventually become a biology professor? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Frederick Douglass and dunno. 1 was Diane Nguyen; 3 was Danny Lloyd. DQ: known for science? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/49 "2022-10-03T22:01:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Did you insist this is not a puppy love? > > IQ2: Were you the rational member of a pair of paranormal investigators? > > IQ3: Did you produce _Gone With The Wind_? > > Dunno, not Dr. Dana Scully and not David O. Selznick. Donny Osmond, yep, yep Holding 3 DQs total ---
**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 3, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/50 "2022-10-03T22:28:39Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the father of Wendy, Michael and John in _Peter Pan_? (First name please) 2. Did you compose _The Sorcerer’s Apprentice_? 3. Did you famously teach yourself elocution by putting rocks in your mouth? ---
**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 4, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/51 "2022-10-04T17:37:13Z")
DQs: 1. Are you Marvel’s King of Monster formerly Staten Island, having defeated the previous king? (And is your estranged wife Shiklah a succubus and queen of the underground Monster Metropolis?) 2. Were you worried about your anonymity while meeting in public to discuss an act of corporate espionage, which your contact scoffed at (“[you]! We’ve got [you] here! …See, nobody cares”)? 3. The above movie certainly has scary _moments_, but isn’t a flat-out horror movie, so let’s go with a question about one that is: did John Landis (or someone else involved with _AAWIL_) congratulate you on your wedding in the end credits? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 4, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/52 "2022-10-04T22:14:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the father of Wendy, Michael and John in _Peter Pan_? (First name please) > 2. Did you compose _The Sorcerer’s Apprentice_? > 3. Did you famously teach yourself elocution by putting rocks in your mouth? Not Edgar Darling, not Debussy and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > DQs: > 1. Are you Marvel’s King of Monster formerly Staten Island, having defeated the previous king? (And is your estranged wife Shiklah a succubus and queen of the underground Monster Metropolis?) > 2. Were you worried about your anonymity while meeting in public to discuss an act of corporate espionage, which your contact scoffed at (“[you]! We’ve got [you] here! …See, nobody cares”)? > 3. The above movie certainly has scary _moments_, but isn’t a flat-out horror movie, so let’s go with a question about one that is: did John Landis (or someone else involved with _AAWIL_) congratulate you on your wedding in the end credits? I think #2 is about _Jurassic Park_, from when the Wayne Knight character meets with his sneaky corporate contact in a Costa Rican open-air diner, but dunno x3. D. 1. real 2. dead 3. first name began with D 4. male 5. died after 1950 6. American 7. died before 1980 8. not known for the Arts, as such 9. not known for politics 10. not known for sports 11. born before 1900 12. died before 1965 13. known, in part, for business 14. not known for a specific event 15. not a particularly unusual first name, especially in one part of the world 16. not known for science ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/53 "2022-10-04T23:03:23Z")
DQ1: Inventor? DQ2: Known for non-fiction writing? Holding one 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:** [October 5, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/54 "2022-10-05T00:51:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the father of Wendy, Michael and John in _Peter Pan_? (First name please) > > 2. Did you compose _The Sorcerer’s Apprentice_? > > 3. Did you famously teach yourself elocution by putting rocks in your mouth? > > Not Edgar Darling, not Debussy and dunno. #1 was George Darling. #2 was Dukas. #3 was Demosthenes. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 5, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/55 "2022-10-05T13:39:40Z")
D. 1. real 2. dead 3. first name began with D 4. male 5. died after 1950 6. American 7. died before 1980 8. not known for the Arts, as such 9. not known for politics 10. not known for sports 11. born before 1900 12. died before 1965 13. known, in part, for business 14. not known for a specific event 15. not a particularly unusual first name, especially in one part of the world 16. not known for science 17. an innovator but not an inventor, really 18. known for non-fiction writing No more IQs, please, as we have enough reserved DQs to take us over 20. ---
**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 5, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/56 "2022-10-05T14:06:43Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > DQs: > 1. Are you Marvel’s King of Monster formerly Staten Island, having defeated the previous king? (And is your estranged wife Shiklah a succubus and queen of the underground Monster Metropolis?) > 2. Were you worried about your anonymity while meeting in public to discuss an act of corporate espionage, which your contact scoffed at (“[you]! We’ve got [you] here! …See, nobody cares”)? > 3. The above movie certainly has scary _moments_, but isn’t a flat-out horror movie, so let’s go with a question about one that is: did John Landis (or someone else involved with _AAWIL_) congratulate you on your wedding in the end credits? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I think #2 is about _Jurassic Park_, from when the Wayne Knight character meets with his sneaky corporate contact in a Costa Rican open-air diner, but dunno x3. 1 was Deadpool; 2 was Lewis Dodgson in, yes, _Jurassic Park_; 3 was Princess Diana, at the end of 1981’s _An American Werewolf in London_. DQ: has something named after him? 3 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/57 "2022-10-05T16:32:00Z")
Ummm. Oh, dear. DQ: Known for Travel writing? Two DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/58 "2022-10-05T16:59:17Z")
Final held DQ (or is it a stealth IQ?): Known for writing the self-help book _How To Win Friends and Influence People?_ ---
**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 5, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/59 "2022-10-05T17:12:51Z")
D. 1. real 2. dead 3. first name began with D 4. male 5. died after 1950 6. American 7. died before 1980 8. not known for the Arts, as such 9. not known for politics 10. not known for sports 11. born before 1900 12. died before 1965 13. known, in part, for business 14. not known for a specific event 15. not a particularly unusual first name, especially in one part of the world 16. not known for science 17. an innovator but not an inventor, really 18. known for non-fiction writing 19. has something named after him 20. sorta kinda known for travel writing 21. not known for writing the self-help book _How To Win Friends and Influence People_ AKA Dale Carnegie ---
**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 5, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/60 "2022-10-05T17:20:55Z")
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