# Botticelli October 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 3, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437 "2011-10-03T15:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/381 "2011-10-29T00:35:45Z")
Did you kill a villain with 6 fingers? ---
**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 29, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/382 "2011-10-29T03:48:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > Did you have a private Catholic chapel built in your home since 1900? > Did you joke that it would be more fun to hang out in Hell than in Heaven? > Were you a famous TV mom who later came out as a lesbian? Mel Gibson. Mark Twain. And correct as to Meredith Baxter-Birney from _Family Ties_. From the answers given so far, I’m stumped. I guess we just have one more DQ. Anyone can use mine, if you wish. ---
**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 29, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/383 "2011-10-29T15:26:48Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did you kill a villain with 6 fingers? I am not Inigo Montoya, you didn’t kill my father, don’t prepare to die. I have a full weekend of Halloween activities planned. My internet access will be sporadic until Sunday night. There’s still one DQ left. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/384 "2011-10-29T19:51:32Z")
IQ: Did you have a career as an Irish tenor in Japan before becoming a long-time regular on a children’s show? ---
**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 30, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/385 "2011-10-30T14:52:48Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Did you have a career as an Irish tenor in Japan before becoming a long-time regular on a children’s show? I have no idea. DQ for you. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/386 "2011-10-30T20:45:50Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Did you have a career as an Irish tenor in Japan before becoming a long-time regular on a children’s show? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > I have no idea. DQ for you. Bob McGrath of _Sesame Street_, who appeared (along with two impostors) on _To Tell the Truth_ and sang “Danny Boy” in Japanese (which he had learned phonetically) a few years before the Children’s Television Workshop came calling. DQ: Is your creator Japanese? ---
**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 31, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/387 "2011-10-31T18:18:55Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > DQ: Is your creator Japanese? No. And that’s 20. I count about 3 outstanding DQs that can be used as “Are you \_\_\_” type questions. It appears my experiment with “hiding in plain sight” is working. Even though my character is very well-known, the usual lines of questioning would either not lead to me or would be interpreted in a misleading way. Final recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 5. First name does not start with M 6. Known primarily as a TV or movie character 7. Not a character from a TV series 8. Usually played by flesh and blood actor, but has also been an animated character 9. Science fiction/fantasy element to my character 10. Role comic in nature 11. In movie which came out since 1980 12. Did not appear in comic book or graphic novel before appearing in a movie 13. Not the star of the movie I was in, but have been the central character of other appearances 14. Not alien, non-human, or superhuman in any way 15. In movie primarily intended for kids. 16. Movie did not come out after 1995 17. Not created by a European 18. Played by more than one actor as flesh-and-blood character 19. Not a father in any of my appearances 20. Creator is not Japanese ---
**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 31, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/388 "2011-10-31T18:37:21Z")
Still stumped. Hmmm. So now we each get to ask one “Are you [actual name]?” question, right? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/389 "2011-10-31T18:39:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Still stumped. Hmmm. So now we each get to ask one “Are you [actual name]?” question, right? Inigo Montoya WAS my only guess. I got nuthin’. (Again.) ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/390 "2011-10-31T22:39:02Z")
(Side talk) Someone Halloweenish? It isn’t Jason Voorhees or Freddie Kreuger. Anyone else like that? ETA–I guess they are’nt particular comic, or for kids, really. Well, I’ll try to think a bit more. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/391 "2011-11-01T06:46:33Z")
This probably doesn’t really fit everything, but it’s all I’ve got and I do want to avail myself of my hard-earned right to guess, so here is my DQ. Are you Mr. Miyagi? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/392 "2011-11-01T12:29:23Z")
I didn’t play this game, but I’ll toss an idea out to y’all - could it be a character from Harry Potter? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/393 "2011-11-01T13:25:23Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I didn’t play this game, but I’ll toss an idea out to y’all - could it be a character from Harry Potter? JK Rowling is European, and all the Harry Potter movies came out after 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/394 "2011-11-01T14:58:23Z")
Ah. I didn’t know she was European. Not a big fan, as you can see. ---
**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 1, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/395 "2011-11-01T15:03:15Z")
Ooo… ooo… are you Machete? I think he first appeared in the _Spy Kids_ 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 1, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/396 "2011-11-01T17:10:12Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > This probably doesn’t really fit everything, but it’s all I’ve got and I do want to avail myself of my hard-earned right to guess, so here is my DQ. Are you Mr. Miyagi? No > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ooo… ooo… are you Machete? I think he first appeared in the _Spy Kids_ movie. No I believe astorian still has 2 DQs left. ---
**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 1, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/397 "2011-11-01T18:27:17Z")
Aw, crap. Well, that was my best shot. ---
**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, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/398 "2011-11-02T20:18:51Z")
Anyone else? I thought there were 1 or 2 more “Are you \_\_\_\_\_”? types still unasked. I’ll check back in today after 5:00 Pacific Time and reveal the answer at that time, if there are no more attempts. ---
**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, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/399 "2011-11-03T01:56:35Z")
Well, it appears that hiding in plain sight can work. The question “Are you known primarily as either a TV or movie character?” was affirmative, the question “Are you a character from a TV series?” was negative, which mislead everyone into focusing on the movie I was in, even though my appearance was a glorified cameo/egregious piece of product placement. For while I was not in a TV series, I have appeared in hundreds, if not thousands, of TV \*commercials \*in the past 40 years, for I am … Ronald McDonald Supposedly one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world. Certainly better known than the naked-chick-on-a-clam-shell guy. The movie I was in was the infamous E.T. rip-off _Mac and Me_, which features the YouTube-favorite scene where the main character and his alien buddy eat at McDonald’s, only to be stuck in the middle of a dance-off featuring me. And while I am an American creation, I am an inhabitant of McDonaldLand, not America, although I do spend a lot of time there clogging kids’ arteries. Have some magical powers (the fantasy element) and as for being a comic role, hey, I’m a goddamn clown. ---
**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, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/400 "2011-11-03T07:32:58Z")
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