# Botticelli - October 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 5, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411 "2013-10-05T01:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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 14, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/101 "2013-10-14T21:43:33Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of the best-known figures of the French Revolution? > IQ2: Are you the current Iranian president? > IQ3: Are you a Belgian surrealist artist? 1. I’m not Robespierre. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I’m not Rene Magritte. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/102 "2013-10-14T22:16:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you the sheriff of Conniption? > IQ2: Did you perform an important function one foggy night? > IQ3: Did you cover a Buck Owens song, then perform it as a duet with him? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 2 DQs…3 if #3 isn’t Randy Travis. {I’m not Randy Travis.} Rick O’Shay. Rudolph. Ringo Starr was lead vocalist on the Beatles’ cover of “Act Naturally,” and then sang it with Buck in 1989. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: American? IQ1: Did you own a horse called Traveller? IQ2: Did you own a horse called Trigger? IQ3: Did people wonder whatever happened to you? ---
**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 14, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/103 "2013-10-14T23:08:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you own a horse called Traveller? > IQ2: Did you own a horse called Trigger? > IQ3: Did people wonder whatever happened to you? DQ for #1. I’m not Roy Rogers, and I’m not Randolph Scott. ---
**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 14, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/104 "2013-10-14T23:09:01Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories) ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/105 "2013-10-14T23:17:51Z")
IQ1: Are you known as The Big Unit? IQ2: Are you a female governor of Texas? IQ3: Did you play a TV comedy writer? ---
**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 14, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/106 "2013-10-14T23:23:13Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > IQ1: Are you known as The Big Unit? > IQ2: Are you a female governor of Texas? > IQ3: Did you play a TV comedy writer? #3: I am not Rose Marie from _The Dick van Dyke Show_. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/107 "2013-10-14T23:42:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you own a horse called Traveller? > IQ2: Did you own a horse called Trigger? > IQ3: Did people wonder whatever happened to you? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ for #1. > I’m not Roy Rogers, and I’m not Randolph Scott. Correct on Roy Rogers and Randolph Scott. #1 was Robert E Lee. DQ: If you were real, would you be alive today? (Not killed in a story, not in stories set too long ago for you to have lived until today, and not in stories set in the future.) IQ1: Did you write about Martian chess fanatics? IQ2: Were you the hero (anti-hero?) of a Lorne Green song? IQ3: Did you portray a character who did a triple Lindy? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/108 "2013-10-14T23:45:49Z")
> [@glee](#): > > IQ1: Were you a chess prodigy, originally from Poland who moved to the US? > > IQ2: Did you try to kill James Bond with a poison blade in your shoe? (N.B. the first name starts with R.) Sammy Reshevsky won the US Chess Championship 8 times. Rosa Klebb featured in ‘From Russia with love’. DQ1: Are you European? DQ2: Are you a Detective? (just a wild guess!) ---
**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 14, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/109 "2013-10-14T23:50:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write about Martian chess fanatics? > IQ2: Were you the hero (anti-hero?) of a Lorne Green song? > IQ3: Did you portray a character who did a triple Lindy? 1. I’m not Ray Bradbury. 2. I’m not Ringo. (I never ever ever ever liked that “song”.) 3. I’m not Robert Redford as The Great Waldo Pepper. Take a DQ if I’m wrong. ---
**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 14, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/110 "2013-10-14T23:52:16Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories) 4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not. 5. European in origin. 6. Not a detective. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/111 "2013-10-15T01:09:39Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write about Martian chess fanatics? > IQ2: Were you the hero (anti-hero?) of a Lorne Green song? > IQ3: Did you portray a character who did a triple Lindy? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I’m not Ray Bradbury. > 2. I’m not Ringo. (I never ever ever ever liked that “song”.) > 3. I’m not Robert Redford as The Great Waldo Pepper. Don’t recall any Martian chess-players in Bradbury, but then I haven’t read many of his books. I was thinking of the Jay Score stories (collected as _Men, Martians and Machines_) by Eric Frank Russell. Correct on Ringo. (I don’t really care for that song either.) I’ve heard of _Waldo Pepper_, but haven’t a clue what it’s about. I was thinking of Rodney Dangerfield in _Back to School_. DQ: British in origin? ---
**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 15, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/112 "2013-10-15T01:18:37Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories) 4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not. 5. European in origin. 6. Not a detective. 7. Not British in origin. ---
**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 15, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/113 "2013-10-15T01:56:13Z")
Did your first wife say you liked to have sex right after you got out of the shower? - Ronald Reagan. Did _Doonesbury_ say you were angling for a loved one to get the Nobel Peace Prize? - Nancy Reagan. Did you appear in a recent movie with bird poop in your hair? - Radagast the Brown, in the first _Hobbit_ movie. DQs: French? First appeared in a novel or short story? Usually considered a “good guy”? IQs: Are you the junior U.S. senator from the state where Abraham Lincoln was born? Did you disavow several racially-tinged articles that appeared in a newsletter that went out bearing your name? Did you play a shapeshifting woman in several movies? ---
**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 15, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/114 "2013-10-15T01:58:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the junior U.S. senator from the state where Abraham Lincoln was born? > Did you disavow several racially-tinged articles that appeared in a newsletter that went out bearing your name? > Did you play a shapeshifting woman in several movies? I’m not Rebecca Romijn. Take 2 DQs for the first two. ---
**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 15, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/115 "2013-10-15T02:00:58Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories) 4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not. 5. European in origin. 6. Not a detective. 7. Not British in origin. 8. Not French in origin. 9. First appeared in a very short story. 10. Not considered a good guy. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/116 "2013-10-15T14:19:08Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > IQ1: Are you known as The Big Unit? > IQ2: Are you a female governor of Texas? > IQ3: Did you play a TV comedy writer? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #3: I am not Rose Marie from _The Dick van Dyke Show_. > Take 2 DQs. Pitcher, Randy Johnson. Ann Richards. DQ1: Human? DQ2: First appearance before 1600? ---
**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 15, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/117 "2013-10-15T14:24:12Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories) 4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not. 5. European in origin. 6. Not a detective. 7. Not British in origin. 8. Not French in origin. 9. First appeared in a very short story. 10. Not considered a good guy. 11. Humanoid, but usually not actually human. 12. First appearance after 1600, though another \*\*really \*\*obscure character with a very similar name appeared before 1600 ---
**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 15, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/118 "2013-10-15T16:23:54Z")
Are you the junior U.S. senator from the state where Abraham Lincoln was born? - Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky. Did you disavow several racially-tinged articles that appeared in a newsletter that went out bearing your name? - His dad, Ross Paul, Republican of Texas. Did you play a shapeshifting woman in several movies? - Yes, the lissome Rebecca Romijn, who played Mystique in several _X-Men_ movies. DQs: First appeared in a work in the English language? First appeared after 1900? IQs: Were you a king of Westeros who bore a distinct resemblance to Henry VIII of England? Where you that king’s probably-gay younger brother? Did you serve as Secretary of Energy and as ambassador to the UN? ---
**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 15, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/119 "2013-10-15T16:42:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a king of Westeros who bore a distinct resemblance to Henry VIII of England? > Where you that king’s probably-gay younger brother? > Did you serve as Secretary of Energy and as ambassador to the UN? I am not Robert. I forget Robert’s brother’s name. Take 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 15, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/120 "2013-10-15T16:43:09Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories) 4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not. 5. European in origin. 6. Not a detective. 7. Not British in origin. 8. Not French in origin. 9. First appeared in a very short story. 10. Not considered a good guy. 11. Humanoid, but usually not actually human. 12. First appearance after 1600, though another really obscure character with a very similar name appeared before 1600. 13. Did not first appear in a work of English literature. 14. First appeared before 1900. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411.md?page=7)