# 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:** 7
**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, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/121 "2013-10-15T17:00:43Z")
Were you a king of Westeros who bore a distinct resemblance to Henry VIII of England? - Yes, Robert Baratheon. Where you that king’s probably-gay younger brother? - Renly. Did you serve as Secretary of Energy and as ambassador to the UN? - Bill Richardson, later governor of New Mexico. DQs: First appeared in a work of French literature? First name starts with R? IQs: In _Life of Brian_, was Pontius Pilate willing to free you in response to the mob’s demands? Was he also willing to free you, a different person? When researching a role in another country, did you keep a picture of your famous boyfriend on your 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 15, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/122 "2013-10-15T17:18:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > In _Life of Brian_, was Pontius Pilate willing to free you in response to the mob’s demands? > Was he also willing to free you, a different person? > When researching a role in another country, did you keep a picture of your famous boyfriend on your desk? It’s been too long since I’ve seen _Life of Brian_. I know they called out names that started with R because of his speech impediment. #3 might be Rachel Weisz. Take 2 or 3 DQs accordingly. ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/123 "2013-10-15T17:19:53Z")
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. 15. Did not first appear in a work of French literature. 16. Only name starts with an R. ---
**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, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/124 "2013-10-15T22:52:34Z")
IQ1: Are you good at spinning straw into gold? IQ2: Are you a mouse who sailed on the _Dawn Treader_? IQ3: Are you an early leader in the mail-order 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 15, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/125 "2013-10-15T22:57:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you good at spinning straw into gold? > IQ2: Are you a mouse who sailed on the _Dawn Treader_? > IQ3: Are you an early leader in the mail-order business? I am not Reepicheep. I am not Mr. Roebuck. OTOH, I am Rumpelstiltskin! It seemed a really appropriate choice for a “What’s My Name?” game. Well done, SCAdian! ---
**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 16, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/126 "2013-10-16T00:50:02Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you good at spinning straw into gold? > IQ2: Are you a mouse who sailed on the _Dawn Treader_? > IQ3: Are you an early leader in the mail-order business? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Reepicheep. I am not Mr. Roebuck. OTOH, > > I am Rumpelstiltskin! > > It seemed a really appropriate choice for a “What’s My Name?” game. > > Well done, SCAdian! Actually, I was thinking of Roebuck’s partner, Richard Sears. 🙂 Reepicheep is correct, of course. It was DQs 12-15 that got me to thinking about German stories. I din’t even notice DQ 16 until after I posted my question. Don’t want to spend too much time on the computer tonight, so I’ll think a bit and post the next letter in the morning. ---
**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 16, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/127 "2013-10-16T04:39:25Z")
All hail **SCAdian** again! Very impressive. In _Life of Brian_, was Pontius Pilate willing to free you in response to the mob’s demands? - Roger Was he also willing to free you, a different person? - Roderick When researching a role in another country, did you keep a picture of your famous boyfriend on your desk? - Renee Zellwegger, in London and briefly working in an office for _Bridget Jones’s Diary_, kept a picture of her then-boyfriend Jim Carrey on her desk. ---
**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 16, 2013, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/128 "2013-10-16T10:48:01Z")
I am **P**. ---
**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 16, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/129 "2013-10-16T11:56:51Z")
IQs: 1. Are you an amiable but eccentric scientist from an early superhero TV series? 2. Are you the actor who played #1? 3. Are you a puppet who wishes to be a real boy? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/130 "2013-10-16T12:05:26Z")
IQ1: In the series ‘Rome’, are you the cause of the end of the republic? IQ2: Are you one of the world’s most renowned bandoneon players? IQ3: Are you the title character of a Miyazaki film? ---
**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 16, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/131 "2013-10-16T15:53:02Z")
IQs: Did all of your living relatives have British accents, despite being putatively French? Were you a well-connected French courtesan? Were you Brett’s best buddy belowdecks? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/132 "2013-10-16T16:37:57Z")
IQ: Were you bitten by a radioactive spider? ---
**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 16, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/133 "2013-10-16T18:21:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you an amiable but eccentric scientist from an early superhero TV series? > 2. Are you the actor who played #1? > 3. Are you a puppet who wishes to be a real boy? Not Professor Pepperwinkle. DQ. Not Pinocchio. > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: In the series ‘Rome’, are you the cause of the end of the republic? > IQ2: Are you one of the world’s most renowned bandoneon players? > IQ3: Are you the title character of a Miyazaki film? Not Pompey. DQ. (What the heck is a bandoneon??) DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did all of your living relatives have British accents, despite being putatively French? > Were you a well-connected French courtesan? > Were you Brett’s best buddy belowdecks? DQ. Not Madame de Pompadour. DQ. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you bitten by a radioactive spider? Not Peter Parker. ---
**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 16, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/134 "2013-10-16T18:33:11Z")
TV’s Prof. Pepperwinkle was played by Phil Tead. DQ: Real? ---
**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 16, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/135 "2013-10-16T19:06:31Z")
**P** 1. Real. ---
**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 16, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/136 "2013-10-16T19:15:09Z")
IQs: 1. Are you one of P. G. Wodehouse’s best known characters? 2. Did you give your name to that theorem about the length of the hypotenuse? 3. Are you the protagonist of _Great Expectations_? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/137 "2013-10-16T19:20:41Z")
IQ: Were you a key figure in Iran Contra? ---
**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 16, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/138 "2013-10-16T19:24:31Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you one of P. G. Wodehouse’s best known characters? > 2. Did you give your name to that theorem about the length of the hypotenuse? > 3. Are you the protagonist of _Great Expectations_? Not Psmith. Not Pythagoras. DQ. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a key figure in Iran Contra? 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 16, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/139 "2013-10-16T19:50:22Z")
Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, was the narrator and protagonist of Dickens’ work. DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/140 "2013-10-16T20:28:25Z")
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