# Botticelli - October 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156 "2015-10-01T16:53:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 2, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/21 "2015-10-02T18:43:29Z")
IQ1: Did you attempt to end the Peloponnesian War by persuading the soldiers’ wives and lovers to withhold sex from them? IQ2: Are you a Spartan king who led a Greek force against the Persians at Thermopylae? IQ3: Was your novel \*Solaris \*adapted three times into film? ---
**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 2, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/22 "2015-10-02T19:59:46Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ: Originally from literature? > IQ1: Are you a big cat who pals around with a hyena? > IQ2: Were you a cartoon orangutan who wanted to be human? > IQ3: Were you a monkey who went to scout camp? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Lippy Lion or King Louie > Take a DQ for #3 Correct. (Lippy _the_ Lion, actually.) Correct. Lazlo (the old Cartoon Network show _Camp Lazlo_). DQ: Considered a good guy? IQ1: Were you a fictional Canadian whaler? IQ2: Is a type of log named after you? IQ3: Are you best known for a language you invented? ---
**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 2, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/23 "2015-10-02T20:06:52Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a metafictional detective who only appears in his office, the local bar, an alleyway, and the rooftop where he has the climactic confrontation with the bad guy? 2. Are you an Irish deity and High King? 3. Are you Snuffy Smith’s wife? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/24 "2015-10-02T23:38:07Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you attempt to end the Peloponnesian War by persuading the soldiers’ wives and lovers to withhold sex from them? > IQ2: Are you a Spartan king who led a Greek force against the Persians at Thermopylae? > IQ3: Was your novel \*Solaris \*adapted three times into film? Not Lysistrata, and not Leonidas. Take a DQ for 3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/25 "2015-10-02T23:39:55Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Originated in literature 4. Created before 1950 5. Not a particularly good person, but not exactly bad ---
**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 3, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/26 "2015-10-03T16:49:37Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you attempt to end the Peloponnesian War by persuading the soldiers’ wives and lovers to withhold sex from them? > IQ2: Are you a Spartan king who led a Greek force against the Persians at Thermopylae? > IQ3: Was your novel Solaris adapted three times into film? > Not Lysistrata, and not Leonidas. > > Take a DQ for 3 Stanislaw Lem Prof had a DQ: American in origin? DQ: Created before 1850? holding a DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/27 "2015-10-03T21:25:00Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Originated in literature 4. Created before 1950 5. Created by an American 6. Created after 1850 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/28 "2015-10-03T21:26:02Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a metafictional detective who only appears in his office, the local bar, an alleyway, and the rooftop where he has the climactic confrontation with the bad guy? > 2. Are you an Irish deity and High King? > 3. Are you Snuffy Smith’s wife? Not Louisie. Take DQs for 1 and 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/29 "2015-10-03T21:27:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct. (Lippy _the_ Lion, actually.) > Correct. > Lazlo (the old Cartoon Network show _Camp Lazlo_). > DQ: Considered a good guy? > IQ1: Were you a fictional Canadian whaler? > IQ2: Is a type of log named after you? > IQ3: Are you best known for a language you invented? Not Ned Land, Abe Lincoln or Leon Zamenhof ---
**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 3, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/30 "2015-10-03T22:14:02Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional Canadian whaler? > IQ2: Is a type of log named after you? > IQ3: Are you best known for a language you invented? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Ned Land, Abe Lincoln or Leon Zamenhof Correct. Correct. Ludwig Zamenhof, but close enough. ---
**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, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/31 "2015-10-03T22:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a metafictional detective who only appears in his office, the local bar, an alleyway, and the rooftop where he has the climactic confrontation with the bad guy? > 2. Are you an Irish deity and High King? > 3. Are you Snuffy Smith’s wife? > Not Louisie. #1 is Lazlo Woodbine, from the novels of Robert Rankin. #2 is Lugh. #3 is correct, but spelled Loweezy, IIRC. 2 DQs reserved. Take DQs for 1 and 2 ---
**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 3, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/32 "2015-10-03T23:55:25Z")
IQ1: Are you also known as Woodrow Wilson Smith, Ernest Gibbons, Captain Aaron Sheffield, and “Happy” Daze? IQ2: Is Ghanima your twin sister? IQ3: Did you appear as postal carrier Willie Lumpkin in _Fantastic Four_ (2005)? ---
**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 4, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/33 "2015-10-04T00:37:53Z")
DQ: From a novel or series of novels? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/34 "2015-10-04T00:48:28Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you also known as Woodrow Wilson Smith, Ernest Gibbons, Captain Aaron Sheffield, and “Happy” Daze? > IQ2: Is Ghanima your twin sister? > IQ3: Did you appear as postal carrier Willie Lumpkin in _Fantastic Four_ (2005)? Dang. Three DQs for you. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/35 "2015-10-04T00:49:30Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Originated in literature 4. Created before 1950 5. Created by an American 6. Created after 1850 7. First appeared in a novel or series of novels ---
**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 4, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/36 "2015-10-04T00:52:40Z")
[I note that SCAdian asked a DQ about whether or not you were considered a good guy, to which you answered not good, but not bad either.] DQ: Last name starts with L? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/37 "2015-10-04T01:39:42Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Originated in literature 4. Created before 1950 5. Created by an American 6. Created after 1850 7. First appeared in a novel or series of novels 8. Not a particularly good person, but not evil 9. Last name starts with L ---
**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 4, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/38 "2015-10-04T02:04:49Z")
IQs: 1. Is Tom Hanks a descendant of yours? 2. Did you write _The Harlem Renaissance_? 3. Did you start the foremost New Age and occultist publishing house around today, which is name for you? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/39 "2015-10-04T13:29:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is Tom Hanks a descendant of yours? > 2. Did you write _The Harlem Renaissance_? > 3. Did you start the foremost New Age and occultist publishing house around today, which is name for you? Not Nancy Hanks Lincoln? Not Langston Hughes. DQ for #3 ---
**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 4, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/40 "2015-10-04T14:33:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is Tom Hanks a descendant of yours? > 2. Did you write _The Harlem Renaissance_? > 3. Did you start the foremost New Age and occultist publishing house around today, which is name for you? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Nancy Hanks Lincoln? > > Not Langston Hughes. > > DQ for #3 Correct (I had in mind Abe, but it also works for Nancy). Correct on Langston. #3 is Llewellyn George, founder of Llewellyn Publishing. DQ: Protagonist? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156.md?page=3)