# Botticelli - October 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 4, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843 "2021-10-04T01:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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 21, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/161 "2021-10-21T15:02:21Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I am not Mel B, DQ, DQ Correct on 1; 2 was Dave Barry; 3 was Benjamin Harrison. DQs: 1. last name begins with B? 2. from prose? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/162 "2021-10-21T15:03:58Z")
## I am B 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name does not begin with B 4. Not from prose ---
**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 21, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/163 "2021-10-21T15:22:52Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - Did you create the character Jose Jimenez? > > > > > - Can you build it? (Yes, you can.) > > > - Did you have a hit with _Sing, Sing, Sing_ ? > > DQ, I am not Bob the Builder, I am not Benny Goodman #1 was Bill Dana. Correct on the others. DQ: Created by an American or Americans? ---
**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 21, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/164 "2021-10-21T15:25:19Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a demon who appears as the protagonist in a trilogy by Jonathan Stroud? 2. Do you manage the Inn of the Prancing Pony? 3. Are you the title character of a story by Herman Melville? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/165 "2021-10-21T15:29:21Z")
## I am B 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name does not begin with B 4. Not from prose 5. Created by an American ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/166 "2021-10-21T15:29:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Are you a demon who appears as the protagonist in a trilogy by Jonathan Stroud? > - Do you manage the Inn of the Prancing Pony? > - Are you the title character of a story by Herman Melville? I am not Bartameus, DQ, I am not Billy Budd ---
**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 21, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/167 "2021-10-21T15:38:08Z")
Correct on Bartimaeus. #2 was Barliman Butterbur. Correct on Billy Budd. DQ: From film or TV? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/168 "2021-10-21T16:43:59Z")
## I am B 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name does not begin with B 4. Not from prose 5. Created by an American 6. From film or TV ---
**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 21, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/169 "2021-10-21T17:56:11Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Maynard G. Krebs on TV? 2. Were you Bing Crosby’s bandleader brother? 3. Did you play Mrs. Peacock in _Clue_? ---
**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 21, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/170 "2021-10-21T18:02:12Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the Witch in _Into the Woods_? 2. Are you the current prime minister of Israel? 3. Do you OPPOSITE of all Earthly things–do you hate beauty, do you love ugliness? Is it big crime to make anything perfect on your world? ---
**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 21, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/171 "2021-10-21T18:07:29Z")
Previous IQs: Did Ryan O’Neal play you in a Kubrick movie? - The title character in _Barry Lyndon_ Did Keir Dullea play you in a Kubrick movie? - Dave Bowman in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ Did George C. Scott play you in a Kubrick movie? - Yes, perhaps the greatest character name in the history of Western cinema, Gen. Buck Turgidson, in _Dr. Strangelove_ DQs: American character? From film? IQs: Did your father wish that your brother and not you had died? Did you welcome the Proudfeet to your birthday party? Did you fall on your back in a pub and then disappear? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/172 "2021-10-21T18:16:59Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > 1. Were you a female TV journalist parodied on **Saturday Night Live** by Gilda Radner? > 2. Did you play Diana on the original version of **V**? > 3. Did you play Bobby Singer on **Supernatural**? Correct, Jane Badler, Jim Beaver. DQs: From a genre? Appeared more than once? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/173 "2021-10-21T18:33:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Did you play Maynard G. Krebs on TV? > - Were you Bing Crosby’s bandleader brother? > - Did you play Mrs. Peacock in _Clue_ ? I am not Bob Denver, I am not Bob Cosby, DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you the Witch in _Into the Woods_ ? > 2. Are you the current prime minister of Israel? > 3. Do you OPPOSITE of all Earthly things–do you hate beauty, do you love ugliness? Is it big crime to make anything perfect on your world? I am not the absolutely fantastic Bernadette Peters, DQ, DQ > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did your father wish that your brother and not you had died? > Did you welcome the Proudfeet to your birthday party? > Did you fall on your back in a pub and then disappear? DQ, DQ, DQ ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/174 "2021-10-21T18:38:13Z")
## I am B 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name does not begin with B 4. Not from prose 5. Created by an American 6. From film or TV 7. American character 8. From film 9. From a genre 10. As the original iteration of the character, appeared once ---
**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 21, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/175 "2021-10-21T18:41:09Z")
Previous IQs: Did your father wish that your brother and not you had died? - Boromir, in _LOTR_ Did you welcome the Proudfeet to your birthday party? - Bilbo Baggins, ditto Did you fall on your back in a pub and then disappear? - Frodo Baggins, ditto DQs: Would be alive today, if real? Protagonist? First appeared before 2000? IQs: Were you the first Native American to serve in the US Senate? When asked what an early hot-air balloon was good for, did you supposedly reply, “What good is a newborn baby?” Were you a medico who went into politics and served in the Trump Cabinet? ---
**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 21, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/176 "2021-10-21T18:44:11Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you the Witch in _Into the Woods_? > 2. Are you the current prime minister of Israel? > 3. Do you OPPOSITE of all Earthly things–do you hate beauty, do you love ugliness? Is it big crime to make anything perfect on your world? > [@MissTake](#): > > I am not the absolutely fantastic Bernadette Peters, DQ, DQ 1 was correct; 2 was Naftali Bennett; 3 was Superman’s backwards foe Bizarro. DQs: 1. from film? 2. first name begins with B? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/177 "2021-10-21T19:15:24Z")
## I am B 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name does not begin with B 4. Not from prose 5. Created by an American 6. From film or TV 7. American character 8. From film 9. From a genre 10. As the original iteration of the character, appeared once 11. Would not be alive, if real 12. Antagonist 13. First appeared before 2000 14. First name begins with B @De_La_Rue : the from film was already asked, please take another DQ ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/178 "2021-10-21T19:17:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the first Native American to serve in the US Senate? > When asked what an early hot-air balloon was good for, did you supposedly reply, “What good is a newborn baby?” > Were you a medico who went into politics and served in the Trump Cabinet? DQ, DQ, I am not Ben Carson ---
**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 21, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/179 "2021-10-21T19:20:37Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > the from film was already asked, please take another DQ Whoops. DQ: first appeared after 1980? ---
**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 21, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843/180 "2021-10-21T19:35:57Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - Did you play Maynard G. Krebs on TV? > > > > > - Were you Bing Crosby’s bandleader brother? > > > - Did you play Mrs. Peacock in _Clue_ ? > > I am not Bob Denver, I am not Bob Cosby, DQ Correct, Correct, and Eileen Brennan. 1 DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2021/951843.md?page=10)