# Botticelli October 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 2, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977 "2023-10-02T01:34:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/261 "2023-10-27T18:22:04Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Living 3. Male 4. Born before 1960 5. Not American 6. Known for the arts. 7. Not European. 8. Known for the visual arts. @Prof.Pepperwinkle Since #2 specifies living, are you sure you want to ask “born before 1900” ? ---
**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 27, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/262 "2023-10-27T18:41:33Z")
Thanks for that. I was on automatic this morning. Change the DQ to DQ: Known for painting? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/263 "2023-10-27T20:50:16Z")
[quote=“kitap, post:261, topic:990977, full:true”] DQs: 1. Real 2. Living 3. Male 4. Born before 1960 5. Not American 6. Known for the arts. 7. Not European. 8. **NOT** Known for the visual arts. @Prof.Pepperwinkle please see my correction for #8 and re-ask. Chemo brain moment for me. ---
**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 27, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/264 "2023-10-27T21:04:53Z")
Right! DQ: Known for acting? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/265 "2023-10-28T01:08:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Living 3. Male 4. Born before 1960 5. Not American 6. Known for the arts. 7. Not European. 8. **NOT** Known for the visual arts. 9. Known for acting. ---
**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 28, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/266 "2023-10-28T01:15:25Z")
IQs: 1. Was your official title “Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Arab Libyan Popular and Socialist Jamahirya”? 2. Are you a vampiric Spider-man foe? 3. Do you “fly like paper, get high like planes”? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/267 "2023-10-28T03:20:35Z")
I am not Moammar Qadafi or take a DQ. Heck, take 2 more while you’re at it. ---
**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 28, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/268 "2023-10-28T19:54:39Z")
2 was Morbius; 3 was rapper MIA. DQs: #1. Canadian? #2. born after 1940? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/269 "2023-10-29T02:26:43Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Living 3. Male 4. Born before 1960 5. Not American 6. Known for the arts. 7. Not European. 8. **NOT** Known for the visual arts. 9. Known for acting. 10. Canadian 11. Born after 1940. ---
**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, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/270 "2023-10-29T03:37:52Z")
Congrats, **kitap**! Garr, a native of Lakewood, Ohio, had been in a lot of good stuff. ---
**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, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/271 "2023-10-29T04:18:31Z")
Has been, I mean. IQs: Did your character pretend to be Darth Vader from planet Vulcan? Were you a Nazi assassin in _The ODESSA File_? Did you describe American TV as “a vast cultural wasteland”? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/272 "2023-10-29T04:48:21Z")
Take a DQ, take a DQ, I am not Marshall McLuhan? Or take a 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 29, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/273 "2023-10-29T14:10:38Z")
IQs: 1. Were you famous for being finicky about your cat food? 2. Did you star with Bob Hope in _The Lemon Drop Kid_? 3. Did you write poems featuring a cockroach who was a reincarnated vers-libre poet? ---
**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 29, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/274 "2023-10-29T15:16:07Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a British beer critic and expert? 2. Did you write _JLA: Earth 2_ and _Doom Patrol_? 3. From the “Presidential Monsters” line of action figures, is your husband depicted here? [![](https://manofactionfigures.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/sites/default/files/baracula.jpg?1312141923) ](https://manofactionfigures.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/sites/default/files/baracula.jpg?1312141923) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/275 "2023-10-29T19:22:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you famous for being finicky about your cat food? > 2. Did you star with Bob Hope in _The Lemon Drop Kid_? > 3. Did you write poems featuring a cockroach who was a reincarnated vers-libre poet? I am not Morris the Cat, take a DQ, I am not mehitabel or take a DQ… > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you a British beer critic and expert? > 2. Did you write _JLA: Earth 2_ and _Doom Patrol_? > 3. From the “Presidential Monsters” line of action figures, is your husband depicted here? > [https://manofactionfigures.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product\_full/sites/default/files/baracula.jpg?1312141923](https://manofactionfigures.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/sites/default/files/baracula.jpg?1312141923) Take 2 DQs and I am not Michelle Obama. ---
**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, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/276 "2023-10-29T22:04:53Z")
Previous IQs: Did your character pretend to be Darth Vader from planet Vulcan? - Michael J. Fox, in _Back to the Future._ Were you a Nazi assassin in _The ODESSA File_? - Mackensen Did you describe American TV as “a vast cultural wasteland”? - Yes, Marshall McLuhan Two DQs reserved. ---
**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 29, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/277 "2023-10-29T22:39:38Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > Qs: > > > > 1. Were you famous for being finicky about your cat food? > > 2. Did you star with Bob Hope in _The Lemon Drop Kid_? > > 3. Did you write poems featuring a cockroach who was a reincarnated vers-libre poet? > > I am not Morris the Cat, take a DQ, I am not mehitabel or take a DQ… #1 is correct. #2 was Marilyn Maxwell. #3. It was Don Marquis who wrote of archy & mehitabel. DQs: 1. Last name starts with M? 2. Best known from movies? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/278 "2023-10-30T00:33:34Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Living 3. Male 4. Born before 1960 5. Not American 6. Known for the arts. 7. Not European. 8. **NOT** Known for the visual arts. 9. Known for acting. 10. Canadian 11. Born after 1940. 12. Last name does not begin with M. 13. Best known from movies. ---
**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 30, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/279 "2023-10-30T00:38:28Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Take 2 DQs and I am not Michelle Obama. 1 (British beer critic) was Michael Jackson; 2 (comics author) was Grant Morrison. DQs: 1. known for leading roles? 2. born after 1950? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/280 "2023-10-30T02:04:04Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Living 3. Male 4. Born before 1960 5. Not American 6. Known for the arts. 7. Not European. 8. **NOT** Known for the visual arts. 9. Known for acting. 10. Canadian 11. Born after 1940. 12. Last name does not begin with M. 13. Best known from movies. 14. Not known for leading roles. 15. Born in 1950. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977.md?page=15)