# 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:** 9
**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 18, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/161 "2023-10-18T02:50:09Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > (Back after a long hiatus) > Lets head to Japan > > IQs > > 1. Are you the Mascot of a popular Anime studio > 2. Are you a adolescent motorcycle punk who develops immeasurable psychic power accompanied by excruciating headaches in a popular Manga series and Anime movie. > 3. Are you a feline Samurai who cuts a bloody swath through space, time and genre to hunt down the killers of his master. Not Totoro, dunno and dunno. _Domo._ ---
**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 18, 2023, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/162 "2023-10-18T02:51:44Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you a satyr who takes care of the place while the Master is away? > IQ2: Did you write _Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat_? > IQ3: Did you and your father team up to kill the 108 dudes that were hitting on your mom while you father was delayed on a trip? Not Torgo in the execrable _Manos: Hands of Fate_, not Amy Tan, and not Telemachus. ---
**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 18, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/163 "2023-10-18T02:55:07Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you on the PMRC? > 2. Were you a cat that learned to talk, in a story by Saki? > 3. Did you do cover illustrations for the _Goosebumps_ book series? Dunno x3. ---
**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 18, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/164 "2023-10-18T03:02:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x3. 1 was Tipper Gore; 2 was Tobermory (I’ve been reading a Saki collection recently); 3 was Tim Jacobus. DQs: 1. from prose? 2. main character? 3. created by American(s)? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/165 "2023-10-18T04:17:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Are you the Mascot of a popular Anime studio > > 2. Are you a adolescent motorcycle punk who develops immeasurable psychic power accompanied by excruciating headaches in a popular Manga series and Anime movie. > > 3. Are you a feline Samurai who cuts a bloody swath through space, time and genre to hunt down the killers of his master. > > Not Totoro, dunno and dunno. 1. Correct 2. Tetsuo Shima from the Akira 3. Miaowara Tomokato aka [Samurai cat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Cat) 2DQs resevered for now. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/166 "2023-10-18T08:19:31Z")
Swept me IQ1: Did you sing the praises of wang dang sweet poontang? IQ2: Do you pity the fool? IQ3: Did you tiptoe through the tulips? ---
**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 18, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/167 "2023-10-18T11:34:47Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > … > IQ1: Did you sing the praises of wang dang sweet poontang? > IQ2: Do you pity the fool? > IQ3: Did you tiptoe through the tulips? Not Thelonious Monk, Mr. T or Tiny Tim. ---
**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 18, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/168 "2023-10-18T11:37:48Z")
T. 1. fictional 2. last name starts with T 3. male 4. from TV or movies, adapted from a novel 5. not otherwise from prose 6. main character 7. created by Americans Take another DQ, **Prof. P.,** as to your “Male?” question. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/169 "2023-10-18T12:00:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Do you play opposite Peter Dinklage in his latest movie, the one that’s actually in theaters now? > > 2. Are you in the process of rereleasing all your songs, so that you will own the masters and rights to them? > > 3. Are you a comedian whose first Netflix special was called “Quarter Life Crisis”? > > Dunno x3. 1. is Marisa Tomei, who’s playing opposite Dinklage in _She Came To Me_. 2. is Taylor Swift. 3. is the brilliantly funny Taylor Tomlinson. DQs: 1. If real, would be living now? 2. First name begins A - M? 3. Protagonist of work in which he appears? ---
**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 18, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/170 "2023-10-18T14:17:29Z")
1 DQ reserved. IQs: 1. Did you write the hymn _Rock of Ages_? 2. Did you write _The Magnificent Ambersons_? 3. Are you the protagonist in the film _The Imitation Game_? ---
**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 18, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/171 "2023-10-18T14:38:20Z")
IQs: 1. Did you claim to be working on the “Spirit Phone”, a device for speaking with the dead? 2. Whoever wields this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of you? 3. Did Tim Jacobus also do this cover for a collection of three of your husband’s novels (the one about the girl with telekinetic powers, the one about the family in the hotel, and the one with vampires)? [![](https://jacobusstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TheShining.jpg) ](https://jacobusstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TheShining.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/172 "2023-10-18T16:53:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Did you sing the praises of wang dang sweet poontang? > > IQ2: Do you pity the fool? > > IQ3: Did you tiptoe through the tulips? > > Not Thelonious Monk, Mr. T or Tiny Tim. Ted Nugent (I had to research to make sure that Monk didn’t have a similarly titled song.) Correct, Correct Holding one DQ ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/173 "2023-10-18T17:14:14Z")
IQ1: Are you the title character of Joan Crawford’s final feature film? IQ2: Did you attempt to murder your family while serving as winter caretaker in a remote Colorado hotel? IQ3: Did you find yourself chanting “redrum”? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/174 "2023-10-18T23:47:57Z")
IQ 1. Did you propose something akin to a 1920’s deathray? 2. Are you a pinball wizard 3. Are you a American of south Asian descent who moved from a government job in Pawnee Indiana to a to a series of entrepreneurial endeavors. DQs: 1. From TV? 1DQ reserved ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/175 "2023-10-20T02:00:41Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the hymn _Rock of Ages_? > 2. Did you write _The Magnificent Ambersons_? > 3. Are you the protagonist in the film _The Imitation Game_? Not Thorneycroft, Tarkington or Turing. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you claim to be working on the “Spirit Phone”, a device for speaking with the dead? > 2. Whoever wields this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of you? > 3. Did Tim Jacobus also do this cover for a collection of three of your husband’s novels (the one about the girl with telekinetic powers, the one about the family in the hotel, and the one with vampires)?.. Not Tesla, Thor or Tabitha King (the link showed the words _The Stand_, but I think I would’ve figured it out anyway). > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you the title character of Joan Crawford’s final feature film? > IQ2: Did you attempt to murder your family while serving as winter caretaker in a remote Colorado hotel? > IQ3: Did you find yourself chanting “redrum”? Dunno, not Jack Torrance and not the little boy Torrance (Matt?). > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ > > 1. Did you propose something akin to a 1920’s deathray? > 2. Are you a pinball wizard > 3. Are you a American of south Asian descent who moved from a government job in Pawnee Indiana to a to a series of entrepreneurial endeavors. > … Also not Tesla, not Tommy and dunno (from _Parks and Rec_?) T. 1. fictional 2. last name starts with T 3. male 4. from TV or movies, adapted from a novel 5. not otherwise from prose 6. main character 7. created by Americans 8. if real, would be living now, in a way 9. first name begins A - M 10. protagonist of work in which he appears 11. not from TV ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/176 "2023-10-20T02:06:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Did you propose something akin to a 1920’s deathray? > > 2. Are you a pinball wizard > > 3. Are you a American of south Asian descent who moved from a government job in Pawnee Indiana to a to a series of entrepreneurial endeavors. > > … > > Also not Tesla, not Tommy and dunno (from _Parks and Rec_?) First two correct, third was **Tom Haverford** indeed from Parks and Rec. DQ: Relatively normal (e.g. not undead or superpowered) Human? 1 DQ reserved ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/177 "2023-10-20T02:31:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Tesla, Thor or Tabitha King (the link showed the words _The Stand_, but I think I would’ve figured it out anyway). 1 (“Spirit Phone”) was Thomas Edison; 2 was correct; 3 was correct (although I believe you mean _The Shining_). Incidentally, that’s Jacobus in the picture–he figured if he was doing a Stephen King cover, he might as well take the chance to model for it. DQ: from movie made 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 20, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/178 "2023-10-20T13:04:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you write the hymn _Rock of Ages_? > > 2. Did you write _The Magnificent Ambersons_? > > 3. Are you the protagonist in the film _The Imitation Game_? > > Not Thorneycroft, Tarkington or Turing. #1 was Augustus Montague Toplady. Correct on the others. DQ: In keeping with the ongoing Halloween theme? ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/179 "2023-10-20T13:06:35Z")
IQs: 1. Did you lead a gang that included the Brain, Benny the Ball and Fancy Fancy? 2. Did you star in _That Girl_? 3. Are you a Tolkein Dwarf with a first and a last name? ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/180 "2023-10-20T13:40:40Z")
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