# Botticelli (Part Whatever)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [May 21, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653 "2012-05-21T21:04:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/141 "2012-05-29T20:55:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ2 was looking for Freddie Mercury of Queen. As you may recall, Queen released the album _A Night at the Opera_ in 1975, followed by _A Day at the Races_ in 1976.
Wickedly done!
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/142 "2012-05-29T21:04:31Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> IQ1: Are you a private informer working in Rome in the time of the Emperor Vespasian?
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> IQ2: Did you collaborate with Pierre Boulez on ‘The Perfect Stranger’?
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> IQ3: Are you the title character of a hagiographic opera by Olivier Messiaen?
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> For the first, no, I am not… Falco? Dunno about the other two - two DQs (and maybe three).
You are quite right - **Marcus Didius Falco** , narrator of Lindsay Davis’ thoroughly enjoyable series of mysteries.
2: is **Frank Zappa**. Far better known for his rock music with salacious lyrics, he was also a composer of serious contemporary music, such that the exigeant Pierre Boulez consented to conduct his album of chamber music, The Perfect Stranger.
1. is **St. Francis of Assisi** (Technically, Saint François d’Assise, as the opera is in French.), the title character of Olivier Messiaen’s opera.
So -
IQ1: Do you originally appear in a work of literature?
IQ2: Is your creator still alive today?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/143 "2012-05-29T21:31:37Z")
IQ1: Have you been played by Karloff and De Niro?
IQ2: Were you the subject of the first X rated animated movie?
IQ3: Have you been used in many of Shakespear’s plays?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/144 "2012-05-29T21:46:59Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> IQ: Were you the singer and primary songwriter for an acclaimed alternative rock band from the late '80s and early '90s?
> [snip]
> IQ: Did you “help” your home run stay in fair territory in Game 6?
Frank Black (or Black Francis, as he was known when he fronted the Pixies) and Carlton Fisk.
DQs to follow after **le Ministre’s** questions are answered.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/145 "2012-05-30T02:54:18Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> Wickedly done!
Thanks! 🙂 That one was kind of fun to think of.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/146 "2012-05-30T03:52:42Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> You are quite right - **Marcus Didius Falco** , narrator of Lindsay Davis’ thoroughly enjoyable series of mysteries…
Hmm. Falco was also the name of a top Roman official played by David Warner in the 1981 TV movie _Masada_, about the AD 73 siege. Any connection, I wonder?
> [@MissTake](#):
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> IQ1: Have you been played by Karloff and De Niro?
> IQ2: Were you the subject of the first X rated animated movie?
> IQ3: Have you been used in many of Shakespear’s plays?
I’m neither Frankenstein’s monster, nor Fritz the Cat, nor Falstaff.
F.
1. Not alive
2. Not American
3. Fictional
4. Male
5. Originally appeared in a work of literature
6. Creator not now alive
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/147 "2012-05-30T04:16:56Z")
Were you a (fictional) friend of King Henry V?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/148 "2012-05-30T05:28:49Z")
IQ1: If you put a light bulb in your mouth, does it light up?
IQ2: Would you rather stop and smell the flowers instead of fighting?
IQ3: Does Yosemite Sam want to see your high-diving act?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/149 "2012-05-30T14:27:30Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Were you a (fictional) friend of King Henry V?
:: checking ::
No, I’m still not Falstaff.
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: If you put a light bulb in your mouth, does it light up?
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> IQ2: Would you rather stop and smell the flowers instead of fighting?
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> IQ3: Does Yosemite Sam want to see your high-diving act?
I should know the first and third, but don’t. Two DQs. As to the second, no, I’m not everyone’s favorite pacifist bull, Ferdinand.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/150 "2012-05-30T14:55:22Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: If you put a light bulb in your mouth, does it light up?
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> IQ2: Would you rather stop and smell the flowers instead of fighting?
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> IQ3: Does Yosemite Sam want to see your high-diving act?
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I should know the first and third, but don’t. Two DQs. As to the second, no, I’m not everyone’s favorite pacifist bull, Ferdinand.
Correct on Ferdinand.
IQ1 was looking for Uncle Fester of the Addams Family.
IQ3 was looking for Fearless Freep. He was the high-diver in the cartoon “High Diving Hare” who never showed up, so Yosemite Sam forces Bugs Bunny to do the high dive instead. Of course, Sam ends up doing the dive more often than Bugs, and to greater comedic effect.
I’ll think about my DQs for a bit.
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/151 "2012-05-30T14:55:25Z")
IQ1: Are you a Shakespearean character who thinks he has reason to be jealous of Falstaff?
IQ2: Are you in love with the daughter of the subject of IQ1?
IQ3: Are you a famous castrato?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/152 "2012-05-30T15:14:57Z")
IQ1: Did you start a famous clothing trend?
IQ2: Did Data play you in a fantasy episode?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/153 "2012-05-30T19:21:16Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> I’ll think about my DQs for a bit.
Okay, let’s try these:
DQ: Are you European?
DQ: Did you appear in more than one work of literature?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/154 "2012-05-31T01:48:09Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> IQ1: Are you a Shakespearean character who thinks he has reason to be jealous of Falstaff?
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> IQ2: Are you in love with the daughter of the subject of IQ1?
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> IQ3: Are you a famous castrato?
Dunno any of those, although I’m sure I’ll recognize the names when you tell me. Three DQs.
> [@MissTake](#):
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> IQ1: Did you start a famous clothing trend?
> IQ2: Did Data play you in a fantasy episode?
Two DQs. I’m sure I’ll hate myself for the Data answer - I can only think of Henry V and Sherlock Holmes.
F.
1. Not alive
2. Not American
3. Fictional
4. Male
5. Originally appeared in a work of literature
6. Creator not now alive
7. European
8. Has appeared in more than one work of literature
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/155 "2012-05-31T02:12:28Z")
Do you owe your life to a man on the run for stealing bread?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/156 "2012-05-31T02:29:35Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> Frank Black (or Black Francis, as he was known when he fronted the Pixies) and Carlton Fisk.
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> DQs to follow after **le Ministre’s** questions are answered.
DQ1: Have you appeared in film(s)?
DQ2: Is the literature in which you appear set primarily after 1900?
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/157 "2012-05-31T02:58:44Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> IQ1: Are you a Shakespearean character who thinks he has reason to be jealous of Falstaff?
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> IQ2: Are you in love with the daughter of the subject of IQ1?
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> IQ3: Are you a famous castrato?
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Dunno any of those, although I’m sure I’ll recognize the names when you tell me. Three DQs.
1. is **Master Ford** (from ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’), who is convinced that Falstaff is having an affair with his wife.
2. is wrong. **Fenton** is in love with Anne Page, not Anne Ford.
3. is **Farinelli** , one of the most famous of all castrati and the subject of a film made in the last 10 - 15 years.
Two DQs -
1. Were the works of literature in which you appear originally written in English?
2. Were the works of literature in which you appear written for the theatre? (As opposed to novels or short stories.)
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/158 "2012-05-31T14:52:57Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Do you owe your life to a man on the run for stealing bread?
No, I’m not Fantine in _Les Miserables_.
F.
1. Not alive
2. Not American
3. Fictional
4. Male
5. Originally appeared in a work of literature
6. Creator not now alive
7. European
8. Has appeared in more than one work of literature
9. Has appeared in films
10. Literature in which he appears is set before 1900
11. Originally appeared in an English-language work
12. Not originally in work written for the theatre
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/159 "2012-05-31T15:15:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Two DQs. I’m sure I’ll hate myself for the Data answer - I can only think of Henry V and Sherlock Holmes.
Little Lord Fauntleroy and Friar Tuck, respectively
DQ1: Are you a main character?
DQ2: Is the author British?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/160 "2012-05-31T15:42:40Z")
IQ1: Are you one of a pair of teen detectives in a popular series of children’s books?
IQ2: Did you and your valet accept a wager involving a long trip through such places as Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and New York?
IQ3: Were you a “gentleman’s gentleman” to a man named Bill Davis in a 1960s TV series?
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