# Botticelli - Sept. 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 1, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651 "2016-09-01T13:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 7, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/21 "2016-09-07T15:05:15Z")
Right. Now that Labor Day’s past maybe some others will join in. IQs: 1. Were you “the Sweet Singer of Methodism” who toured was D. L. Moody and is sometimes credited with inventing crooning? 2. Did Kevin Bacon play you in _X-Men: First Class_? 3. Did you star opposite Bill Murray in _Lost In Translation_? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/22 "2016-09-07T15:26:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …IQs: > > 1. Were you “the Sweet Singer of Methodism” who toured was D. L. Moody and is sometimes credited with inventing crooning? > 2. Did Kevin Bacon play you in _X-Men: First Class_? > 3. Did you star opposite Bill Murray in _Lost In Translation_? Not Aimee Semple McPherson? Then dunno, and not Scarlett Johanssen (sp). ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/23 "2016-09-07T16:12:15Z")
1. Did a modern author write a non-fiction work fingering you as Jack the Ripper? 2. Do you and your older brother hunt demons? 3. Are you the lead singer of a band named after a character in Barbarella? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [September 7, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/24 "2016-09-07T17:46:45Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > 1. Did a modern author write a non-fiction work fingering you as Jack the Ripper? > > 2. Do you and your older brother hunt demons? > > 3. Are you the lead singer of a band named after a character in Barbarella?.. Dunno x2, and not Simon LeBon of Duran Duran (who sang a song called “Rio,” if my Doper memory serves). ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/25 "2016-09-07T18:00:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x2, and not Simon LeBon of Duran Duran (who sang a song called “Rio,” if my Doper memory serves). 1. In _Portrait of a Killer_ Patricia Cornwell offered artist Walter Sickert as a plausible Ripper suspect. 2. Sam Winchester, of _Supernatural_. DQ: Is he the main character of his work? DQ: Is it considered in the mystery genre? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/26 "2016-09-07T20:04:10Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you “the Sweet Singer of Methodism” who toured was D. L. Moody and is sometimes credited with inventing crooning? > 2. Did Kevin Bacon play you in X-Men: First Class? > 3. Did you star opposite Bill Murray in Lost In Translation? > Not Aimee Semple McPherson? Then dunno, and not Scarlett Johanssen (sp). #1 was Ira Sankey. #2 was Sebastian Shaw (the villain) #3 is correct. 2 DQs 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:** [September 8, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/27 "2016-09-08T03:39:45Z")
S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. created since 1950 4. first name starts with S 5. not created for a work of prose fiction 6. not the protagonist 7. from a movie or series of movies 8. created before 2000 9. by an American creator or creators 10. not the antagonist 11. from a kinda-sorta science fiction or fantasy movie or series 12. not the main character of his work 13. not considered in the mystery genre ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/28 "2016-09-08T12:31:44Z")
1. Did you agree to do the third installment of a popular sci-fi/horror film series on the condition that your character would die? 2. Are you a big scary blue monster whose best friend is a little scary green monster? 3. Were you the most legally correct claimant in the War of the Five Kings? ---
**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:** [September 8, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/29 "2016-09-08T13:36:14Z")
Are not DQs 6 & 12 the same question? DQ: Created after 1970? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/30 "2016-09-08T13:59:31Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are not DQs 6 & 12 the same question? I would swear on a stack of some kind of book I hold dear that I read DQ6 as “antagonist” _every time_ I looked at it. So I would rule that the play stands because I’m an idiot who doesn’t read good. :smack: ---
**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:** [September 8, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/31 "2016-09-08T20:13:38Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > 1. Did you agree to do the third installment of a popular sci-fi/horror film series on the condition that your character would die? > 2. Are you a big scary blue monster whose best friend is a little scary green monster? > 3. Were you the most legally correct claimant in the War of the Five Kings? Not Sigourney Weaver in the _Alien_ movies (Ripley… got better), not Sully from _Monsters Inc_., and not Stannis Baratheon (for all the good it did him) in _Game of Thrones_. > [@Draelin](#): > > I would swear on a stack of some kind of book I hold dear that I read DQ6 as “antagonist” _every time_ I looked at it. So I would rule that the play stands because I’m an idiot who doesn’t read good. :smack: They _are_ the same question, pretty much. No worries. I’ll delete the latter and renumber the answers; you can ask another. S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. created since 1950 4. first name starts with S 5. not created for a work of prose fiction 6. not the protagonist 7. from a movie or series of movies 8. created before 2000 9. by an American creator or creators 10. not the antagonist 11. from a kinda-sorta science fiction or fantasy movie or series 12. not considered in the mystery genre 13. created after 1970 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/32 "2016-09-09T00:39:14Z")
OK, I’m back, though I feel like I’ve been rode hard and put away wet…I was leveled by the flu this week. Summer colds oughtta be outlawed… Anyway, we’re going football-themed here. IQ’s: 1. Were you the legendary founder of NFL Films? 2. Did you start as a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers in 2001 and still play, now for the Baltimore Ravens? 3. Were you a Trojan whose nickname was “Bam” and played for ten years with the Patriots well before they were a dynasty? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/33 "2016-09-09T04:01:24Z")
Welcome back, **Johnny** , and hope you’re feeling better and better! Take three DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/34 "2016-09-09T04:38:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Welcome back, **Johnny** , and hope you’re feeling better and better! > > Take three DQs. Thanks. 😃 Not a big football fan, I’m guessing… 1. Ed Sabol 2. Steve Smith (Sr.) 3. Sam ‘Bam’ Cunningham DQ’s: 1. Comic book character? Reserving 2 DQ’s. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/35 "2016-09-09T13:21:15Z")
DQ: From a single film rather than a series? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/36 "2016-09-09T13:30:23Z")
1. Were you the lead singer of Skid Row before playing a recurring character on _Gilmore Girls_? 2. Were you the bodyguard for the Venture family? 3. Are you the only human ever to win the Mos Espa pod race? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/37 "2016-09-09T13:50:33Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in _What’s Up, Doc?_? 2. Were you married to Rebecca Romijn? 3. Did you star in _McMillan & Wife_? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/38 "2016-09-09T17:06:26Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > 1. Were you the lead singer of Skid Row before playing a recurring character on _Gilmore Girls_? > 2. Were you the bodyguard for the Venture family? > 3. Are you the only human ever to win the Mos Espa pod race? Dunno x2; not Anakin Skywalker. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in _What’s Up, Doc?_? > 2. Were you married to Rebecca Romijn? > 3. Did you star in _McMillan & Wife_? Not Barbra Streisand (love that movie!), dunno, and not Stephanie Powers (guessing). S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. created since 1950 4. first name starts with S 5. not created for a work of prose fiction 6. not the protagonist 7. from a movie or series of movies 8. created before 2000 9. by an American creator or creators 10. not the antagonist 11. from a kinda-sorta science fiction or fantasy movie or series 12. not considered in the mystery genre 13. created after 1970 14. not a comic book character 15. from a film series ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/39 "2016-09-09T17:08:53Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > 1. Were you the lead singer of Skid Row before playing a recurring character on _Gilmore Girls_? > 2. Were you the bodyguard for the Venture family? Sebastian Bach (showing my poor taste in music in the late 80’s), and Brock Sampson. DQ: Are you considered a good guy? DQ: Created after 1985? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/40 "2016-09-09T17:39:32Z")
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