# Botticelli - Sept. 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097 "2021-09-04T14:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 26, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/201 "2021-09-26T12:42:38Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Memoirs of an Amnesiac_? 2. Were you the founder of the Georgia colony? 3. Did you and David Tennant both play Casanova in the same series? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/202 "2021-09-26T21:20:54Z")
DQs: **O** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Only name starts with O 5. Died before 1900 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Died before 1600 8. European 9. Born south of Vienna 10. Not best known for the Arts 11. Died before 1000 AD 12. Known _ **from** _ science or philosophy 13. Died before 100 A.D. 14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia 15. No important principle or observation named after me 16. Based on the Wikipedia definition of Ancient Rome, not from Ancient Rome or its provinces (See Post #197 for definition) 17. Died before 500 B.C ---
**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:** [September 26, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/203 "2021-09-26T21:21:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you write _Memoirs of an Amnesiac_ ? > 2. Were you the founder of the Georgia colony? > 3. Did you and David Tennant both play Casanova in the same series? I forget - take a DQ Take another DQ Not Peter O’Toole ---
**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:** [September 26, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/204 "2021-09-26T21:27:36Z")
That makes over 20 DQs that I have handed out, so no more IQs please. Ask your outstanding DQs by 5:00 pm PDT Tuesday 9/28 ---
**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 27, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/205 "2021-09-27T00:16:35Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you write _Memoirs of an Amnesiac_ ? > > > > > 1. Were you the founder of the Georgia colony? > > > 2. Did you and David Tennant both play Casanova in the same series? > > I forget - take a DQ > Take another DQ > Not Peter O’Toole #1 was Oscar Levant. #2 was James Oglethorpe. Correct on Peter. DQ: Known **from** archeology? I’m wondering if this guy’s Etruscan or Phoenician. I’m not coming up with anybody at all. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/206 "2021-09-27T00:55:25Z")
[quote=“ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness, post:202, topic:950097, full:true”] DQs: **O** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Only name starts with O 5. Died before 1900 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Died before 1600 8. European 9. Born south of Vienna 10. Not best known for the Arts 11. Died before 1000 AD 12. Known _ **from** _ science or philosophy 13. Died before 100 A.D. 14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia 15. No important principle or observation named after me 16. Based on the Wikipedia definition of Ancient Rome, not from Ancient Rome or its provinces (See Post #197 for definition) 17. Died before 500 B.C 18. Known **from** archeology ---
**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 27, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/207 "2021-09-27T04:06:20Z")
Swept me! My reserved DQ: A top government official, even if not “political”? ---
**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 27, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/208 "2021-09-27T12:24:59Z")
DQs: 1. Name known from writing (e.g., an inscription, manuscript, etc.) rather than a coined name (such as Leakey’s “Lucy”)? 2. Name has 3 or more syllables? ---
**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:** [September 27, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/209 "2021-09-27T16:26:41Z")
DQs: **O** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Only name starts with O 5. Died before 1900 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Died before 1600 8. European 9. Born south of Vienna 10. Not best known for the Arts 11. Died before 1000 AD 12. Known _ **from** _ science or philosophy 13. Died before 100 A.D. 14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia 15. No important principle or observation named after me 16. Based on the Wikipedia definition of Ancient Rome, not from Ancient Rome or its provinces (See Post #197 for definition) 17. Died before 500 B.C 18. Known **from** archeology 19. Not a top government official, even if not “political” 20. Name not known from writing (e.g., an inscription, manuscript, etc.). Is a coined name. 21. Name has fewer than 3 syllables That’s all the outstanding DQs. Ask your “Are you onlyname?” questions by Tuesday 9/28 5 pm PDT. ---
**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 27, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/210 "2021-09-27T16:40:09Z")
Are you Ozymandias? ---
**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 27, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/211 "2021-09-27T16:47:21Z")
Are you Otho? ---
**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:** [September 27, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/212 "2021-09-27T17:36:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you Ozymandias? I am not. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you Otho? I am not. On review, it looks like we are the only three players this round, so there are no more outstanding questions. I am **[Otzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi)** the Ice Mummy Discovered almost exactly 30 years ago in the Oztal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border, he is estimated to have died around 3200 BC. Hence my answer of “not from Ancient Rome”, as he predated the founding of Rome by more than 2000 years. > **[Ötzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi)** > > Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi", German: \[œtsi\]) at the border between Austria and Italy. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans. > Because of the presence of an arrowhead embedded in his left shoulder and various other wounds, researchers believe Ötzi wa... ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/213 "2021-09-27T19:55:52Z")
Ooo, good one! I was reading about him just a few months back. ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/214 "2021-09-27T19:58:17Z")
Yeah, back when he was discovered my daughter (then 9 years old) called him Otzi, the Notsi Hotsi-Totsi. So I remember him 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:** [September 28, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/215 "2021-09-28T03:26:53Z")
Next up [![](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/frozen-ice-letter-r-glow-festive-blue-shine-font-isolated-black-d-illustration-symbols-frosty-snow-creative-glowing-solid-155701951.jpg) ](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/frozen-ice-letter-r-glow-festive-blue-shine-font-isolated-black-d-illustration-symbols-frosty-snow-creative-glowing-solid-155701951.jpg) Hey, it worked that time! ---
**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 28, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/216 "2021-09-28T13:25:00Z")
Good on ya! IQs: 1. Did you create the best known thesaurus? 2. Did Paul Giamatti play you in a Spider-Man movie? 3. Did Clancy Brown play you in _Buckaroo Banzai_? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/217 "2021-09-28T14:48:22Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the Sultan of Swat? 2. Within the comic strip you drew, were the things you’re best known for created by Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts? 3. In a film, did you play a speaking role–which traditionally had no dialogue and was portrayed onstage by a light? ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/218 "2021-09-28T15:47:11Z")
IQs: Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? Are you the best-known person from Dixon, Ill.? Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga, but had your bacon saved by Thomas? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/219 "2021-09-28T17:06:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you create the best known thesaurus? > 2. Did Paul Giamatti play you in a Spider-Man movie? > 3. Did Clancy Brown play you in _Buckaroo Banzai_ ? Not Roget DQ - must be one of the Andrew Garfield ones, which I didn’t see DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you the Sultan of Swat? > 2. Within the comic strip you drew, were the things you’re best known for created by Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts? > 3. In a film, did you play a speaking role–which traditionally had no dialogue and was portrayed onstage by a light? Not Babe Ruth Take a DQ Not Julia Roberts - Tinkerbell in _Hook_ > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? > Are you the best-known person from Dixon, Ill.? > Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga, but had your bacon saved by Thomas? Not Radagast the Brown Not Ronald Reagan? Take a DQ ---
**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:** [September 28, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097/220 "2021-09-28T17:14:05Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Babe Ruth > Take a DQ > Not Julia Roberts - Tinkerbell in _Hook_ 1 is correct; 2 was Rube Goldberg; 3 is correct. DQ: real? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2021/950097.md?page=12)