# Botticelli - Sept. 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843 "2024-09-06T03:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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 23, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/141 "2024-09-23T18:20:36Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you also known as Yggr, Sigfadr, Alfadir and Wednesday? > > 2. Did you play Athos alongside Richard Chamberlain’s Aramis? > > 3. Were you literally marked by Fate in _KAOS_? > > I am not Odin. > I am not… Oliver Platt? > Take a DQ. #1 is correct. #2 was Oliver Reed. #3 is Orpheus. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Last name starts with O? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/142 "2024-09-23T18:22:16Z")
# O DQs: 1. Fictional. 2. First name starts with O. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/143 "2024-09-23T19:24:56Z")
Congrats! 1. Are you the rightful ruler of Oz? 2. Are you her cousin, the Rose Princess? 3. Are you the subject of Margot Mifflin’s book **The Blue Tattoo**? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/144 "2024-09-23T19:49:53Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Can we find you when we look up at the night sky? > > 2. Did you play Ducky on _Modern Family_? > > 3. Is there a college that bears your name in Tulsa, OK? > > I am not Orion the Hunter (now rising during late evening!) > Take a DQ. > I am not Oral Roberts. Yes, Patton Oswalt, yes DQ: Created after 1950? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/145 "2024-09-23T19:59:50Z")
IQs: 1. Did you take in your best friend after his wife threw him out? 2. Did Stephen King write about your unique shortcut? 3. Are you known for sleeping in filth? ---
**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 23, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/146 "2024-09-23T20:36:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did Robin William play you in Kenneth Branagh’s _Hamlet_? 2. According to Isaac Asimov’s _Familiar Poems, Annotated_, were you another name for Xerxes I of Persia? 3. Did you write the poem _Custard the Dragon_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/147 "2024-09-23T21:04:30Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you the rightful ruler of Oz? > 2. Are you her cousin, the Rose Princess? > 3. Are you the subject of Margot Mifflin’s book **The Blue Tattoo**? I am not Princess Ozma. Take 2 DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you take in your best friend after his wife threw him out? > 2. Did Stephen King write about your unique shortcut? > 3. Are you known for sleeping in filth? I am not Oscar Madison. Take a DQ. I am not Oscar the Grouch. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did Robin William play you in Kenneth Branagh’s _Hamlet_? > 2. According to Isaac Asimov’s _Familiar Poems, Annotated_, were you another name for Xerxes I of Persia? > 3. Did you write the poem _Custard the Dragon_? I am not… Ophelia? (boy that would be an interesting artistic choice) Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/148 "2024-09-23T21:05:06Z")
# O DQs: 1. Fictional. 2. First name starts with O. 3. Created before 1950. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/149 "2024-09-23T21:24:44Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Oscar Madison. > Take a DQ. > I am not Oscar the Grouch. Yes, Ophelia Todd (“Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”), yes 1 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/150 "2024-09-23T21:26:42Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the source of animosity between two brawling seamen? 2. Are you sometimes known as Rongo or Lono? 3. Is your codename Cottonmouth? ---
**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 23, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/151 "2024-09-23T21:47:22Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did Robin William play you in Kenneth Branagh’s _Hamlet_? > > 2. According to Isaac Asimov’s _Familiar Poems, Annotated_, were you another name for Xerxes I of Persia? > > 3. Did you write the poem _Custard the Dragon_? > > I am not… Ophelia? (boy that would be an interesting artistic choice) > Take 2 DQs. #1 was Osric, a courtier. A very small role. #2 was Ozymandias, King of Kings. #3 was Ogden Nash. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Originally from prose fiction (does not include plays)? 3. Created after 1800? ---
**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 24, 2024, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/152 "2024-09-24T01:13:46Z")
Previous IQs: Did you (fictionally) serve as South African minister of justice? - Otto (Kevin Kline) in _A Fish Called Wanda_ Did you allegedly remark, “Anyone who loves the law or sausage should never see either made”? - Yes, Otto von Bismarck Were the prop guys in a movie able to make your head spin around, although they weren’t originally asked to? - Otto the Autopilot, in _Airplane!_ Otto x3! DQs: American? Protagonist? IQs: Did you ask for more gruel? Was Fawn Hall your secretary? Are you shown in a large painting in the atrium of the Ohio Statehouse? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/153 "2024-09-24T04:24:15Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the source of animosity between two brawling seamen? > 2. Are you sometimes known as Rongo or Lono? > 3. Is your codename Cottonmouth? I am not Olive Oyl. Take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you ask for more gruel? > Was Fawn Hall your secretary? > Are you shown in a large painting in the atrium of the Ohio Statehouse? I am not Oliver Twist. I am not Oliver North. I am not… Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/154 "2024-09-24T04:25:50Z")
# O DQs: 1. Fictional. 2. First name starts with O. 3. Created before 1950. 4. Male. 5. Originally from prose fiction. 6. Created after 1800. 7. Not American. 8. Not a protagonist. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/155 "2024-09-24T05:19:38Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > 1. Are you the rightful ruler of Oz? > 2. Are you her cousin, the Rose Princess? > 3. Are you the subject of Margot Mifflin’s book **The Blue Tattoo**? Correct, Ozga, Olive Oatman. 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 24, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/156 "2024-09-24T06:11:45Z")
Previous IQs: Did you ask for more gruel? - Yes, Oliver Twist Was Fawn Hall your secretary? - Yes, Lt. Col. Oliver North, USMC Are you shown in a large painting in the atrium of the Ohio Statehouse? - This is Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, USN, victor of the Battle of Lake Erie Oliver x3! DQ: From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, detective, Western, etc.)? IQs: Did you and John Delaney just have a kid? Are you a friendly little girl pig in a series of children’s books? Have you played both a real-life mother and her daughter in a movie and a TV show, respectively? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/157 "2024-09-24T14:45:17Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the source of animosity between two brawling seamen? > > 2. Are you sometimes known as Rongo or Lono? > > 3. Is your codename Cottonmouth? > > I am not Olive Oyl. > Take 2 DQs. 1. Correct 2. Ono, Hawiian god of regeneration and abundance 3. O-Ren Ishi, _Kill Bill_ **DQs:** 1. Created after 1900? 2. Appeared once in media (not part of a series)? 3. Known for having an assistant or companion? ---
**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 24, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/158 "2024-09-24T15:16:06Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Spider-Man’s most armed foe? 2. Did you run for president on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket? 3. Were you hounded to death by the Furies for killing your mother? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/159 "2024-09-24T15:18:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you and John Delaney just have a kid? > Are you a friendly little girl pig in a series of children’s books? > Have you played both a real-life mother and her daughter in a movie and a TV show, respectively? I am not Olivia Munn. I am not Olivia. I am not… Olivia de Haviland? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Spider-Man’s most armed foe? > 2. Did you run for president on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket? > 3. Were you hounded to death by the Furies for killing your mother? I am not Doctor Octopus. I am not Opus the penguin. I am not… I was going to say Oedipus, but that’s wrong. 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:** [September 24, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/160 "2024-09-24T15:26:55Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you Spider-Man’s most armed foe? > > 2. Did you run for president on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket? > > 3. Were you hounded to death by the Furies for killing your mother? > > I am not Doctor Octopus. > I am not Opus the penguin. > I am not… I was going to say Oedipus, but that’s wrong. Take a DQ. Correct, correct, and Orestes, who slew Clytemnestra for killing his father Agamemnon on his return from the Trojan War. Granted, she’d been more than peeved at Agamemnon since he killed her first husband in front of her, then claimed her as a prize of another war. 1 DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843.md?page=9)