# Botticelli - September 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916 "2015-09-04T17:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/221 "2015-09-10T20:55:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Correct on all three. Yes, we have allowed middle names, where they were always used by the person in question. > > IQs: > > Are you Peter’s horny friend? > Did you need a bigger boat? > Were you a Toni Morrison female character? Not Glen Quagmire or Quint Take a DQ for 3 ---
**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 10, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/222 "2015-09-10T20:56:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you pilot a starship that was actually a garbage scow on a TV series? 2. Did a vampire try to prevent your ghost from harming children? 3. Did Sam Waterson play you in a TV series whose title consisted of your initials? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/223 "2015-09-10T21:03:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you pilot a starship that was actually a garbage scow on a TV series? > 2. Did a vampire try to prevent your ghost from harming children? > 3. Did Sam Waterson play you in a TV series whose title consisted of your initials? Not Quark (Richard Benjamin) or Quentin (QED) Deverill Take a DQ for 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 10, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/224 "2015-09-10T21:04:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you pilot a starship that was actually a garbage scow on a TV series? > 2. Did a vampire try to prevent your ghost from harming children? > 3. Did Sam Waterson play you in a TV series whose title consisted of your initials? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Quark (Richard Benjamin) or Quentin (QED) Deverill > Take a DQ for 2 Correct, Quentin Collins on _Dark Shadows_, Correct. DQ: Known from a science fiction show? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/225 "2015-09-10T21:35:50Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not (James Bond’s friend) Q > > Not Mayor Quimby > > Not Oliver Queen Correct on all three! DQ: Did you appear in the majority of the episodes produced of the television program you’re primarily known from? Holding 3 DQ. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/226 "2015-09-10T21:40:11Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Not real 2. Not known from literature 3. Male 4. First appeared on television or in movies 5. First appeared after 1960 6. Only name starts with Q 7. Known primarily through television 8. Appeared before 1980 9. Was not a character on a TV program 10. Sci-fi related ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/227 "2015-09-10T21:45:12Z")
DQ: Are you human? Holding 2 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 10, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/228 "2015-09-10T22:03:47Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a cartoon “mascot” for a breakfast cereal? 2. Are you #1’s competing rival mascot for a different cereal? 3. Are you everybody’s favorite Ferengi? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/229 "2015-09-10T23:17:05Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a skinny character actor who plays Citizen Z in the Syfy series Z Nation? > IQ2: Did you play wide receive for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1981-1990? > IQ3: Do you currently play goaltender for the Los Angeles Kings? > > Not Mike Quick > > Take DQs for 1 and 3 DJ Qualls, Jonathan Quick DQ: American production? holding a DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/230 "2015-09-11T10:57:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a cartoon “mascot” for a breakfast cereal? YESSSSS!!! I am the propellor-headed, lovable alien **QUISP** , enemy of Quake, and mascot for young Astorian’s favorite breakfast cereal in the 1960s! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8bUSt-JQdPg/hqdefault.jpg "Vintage Quisp and Quake Cereal commercial of the 70's") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bUSt-JQdPg) Well done, Professor! ---
**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 11, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/231 "2015-09-11T12:45:29Z")
Okay, this time around I am F. [Pfui, I liked Quake better.] ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/232 "2015-09-11T13:51:58Z")
I liked Quisp better. He was a kooky alien in a flying saucer. IQ1: Are you a Dick Tracy parody strip-within-a-strip from _Li’l Abner_? IQ2: Are you a hypochondriac ham actor friend of Dick Tracy? IQ3: Are you a Dick Tracy villain that shares the nickname for a type of aircraft carrier? ---
**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 11, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/233 "2015-09-11T13:59:28Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I liked Quisp better. He was a kooky alien in a flying saucer. > > IQ1: Are you a Dick Tracy parody strip-within-a-strip from _Li’l Abner_? > IQ2: Are you a hypochondriac ham actor friend of Dick Tracy? > IQ3: Are you a Dick Tracy villain that shares the nickname for a type of aircraft carrier? 1. I am not Fearless Fosdick. 2. I forget. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Flattop. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/234 "2015-09-11T16:57:32Z")
IQs: Did you give your child a first name that is also the name of a significant celestial body along with a middle name that is the term used for an element in a mathematical ring that is invertible under multiplication? Were you the title character in a supposed comedy that Roger Ebert described as (paraphrasing) something that may one day seem ground-breaking in terms of post-modernism (or something like that), but the day may never come when it’s seen as funny? Are you the personification of the aspect of the Minkowski metric that has negative signature? ---
**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 11, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/235 "2015-09-11T17:03:59Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > IQs: > > Did you give your child a first name that is also the name of a significant celestial body along with a middle name that is the term used for an element in a mathematical ring that is invertible under multiplication? > Were you the title character in a supposed comedy that Roger Ebert described as (paraphrasing) something that may one day seem ground-breaking in terms of post-modernism (or something like that), but the day may never come when it’s seen as funny? > Are you the personification of the aspect of the Minkowski metric that has negative signature? Fun questions. No clue. Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/236 "2015-09-11T17:21:54Z")
Frank Zappa (Moon Unit) Freddy of _Freddy Got Fingered_ (Ebert’s review of this is HILARIOUS) Father Time DQ: Real? 2 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/237 "2015-09-11T17:40:22Z")
IQs: Did you play a man who set himself on fire believing he would be protected due to documents that supposedly were written by Lucifer? Were you a character in the X-files universe played by an actor who also once played a character (in a different universe) who was at one point sliced in half but still able to function? Did you found a place that has been “strengthening children and families since 1939”? ---
**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 11, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/238 "2015-09-11T18:05:04Z")
DQ: Real ---
**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 11, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/239 "2015-09-11T18:06:05Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > IQs: > Did you play a man who set himself on fire believing he would be protected due to documents that supposedly were written by Lucifer? > Were you a character in the X-files universe played by an actor who also once played a character (in a different universe) who was at one point sliced in half but still able to function? > Did you found a place that has been “strengthening children and families since 1939”? and take 3 more DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/240 "2015-09-11T18:30:31Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Dick Tracy parody strip-within-a-strip from Li’l Abner? > IQ2: Are you a hypochondriac ham actor friend of Dick Tracy? > IQ3: Are you a Dick Tracy villain that shares the nickname for a type of aircraft carrier? > > 1. I am not Fearless Fosdick. > 2. I forget. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Flattop. Vitamin Flintheart DQ: Alive? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=13)