# Botticelli - September 2017

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [September 4, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516 "2017-09-04T22:27:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 9

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**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 26, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/161 "2017-09-26T14:41:04Z")

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correct, Lars Ulrich, James Urbaniak

Real?  
Last name start with U?

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**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 26, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/162 "2017-09-26T14:47:18Z")

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IQ1: Are you Shelob’s mother?  
IQ2: Do you teach Defence Against the Dark Arts at the Ministry of Magic?  
IQ3: Are you a sycophantic character from Dickens’ _David Copperfield_ and also the name of a psychedelic rock band?

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**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, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/163 "2017-09-26T14:49:23Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with U

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**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, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/164 "2017-09-26T14:52:01Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Are you Shelob’s mother?  
> IQ2: Do you teach Defence Against the Dark Arts at the Ministry of Magic?  
> IQ3: Are you a sycophantic character from Dickens’ _David Copperfield_ and also the name of a psychedelic rock band?

#1. Take a DQ.  
#2. I am not Delores Umbridge.  
#3. I am not Uriah Heep.

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**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 26, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/165 "2017-09-26T15:43:19Z")

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Ungoliant

Female?

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**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, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/166 "2017-09-26T15:48:06Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with U
3. Male

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**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 26, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/167 "2017-09-26T15:48:39Z")

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IQ1: Was _The Simpsons_ a spinoff from your show?  
IQ2: Are you a Silver Age-era enemy of Thor, not an internet type of troll?  
IQ3: Are you an enemy of Dr. Strange, Dormammu’s sister and mother of Clea?

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**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 26, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/168 "2017-09-26T16:07:21Z")

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Umbridge _taught_ at Hogwarts, not at the Ministry of Magic. She did serve as a MM bureaucrat, though.

Previous IQs:

Did Frodo Baggins say he was you? - Yes, he traveled incognito as “Mr. Underhill” in LOTR  
Were you a hero of Arnhem and later worked for the UN? - This was Gen. (first name James?) Urquhart, not U Thant  
Were you a very capable young U.S. Army general during the Civil War who later committed suicide, perhaps due to a brain tumor? - Emory Upton

DQs:

American?  
Living?

IQs:

Has your name come up a lot in the “Questions Only” thread?  
Are you House Whip at the start of the British _House of Cards_?  
Are you House Whip at the start of the American _House of Cards_?

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**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, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/169 "2017-09-26T17:15:09Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with U
3. Male
4. Not American
5. Dead

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**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, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/170 "2017-09-26T17:16:10Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Was _The Simpsons_ a spinoff from your show?  
> IQ2: Are you a Silver Age-era enemy of Thor, not an internet type of troll?  
> IQ3: Are you an enemy of Dr. Strange, Dormammu’s sister and mother of Clea?

1. I am not Tracey Ullman.
2. I am not Ulik.
3. Take a DQ. I know it, but can’t bring the name around.

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**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, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/171 "2017-09-26T17:17:15Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Has your name come up a lot in the “Questions Only” thread?  
> Are you House Whip at the start of the British _House of Cards_?  
> Are you House Whip at the start of the American _House of Cards_?

1. I am not Kate Upton. (??)  
Take two DQs for the others.

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**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 26, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/172 "2017-09-26T18:29:53Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQ1: Was The Simpsons a spinoff from your show?  
> IQ2: Are you a Silver Age-era enemy of Thor, not an internet type of troll?  
> IQ3: Are you an enemy of Dr. Strange, Dormammu’s sister and mother of Clea?
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> 1. I am not Tracey Ullman.
> 2. I am not Ulik.
> 3. Take a DQ. I know it, but can’t bring the name around.

Umar

DQ: Known for the Arts?

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**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 26, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/173 "2017-09-26T18:36:41Z")

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IQ1: Are you currently married to Nicole Kidman?  
IQ2: Did Merlin disguise you as Gorlois?  
IQ3: Were you Morgan LeFay’s husband?

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**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, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/174 "2017-09-26T19:17:45Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with U
3. Male
4. Not American
5. Dead
6. Not known for the Arts

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**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, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/175 "2017-09-26T19:19:09Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Are you currently married to Nicole Kidman?  
> IQ2: Did Merlin disguise you as Gorlois?  
> IQ3: Were you Morgan LeFay’s husband?

1. I am not Keith Urban.
2. I am not Uther Pendragon.
3. Take a DQ.

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**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 26, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/176 "2017-09-26T19:59:07Z")

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Urien

European?

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**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, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/177 "2017-09-26T20:26:41Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with U
3. Male
4. Not American
5. Dead
6. Not known for the Arts
7. European

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/178 "2017-09-26T22:33:46Z")

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IQ1: Were you called Odikweos in the Nantucket trilogy?  
IQ2: Were you associated with Ariel?  
IQ3: Did you loan your power to Michael Carpenter?

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Gen. (first name James?) Urquhart

Roy.

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**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, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/179 "2017-09-26T22:34:57Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you called Odikweos in the Nantucket trilogy?  
> IQ2: Were you associated with Ariel?  
> IQ3: Did you loan your power to Michael Carpenter?
> 
> Roy.

#1. I am not Ulysses. (??)  
#2. I am not Uranus.  
Take 1 DQ.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/180 "2017-09-26T22:55:55Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Never heard of Hill.

[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J78J-6PbhVo)’s my favourite scene with Hill, from _Trinity Is Still My Name_ (1971). The burly, black-bearded fellow is the aforementioned Bud Spencer.

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