# December Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 30, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169 "2013-11-30T23:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/382 "2013-12-19T15:17:18Z")
IQ1: Are you an alliterational, eponymous Dickensian protagonist? IQ2: Are you the Submariner? IQ3: Did your actor play someone who attempted to explain this very game to a child who dismissed it as it “sounds boring”? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/383 "2013-12-19T18:29:24Z")
IQ1: Do your amps go to 11? IQ2: Did you see children in your magic mirror? IQ3: Did you play piano on albums by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/384 "2013-12-19T18:34:05Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > IQ1: Are you the boyfriend of a famous girl detective? > IQ2: Were you beheaded for treason while your daughters watched? > IQ3: Do you have a dog named Asta? Not Ned Nickerson. (I considered using him, but thought he might be too easy.) DQ. Neither Nick nor Nora Charles. > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you an alliterational, eponymous Dickensian protagonist? > IQ2: Are you the Submariner? > IQ3: Did your actor play someone who attempted to explain this very game to a child who dismissed it as it “sounds boring”? Not Nicholas Nickleby. Not Prince Namor. DQ. **N** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Protagonist 4. Not from the movies ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/385 "2013-12-19T18:54:54Z")
IQ: Were you Barney Stinson last pre-Robin gf? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/386 "2013-12-19T18:58:26Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you Barney Stinson last pre-Robin gf? Since I have no clue as to who Barney and Robin are, DQ. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/387 "2013-12-19T19:01:17Z")
That’s Nora from How I Met Your Mother. DQ:Appear in a visual medium? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/388 "2013-12-19T19:06:16Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ2: Were you beheaded for treason while your daughters watched? Ned Stark, in whichever medium you prefer _Game of Thrones_. DQ: Created after 1970? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/389 "2013-12-19T20:55:51Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you an alliterational, eponymous Dickensian protagonist? > IQ2: Are you the Submariner? > IQ3: Did your actor play someone who attempted to explain this very game to a child who dismissed it as it “sounds boring”? IQ1: Correct on Nicholas Nickleby IQ2: Correct on Prince Namor IQ3: **Niles Crane** , whose actor David Hyde-Pearce played Sideshow Bob’s brother Cecil and attempted to explain Botticelli to Bart Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/390 "2013-12-19T21:01:02Z")
IQ: Are you an avaricious alien with a title beginning with N? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/391 "2013-12-19T21:15:01Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the French version of Santa Claus? 2. Do you solve crimes and grow orchids? 3. Did you lose your toad but kill a snake? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/392 "2013-12-19T22:20:00Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ: Are you an avaricious alien with a title beginning with N? I think this is a reference to the Ferengi in _DS9_, but have a DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the French version of Santa Claus? > 2. Do you solve crimes and grow orchids? > 3. Did you lose your toad but kill a snake? Not Pere Noel. (Just pretend the diacriticals are there.) Not Nero Wolfe. DQ. **N** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Protagonist 4. Not from the movies 5. Appear in a visual medium 6. Not created after 1970 ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/393 "2013-12-19T22:34:38Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ: Are you an avaricious alien with a title beginning with N? I was thinking of the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/394 "2013-12-20T00:47:19Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > …IQ3: Did your actor play someone who attempted to explain this very game to a child who dismissed it as it “sounds boring”? Well played. Very meta. :: golf clap :: IQs: Did you stand in for your spouse at the 1985 Boy Scout Jamboree? - Nancy Reagan. Did you quotably deprecate the job you held? - John Nance Garner said “The Vice Presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss” (often bowdlerized ed as “warm spit”). Was your caregiver quite sad when you had to leave home while still quite young? - Norbert’s adoptive daddy Hagrid was very sorry to see the young dragon go. DQs: First name start with N? American? First appeared on TV? IQs: Were you a businessman and maybe a spy, and then later a diplomat? Did you give a funny pirate a head start? Did Roger Rees famously play you? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/395 "2013-12-20T02:25:18Z")
IQ1: Do your sons play the video game, “Billy Graham’s Bible Blaster”? IQ2: Were you a famous gambler from a Mediterranean country? IQ3: Did your illustrations on popular magazine covers depict slices of Americana? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/396 "2013-12-20T02:55:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the French version of Santa Claus? > 2. Do you solve crimes and grow orchids? > 3. Did you lose your toad but kill a snake? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Pere Noel. (Just pretend the diacriticals are there.) > Not Nero Wolfe. > DQ. #3 was Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series. He goes from utterly incapable geek to courageous capable hero lver the span of the books. I’ll save my DQ until the morrow. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/397 "2013-12-20T03:56:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a businessman and maybe a spy, and then later a diplomat? > Did you give a funny pirate a head start? > Did Roger Rees famously play you? Three more DQs. > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Do your sons play the video game, “Billy Graham’s Bible Blaster”? > IQ2: Were you a famous gambler from a Mediterranean country? > IQ3: Did your illustrations on popular magazine covers depict slices of Americana? DQ. Not Nick the Greek. Not Norman Rockwell (my second-favourite painter). > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #3 was Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series. He goes from utterly incapable geek to courageous capable hero lver the span of the books. :smack: I knew I was going to kick myself when I found out the answer to that one… ZDS ZDS ZDS **N** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not really the protagonist, but a “good guy” 4. Not from the movies 5. Appear in a visual medium 6. Not created after 1970 7. First name does not start with N 8. American 9. First appeared on TV ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/398 "2013-12-20T04:19:06Z")
IQ: Was your wife named Harriet? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/399 "2013-12-20T04:21:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ. > Not Nick the Greek. > Not Norman Rockwell (my second-favourite painter). Correct on Nick the Greek and Norman Rockwell. The guy with the kids who play “Billy Graham’s Bible Blaster” is Ned Flanders. DQ reserved for now. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/400 "2013-12-20T04:35:46Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Was your wife named Harriet? Not Ozzie Nelson. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/401 "2013-12-20T04:49:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > DQ reserved for now. I’ll bring this one forward. DQ: Was the first TV appearance a sitcom? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169.md?page=21)