# \[GAME\] Botticelli Oct 2014

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 1, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044 "2014-10-01T01:41:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 10

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/181 "2014-10-04T20:09:44Z")

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IQ: Are you an 80s video game character?

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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:** [October 4, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/182 "2014-10-04T20:26:25Z")

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DQ: Last name start with Q?  
holding a DQ

IQ1: Are you the carpenter mechanical in _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_?  
IQ2: Do you run a bar on _Deep Space Nine_?  
IQ3: Is your deputy a burro named Baba Looey?

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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:** [October 4, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/183 "2014-10-04T21:11:55Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you a werewolf on _Dark Shadows_?
2. Are you aka Green Arrow?
3. Were you a dragon from _The Giant Horse of Oz_?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/184 "2014-10-04T21:56:38Z")

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IQ: Were you created by an author who died the same day as Shakespeare?

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/185 "2014-10-05T01:21:36Z")

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Well done, **SCAdian**!

We had Ponzi a year or so ago, I think. On to Q…

IQs:

Did Sisko punch you, when Picard never did?  
Did you get killed helping James Bond in the Caribbean?  
Did you tell Jon Snow to kill you?

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/186 "2014-10-05T01:32:26Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Are you an 80s video game character?

Not Qbert.

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Are you the carpenter mechanical in _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_?  
> IQ2: Do you run a bar on _Deep Space Nine_?  
> IQ3: Is your deputy a burro named Baba Looey?

Not Quince.  
I know I’ll kick myself for this, but - DQ.  
Not Quickdraw McGraw.  
“Hey, Queeksdraw…”

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you a werewolf on _Dark Shadows_?
> 2. Are you aka Green Arrow?
> 3. Were you a dragon from _The Giant Horse of Oz_?

Not Quentin Collins.  
Not Oliver Queen.  
DQ.  
I almost was Quentin Collins, but I figured he’d probably be in your first set of IQs… 🙂

> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you created by an author who died the same day as Shakespeare?

DQ.

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Did Sisko punch you, when Picard never did?  
> Did you get killed helping James Bond in the Caribbean?  
> Did you tell Jon Snow to kill you?

DQ.  
Not Quarrel.  
DQ.

**Q**

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Best known from film
4. Would not be living today, if real
5. Last name starts with Q

KO has two DQs.  
EH has two.  
etv has one.  
Prof P has one.

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/187 "2014-10-05T01:41:01Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you a werewolf on Dark Shadows?
> 2. Are you aka Green Arrow?
> 3. Were you a dragon from The Giant Horse of Oz?
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> Not Quentin Collins.  
> Not Oliver Queen.  
> DQ.

Correct on the first 2. #3 was Quiberon.

DQ: From a work of Science Fiction or Fantasy?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/188 "2014-10-05T01:41:59Z")

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Don Quixote

DQ: American?

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/189 "2014-10-05T01:43:42Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you the protagonist in _Ten Thousand Years To Earth_?
2. Are you the Joker’s on-again, off-again girlfriend?
3. Are you aka Star-Lord?

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/190 "2014-10-05T02:34:19Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you the protagonist in _Ten Thousand Years To Earth_?
> 2. Are you the Joker’s on-again, off-again girlfriend?
> 3. Are you aka Star-Lord?

Three DQs.

**Q**

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Best known from film
4. Would not be living today, if real
5. Last name starts with Q
6. American

Prof P has four DQs.  
KO has two DQs.  
EH has two.  
etv has none.

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/191 "2014-10-05T11:57:22Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> Not Quince.  
> I know I’ll kick myself for this, but - DQ.  
> Not Quickdraw McGraw.  
> “Hey, Queeksdraw…”

Get that boot ready: Quark!

You missed Prof’s scifi/fantasy DQ.

holding 2 DQs

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/192 "2014-10-05T12:12:36Z")

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IQ1) Do you often fiddle nervously with steel balls?

IQ2) Did you discover King Solomon’s mines?

IQ3) Did you popularize the miniskirt in swinging Sixties London?

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/193 "2014-10-05T12:57:27Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> Get that boot ready: Quark!

Ouch!

> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ1) Do you often fiddle nervously with steel balls?
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> IQ2) Did you discover King Solomon’s mines?
> 
> IQ3) Did you popularize the miniskirt in swinging Sixties London?

DQ.  
Not Allan Quatermain.  
Not Mary Quant.

**Q**

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Best known from film
4. Would not be living today, if real
5. Last name starts with Q
6. Not from a work of Science Fiction or Fantasy
7. American

Prof P has three DQs.  
KO has two.  
EH has two.  
astorian has one  
etv has none.

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/194 "2014-10-05T14:14:58Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you the protagonist in _Ten Thousand Years To Earth_?
> 2. Are you the Joker’s on-again, off-again girlfriend?
> 3. Are you aka Star-Lord?

#1 is Quatermass, from a series of British SF movies.  
#2 is Harley Quinn.  
#3 is Peter Quill, one of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/195 "2014-10-05T14:16:35Z")

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Sooo, not SF so most probably not set in the future…

DQs:

1. Protagonist?
2. from a Western (or Westerns)?

1 DQ reserved.

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/196 "2014-10-05T16:30:29Z")

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IQ1: Are you the psycho priest played by Donald Pleasance in the film _Will Penny_?  
IQ2: Are you his son from the same film played by Bruce Dern?  
IQ3: Is your catch phrase Giggity Giggity?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/197 "2014-10-05T17:09:36Z")

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Captain Queeg fiddled with steel balls in _ **The Caine Mutiny** _

DQ) Have you appeared in a movie made since 1980?

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/198 "2014-10-05T18:50:01Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Are you the psycho priest played by Donald Pleasance in the film _Will Penny_?  
> IQ2: Are you his son from the same film played by Bruce Dern?  
> IQ3: Is your catch phrase Giggity Giggity?

I only know “giggity gigity” from one of Spike Jones’s songs, and I’ve no idea who said it. So take a DQ. In fact, take three DQs…

**Q**

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Best known from film
4. Would not be living today, if real
5. Last name starts with Q
6. Not from a work of Science Fiction or Fantasy
7. American
8. Protagonist
9. From a Western (or Westerns)
10. Appeared in a movie made since 1980

KO has five DQs.  
EH has two.  
Prof P has one.  
astorian has none  
etv has none.

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/199 "2014-10-05T18:56:21Z")

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IQ: Did Tom Selleck portray you as an American cowboy in Australia?

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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:** [October 5, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/200 "2014-10-05T19:49:57Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQ: Did Tom Selleck portray you as an American cowboy in Australia?

Yes! I am Matthew **Q** uigley, from the movie _Quigley Down Under_.  
Go ahead - pick an R, any R…

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