# \[GAME\] Botticelli - Sep 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 3, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353 "2014-09-03T12:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 9, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/181 "2014-09-09T21:03:17Z")
3 out of 3 correct. IQs: 1. Were you one of the fathers of photography? 2. Were you a non-PC cartoon product icon? 3. Did your story have illustrations by Phiz? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/182 "2014-09-09T23:01:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel _Rebecca_? > IQ2: Did Professor Henry Higgins give you elocution lessons? > IQ3: Did King Kong literally fall for you? Not Mrs. Dangers? Not Eliza Doolittle. Don’t remember Fay Wray’s character- take a DQ ---
**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 9, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/183 "2014-09-09T23:45:41Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Mrs. Dangers? > > Not Eliza Doolittle. > > Don’t remember Fay Wray’s character- take a DQ Mrs. Danvers, correct, Ann Darrow DQ: From the UK? holding 2 DQs ---
**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 10, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/184 "2014-09-10T03:04:22Z")
Previous IQs: Is your boss’s boss a conehead? - Dilbert Did you remind everyone of the dangers of absolute power? - Damocles, he of the suspended sword Were you a Southern woman with a popular TV show? - I’ll rephrase DQs: Noted for her beauty? Best known as a romantic figure? IQs: Were you a Southern woman with a popular nonfiction TV show? Was your wife’s family’s vast fortune inexplicably never mentioned later in her life? Did the Phantom of the Opera try to woo you? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/185 "2014-09-10T11:39:35Z")
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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:** [September 10, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/186 "2014-09-10T11:40:42Z")
Summary 1. Not real 2. Not male 3. Not American 4. Last name starts with D 5. Have appeared on the big screen, but probably not best known as a movie character 6. Have appeared on television, but that’s definitely not what I’m best known for. 7. Best known for a work of literature 8. Not known as a character in a play (though there may well have been theatrical adaptations of the work(s) I’m known for) 9. European 10. First appeared in a work written in English 11. Not a beauty 12. NOT a Romantic figure ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/187 "2014-09-10T11:41:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a spy for Cardinal Richelieu? > IQ2: Did Ed Ames play your Indian companion? > IQ3: Did you play the CO of the British I Airbourne Corps in _A Bridge Too Far_? Not … D’artagnan? Not Daniel Boone No idea on #3 So, take one DQ if D’artagnan is right, 2 if he’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/188 "2014-09-10T11:42:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you one of the fathers of photography? > 2. Were you a non-PC cartoon product icon? > 3. Did your story have illustrations by Phiz? Not Louis Daguerre Take two DQs for the others ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/189 "2014-09-10T11:45:02Z")
* * * IQs: Were you a Southern woman with a popular nonfiction TV show? Was your wife’s family’s vast fortune inexplicably never mentioned later in her life? Did the Phantom of the Opera try to woo you? * * * Not Christine Daae But take two DQs for the others ---
**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, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/190 "2014-09-10T12:46:42Z")
IQ1: Are you a legless split personality character from _The Dark Tower_ series? IQ2: Are you the character identified with sense in Jane Austin’s _Sense and Sensibility_? IQ3: Are you Don Quixote’s true love, even though he’s never spoken with you? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/191 "2014-09-10T14:41:37Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a legless split personality character from _The Dark Tower_ series? > IQ2: Are you the character identified with sense in Jane Austin’s _Sense and Sensibility_? > IQ3: Are you Don Quixote’s true love, even though he’s never spoken with you? I know nothing about the Dark Tower series, so take a DQ. Not Elinor Dashwood. Not Dulcinea ---
**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, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/192 "2014-09-10T14:41:55Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Were you one of the fathers of photography? > 2. Were you a non-PC cartoon product icon? > 3. Did your story have illustrations by Phiz? > > Not Louis Daguerre > > Take two DQs for the others Correct on Daguerre. The other two are the Dorito Bandito and Dombey, from Dickens’s _Dombey and Son_. 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 10, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/193 "2014-09-10T16:07:35Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Southern woman with a popular nonfiction TV show? - Dinah Shore Was your wife’s family’s vast fortune inexplicably never mentioned later in her life? - Dagwood Bumstead; Blondie was from quite a wealthy family Did the Phantom of the Opera try to woo you? - Yes, Christine Daae DQs: Originally from a work published before 1900? By a British author? IQs: Is your tale seen by some as an allegory of Progressivism? Do you get some of the credit for the extra red brake light added to American-made cars in the 1980s? Was the first line of your memoir that you had “always had a particular idea” of your country? ---
**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, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/194 "2014-09-10T16:13:58Z")
[uh, EH: Was your wife’s family’s vast fortune inexplicably never mentioned later in her life? - Dagwood Bumstead; Blondie was from quite a wealthy family You have it backward. Dagwood was disowned by his wealthy father when he married the bubble-headed flapper Blondie Boopadoop. Quoting wiki: Originally designed to follow in the footsteps of Young’s earlier “pretty girl” creations Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora, Blondie focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls. The name “Boopadoop” derives from the scat singing lyric that was popularized by Helen Kane’s 1928 song “I Wanna Be Loved by You.” Marriage On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Blondie Boopadoop marries her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, the son of a wealthy industrialist. The marriage was a significant media event, given the comic strip’s popularity.[3] Unfortunately, Dagwood’s upper-crust parents strongly disapprove of his marrying beneath his class, and disinherit him. The check Dagwood uses to pay for his honeymoon bounces, and the Bumsteads are forced to become a middle-class suburban family. The catalog for the University of Florida’s 2005 exhibition, “75 Years of Blondie, 1930–2005”, notes: ``` Blondie's marriage marked the beginning of a change in her personality. From that point forward, she gradually assumed her position as the sensible head of the Bumstead household. And Dagwood, who previously had been cast in the role of straight man to Blondie's comic antics, took over as the comic strip's clown."] ``` ---
**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, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/195 "2014-09-10T17:19:57Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I know nothing about the Dark Tower series, so take a DQ. > > Not Elinor Dashwood. > > Not Dulcinea Susannah Dean, correct x2 DQ: Human? holding 3 DQs ---
**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 10, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/196 "2014-09-10T17:46:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > [uh, EH… You have it backward. Dagwood was disowned by his wealthy father when he married the bubble-headed flapper Blondie Boopadoop… Oops. Thanks. I withdraw my second DQ, then. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/197 "2014-09-10T18:12:35Z")
[quote=“astorian, post:186, topic:697353”] Summary 1. Not real 2. Not male 3. Not American 4. Last name starts with D 5. Have appeared on the big screen, but probably not best known as a movie character 6. Have appeared on television, but that’s definitely not what I’m best known for. 7. Best known for a work of literature 8. Not known as a character in a play (though there may well have been theatrical adaptations of the work(s) I’m known for) 9. European 10. First appeared in a work written in English 11. Not a beauty 12. NOT a Romantic figure 13. Originally from a work published before 1900 14. Created by a British author ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/198 "2014-09-10T18:15:12Z")
IQs: Is your tale seen by some as an allegory of Progressivism? Do you get some of the credit for the extra red brake light added to American-made cars in the 1980s? Was the first line of your memoir that you had “always had a particular idea” of your country? Not… Dorothy Gale? (Some think \*\*\*The WIzard of Oz \*\*\*was an allegory for Populism, Free Silver or various other political ideologies) No idea for #2 or #3- take two DQs. Three if Dorothy is wrong ---
**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, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/199 "2014-09-10T18:22:04Z")
IQ: Are you famous for your knitting? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/200 "2014-09-10T18:27:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ: Are you famous for your knitting? YESSSS! I am the cold, cruel Madame DeFarge, from Charles Dickens’ \*\*\*A Tale of Two \*\*\*_ **Cities** _! I use my knitting to send my enemies to the guillotine! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=11)