# Botticelli April 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 2, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886 "2016-04-02T04:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/1 "2016-04-02T04:26:35Z")
Welcome to April, I am S! ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/2 "2016-04-02T04:56:34Z")
IQ1: Are you one of the mid-1980s Houston Rockets’ “Twin Towers”? IQ2: Have you ever portrayed Sister Helen Prejean in film? IQ3: Has Norm MacDonald spoofed you in a series of 2015 fast-food commercials? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/3 "2016-04-02T12:32:50Z")
IQ1: Have you written about a car, a dog, and a game-show contestant? IQ2: Did you play the older daughter in a show about a musical family? IQ3: Did you play the mother in that 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:** [April 2, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/4 "2016-04-02T13:13:01Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of the mid-1980s Houston Rockets’ “Twin Towers”? > IQ2: Have you ever portrayed Sister Helen Prejean in film? > IQ3: Has Norm MacDonald spoofed you in a series of 2015 fast-food commercials? DQ, alas ‘the one that wasn’t Hakeem Olajawan’ doesn’t count. I’m not Susan Sarandon? I’m not Colonel Sanders. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/5 "2016-04-02T13:15:11Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Have you written about a car, a dog, and a game-show contestant? > IQ2: Did you play the older daughter in a show about a musical family? > IQ3: Did you play the mother in that show? I’m not Stephen King 2xDQ for you ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/6 "2016-04-02T14:27:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Have you written about a car, a dog, and a game-show contestant? > IQ2: Did you play the older daughter in a show about a musical family? > IQ3: Did you play the mother in that show? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I’m not Stephen King > 2xDQ for you Correct. (Would it have been more difficult if I’d asked about a nurse instead of the game-show contestant?) Susan Dey (_The Partridge Family_). Shirley Jones. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Female? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/7 "2016-04-02T14:47:32Z")
Yeah, I think the game show part was what clued me in, there aren’t a lot of stories in that genre, hehe. Though, I’m not sure if car dog nurse has a unique answer… I am S: 1. Real 2. Male ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/8 "2016-04-02T15:53:30Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > DQ, alas ‘the one that wasn’t Hakeem Olajawan’ doesn’t count. > I’m not Susan Sarandon? > I’m not Colonel Sanders. Ralph Sampson patrolled the Rockets’ frontcourt alongside Olajuwon. Correct. Correct. … DQ: Are you alive right now? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/9 "2016-04-02T16:01:48Z")
IQ1: Were you the other half of a comedy duo with the actor that played Dr. Gregory House? IQ2: Did you write _The Giving Tree_ and _Where the Sidewalk Ends_? IQ3: Was your 1993 directorial-debut feature film (a) recorded on black-and-white stock and (b) self-financed? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/10 "2016-04-02T16:16:05Z")
I am S and I am: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/11 "2016-04-02T16:20:57Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > IQ1: Were you the other half of a comedy duo with the actor that played Dr. Gregory House? > IQ2: Did you write _The Giving Tree_ and _Where the Sidewalk Ends_? > IQ3: Was your 1993 directorial-debut feature film (a) recorded on black-and-white stock and (b) self-financed? DQ, DQ, and Kevin Smith directed _Clerks_. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/12 "2016-04-02T16:28:07Z")
IQ1: Were you Absalom’s wise half-brother? IQ2: Were a pair of fictional mountains named for your breasts? IQ3: Did you write about the King of Currumpaw? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/13 "2016-04-02T16:45:08Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > DQ, DQ, and Kevin Smith directed _Clerks_. Stephen Fry teamed with Hugh Laurie in Fry & Laurie. Poet Shel Silverstein wrote the collections _The Giving Tree_ and _Where the Sidewalk Ends_. … DQ: American? DQ: Surname begins with S? … IQ1: Did you write _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_? IQ2: Did you write _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_? IQ3: Are the career HR leader of Japanese professional baseball? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/14 "2016-04-02T16:52:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Absalom’s wise half-brother? > IQ2: Were a pair of fictional mountains named for your breasts? > IQ3: Did you write about the King of Currumpaw? I’m not Solomon, the Grand Tetons aren’t fictional! I mean, 2xDQ for you. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/15 "2016-04-02T16:53:21Z")
I am S and I am: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. My surname begins with S ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/16 "2016-04-02T16:56:48Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_? > IQ2: Did you write _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_? > IQ3: Are the career HR leader of Japanese professional baseball? I’m not Mark Twain or Theodore Geisel, though I am ready to start the T round. Okay, okay, I’m neither Samuel Clemens nor Doctor Seuss. and a DQ for you. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/17 "2016-04-02T17:05:44Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Okay, okay, I’m neither Samuel Clemens nor Doctor Seuss. > > and a DQ for you. Clemens and Seuss were correct. Sadaharu Oh is the career HR leader of Japanese professional baseball? … DQ: Known for the arts? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/18 "2016-04-02T17:29:51Z")
I am S and I am: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. My surname begins with S 6. Not known for the Arts (Though I suppose if you construe Arts broadly enough I could be considered to be) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/19 "2016-04-02T17:44:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Absalom’s wise half-brother? > IQ2: Were a pair of fictional mountains named for your breasts? > IQ3: Did you write about the King of Currumpaw? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I’m not Solomon, the Grand Tetons aren’t fictional! I mean, 2xDQ for you. Correct. The Queen of Sheba (_King Solomon’s Mines_). Ernest Thompson Seton. DQ1: European? DQ2: Died after 1900? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/20 "2016-04-02T20:08:12Z")
IQ1: Did you have one of your two brief appearances as a role in a major motion picture replaced with a different actor playing the same role in a later release of that film? IQ2: Are you a famous guitarist who shares your (first and last) name with a former professional baseball player? IQ3: Were you a drummer in a band which had a former drummer that had the same (first and last) name as a drummer who played on solo albums released by former bandmates of your father? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886.md?page=2)