# Botticelli - December 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153 "2014-12-02T19:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/421 "2014-12-18T15:48:45Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on all three. > IQ1: Did you serve in the CS Army, the US Army, and the US Navy before becoming a journalist? > IQ2: Did you invent a new method of attaching sabres to belts, which was adopted by the US Army? Take two DQs ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/422 "2014-12-18T15:49:46Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ3: Were you also known as Ben Colder? Take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/423 "2014-12-18T15:53:31Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a 5-time Pro Bowl selection wide receiver who for some ungodly stupid reason was released by the Carolina Panthers and now plays for the Baltimore Ravens? > IQ2: Are you known for starring in the _Police Academy_ movies and was groomed to be the Jewish John Travolta? > IQ3: Are you known for performing dangerous and usually painful stunts on a reality TV show? Not Steve Smith Not Steve Gutenberg Not… Steve Irwin? ---
**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 18, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/424 "2014-12-18T16:17:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you serve in the CS Army, the US Army, and the US Navy before becoming a journalist? > IQ2: Did you invent a new method of attaching sabres to belts, which was adopted by the US Army? > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ3: Were you also known as Ben Colder? > [@astorian](#): > > Take two DQs > [@astorian](#): > > Take a DQ Henry Morton Stanley (“…and Livingston”). J E B Stuart. Sheb Wooley. DQ1: Known for the Arts? Two DQs reserved pending answers to KO’s and EH’s DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/425 "2014-12-18T16:23:59Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with “S” 4. Dead 5. American 6. Known for the arts, broadly defined ---
**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 18, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/426 "2014-12-18T16:26:59Z")
Previous IQs: Did Mark Lenard play a Romulan, a Klingon, and you? - Yes, Sarek, Spock’s dad. Did Mission Control play the perfect song for you one morning? - NASA played “Mustang Sally” (with its chorus “Ride, Sally, Ride”) for Sally Ride as her wakeup call on a shuttle mission. Did Mr. Krabs make your name up on the spot, but later see your gravestone? - Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen, of course!: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87_2ypvty_0) (don’t know why that stuck in my head). DQs: Known for the performing arts? Died since 1964? IQs: Were you the first head of the Peace Corps? Were cameras set up to keep employees from defacing your portrait? Were you JFK’s advisor and resident biographer? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/427 "2014-12-18T17:08:12Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with “S” 4. Dead 5. American 6. Known for the arts, broadly defined 7. Died after 1964 8. Widely known for a SORT of “performing art”… but that’s not all I’m known for. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/428 "2014-12-18T17:09:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the first head of the Peace Corps? > Were cameras set up to keep employees from defacing your portrait? > Were you JFK’s advisor and resident biographer? Not Sargent Shriver or Ted Sorenson Take a DQ for 2 ---
**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 18, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/429 "2014-12-18T17:11:24Z")
DQ1: Born east of the Mississippi? DQ2: Died after 2000? IQ1: Did you play a farm hand, a police chief, and a Mexican outlaw? IQ2: Were you a former paratrooper who hosted a TV show telling strange stories? IQ3: Did you sing about a hick who met a girl in a bar, married her, and had a son? ---
**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 18, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/430 "2014-12-18T17:16:27Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Rosemary Clooney sing about you coming to town? > 2. Did you narrate TV’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? > 3. Do you have a red candy heart that beats “I love you truly”? > Not Santa CLaus. > > Uh… I thought Burl Ives narrated Rudolph… > > Take a DQ for #3 I had someone else in mind for #1. I’ll re-ask. #2. Burl Ives’s narrator character was Sam the Snowman. #3 was the Littlest Snowman. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 18, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/431 "2014-12-18T17:19:22Z")
IQs: 1. Did Rosemary Clooney sing about you in your “snow-white gown”? 2. Are you also known as a Bumble? 3. Are you Jack’s girlfriend in _The Nightmare Before Christmas_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/432 "2014-12-18T17:34:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Rosemary Clooney sing about you in your “snow-white gown”? > 2. Are you also known as a Bumble? > 3. Are you Jack’s girlfriend in _The Nightmare Before Christmas_? No idea on #1 or #3 Not the Abominable Snowmonster/Snowman ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/433 "2014-12-18T17:36:01Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with “S” 4. Dead 5. American 6. Known for the arts, broadly defined 7. Died after 1964 8. Widely known for a SORT of “performing art”… but that’s not all I’m known for. 9. Born East of the Mississippi 10. Died before 2000 (but not much before) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/434 "2014-12-18T17:38:06Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a farm hand, a police chief, and a Mexican outlaw? > IQ2: Were you a former paratrooper who hosted a TV show telling strange stories? > IQ3: Did you sing about a hick who met a girl in a bar, married her, and had a son? Don’t know #1 Not Rod Serling Can’t guess #3. So, two DQs for you ---
**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 18, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/435 "2014-12-18T18:17:47Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the first head of the Peace Corps? - Yes, Sargent Shriver. Were cameras set up to keep employees from defacing your portrait? - Then-Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner Were you JFK’s advisor and resident biographer? - Yes, Ted Sorensen. DQ: Known for a kind of performing art that would be seen to be appreciated? IQs: Did you survey and report on historians’ opinions of the various U.S. Presidents? Does a major financial industry reform bill bear your name? Did Christopher Walken play this character’s laconic husband? ---
**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 18, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/436 "2014-12-18T18:48:10Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Rosemary Clooney sing about you in your “snow-white gown”? > 2. Are you also known as a Bumble? > 3. Are you Jack’s girlfriend in The Nightmare Before Christmas? > > No idea on #1 or #3 > > Not the Abominable Snowmonster/Snowman #1 is Suzy Snowflake. #3 is Sally. 4 DQs reserved. ---
**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 18, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/437 "2014-12-18T18:49:50Z")
DQs: 1. Also known for sports? 2. Does your last name begin with “SA-SM”? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/438 "2014-12-18T19:33:59Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with “S” 4. Dead 5. American 6. Known for the arts, broadly defined 7. Died after 1964 8. Widely known for a SORT of “performing art”… but that’s not all I’m known for. 9. Born East of the Mississippi 10. Died before 2000 (but not much before) 11. Widely known for a performing art in which I was NOT seen 12. Not connected to sports 13. Last name starts with “SA-SM” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/439 "2014-12-18T19:36:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you survey and report on historians’ opinions of the various U.S. Presidents? > Does a major financial industry reform bill bear your name? > Did Christopher Walken play this character’s laconic husband? Not… Arthur Schlesinger? Not Senator John Sherman (as in anti-trust act) Take a DQ for #3 ---
**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:** [December 18, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/440 "2014-12-18T20:37:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Steve Smith > > Not Steve Gutenberg > > Not… Steve Irwin? Steve O of _Jackass_ DQ: Author? 1 DQ in reserve [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=23)