# 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:** 23
**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, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/441 "2014-12-18T20:40:48Z")
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” 14. Well known as an author, as well as for my “performing art” ---
**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, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/442 "2014-12-18T20:50:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you invent the Cherokee syllabary? 2. Do you sleep on top of your doghouse? 3. Were you the first Christian martyr? ---
**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, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/443 "2014-12-18T20:52:41Z")
IQ1: Did you write the \*Illuminatus \*trilogy with Robert Anton Wilson? IQ2: Did the write _The Jungle_? IQ3: Did you write _The Catcher in the Rye_? ---
**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, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/444 "2014-12-18T21:45:25Z")
> [@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? > [@astorian](#): > > Don’t know #1 > > Not Rod Serling > > Can’t guess #3. > > So, two DQs for you Rod Steiger (_Oklahoma!_, _In the Heat of the Night_, and _Duck, You Sucker!_). Correct on Rod Serling. Cal Smith (“Country Bumpkin”). Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Did you write a classic history of Nazi Germany? IQ2: Was _King Solomon’s Mines_ written as the result of a wager as to whether its author could write a book as good as yours? IQ3: Did Barbra Streisand star in a movie based on one of your short stories? ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/445 "2014-12-18T22:28:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you invent the Cherokee syllabary? > 2. Do you sleep on top of your doghouse? > 3. Were you the first Christian martyr? Not Sequoia, Snoopy or St. Stephen I did briefly consider using St. Stephem since the day after Xmas is St. Stepehn’s Day ---
**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, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/446 "2014-12-18T22:29:16Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you write the \*Illuminatus \*trilogy with Robert Anton Wilson? > IQ2: Did the write _The Jungle_? > IQ3: Did you write _The Catcher in the Rye_? Not Upton Sinclair or JD Salinger. Take a DQ for #1 ---
**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, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/447 "2014-12-18T22:31:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a classic history of Nazi Germany? > IQ2: Was _King Solomon’s Mines_ written as the result of a wager as to whether its author could write a book as good as yours? > IQ3: Did Barbra Streisand star in a movie based on one of your short stories? Not William Shirer or Isaac Bashevis (Yentl) Singer. I don’t know who H. Rider Haggard made a bet with, so take a DQ for #2 ---
**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, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/448 "2014-12-18T22:48:10Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Did you play Hazel on the TV series of that name? 2. Were you the original choice to play Dorothy in the movie _The Wizard of Oz_? 3. Are you Warren Beatty’s famous sister? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/449 "2014-12-19T00:05:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all three. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Hazel on the TV series of that name? > 2. Were you the original choice to play Dorothy in the movie _The Wizard of Oz_? > 3. Are you Warren Beatty’s famous sister? I AM serious- and don’t call me Shirley Booth, Shirley Temple or Shirley Maclaine. ---
**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 19, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/450 "2014-12-19T02:26:50Z")
Previous IQs: Did you survey and report on historians’ opinions of the various U.S. Presidents? - Yes, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Does a major financial industry reform bill bear your name? - The Sherman Antitrust Act did not reform the financial industry, as such; I was thinking of Sarbanes-Oxley, named in part after Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) Did Christopher Walken play this character’s laconic husband? - In the TV movie _Sarah, Plain and Tall_ (Glenn Close played Sarah). DQs: Did voiceover work? Wrote fiction? IQs: Did you write “The SantaLand Diaries”? Did John Belushi play you in a spoof last episode of a beloved TV show? Did you write _Swimming to Cambodia_? ---
**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, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/451 "2014-12-19T03:20:05Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a classic history of Nazi Germany? > IQ2: Was _King Solomon’s Mines_ written as the result of a wager as to whether its author could write a book as good as yours? > IQ3: Did Barbra Streisand star in a movie based on one of your short stories? > [@astorian](#): > > Not William Shirer or Isaac Bashevis (Yentl) Singer. > > I don’t know who H. Rider Haggard made a bet with, so take a DQ for #2 Correct. Haggard made a bet with his brother as to whether he could write a book as good as _Treasure Island_, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Correct. DQ reserved. IQ1: Did you write about the King of Currumpaw? IQ2: Were you really Ross Bagdasarian? IQ3: Did you write a well-known song with Bagdasarian, who was your cousin? ---
**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, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/452 "2014-12-19T04:05:10Z")
Correct again, right down to the punchline. IQs: 1. Did you direct _Rosewater_? 2. Did you play a man who got the chance to see what life would be like if he had never been born? 3. Were you a mouse who was adopted into a human family? ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/453 "2014-12-19T13:10:48Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you write the Illuminatus trilogy with Robert Anton Wilson? > IQ2: Did the write The Jungle? > IQ3: Did you write The Catcher in the Rye? > > Not Upton Sinclair or JD Salinger. Take a DQ for #1 Robert Shea 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 19, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/454 "2014-12-19T13:18:58Z")
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” 14. Well known as an author, as well as for my “performing art” 15. A writer of reality-based fiction 16. I’ve never voiced cartoon characters, but my speaking voice is well-known from several media ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/455 "2014-12-19T13:20:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you write “The SantaLand Diaries”? > Did John Belushi play you in a spoof last episode of a beloved TV show? > Did you write _Swimming to Cambodia_? Not SPalding GRay Take two DQs for#1 and #2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/456 "2014-12-19T13:21:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write about the King of Currumpaw? > IQ2: Were you really Ross Bagdasarian? > IQ3: Did you write a well-known song with Bagdasarian, who was your cousin? Not David Seville or William Saroyan Take a DQ for #1 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/457 "2014-12-19T13:22:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct again, right down to the punchline. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you direct _Rosewater_? > 2. Did you play a man who got the chance to see what life would be like if he had never been born? > 3. Were you a mouse who was adopted into a human family? Not Jon Stewart, Jimmy Stewart or Stuart Little ---
**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, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/458 "2014-12-19T14:12:06Z")
Again, all correct. IQs: 1. Did you co-write _Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!_? 2. Did you co-write _Winter Wonderland_? 3. Did you co-write _Frosty the Snowman_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/459 "2014-12-19T14:34:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Again, all correct. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you co-write _Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!_? > 2. Did you co-write _Winter Wonderland_? > 3. Did you co-write _Frosty the Snowman_? Not Sammy Cahn or Jule Styne. Take two DQs for #2 and #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 19, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/460 "2014-12-19T14:40:49Z")
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