# Botticelli - January 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993 "2018-12-31T17:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 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:** [January 6, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/21 "2019-01-06T01:29:57Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with K 4. American 5. Living 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Born before 1950 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Has not won a top award in his field 10. Does not have a famous wife 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Not associated with NYC 13. Not an actor 14. Known for the performing arts ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/22 "2019-01-06T05:08:55Z")
Previous IQs: Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in _Breaker Morant_? - Lord Kitchener Were you a noted Irish boxer from Cleveland? - Johnny Kilbane Were you Capt. Benjamin Sisko’s merchant-captain sweetheart? - Close enough: Kasidy Yates (and that actress now plays the ship’s doctor on _The Orville_) DQs: Musician? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you a frequent guest host for Johnny Carson? Have you played a servant, a clone, a writer and a bureaucrat’s offspring? Were you the laconic master swordsman in _Seven Samurai_? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/23 "2019-01-06T12:20:35Z")
IQ1: Were you are the professor of the Kollege of Musical Knowledge? IQ2: Did you and fellow jazz drummer Buddy Rich have drum battles on stage? IQ3: Were you a violinist who performed Vivaldi pieces that were actually written by you? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/24 "2019-01-06T14:28:46Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with K 4. American 5. Living 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Born before 1950 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Has not won a top award in his field 10. Does not have a famous wife 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Not associated with NYC 13. Not an actor 14. Known for the performing arts 15. Not a musician ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/25 "2019-01-06T14:34:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a frequent guest host for Johnny Carson? > Have you played a servant, a clone, a writer and a bureaucrat’s offspring? > Were you the laconic master swordsman in _Seven Samurai_? Take 3 more DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you are the professor of the Kollege of Musical Knowledge? > IQ2: Did you and fellow jazz drummer Buddy Rich have drum battles on stage? > IQ3: Were you a violinist who performed Vivaldi pieces that were actually written by you? 1. I am not Kay Kyser. 2. I am not Gene Krupa. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/26 "2019-01-06T18:56:04Z")
Known for the performing arts, but not the visual arts, and not an actor or musician? Hmm. Previous IQs: Were you a frequent guest host for Johnny Carson? - Robert Klein Have you played a servant, a clone, a writer and a bureaucrat’s offspring? - Keira Knightley, in _Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Never Let Me Go, Colette_ and _Atonement_ Were you the laconic master swordsman in _Seven Samurai_? - Withdrawn; I was thinking it was Kyuzo, but it was actually Ryuzo DQs: Are you best known for your work behind the scenes (producer, impresario, etc.)? Greatest fame before 1990? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Is a memory game named after you still played by some Scouts? Did you and fellow historian David McCullough, both normally apolitical, oppose the election of Donald Trump in 2016? Did you famously say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/27 "2019-01-07T12:23:34Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with K 4. American 5. Living 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Born before 1950 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Has not won a top award in his field 10. Does not have a famous wife 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Not associated with NYC 13. Not an actor 14. Known for the performing arts 15. Not a musician 16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person 17. Greatest fame before 1990 ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/28 "2019-01-07T12:24:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Is a memory game named after you still played by some Scouts? > Did you and fellow historian David McCullough, both normally apolitical, oppose the election of Donald Trump in 2016? > Did you famously say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”? 1. I am not Kim. Take a DQ for #2. 2. I am not John Maynard Keynes. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/29 "2019-01-07T13:14:49Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you are the professor of the Kollege of Musical Knowledge? > IQ2: Did you and fellow jazz drummer Buddy Rich have drum battles on stage? > IQ3: Were you a violinist who performed Vivaldi pieces that were actually written by you? > > 1. I am not Kay Kyser. > 2. I am not Gene Krupa. > Take a DQ for #3. Fritz Kreisler DQ: Comedian? holding a DQ ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/30 "2019-01-07T13:46:45Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with K 4. American 5. Living 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Born before 1950 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Has not won a top award in his field 10. Does not have a famous wife 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Not associated with NYC 13. Not an actor 14. Known for the performing arts 15. Not a musician 16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person 17. Greatest fame before 1990 18. Not a comedian ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/31 "2019-01-07T14:22:13Z")
Previous IQs: Is a memory game named after you still played by some Scouts? - Yes, Kim, the young hero of the Rudyard Kipling story of the same name Did you and fellow historian David McCullough, both normally apolitical, oppose the election of Donald Trump in 2016? - Ken Burns Did you famously say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”? - Yes, British economist John Maynard Keynes DQ: Dancer? Two 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:** [January 7, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/32 "2019-01-07T14:25:19Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with K 4. American 5. Living 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Born before 1950 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Has not won a top award in his field 10. Does not have a famous wife 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Not associated with NYC 13. Not an actor 14. Known for the performing arts 15. Not a musician 16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person 17. Greatest fame before 1990 18. Not a comedian 19. Not a dancer ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/33 "2019-01-07T14:39:16Z")
DQ: Monologist or storyteller? One DQ 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:** [January 7, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/34 "2019-01-07T14:55:57Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with K 4. American 5. Living 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Born before 1950 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Has not won a top award in his field 10. Does not have a famous wife 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Not associated with NYC 13. Not an actor 14. Known for the performing arts 15. Not a musician 16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person 17. Greatest fame before 1990 18. Not a comedian 19. Not a dancer 20. Not a monologist or storyteller That’s 20. Everyone please ask any unasked DQs by 8pm EST tonight. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/35 "2019-01-07T17:28:58Z")
I’ve got a guess, but if I ask my DQ, EH might beat me to the punch. So I’ll wait. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/36 "2019-01-07T18:21:33Z")
Hmm. I’m stumped, at least for now. I yield my DQ to anyone who’d like to use it. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/37 "2019-01-07T19:09:05Z")
OK, last DQ: Is your name more of a description, like “The Great Kabuki”? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/38 "2019-01-07T19:24:44Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with K 4. American 5. Living 6. Not known for politics/military 7. Born before 1950 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Has not won a top award in his field 10. Does not have a famous wife 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Not associated with NYC 13. Not an actor 14. Known for the performing arts 15. Not a musician 16. Performer/entertainer, rather than behind the scenes person 17. Greatest fame before 1990 18. Not a comedian 19. Not a dancer 20. Not a monologist or storyteller 21. Has a descriptive name like “The Great Kabuki” EH, you still have 1 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:** [January 7, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/39 "2019-01-07T20:32:00Z")
Are you The Amazing Kreskin? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/40 "2019-01-07T22:04:49Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Are you The Amazing Kreskin? Yes, I am! Well done, KO! It’s like you were reading my mind! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993.md?page=3)