# Botticelli - January 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 4, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178 "2022-01-04T01:44:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/201 "2022-02-01T00:32:47Z")
Thinking… something to do with the Teapot Dome Scandal, WWI or Gangland? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/202 "2022-02-01T01:03:24Z")
**S** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name begins with S 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Died before 2000 8. Not known from the arts 9. Died after 1950 10. Kinda sorta political 11. White 12. Best known for a single incident 13. No famous spouse 14. Incident involved a crime 15. Not associated with NYC 16. Died before 1975 17. Not a victim of crime 18. Did not die as a result of a crime 19. Not a policeman or other officer of the law 20. Crime was politically motivated 21. Not a violent crime 22. Crime occurred before 1960 23. Crime occurred before 1941 24. Not connected with an assassination I believe **Elendil\_s\_Heir** has the only remaining outstanding DQ. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/203 "2022-02-01T08:19:58Z")
Ask your First name-Last name questions by 6:00 pm PST Wedneday 2/2. Elendil\_s\_Heir, feel free to ask your remaining DQ ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/204 "2022-02-01T18:23:05Z")
Thanks. DQ: Crime connected to, or was, a political scandal? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/205 "2022-02-01T19:14:21Z")
**S** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name begins with S 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Died before 2000 8. Not known from the arts 9. Died after 1950 10. Kinda sorta political 11. White 12. Best known for a single incident 13. No famous spouse 14. Incident involved a crime 15. Not associated with NYC 16. Died before 1975 17. Not a victim of crime 18. Did not die as a result of a crime 19. Not a policeman or other officer of the law 20. Crime was politically motivated 21. Not a violent crime 22. Crime occurred before 1960 23. Crime occurred before 1941 24. Not connected with an assassination 25. Crime not connected to, and was not, a political scandal ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/206 "2022-02-01T20:45:22Z")
I’m sure I’ll smack my head later, but I can’t figure out who this is. Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/207 "2022-02-02T08:05:22Z")
Pay close attention to the phrasing of items 12 & 14. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/208 "2022-02-02T14:18:10Z")
Not Bugsy Siegel or Dutch Schultz. I’m comin’ up blank. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/209 "2022-02-02T18:34:43Z")
Are you Tennessee educator John Scopes? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/210 "2022-02-02T19:23:48Z")
I bet that’s it. That makes me so irritated at myself, since I just finished reading a book on H. L. Mencken. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/211 "2022-02-02T19:25:32Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Are you Tennessee educator John Scopes DING!! DING!! DING!! Yes!! I am John T. Scopes Famous for the Scopes Monkey Trial, in which I was prosecuted for the crime of violating the Butler Act by teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school. The crime was politically motivated as I deliberately implicated myself with the intention of creating a test case to challenge the law’s constitutionality. Very well done, De La Rue!! Remember to start a new thread for February. > **[John T. Scopes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Scopes)** > > John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial, and was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1,669 in 2022). > Scopes was born in 1900 to Thomas Scopes and Mary Alva Brown, who lived on a farm in Paducah, Kentucky. John was their fifth child and only son. The ... ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/212 "2022-02-02T19:38:01Z")
New thread is [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2022/958810). ---
**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:** [February 4, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/213 "2022-02-04T18:34:26Z")
Good one. We had him a few years back, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178.md?page=10)