# Botticelli, July 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711 "2011-07-12T03:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/141 "2011-07-17T02:26:24Z")
IQ: Do people sometimes mishear your name and imagine you to be comparing yourself to a large arachnid? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/142 "2011-07-17T02:43:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: were you sometimes known as the “fifth Beatle” towards the end of their run? Not Billy Preston. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/143 "2011-07-17T02:44:38Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Do people sometimes mishear your name and imagine you to be comparing yourself to a large arachnid? No idea who this is- ask a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/144 "2011-07-17T03:33:49Z")
Begging your pardon - what about my two IQs in posts #130 and #132? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/145 "2011-07-17T04:52:32Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Begging your pardon - what about my two IQs in posts #130 and #132? I apologize. 1. No, I’m not Boz Scaggs. 2. I don’t know the insulin discoverer, so ask a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/146 "2011-07-17T13:35:55Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Do people sometimes mishear your name and imagine you to be comparing yourself to a large arachnid? Bix Beiderbecke, whose name is occasionally misheard as “Big Spider Beck”. DQ: Is that marching band song you wrote affiliated with a particular university’s sports teams? IQ: Were you the player-manager of an “Original 16” Major League Baseball team the last time it won the World Series? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/147 "2011-07-17T20:10:37Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Bix Beiderbecke, whose name is occasionally misheard as “Big Spider Beck”. > > DQ: Is that marching band song you wrote affiliated with a particular university’s sports teams? > > IQ: Were you the player-manager of an “Original 16” Major League Baseball team the last time it won the World Series? Yes, one of my songs is the official fight song of a major college football team. 1. Real person 2. Male 3. First name starts with “B” 4. Dead 5. Born in the 20th century 6. Not involved with sports/athletics 7. American 8. Not involved in politics 9. Best known for work in music, theater, movies or literature. 10. Best known for work done between 1950-2000 11. Best known as a writer in the field of music 12. Never wrote a movie screenplay. 13. Never wrote novels or short stories 14. Not generally regarded as humorous or comical 15. Not a playwright 16. Rarely performed my own material. 17. A successful songwriter in pop and at least one other genre. 18. Not a conductor or bandleader 19. Still alive as of 1975 20. I wrote the official fight song of a major college football team ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/148 "2011-07-17T20:11:37Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you the player-manager of an “Original 16” Major League Baseball team the last time it won the World Series? Not Lou Boudreau ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/149 "2011-07-17T21:39:41Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 1. I don’t know the insulin discoverer, so ask a DQ. The co-discoverers of insulin are Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best, for whom the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at University of Toronto is named. Now, I’m really not sure what to do with a DQ now that we’ve asked our twenty questions, and I’m as stumped as a BC clear-cut. As per previous ones, this is the time when we start taking wild guesses on precise names, but I have no names to guess at yet… I’ll try one DQ: As a songwriter, did you collaborate with a lyricist? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/150 "2011-07-17T21:41:30Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > The co-discoverers of insulin are Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best, for whom the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at University of Toronto is named. > Now, I’m really not sure what to do with a DQ now that we’ve asked our twenty questions, and I’m as stumped as a BC clear-cut. As per previous ones, this is the time when we start taking wild guesses on precise names, but I have no names to guess at yet… > > I’ll try one DQ: As a songwriter, did you collaborate with a lyricist? Yes, I almost always collaborated with a lyricist… one I was sleeping with. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/151 "2011-07-17T21:42:30Z")
1. Real person 2. Male 3. First name starts with “B” 4. Dead 5. Born in the 20th century 6. Not involved with sports/athletics 7. American 8. Not involved in politics 9. Best known for work in music, theater, movies or literature. 10. Best known for work done between 1950-2000 11. Best known as a writer in the field of music 12. Never wrote a movie screenplay. 13. Never wrote novels or short stories 14. Not generally regarded as humorous or comical 15. Not a playwright 16. Rarely performed my own material. 17. A successful songwriter in pop and at least one other genre. 18. Not a conductor or bandleader 19. Still alive as of 1975 20. I wrote the official fight song of a major college football team 21. I almost always worked with a lyricist… one who was MUCH more than just a lyricist to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/152 "2011-07-18T02:40:17Z")
IQ: Do you still dream about someone who was wild as a mink and sweet as soda pop? (obviously I have someone specific in mind!) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/153 "2011-07-18T02:45:23Z")
IQ: Is your best-known hit “Rock Around the Clock”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/154 "2011-07-18T03:54:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Is your best-known hit “Rock Around the Clock”? Not Bill Haley ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/155 "2011-07-18T03:58:19Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Do you still dream about someone who was wild as a mink and sweet as soda pop? > > (obviously I have someone specific in mind!) \*\*YESSSS! AT LAST!!! I am Boudleaux Bryant. Together with my wife Felice, I wrote: 1. Almost all of the Everly Brothers’ biggest hits (including “Bye Bye Love,” “Bird Dog” and "Wake Up Little Susie) 2. “Love Hurts,” the FM rock hit by Nazareth 3. “Rocky Top,” one of the state songs of Tennessee and the fight song of the Tennessee Volunteers’ athletic teams. Congrats, Sternvogel!!! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/156 "2011-07-18T12:03:02Z")
Well done, **Sternvogel**! I’ve even seen that name in the upper RH corner of several pieces of sheet music - I have no excuse. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/157 "2011-07-18T19:47:58Z")
Never heard of him, but have certainly heard his songs. Good job, **Sternvogel**! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/158 "2011-07-19T01:10:24Z")
Thanks! I had an idea it might be Bryant, and the “collaborating both in the music room and the bedroom” reference convinced me I was on the right track. Okay, the next name has an “R” rating, but the game should be SFW. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/159 "2011-07-19T02:18:28Z")
IQ: Did you once do the radio play-by-play for a baseball game you weren’t even watching? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/160 "2011-07-19T02:39:16Z")
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