# Botticelli June 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 5, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577 "2016-06-05T15:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/161 "2016-06-19T20:43:32Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Last Name starts with H 4. Male 5. American 6. Died since 1964 7. Not political/military 8. Died since 1990 9. In the Arts 10. Not an actor 11. Writer 12. Fiction writer 13. Did not win a Pulitzer 14. Science fiction/fantasy genre writer 15. Stories have been adapted into movies 16. Comfortably off by the end of his life, if not wealthy ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/162 "2016-06-19T20:44:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Jason Robards play you, a noted writer? > Was Clyde Tolson your BFF? > Was your wife nicknamed “Lou”? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/163 "2016-06-19T22:31:46Z")
IQ1: Did you write about the Stainless Steel Rat? IQ2: Did you produce the basic version of Dungeons & Dragons? IQ3: Did you write _Dianetics_, which became the basis of the Church of Scientology? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/164 "2016-06-19T23:28:47Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you write about the Stainless Steel Rat? > IQ2: Did you produce the basic version of Dungeons & Dragons? > IQ3: Did you write _Dianetics_, which became the basis of the Church of Scientology? Yes, I am Harry Harrison. Good job, KO! Uh, who was #2? All I come up with is Dean Arneson and E. Gary Gygax? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/165 "2016-06-20T01:10:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Yes, I am Harry Harrison. > Good job, KO! > > Uh, who was #2? All I come up with is Dean Arneson and E. Gary Gygax? Kudos. 🙂 You’re probably thinking of Original D&D, the three-booklet set. Basic would have been the boxed set, I think, where the rulebook was in a larger format and had a blue-colored cover. (Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. created it, and the first version (1977) was credited to J. Eric Holmes.) [Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Basic_Set) ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/166 "2016-06-20T03:30:16Z")
Yup, Holmes wrote up the Basic version of D&D so they could expand the market to younger players. New letter is I! ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/167 "2016-06-20T04:47:06Z")
Well done, **Knowed Out**! Previous IQs: Did Jason Robards play you, a noted writer? - Robards played Dashiell Hammett in _Julia_. Was Clyde Tolson your BFF? - J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI. Was your wife nicknamed “Lou”? - Herbert Hoover. On to I… IQs: Is a major American university named after you? Were you a tall, thin, hungry schoolmaster, in one film? Did you write the story on which that film was based? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/168 "2016-06-20T11:15:19Z")
not Saint Ignacius, DQ 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:** [June 20, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/169 "2016-06-20T13:44:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write/compose _White Christmas_? 2. Did you write _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_? 3. Did you have a hit with _Society’s Child_? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/170 "2016-06-20T15:09:29Z")
not Irving Berlin, DQ 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:** [June 20, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/171 "2016-06-20T16:37:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write/compose _White Christmas_? > 2. Did you write _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _Society’s Child_? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Irving Berlin, DQ DQ Correct on Irving. #2 was Ian Fleming. Yes, really. #3 was Janis Ian. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/172 "2016-06-20T16:39:42Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Agamemnon’s tragic daughter? 2. Were you Daedalus’s tragic student? 3. Were you Othello’s standard bearer? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/173 "2016-06-20T17:57:05Z")
Previous IQs: Is a major American university named after you? - Almost, yes - St. Ignatius Loyola. Were you a tall, thin, hungry schoolmaster, in one film? - Ichabod Crane. Did you write the story on which that film was based? - Washington Irving. DQs: First name start with I? American? IQs: Did you write a novel about the first black POTUS? Were you one of Sid Caesar’s costars? Are you an author from a distinguished South American 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:** [June 20, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/174 "2016-06-20T18:04:54Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Male 3. First names starts with I 4. Not American ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/175 "2016-06-20T18:06:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Agamemnon’s tragic daughter? > 2. Were you Daedalus’s tragic student? > 3. Were you Othello’s standard bearer? DQ, not Icarus, not Iago ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/176 "2016-06-20T18:08:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you write a novel about the first black POTUS? > Were you one of Sid Caesar’s costars? > Are you an author from a distinguished South American family? DQ, not Imogene Coca, 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:** [June 20, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/177 "2016-06-20T20:50:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Agamemnon’s tragic daughter? > 2. Were you Daedalus’s tragic student? > 3. Were you Othello’s standard bearer? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, not Icarus, not Iago #1 was Iphigenia. Correct on the others. DQ: Alive? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/178 "2016-06-20T20:53:02Z")
IQs: 1. Are you aka Prince Amentep? 2. Though a villainess, did you have a thing for Dynamo of the Agents of T.H.U.N.D.E.R.? 3. Are you one of the Mystery Men? ---
**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:** [June 21, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/179 "2016-06-21T01:36:42Z")
Previous IQs: Did you write a novel about the first black POTUS? - Irving Wallace, _The Man_. Were you one of Sid Caesar’s costars? - Yes, Imogene Coca. Are you an author from a distinguished South American family? - Isabel Allende. DQs: Living? European? IQs: Were you a costar of _Beverly Hills 90210_? Were you a choleric clergyman of Ulster? Did you write about the Culture? ---
**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:** [June 21, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577/180 "2016-06-21T12:20:39Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Male 3. First names starts with I 4. Not American 5. Not alive 6. Not European ask another DQ EH [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2016/756577.md?page=10)