# Botticelli - May, 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 2, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330 "2013-05-02T17:37:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/221 "2013-05-19T02:56:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your Medal of Honor revoked shortly after your death, but then restored 70-odd years later? > IQ2: Are you a novelist whom a long-barrelled revolver was named after? > IQ3: Were you known as a gunfighter, lawman, gambler, sportswriter and newspaper editor? > [@etv78](#): > > **SCA** -Not Bat Masterson or Clara Barton > DQ (and DQs if either guess is wrong) “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Ned Buntline and Bat Masterson. DQ1: Real? DQ2: American? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/222 "2013-05-19T03:04:12Z")
IQ1: Were you a soap-opera vampire? IQ2: Did a child allegedly say “Cram it, clown,” to you? IQ3: Are you best known for playing a Luftwaffe sergeant in a TV show set during WW II? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/223 "2013-05-19T03:06:31Z")
Congrats, **etv** , yet again! From the previous round: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a character in the play in which Andy Griffith first broke into acting? > Was your real job leaked by the number two guy in a Federal agency? > Unlike in real life, were you an alien in a short story by Neil Gaiman? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Wow. Just wow. Take 3 DQs, :: blushing :: The infant Virginia Dare, in the outdoor drama _The Lost Colony_, performed every summer on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Valerie Plame, the outed CIA spy. Queen Victoria, in this excellent Sherlock Holmes pastiche: [http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf](http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf) B it is. IQs: Did your creator name you after a noted ornithologist? Were you mocked with the song “You’re In the Army Now”? Were you mocked by your boss’s speechwriters when your new job was announced? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/224 "2013-05-19T03:18:09Z")
SCA-not Buffy ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/225 "2013-05-19T03:34:53Z")
EH-Not Bond, James Bond 2 DQs same for SCA ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/226 "2013-05-19T04:48:14Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > DQ Answers > > 1.Male > 2.Real > 3.American Sorry to keep you waiting ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/227 "2013-05-19T17:48:39Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the source of fraternal embarrassment for a living ex-president? 2. Who shouldn’t have messed around with Slim? 3. Were you a biographer whose name has come to mean a constant companion or friend\> ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/228 "2013-05-19T18:22:25Z")
**Prof** -Not “W” (at least) 2 DQs ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/229 "2013-05-19T18:34:20Z")
Okay, Billy Carter is technically William Carter, though I’ve never heard him called that. Bad Bad Leroy Brown from the song of the same name by Jim Croce shouldn’t have crossed Slim. James Boswell was Samuel Johnson’s biographer/friend, and numerous others have been called a Boswell, most notably Dr. Watson. DQ1) Alive? DQ2) In the creative arts as we usually refer to them? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/230 "2013-05-19T18:46:18Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > DQ Answers > > 1.Male > 2.Real > 3.American > 4.Living > 5.Involved in the Arts More DQ info ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/231 "2013-05-19T19:25:53Z")
IQs 1. Is your analysis of fairy tales considered must reading in your field? 2. Did you aid an undead Russian? 3. Did you invent the peryton? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/232 "2013-05-19T19:40:46Z")
**Prof** -3 DQs ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/233 "2013-05-19T19:46:48Z")
Bruno Bettelheim’s _The Uses of Enchantment_ is key in child psychology. Bartok the bad was the animal sidekick of a magically motivated Rasputin in _Anastasia_. Jorge Luis Borges’s _A Dictionary of Imaginary Beings_ contains numerous creatures from mythology and folklore, but stuck one of his own creation into the mix. DQs: Is the B for your first name? Are you an entertainer (singer, dancer, actor, comedian)? I’ll reserve one for now. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/234 "2013-05-19T20:06:00Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > DQ Answers > > 1.Male > 2.Real > 3.American > 4.Living > 5.Involved in the Arts > 6.Last initial is “B” > 7.Not a writer, singer, dancer, comic or actor More DQ answers ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/235 "2013-05-19T20:26:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your creator name you after a noted ornithologist? > Were you mocked with the song “You’re In the Army Now”? > Were you mocked by your boss’s speechwriters when your new job was announced? > [@etv78](#): > > EH-Not Bond, James Bond > > 2 DQs same for SCA Yes, James Bond. Bill Clinton, when he argued that he was too busy serving as commander-in-chief to respond to the Paula Jones lawsuit . A conservative group promptly created an ad that showed him playing golf, going out for ice cream, hobnobbing with celebrities, etc., with that song playing in the background. “Bingo Bob” Russell, the kinda-dim-bulb second VP in _The West Wing_. DQs: Over age 40? Has won a major prize in his field of the arts? One DQ reserved. IQs: Have you played a network executive, a computer expert and a ruthless prosecutor? Did Gilda Radner mispronounce your name on purpose? Were you one of Pete Rose’s most stalwart teammates? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/236 "2013-05-19T21:05:59Z")
Upon reviewing my music collection, I find that I erred in my Jim Croce song, and that Jim was the one who shouldn’t have messed with Slim. I, of course, forfeit my reserved DQ. IQs: 1. Are you the superhero name of Chuck Taine? 2. Are you the most venerable of English historians? 3. Are you the puppet god of the Bard-who-gets-left-out-of-battles? ---
**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:** [May 19, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/237 "2013-05-19T22:12:02Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a soap-opera vampire? > IQ2: Did a child allegedly say “Cram it, clown,” to you? > IQ3: Are you best known for playing a Luftwaffe sergeant in a TV show set during WW II? > [@etv78](#): > > SCA-not Buffy Buffy??? Barnabas Collins, Bozo and John Banner. DQ: Visual artist (painter, sculptor, &c)? IQ1: Was a painting of yours recently sold at auction for a ridiculous price? IQ2: Does a famous photo show you leaning on your car, cigar in mouth and revolver in hand? IQ3: Were you called “Doctor Mirabilis”? (Seriously - Buffy???) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/238 "2013-05-19T23:03:39Z")
**SCA** -Misread that, only saw word “vampire”. :o BTW, 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/239 "2013-05-19T23:08:43Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > DQ Answers > > 1.Male > 2.Real > 3.American > 4.Living > 5.Involved in the Arts > 6.Last Initial is “B” > 7.Not a:writer, singer, dancer, comedian or actor > 8.Over age 40 > 9.His medium is visual > 10.Has won awards Up to date DQ answers ---
**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:** [May 20, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/240 "2013-05-20T01:08:40Z")
And these? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Have you played a network executive, a computer expert and a ruthless prosecutor? > Did Gilda Radner mispronounce your name on purpose? > Were you one of Pete Rose’s most stalwart teammates? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330.md?page=13)