# Botticelli November 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 3, 2011, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721 "2011-11-03T07:31:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [November 18, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/141 "2011-11-18T06:05:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > That’s 20 DQs answered. Should we go to “Are you [actual name]” questions, one per customer? Sure. I usually do one per unasked DQ, but either way is fine with me. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/142 "2011-11-21T20:59:01Z")
Uh-oh. It looks like I’m working my thread-killing magic on the Botticelli game. Go ahead and fire your “Are you \_\_\_\_\_?” questions. If no winner then I’ll post the solution after 10 pm PST and try to keep this game from dying over the Thanksgiving holiday/ ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/143 "2011-11-22T08:49:16Z")
OK. I am [Sun Wukong](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong), also known as The Monkey King, main character of the Chinese epic fantasy novel _Journey to the West_, which was originally published around 1590, and has never gone out of print since then. I appeared in the recent Hollywood movie The Forbidden Kingdom, which was very very loosely inspired by my story and was played by Jet Li. There have been numerous Asian adaptations, both live action and animated. One miniseries was dubbed into English and shown in syndication in the US and UK. You can see me on almost every product imaginable in China. Remember back in 1982/83 how you couldn’t go into a store without seeing E.T. plastered on everything? That’s me in China. Next up… Let’s try ‘B’ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/144 "2011-11-22T14:14:52Z")
IQ: Did you paint a picture of Venus rising? 😉 IQ: Did you win an Academy Award for Best Actress, for your role as Leigh Anne Tuohy? IQ: Was your No. 7 jersey retired on August 17, 2008? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/145 "2011-11-22T18:28:46Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > IQ: Did you paint a picture of Venus rising? 😉 > IQ: Did you win an Academy Award for Best Actress, for your role as Leigh Anne Tuohy? > IQ: Was your No. 7 jersey retired on August 17, 2008? IQ1: Hmm…toughy… I am not Sandro Botticelli IQ2: I am not Sandra Bullock Don’t know about number #3. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/146 "2011-11-22T18:47:08Z")
You are not Craig Biggio, a former Major League Baseball second baseman, catcher, and outfielder. He played his entire 20-year baseball career with the Houston Astros (1988–2007). DQ: Are you male? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/147 "2011-11-22T19:19:49Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > DQ: Are you male? Yes Recap: B 1. Male ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/148 "2011-11-23T03:34:42Z")
As luck would have it, two of my questions from the last round also fit the current initial, so I’ll ask them again! IQ: Are you a baseball player whose last name was appropriated as the surname of a TV character? IQ: Did Bob Newhart once point out that you didn’t invent the telephone? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/149 "2011-11-23T04:12:41Z")
1. Are you a famous convicted adulteress who gave birth to a famous virgin? 2. Is your famous discovery commemorated on the new Canadian $100 bill? 3. Are you reputed to have died of politeness at a royal feast, and are now buried at Tyn church, Prague? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/150 "2011-11-23T05:33:08Z")
Had anyone else heard of the Monkey King? I hadn’t. IQ: Did your nephew’s parents die in a boating accident? IQ: Were you the favorite son of Bloom County in the 1984 U.S. presidential election? IQ: A pacifist, did you resign an important diplomatic post when war broke out? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/151 "2011-11-23T13:30:55Z")
Never heard of the Monkey King. IQ: Did you write the jingle for Band-Aids? IQ: Are you a singer/guitarist that got a 4F and did not have to serve in Vietnam? IQ: Were you involved in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey on the morning of July 11, 1804? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/152 "2011-11-23T17:16:55Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > As luck would have it, two of my questions from the last round also fit the current initial, so I’ll ask them again! > > IQ: Are you a baseball player whose last name was appropriated as the surname of a TV character? > > IQ: Did Bob Newhart once point out that you didn’t invent the telephone? Even knowing both initials ‘S’ & ‘B’, I still don’t know. Take 2 DQs. > [@matt\_mcl](#): > > 1. Are you a famous convicted adulteress who gave birth to a famous virgin? > 2. Is your famous discovery commemorated on the new Canadian $100 bill? > 3. Are you reputed to have died of politeness at a royal feast, and are now buried at Tyn church, Prague? IQ1: I am not Anne Boleyn. Don’t know the other ones. 2 DQ for you. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Did your nephew’s parents die in a boating accident? > IQ: Were you the favorite son of Bloom County in the 1984 U.S. presidential election? > IQ: A pacifist, did you resign an important diplomatic post when war broke out? IQ2: I am not Bill the Cat. Take DQs for the other 2. > [@Rebo](#): > > IQ: Did you write the jingle for Band-Aids? > IQ: Are you a singer/guitarist that got a 4F and did not have to serve in Vietnam? > IQ: Were you involved in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey on the morning of July 11, 1804? IQ1: I am not Barry Manilow IQ2: I am not Aaron Burr? Only American 'B" duelist I can think of. Take a DQ for #2 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/153 "2011-11-23T18:18:19Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ: Are you a singer/guitarist that got a 4F and did not have to serve in Vietnam? Bruce Springsteen DQ: Are you living? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/154 "2011-11-23T18:39:37Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > DQ: Are you living? Yes Recap: B 1. Male 2. Living ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/155 "2011-11-23T21:03:38Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > As luck would have it, two of my questions from the last round also fit the current initial, so I’ll ask them again! > > IQ: Are you a baseball player whose last name was appropriated as the surname of a TV character? > > IQ: Did Bob Newhart once point out that you didn’t invent the telephone? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Even knowing both initials ‘S’ & ‘B’, I still don’t know. Take 2 DQs. Phil Silvers named Sgt. Ernie Bilko after baseball’s Steve Bilko. When Bob Newhart started to gain fame for his “one end of a phone call” routines, Shelley Berman complained that Newhart was “stealing” Berman’s schtick. Bob then pointed out that he hadn’t copied Shelley’s routines, and that Berman thus didn’t have much of a proprietary right to complain. DQ: Entertainer (actor, singer, dancer, comedian, etc.)? DQ: American? IQ: Although you are obviously not Satchel Paige, are you another Negro League baseball player who was said to be fast enough to turn off a light and be in bed before the room got dark? IQ: Are you yet another Negro League great, the one who told the story on a TV production devoted to baseball? IQ: Are you the filmmaker responsible for said production? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/156 "2011-11-24T03:41:54Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Don’t know the other ones. 2 DQ for you. 1. Either Frederick Banting or Charles Best, discoverers of insulin (with John Macleod). 2. Tycho Brahe. I’ll wait for my DQs until the previous ones are answered… ---
**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:** [November 24, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/157 "2011-11-24T03:54:04Z")
Bilbo Baggins’s nephew Frodo’s parents died in a boating accident. Correct as to Bill the Cat and Bloom County. William Jennings Bryan was Secretary of State in the Wilson Administration. A pacifist, he resigned when the U.S. entered World War I. I’ll reserve my two DQs for now. IQ: Did you create one of the most popular choreographies of _The Nutcracker_? IQ: Did you defend the Montgolfier Bros. from early mockery? IQ: Did you control Leland Palmer against his will? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/158 "2011-11-24T04:00:09Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > DQ: Entertainer (actor, singer, dancer, comedian, etc.)? > > DQ: American? > > IQ: Although you are obviously not Satchel Paige, are you another Negro League baseball player who was said to be fast enough to turn off a light and be in bed before the room got dark? > > IQ: Are you yet another Negro League great, the one who told the story on a TV production devoted to baseball? > > IQ: Are you the filmmaker responsible for said production? DQ1: Yes DQ2: No IQ3: Not Ken Burns. Take DQs for the other 2. Recap: B 1. Male 2. Living 3. Entertainer of some sort 4. Not American ---
**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:** [November 24, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/159 "2011-11-24T04:02:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Did you create one of the most popular choreographies of _The Nutcracker_? > IQ: Did you defend the Montgolfier Bros. from early mockery? > IQ: Did you control Leland Palmer against his will? IQ1: Not Mikhail Baryshnakov ? (I’m totally guessing) IQ3: Not Bob from _Twin Peaks_ Take a DQ for #2 and possibly #1 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721/160 "2011-11-24T22:39:20Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Although you are obviously not Satchel Paige, are you another Negro League baseball player who was said to be fast enough to turn off a light and be in bed before the room got dark? > > IQ: Are you yet another Negro League great, the one who told the story on a TV production devoted to baseball? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ3: Not Ken Burns. Take DQs for the other 2. On Ken Burns’ _Baseball_ series, Buck O’Neil claimed that James “Cool Papa” Bell could pull the light trick (at least in a hotel room in which the switch timer was on a slight delay). DQ: European? DQ: Are you known for musical performances? IQ1: Are you a baseball player who changed his first name from Joey? IQ2: Were you Sally Kimball’s friend? IQ: Were you the enemy of the person who’s the answer to IQ2? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2011/601721.md?page=9)