# Botticelli - November 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 2, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440 "2015-11-02T17:55:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [November 3, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/21 "2015-11-03T23:45:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ: Known for the performing arts? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ: Known for the performing arts? Is there an echo in here? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/22 "2015-11-04T01:30:08Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with G 5. American 6. Died since 1950 7. Known for the arts 8. Known for the performing arts 9. Born east of the Mississippi KO, take another 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:** [November 4, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/23 "2015-11-04T02:01:10Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a key creator of Dungeons & Dragons? - Yes, Gary Gygax. Are you a noted Civil War historian? - Heh. I’ll rephrase. Are you SpongeBob’s pet? - Yes, Gary (“Meow!”) the Snail. IQs: Are you a noted Civil War historian… with the first name Gary? Did you say, “Winston [Churchill] would skin his mother to make a drum upon which to beat his own praises”? Did you design a special sword since 1775? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/24 "2015-11-04T02:25:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a noted Civil War historian… with the first name Gary? > Did you say, “Winston [Churchill] would skin his mother to make a drum upon which to beat his own praises”? > Did you design a special sword since 1775? 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:** [November 4, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/25 "2015-11-04T03:06:30Z")
Where’d that double DQ come from? DQ: Known for music? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/26 "2015-11-04T03:27:50Z")
IQ1: Were you ejected from The Today Show in 1971 because during an interview with Edwin Newman, you repeatedly referred to _The New York Times_ as “Pravda”? IQ2: Are you a Jewish actor who played Spider-man? IQ3: Are you a longtime Las Vegas headliner whose original name is Fred Sheldon Greenfield? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/27 "2015-11-04T03:33:26Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with G 5. American 6. Died since 1950 7. Known for the arts 8. Known for the performing arts 9. Born east of the Mississippi 10. Not known for music ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/28 "2015-11-04T03:34:50Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you ejected from The Today Show in 1971 because during an interview with Edwin Newman, you repeatedly referred to _The New York Times_ as “Pravda”? > IQ2: Are you a Jewish actor who played Spider-man? > IQ3: Are you a longtime Las Vegas headliner whose original name is Fred Sheldon Greenfield? Take a DQ each for 1 and 3. I am not Andrew Garfield. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/29 "2015-11-04T12:09:57Z")
IQ1: Did you shoot a former general in a train station? IQ2: Were you that general? IQ3: Did you paint a much-parodied picture of a man and woman in front of a house? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/30 "2015-11-04T12:41:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you shoot a former general in a train station? > IQ2: Were you that general? > IQ3: Did you paint a much-parodied picture of a man and woman in front of a house? I am not Grant Wood. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/31 "2015-11-04T13:16:45Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you ejected from The Today Show in 1971 because during an interview with Edwin Newman, you repeatedly referred to The New York Times as “Pravda”? > IQ2: Are you a Jewish actor who played Spider-man? > IQ3: Are you a longtime Las Vegas headliner whose original name is Fred Sheldon Greenfield? > > Take a DQ each for 1 and 3. I am not Andrew Garfield. Georgie Jessel, Shecky Greene DQ: Actor? DQ: Born north of Mason-Dixon line? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/32 "2015-11-04T13:20:24Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with G 5. American 6. Died since 1950 7. Known for the arts 8. Known for the performing arts 9. Born east of the Mississippi 10. Not known for music 11. Actor 12. Born north of Mason-Dixon line ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/33 "2015-11-04T13:42:33Z")
IQ1: Were you a regular on Hollywood Squares, and when asked by host Peter Marshall, “According to legend, what one thing was Noah’s wife not willing to do?” replied “Sunbathe amongst the anteaters.”? IQ2: Did you star in two TV series with Mandy Patinkin, _Chicago Hope_ and _Criminal Minds_? IQ3: Have you played a rock star, a dog show participant, and a six-fingered man? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/34 "2015-11-04T13:50:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you a regular on Hollywood Squares, and when asked by host Peter Marshall, “According to legend, what one thing was Noah’s wife not willing to do?” replied “Sunbathe amongst the anteaters.”? > IQ2: Did you star in two TV series with Mandy Patinkin, _Chicago Hope_ and _Criminal Minds_? > IQ3: Have you played a rock star, a dog show participant, and a six-fingered man? 1. I am not George Gobel. (If this is wrong, and it probably is, take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. Hello, my name is not Christopher Guest. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/35 "2015-11-04T15:08:42Z")
George Gobel is correct. [Here are more of his quips](http://www.classicsquares.com/gobelsquares.html). I remember watching the show as a kid and not really understanding the more “adult” material. Now I do. 🙂 #2 is Thomas Gibson and 3 is correct. holding 1 DQ ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/36 "2015-11-04T18:31:10Z")
DQ: Known primarily from movies? IQ1: Are you Howard Stern’s longtime producer, nicknamed Baba Booey? IQ2: Are you the subject of a line from the song _Puttin’ On the Ritz_ that begins “Dressed up like a million dollar trouper, trying hard to look like”? IQ3: Did you become the world’s youngest world chess champion in 1985? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/37 "2015-11-04T18:39:38Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with G 5. American 6. Died since 1950 7. Known for the arts 8. Known for the performing arts 9. Born east of the Mississippi 10. Not known for music 11. Actor 12. Born north of Mason-Dixon line 13. Known primarily from movies ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/38 "2015-11-04T18:41:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you Howard Stern’s longtime producer, nicknamed Baba Booey? > IQ2: Are you the subject of a line from the song _Puttin’ On the Ritz_ that begins “Dressed up like a million dollar trouper, trying hard to look like”? > IQ3: Did you become the world’s youngest world chess champion in 1985? #2: I am not Gary Cooper. #3: I am not Gary Kasparov. Take a DQ for Gary #1. ---
**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 4, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/39 "2015-11-04T19:41:32Z")
Previous IQs: Are you a noted Civil War historian… with the first name Gary? - Gary Gallagher. Did you say, “Winston [Churchill] would skin his mother to make a drum upon which to beat his own praises”? - David Lloyd George. Did you design a special sword since 1775? - George S. Patton: [Model 1913 Cavalry Saber - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_1913_Cavalry_Saber). DQs: Considered handsome? Won an Oscar? Died since 2000? IQs: Were you a crook who suffered from IBS? Are you the best-known person from Izar? Were you Wayne’s shaggy-haired best friend? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/40 "2015-11-04T19:53:34Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with G 5. American 6. Died since 1950 7. Known for the arts 8. Known for the performing arts 9. Born east of the Mississippi 10. Not known for music 11. Actor 12. Born north of Mason-Dixon line 13. Known primarily from movies 14. Not considered handsome 15. Did not win an Oscar 16. Died before 2000 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440.md?page=3)