# 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:** 3
**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, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/41 "2015-11-04T19:54:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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? I am not Garth. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/42 "2015-11-04T20:39:34Z")
> [@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? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Grant Wood. Take 2 DQs for the others. Charles Guiteau. James Garfield. Correct. Two DQs reserved. ---
**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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/43 "2015-11-04T20:59:15Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Gary Dell’Abate Gary Trifecta! holding a 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 5, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/44 "2015-11-05T02:52:45Z")
Previous 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? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Garth. Take 2 DQs. You didn’t say which one you were replying to, but it doesn’t matter because they’re ALL Garth! Garth Pancake in the remake of _The Ladykillers_. Garth of Izar, from _ST:TOS_. Garth from _Wayne’s World_. DQs: Character actor? Known particularly for one role? ---
**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 5, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/45 "2015-11-05T04:08:47Z")
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 17. Character actor 18. Known for one type of role, and best remembered for one character repeated in many movies ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/46 "2015-11-05T05:48:35Z")
IQ1: Were you one of the Bowery Boys? ---
**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 5, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/47 "2015-11-05T15:20:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you one of the Bowery Boys? Yes, I am Leo Gorcey, Slim from the Bowery Boys and one of the Dead End Kids. Well done, SCAdian! ---
**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 5, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/48 "2015-11-05T15:32:31Z")
I’ve heard of the Dead End Kids but not Gorcey in particular. Good job, **SCAdian**! ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/49 "2015-11-05T17:22:04Z")
I’m amazed I thought of him, especially that late at night, but the final DQ did it. Hmmm. I had a good M picked out, and was going to use Ennio Morricone as an E, but I couldn’t remember who the M was. Now I’ve remembered - and written it down 😃 - but we’ve done M a little too recently, so… I am **W**. ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/50 "2015-11-05T17:24:47Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Once And Future King_? 2. Did you write _Charlotte’s Web_? 3. Were you born Marion Morrison? ---
**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 5, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/51 "2015-11-05T18:53:31Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Once And Future King_? > 2. Did you write _Charlotte’s Web_? > 3. Were you born Marion Morrison? Not T H White, E B White, or John Wayne. ---
**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 5, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/52 "2015-11-05T18:57:23Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Were you the protagonist in the musical _Of Thee I Sing_? 2. Are you “a dealer in magical spells”? 3. Did you write _The Seven Minutes_? ---
**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 5, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/53 "2015-11-05T20:38:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the protagonist in the musical _Of Thee I Sing_? > 2. Are you “a dealer in magical spells”? > 3. Did you write _The Seven Minutes_? DQ. Not John Wellington Wells. 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:** [November 5, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/54 "2015-11-05T20:59:41Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all three. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the protagonist in the musical _Of Thee I Sing_? > 2. Are you “a dealer in magical spells”? > 3. Did you write _The Seven Minutes_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ. > Not John Wellington Wells. > DQ. #1 is President John P. Wintergreen. Correct. #2 was Irving Wallace. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/55 "2015-11-06T01:19:03Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/56 "2015-11-06T01:29:19Z")
IQ1: Did you partner with Isaac Kaufmann Funk to produce religious books and later shift to reference books? IQ2: Did Time Magazine name you “TV’s first black superstar” in 1972? IQ3: Did you play the third female bailiff on _Night Court_? ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/57 "2015-11-06T01:30:43Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the villain on the 1st season of _The Flash_? 2. Did you star in _Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins_? 3. Did you write _The Swiss Family Robinson_? ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/58 "2015-11-06T02:54:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you partner with Isaac Kaufmann Funk to produce religious books and later shift to reference books? > IQ2: Did Time Magazine name you “TV’s first black superstar” in 1972? > IQ3: Did you play the third female bailiff on _Night Court_? Not Mr Wagnalls. Not … Flip Wilson? DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the villain on the 1st season of _The Flash_? > 2. Did you star in _Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins_? > 3. Did you write _The Swiss Family Robinson_? There was a Flash TV show? DQ. DQ. Not Johann Wyss. ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/59 "2015-11-06T03:20:43Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the villain on the 1st season of The Flash? 2. Did you star in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins? 3. Did you write The Swiss Family Robinson? There was a Flash TV show? DQ. DQ. Not Johann Wyss. [/QUOTE] There was one in the 1980’s, and there’s a current Flash series staring it’s second season. The villain was Dr. Harrison Wells. #2 was Fred Ward, also known from the first two _Tremors_ films. Correct on Wyss. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with W? ---
**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 6, 2015, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/60 "2015-11-06T11:06:41Z")
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