# 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:** 4
**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, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/61 "2015-11-06T13:32:51Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. correct (Adam Wagnalls), correct, Marsha Warfield DQ: 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:** [November 6, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/62 "2015-11-06T13:53:48Z")
IQ1: Are you a ventriloquist who invented and patented the first artificial heart? IQ2: Did you write the \*Illuminatus \*trilogy with Robert Shea? IQ3: During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, did students throw copies of your book _The Mass Psychology of Fascism_ at the police? ---
**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, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/63 "2015-11-06T15:38:34Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the villain in _Tron_? 2. Did you co-found a Laboratory with Dr. Chu? 3. Did you edit _A Nonsense Anthology_? ---
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/64 "2015-11-06T22:56:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a ventriloquist who invented and patented the first artificial heart? > IQ2: Did you write the \*Illuminatus \*trilogy with Robert Shea? > IQ3: During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, did students throw copies of your book _The Mass Psychology of Fascism_ at the police? Three DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the villain in _Tron_? > 2. Did you co-found a Laboratory with Dr. Chu? > 3. Did you edit _A Nonsense Anthology_? Three DQs. **W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name does not start with W 5. American Where’d everybody else run off to? ---
**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, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/65 "2015-11-06T23:08:36Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the villain in Tron? > 2. Did you co-found a Laboratory with Dr. Chu? > 3. Did you edit A Nonsense Anthology? > Three DQs. #1 was David Warner. #2 was Dr. An Wang of Wang Labs. #3 was Carolyn Wells. DQs: 1. Born after 1970? 2. Known for the arts? 1 DQ reserved. > [@](#): > > Where’d everybody else run off to? Well, it’s W… so I guess Walla Walla, Washington. ---
**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 7, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/66 "2015-11-07T00:15:08Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a ventriloquist who invented and patented the first artificial heart? > IQ2: Did you write the Illuminatus trilogy with Robert Shea? > IQ3: During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, did students throw copies of your book The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police? > > Three DQs. \*\*astorian \*\*did say he was going to be gone a while. Paul Winchell, Robert Anton Wilson, Wilhelm Reich DQ: Born (W)est of the Mississippi? holding 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 7, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/67 "2015-11-07T01:21:27Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name does not start with W 5. American 6. Not born after 1970 7. Known for the arts 8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi ---
**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 7, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/68 "2015-11-07T02:05:34Z")
DQ: Known for the performing arts? ---
**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 7, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/69 "2015-11-07T03:01:54Z")
IQs: Did you say, “Just because one is born in a barn does not make one a horse”? Did you write to the elders of Truro Synagogue? Were you a widow with children who married a man with whom you then had no additional offspring? ---
**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 7, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/70 "2015-11-07T03:12:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you say, “Just because one is born in a barn does not make one a horse”? > Did you write to the elders of Truro Synagogue? > Were you a widow with children who married a man with whom you then had no additional offspring? DQ. Not … George Washington? Not … Martha Custis Washington? **W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name does not start with W 5. American 6. Not born after 1970 7. Known for the arts 8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi 9. Known for the performing arts ---
**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 7, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/71 "2015-11-07T13:14:52Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the second president of the Royal Academy in London? 2. Do copies of your baseball card often sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars? 3. Did you star in the TV series _Barbary Coast_? ---
**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 7, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/72 "2015-11-07T15:17:46Z")
IQ1: Were you FDR’s opponent in the 1940 presidential election, then later appointed by him to ambassador-at-large? IQ2: Are you a five-term Virginia Senator who was also the 6th husband of Elizabeth Taylor? IQ3: Did your widow recently confirm you had Lewy body dementia? DQ: Author? 1 DQ in reserve ---
**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 7, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/73 "2015-11-07T18:14:06Z")
Authors are not performing artists, so perhaps **Knowed Out** would like to ask another DQ? Previous IQs: Did you say, “Just because one is born in a barn does not make one a horse”? - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, born in Dublin to Anglo-Irish parents. Did you write to the elders of Truro Synagogue? - Yes, George Washington, in 1790, in an important early statement about religious tolerance: [http://www.tourosynagogue.org/index.php/history-learning/tsf-intro-menu/slom-scholarship/86-washington-letter](http://www.tourosynagogue.org/index.php/history-learning/tsf-intro-menu/slom-scholarship/86-washington-letter) Were you a widow with children who married a man with whom you then had no additional offspring? - Yes, Martha Washington. DQ: Actor? IQs: Were you the pilot of _Serenity_? Did you perhaps meet the famous man after whom you were named while you were still an infant? Was your dad a cartoon cop? ---
**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 7, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/74 "2015-11-07T19:49:23Z")
I somehow saw a “Not” in front of 9. holding 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 7, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/75 "2015-11-07T21:28:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the second president of the Royal Academy in London? > 2. Do copies of your baseball card often sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars? > 3. Did you star in the TV series _Barbary Coast_? DQ. Not Honus Wagner. DQ. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you FDR’s opponent in the 1940 presidential election, then later appointed by him to ambassador-at-large? > IQ2: Are you a five-term Virginia Senator who was also the 6th husband of Elizabeth Taylor? > IQ3: Did your widow recently confirm you had Lewy body dementia? Not Wendell Willkie. Not John Warner. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the pilot of _Serenity_? > Did you perhaps meet the famous man after whom you were named while you were still an infant? > Was your dad a cartoon cop? Not … Wash? DQ. DQ. **W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name does not start with W 5. American 6. Not born after 1970 7. Known for the arts 8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi 9. Known for the performing arts [DEL]10. Not an author[/DEL] 😃 10. Actor ---
**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 7, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/76 "2015-11-07T21:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the second president of the Royal Academy in London? > 2. Do copies of your baseball card often sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars? > 3. Did you star in the TV series Barbary Coast? > > DQ. > Not Honus Wagner. > DQ. #1 was Benjamin West. Correct on Honus. #3 was William Shatner. DQs: 1. Known primarily from movies? 2. Known as a leading man? ---
**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 7, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/77 "2015-11-07T23:28:59Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you FDR’s opponent in the 1940 presidential election, then later appointed by him to ambassador-at-large? > IQ2: Are you a five-term Virginia Senator who was also the 6th husband of Elizabeth Taylor? > IQ3: Did your widow recently confirm you had Lewy body dementia? > > Not Wendell Willkie. > Not John Warner. > DQ. Robin Williams holding 3 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 7, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/78 "2015-11-07T23:56:53Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name does not start with W 5. American 6. Not born after 1970 7. Known for the arts 8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi 9. Known for the performing arts [DEL]10. Not an author[/DEL] 😃 10. Actor 11. Not known primarily from movies (though I have been in some) 12. Not, I think, known primarily as a leading man ---
**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 8, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/79 "2015-11-08T02:10:11Z")
Previous Qs: Were you the pilot of _Serenity_? - Yes, Hoban “Wash” Washburne. Did you perhaps meet the famous man after whom you were named while you were still an infant? - Washington Irving, apocryphally presented to the first President by his nanny in the streets of NYC. Was your dad a cartoon cop? - Never mind. Withdrawn. DQ: Has won an Emmy? IQs: Have you played a CIA agent, a train engineer and an infantryman? Did Peter Falk appear in one of your best-known films? Did your actor boyfriend get a tattoo with your name? ---
**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 8, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/80 "2015-11-08T04:57:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Have you played a CIA agent, a train engineer and an infantryman? > Did Peter Falk appear in one of your best-known films? > Did your actor boyfriend get a tattoo with your name? Three DQs. **W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name does not start with W 5. American 6. Not born after 1970 7. Known for the arts 8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi 9. Known for the performing arts [DEL]10. Not an author[/DEL] 😃 10. Actor 11. Not known primarily from movies (though I have been in some) 12. Not, I think, known primarily as a leading man 13. Has won an Emmy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440.md?page=5)