# Botticelli - November 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 6, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104 "2018-11-06T23:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 13, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/21 "2018-11-13T03:44:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you famously NOT invent baseball? > 2. Did you compose _The Sorcerer’s Apprentice_? > 3. Are you a Marvel mercenary who appeared in _Deadpool 2_? Not Abner Doubleday, Dourre (sp?) or Devastator (?). > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you betray Samson? > 2. Is someone in the kitchen with you? > 3. Were you a naturalist born the same day as Abraham Lincoln? Not Biblical Delilah, cookin’ Deliliah, or Charles Darwin. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/22 "2018-11-13T04:46:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Biblical Delilah, cookin’ Deliliah, or Charles Darwin. 1. was in fact [Dinah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Working_on_the_Railroad#Lyrics). DQ: real? IQs: 1. Did you have an act playing the piano at the Ink and Paint Club? 2. Did you also have an act playing the piano at the Ink and Paint Club? 3. Are you a fictional folksinger based on Dave Van Ronk? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/23 "2018-11-13T11:54:27Z")
You guys always have the intellectual better of me, but I’ll dip my toe back in for a few games. 1. Did you bring shame upon your family and yourself thanks to unspecified goings on with a goat? 2. Were you continually foiled in your Sisyphean quest to capture a bird? 3. Did you famously say “If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”? ---
**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 13, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/24 "2018-11-13T14:10:40Z")
Dinah, of course! :smack: > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have an act playing the piano at the Ink and Paint Club? > 2. Did you also have an act playing the piano at the Ink and Paint Club? > 3. Are you a fictional folksinger based on Dave Van Ronk? Neither Daffy nor Donald Duck, and not Llewyn Davis (I just saw that movie!) > [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > You guys always have the intellectual better of me, but I’ll dip my toe back in for a few games. > > 1. Did you bring shame upon your family and yourself thanks to unspecified goings on with a goat? > 2. Were you continually foiled in your Sisyphean quest to capture a bird? > 3. Did you famously say “If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”? Welcome back, **Dead Cat**! You know you’re always welcome here. Not Aberforth Dumbledore, dunno, and dunno (someone from _Caddyshack_, maybe?) D. 1. real ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/25 "2018-11-13T15:07:58Z")
Dumbledore junior indeed, and perhaps you have heard of Dick Dastardly? 🙂 Also, Dean Martin. DQ1: Human? DQ2: Alive? 1. Are you an actor chiefly noted for Shakespeare who has found a whole new audience in later life by narrating a popular UK children’s programme? 2. Do your dubious plans to become a millionaire somehow never quite come off? 3. Are you the actor who plays 2? ---
**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 13, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/26 "2018-11-13T15:33:51Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > … > > [IQs] > > 1. Are you an actor chiefly noted for Shakespeare who has found a whole new audience in later life by narrating a popular UK children’s programme? > 2. Do your dubious plans to become a millionaire somehow never quite come off? > 3. Are you the actor who plays 2? Not Derek Jacobi, dunno and dunno. D. 1. real 2. human 3. dead ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/27 "2018-11-13T15:51:05Z")
Correct with Sir Derek. Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter never quite got that knighthood, but Sir David Jason did. Sorry, will try to be less UK-centric going forward (I figured Only Fools and Horses was probably pretty popular in the US, though). DQ1: Died before 1900? DQ2: Born west of the prime meridian (and east of the international date line)? Three more IQs: Are you the first person to win the World Series of Poker (main event) twice? Did you perform at Glastonbury a few years ago, including a saxophone solo which endeared you even more to the British audience, many of whom were familiar with the _Benny Hill_ theme? Did you make global headlines about 20 years ago as one of the first successfully cloned mammals? ---
**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 13, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/28 "2018-11-13T15:53:43Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you famously NOT invent baseball? > 2. Did you compose The Sorcerer’s Apprentice? > 3. Are you a Marvel mercenary who appeared in Deadpool 2? > Not Abner Doubleday, Dourre (sp?) or Devastator (?). Correct on Abner. #2 was Paul Dukas. #3 is Domino. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Last name starts with D? ---
**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 13, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/29 "2018-11-13T15:56:17Z")
DQs: 1. Did you create the Periodic Table of the Elements? 2. Did Fred MacMurray play you on _My Three Sons_? 3. Did you play Wimpy in the live-action movie _Popeye_? ---
**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 13, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/30 "2018-11-13T17:23:00Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > …Three more IQs: > > Are you the first person to win the World Series of Poker (main event) twice? > Did you perform at Glastonbury a few years ago, including a saxophone solo which endeared you even more to the British audience, many of whom were familiar with the _Benny Hill_ theme? > Did you make global headlines about 20 years ago as one of the first successfully cloned mammals? Dunno, dunno and not Dolly. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Did you create the Periodic Table of the Elements? > 2. Did Fred MacMurray play you on _My Three Sons_? > 3. Did you play Wimpy in the live-action movie _Popeye_? Not Douffle (sp?), Dad or dunno. D. 1. real 2. human 3. dead 4. died before 1900 5. born west of the prime meridian and east of the international date line 6. male 7. last name starts with D ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/31 "2018-11-13T17:55:39Z")
My last go for the day. The poker player I was going for was Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson, but I realised too late that the question is formulated incorrectly - I should have included “back to back” (Johnny Moss won in 1970, 1971, and 1974, but I don’t count 1970 as it was decided by vote rather than being a poker tournament as we know it today). So scratch that one. The other was Dolly Parton - Dolly x3! DQ: American? IQs: Did you play a psychopath (partially) thwarted by a lady with some special driving skills? Did you make your debut on both sides of the Atlantic in the same week in the 1950s, but from 2 completely independent sources? After retiring some years ago from a successful sporting career, do you seem to be trying to reinvent yourself as some sort of international diplomat? ---
**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 13, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/32 "2018-11-13T17:59:01Z")
> [@](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Did you create the Periodic Table of the Elements? > 2. Did Fred MacMurray play you on My Three Sons? > 3. Did you play Wimpy in the live-action movie Popeye? > Not Douffle (sp?), Dad or dunno. #1 was Dmitri Mendeleev. #2 was Steven Douglas. #3 was Paul Dooley. DQs: 1. Died before 1800? 2. Known for the Arts? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 13, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/33 "2018-11-13T18:01:17Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a comedy writer for Jack Paar who also wrote the book _Never Trust A Naked Bus Driver_? 2. Are you Bill Murray’s actor brother? 3. Did you play Cosmo in _Singin’ In The Rain_? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/34 "2018-11-13T23:40:42Z")
IQs: 1. Were you told you would become once, twice, thrice Lord Mayor of London? 2. Did you name the main character of your comic strip after your grandfather, and thus indirectly after a US president? 3. Are you friends with Will, Mike, and Lucas? ---
**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 14, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/35 "2018-11-14T01:52:25Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > …IQs: > > Did you play a psychopath (partially) thwarted by a lady with some special driving skills? > Did you make your debut on both sides of the Atlantic in the same week in the 1950s, but from 2 completely independent sources? > After retiring some years ago from a successful sporting career, do you seem to be trying to reinvent yourself as some sort of international diplomat? Not Dennis Weaver, Dennis Lehane or Dennis Rodman. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a comedy writer for Jack Paar who also wrote the book _Never Trust A Naked Bus Driver_? > 2. Are you Bill Murray’s actor brother? > 3. Did you play Cosmo in _Singin’ In The Rain_? Dunno, not Brian Doyle-Murray, and not Donald O’Connor. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you told you would become once, twice, thrice Lord Mayor of London? > 2. Did you name the main character of your comic strip after your grandfather, and thus indirectly after a US president? > 3. Are you friends with Will, Mike, and Lucas? Not Dick Whittington, Jon Davis and… dunno. D. 1. real 2. human 3. dead 4. died before 1900 5. born west of the prime meridian and east of the international date line 6. male 7. last name starts with D 8. not American 9. died before 1800 10. not known for the 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 14, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/36 "2018-11-14T02:50:57Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a comedy writer for Jack Paar who also wrote the book Never Trust A Naked Bus Driver? > 2. Are you Bill Murray’s actor brother? > 3. Did you play Cosmo in Singin’ In The Rain? > Dunno, not Brian Doyle-Murray, and not Donald O’Connor. #1 was Jack Douglas. Correct on the other two. DQ: Known for politics/military? IQs: 1. Are you Jane Haddam’s holiday mystery detective? 2. Are you Jim Butcher’s magical detective? 3. Are you Edgar A. Poe’s original detective? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/37 "2018-11-14T03:45:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Dick Whittington, Jon Davis and… dunno. 1. was Jim Davis (close enough). 3. was Dustin, from _Stranger Things_. DQ: European? IQs: 1. Did you direct _Scanners_? 2. Did you direct _Mulholland Drive_? 3. Did you direct _House of Games_, aside from writing a play about real estate agents? ---
**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 14, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/38 "2018-11-14T05:21:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Jane Haddam’s holiday mystery detective? > 2. Are you Jim Butcher’s magical detective? > 3. Are you Edgar A. Poe’s original detective? Dunno, not Harry Dresden, and not Auguste Dupin. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you direct _Scanners_? > 2. Did you direct _Mulholland Drive_? > 3. Did you direct _House of Games_, aside from writing a play about real estate agents? Not the Davids: Cronenberg, Lynch or Mamet. D. 1. real 2. human 3. dead 4. died before 1900 5. born west of the prime meridian and east of the international date line 6. male 7. last name starts with D 8. not American 9. died before 1800 10. not known for the Arts 11. not known for politics/military 12. European ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/39 "2018-11-14T09:32:16Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Did you play a psychopath (partially) thwarted by a lady with some special driving skills? > Did you make your debut on both sides of the Atlantic in the same week in the 1950s, but from 2 completely independent sources? > After retiring some years ago from a successful sporting career, do you seem to be trying to reinvent yourself as some sort of international diplomat? It was indeed a triple Dennis but for the first two I was thinking of Dennis Hopper in _Speed_ (Dennis Weaver was in \*Duel \*but played the driver of the car rather than the psycho in the truck) and Dennis the Menace (Dennis Lehane was born in 1965 so doesn’t meet the criteria). If Dennis Weaver was in something else that fits the first question I’ll happily yield on that one. Rodman is correct. DQ: known for science? IQs: 1. Did you take a famous voyage on the _Beagle_? 2. According to legend, did you finish the game you were involved in before going to defend your country in battle? 3. Did you write under the name ‘Boz’? ---
**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 14, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104/40 "2018-11-14T14:07:32Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Jane Haddam’s holiday mystery detective? > 2. Are you Jim Butcher’s magical detective? > 3. Are you Edgar A. Poe’s original detective? > Dunno, not Harry Dresden, and not Auguste Dupin. #1 is Gregory Demarkian. Correct on the others. DQ: Died before 1400? 1 DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2018/824104.md?page=3)