# Botticelli - November 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 3, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551 "2023-11-03T23:20:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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 27, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/161 "2023-11-27T19:02:39Z")
**M** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with M ---
**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 27, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/162 "2023-11-27T19:04:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you lead The Citadel after WWII? > Were you a Western gunslinger with the nickname of a flying critter? > Were you chief engineer of DS9? DQ Not Bat Masterson Not Miles O’Brian > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French thug sidekick on the highly acclaimed mock-leather-covered all-whistling 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > 2. Did you write _Nearer My God To Thee_? > 3. Did The Gryphon say you had no sorrow, really? 2 DQs Not the Mock Turtle ---
**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 27, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/163 "2023-11-27T19:15:23Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French thug sidekick on the highly acclaimed mock-leather-covered all-whistling 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > > 2. Did you write _Nearer My God To Thee_? > > 3. Did The Gryphon say you had no sorrow, really? > > 2 DQs > Not the Mock Turtle #1 was Count Jim (Cockshafer) Moriarty. #2 was Lowell Mason. Correct on #3. DQs: 1. Living? 2. American? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/164 "2023-11-27T19:20:28Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Are you a sad young man whose best friends are a Watchdog and a Humbug? > > 2. Were you the mess officer for the 256th Squadron on Pianosa, who made a fortune buying eggs for 5 cents an egg, and selling them for 1 cent? > > 3. Did you live with your grandfather in a boarding house with a neurotic young man, a sentient cockroach, and a penguin? > > Not Milo from the underappreciated _The Phantom Tollbooth_ > DQ - probably another Milo > Not Milo Bloom from _Bloom County_ Correct on 1 and 3. As surmised, 2 was another Milo, Milo Minderbinder, the utterly amoral mess officer from _Catch-22._ DQ: First name starts with A - M? ---
**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 27, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/165 "2023-11-27T19:35:14Z")
Previous IQs: Did you lead The Citadel after WWII? - Gen. Mark Clark Were you a Western gunslinger with the nickname of a flying critter? - Yes, Bartholemew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson Were you chief engineer of DS9? - Yes, Miles O’Brien (sic) DQ: Best known for politics/military? IQs: Were you a deposed Latin American dictator in a Sherlock Holmes story? Are you the mayor of Lakewood, Ohio? A businessman and big-city mayor, did you have a very direct approach to pretty girls early in your career? ---
**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 27, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/166 "2023-11-27T19:44:57Z")
IQs: 1. Are you an actress who was married to Neil Simon? 2. Are you an actress who was married to Antonio Banderas? 3. Were you a friar who was very successful with peas? ---
**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 27, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/167 "2023-11-27T20:12:29Z")
**M** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with M 4. Living 5. Not American 6. First name starts with A-M 7. Not best known for politics/military ---
**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 27, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/168 "2023-11-27T20:13:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a deposed Latin American dictator in a Sherlock Holmes story? > Are you the mayor of Lakewood, Ohio? > A businessman and big-city mayor, did you have a very direct approach to pretty girls early in your career? 2 DQs Not Marion Barry? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you an actress who was married to Neil Simon? > 2. Are you an actress who was married to Antonio Banderas? > 3. Were you a friar who was very successful with peas? Not Marsha Mason Not Melanie Griffith Not Mendel ---
**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 27, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/169 "2023-11-27T22:34:52Z")
Swept again. IQs: 1. Do you currently make between 2.5 and 3 million dollars a year from sales/plays of one particular seasonal song? 2. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and never again? 3. Did you write the verse play _J. B._? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/170 "2023-11-27T23:10:45Z")
IQs: 1. Were you possibly the most sucessful gospel singer of all time, the first one to have a song hit #2 on the _Billboard_ chart, and subsequently singing the national anthem at a Presidential inauguration? 2. Was your name adapted and used as a nickname for extremely long-lived humans in the novel _Altered Carbon_? 3. Were you the author of that novel? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French thug sidekick on the highly acclaimed mock-leather-covered all-whistling 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? Note to self: Memorize the names of every character, actor, producer, and writer on _The Goon Show_, in preparation for the **Prof** ’s next round. ---
**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 27, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/171 "2023-11-27T23:46:21Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Note to self: Memorize the names of every character, actor, producer, and writer on _The Goon Show_, in preparation for the **Prof** ’s next round. Sapristi knuckoes! Are you in for a treat!! ---
**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 28, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/172 "2023-11-28T00:13:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Do you currently make between 2.5 and 3 million dollars a year from sales/plays of one particular seasonal song? > 2. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and never again? > 3. Did you write the verse play _J. B._? Not Mariah Carey? 2 DQs > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Were you possibly the most sucessful gospel singer of all time, the first one to have a song hit #2 on the _Billboard_ chart, and subsequently singing the national anthem at a Presidential inauguration? > 2. Was your name adapted and used as a nickname for extremely long-lived humans in the novel _Altered Carbon_? > 3. Were you the author of that novel? DQ Not Methusalah 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 28, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/173 "2023-11-28T14:25:53Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Do you currently make between 2.5 and 3 million dollars a year from sales/plays of one particular seasonal song? > > 2. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and never again? > > 3. Did you write the verse play _J. B._? > > Not Mariah Carey? > 2 DQs 1. Correct on Mariah. 2 is Mario Andretti. 3 is Archibald MacLeish. DQs: 1. European? 2. Born after 1980? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/174 "2023-11-28T14:59:24Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. singer of all time, the first one to have a song hit #2 on the _Billboard_ chart, and subsequently singing the national anthem at a Presidential inauguration? > > 2. Was your name adapted and used as a nickname for extremely long-lived humans in the novel _Altered Carbon_? > > 3. Were you the author of that novel? > > DQ > Not Methusalah > DQ 1 was Mahalia Jackson. Correct, though misspelled, on Methuselah. 3 was Richard Morgan. DQs: 1. Mother tongue is English? 2. Known for the arts? ---
**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 28, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/175 "2023-11-28T17:45:38Z")
**M** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with M 4. Living 5. Not American 6. First name starts with A-M 7. Not best known for politics/military 8. European 9. Born before 1980 10. Mother tongue is not English 11. Known for the 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 28, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/176 "2023-11-28T18:17:42Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a deposed Latin American dictator in a Sherlock Holmes story? - Don Juan Murillo, in “Wisteria Lodge” Are you the mayor of Lakewood, Ohio? - Mayor Meghan George A businessman and big-city mayor, did you have a very direct approach to pretty girls early in your career? - Not Marion Berry but NYC’s own Michael Bloomberg, who once admitted that he would ask girls point-blank, soon after meeting them, if they’d go to bed with him. A friend asked, “Didn’t you get slapped a lot?” He replied, “Yeah… but I got laid a lot, too!” DQs: Best known for the performing arts? Considered handsome? Born before 1880? IQs: Were you stabbed to death in your bath? Did you say, late in life, “I am always learning”? Did you write and illustrate _Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus_? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/177 "2023-11-28T18:35:54Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a composer with a scatological fetish, who wrote (among symphonies, concertos, and operas) a canon whose title translates to “Lick Me in the Ass”? 2. Were you another composer who, despite his name, was not related to one of @Prof.Pepperwinkle’s IQs in post #166? 3. Did you have a hit in the 70’s with the song “Midnight in the Oasis”? ---
**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 28, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/178 "2023-11-28T19:50:33Z")
**M** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with M 4. Living 5. Not American 6. First name starts with A-M 7. Not best known for politics/military 8. European 9. Born before 1980 10. Mother tongue is not English 11. Known for the arts 12. Best known for the performing arts, but not as a performer 13. Not considered handsome, at least not in my opinion 14. Born before 1980 (I assume “1880” was a typo given #4) ---
**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 28, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/179 "2023-11-28T19:54:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you stabbed to death in your bath? > Did you say, late in life, “I am always learning”? > Did you write and illustrate _Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus_? Not Jean-Paul Marat DQ Not Mo Willems - I hope I spelled it right, my now-college-age kids had several of the pigeon and the K’nuffle Bunny books when they were younger > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Were you a composer with a scatological fetish, who wrote (among symphonies, concertos, and operas) a canon whose title translates to “Lick Me in the Ass”? > 2. Were you another composer who, despite his name, was not related to one of @Prof.Pepperwinkle’s IQs in post #166? > 3. Did you have a hit in the 70’s with the song “Midnight in the Oasis”? Not Mozart Not Mendelsonn - hopefully I was looking at the correct post Not Maria Muldar (sp?) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551/180 "2023-11-28T20:17:53Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Were you a composer with a scatological fetish, who wrote (among symphonies, concertos, and operas) a canon whose title translates to “Lick Me in the Ass”? > > 2. Were you another composer who, despite his name, was not related to one of @Prof.Pepperwinkle’s IQs in post #166? > > 3. Did you have a hit in the 70’s with the song “Midnight in the Oasis”? > > Not Mozart > Not Mendelsonn - hopefully I was looking at the correct post > Not Maria Muldar (sp?) Yup. Swept me! (But, at the risk of breaking my arm patting my own back, I thought the Mendel/Mendelssohn question was kinda clever). IQs: 1. Did you originate both the roles of Peter Pan and Maria Von Trapp on Broadway? 2. Despite your fame as a comedian, comic actor, and writer, is your true passion banjo music? 3. Are you a gender-fluid Canadian actor now, resident in the UK, who wrote and starred in the series _Feel Good_, opposite Charlotte Ritchie and Lisa Kudrow? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2023/992551.md?page=10)