# Botticelli - November 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 30, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446 "2024-10-30T12:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/301 "2024-11-22T01:01:24Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased 4. Known for the arts 5. First name begins with E 6. American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1960 9. Not known for performing arts 10. Known for writing 11. Caucasian 12. Best known for fiction, although I wrote more books of non-fiction 13. I have won awards, but maybe not as prestigious as you expect 14. Not known for genre fiction, although you could say his work follows a particular theme 15. Known for adult fiction 16. Died before 2000 17. Last name begins A - L 18. First name begins with Ed ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/302 "2024-11-22T01:03:22Z")
There’s a few DQs still to be used, so I’m shutting down the IQs. I’ll give another day to get them in before revealing my name. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/303 "2024-11-22T01:14:11Z")
I’ll take one of Elendil Heir’s DQs. DQ: Known as an environmentalist? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/304 "2024-11-22T06:35:41Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased 4. Known for the arts 5. First name begins with E 6. American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1960 9. Not known for performing arts 10. Known for writing 11. Caucasian 12. Best known for fiction, although I wrote more books of non-fiction 13. I have won awards, but maybe not as prestigious as you expect 14. Not known for genre fiction, although you could say his work follows a particular theme 15. Known for adult fiction 16. Died before 2000 17. Last name begins A - L 18. First name begins with Ed 19. Known as an environmentalist ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/305 "2024-11-23T15:41:36Z")
This game seems to have stalled. Anyone else want to guess? @kitap ? ---
**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 23, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/306 "2024-11-23T15:55:58Z")
EH’s DQ: Natural death (ie, not murdered, killed in an accident, &c)? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/307 "2024-11-23T17:52:53Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased 4. Known for the arts 5. First name begins with E 6. American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1960 9. Not known for performing arts 10. Known for writing 11. Caucasian 12. Best known for fiction, although I wrote more books of non-fiction 13. I have won awards, but maybe not as prestigious as you expect 14. Not known for genre fiction, although you could say his work follows a particular theme 15. Known for adult fiction 16. Died before 2000 17. Last name begins A - L 18. First name begins with Ed 19. Known as an environmentalist 20. Died under natural circumstances ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/308 "2024-11-23T18:37:38Z")
Are you Edward Abbey? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/309 "2024-11-23T18:50:32Z")
**YES!!** I am **Edward Abbey** , writer and fervent outdoorsman who’s best-selling novel, _The Monkey Wrench Gang_, inspired the eco-terrorist movement and the establishment of Earth First!, a radical environmental advocacy group. [![](https://www.nps.gov/arch/learn/historyculture/images/abbey-from-stiles.jpg) ](https://www.nps.gov/arch/learn/historyculture/images/abbey-from-stiles.jpg) Good job, **kitap**! ---
**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 23, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/310 "2024-11-23T19:38:24Z")
Yes, well done, **kitap**! I recognize the name but couldn’t have come up with it. ---
**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 23, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/311 "2024-11-23T21:44:25Z")
Never heard of him. ---
**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 23, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/312 "2024-11-23T21:53:57Z")
I have heard of him, but wouldn’t have guessed him. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/313 "2024-11-23T22:01:14Z")
Heard of him, but never would have come to mind. The one thng I thought I had read by him was actually from John McPhee. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/314 "2024-11-23T22:02:07Z")
_The Monkey Wrench Gang_ is a great read. > **[The Monkey Wrench Gang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang)** > > The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975. > Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench," often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosyste... ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/315 "2024-11-23T22:19:08Z")
You’ll always see his books at bookstores here in Tucson, especially at places like the National Park bookstores. Hmmmmm… I am **C** As in cat, chrome and cream. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/316 "2024-11-23T22:37:58Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play an eventually temporally displaced cetacean biologist? 2. Was your first work of literature published by the Naval Institute Press? 3. Are you the Latino hero of some of #2s novels? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/317 "2024-11-23T23:25:13Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a member of a well-known rock band who joined your former bandmate to perform under the name “Willy and the Poor Boys”? 2. According to the author’s widow, were you originally intended to be a black kid? 3. Was your tomb was engraved with the image of a tenor saxophone, although you’re primarily associated with the alto saxophone? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/318 "2024-11-24T00:47:28Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play an eventually temporally displaced cetacean biologist? > 2. Was your first work of literature published by the Naval Institute Press? > 3. Are you the Latino hero of some of #2s novels? I am not Catherine Hicks. Or was she Catherine Hickland? I never remember. I am not Clive Cussler. Take a DQ. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a member of a well-known rock band who joined your former bandmate to perform under the name “Willy and the Poor Boys”? > 2. According to the author’s widow, were you originally intended to be a black kid? > 3. Was your tomb was engraved with the image of a tenor saxophone, although you’re primarily associated with the alto saxophone? Take a DQ, I am not Charlie Brown, take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/319 "2024-11-24T01:02:02Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you play an eventually temporally displaced cetacean biologist? > > 2. Was your first work of literature published by the Naval Institute Press? > > 3. Are you the Latino hero of some of #2s novels? > > I am not Catherine Hicks. Or was she Catherine Hickland? I never remember. I am not Clive Cussler. Take a DQ. Catherine Hicks is correct. #2 was Tom Clancy. #3 was Domingo Chavez. DQs: Real? Male? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/320 "2024-11-24T01:09:25Z")
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