# Botticelli - Oct. 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 5, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262 "2020-10-05T13:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/121 "2020-10-09T15:33:43Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name does not start with L 5. Not American 6. Known for the Arts 7. Not known for acting 8. European 9. Not an artist 10. Not known from TV/Film at all 11. British 12. Widely celebrated and commemorated, but did not win prizes as such 13. Died before 1950 14. Died before 1900 15. Not an -ographer of some sort. 16. Known for writing 17. Not English 18. Novelist 19. Died after 1800 20. Scottish 21. Novels have been adapted to film. 22. Known by full name ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/122 "2020-10-09T17:41:47Z")
Are you Robert Louis Stevenson? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/123 "2020-10-09T18:25:54Z")
[![](https://www.sundaypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/59ab0638a993e-e1504382579979.jpg) ](https://www.sundaypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/09/59ab0638a993e-e1504382579979.jpg) Yes, I am! Good job, KO! ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/124 "2020-10-09T18:26:44Z")
Congrats @Knowed_Out! ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/125 "2020-10-09T20:02:31Z")
Allrighty then. Let’s go with **B**. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/126 "2020-10-09T20:38:15Z")
Of course! I’d forgotten middle names were fair game. Well played all. IQ1: Did you paint The Birth of Venus? IQ2: Did you famously write a book on ornithology? IQ3: Are you a confectioner both loved and hated for your most famous product? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/127 "2020-10-09T20:56:53Z")
Wrapping up the last round… > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ3: Are you a composer given a prominent shout-out in REM’s 1987 hit “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)”? Leonard Bernstein. As detailed in [this cartoon](https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=pearls+before+swine+rem+leonard+bernstein&client=firefox-b-1-e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJtsqusajsAhVOXq0KHXYHBp8QjJkEegQIChAB&biw=1598&bih=802#imgrc=i9V0jAuuAYD0dM). Good one. I always forget about middle names. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/128 "2020-10-09T21:36:10Z")
IQ1: Are you part of a pair of children’s book authors where confusion over the spelling of your name is frequently cited as an example of the Mandela effect? IQ2: Are you a drummer mainly known for being fired from your band before it became successful? IQ3: Did you defend Heorot from Grendel and Grendel’s mother? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/129 "2020-10-09T22:00:42Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > IQ1: Did you paint The Birth of Venus? > IQ2: Did you famously write a book on ornithology? > IQ3: Are you a confectioner both loved and hated for your most famous product? Not Botticelli, DQ, not Betty Crocker? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/130 "2020-10-09T22:03:36Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you part of a pair of children’s book authors where confusion over the spelling of your name is frequently cited as an example of the Mandela effect? > IQ2: Are you a drummer mainly known for being fired from your band before it became successful? > IQ3: Did you defend Heorot from Grendel and Grendel’s mother? not Beatrix Potter? not Pete Best, not Beowulf ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/131 "2020-10-09T22:28:54Z")
Congrats, Knowed Out! IQs: 1. Are you the amorphous title character of a 1958 sci-fi/horror film? 2. Did you spend a great many pages to prove that 1+1=2? 3. Are you the author of _Animalia_, _The Eleventh Hour_, and other picture books? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/132 "2020-10-09T23:02:41Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you part of a pair of children’s book authors where confusion over the spelling of your name is frequently cited as an example of the Mandela effect? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Beatrix Potter? not Pete Best, not Beowulf #1 - Jan and Stan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears. Many people insist the books they had as kids spelled it “Berenstein”. Correct on the other two. DQ1: Real? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/133 "2020-10-10T01:41:28Z")
Good job, **K\_O**! Previous IQs: Were you killed by crossbow in a privy? - Tywin Lannister, in _Game of Thrones_ Were you a son of that guy? - His murderer, Tyrion Were you, too? - His oldest son, Jaime Middle names are indeed fair game in Botticelli _if_ routinely used to refer to the person in question, like Robert Louis Stevenson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. or Aimee Semple McPherson, for example. On to B. IQs: Were you appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Jimmy Carter? Were you appointed to the Sixth Circuit by George H.W. Bush? A former lawyer for the Mayo Clinic, were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/134 "2020-10-10T03:25:44Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Are you the amorphous title character of a 1958 sci-fi/horror film? > 2. Did you spend a great many pages to prove that 1+1=2? > 3. Are you the author of _Animalia_ , _The Eleventh Hour_ , and other picture books? Not the Blob, DQ x 2 ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/135 "2020-10-10T03:26:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Jimmy Carter? > Were you appointed to the Sixth Circuit by George H.W. Bush? > A former lawyer for the Mayo Clinic, were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon? not Bebe Rebozo, DQ x 2 ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/136 "2020-10-10T03:27:40Z")
DQ Roundup for **B** 1. Fictional ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/137 "2020-10-10T03:28:14Z")
IQs 1. Did you play the naive older housemate in a comedy that 30 years later has a cult like following? 2. Were you the number one pin up during WWII? 3. Are you a fictional character from Minnesota found on millions of grocery store items? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/138 "2020-10-10T04:18:53Z")
Previous IQs: Were you appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Jimmy Carter? - Ruth Bader Ginsburg Were you appointed to the Sixth Circuit by George H.W. Bush? - Alice M. Batchelder A former lawyer for the Mayo Clinic, were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon? - Harry Blackmun, who eventually wrote the majority decision in _Roe v. Wade_ DQs: Male? Last name start with B? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Were you Lincoln’s AG? Were you JFK’s national security advisor? Did you paint, among other things, the emergence of Venus from a giant clamshell? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/139 "2020-10-10T05:51:22Z")
IQ1: Are you an Metallica T-shirt wearing teen who thinks everything either “sucks” or is “cool”? IQ2: Are you the above’s AC/DC shirt wearing best friend? IQ3: Did you play a Bond girl and later marry a Beatle? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2020, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262/140 "2020-10-10T07:31:15Z")
Correct on Botticelli, of course. The ornithologist was James Bond, famous because that was how Fleming chose the name of his best known character. And the confectioner is the fictional Bertie Bott from Harry Potter, known for his Every Flavour Beans. DQ1: First appeared in print? DQ2: First appeared before 1930? IQ1: Are you one of the farmers in Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox? IQ2: Were you a market stall trader who sold Slade’s Noddy Holder his famous hat before striking the big time as a rock star yourself? IQ3: Did you die while leaning against the mantelpiece “just to prove it could be done” (at least, according to Douglas Adams)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2020/922262.md?page=8)