# Botticelli, Oct. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 30, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516 "2022-09-30T17:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/121 "2022-10-09T18:32:58Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Living 4. Born an American 5. Born after 1950 6. Last name begins with B. 7. Not known for the Arts. 8. Born before 1970. 9. Not known for sports. 10. Yes, known for something media-related. 11. Some degree of fame before 1990, but became much moreso after 1990. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/122 "2022-10-09T18:38:13Z")
IQ1: Did you write _Notes from a Small Island_? IQ2: Did you write _The Mad King_? IQ3: Did you write _Castle of Adventure_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/123 "2022-10-09T18:40:12Z")
I don’t know 2 or 3 but yes! I am **Bill Bryson!!!** Congrats SCAdian! ---
**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:** [October 9, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/124 "2022-10-09T18:52:32Z")
Dammit – I’ve had a ‘B’ in mind for several months now, but I think it’s too soon for another one… 2 and 3 were Edgar Rice Burroughs and Enid Blyton. I am … [![](https://see.fontimg.com/api/renderfont4/G1va/eyJyIjoiZnMiLCJoIjoxNzEsInciOjI2MywiZnMiOjY1LCJmZ2MiOiIjMDAwMDAwIiwiYmdjIjoiI0ZGRkZGRiIsInQiOjF9/8J2UkA/preview.png) ](https://see.fontimg.com/api/renderfont4/G1va/eyJyIjoiZnMiLCJoIjoxNzEsInciOjI2MywiZnMiOjY1LCJmZ2MiOiIjMDAwMDAwIiwiYmdjIjoiI0ZGRkZGRiIsInQiOjF9/8J2UkA/preview.png) ---
**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, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/125 "2022-10-09T19:31:07Z")
Great guess, **SCA**! I’ve heard of Bryson but haven’t read any of his work. ---
**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, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/126 "2022-10-09T19:32:33Z")
IQs: 1. \*Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? 2. Did you write the songs for _The Music Man_? 3. Were you married to Douglas Fairbanks and Buddy Rogers? ---
**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, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/127 "2022-10-09T19:36:12Z")
Congrats! IQs: 1. Did you produce the 80s version of _The Fly_? 2. Do you “fly like paper, get high like planes”? 3. Did you have binders full of women? ---
**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 9, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/128 "2022-10-09T19:36:46Z")
Ha! Good job, **SCA**. I’m listening to an audiobook of Bryson’s _The Mother Tongue_ now, as it happens. Fun and interesting, although his scholarship is not always the best. Previous IQs: Were you a shapeshifter in _The Hobbit_? - Beorn Were you Luthien’s true love? - Beren, in _The Silmarillion_ When asked how you’d so quickly moved up the social ladder, did you reply, “Killed the right people, I guess”? - Bronn, in _Game of Thrones_ On to M. IQs: Did you play two doctors’ mom, a newspaper publisher and a very dangerous Italian woman? Did your son kill you in a 2000 movie? Were you a doctor, a naturalist and a spy? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/129 "2022-10-09T22:51:31Z")
1. Are you the author of the still unfinished Captal’s Tower trilogy? 2. Did you write, among other books, **Nancy and Plum**? 3. Did you play John Winchester in the pilot of **Supernatural**? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/130 "2022-10-10T01:45:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. \*Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? > 2. Did you write the songs for _The Music Man_? > 3. Were you married to Douglas Fairbanks and Buddy Rogers? DQ Not Meredith Willson DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you produce the 80s version of _The Fly_? > 2. Do you “fly like paper, get high like planes”? > 3. Did you have binders full of women? 3 DQs > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you play two doctors’ mom, a newspaper publisher and a very dangerous Italian woman? > Did your son kill you in a 2000 movie? > Were you a doctor, a naturalist and a spy? 3 DQs > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you the author of the still unfinished Captal’s Tower trilogy? > 2. Did you write, among other books, **Nancy and Plum**? > 3. Did you play John Winchester in the pilot of **Supernatural**? \ You, too. Looks like this will be a quick one… ---
**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 10, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/131 "2022-10-10T03:29:27Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 3 DQs 1 was Mel Brooks (really!); 2 was rapper M.I.A., in “Paper Planes”; 3 was Mitt Romney. DQs: 1. real? 2. female? 3. first name begins with M? ---
**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 10, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/132 "2022-10-10T13:49:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. \*Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? > > 2. Did you write the songs for _The Music Man_? > > 3. Were you married to Douglas Fairbanks and Buddy Rogers? > > DQ > Not Meredith Willson > DQ #1 was Montague Summers. Correct on #2. #3 was Mary Pickford. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/133 "2022-10-10T15:19:28Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play two doctors’ mom, a newspaper publisher and a very dangerous Italian woman? - Nancy Marchand, on _Cheers, Lou Grant_ and _The Sopranos_ Did your son kill you in a 2000 movie? - the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, in _Gladiator_ Were you a doctor, a naturalist and a spy? - Dr. Stephen Maturin, in the Napoleonic naval war books of Patrick O’Brian DQs: American? Political/military? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did Winston Churchill appear once, and only once, in a TV show focusing on you? Did you and your wife die in a ‘Salem’s Lot murder/suicide? Were you the nice-guy alien leader in _Galaxy Quest_? ---
**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 10, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/134 "2022-10-10T16:09:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’m listening to an audiobook of Bryson’s _The Mother Tongue_ now, as it happens. Fun and interesting, although his scholarship is not always the best. Belated non-game comment: I utterly hate _The Mother Tongue_, given how twee and smug the writing was. Though I do like his book on Great Britain (_Notes on a Small Island_). ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/135 "2022-10-10T19:26:49Z")
**M** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with M 4. American 5. Not political/military ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/136 "2022-10-10T19:31:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did Winston Churchill appear once, and only once, in a TV show focusing on you? > Did you and your wife die in a ‘Salem’s Lot murder/suicide? > Were you the nice-guy alien leader in _Galaxy Quest_? Not … Montgomery? DQ Not Mathesar ---
**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 10, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/137 "2022-10-10T19:37:56Z")
DQs: 1. Created after 1900? 2. Originally from a work of prose fiction? ---
**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 10, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/138 "2022-10-10T19:41:03Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in the box office dud _Serial_? 2. Were you Barnabas Collins’ housekeeper during his Victorian period? 3. Did you play Nora Charles in _The Thin Man_ series? ---
**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 10, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/139 "2022-10-10T20:28:18Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a strongly anti-communist US senator from Wisconsin? 2. Were you so fine you blew Toni Basil’s mind? 3. Were you in _Death Becomes Her_? ---
**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 11, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516/140 "2022-10-11T02:33:14Z")
Previous IQs: Did Winston Churchill appear once, and only once, in a TV show focusing on you? - Miss Marple Did you and your wife die in a ‘Salem’s Lot murder/suicide? - Hubie Marsden, in the King novel Were you the nice-guy alien leader in _Galaxy Quest_? - Yes, Mathesar DQs: Associated with NYC? From genre fiction (detective, sf, fantasy, etc.)? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you the Red Witch who guided Stannis? Were you just pawn in game of the life? Were you Neo’s mentor? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2022/972516.md?page=8)