# Botticelli October 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 3, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437 "2011-10-03T15:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/301 "2011-10-24T19:25:17Z")
1. Male 2. Real person 3. Not American 4. No longer living 5. Not European 6. Alive after 1900 7. Not known for military or political accomplishments ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/302 "2011-10-24T19:26:59Z")
IQ: Were you thrown a gold coin as a generous payment in your youth? IQ: Were you a freedom fighter with a handsome face but no pulse? IQ: Did Ben Stein write admiringly of you when almost no one else did? I don’t know the first two. Since Ben Stein was a speechwriter in the Nixon administration… not Spiro Agnew? If that’s right, you get two DQ’s. If wrong, you get three. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/303 "2011-10-24T20:46:42Z")
IQ: Did you win marathon races both with and without shoes? IQ: Are you a Broadway composer less well remembered as “Hyman Arluck”, your birth name? IQ: Are you a 1930’s-era spy novelist whose works include “A Coffin for Dimitrios” and “Background to Danger”? For the record, I would happily have accepted “Cymbeline” in the previous game along with Cunobelinus or other variants. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/304 "2011-10-24T21:01:09Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > IQ: Did you win marathon races both with and without shoes? Well, that didn’t take long. **YES! I am Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian policeman and the first of many great East African long distance runners. I won the Olympic marathon in 1960 and 1964, once with shoes and once without.** Congratulations, Gael. I was getting used to loooong games! ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/305 "2011-10-24T22:17:15Z")
Thanks. The spy novelist was Eric Ambler and the composer was Harold Arlen. I thought Bikila was least likely of the three to be a stumper, but I suspected he might well be the mystery person. Moving on… R. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/306 "2011-10-24T23:47:32Z")
Are you a heavy metal god who ditched rock and roll entirely to play Renaissance music? Did you bury your own sister alive? Did you spend your childhood at a Catholic industrial school, where you were trained to be a tailor? ---
**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 25, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/307 "2011-10-25T01:09:10Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ: Were you thrown a gold coin as a generous payment in your youth? > > IQ: Were you a freedom fighter with a handsome face but no pulse? > > IQ: Did Ben Stein write admiringly of you when almost no one else did? Abraham Lincoln, as a teenager, was thus paid for rowing two rich men out to a steamboat. Adam Selene, a computer program with a simulated face in Heinlein’s _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_. Anna Nicole Smith, about whom Stein wrote a few years before she died. Congrats to **AppallingGael**! Now it’s R, huh? Thought we’d done that pretty recently. Hmm. IQ: Were you the first Attorney General of the United States? IQ: Did the FBI note your odd reactions to medication late in your career? IQ: Did you play a bad guy in your last Hollywood role? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/308 "2011-10-25T02:33:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Are you a heavy metal god who ditched rock and roll entirely to play Renaissance music? > Did you bury your own sister alive? > Did you spend your childhood at a Catholic industrial school, where you were trained to be a tailor? Giving it the college try… I am not Robert Plant. I am not James Earl Ray. I am not Ralph Lauren. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/309 "2011-10-25T02:46:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Were you the first Attorney General of the United States? > > IQ: Did the FBI note your odd reactions to medication late in your career? > > IQ: Did you play a bad guy in your last Hollywood role? And likewise… I am not Rutledge. I am not Rush Limbaugh (it is late in his career, isn’t it?). I am not Edward G. Robinson. ---
**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 25, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/310 "2011-10-25T04:05:05Z")
The AG was Edmund Randolph. I never heard that the FBI was watching Limbaugh; I was thinking of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. As to the third question, I’ll rephrase: Did you play a bad guy in your last Hollywood role, but lived another 30-some years afterwards? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/311 "2011-10-25T04:15:13Z")
1. Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple abandoned rock music years ago, and plays Renaissance music with his wife. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hki_FEBUwTg/hqdefault.jpg "Blackmore's Night - Renaissance Faire") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hki_FEBUwTg) 2. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher,” Roderick USher buried his sister alive. 3. Babe Ruth was abandoned by his parents and grew up in a Catholic industrial school where he was trained to be a tailor. DQ1: Male? DQ2: Real Person? DQ3: Last name starts with R? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/312 "2011-10-25T05:52:23Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > DQ1: Male? > > DQ2: Real Person? > > DQ3: Last name starts with R? Yes, no and yes. 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name begins with “R” ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/313 "2011-10-25T06:01:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The AG was Edmund Randolph. > > I never heard that the FBI was watching Limbaugh; I was thinking of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. > > As to the third question, I’ll rephrase: Did you play a bad guy in your last Hollywood role, but lived another 30-some years afterwards? I haven’t actually heard it either regarding Limbaugh; I just guessed that the feds probably keep an eye on high-profile drug users for the safety of the citizenry. Of course Edward G. Robinson was often a bad guy, but his last role evidently was as an investigator in “Soylent Green”. Just for fun, I will answer “Ronald Reagan” to the revised version. ---
**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 25, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/314 "2011-10-25T13:21:24Z")
Correct, Ronald Reagan in _The Killers_ (1964): [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/\_dkg\_j2d0CMg/SPD\_z4klkLI/AAAAAAAAA5o/72kH4jX\_vWw/s400/reagan-dickinson-700b.jpg](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dkg_j2d0CMg/SPD_z4klkLI/AAAAAAAAA5o/72kH4jX_vWw/s400/reagan-dickinson-700b.jpg) DQ: American? DQ: Best known as a movie character? IQ: Did a surreal movie give your musical career a boost? IQ: Did you outlive your older brother and play a major role in protecting his company’s interests? IQ: Did you outlive your business partner by many years and write a history of the company you both started? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/315 "2011-10-25T13:44:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQ: American? > > DQ: Best known as a movie character? Thinking about the IQ’s but meantime: 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name begins with “R” 4. American 5. Best known as a movie character ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/316 "2011-10-25T13:48:43Z")
Did you star in a popular sitcom, playing a character that you named after your brother? Were you both the goat of the 1960 World Series and the MVP of the 1962 World Series? Did your best friend win a football scholarship to Wossamotta U.? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/317 "2011-10-25T16:01:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Did a surreal movie give your musical career a boost? > > IQ: Did you outlive your older brother and play a major role in protecting his company’s interests? > > IQ: Did you outlive your business partner by many years and write a history of the company you both started? I am not Keanu Reeves? I am not R. Walton? I am not Mr. Royce? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/318 "2011-10-25T16:03:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did you star in a popular sitcom, playing a character that you named after your brother? > Were you both the goat of the 1960 World Series and the MVP of the 1962 World Series? > Did your best friend win a football scholarship to Wossamotta U.? I am not Ray Romano? I am not Ralph Terry. I am not Rocky J. Squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/319 "2011-10-25T16:09:44Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > I am not Ray Romano? > > I am not Ralph Terry. > > I am not Rocky J. Squirrel. Ralph Terry and Rocket J. Squirrel are absoluely right. Redd Foxx’s real name was John Sanford; Fred Sanford was the name of his his real-life brother, and of the junkman he played on _ **Sanford & Son** _. DQ: Were you a human being from the Planet Earth? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/320 "2011-10-25T16:29:52Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > DQ: Were you a human being from the Planet Earth? 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name begins with “R” 4. American 5. Best known as a movie character 6. _Homo Sapiens_ from Earth [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=17)