# 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:** 17
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/321 "2011-10-25T17:22:53Z")
Did you give up kicking field goals to replace Pat Sajak? Did Ringo Starr leave your band to join the BEatles? Did you famously tell Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor to “Lighten up, Sandy Baby!” ---
**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, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/322 "2011-10-25T17:43:23Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did you give up kicking field goals to replace Pat Sajak? > Did Ringo Starr leave your band to join the BEatles? > Did you famously tell Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor to “Lighten up, Sandy Baby!” I am not Rolf Benirschke, Rory Storm or…William Rehnquist? ---
**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, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/323 "2011-10-25T18:39:51Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > I am not Rolf Benirschke, Rory Storm or…William Rehnquist? Very good on Rolf and Rory… But the guy who got drunk and told a Supreme Court Justice to “Lighten up, Sandy baby” was Washington Redskins star John Riggins. DQ: Did you first appear on the movie screen after 1980? ---
**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, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/324 "2011-10-25T18:48:56Z")
I don’t know how copy/paste works on the computer I am using today, so I am not quoting Astorian’s post but my own. 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name begins with “R” 4. American 5. Best known as a movie character 6. _Homo Sapiens_ from Earth 7. First appeared on movie screen before 1981 ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/325 "2011-10-25T19:07:20Z")
> [@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? Roy Orbison, prominently featured in David Lynch’s _Blue Velvet_. Roy Disney, who served on the Disney board of directors for many years and became “keeper of the flame.” Alvah Roebuck, junior partner of Richard Sears. DQ: Appeared in more than one movie? DQ: Movie came out after 1950? DQ: Action hero? And then… IQ: The father of an even more famous person, are you now thought to have died from syphillis complications? IQ: Did you write “Christmas in Capetown”? IQ: Were you married to a famous movie star, helped that person through a near-fatal illness, but eventually got divorced? ---
**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, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/326 "2011-10-25T19:32:19Z")
Again, can’t copy and paste right now, so…I have appeared in only one movie, which was after 1950, and I am not an action hero. And I want to think about the IQ’s a bit. 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name begins with “R” 4. American 5. Best known as a movie character 6. _Homo Sapiens_ from Earth 7. First appeared on movie screen before 1981 8. Appeared in but one movie 9. Movie was after 1950 10. Not an action hero ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/327 "2011-10-25T19:49:13Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > As for Purdue… I know nothing of the campus or statue, but based on trivial knowledge, I’ll say… not Neil Armstrong? Just for the record, you were right. As for the game now in progress: IQ – Did you appear for a number of years on the Wheaties box? IQ – Although originally a good defensive outfielder, had those skills so eroded toward the end of your career that when forced to play the outfield in one marathon game, you switched between left and right field, depending on to which side the batter was LESS likely to hit the ball? IQ: Were you known as the “Beeg Mon”? ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/328 "2011-10-25T19:58:06Z")
Is one of Bruce Willis’ kids named after you? Did your father name you after the New York City Catholic high school that he (and, for that matter, I myself!) attended? Did a vengeful Ted Danson come back from the dead in a movie you directed? ---
**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 25, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/329 "2011-10-25T20:10:43Z")
IQ: Are you the self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics? IQ: Are you a John Waters alumnus who had your own television show? IQ: Are you a former Prime Minister who appeared on the cover of _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_? ---
**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, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/330 "2011-10-25T22:42:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: The father of an even more famous person, are you now thought to have died from syphillis complications? > > IQ: Did you write “Christmas in Capetown”? > > IQ: Were you married to a famous movie star, helped that person through a near-fatal illness, but eventually got divorced? I am not Robert Kardashian, Will Rogers, or Richard Burton? ---
**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, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/331 "2011-10-25T22:48:34Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ – Did you appear for a number of years on the Wheaties box? > > IQ – Although originally a good defensive outfielder, had those skills so eroded toward the end of your career that when forced to play the outfield in one marathon game, you switched between left and right field, depending on to which side the batter was LESS likely to hit the ball? > > IQ: Were you known as the “Beeg Mon”? I am not Mary Lou Retton, Pete Rose, or…Robert Marley? ---
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/332 "2011-10-25T23:00:24Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Is one of Bruce Willis’ kids named after you? > Did your father name you after the New York City Catholic high school that he (and, for that matter, I myself!) attended? > Did a vengeful Ted Danson come back from the dead in a movie you directed? I am not the eminent Mr. Rumer, Regis Philbin (but Regis himself went to Cardinal Hayes, I believe…didn’t get in to Regis, I guess? At least he wasn’t named “Stuyvesant”), or…George Romero? ---
**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, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/333 "2011-10-25T23:07:21Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Are you the self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics? > > IQ: Are you a John Waters alumnus who had your own television show? > > IQ: Are you a former Prime Minister who appeared on the cover of _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_? I am not Robert Christgau, Ricki Lake or Robert Peel? ---
**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 26, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/334 "2011-10-26T00:40:42Z")
IQ: Are you a power company worker with an unusual fascination with mashed potato sculpting? IQ: Are you the subject of an urban legend involving a rodent in a tight spot? IQ: Are you the subject of an urban legend involving a stomach pump? ---
**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 26, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/335 "2011-10-26T01:20:10Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > I am not Robert Kardashian, Will Rogers, or Richard Burton? Are those just wildass guesses, or do you know that any of them actually fit the IQs ('cause I don’t think they do)? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/336 "2011-10-26T01:25:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Le Ministre de l’au-delà - IQ: A great composer in your own right, did you teach composition to Dmitri Shostakovich? > [@astorian](#): > > Ask a DQ… no idea on this one. Just to clean up - **Alexander Glazunov** was the head of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and was a hugely influential teacher to many Russian composers, of who Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the best known. My apologies - I’ll rejoin you folks in a couple of weeks when I have more time at the computer. My current show is completely eating my life… ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/337 "2011-10-26T01:55:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are those just wildass guesses, or do you know that any of them actually fit the IQs ('cause I don’t think they do)? All wildass guesses. I suppose to be clear I should not combine them that way, so that the ? clearly indicates a guess. But damn, I had high hopes for my Kardashian answer. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/338 "2011-10-26T01:58:52Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Are you a power company worker with an unusual fascination with mashed potato sculpting? > > IQ: Are you the subject of an urban legend involving a rodent in a tight spot? > > IQ: Are you the subject of an urban legend involving a stomach pump? I am not Richard Gere or Rod Stewart (I heard the latter from Michelle R during the 78/79 school year). The first sounds like a TV character, but I don’t know Homer Simpson’s workmates’ names. I guess I don’t have a guess, so ask a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/339 "2011-10-26T03:15:29Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > I am not the eminent Mr. Rumer, Regis Philbin (but Regis himself went to Cardinal Hayes, I believe…didn’t get in to Regis, I guess? At least he wasn’t named “Stuyvesant”), or…George Romero? Correct on Regis Philbin (his Dad went to my high school, Regis himself didn’t) and George Romero (Ted Danson came back from a watery fgrave to kill Leslie Nielsen in Romero’s “Creepshow”). But I have to be picky about “Mr. Rumer.” The answer to the question is Rumer Godden, who was a woman (Willis has only daughters). So, I’ll ask a DQ and let you decide if I deserve one: DQ: Was your movie made in the Seventies? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/340 "2011-10-26T03:30:55Z")
Did you and several classmates at the Charterhouse School form a “Songwriters’ Collective” that evolved into one of the world’s most popular rock groups? Were you the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury? Did you play the evil Bookworm on Adam West’s _ **Batman** _ TV series? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=18)