# 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:** 18
**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, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/341 "2011-10-26T04:30:44Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 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? You’ve certainly earned a DQ; I simply gambled that Mr. or Ms. Rumer was more likely to be right than Rumer Smith. My movie was not made in the Seventies. 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 11. Movie was not made in the 1970’s ---
**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, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/342 "2011-10-26T04:34:26Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 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? I am not Roger Waters? I am not Ridley. I am not Roddy McDowell. ---
**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, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/343 "2011-10-26T08:39:22Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Are you a power company worker with an unusual fascination with mashed potato sculpting? > [@AppallingGael](#): > > 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. You are not Roy Neary, the main character played by Richard Dreyfuss in _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ DQ: Did the movie in which you appeared win any Academy Awards? IQ: Is your best known line “I’m walking here”? IQ: Did Van Halen, The Jam, and The Pretenders all release singles written by you within the 12 month period Feb 1978-Jan 1979? IQ: Does an urban legend claim your boss had you killed because you wanted to quit? ---
**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, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/344 "2011-10-26T13:28:57Z")
> [@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? Neither Robert Kardashian, Will Rogers, nor Richard Burton. Rather, 'twas Winston Churchill’s dad Randolph, composer Randy Newman, and author Roald Dahl, once married to Patricia Neal. DQ: Were you the protagonist of that movie? DQ: Movie released 1960-69? DQ: Comedy? Then… IQ: Long ago, were you somewhat gullible but have a useful affinity for birds? IQ: Were you a clergyman known for your Pittsburgh roots but have a small apartment in NYC? IQ: Were you the dimwitted younger brother of a man trying to atone for past misdeeds? ---
**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, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/345 "2011-10-26T13:41:48Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > I am not Roger Waters? > > I am not Ridley. > > I am not Roddy McDowell. Roddy mcDowell is absolutely right. Mike Rutherford formed a songwriters collective with classmates Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel- this group eventually became the band Genesis. And Reginald Pole was the last Archbishop of Canterbury who was loyal to the Roman Catholic Church. DQ1: Did the person who played you win an Oscar for his performance? DQ2: Were you still alive at the end of the movie? ---
**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, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/346 "2011-10-26T17:52:12Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > DQ: Did the movie in which you appeared win any Academy Awards? > > IQ: Is your best known line “I’m walking here”? > > IQ: Did Van Halen, The Jam, and The Pretenders all release singles written by you within the 12 month period Feb 1978-Jan 1979? > > IQ: Does an urban legend claim your boss had you killed because you wanted to quit? Yes, Yes, I am Enrico Salvatore “Ratso” Rizzo, I am not Ray Davies? and I don’t know. Good job! ---
**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, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/347 "2011-10-26T17:56:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Long ago, were you somewhat gullible but have a useful affinity for birds? > > IQ: Were you a clergyman known for your Pittsburgh roots but have a small apartment in NYC? > > IQ: Were you the dimwitted younger brother of a man trying to atone for past misdeeds? It’s solved, but I’d guess Robert Stroud for the first, the second is Fred Rogers and I don’t know #3. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/348 "2011-10-26T18:30:17Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > 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”? > [@AppallingGael](#): > > I am not Mary Lou Retton, Pete Rose, or…Robert Marley? Retton’s not who I had in mind for the first, although she certainly qualifies. I’ll save my choice for a future round. Rusty Staub was the outfielder who had been relegated to pinch-hitting duty before his emergency outfield appearance, which the third paragraph of [this page](http://www.metstoday.com/6134/spring-training-countdown/10-dupacr-rusty-staub/) describes. Baseball’s “Beeg Mon” was Rico Carty. Congratulations to **ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness**! Awaiting next challenge… ---
**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, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/349 "2011-10-26T21:44:49Z")
Woo-hoo!! Ratso Rizzo just popped into my head when I came up with the Academy Award DQ. Correct on Ray Davies. The “killed by boss” rumor referred to Randy Rhodes, Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist in the early 1980s. The urban legend, which was really more at the level of “stupid shit teenagers say to each other” rather than a full-blown urban legend, was that Ozzy used his occult powers to put a curse on Rhodes when Rhodes said he was going to quit the band to go to college. Said curse caused the plane crash that killed Rhodes. OK…Next round will be… **M** ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/350 "2011-10-27T01:52:32Z")
After 42 years, does Jimmy Orr still tell you, “I WAS WIDE OPEN”? Do you often butt heads with Arthur Tragg? Did the Beatles old Hamburg pal Klaus Voorman play bass in your band? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/351 "2011-10-27T02:39:13Z")
IQ: Are you an eponym for a 1 in 5 success rate? IQ: Did you turn into a lover (and mother, what a lover, you wore me out)? IQ: Did you star in a series of spy novels by John Marquand? ---
**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 27, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/352 "2011-10-27T03:49:08Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > It’s solved, but I’d guess Robert Stroud for the first, the second is Fred Rogers and I don’t know #3. Dunno if Stroud was considered gullible… but I was thinking of Radagast the Brown from LOTR. Correct as to the Rev. Fred Rogers. The third (the dimwitted younger brother of a man trying to atone for past misdeeds) was Randy Hickey, brother of Earl from _My Name is Earl._ Congrats to **ChockFull**! M, eh…? IQ: Did the actor who played your brother once date the actress who played your and his mom? IQ: In your most recent TV hit, did you always put on your suit coat in such a way that everything would (in real life) have fallen out of your pockets? IQ: Did JFK ruefully say of your dad, “Well, we all have fathers, don’t we?” ---
**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 27, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/353 "2011-10-27T09:35:07Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > After 42 years, does Jimmy Orr still tell you, “I WAS WIDE OPEN”? > > Do you often butt heads with Arthur Tragg? > > Did the Beatles old Hamburg pal Klaus Voorman play bass in your band? I am not Manfred Mann. Take DQs for the other 2. > [@AppallingGael](#): > > IQ: Are you an eponym for a 1 in 5 success rate? > > IQ: Did you turn into a lover (and mother, what a lover, you wore me out)? > > IQ: Did you star in a series of spy novels by John Marquand? I am not Maggie May. Don’t know the other 2. Two more DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Did the actor who played your brother once date the actress who played your and his mom? > > IQ: In your most recent TV hit, did you always put on your suit coat in such a way that everything would (in real life) have fallen out of your pockets? > > IQ: Did JFK ruefully say of your dad, “Well, we all have fathers, don’t we?” Well, I am not Martin Luther King Jr. Once again, take 2 DQs. Yikes. I’m batting .333 - wait, that’s good for baseball.. yeah,that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/354 "2011-10-27T11:12:16Z")
Nice job on Manfred Mann. 1. Fictional lawyer Perry Mason was often at odds with Lieutenant Tragg of the LAPD. 2. In Super Bowl 3, Colts receiver Jimmy Orr was wide open in the end zone, waving his arms frantically… but quarterback Earl Morrall didn’t see him and threw an interception in the opposite direction. Rightly or wrongly, Colts fans are convinced to this day that, if Earl had just thrown to Orr, the entire game would have gone differently. DQ1: Real person? DQ2: Male? ---
**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 27, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/355 "2011-10-27T13:01:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > … > IQ: Did the actor who played your brother once date the actress who played your and his mom? > > IQ: In your most recent TV hit, did you always put on your suit coat in such a way that everything would (in real life) have fallen out of your pockets? > > IQ: Did JFK ruefully say of your dad, “Well, we all have fathers, don’t we?” The actor who played Greg Brady, brother of Marcia, once dated Florence Henderson, who played their mom. Martin Sheen in _The West Wing_ had that odd way of putting on his coat, swooping it upside-down over his head. JFK did indeed say that about MLK’s dad after MLK Sr. said he ordinarily wouldn’t vote for a Catholic, but would after JFK made a call late in the 1960 campaign to get MLK released from jail. DQs: American? Living in 2011 (whether or not fictional)? IQ: Were you a Wild West personality with a nightflying nickname? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/356 "2011-10-27T14:13:05Z")
Did your wife create the game show “Wheel of Fortune,” which she based on Hangman? Did you appear in seven World Series during the 1960s? Were you the anonymous benefactor of a poor young man in a classic 19th century novel? ---
**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 27, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/357 "2011-10-27T16:30:01Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > DQ1: Real person? > > DQ2: Male? 1. No 2. Yes > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The actor who played Greg Brady, brother of Marcia, once dated Florence Henderson, who played their mom. Talk about a brain fart. I remembered that story, but thought “Mike Brady!!..no, wait, Mike was the Dad…uh, Greg, Peter, Bobby… no other M’s… must be a different show or movie”. Completely overlooked the girls. > [@](#): > > DQs: > American? > Living in 2011 (whether or not fictional)? No Yes > [@](#): > > IQ: Were you a Wild West personality with a nightflying nickname? Bat? Owl?..Take a DQ > [@astorian](#): > > Did your wife create the game show “Wheel of Fortune,” which she based on Hangman? > Did you appear in seven World Series during the 1960s? > Were you the anonymous benefactor of a poor young man in a classic 19th century novel? No, I am not Merv Griffin? I know he created Jeopardy. Sports _sigh_…Not Mickey Mantle?? (WAG) No, I am not Magwich, Pip’s benefactor in Dicken’s _Great Expectations_. Thank you High School Freshman English Recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/358 "2011-10-27T16:44:09Z")
Merv Griffin and Magwich are 100% correct- impressive! But the guy who played in 7 World Series in the Sixties was not Mickey Mantle’s but Mantle’s pal Roger Maris. Maris played in the World Series with the Yankees from 1960-64, and then with the St. Louis Cardinalls in 1967 and 1968. DQ: Does your first name start with “M”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/359 "2011-10-27T16:49:45Z")
Did you win the first-ever “Best Album” Grammy with theme music you wrote for a TV series? Were you named by your communist parents after a Mexican revolutionary leader? Were you an impressionist who made the last comedy record to win the Grammy for “Best Album”? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/360 "2011-10-27T20:09:13Z")
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