# 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:** 19
**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/361 "2011-10-27T20:15:54Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > I am not Maggie May. Don’t know the other 2. Two more DQs. The “Mendoza line” was named for Mario Mendoza, a 1970’s shortstop whose batting average tended to hover about the .200 mark. John Marquand authored the Mr. Moto books. DQ1: Are you known primarily as either a TV or movie character? I will reserve #2 for now. ---
**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, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/362 "2011-10-27T20:18:09Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > DQ: Does your first name start with “M”? No > [@astorian](#): > > 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”? Henry Mancini? I know the Peter Gunn soundtrack won a Grammy, but I don’t if it was the first one. No clue on the 2nd (Madero was a leader, but I don’t know if anyone was named after him. Zapata and Pancho Villa are the only other revolutionaries that come to mind). Take a DQ #3: Another DQ for you. I’m guessing it was the Kennedy album that was a big hit when released but got pulled from stores after the assassination, but I can’t remember who recorded it. Recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 5. First name does not start with M ---
**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, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/363 "2011-10-27T20:29:25Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you a baseball player whose middle name was Morning? > > IQ: Did you write the book _Pitching in a Pinch_? > > IQ: Are you depicted in the painting _Washington Crossing the Delaware_? Yeesh! 3 DQs for you. > [@AppallingGael](#): > > DQ1: Are you known primarily as either a TV or movie character? Yes. Recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 5. First name does not start with M 6. Known primarily as a TV or 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 27, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/364 "2011-10-27T20:35:06Z")
Nice going on Henry Mancini- yes, his “Music From Peter Gunn” won the first “Best Album” Grammy. And even though you didn’t remember the name, you were on the right track for the comedy album. Impressionist Vaughn Meader won the Grammy for the comedy album “First Family,” which spoofed the Kennedy clan. Finally, Italian fascist Benito Mussolini was named after Benito Juarez, who led the Mexican rebellion against the emperor Maximilian. DQ1: Are you a character from a TV series? DQ2: Are you played by a flesh and blood actor, and not an animated character? ---
**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, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/365 "2011-10-27T21:01:13Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > DQ1: Are you a character from a TV series? > > DQ2: Are you played by a flesh and blood actor, and not an animated character? No Yes and no. That is, I’m usually played by a flesh and blood actor, but I have appeared in at least one animated work Recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 5. First name does not start with M 6. Known primarily as a TV or movie character 7. Not a character from a TV series 8. Usually played by flesh and blood actor, but has also been an animated character ---
**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, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/366 "2011-10-27T21:25:12Z")
Did you succeed Sam Houston as Presidnet of the independent Republic of Texas? Did your character undermine Captain Queeg, and bring about the Caine Mutiny? Are you a theologian who was mentioned in Paul McCartney’s hit “Let 'em In”? ---
**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 28, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/367 "2011-10-28T00:20:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQ: Were you a Wild West personality with a nightflying nickname? Bat Masterson. You didn’t have his last name, so I think I get a DQ. DQ: Are you the favorite TV character of a TV dad’s sisters-in-law? And then: IQ: Were you an American WWII general whose first and last names rhymed? IQ: Did you wear fur in your only _Star Trek_ appearance? IQ: Did a coworker pretend to barf when greeting your character by radio in a major sf film? ---
**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 28, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/368 "2011-10-28T00:20:59Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did you succeed Sam Houston as Presidnet of the independent Republic of Texas? > Did your character undermine Captain Queeg, and bring about the Caine Mutiny? > Are you a theologian who was mentioned in Paul McCartney’s hit “Let 'em In”? #1: Don’t know, take a DQ. #2: No, I am not Fred MacMurray #3: Damn it, you forced me to replay the chorus in my head until I got to Martin Luther…Phil and Don…Uncle Ernie…Auntie Jin…PLEASE PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!I"M NOT MARTIN LUTHER OK?? YOU HAPPY??? GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD NOW!!! That has to be my second most loathed Macca song, topped only by “Wonderful Christmastime” (there, take that… you started it.. oh man, here comes that damn flute part again…) ---
**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 28, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/369 "2011-10-28T00:36:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Bat Masterson. You didn’t have his last name, so I think I get a DQ. > > DQ: Are you the favorite TV character of a TV dad’s sisters-in-law? That seems more like an IQ than a DQ, but no, I am not MacGyver, the favorite character of Patty and Selma Bouvier. > [@](#): > > IQ: Were you an American WWII general whose first and last names rhymed? > > IQ: Did you wear fur in your only _Star Trek_ appearance? > > IQ: Did a coworker pretend to barf when greeting your character by radio in a major sf film? #1: Not MacArthur or Marshall… I don’t know, take a DQ. #2: No, I am not Mariette Hartley from _All Our Yesterdays_ #3: I vaguely remember the scene.. was it Mary Elizabeth Mastrano (I’m sure I spelled that wrong), who played Ed Harris’ ex-wife in _The Abyss_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/370 "2011-10-28T02:09:30Z")
Mirabeau Lamar, undoubtedly Hedley’s brother, was President of Texas. DQ: Are you regarded as a sci-fi/fantasy character? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/371 "2011-10-28T02:12:35Z")
Are you a giraffe who sounds a lot like Ross from “Friends”? Were you the winningest pitcher of the 1960s, even though you never won a single Cy Young Award? Did you sing lead on the first #1 hit single ever written by John Denver? ---
**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 28, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/372 "2011-10-28T03:02:00Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > That seems more like an IQ than a DQ, but no, I am not MacGyver, the favorite character of Patty and Selma Bouvier. :smack: Yes, that was an IQ, and yes, you got it correct. Here’s the DQ I meant to ask: DQ: Comedy role? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > #1: Not MacArthur or Marshall… I don’t know, take a DQ. > > #2: No, I am not Mariette Hartley from _All Our Yesterdays_ > > #3: I vaguely remember the scene.. was it Mary Elizabeth Mastrano (I’m sure I spelled that wrong), who played Ed Harris’ ex-wife in _The Abyss_? 1. Mark Clark, the goat of the Battle of Anzio, later superintendent of The Citadel. Correct as to the other two (I believe it’s Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). Well done! DQ: Movie which came out since 1980? And then… IQ: Did you meet your top leader just once, on a Pacific island in the 1950s? IQ: Did you sing “Poor Wand’ring One”? IQ: Did you write a book about your extensive pin collection? ---
**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 28, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/373 "2011-10-28T07:35:29Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > DQ: Are you regarded as a sci-fi/fantasy character? I don’t know about “regarded as” but I will say yes > [@astorian](#): > > Are you a giraffe who sounds a lot like Ross from “Friends”? > Were you the winningest pitcher of the 1960s, even though you never won a single Cy Young Award? > Did you sing lead on the first #1 hit single ever written by John Denver? No, I am not Melman from the Madagascar movies. Take 2 DQs for the other 2. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Here’s the DQ I meant to ask: > > DQ: Comedy role? It’s borderline, but I’ll say yes. > [@](#): > > DQ: Movie which came out since 1980? > > And then… > > IQ: Did you meet your top leader just once, on a Pacific island in the 1950s? > > IQ: Did you sing “Poor Wand’ring One”? > > IQ: Did you write a book about your extensive pin collection? Yes to the DQ. I’ll take a wild stab at the first IQ and guess Audie Murphy? No clue on the other two. Take 2 (or more likely 3) DQs. Recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 5. First name does not start with M 6. Known primarily as a TV or movie character 7. Not a character from a TV series 8. Usually played by flesh and blood actor, but has also been an animated character 9. Science fiction/fantasy element to my character 10. Role comic in nature 11. In movie which came out since 1980 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/374 "2011-10-28T13:29:48Z")
Yes, you got Melman Mankiiewicz, the giraffe from “Madagascar.” Juan Marichal was the winningest pitcher of the Sixties, but never won a Cy Young Award (someone like Koufax or Gibson always seemed to have a slightly better year than he did). And the first #1 single written by John Denver was “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” sung by Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary fame. 1. Did you appear in a comic book or graphic novel before appearing in a movie? 2. Are you a sidekick or supporting character, rather than the star of your movies? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/375 "2011-10-28T13:42:17Z")
Did you write the only big hit for Linda Ronstadt’s first band, the Stone Poneys? Did you train and study for years to become a rabbi, and then abandon that career to become a standup comedian? Did your killer’s lawyer offer what’s been described as “the Twinkie Defense”? ---
**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 28, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/376 "2011-10-28T19:20:45Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 1. Did you appear in a comic book or graphic novel before appearing in a movie? > > 2. Are you a sidekick or supporting character, rather than the star of your movies? 1. No 2. Not the star of the movie I was in, but have been the central character of other appearances > [@astorian](#): > > Did you write the only big hit for Linda Ronstadt’s first band, the Stone Poneys? > Did you train and study for years to become a rabbi, and then abandon that career to become a standup comedian? > > Did your killer’s lawyer offer what’s been described as “the Twinkie Defense”? No idea for #1 - Another DQ #2 - Let’s see, I can narrow it down to a Jewish standup comedian 😛 WAG - I am not Mel Brooks? #3 I am not Harvey Milk Recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 5. First name does not start with M 6. Known primarily as a TV or movie character 7. Not a character from a TV series 8. Usually played by flesh and blood actor, but has also been an animated character 9. Science fiction/fantasy element to my character 10. Role comic in nature 11. In movie which came out since 1980 12. Did not appear in comic book or graphic novel before appearing in a movie 13. Not the star of the movie I was in, but have been the central character of other appearances ---
**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 28, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/377 "2011-10-28T20:24:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Did you meet your top leader just once, on a Pacific island in the 1950s? > > IQ: Did you sing “Poor Wand’ring One”? > > IQ: Did you write a book about your extensive pin collection? Douglas MacArthur and Harry Truman met just once, on Wake Island, I believe in 1951. Mabel in _The Pirates of Penzance_ warbled that famous love song. Former SecState Madeleine Albright wrote a book about all of her pins: [Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/Read-My-Pins-Stories-Diplomats/dp/0060899182/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319833313&sr=1-1) DQs: Alien, nonhuman or superhuman in any way? Movie intended primarily for kids? Movie came out since 1995? IQs: Did you have a private Catholic chapel built in your home since 1900? Did you joke that it would be more fun to hang out in Hell than in Heaven? Were you a famous TV mom who later came out as a lesbian? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/378 "2011-10-28T20:32:46Z")
Harvey Milk is correct. Michael Nesmith of the Monkees wrote the Stone Poneys’ one big hit, “Different Drum.” And Jackie Mason, who comes from a family of rabbis, was a rabbi himself before turning to comedy. I’ll save my two DQs until I see the other answers. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/379 "2011-10-28T20:35:56Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you a baseball player whose middle name was Morning? > > IQ: Did you write the book _Pitching in a Pinch_? > > IQ: Are you depicted in the painting _Washington Crossing the Delaware_? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Yeesh! 3 DQs for you. Maurice Morning “Maury” Wills was a shortstop and base stealer for the Dodgers. Early 20th-century New York Giant Christy Mathewson was the author. In the boat along with Washington is another Virginian and eventual president – James Monroe. DQ: Were you created by a European? DQ: Have you been played by more than one actor as a flesh-and-blood character? DQ: Are you a father in any of your appearances? Saving IQ’s as we’re getting close to the DQ limit and I want to see if my hunch is anywhere in the ballpark. ---
**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 28, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/380 "2011-10-28T22:21:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > Alien, nonhuman or superhuman in any way? > Movie intended primarily for kids? > Movie came out since 1995? > > IQs: > Did you have a private Catholic chapel built in your home since 1900? > Did you joke that it would be more fun to hang out in Hell than in Heaven? > Were you a famous TV mom who later came out as a lesbian? DQs No Yes No IQs I am not Meredith Baxter-Birney from _Family Ties_. Take DQs for the other 2 > [@Sternvogel](#): > > DQ: Were you created by a European? > > DQ: Have you been played by more than one actor as a flesh-and-blood character? > DQ: Are you a father in any of your appearances? no yes no Recap: M 1. Not a real person 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Living in 2011 5. First name does not start with M 6. Known primarily as a TV or movie character 7. Not a character from a TV series 8. Usually played by flesh and blood actor, but has also been an animated character 9. Science fiction/fantasy element to my character 10. Role comic in nature 11. In movie which came out since 1980 12. Did not appear in comic book or graphic novel before appearing in a movie 13. Not the star of the movie I was in, but have been the central character of other appearances 14. Not alien, non-human, or superhuman in any way 15. In movie primarily intended for kids. 16. Movie did not come out after 1995 17. Not created by a European 18. Played by more than one actor as flesh-and-blood character 19. Not a father in any of my appearances [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=20)