# 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:** 8
**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 12, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/141 "2011-10-12T14:30:09Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > IQ: Did Gary Sinise play you in a movie? No, I’m not George Wallace. > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Were you the first French Canadian Prime Minister of Canada? Ooo, I should know that. Take a DQ. > [@astorian](#): > > Has Jeff Pearlman just written a tell-all book about you? > > Do you save America from a fascist future, in Philip Roth’s _The Plot Against America?_ > > Do you try to catch 200 pound catfish in the Amazon? I don’t know the first and third. As to the second, no, I’m not Henry Wallace. > [@AppallingGael](#): > > IQ: Did you star as James Thurber in the TV series “My World, and Welcome to It”? > > IQ: Were you the lead singer of the punk group the Plasmatics? > > IQ: Did you have a regular table at the Stork Club? No, I’m not William Windom, Wendy Williams or Walter Winchell. Way to go for the double Ws, **AppallingGael**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/142 "2011-10-12T15:00:24Z")
Jeff Pearlman just wrote a tell-all book about football star Walter Payton. The hero of Philip Roth’s preposterous "The Plot Against America " is radio reporter Walter Winchell, the only man who dared oppose fascist President Charles Lindbergh. Englishman Jeremy Wade (my son’s hero) is the star of the TV series “River Monsters,” on which he catches enormous fish in the Amazon, the Congo, and assorted rivers around the world. DQ1: Real person? DQ2: Male? DQ3: Does your Last name begin with W? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/143 "2011-10-12T15:06:18Z")
Do you check every night if all the kids in town are sleeping? Were you a blue-faced warrior in a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar? Did you sing several #1 hits together with your brothers, and then sire two sisters who ALSO sang a #1 hit together? ---
**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 12, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/144 "2011-10-12T15:18:13Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Do you check every night if all the kids in town are sleeping? > > Were you a blue-faced warrior in a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar? > > Did you sing several #1 hits together with your brothers, and then sire two sisters who ALSO sang a #1 hit together? Dunno about the first and third; the second is from _Avatar_, I guess, but I don’t know the name. Take three DQs. W. 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with “W” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/145 "2011-10-12T15:42:01Z")
Answers: 1. "Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town/Upstairs, downstairs, in his nightgown/Rapping at the windows, crying through the locks/“Are the children in their beds? For now it’s 8 o’clock.” 2. Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart” was about Scottish warrior William Wallace, whose face was painted blue in battle scenes. 3. Brian Wilson sang with his brothers Carl and Dennis in the Beach Boys. Two of his daughters were in Wilson Phillips, who sang the #1 hit “Hold On.” DQ1: Are you human? DQ2: Have you appeared in a movie? DQ3: Is your creator American? ---
**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 12, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/146 "2011-10-12T16:02:13Z")
I just realized I could’ve answered “Sam Worthington, from _Avatar_,” and I would’ve been right, too! But no matter. W. 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with “W” 4. Human 5. Appeared in a movie 6. Created by an American ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/147 "2011-10-12T17:31:59Z")
IQ: Did you have a secret life in a Thurber story? ---
**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 12, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/148 "2011-10-12T17:39:07Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Did you have a secret life in a Thurber story? Another Thurber question! No, I’m not Walter Mitty. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/149 "2011-10-12T17:45:40Z")
Oh well, so much for that idea of getting it on six clues… IQ: Is your real first name Clerow? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/150 "2011-10-12T18:59:02Z")
IQ: Was your movie based on a TV sketch? IQ: Was your character a grumpy ex-Vietnam vet? !Q: Did your character like to bowl? ---
**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 12, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/151 "2011-10-12T20:10:18Z")
IQ: Are you a Best Actor winner who served as Ronald Reagan’s Best Man at his wedding to Nancy? IQ: Did you write and direct a film narrated by a corpse? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/152 "2011-10-12T20:23:48Z")
When you weren’t working as an insurance executive, did you write poems like “The Emperor of Ice Cream”? Was your maiden name Slaghoople? Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today? ---
**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 12, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/153 "2011-10-12T20:43:43Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > …IQ: Is your real first name Clerow? Dunno who this is. You get a DQ. > [@Rebo](#): > > IQ: Was your movie based on a TV sketch? > IQ: Was your character a grumpy ex-Vietnam vet? > !Q: Did your character like to bowl? Dunno the first two; DQs. As to the third, no, I’m not Walter Sobchak (sp?) from _The Big Lebowski_. ---
**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 13, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/154 "2011-10-13T02:36:05Z")
Sorry I overlooked these! > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Are you a Best Actor winner who served as Ronald Reagan’s Best Man at his wedding to Nancy? > > IQ: Did you write and direct a film narrated by a corpse? No, I’m neither William Holden nor William Wyler (and Holden appeared in _Sunset Boulevard_, too). > [@astorian](#): > > When you weren’t working as an insurance executive, did you write poems like “The Emperor of Ice Cream”? > > Was your maiden name Slaghoople? > > Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today? No, I’m not Wallace (I forget his first name) the poet, or the always-hungry but impoverished Wimpy. Miss Slaghoople sounds familiar, but I forget. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/155 "2011-10-13T02:54:21Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ: Was your movie based on a TV sketch? You’re not Wayne Campbell from _Wayne’s World_.Are you > [@](#): > > IQ: Was your character a grumpy ex-Vietnam vet? You’re not Walt Kowalski from _Gran Torino_. DQ: Was your movie made in the 80’s? DQ: Was your movie an Academy Award winner? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/156 "2011-10-13T04:31:31Z")
I’ll give you Wallace Stevens (generously) and congratulate you on J. Wellington Wimpy. Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoople. DQ: Did you originally appear in a 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 13, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/157 "2011-10-13T06:15:27Z")
IQ: Are you a Bond girl that also had the lead in a Godzilla movie? ---
**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 13, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/158 "2011-10-13T13:27:54Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Are you a Bond girl that also had the lead in a Godzilla movie? Hmm. Dunno. DQ. W. 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with “W” 4. Human 5. Appeared in a movie 6. Created by an American 7. Movie not made in the '80s 8. Movie an Oscar winner 9. Originally appeared in a novel ---
**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 13, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/159 "2011-10-13T13:30:46Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Were you the first French Canadian Prime Minister of Canada? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ooo, I should know that. Take a DQ. **Sir Wilfred Laurier** , Canada’s seventh Prime Minister, and the first Prime Minister from a French Canadian family. (I’d have to look it up, but I think there’s some kind of first in the fact that he was knighted as well…) Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario is named for him, and his face appears on our five dollar bill. Shaking hands with Sir Wilfred Laurier inspired a paper boy in Saskatoon to eventually become Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. DQ: Was the movie in which you appear produced after 1980? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437/160 "2011-10-13T13:47:01Z")
Did you cast one of the only votes in the Senate against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which got the USA into the Viet Nam War? Do you have a butler/chef named Fritz and a full-time gardener named Theodore? Are you a TV cop named for one of the Seven Blocks of Granite? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2011/598437.md?page=9)