# Botticelli - October 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156 "2015-10-01T16:53:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**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, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/461 "2015-10-28T03:10:47Z")
Correct on all three of mine. IQs: Are you everyone’s favorite dimension-hopping, gun-running, alcoholic mad scientist? Did Dan Savage create a new meaning for your last name? Did a Mr. Wilson play your loyal employee? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/462 "2015-10-28T07:54:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you driving on the Interstate near LA on a dark night in early June? > IQ2: Did you love a girl with a love big as the sky? > IQ3: Were you one of Sgt Fury’s Howling Commandos? DQx3 ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/463 "2015-10-28T07:57:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Correct on all three of mine. > > IQs: > > Are you everyone’s favorite dimension-hopping, gun-running, alcoholic mad scientist? > Did Dan Savage create a new meaning for your last name? > Did a Mr. Wilson play your loyal employee? Rick of Rick and Morty, Rick Santorum (Though it was a contest, and someone else submitted the definition, but Savage rand the contest and was the driving force pushing the name), and DQ. Alas, the protagonist in Cast Away wasn’t an R. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/464 "2015-10-28T11:14:05Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you driving on the Interstate near LA on a dark night in early June? > IQ2: Did you love a girl with a love big as the sky? > IQ3: Were you one of Sgt Fury’s Howling Commandos? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > DQx3 Rubber Duck (“Convoy”). Running Bear. “Reb” Ralston. DQ: Known for science? Four DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/465 "2015-10-28T12:23:30Z")
DQ: Known for a single event? 1 DQ in reserve ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/466 "2015-10-28T15:16:30Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports 9. Not known for politics 10. Not known for my death 11. Not born since 1975 12. Not known for science 13. Known for a single event and the aftermath ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/467 "2015-10-28T17:14:28Z")
IQ1: Are you an actor who fled to Canada with your wife in fear of the “Hollywood star whackers”? IQ2: Did you sing that “short people got no reason to live”? IQ3: Are you a Neotraditional country music artist whose first breakthrough was the album _Storms of Life_? ---
**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, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/468 "2015-10-28T17:17:37Z")
Previous IQs: Are you everyone’s favorite dimension-hopping, gun-running, alcoholic mad scientist? - Yes, Rick of _Rick and Morty_. Did Dan Savage create a new meaning for your last name? - Yes, Rick Santorum. Did a Mr. Wilson play your loyal employee? - Dooley Wilson played Sam, who played the piano for Rick Blaine in _Casablanca_. DQ: Event was a crime? IQs: Did the people of Jerusalem demand your welease, er, release? Did you command the Imperial battlecruiser _MacArthur_? Did the butler offer to take your trident? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/469 "2015-10-28T19:23:52Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an actor who fled to Canada with your wife in fear of the “Hollywood star whackers”? > IQ2: Did you sing that “short people got no reason to live”? > IQ3: Are you a Neotraditional country music artist whose first breakthrough was the album _Storms of Life_? DQ, Randy Newman, DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/470 "2015-10-28T19:33:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Event was a crime? > > IQs: > > Did the people of Jerusalem demand your welease, er, release? > Did you command the Imperial battlecruiser _MacArthur_? > Did the butler offer to take your trident? Please clarify what you’re referring to by ‘event’. Clearly I haven’t watched _the Life of Brian_ recently enough. DQx3. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/471 "2015-10-28T21:22:14Z")
I’m pretty sure he’s referring to DQ13. Known for a single event and the aftermath ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/472 "2015-10-28T23:41:13Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you an actor who fled to Canada with your wife in fear of the “Hollywood star whackers”? > IQ2: Did you sing that “short people got no reason to live”? > IQ3: Are you a Neotraditional country music artist whose first breakthrough was the album Storms of Life? > > DQ, Randy Newman, DQ. Randy Quaid, correct, Randy travis Randy x3! which is also the amount of DQs I’m holding. ---
**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 29, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/473 "2015-10-29T03:53:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’m pretty sure he’s referring to DQ13. Known for a single event and the aftermath Yes. The immediate previous DQ answer. Previous IQs: Did the people of Jerusalem demand your welease, er, release? - I would’ve accepted either Roger or Roderick: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMtoGj0dcSo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMtoGj0dcSo). Did you command the Imperial battlecruiser _MacArthur_? - Roderick, Lord Blaine, in Niven and Pournelle’s _The Mote in God’s Eye_. Did the butler offer to take your trident? - Prince Ruprecht, in _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUiXJ4ZIOEE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUiXJ4ZIOEE). Three DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/474 "2015-10-29T05:49:46Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports 9. Not known for politics 10. Not known for my death 11. Not born since 1975 12. Not known for science 13. Known for a single event and the aftermath 14. What I was referring to by my answer to #13 was not a crime ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/475 "2015-10-29T12:30:27Z")
DQ: Known for breaking a record of some kind? 2 DQs left ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/476 "2015-10-29T12:59:13Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports 9. Not known for politics 10. Not known for my death 11. Not born since 1975 12. Not known for science 13. Known for a single event and the aftermath 14. What I was referring to by my answer to #13 was not a crime 15. Not known for breaking a record of some kind ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/477 "2015-10-29T13:01:08Z")
DQ: First name starts with R? I know, I know, but, after all, there’s George Rogers Clark, among others. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/478 "2015-10-29T13:30:41Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports 9. Not known for politics 10. Not known for my death 11. Not born since 1975 12. Not known for science 13. Known for a single event and the aftermath 14. What I was referring to by my answer to #13 was not a crime 15. Not known for breaking a record of some kind 16. First name starts with R ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/479 "2015-10-29T13:45:27Z")
DQ: Known for business? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/480 "2015-10-29T14:06:54Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports 9. Not known for politics 10. Not known for my death 11. Not born since 1975 12. Not known for science 13. Known for a single event and the aftermath 14. What I was referring to by my answer to #13 was not a crime 15. Not known for breaking a record of some kind 16. First name starts with R 17. Not known for business [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156.md?page=25)