# Botticelli Round #41 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 14, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976 "2008-08-14T14:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/61 "2008-08-16T01:26:27Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] So, I get 3 DQs. [/QUOTE] Lay 'em on me! (Though I’m off to my gig shortly, and won’t be able to respond for at least a few hours.) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/62 "2008-08-16T03:11:38Z")
DQ1: Were you an inventor? DQ2: Were you born West of the Mississippi? DQ3: Did you die within the past 20 years? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/63 "2008-08-16T04:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] DQ1: Were you an inventor? DQ2: Were you born West of the Mississippi? DQ3: Did you die within the past 20 years? [/QUOTE] Yes, no, and yes. **RM** is: - Not fictional - Male - Caucasian - American, born east of the Misissippi - Born after 1900 - Died within the last 20 years - Not an entertainer - Not an author - Not a politician/statesman - A scientist, of sorts - An inventor - Not involved with animals - Has appeared on TV - Not someone who would be thought of as an industrialist, but did own a company - Did not own a media company - Never involved in a scandal ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/64 "2008-08-16T04:55:29Z")
Have Keith Emerson, Wendy Carlos, Billy Preston and Rick Wakeman used your most famous invention? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/65 "2008-08-16T06:41:51Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] Have Keith Emerson, Wendy Carlos, Billy Preston and Rick Wakeman used your most famous invention? [/QUOTE] **Yes!** I am synthesizer pioneer **Robert Moog**. Good job **astorian** , and thanks to all the players! ---
**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:** [August 16, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/66 "2008-08-16T14:59:22Z")
Way to go, **astorian**! If you hadn’t guessed Moog, I might have… it felt like we were closing in on him. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/67 "2008-08-16T17:25:22Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] [IQ’s: Did you play center field for the Boston Red Sox? Did you often sing _The Spar-Spangled Banner_ before games at Yankee Stadium? [/QUOTE] Well, to the best of my knowledge, nobody’s ever sung _The Spar-Spangled Banner_ at Yanke Stadium or anywhere else. :o The anthem singer I had in mind was [Robert Merrill,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Merrill#Career) while the center fielder who likely heard Merrill’s rendition of Francis Scott Key’s lyrics on a few occasions was [Rick Miller.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Miller_%28baseball%29) It can truly be said that **astorian** did a good job of _synthesizing_ the information revealed by our DQ’s to arrive at the correct answer! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976/68 "2008-08-16T17:43:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Well, to the best of my knowledge, nobody’s ever sung _The Spar-Spangled Banner_ at Yanke Stadium or anywhere else. :o [/QUOTE] I thought that was the nautical version. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-41/459976.md?page=3)