# Botticelli September 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171 "2011-09-04T16:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/241 "2011-09-13T03:39:38Z")
Hooray for Vogel, Stern A man from whom we have a lot to learn Because he figured out my myst’ry person Is A. McPherson, and what for this does he earn? He gets to pick a name. If it’s got Sandro’s fame, Then he may take his turn. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/242 "2011-09-13T03:47:36Z")
I don’t know the charioteer, or the beauty. Was Alfred E. Smith the man with the pushcart? I should note that Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), famous radio evangelist of the 1920s and known about as well for her celebrated (temporary) disappearance, was actually born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy. Mr. Semple and Mr. McPherson were her first and second of three husbands in all, the last being a certain David Hutton. I figured I was safe in being literal and treating McPherson as her “last” name but I used the phrasing “very last name” in my original answer, trying to be not too unfair without giving the game away. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/243 "2011-09-13T12:55:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQ: Were you a noted, now-deceased beauty whose name was later used by an actress who appeared in two movies of the same franchise, playing two different characters? Maude Adams; the later actress (who spelled it “Maud”) appeared in both _The Man with the Golden Gun_ and _Octopussy_, the latter as the title character. Way to go, **Sternvogel**! ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/244 "2011-09-13T14:21:14Z")
Hooray for **Sternvogel**!! To clean up, it was **Arjuna** , in the Hindu epic ‘The Mahabharata’, who requested that Krishna be his charioteer. Arjuna grants all of Krishna’s armies to his arch-nemesis, Duryodhana, if only Krishna will be at his side. At the outset of the Kurukshetra War, Arjuna’s purpose fails him at the thought of so much death and so, Krishna sings the ‘Song of God’, the Bhagavad-Gita to strip away Arjuna’s illusion and show him his duty. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/245 "2011-09-13T15:00:43Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Was Alfred E. Smith the man with the pushcart? No, you have to go to the “Second City” to find [Anton Cermak](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Cermak), who was asked the question as part of a taunting rhyme uttered by incumbent mayor Big Bill Thompson during the 1931 race. Outside Chicago, Cermak is best known as the actual victim of an assassination attempt that (apparently) targeted Franklin Roosevelt about a month before that New Yorker was first inaugurated as President of the United States. > [@](#): > > I should note that Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), famous radio evangelist of the 1920s and known about as well for her celebrated (temporary) disappearance, was actually born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy. Mr. Semple and Mr. McPherson were her first and second of three husbands in all, the last being a certain David Hutton. I should have remembered Semple wasn’t truly her “maiden” name, but I felt honor-bound not to check _Wikipedia_ before posting during competition. I don’t recall K being the target initial recently, so let’s see what besides every “kiss” begins with that letter. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/246 "2011-09-13T15:47:42Z")
'K. IQ: Are you a composer of contemporary (‘classical’) music who is pictured on the cover of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/247 "2011-09-13T16:31:16Z")
Well, I’m not Aram Khachaturian. If he’s not on that cover, take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/248 "2011-09-13T16:51:39Z")
Were you the voice of Shaggy in the cartoon series “Scooby Doo”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/249 "2011-09-13T16:52:48Z")
Were you widely blamed for allegedly lax security at Pearl Harbor? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/250 "2011-09-13T16:56:07Z")
Were you given a prominent role on a classic TV series because you bore a passing resemblance to Davy Jones of the Monkees? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/251 "2011-09-13T17:24:30Z")
IQ: Were you blamed by some historians for railroading three officers in their court-martial? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/252 "2011-09-13T17:41:16Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Were you the voice of Shaggy in the cartoon series “Scooby Doo”? No, I’m not Casey Kasem. > [@astorian](#): > > Were you widely blamed for allegedly lax security at Pearl Harbor? I’m also not Husband Kimmel. > [@astorian](#): > > Were you given a prominent role on a classic TV series because you bore a passing resemblance to Davy Jones of the Monkees? And I’m not Walter Koenig, whose hairdo change during _Star Trek_ was discussed in a recent **SDMB** thread I happened to read. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/253 "2011-09-13T17:43:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Were you blamed by some historians for railroading three officers in their court-martial? Is this a _Breaker Morant_ reference? Regardless of whether it is, I’m not coming up with a “K” name that answers this question. Take a DQ. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/254 "2011-09-13T18:28:29Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Is this a _Breaker Morant_ reference? Regardless of whether it is, I’m not coming up with a “K” name that answers this question. Take a DQ. Yes, from _Breaker Morant_ re: Horatio, Lord Kitchener. He comes across quite slimy in the movie, which is perhaps unfair. DQ: Male? IQ: Did you become a crazy old lady in the attic in a horror movie? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/255 "2011-09-13T18:39:14Z")
IQ: Did you battle a carpenter named Jumpman? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/256 "2011-09-13T19:31:19Z")
IQ: Are you a one-armed general who was killed at Chantilly, VA? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/257 "2011-09-13T20:50:45Z")
Did you play lead guitar on BOTH “Incense and Peppermints” AND “Sweet Home Alabama”? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/258 "2011-09-13T20:51:08Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Are you a composer of contemporary (‘classical’) music who is pictured on the cover of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’? > [@Sternvogel](#): > > Well, I’m not Aram Khachaturian. If he’s not on that cover, take a DQ. No, I’m sorry - I did google to double-check and Khachaturian is not on the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ cover. Karlheinz Stockhausen, arguably most famous for his ‘Helicopter String Quartet’, is there in the upper row. He was a huge influence on John Lennon, as witnessed by ‘Revolution 9’ from the album ‘The Beatles’. DQ: Are you a fictional character? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/259 "2011-09-13T20:53:33Z")
Was a promising NBA team broken up after you got into a love triangle with singer Toni Braxton? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/260 "2011-09-13T20:54:49Z")
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