# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/361 "2011-09-17T18:02:04Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > DQ: Were you involved in publishing? (I’m trying to solve this ‘Broadly speaking, I work in the arts’ conundrum…) No, I was not involved in publishing. 1. Male 2. Real 3. Dead 4. Not born in 20th century 5. Not American 6. Last name begins with “S” 7. Broadly speaking, I work in the arts 8. Born in the 19th century 9. European 10. Not a writer 11. Not involved in publishing ---
**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 17, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/362 "2011-09-17T19:27:15Z")
IQ: Despite your contributions to both composition and music criticism, did you end your years in an asylum where your wife wouldn’t even visit you? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/363 "2011-09-17T20:08:33Z")
1. Shel Silverstein wrote “The Unicorn” for the Irish Rovers, “A Boy Named Sue” for Johnny Cash, and both “Sylvia’s Mother” and “Cover of the Rolling Stone” for Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. 2. The nickname “Purple People Eaters” came fro ma song by Sheb Woolley. DQ: Were you born in the British Isles? DQ: Were you still alive in 1900? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/364 "2011-09-17T21:52:50Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > DQ: Were you born in the British Isles? > DQ: Were you still alive in 1900? No and Yes. 1. Male 2. Real 3. Dead 4. Not born in 20th century 5. Not American 6. Last name begins with “S” 7. Broadly speaking, I work in the arts 8. Born in the 19th century 9. European 10. Not a writer 11. Not involved in publishing 12. Not born in the British Isles 13. Alive in 1900 ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/365 "2011-09-17T22:19:15Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Despite your contributions to both composition and music criticism, did you end your years in an asylum where your wife wouldn’t even visit you? No, I am not Schumann? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/366 "2011-09-17T22:35:15Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Are you a baseball player who got his nickname because he never stuck with any team for too long? This refers to Harry “Suitcase” Simpson, who played for five big-league teams from 1951 to '59. DQ: Were you a painter (even if that’s not your major claim to fame)? IQ: Did you pitch nine innings without allowing a runner to reach base, only to have it decided you hadn’t truly thrown a perfect game? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/367 "2011-09-17T22:47:00Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > DQ: Were you a painter (even if that’s not your major claim to fame)? > > IQ: Did you pitch nine innings without allowing a runner to reach base, only to have it decided you hadn’t truly thrown a perfect game? Not a painter and not Ernie Shore. 1. Male 2. Real 3. Dead 4. Not born in 20th century 5. Not American 6. Last name begins with “S” 7. Broadly speaking, I work in the arts 8. Born in the 19th century 9. European 10. Not a writer 11. Not involved in publishing 12. Not born in the British Isles 13. Alive in 1900 14. Not a painter ---
**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 17, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/368 "2011-09-17T23:40:43Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > No, I am not Schumann? Dang! This guy’s good! ---
**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 17, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/369 "2011-09-17T23:44:39Z")
IQ: While playing defence for the Toronto Maple Leafs, did you have one of the nastiest accidental injuries in the history of hockey when someone accidentally skated over your face? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/370 "2011-09-18T00:09:04Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: While playing defence for the Toronto Maple Leafs, did you have one of the nastiest accidental injuries in the history of hockey when someone accidentally skated over your face? I don’t have an answer to this, so ask a DQ. On the music question, I knew Clara Schumann was famous enough for me to have heard of her, so since a wife was mentioned… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/371 "2011-09-18T02:00:38Z")
IQ: Did you write a book called _The Canfield Decision_? ---
**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 18, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/372 "2011-09-18T02:19:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Le Ministre de l’au-delà** > IQ: While playing defence for the Toronto Maple Leafs, did you have one of the nastiest accidental injuries in the history of hockey when someone accidentally skated over your face? > [@AppallingGael](#): > > I don’t have an answer to this, so ask a DQ. On the music question, I knew Clara Schumann was famous enough for me to have heard of her, so since a wife was mentioned… **Borje Salming** was down near the crease during a game against the Detroit Red Wings in 1986 when another player was unable to stop and skated over Salming’s face. Two hundred stitches and facial surgery later, Salming played in that same season. The incident frequently makes lists of ‘worst sports injuries of all time’. It’s an interesting factoid that most of the music which other composers dedicated to Robert Schumann is rather frantic, unsettled and, well, schizophrenic in nature. Clara couldn’t bring herself to visit Robert after he was committed; Brahms, on the other hand, did manage, though he would describe the experience as ‘heartbreaking’. Anyway… DQ: Does your first name begin with an initial from A-M? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/373 "2011-09-18T02:19:58Z")
Did your height force one of Britain’s most popular rock bands to change its name? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/374 "2011-09-18T02:21:00Z")
Are you an architect that crossword constructors would be lost without? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/375 "2011-09-18T02:22:51Z")
Were you married to a fur trapper named Charbonneau? ---
**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 18, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/376 "2011-09-18T04:04:49Z")
> [@Win9X - What happens when you \*open\* a program?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win9x-what-happens-when-you-open-a-program/71578/7): > > IQ: Were you Eddie Van Halen’s first choice to replace David Lee Roth as vocalist for Van Halen? (I’ll tell you now: Despite the ‘S’, the answer is not Sammy Hagar) > [@AppallingGael](#): > > No, I’m not Bob Seger? Nope, you are not Patty Smyth of Scandal. She was friends with Eddie’s then-wife Valerie Bertinelli. She turned down the offer as she was 8 months pregnant. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Were you David Lee Roth’s choice to replace Eddie Van Halen as guitarist? > [@AppallingGael](#): > > No, I am not Carlos Santana? No again. You are not former Frank Zappa guitarist Steve Vai, who played lead guitar on Roth’s first 2 solo albums. Trying to figure out the “broadly speaking” part of working in the arts DQ1: Are you involved in architecture? DQ2: Was your work in the arts supportive as opposed to creative? For example, a manager rather than a performer, or a patron of the arts rather than an artist? ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/377 "2011-09-18T04:33:33Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > **Borje Salming** was down near the crease during a game against the Detroit Red Wings in 1986 when another player was unable to stop and skated over Salming’s face. Two hundred stitches and facial surgery later, Salming played in that same season. The incident frequently makes lists of ‘worst sports injuries of all time’. > > Anyway… > > DQ: Does your first name begin with an initial from A-M? Hm, if only Homer Simpson had chosen to rent “Hockey’s Greatest Injuries” rather than “Football’s…”, I might have known it. Yes, my first name begins with A-M 1. Male 2. Real 3. Dead 4. Not born in 20th century 5. Not American 6. Last name begins with “S” 7. Broadly speaking, I work in the arts 8. Born in the 19th century 9. European 10. Not a writer 11. Not involved in publishing 12. Not born in the British Isles 13. Alive in 1900 14. Not a painter 15. First initial is from among A-M ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/378 "2011-09-18T04:34:47Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Are you an architect that crossword constructors would be lost without? No, I am not Eero Saarinen, or even Eliel. Gonna sleep on these others, but I will answer the outstanding DQ’s. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/379 "2011-09-18T04:38:18Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > DQ1: Are you involved in architecture? > > DQ2: Was your work in the arts supportive as opposed to creative? For example, a manager rather than a performer, or a patron of the arts rather than an artist? No and no. 1. Male 2. Real 3. Dead 4. Not born in 20th century 5. Not American 6. Last name begins with “S” 7. Broadly speaking, I work in the arts 8. Born in the 19th century 9. European 10. Not a writer 11. Not involved in publishing 12. Not born in the British Isles 13. Alive in 1900 14. Not a painter 15. First initial is from among A-M 16. Not an architect 17. A creative rather than a supportive “artiste” (using the self-mocking spelling to emphasize the stretch) ---
**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 18, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/380 "2011-09-18T04:48:34Z")
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