# Botticelli - September 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916 "2015-09-04T17:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/381 "2015-09-18T14:36:41Z")
\*\*Originally Posted by astorian View Post IQ1) Did your defensive heroics at 3rd base save game 3 of the 1978 World Series for the Yankees? IQ2) Were you Garth Brooks’ unpopular, unsuccessful pop music alter ego? IQ3) Did you play the effeminate, hippie Jesus in the movie version of Godspell? \*\* Graig Nettles was the stellar 3rd baseman and Victor Garber was the hippie Jesus. DQ1) Best known as a writer of any kind? DQ2) European? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/382 "2015-09-18T15:17:08Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Dead 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born before 1950 8. Not known for the performing arts 9. Best known as a writer 10. European ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/383 "2015-09-18T15:35:09Z")
IQ1: Are you an 18th century German writer who authored the plays _Faust, Part One_ and\* Faust, Part Two\*? IQ2: Did you write about the priest-detective Father Brown? IQ3: Are you a 14th-century Italian author who wrote _The Decameron_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/384 "2015-09-18T15:40:05Z")
IQ1) Did you write _ **The Forsyte Saga** _? IQ2) Did you write _ **The Sorrows of Young Werther** _ IQ3) Was your best known character a con artist who purchased ownership rights to deceased peasants? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/385 "2015-09-18T15:47:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an 18th century German writer who authored the plays _Faust, Part One_ and\* Faust, Part Two\*? > IQ2: Did you write about the priest-detective Father Brown? > IQ3: Are you a 14th-century Italian author who wrote _The Decameron_? I am not Goethe, not G. K. Chesterton, and not Giovannie Boccaccio. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/386 "2015-09-18T15:48:37Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you write _ **The Forsyte Saga** _? > > IQ2) Did you write _ **The Sorrows of Young Werther** _ > > IQ3) Was your best known character a con artist who purchased ownership rights to deceased peasants? I am not John Galsworthy, not Goethe, and not Gogol. ---
**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, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/387 "2015-09-18T16:12:15Z")
Previous IQs: Did you say you knew two and only two songs? - U.S. Grant, who was tone-deaf, said, “I know two songs. One of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other isn’t.” Were you played by the same actor who played your brother, but you had whiter hair? - George Kirk: [George Samuel Kirk | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/George_Samuel_Kirk). Did you famously play a baseball player and a lawman? - Withdrawn; was thinking of someone else. DQs: British? Born before 1800? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/388 "2015-09-18T16:39:36Z")
IQ1) Did Wally Pipp live to regret taking a day off, because of you? IQ2) Did you like to tell people about the differences between a cola nut and an Uncola nut? IQ3) Did you write the best seller _ **Dad Is Fat** _? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/389 "2015-09-18T17:05:03Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Dead 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born before 1950 8. Not known for the performing arts 9. Best known as a writer 10. European 11. British 12. Born after 1800 ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/390 "2015-09-18T17:06:18Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did Wally Pipp live to regret taking a day off, because of you? > > IQ2) Did you like to tell people about the differences between a cola nut and an Uncola nut? > > IQ3) Did you write the best seller _ **Dad Is Fat** _? Take 3 DQs. #3 is Jim something, but I don’t recall what. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/391 "2015-09-18T17:17:37Z")
Get out of my head Professor! IQ1: Did you play defensive back for the Washington Redskins from 1983-2002, and come to be nicknamed “The Ageless Wonder?” IQ2: Were you the left offensive guard for the Oakland Raiders and first player to play in 3 Superbowls in 3 separate decades? IQ3: Were you nicknamed “The Galloping Ghost” and vaunted by ESPN in 2008 as the greatest college football player of all time? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/392 "2015-09-18T18:39:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Get out of my head Professor! > > IQ1: Did you play defensive back for the Washington Redskins from 1983-2002, and come to be nicknamed “The Ageless Wonder?” > IQ2: Were you the left offensive guard for the Oakland Raiders and first player to play in 3 Superbowls in 3 separate decades? > IQ3: Were you nicknamed “The Galloping Ghost” and vaunted by ESPN in 2008 as the greatest college football player of all time? I am not Red Grange. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/393 "2015-09-18T19:30:22Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you play defensive back for the Washington Redskins from 1983-2002, and come to be nicknamed “The Ageless Wonder?” > IQ2: Were you the left offensive guard for the Oakland Raiders and first player to play in 3 Superbowls in 3 separate decades? > IQ3: Were you nicknamed “The Galloping Ghost” and vaunted by ESPN in 2008 as the greatest college football player of all time? > > I am not Red Grange. Take 2 DQs. Darrell Green, Gene Upshaw DQ: Writer of fiction? holding 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 18, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/394 "2015-09-18T19:50:44Z")
\*\*Originally Posted by astorian View Post IQ1) Did Wally Pipp live to regret taking a day off, because of you? IQ2) Did you like to tell people about the differences between a cola nut and an Uncola nut? IQ3) Did you write the best seller Dad Is Fat?\*\* Wally Pipp lost his job to Lou Gehrig, who started the next 2,130 games at 1st base for the Yankees. Jamaican actor Geoffrey Holder did all those 7-Up Uncola ads. Comedian Jim Gaffigan wrote _ **Dad Is Fat** _ (from eating all those Hot Pockets, no doubt) DQ1) Born after 1900? Saving two others ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/395 "2015-09-18T19:51:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you have Narya and Glamdring? > IQ2: Were you the son of Frederick, Prince of Wales? > IQ3: Were you the reptilian star of an early animated cartoon? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Gandalf. > Take a DQ. > I am not Gertie the Dinosaur. Correct. George II. Correct. One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/396 "2015-09-18T19:53:26Z")
IQ1) Does your best known work involve schoolboys acting like savages on a remote island? IQ2) Did you create the great movie villain Harry Lime? IQ3) Did you manage the Miracle Mets to a World Series win in 1969? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/397 "2015-09-18T20:07:12Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Dead 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born before 1950 8. Not known for the performing arts 9. Best known as a writer 10. European 11. British 12. Born after 1800 13. Born after 1900 14. Writer of Nonfiction ---
**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:** [September 18, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/398 "2015-09-18T20:08:19Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Does your best known work involve schoolboys acting like savages on a remote island? > > IQ2) Did you create the great movie villain Harry Lime? > > IQ3) Did you manage the Miracle Mets to a World Series win in 1969? I am not William Golding. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/399 "2015-09-18T20:22:15Z")
IQs: Did you command one side at the Battle of Guilford Court House? Were you one of King Lear’s daughters? Did you write the screenplay for _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ and _All the President’s Men_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/400 "2015-09-18T20:52:13Z")
Harry Lime was the villain played by Orson Welles in _ **The Third Man** _, written by Grahame Greene. Gil Hodges managed the Miracle Mets DQ1) DO you write primarily on history or politics? DQ2) Are you closely associated with a particular newspaper or magazine? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=21)