# \[ GAME \] Botticelli - Nov. 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 31, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138 "2014-10-31T16:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**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:** [November 29, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/441 "2014-11-29T16:03:43Z")
IQ1: Was your most famous bit as a used car salesman, inviting customers to call BR-549? IQ2: When you played for the San Diego Chargers, did you earn the nickname"The Tasmanian Devil?" IQ3: Are you a NASCAR driver whose biography is titled “The Last American Hero?” ---
**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:** [November 29, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/442 "2014-11-29T16:09:22Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Was your most famous bit as a used car salesman, inviting customers to call BR-549? > IQ2: When you played for the San Diego Chargers, did you earn the nickname"The Tasmanian Devil?" > IQ3: Are you a NASCAR driver whose biography is titled “The Last American Hero?” Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/443 "2014-11-30T03:51:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > We’re down to our last three DQs here. What would be useful to know at this point, sportsfans? Race, genre(s), E/W of Mississippi… ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/444 "2014-11-30T04:54:26Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. From the US 5. Died after 1900 6. First name starts with J 7. Known for the Arts 8. Known for the Performing Arts 9. Not a musician 10. Known as an actor 11. Best known for movie work 12. Known for serious and light roles: his best remembered work is a lighter piece 13. Did not win a major acting prize, except for a star on the Walk of Fame 14. Died after 1975 15. Considered a handsome guy 16. Best remembered work released way before 1990. 17. Best remembered work released before 1960. Correction on #13. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/445 "2014-11-30T06:07:39Z")
DQs: White? Born east of Miss. River? Not sure how to narrow it down to a genre. One DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/446 "2014-11-30T14:13:31Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. From the US 5. Died after 1900 6. First name starts with J 7. Known for the Arts 8. Known for the Performing Arts 9. Not a musician 10. Known as an actor 11. Best known for movie work 12. Known for serious and light roles: his best remembered work is a lighter piece 13. Did not win a major acting prize, except for a star on the Walk of Fame 14. Died after 1975 15. Considered a handsome guy 16. Best remembered work released way before 1990. 17. Best remembered work released before 1960. 18. Caucasian 19. Born east of the Mississippi River ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/447 "2014-11-30T17:33:14Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Was your most famous bit as a used car salesman, inviting customers to call BR-549? > IQ2: When you played for the San Diego Chargers, did you earn the nickname"The Tasmanian Devil?" > IQ3: Are you a NASCAR driver whose biography is titled “The Last American Hero?” > Take 3 DQs. Junior Samples, Junior Seau, Junior Johnson IQ1: Were you Preacher Casy from _The Grapes of Wrath_? IQ2: Did you play Cochise in _Broken Arrow_? IQ3: Is your most famous role in the film _Rebel Without a Cause_? ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/448 "2014-11-30T18:43:32Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you Preacher Casy from _The Grapes of Wrath_? > IQ2: Did you play Cochise in _Broken Arrow_? > IQ3: Is your most famous role in the film _Rebel Without a Cause_? Take 2 DQs. I am not James Dean. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/449 "2014-11-30T19:56:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 2 DQs. I am not James Dean. John Carradine, Jeff Chandler, correct holding a bunch of DQs as I ruminate some more ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/450 "2014-11-30T22:45:02Z")
IQ1: Did you play a secret agent, a psychiatrist, and a German army sergeant? IQ2: Did you take over a major role because of the original actor’s allergy? IQ3: Did you star in a series about a reincarnated mother? ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/451 "2014-11-30T23:05:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a secret agent, a psychiatrist, and a German army sergeant? > IQ2: Did you take over a major role because of the original actor’s allergy? > IQ3: Did you star in a series about a reincarnated mother? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Jack Haley. I am not Jerry van Dyke. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/452 "2014-11-30T23:14:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a secret agent, a psychiatrist, and a German army sergeant? > IQ2: Did you take over a major role because of the original actor’s allergy? > IQ3: Did you star in a series about a reincarnated mother? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. > I am not Jack Haley. > I am not Jerry van Dyke. James Coburn (_Our Man Flint_, _The President’s Analyst_, _Cross of Iron_). Correct on Haley and Van Dyke. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/453 "2014-12-01T04:31:09Z")
Still not sure who this guy is. Hmmm. DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. From the US 5. Died after 1900 6. First name starts with J 7. Known for the Arts 8. Known for the Performing Arts 9. Not a musician 10. Known as an actor 11. Best known for movie work 12. Known for serious and light roles: his best remembered work is a lighter piece 13. Did not win a major acting prize, except for a star on the Walk of Fame 14. Died after 1975 15. Considered a handsome guy 16. Best remembered work released way before 1990. 17. Best remembered work released before 1960. 18. Caucasian 19. Born east of the Mississippi River ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/454 "2014-12-01T18:16:57Z")
IQ) Did you appear in a movie that inspired the film title\*\*\* O Brother, Where Art Thou?\*\*\* ---
**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:** [December 1, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/455 "2014-12-01T22:28:34Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ) Did you appear in a movie that inspired the film title\*\*\* O Brother, Where Art Thou?\*\*\* 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:** [December 1, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/456 "2014-12-01T22:41:19Z")
In the movie _ **Sullivan’s Travels, \*\*\* a director who’s always made silly, slapstick comedies dreams of making a serious epic called** _ O Brother, Where Art Thou?\*\*\* The star of that movie was Joel McCrea. DQ) does your first name start with “Jo”? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/457 "2014-12-01T23:00:23Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. From the US 5. Died after 1900 6. First name starts with J 7. Known for the Arts 8. Known for the Performing Arts 9. Not a musician 10. Known as an actor 11. Best known for movie work 12. Known for serious and light roles: his best remembered work is a lighter piece 13. Did not win a major acting prize, except for a star on the Walk of Fame 14. Died after 1975 15. Considered a handsome guy 16. Best remembered work released way before 1990. 17. Best remembered work released before 1960. 18. Caucasian 19. Born east of the Mississippi River 20. First name starts with Jo. Special Bonus 20a) Best remembered for a family holiday classic film. And that puts us in the “Are you Firstname Lastname?” portion of the round. All who earned a DQ this game get a chance. If no one has guessed by 6pm tomorrow, I’ll reveal the name. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/458 "2014-12-02T16:39:42Z")
Are you John Payne? ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/459 "2014-12-02T16:57:47Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Are you John Payne? Yes! I am John Payne! Actor who appeared in about 50 films in the 30’s to 50’s, including musicals, westerns and film-noir thrillers, but whose best known role was Fred Gailey, the defense lawyer who won the heart of Maureen O’Hara and convinced the court that Kris Kringle was the real Santa Claus in 1947’s _Miracle on 34th Street_. It turns out that John believed in the message of the film so much he put up his own money to see it produced. Well done, KO! Be sure to start your “K” in a new December thread. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/460 "2014-12-02T17:53:01Z")
All right, **KO**! I knew the role but not the actor. Way to go. Looking forward to the December thread… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138.md?page=24)