# \[GAME\] Botticelli Oct 2014

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 1, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044 "2014-10-01T01:41:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/241 "2014-10-06T02:02:06Z")

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IQ1: Did you play Superman in the 1950’s?  
IQ2: Did you allegedly want to be stuffed and mounted on top of your horse Trigger when you died?  
IQ3: Begorrah, did ye play Chief O’Hara on the \*Batman \*TV series?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/242 "2014-10-06T02:18:57Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play a Secret Service agent and a Marine fighter pilot?  
> IQ2: Did you play an alcoholic paratrooper?  
> IQ3: Did you play a scientist shipwrecked with six other people on a tropical island?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> I am not Russell Johnson. Take 2 more DQs.

Robert Conrad (Jim West in _The Wild Wild West_ and Pappy Boyington in _Baa Baa Black Sheep_).  
Ron Livingston (Lewis Nixon in _Band of Brothers_).  
Correct on Russell Johnson.  
DQ1: Best known for a TV Western?  
DQ2: Normally played “good guys”?  
IQ1: Did Clint Eastwood play you in a TV Western?  
IQ2: Did you play a rancher’s eldest son and an ex-Army surgeon?  
IQ3: Is your surname the past participle of a synonym for your given name?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/243 "2014-10-06T03:53:31Z")

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I was going for Debbie Reynolds.

DQ: Emmy winner?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/244 "2014-10-06T11:42:20Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play Superman in the 1950’s?  
> IQ2: Did you allegedly want to be stuffed and mounted on top of your horse Trigger when you died?  
> IQ3: Begorrah, did ye play Chief O’Hara on the \*Batman \*TV series?

Great Scott! Yes, I am TV’s first Man of Steel and personal friend of Phil Tead, George Reeves!

Good job, KO! You have “S”. Use it wisely.

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/245 "2014-10-06T12:04:51Z")

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Thanks, Prof! Seeing as your namesake and Superman are friends, it just made sense.

I am S! (Hint: It’s not Superman)

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/246 "2014-10-06T12:40:43Z")

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IQ1: Did you take a Nazirite oath?  
IQ2: Were you the Young Pretender?  
IQ3: Were you Ras Tafari?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/247 "2014-10-06T13:59:43Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you take a Nazirite oath?  
> IQ2: Were you the Young Pretender?  
> IQ3: Were you Ras Tafari?

Coming in with guns blazing, aren’t ya SCAdian? Take 3 DQs.

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/248 "2014-10-06T14:07:14Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you Superman’s cousin?
2. Are you Superman’s cousin’s cat?
3. Are you Superman’s clone?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/249 "2014-10-06T14:53:30Z")

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IQ1) Did you record the country hit “The End of the World”?

IQ2) Were you murdered by Lana Turner’s daughter?

IQ3) Did you pursue a baseball career in part because it was so hard to obtain equipment for left-handed dentists?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/250 "2014-10-06T16:32:42Z")

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IQ: Were a pioneering Greek writer?  
IQ: Were you held liable for the death of your ex-wife and her friend?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/251 "2014-10-06T17:08:15Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you Superman’s cousin?
> 2. Are you Superman’s cousin’s cat?
> 3. Are you Superman’s clone?

Not Supergirl, not Supercat, not Superclone?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/252 "2014-10-06T17:10:16Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ1) Did you record the country hit “The End of the World”?
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> IQ2) Were you murdered by Lana Turner’s daughter?
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> IQ3) Did you pursue a baseball career in part because it was so hard to obtain equipment for left-handed dentists?

dunno, don’t remember (was that her ex-husband the girl killed?), not Satchell Paige?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/253 "2014-10-06T17:11:19Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were a pioneering Greek writer?  
> IQ: Were you held liable for the death of your ex-wife and her friend?

Not Sophocles, not OJ Simpson

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/254 "2014-10-06T17:36:20Z")

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IQ: Were you baseball pitcher with the highest HoF vote %?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/255 "2014-10-06T20:02:41Z")

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DQ1) Real person?

DQ2) Male?

DQ3) First name start with S?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/256 "2014-10-06T20:05:12Z")

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IQ1) Did Stan Lee model your character after Howard Hughes?

IQ2) Did you appear on the rare US $10,000 bill?

IQ3) Were you H. Ross Perot’s confused Vice Presidential candidate in 2000?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/257 "2014-10-06T20:09:37Z")

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DQ Roundup

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name starts with S

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/258 "2014-10-06T20:11:35Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you baseball pitcher with the highest HoF vote %?

not Satchel Paige?

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**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:** [October 6, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/259 "2014-10-06T20:14:32Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ1) Did Stan Lee model your character after Howard Hughes?
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> IQ2) Did you appear on the rare US $10,000 bill?
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> IQ3) Were you H. Ross Perot’s confused Vice Presidential candidate in 2000?

not Tony Stark, dunno, I remember he was a POW, but not his name

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/260 "2014-10-06T20:20:03Z")

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Tom Seaver.

DQ: Living?

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