# \[GAME\] Botticelli Oct 2014 **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/601 "2014-10-16T19:42:59Z")
IQ1: Were you referred to as a “fellow of infinite jest”? IQ2: Were you known for playing the cello? IQ3: Did you often throw to Jerry Rice? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/602 "2014-10-16T20:17:23Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former quarterback for the Baltimore Colts, San Francisco 49ers, and the New York Giants, inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 1971? > IQ2: Did you play the role of Caroline Holden in _Baywatch_? > IQ3: Were you Cat Stevens before converting to Islam? Not Yelverton Abraham Tittle (why yes, I’m a Giants fan… how’d you know?) and not Yussif Islam. Is your Baywatch star the same as the last one? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/603 "2014-10-16T20:18:23Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you referred to as a “fellow of infinite jest”? > IQ2: Were you known for playing the cello? > IQ3: Did you often throw to Jerry Rice? Not (alas, poor) Yorick Not Yo Yo Ma Not Steve Young ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/604 "2014-10-16T20:25:17Z")
Astorian: did you not see mine? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/605 "2014-10-16T20:35:10Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you the first AL player with 400 HR and 3,000 H? Not… Carl Yastrzemski? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/606 "2014-10-16T20:36:10Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you a lifelong Brewer in the 3,000 hit club? Not Robin Yount ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/607 "2014-10-16T21:41:08Z")
Got both. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/608 "2014-10-16T21:45:41Z")
IQ: Were you a longtime Original Six captain? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/609 "2014-10-16T21:47:29Z")
IQ1: Were you a wideout for the Steelers? IQ2: Did you play for the Red Wings? IQ3: Were you friends with Boo Boo? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/610 "2014-10-16T21:50:24Z")
Tim: I believe your second one duplicates mine. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/611 "2014-10-16T21:51:26Z")
IQ: Are you a New Age musician, who formerly dated Linda Evans? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/612 "2014-10-16T22:06:54Z")
etv78: I don’t know much about the person I was asking about, so I’ll take your word for it. IQ2 rev2: Did you scheme to avoid being sent into combat? ---
**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 16, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/613 "2014-10-16T23:45:47Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Yelverton Abraham Tittle (why yes, I’m a Giants fan… how’d you know?) and not Yussif Islam. > > Is your Baywatch star the same as the last one? Probably, but I got back earlier than EH did. 🙂 Yasmine Bleeth DQ: Female? ---
**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 16, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/614 "2014-10-16T23:50:34Z")
IQ1: Are you the title character of a Herman Wouk novel? IQ2: Are you a former Confederate officer working as a secret agent in Louisiana? IQ3: Are you an Irish Nobel laureate? ---
**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 16, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/615 "2014-10-16T23:58:53Z")
IQ1: Were you a first baseman/left fielder for Boston Red Sox and 18 time All Star? IQ2: Did Graham Chapman play you in a 1983 movie? IQ3: Were you a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/616 "2014-10-17T00:11:10Z")
KO: Your first guy was already asked, as was your third. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/617 "2014-10-17T00:49:20Z")
IQ: Are you a Dodger phenomenon with a compelling backstory? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/618 "2014-10-17T01:06:01Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a star of _Baywatch_? - Yes, as **Knowed Out** wrote, the terribly-named but fetching Yasmine Bleeth Were you Holmes’s detective partner? - Yes, Yoyo, from the Seventies TV show _Holmes and Yoyo_ Were you one of two aboard _Columbia_’s first mission? - Yes, Space Shuttle pilot John Young DQ: Male? IQs: Did you play a gunfighter, a monarch and a robot? Were you, in a graphic novel series, the last man on Earth? Did you write the excellent alternative history novel _Elleander Morning_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/619 "2014-10-17T11:01:18Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a longtime Original Six captain? 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:** [October 17, 2014, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/620 "2014-10-17T11:02:21Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you a wideout for the Steelers? > IQ2: Did you play for the Red Wings? > IQ3: Were you friends with Boo Boo? Take a DQ for the Steeler receiver Not Steve Yzerman or Yogi BEar [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=32)