# \[GAME\] 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:** 39
**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 23, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/761 "2014-10-23T00:00:08Z")
Well, I’m completely stumped. Someone else can take my DQ guess. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/762 "2014-10-23T01:10:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > The only Black Sox scandal names that come to mind are Shoeless Joe Jackson and Kenesaw Mountain Landis. > > DQ: Known from a scandal in baseball? YESS!!! I am Arnold Rothstein, the racketeer who paid off the Chicago Black Sox to throw the 1919 World Series. ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/763 "2014-10-23T01:31:56Z")
That was a DQ, not an IQ, but… congrats, **Prof. P**.! ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/764 "2014-10-23T01:55:19Z")
Never heard of him… ---
**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 23, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/765 "2014-10-23T02:34:50Z")
Too be completely fair, that was a DQ. I’ve never heard of him either, and was merely following up on SCAdian’s line of inquiry, hence I think SCAdian should go next instead. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/766 "2014-10-23T11:06:18Z")
I’m fine with SCAdian getting the next round. Whatever seems fair to everyone else suits me. Sorry if Rothstein was too obscure. Appropos of nothing, he appeared as a fictional character in _ **The Great Gatsby** _. And in _ **The Godfather Part 2,** _ we learn that Hyman ROth (Lee STrasberg) adopted his name as a tribute to Rothstein, his idol. ---
**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 23, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/767 "2014-10-23T15:13:20Z")
Yes, I’ve heard of him, and knew of the _Gatsby_ connection, too, although he went by the name “Meyer Wolfsheim” there - and the actor who played him in the recent movie had a definitely wolfish appearance: [http://fitzgeraldandfashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/GreatGatsby2012trlr\_108Pyxurz.jpg](http://fitzgeraldandfashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/GreatGatsby2012trlr_108Pyxurz.jpg) ---
**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 24, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/768 "2014-10-24T03:21:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I think SCAdian should go next instead. No one seems to object to this notion, so - I am **M**. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/769 "2014-10-24T09:28:51Z")
IQ1: Did you play a swamp-dweller, a secret agent and a Seuss character? IQ2: Are you also known as J’onn J’onnz? IQ3: Were you initially called Norma, before becoming famous under a different name? ---
**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 24, 2014, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/770 "2014-10-24T10:45:23Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a swamp-dweller, a secret agent and a Seuss character? > IQ2: Are you also known as J’onn J’onnz? > IQ3: Were you initially called Norma, before becoming famous under a different name? DQ. Not the Martian Manhunter. Not Marilyn Monroe. Welcome back! ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/771 "2014-10-24T11:25:43Z")
Thanks for thinking of me > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a swamp-dweller, a secret agent and a Seuss character? > IQ2: Are you also known as J’onn J’onnz? > IQ3: Were you initially called Norma, before becoming famous under a different name? 1: **Mike Myers** , who played Shrek, Austin Powers and The Cat in The Hat. 2: As you said, **The Martian Manhunter**. 3: As you said, **Marilyn Monroe** DQ1: Does your first name begin with “M”? ---
**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 24, 2014, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/772 "2014-10-24T12:24:54Z")
IQ1: Are you a sportscaster who was fired from NBC in 1997 for biting, and I don’t mean on commentary? IQ2: Did you rise from a slab as the Bride of Frankenstein in a _Saturday Night Live_ sketch and sing “I Feel Pretty”? IQ3: Were you the first commander of the Plymouth Colony militia? ---
**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 24, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/773 "2014-10-24T12:59:16Z")
Yes. Welcome back, fanganga! You were missed. IQs: 1. Were you a very early recording artist who made his name recording George M. Cohan songs? 2. Did you star in _I Was A Teenage Werewolf_? 3. Did you die in the year of the Flood? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/774 "2014-10-24T14:21:37Z")
IQ1) Were you a baseball star whose Dad named him after a stellar catcher for the Detroit Tigers? IQ2) Were you a key Watergate witness, since you were married to the head of CREEP (the Committee to Re-Elect the President)? IQ3) Were you a DJ who called himself the 5th Beatle? ---
**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 24, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/775 "2014-10-24T15:02:17Z")
IQ1: Did you play Jesus, Satan, and the Brewmeister? IQ2: Are you a member of the Flash’s rogues’ gallery? IQ3: Were you an ambassador from the Centauri Republic? ---
**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 24, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/776 "2014-10-24T15:36:39Z")
Welcome back, **fanganga**. Aw, so we’re not going through the alphabet again? Bummer. M it is. IQs: Were you one of Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s adversaries? Did you host Mutual of Omaha’s _Wild Kingdom_? Did you say, “Time is the fire in which we burn”? ---
**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 24, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/777 "2014-10-24T23:28:46Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a sportscaster who was fired from NBC in 1997 for biting, and I don’t mean on commentary? > IQ2: Did you rise from a slab as the Bride of Frankenstein in a _Saturday Night Live_ sketch and sing “I Feel Pretty”? > IQ3: Were you the first commander of the Plymouth Colony militia? DQ. DQ. Not Miles Standish. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a very early recording artist who made his name recording George M. Cohan songs? > 2. Did you star in _I Was A Teenage Werewolf_? > 3. Did you die in the year of the Flood? DQ. Not Michael Landon. Not Methuselah. (I wonder if the flood got him…) > [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Were you a baseball star whose Dad named him after a stellar catcher for the Detroit Tigers? > IQ2) Were you a key Watergate witness, since you were married to the head of CREEP (the Committee to Re-Elect the President)? > IQ3) Were you a DJ who called himself the 5th Beatle? Three DQs. > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you play Jesus, Satan, and the Brewmeister? > IQ2: Are you a member of the Flash’s rogues’ gallery? > IQ3: Were you an ambassador from the Centauri Republic? Three DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you one of Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s adversaries? > Did you host Mutual of Omaha’s _Wild Kingdom_? > Did you say, “Time is the fire in which we burn”? DQ. Not Marlin Perkins. DQ. **M** 1. First name does not start with ‘M’ ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/778 "2014-10-24T23:56:59Z")
IQ1: Is a thermodynamic thought experiment involving a demon named after you? IQ2: Are you a woman who has led Israel? IQ3: In Titanic, did Kate Winslett’s character chide Leonardo DeCaprio’s for painting less innocent subject matter than you did? ---
**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 25, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/779 "2014-10-25T01:12:41Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a very early recording artist who made his name recording George M. Cohan songs? > 2. Did you star in I Was A Teenage Werewolf? > 3. Did you die in the year of the Flood? > > DQ. > Not Michael Landon. > Not Methuselah. (I wonder if the flood got him…) #1 was Billy Murray (no relation to the later actor). Correct on 2 and 3. There has been, as you imagine, lots of speculation about Methuselah’s demise. DQ: Real? ---
**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 25, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/780 "2014-10-25T01:13:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star opposite Gene Wilder in _Young Frankenstein_? 2. Ditto #1 3. Ditto #1 and 2. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=40)