# \[GAME\] Botticelli - Sep 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 3, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353 "2014-09-03T12:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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 12, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/261 "2014-09-12T03:03:29Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a king who wrote flute sonatas? > IQ2: Are you Flossie’s twin? > IQ3: Did you play the man who ran the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, on screen? Yea verily thou getteth three 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 12, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/262 "2014-09-12T03:04:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your hump change sides? > Were you a conservative Maryland ally (usually) of President Lincoln? > Were you the first dude in town to swim for fun? not Marty Feldman, dunno x2 ---
**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 12, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/263 "2014-09-12T03:08:51Z")
IQs: 1. Were you one of Red Skelton’s more popular characters? 2. Are you aka the Punisher? 3. In just seven days can you make me a man? ---
**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 12, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/264 "2014-09-12T03:33:17Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a king who wrote flute sonatas? > IQ2: Are you Flossie’s twin? > IQ3: Did you play the man who ran the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, on screen? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Yea verily thou getteth three DQs Frederick the Great, whom EH had already asked about, so I won’t take that DQ. Freddy Bobbsey. (There were two sets of twins - Nan and Bert, and Flossie and Freddy.) Frank Sinatra played Nathan Detroit in the film version of _Guys and Dolls_. DQ1: Originally from literature? DQ2: If you were real, would you be alive today? IQ1: Were you Nero Wolfe’s cook? IQ2: Were you a bull who liked to sit and smell the flowers? IQ3: Did you die saving your owners’ daughter from drowning? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/265 "2014-09-12T11:10:06Z")
Frankie Frisch of the St. Louis Cardinals, the leader of the old Gashouse Gang, was “The Fordham Flash.” Mick Fleetwood started Fleetwood Mac in 1967 after being fired from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Jimmy Foxx managed in the Girls’ League- he was turned into “Jimmy Dugan” in the movie. DQ1) Are you widely known as a movie character? DQ2) Are you the primary character in whatever work(s) you appeared in? DQ3) Are you a “good guy”? ---
**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 12, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/266 "2014-09-12T13:09:20Z")
DQ roundup 1. Not real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name does not start with F 5. Not originally from literature 6. Would be alive today if real 7. Not widely known as a movie character 8. Not the primary character of whatever works I appear in, but sometimes I get to be 9. I am considered a good guy ---
**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 12, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/267 "2014-09-12T13:12:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of Red Skelton’s more popular characters? > 2. Are you aka the Punisher? > 3. In just seven days can you make me a man? dunno, not Frank somebody, not the guy whose ads appeared in comic books whose name I can’t remember, just take 3 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 12, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/268 "2014-09-12T13:13:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Nero Wolfe’s cook? > IQ2: Were you a bull who liked to sit and smell the flowers? > IQ3: Did you die saving your owners’ daughter from drowning? dunno x2, not Farley from _For Better or For Worse_ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/269 "2014-09-12T13:23:09Z")
IQ: Are you a hunter with a speech impediment? ---
**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 12, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/270 "2014-09-12T13:50:35Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of Red Skelton’s more popular characters? > 2. Are you aka the Punisher? > 3. In just seven days can you make me a man? > > dunno, not Frank somebody, not the guy whose ads appeared in comic books whose name I can’t remember, just take 3 DQs #1 was Freddie the Freeloader. #2 was Frank Castle. #3 was (no, not Charles Atlas) Dr. Frank N. Furter from the _Rocky Horror Picture Show_. DQ: From TV? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/271 "2014-09-12T13:59:19Z")
IQ1) Did you run for President in 1856 as the candidate of the American (aka “Know Nothing”) Party? IQ2) Was “Shock Me” the one and only song your most famous band let you sing in live concerts? IQ3) Are you a world-famous singer and pianist whose real first name is Antoine? ---
**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 12, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/272 "2014-09-12T17:47:01Z")
DQ roundup 1. Not real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name does not start with F 5. Not originally from literature 6. Would be alive today if real 7. Not widely known as a movie character 8. Not the primary character of whatever works I appear in, but sometimes I get to be 9. I am considered a good guy 10. From TV ---
**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 12, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/273 "2014-09-12T17:48:06Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you a hunter with a speech impediment? Not Elmer Fudd, you cwazy wabbit. ---
**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 12, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/274 "2014-09-12T17:53:34Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you run for President in 1856 as the candidate of the American (aka “Know Nothing”) Party? > > IQ2) Was “Shock Me” the one and only song your most famous band let you sing in live concerts? > > IQ3) Are you a world-famous singer and pianist whose real first name is Antoine? dunno, not Ace Freeley (didn’t he sing Beth, or was that Peter Criss?), dunno ---
**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 12, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/275 "2014-09-12T18:11:52Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a reporter on _Murphy Brown_? 2. Were you one of an Odd Couple? 3. Are you one of the Scooby gang? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/276 "2014-09-12T18:18:16Z")
IQ: Is a NY airport named after you? ---
**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 12, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/277 "2014-09-12T18:26:14Z")
DQ: From a prime-time network TV series? 1 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 12, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/278 "2014-09-12T19:08:38Z")
Former Whig President Millard Fillmore ran again in 1856 as an anti-immigrant Know-Nothing. Ace Frehley is correct!!! Drummer Peter Criss sang “Beth.” Antoine Domino is better known as Fats! DQ1: Were you best known for a sitcom? DQ2: Did the TV show you appeared on debut before 1980? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/279 "2014-09-12T19:12:20Z")
IQ1) Did you win both the Daytona 500 and the Indy 500? IQ2) Were you a heroic detective much admired by Little Abner? IQ3) Did you write about a serial killer called The Misfit in the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”? ---
**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 12, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/280 "2014-09-12T23:02:56Z")
DQ roundup 1. Not real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name does not start with F 5. Not originally from literature 6. Would be alive today if real 7. Not widely known as a movie character 8. Not the primary character of whatever works I appear in, but sometimes I get to be 9. I am considered a good guy 10. From TV 11. From prime time 12. Not best known from a sitcom 13. Show did not debut before 1980 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=15)