# \[GAME\] 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:** 22
**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 21, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/421 "2014-09-21T19:35:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is your best-known creation a frog? > IQ2: Did you write a novel about a gamekeeper and his mistress? > IQ3: Were you a mining engineer who was caught in China by the Boxer Rebellion? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Jim Henson. > 2. I am not D. H. Lawrence. > Take a DQ for #3. Correct. Correct. Herbert Hoover. DQ: Died after 1960? IQ1: Did you write an SF war story about a Filipino soldier? IQ2: Did you write the Deathworld series? IQ3: Did you write a story in which “Sheba’s Breasts” were used as a landmark? ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/422 "2014-09-21T21:23:16Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name starts with H 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Known for the Arts 9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Died before 1960 ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/423 "2014-09-21T21:24:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write an SF war story about a Filipino soldier? > IQ2: Did you write the Deathworld series? > IQ3: Did you write a story in which “Sheba’s Breasts” were used as a landmark? I am not Robert A. Heinlein. I am not Harry Harrison. I am not H. Rider Haggard. If #3 is wrong, take a DQ. ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/424 "2014-09-21T21:26:03Z")
IQ1: Were you the inspiration for the musical _A Shoggoth on the Roof_? IQ2: Did you write _The Crapetbaggers_? IQ3: In 1970, did you run unsuccessfully for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado on the Freak Power ticket? ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/425 "2014-09-21T21:27:19Z")
DQ: Author? 1 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:** [September 21, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/426 "2014-09-21T21:31:41Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name starts with H 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Known for the Arts 9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Died before 1960 13. Author ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/427 "2014-09-21T21:32:43Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you the inspiration for the musical _A Shoggoth on the Roof_? > IQ2: Did you write _The Crapetbaggers_? > IQ3: In 1970, did you run unsuccessfully for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado on the Freak Power ticket? I am not H. P. Lovecraft. I am not Harold Robbins (assuming you meant Carpetbaggers). Take a DQ for 3. ---
**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 21, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/428 "2014-09-21T22:56:01Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not H. P. Lovecraft. > I am not Harold Robbins (assuming you meant Carpetbaggers). > Take a DQ for 3. Hunter S. Thompson DQ: Scifi/Fantasy genre? 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:** [September 21, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/429 "2014-09-21T23:07:07Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name starts with H 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Known for the Arts 9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Died before 1960 13. Author 14. Not known for SciFi/Fantasy genre Although I do know of one short story he wrote that would fit the Fantasy category, this is not how he is best remembered. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/430 "2014-09-22T00:35:20Z")
IQ: Despite what the record books say, do many credit you with holding the most revered record in sports? ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/431 "2014-09-22T00:52:45Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write an SF war story about a Filipino soldier? > IQ2: Did you write the Deathworld series? > IQ3: Did you write a story in which “Sheba’s Breasts” were used as a landmark? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Robert A. Heinlein. I am not Harry Harrison. I am not H. Rider Haggard. > If #3 is wrong, take a DQ. Correct on all three. IQ1: Are you really Harry Stubbs? IQ2: Do you live in Centerburg? IQ3: Are you Henry James? (I know he was a writer, but can’t think of anything he wrote…) ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/432 "2014-09-22T01:29:27Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Despite what the record books say, do many credit you with holding the most revered record in sports? Unless it’s Hank Aaron, who I am not, take a DQ. ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/433 "2014-09-22T01:30:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on all three. > IQ1: Are you really Harry Stubbs? > IQ2: Do you live in Centerburg? > IQ3: Are you Henry James? (I know he was a writer, but can’t think of anything he wrote…) Take 2 DQs for the first two. I did not write _The Turn of the Screw_. ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/434 "2014-09-22T01:37:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you really Harry Stubbs? > IQ2: Do you live in Centerburg? > IQ3: Are you Henry James? (I know he was a writer, but can’t think of anything he wrote…) > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 2 DQs for the first two. I did not write _The Turn of the Screw_. Hal Clement was the pen name used by SF author Stubbs. Homer Price, in the kids’ stories by Robert McCloskey. 🙂 DQ1: Known for fiction? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/435 "2014-09-22T02:08:28Z")
Yes, I was looking for “The Hammer”. ---
**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 22, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/436 "2014-09-22T02:33:18Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name starts with H 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Known for the Arts 9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Died before 1960 13. Author 14. Not known for SciFi/Fantasy genre 15. Best known for nonfiction. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/437 "2014-09-22T04:33:54Z")
Previous IQs: Did you marry a Jewish woman despite being a demonstrably anti-Semitic person? - This was also H.P. Lovecraft Are you an unpleasant being about whom that person wrote? - Hastur the Unspeakable Were you named after a Cleveland department store? - American actress Halle Berry DQs: Best known as a journalist? Involved in politics? Won a major award in his field? IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first Vice President? Did a cartoonist show you with a hat that was 'way too big for you? Did you first win military glory at Yorktown in 1781? ---
**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 22, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/438 "2014-09-22T05:34:30Z")
IQ: Did you write _The American Language_? ---
**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 22, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/439 "2014-09-22T11:42:37Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name starts with H 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Known for the Arts 9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Not known for the visual arts 12. Died before 1960 13. Author 14. Not known for SciFi/Fantasy genre 15. Best known for nonfiction. 16. Best known as a journalist. 17. Involved in politics, mainly through writing about social evils. 18. Did not win a major award, but an award was named after 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:** [September 22, 2014, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/440 "2014-09-22T11:43:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Lincoln’s first Vice President? > Did a cartoonist show you with a hat that was 'way too big for you? > Did you first win military glory at Yorktown in 1781? I am not Hannibal Hamlin. I am not “Little Ben” Harrison. Take a DQ for #3. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=23)