# January 2014, Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 2, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669 "2014-01-02T00:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**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:** [January 26, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/481 "2014-01-26T02:12:02Z")
_The Eiger Sanction_ and _The Loo Sanction_ were pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/482 "2014-01-26T02:20:33Z")
Not Studs Terkel and not Hunter Thompson. I give up. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/483 "2014-01-26T22:38:50Z")
One last hint - in addition to other awards, I was the first recipient of the prize which is named for me. It is a literary prize awarded by Rockefeller University to scientists deemed to have accomplished a significant literary achievement: it “recognizes scientists as poets”. Other recipients have included Freeman Dyson, Oliver Sacks and Richard Dawkins. I’ll reveal myself late evening my time tomorrow night if no one has guessed correctly by then. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/484 "2014-01-26T23:00:36Z")
IQ: Do you share your name with an astronomical phenomenon? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/485 "2014-01-27T01:53:39Z")
We’re at 20 DQs asked and answered, so I don’t think we get to ask any more IQs. Here’s my “Are you Firstname Lastname” question: Are you Neil DeAndre (sp?) Tyson, the NYC-area astronomer and pop scientist? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/486 "2014-01-27T02:15:00Z")
No, I’m not Neil DeGrasse Tyson - he’s still very much with us. Though you’re in exactly the right ball-park… ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/487 "2014-01-27T02:16:37Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Do you share your name with an astronomical phenomenon? No. That would be a DQ at a different stage of the game. I’m curious to know of whom you’re thinking. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/488 "2014-01-27T03:48:11Z")
Phooey, I’ve already guessed and I know it’s the author of _The Lives of a Cell_, if that’s any help to anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/489 "2014-01-27T03:54:36Z")
Nebula. (Probably not named after a person) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/490 "2014-01-27T07:16:19Z")
I got nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/491 "2014-01-28T03:31:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Phooey, I’ve already guessed and I know it’s the author of _The Lives of a Cell_, if that’s any help to anyone else. Well, Prof. Pepperwinkle has got it, whether the name was said out loud or not. I’m Lewis Thomas, who wrote essays in the New England Journal of Medicine. Those essays were collected into the books\* The Lives of a Cell; The Medusa and the Snail\* and _Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony_. He won the National Book Award three times in both the Arts and Letters category and the Science category. He fits chronologically between the heyday of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, and later works by Richard Dawkins. He was a contemporary of Carl Sagan, though Thomas’ subject matter and approach were remarkably different. He was also unafraid to take on politically divisive topics, such as the question of nuclear proliferation. So, I’ll leave you folks to debate whether Lewis Thomas is as famous as Botticelli, and I await your decision as to whether I should start the next round, or whether Prof. Pepperwinkle (who did, after all, get there) should start the next round. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/492 "2014-01-28T03:44:01Z")
Prof should IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/493 "2014-01-28T04:31:27Z")
I agree. The Professor should start the next round–he got closer than any of us. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/494 "2014-01-28T12:19:07Z")
I’ve never heard of the guy. So what’s next, Prof? ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/495 "2014-01-28T15:06:47Z")
Thanks, all! Next up… I am U! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/496 "2014-01-28T15:27:18Z")
IQ: Is your autobiography considered the best among the Presidents? ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/497 "2014-01-28T16:25:55Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Is your autobiography considered the best among the Presidents? I’m not Ulysses S. Grant. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/498 "2014-01-28T16:31:25Z")
I’ve heard of Lewis Thomas, but have never read his stuff, although I hear it’s quite good. Congrats, **Prof**. IQs: Are you a contemporary black actress and model? Were you a black actress and model in the Seventies? Did you commit adultery with the Duchess of Cornwall? ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/499 "2014-01-28T16:35:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’ve heard of Lewis Thomas, but have never read his stuff, although I hear it’s quite good. Congrats, **Prof**. > > IQs: > > Are you a contemporary black actress and model? > Were you a black actress and model in the Seventies? > Did you commit adultery with the Duchess of Cornwall? Take 2 DQs for #1 and #3. I am not Leslie Uggams. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/500 "2014-01-28T17:07:57Z")
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