# Boticelli March 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 28, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243 "2022-02-28T17:58:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/261 "2022-04-02T02:43:44Z")
Science? How did I miss science? Well, at least now I have a good guess. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/262 "2022-04-02T19:56:46Z")
Thanks, **CFOHG**. DQs: Best known for military R&D? Greatest accomplishment before 1945? One DQ reserved, ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/263 "2022-04-02T21:37:33Z")
Dedley Lamarr? ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/264 "2022-04-03T00:15:43Z")
Oh, that’s funny! 😄 ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/265 "2022-04-03T00:39:39Z")
**D** 1. Real 2. First name starts with D 3. Female 4. Dead 5. American 6. Not best known for the Arts 7. Died before 1990 8. Not political/military 9. Not known for business/entrepreneur 10. Not considered a beauty 11. Did not have a famous husband 12. Died after 1900 13. Partially, but not primarily known for social work / social activism (fighting racism, raising awareness, women’s rights, etc.) 14. Died after 1950 15. Not best known for a single incident 16. Not associated with NYC 17. Wrote a well-known book, but not primarily known for writing 18. Not known from television 19. Caucasian 20. Not known from religion 21. Known from science 22. Not known for military R&D 23. Greatest accomplishment after 1945 ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/266 "2022-04-03T02:06:23Z")
If I’m right, this lady was one of Leakey’s Trimates, was murdered and buried in a gorilla graveyard, and was portrayed by Sigourney Weaver in the movie. But I could be wrong. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/267 "2022-04-03T09:15:31Z")
But you would be right, because **YES!!** I am Dian Fossey Author of Gorillas in the Mist (#17) and founder of the Digit Fund to support anti-poaching efforts (#13). Although, it would be awesome if she were known for military R&D, promoting advances in gorilla warfare. > **[Dian Fossey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Dian Fossey (/daɪˈæn/, January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. Gorillas in the Mist, a book published two years before her death, is Fossey's account of her scienti... ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/268 "2022-04-03T11:58:11Z")
Thank you! Link to April 2022 Botticelli thread: [Botticelli - April 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2022/962184) ---
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/269 "2022-04-04T19:23:45Z")
Good one, **CFOHG** , and well done, **Prof. P.**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243.md?page=13)