# Botticelli - April 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 1, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476 "2025-04-01T22:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/221 "2025-04-29T03:28:05Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > - Were you an Oscar-winning actor who murdered your wife three weeks after the wedding? > > - Did you serve your country as a combat trainer, teaching soldiers gymnastics and calisthenics? > > - Were you a college athlete who was suspended indefinitely from your team for repeatedly tripping opponents? > > Take 3 DQs. 1. Gig Young 2. Gal Gadot 3. Grayson Allen 3 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/222 "2025-04-29T15:42:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you considered the Father of D&D? > Were you a noted naval aviation survivor of the Battle of Midway? > Were you the second person to play Lando Calrissian? I am not E. Gary Gygax nor am I Donald Glover, but I am # George Gay naval aviator, sole survivor of VT-8’s attack on _Kido Butai_, and owner of a ringside seat for one of the most importatnt naval battles in history. Over to you, @Elendil_s_Heir !! ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/223 "2025-04-29T16:30:52Z")
Thanks! Just read Tully and Parshall’s _Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway_ not too long ago, which discusses Ens. Gay’s experiences. For more on him: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_Gay\_Jr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Gay_Jr). I always wondered what kind of survivor guilt he had to deal with. Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #133 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/133) Let’s next go with # C ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/224 "2025-04-29T17:41:34Z")
Nice job **E\_H**! IQs: 1. Did you record your first single under the name Bonnie Jo Mason? 2. Are you known for always wearing a checkered flat cap that always covers your eyes? 3. Were you the first artist to win the four major Grammy categories in the same year? ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/225 "2025-04-29T18:05:25Z")
Not Cindi Lauper, dunno and not Sheryl Crow. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/226 "2025-04-29T18:31:10Z")
1. Cher 2. Andy Capp 3. Christopher Cross **DQs** : 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name begins with C? ---
**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 29, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/227 "2025-04-29T19:01:10Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with C ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/228 "2025-04-29T19:23:13Z")
IQs: 1. Are you president of the United States in the 26th century? 2. Did you play #1? 3. Did you get taken by the Paratime Police into a different timeline where the Americas had been colonized from the west? ---
**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 29, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/229 "2025-04-29T23:01:41Z")
Great job, **EH!** I didn’t know him at all. IQs: 1. At the end of _Road to Rio_ did you say, “Well, what do you know? We didn’t make it! Exciting, though, wasn’t it?” 2. Did you have a dream that Julius Caesar died in your arms? 3. Did you invent the sculptural form of the mobile? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/230 "2025-04-29T23:50:25Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a professional baseball and basketball player before becoming a well-known actor, appearing in several movie and TV roles? 2. Were you nicknamed “The Rifleman” for your sharp-shooting basketball skills? 3. Were you a last-minute replacement for the game show you produced, after the original host walked off the set before airtime? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/231 "2025-04-30T02:15:23Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Is your best friend and fellow basement public access show star Wayne? > 2. Did you play Nick Stokes on **CSI**? > 3. Were you married to Jean Smart? Okay, so this was correct, George Eads and Richard Gilliland. Congrats! IQs: 1. Did you play Topper Harley in two films? 2. Were you captured by the Comanches in 1836 and the mother of Quanah? 3. Are you the main character in Patricia Wrede’s **Dealing with Dragons**? ---
**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 30, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/232 "2025-04-30T03:43:52Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you president of the United States in the 26th century? > 2. Did you play #1? > 3. Did you get taken by the Paratime Police into a different timeline where the Americas had been colonized from the west? Dunno, dunno and not Christopher Columbus. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. At the end of _Road to Rio_ did you say, “Well, what do you know? We didn’t make it! Exciting, though, wasn’t it?” > 2. Did you have a dream that Julius Caesar died in your arms? > 3. Did you invent the sculptural form of the mobile? Not Bing Crosby, Cassius or Calder. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a professional baseball and basketball player before becoming a well-known actor, appearing in several movie and TV roles? > 2. Were you nicknamed “The Rifleman” for your sharp-shooting basketball skills? > 3. Were you a last-minute replacement for the game show you produced, after the original host walked off the set before airtime? Not Chuck Connors, not Wilt Chamberlain and not Drew Carey. > [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Topper Harley in two films? > 2. Were you captured by the Comanches in 1836 and the mother of Quanah? > 3. Are you the main character in Patricia Wrede’s **Dealing with Dragons**? Dunno x3. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/233 "2025-04-30T04:10:14Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Topper Harley in two films? > 2. Were you captured by the Comanches in 1836 and the mother of Quanah? > 3. Are you the main character in Patricia Wrede’s **Dealing with Dragons**? Charlie Sheen, Cynthia Ann Parker and Cimorene. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Female? 1 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/234 "2025-04-30T04:17:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a professional baseball and basketball player before becoming a well-known actor, appearing in several movie and TV roles? > > 2. Were you nicknamed “The Rifleman” for your sharp-shooting basketball skills? > > 3. Were you a last-minute replacement for the game show you produced, after the original host walked off the set before airtime? > > Not Chuck Connors, not Wilt Chamberlain and not Drew Carey. 1. Correct (kinda hinted at it with the second question) 2. Chuck Person (Indiana Pacers; also named after Chuck Connors) 3. Chuck Barris (The Gong Show) Chuck x3! 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/235 "2025-04-30T05:16:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Are you president of the United States in the 26th century? > > 2. Did you play #1? > > 3. Did you get taken by the Paratime Police into a different timeline where the Americas had been colonized from the west? > > Dunno, dunno and not Christopher Columbus. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (of _Idiocracy_), Terry Crews, and Corporal Calvin Morrison, Pennsylvania State Police aka Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. DQ: First name starts with C? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/236 "2025-04-30T13:31:49Z")
IQ1: Did you start as a private detective in the 1880s, then become a secret agent in the 1960s? IQ2: Did your nephew marry Autumn Kelly? IQ3: Were you a doctor hanged in the 1890s for being a serial killer? ---
**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 30, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/237 "2025-04-30T18:08:13Z")
Not Charles Bond, dunno and not Charles Holmes. **kitap** and **SunUp** , each of your questions had already been answered. Please see post 227, and try again. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/238 "2025-04-30T18:12:41Z")
Whoops! DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction? DQ: Created before 1900? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 30, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/239 "2025-04-30T19:03:54Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with C 4. not originally from a work of prose fiction 5. created after 1900 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/240 "2025-04-30T20:03:27Z")
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