# 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:** 13
**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, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/241 "2025-04-30T22:11:29Z")
DQ: Initially from TV or movies? ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/242 "2025-05-01T01:10:17Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 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? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Charles Bond, dunno and not Charles Holmes. Nick Carter Charles III Neill Cream Three DQs 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:** [May 1, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/243 "2025-05-01T01:23:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@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 #1 was Jerry Colonna. #2 was Callipurnia, in Shakespeare’s _Julius Caesar_. #3 is correct. 2 DQs 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:** [May 1, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/244 "2025-05-01T02:06:42Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with C 4. not originally from a work of prose fiction 5. created after 1900 6. created after 1950 7. not a main character or part of an ensemble 8. initially from TV or movies ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/245 "2025-05-01T02:07:27Z")
DQs: 1. Initially from a movie? 2. Actually seen in the movie or TV show? ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/246 "2025-05-01T03:22:52Z")
DQ1: American creator? DQ2: American character? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/247 "2025-05-01T18:15:24Z")
IQs: 1. Did you accede to the throne in September 2022? 2. Were you portrayed on film as a businessman who hires Pat Garrett to hunt down Billy the Kid? 3. Did you appear at Woodstock a few months before your first album was released? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/248 "2025-05-01T19:39:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you operate a used musical instruments store in Calumet City, IL? 2. Did you play an iconic science fiction role while also becoming one of the most sought-after script doctors in Hollywood? 3. Were you a jazz scat singer and bandleader who was the first African-American to have a nationally syndicated radio show? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/249 "2025-05-02T00:25:21Z")
@Elendil_s_Heir please disregard my previous IQs. IQs: 1. **Did you lead a band of gunfighters against a Mexican bandit who was terrorizing a village?** 2. Were you portrayed on film as a businessman who hires Pat Garrett to hunt down Billy the Kid? 3. Did you appear at Woodstock a few months before your first album was released? (Thanks @SCAdian!) ---
**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:** [May 2, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/250 "2025-05-02T03:27:58Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you operate a used musical instruments store in Calumet City, IL? > 2. Did you play an iconic science fiction role while also becoming one of the most sought-after script doctors in Hollywood? > 3. Were you a jazz scat singer and bandleader who was the first African-American to have a nationally syndicated radio show? Dunno, not Carrie Fisher and not Cab Calloway. > [@knoodler](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Did you lead a band of gunfighters against a Mexican bandit who was terrorizing a village? > 2. Were you portrayed on film as a businessman who hires Pat Garrett to hunt down Billy the Kid? > 3. Did you appear at Woodstock a few months before your first album was released? > … Not Clint Eastwood, dunno, and not Carlos Santana. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with C 4. not originally from a work of prose fiction 5. created after 1900 6. created after 1950 7. not a main character or part of an ensemble 8. initially from TV or movies 9. initially from a movie 10. actually seen in the movie or TV show 11. American creator(s) 12. American character ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/251 "2025-05-02T04:45:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you lead a band of gunfighters against a Mexican bandit who was terrorizing a village? > > 2. Were you portrayed on film as a businessman who hires Pat Garrett to hunt down Billy the Kid? > > 3. Did you appear at Woodstock a few months before your first album was released? > > … > > Not Clint Eastwood, dunno, and not Carlos Santana. 1. Chris Adams (Yul Brynner, _The Magnificent Seven_) 2. John Chisum (as portrayed by James Coburn, _Young Guns II_) 3. Correct 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:** [May 2, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/252 "2025-05-02T05:55:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you operate a used musical instruments store in Calumet City, IL? > > 2. Did you play an iconic science fiction role while also becoming one of the most sought-after script doctors in Hollywood? > > 3. Were you a jazz scat singer and bandleader who was the first African-American to have a nationally syndicated radio show? > > Dunno, not Carrie Fisher and not Cab Calloway. The first was Ray Charles, playing himself as the proprietor of Ray’s Music Exchange in _The Blues Brothers_, which made this a “Blues Brothers” x3! DQ: From a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/253 "2025-05-02T21:27:22Z")
Oh, why not. IQs: 1. On a 1962 episode of _The Andy Williams Show_, did Williams ask Bette Davis if her new record was like her previous work in an onstage interpretation of your poetry? 2. Did she say it was more like you? 3. Were you her co-star in the movie she then sang the theme to? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/254 "2025-05-03T02:32:25Z")
Dunno x3. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with C 4. not originally from a work of prose fiction 5. created after 1900 6. created after 1950 7. not a main character or part of an ensemble 8. initially from TV or movies 9. initially from a movie 10. actually seen in the movie or TV show 11. American creator(s) 12. American character 13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/255 "2025-05-03T03:06:27Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. On a 1962 episode of _The Andy Williams Show_, did Williams ask Bette Davis if her new record was like her previous work in an onstage interpretation of your poetry? > 2. Did she say it was more like you? > 3. Were you her co-star in the movie she then sang the theme to? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x3. 1 was Carl Sandburg; 2 was Chubby Checker; 3 was Joan Crawford. (I’ve selected a film to screen at a repertory film society on Monday, and prior to the film there’s going to be a half-hour pre-show which I’ve been assembling over the last few weeks, including the clip of Davis singing the theme for _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane_.) DQs: 1. originally from a movie made after 1980? 2. also appeared on TV? 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:** [May 3, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/256 "2025-05-03T03:11:09Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with C 4. not originally from a work of prose fiction 5. created after 1900 6. created after 1950 7. not a main character or part of an ensemble 8. initially from TV or movies 9. initially from a movie 10. actually seen in the movie or TV show 11. American creator(s) 12. American character 13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie 14. not originally from a movie made after 1980 15. did not also appear on TV (except in re-runs) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/257 "2025-05-03T04:19:46Z")
DQs: 1. Created after 1975? 2. First name begins A-M? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/258 "2025-05-03T13:32:38Z")
DQ: 1. Last name begins with Ca-Cl? 2. Caucasian? One 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:** [May 3, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/259 "2025-05-03T14:29:25Z")
IQs: 1. Are you aka the Lizard in Marvel comics? 2. Did you hang around with Spinner and Paddlefoot? 3. Did you write the hymn _O God of Earth and Altar_? ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/260 "2025-05-04T04:16:13Z")
Dunno x3. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with C 4. not originally from a work of prose fiction 5. created after 1900 6. created after 1950 7. not a main character or part of an ensemble 8. initially from TV or movies 9. initially from a movie 10. actually seen in the movie or TV show 11. American creator(s) 12. American character 13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie 14. not originally from a movie made after 1980 15. did not also appear on TV (except in re-runs) 16. created after 1975 17. first name doesn’t begins A-M 18. last name begins with Ca-Cl 19. Caucasian No more IQs, and ask all earned DQs by noon EST Monday, please. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=14)