# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/261 "2025-05-04T08:05:30Z")
Final DQ: From a mystery? ---
**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 5, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/262 "2025-05-05T03:38:08Z")
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 20. not from a mystery ---
**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 5, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/263 "2025-05-05T13:42:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 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_? A-hem. ---
**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 6, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/264 "2025-05-06T02:49:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x3. A-hem indeed. ---
**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 6, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/265 "2025-05-06T03:01:18Z")
Final DQ: from a comedy? ---
**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 6, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/266 "2025-05-06T03:09:28Z")
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 20. not from a mystery 21. from a comedy ---
**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 6, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/267 "2025-05-06T04:05:41Z")
Forgot I had a DQ left. Twelve hours after the deadline, so you don’t have to answer this, but… DQ: Adult human? ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/268 "2025-05-06T11:39:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 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_? > > A-hem. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Dunno x3. > > A-hem indeed. A-pologies. 1 was Dr. Curt Connors. 2 was Clutch Cargo. 3 was G. K. Chesterton. DQs: 1. Oscar-winning movie? 2. Set in a time contemporaneous with its release? 3. From a romantic comedy? ---
**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 6, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/269 "2025-05-06T19:12:41Z")
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 20. not from a mystery 21. from a comedy 22. adult human 23. not an Oscar-winning movie 24. set in a time contemporaneous with its release 25. not from a romantic comedy That concludes our DQs. Tawk amongst yourselves, and please ask all earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow. ---
**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 7, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/270 "2025-05-07T00:10:23Z")
Let’s see 76-80. Mel Brooks had Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Gene Wilder had 2 movies but they weren’t contemporaneous. The Zuckers had Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane! Woody Allen had Annie Hall and probably others. If I remember my dates correctly. ---
**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 7, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/271 "2025-05-07T00:35:45Z")
It can’t be _Annie Hall_; that won an Oscar. The movie screening on Monday programmed by yours truly (with the half-hour pre-show) went pretty well, I’d say. One of the clips was hard to hear, but it was four seconds long so I don’t think too many people noticed. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/272 "2025-05-07T00:46:52Z")
Also Animal House (tho I think E\_H already had one from there recently, Emil Faber, wasn’t it?), the Blues Brothers, Caddyshack. Does Allen’s _Manhattan_ qualify as a comedy? I think that was '79. Anyone familiar with the ouevre of Neil Simon? I think he was working on some films in that period. ---
**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 7, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/273 "2025-05-07T00:51:58Z")
Oh, yeah, I dated Madame P. and our big movie was the rom-com The Goodbye Girl. But there was also Murder By Death and, I think, The Out-of-Towners. And a couple of lesser Inspector Clouseau/Pink Panther movies. ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/274 "2025-05-07T03:18:16Z")
All good guesses. ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/275 "2025-05-07T14:08:25Z")
When did _Tootsie_ come out? ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/276 "2025-05-07T14:11:33Z")
Early 80’s, I think. Steve Martin had The Jerk. Bill Murray had Meatballs and maybe Stripes. Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor had The Silver Streak. George Burns had Oh, God and The Sunshine Boys. I’m not coming up with a good guess, though. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/277 "2025-05-07T14:58:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > George Burns had Oh, God and The Sunshine Boys. I think he also had one with Art Carney and another older actor, about three senior citizens who rob a bank to put some excitement into their lives, around that time. But I’ll be darned if I remember any character names. I think Stripes was '81. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/278 "2025-05-07T15:02:39Z")
What’s the possibility this could be an animated character? ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/279 "2025-05-07T15:13:15Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I think he also had one with Art Carney and another older actor, about three senior citizens who rob a bank to put some excitement into their lives, around that time. But I’ll be darned if I remember any character names. That was Going In Style. I saw it, but wasn’t impressed. ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/280 "2025-05-07T15:15:18Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > What’s the possibility this could be an animated character? That’s an idea. Wizards came out about that time. I don’t think anybody in that movie had a first and last name, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=15)