# 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:** 2
**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, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/21 "2025-04-03T21:21:21Z")
Incredibly good job, **SunUp!** IQs: 1. Did Harry Stewart record comedy records using your name? 2. Did Jim Henson refuse to do your voice because he already did a character who was green and lived in a swamp? 3. Are you one of Dr. Hank Pym’s many aka’s? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/22 "2025-04-03T21:49:59Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you perform a duet with Condoleezza Rice in 2001? > > 2. Is your face painted on the facade of a 20-story building in Odintsovo, Russia? > > 3. Were you a victim of dioxin poisoning in 2004? > > I am not Yitzhak Perelman. > I am not… Boris Yeltsin? > Take a DQ. 1. Good guess, but it’s actually Yo Yo Ma. If you find out that Condie performed in a duet with Perelman in 2001 as well, I will owe you a DQ. 2. Yuri Gargarin 3. Viktor Yushchenko DQs: Currently serving/ active duty? Caucasian? I 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 4, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/23 "2025-04-04T03:49:23Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French fashion designer? > 2. Are you a former French male tennis player? > 3. Were you an actor best know for playing Cosmo Topper? Correct, correct, Roland Young. 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 4, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/24 "2025-04-04T05:06:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did Harry Stewart record comedy records using your name? > 2. Did Jim Henson refuse to do your voice because he already did a character who was green and lived in a swamp? > 3. Are you one of Dr. Hank Pym’s many aka’s? Hmm… take a DQ. I am not Yo-da, yo-yo-yo-yo-Yo-da, yo-yo-yo-yo-Yo-da… I am not… uhhh, “Yant-man?” Oh, take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/25 "2025-04-04T05:07:33Z")
# Y 1. Real 2. Alive 3. Male 4. American 5. Best known for politics/military 6. Not currently serving/active duty 7. Not Caucasian ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/26 "2025-04-04T14:21:49Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the alias of a popular, if polarizing, hip hop star? 2. Were you a member of the British pop group Q-Tips before going solo and recording several pop hits in the 1980s? 3. Did you appear on a baseball card desperately sought after by Milhouse Van Houten? ---
**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, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/27 "2025-04-04T15:10:34Z")
Previous IQs: Does your picture hang prominently in the Taiwan legislature? - Yes, Sun Yat-sen Did you play Rocky’s lowlife brother-in-law? - Yes, Burt Young Did you star in _Witchblade_? - Yancy Butler DQ: Best known for politics? IQs: Were you one of two foreign-born _SNL_ “wild and crazy guys”? A former KGB chairman, was Gorbachev your protege? Were Joey and Chandler big fans of yours? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/28 "2025-04-04T17:32:08Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Are you the alias of a popular, if polarizing, hip hop star? > 2. Were you a member of the British pop group Q-Tips before going solo and recording several pop hits in the 1980s? > 3. Did you appear on a baseball card desperately sought after by Milhouse Van Houten? I am not Ye, aka Kanye West. I am not Paul Young. Take a DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you one of two foreign-born _SNL_ “wild and crazy guys”? > A former KGB chairman, was Gorbachev your protege? > Were Joey and Chandler big fans of yours? Take a DQ. I am not Yuri Andropov. Take another DQ. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/29 "2025-04-04T17:32:47Z")
# Y 1. Real 2. Alive 3. Male 4. American 5. Best known for politics/military 6. Not currently serving/active duty 7. Not Caucasian 8. Best known for politics ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/30 "2025-04-04T18:47:33Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you the alias of a popular, if polarizing, hip hop star? > > 2. Were you a member of the British pop group Q-Tips before going solo and recording several pop hits in the 1980s? > > 3. Did you appear on a baseball card desperately sought after by Milhouse Van Houten? > > I am not Ye, aka Kanye West. > I am not Paul Young. > Take a DQ. Correct, correct, and Carl Yastremski 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:** [April 4, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/31 "2025-04-04T20:49:07Z")
Previous IQs: Were you one of two foreign-born _SNL_ “wild and crazy guys”? - Yorga and Hortuk, played by Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd (or the other way 'round) A former KGB chairman, was Gorbachev your protege? - Yes, Yuri Andropov Were Joey and Chandler big fans of yours? - Yasmine Bleeth of _Baywatch_, avidly watched by the guys on _Friends_ DQs: Born in or since 1965? Now in elected office? IQs: Are you a mystery writer, one of whose names is that of a Manhattan neighborhood? Were you a liberal US senator from Texas in the Sixties? Were you, along with Rico, on Eliot Ness’s team in the TV series _The Untouchables_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/32 "2025-04-04T21:07:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you a mystery writer, one of whose names is that of a Manhattan neighborhood? > Were you a liberal US senator from Texas in the Sixties? > Were you, along with Rico, on Eliot Ness’s team in the TV series _The Untouchables_? I am not… Chelsea Quinn Yarbro? (has she done any mysteries?) Take two DQs. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/33 "2025-04-04T21:08:14Z")
# Y 1. Real 2. Alive 3. Male 4. American 5. Best known for politics/military 6. Not currently serving/active duty 7. Not Caucasian 8. Best known for politics 9. Born before 1965 10. Not currently in elected office ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/34 "2025-04-05T01:51:39Z")
1. Were you the maid in **Clue**? 2. Are you the main character in **Holes**? 3. Were you the original Mary Magdalene in **Jesus Christ Superstar**? DQ: 1. First name begins with Y? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/35 "2025-04-05T06:06:16Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > - Were you the maid in **Clue**? > - Are you the main character in **Holes**? > - Were you the original Mary Magdalene in **Jesus Christ Superstar**? I am not Yvette. I am not Stanley Yelnats. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/36 "2025-04-05T06:06:46Z")
# Y 1. Real 2. Alive 3. Male 4. American 5. Best known for politics/military 6. Not currently serving/active duty 7. Not Caucasian 8. Best known for politics 9. Born before 1965 10. Not currently in elected office 11. Last name begins with Y ---
**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 5, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/37 "2025-04-05T14:23:55Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did Harry Stewart record comedy records using your name? > > 2. Did Jim Henson refuse to do your voice because he already did a character who was green and lived in a swamp? > > 3. Are you one of Dr. Hank Pym’s many aka’s? > > Hmm… take a DQ. > I am not Yo-da, yo-yo-yo-yo-Yo-da, yo-yo-yo-yo-Yo-da… > I am not… uhhh, “Yant-man?” Oh, take a DQ. #1 was Yogi Yorgesson. #2 correct is. #3 is Yellowjacket. Hmmm… Andrew Yang’s too young. DQs: 1. Black? 2. Former Congressman? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/38 "2025-04-05T14:31:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Shirley on _Community_? 2. Were you one of the police detectives who consumed hashish while on duty at the 12th Precinct? 3. Did you play a green-skinned humanoid who seduced Capt. James T Kirk? ---
**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 5, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/39 "2025-04-05T14:35:28Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Rizzo the Rat’s girlfriend? 2. Were you a French actor and singer married to Simone Signoret? 3. Did you occasionally remark, “My biscuits are burnin’!”? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/40 "2025-04-05T14:36:42Z")
@Prof.Pepperwinkle I think #3 was already used earlier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=3)