# 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:** 3
**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, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/41 "2025-04-05T15:43:05Z")
Thanks, **knoodler** , I missed it. Kindly disregard #3. ---
**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, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/42 "2025-04-05T16:02:32Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 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? I am not Yvette Nicole Brown. I am not NIck Yemana. I am not Yvonne Craig. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 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’!”? Per **knoodler** , take 2 DQs. ---
**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, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/43 "2025-04-05T16:03:52Z")
# 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 12. Black 13. Former Congressman ---
**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, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/44 "2025-04-05T16:47:29Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 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’!”? > > Per **knoodler** , take 2 DQs. 1 is Yolanda. 2 was Yves Montand. DQs: 1. Former Senator? 2. Democrat? ---
**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, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/45 "2025-04-05T17:51:26Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 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 Supersar**? Correct, correct, Yvonne Elliman. 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 5, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/46 "2025-04-05T19:23:54Z")
# 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 12. Black 13. Former Congressman 14. Did not serve as a senator 15. Democrat ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/47 "2025-04-05T21:22:48Z")
IQ: Were you Jimmy Carter’s Ambassador to the UN? ---
**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, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/48 "2025-04-05T22:09:15Z")
Swept x3! 2 DQs still reserved ---
**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, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/49 "2025-04-05T22:12:11Z")
Dingdingding! We have a winner! Yes, I am # Andrew Young pastor, civil rights activist, diplomat and politician. I had to look twice when you typed > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Andrew Yang’s too young. because I almost thought you had it. Also, when I was selecting a “Y” person for this round, I had initially thought about Rodger Young, but decided to move to Andrew Young because I thought the former was too obscure, which made me do a double take when I saw @Elendil_s_Heir 's second IQ: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was a military spacecraft named after you in Heinlein’s _Starship Troopers_? which, had I not made the switch, probably would have gone as the fastest round of Botticelli in history. OK, take it away @Prof.Pepperwinkle ! ---
**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, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/50 "2025-04-05T23:34:10Z")
Thanks! After Y, let’s try… # Z! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/51 "2025-04-06T01:38:06Z")
Good job Prof! IQs: 1. Did you provide a spoken narrative on your father’s 1982 pop hit? 2. Oh, the pain! Did you cause your ship to be thrown off-course? 3. Were you the inspiration behind a 1973 pop song, that itself was inspired by a German composer, that itself was inspired by a book by a German philosopher, that itself was based on the life of an Iranian religious figure of the 6th century BC? ---
**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 6, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/52 "2025-04-06T02:13:39Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you provide a spoken narrative on your father’s 1982 pop hit? > 2. Oh, the pain! Did you cause your ship to be thrown off-course? > 3. Were you the inspiration behind a 1973 pop song, that itself was inspired by a German composer, that itself was inspired by a book by a German philosopher, that itself was based on the life of an Iranian religious figure of the 6th century BC? 1. I am not Moon Unit Zappa. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Zarathustra/Zoroaster. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/53 "2025-04-06T02:18:45Z")
Correct, Dr Zachary Smith, correct. DQ: Alive? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/54 "2025-04-06T02:37:11Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a prophet in the time of Josiah? 2. Did you write the magazine article “Why They Hate Us” after 9/11? 3. Were you a Minnesota Twins shortstop who won the AL MVP in 1965? ---
**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 6, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/55 "2025-04-06T02:51:39Z")
Well done, **Prof. P.**! Previous IQs: Are you a mystery writer, one of whose names is that of a Manhattan neighborhood? - Yes, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (I _thought_ she wrote mysteries, too) Were you a liberal US senator from Texas in the Sixties? - Ralph Yarborough Were you, along with Rico, on Eliot Ness’s team in the TV series _The Untouchables_? - Youngblood On to Z. Were you a Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in the Nineties? Were you a British schoolboy who came last in alphabetical order every time, but learned that it wasn’t so bad? Did U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee both serve under you during the Mexican War? ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/56 "2025-04-06T11:16:43Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a prophet in the time of Josiah? > 2. Did you write the magazine article “Why They Hate Us” after 9/11? > 3. Were you a Minnesota Twins shortstop who won the AL MVP in 1965? 1. I am not Zephaniah (??) Take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in the Nineties? > Were you a British schoolboy who came last in alphabetical order every time, but learned that it wasn’t so bad? > Did U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee both serve under you during the Mexican War? 1. I am not Zebulon Pike (??) Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 6, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/57 "2025-04-06T11:17:21Z")
DQ: 1. Alive in one medium, dead in another ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/58 "2025-04-06T15:16:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you a prophet in the time of Josiah? > > 2. Did you write the magazine article “Why They Hate Us” after 9/11? > > 3. Were you a Minnesota Twins shortstop who won the AL MVP in 1965? > > 1. I am not Zephaniah (??) > Take 2 DQs. Correct, Fareed Zakaria, and Zoilo Versalles. Well, I guess “real?” doesn’t give us anything new here. DQs: Male? Last name begins with Z? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/59 "2025-04-06T20:54:52Z")
IQs: 1. Were you blacklisted in the 50s before later appearing with Woody Allen in a film about the Hollywood Blacklist? 2. Are you the alias of Christoph Nord, a mutant? 3. Were you portrayed in a semi-biographical movie by William Powell? ---
**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 6, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/60 "2025-04-06T22:57:44Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Was a military spacecraft named after you in Heinlein’s _Starship Troopers_? > > which, had I not made the switch, probably would have gone as the fastest round of Botticelli in history. That was the fifth IQ of the game. A few years back I once won a game with the third IQ, and I have a vague recollection that someone (the Prof?) actually scored with the first one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=4)