# 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:** 4
**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, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/61 "2025-04-06T23:50:56Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional, died in one medium, alive in another. 2. Male 3. Only name begins with Z Yes, I did win one game on the first guess of the round. It was December, and the person was Tiny Tim. ---
**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, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/62 "2025-04-06T23:51:18Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 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? 1. I am not Zero Mostel. Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/63 "2025-04-07T01:41:49Z")
1. Correct 2. Agent Zero 3. Florenz Ziegfeld DQs: Created before 1950? Created by American? ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/64 "2025-04-07T02:46:51Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in the Nineties? - Zachary Space Were you a British schoolboy who came last in alphabetical order every time, but learned that it wasn’t so bad? - Zachary Zween, [in the kids’ book which bears his name](https://www.amazon.com/Story-Zachary-Zween-Mabel-Watts/dp/B0006BQ30E) Did U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee both serve under you during the Mexican War? - Zachary Taylor Zachary x3! DQs: Were you the MIB boss? Were you a badass DI for the MI? Were you a notable lobby boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel? ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/65 "2025-04-07T13:19:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the MIB boss? Z is usually a short round. Yes, I am **Zed!** [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.RSpmwSXWO0VzPeC_P4o7ZgAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.RSpmwSXWO0VzPeC_P4o7ZgAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) Good call, **EH!** ---
**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 9, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/66 "2025-04-09T20:08:37Z")
Thanks! Good one. One of Rip Torn’s better roles, I think. Previous IQs: Were you a badass DI for the MI? - Sergeant Zim in Heinlein’s _Starship Troopers_ Were you a notable lobby boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel? - Zero, in the Wes Anderson movie Right. Our next letter is # S ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/67 "2025-04-09T20:40:47Z")
Good guess on Zed, **E\_H**! (A Brit would say you got Zed on letter zed) IQs: 1. Were you a New England farmer who sold his soul to the Devil? 2. Did you write the story in which #1 appeared? 3. Did you win 25 games for the Orioles in 1980? ---
**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 9, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/68 "2025-04-09T22:04:25Z")
IQs: 1. Are you also known as Curumo? 2. Did you lose the Centennial presidential election? 3. Are you secretly Bicycle Repair Man? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/69 "2025-04-09T23:57:14Z")
IQs: 1. Did you moonlight as a flapper in Weimar-Era Berlin? 2. Were you diagnosed with a lazy eye, requiring you to wear an eyepatch for a while? 3. Did you appear as a newlywed wife with ESP? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/70 "2025-04-10T02:27:17Z")
Congrats! 1. Are you the protagonist of Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet? 2. Are you her friend whose Grandfather is a werewolf? 3. Are you the Queen of Valdemar in the **Arrows of the Queen** trilogy? ---
**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 11, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/71 "2025-04-11T02:05:37Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a New England farmer who sold his soul to the Devil? > 2. Did you write the story in which #1 appeared? > 3. Did you win 25 games for the Orioles in 1980? Not Daniel Webster’s client, whose name escapes me (take a DQ), not Stephen Vincent Benet, and dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you also known as Curumo? > 2. Did you lose the Centennial presidential election? > 3. Are you secretly Bicycle Repair Man? Not Saruman, not Samuel Tilden, and I should know this but don’t. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you moonlight as a flapper in Weimar-Era Berlin? > 2. Were you diagnosed with a lazy eye, requiring you to wear an eyepatch for a while? > 3. Did you appear as a newlywed wife with ESP? Not Sally Hewes (sp?), dunno and dunno. > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you the protagonist of Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet? > 2. Are you her friend whose Grandfather is a werewolf? > 3. Are you the Queen of Valdemar in the **Arrows of the Queen** trilogy? Dunno x3. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/72 "2025-04-11T02:07:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you a New England farmer who sold his soul to the Devil? > > 2. Did you write the story in which #1 appeared? > > 3. Did you win 25 games for the Orioles in 1980? > > Not Daniel Webster’s client, whose name escapes me (take a DQ), not Stephen Vincent Benet, and dunno. Jabez Stone, correct, and Steve Stone. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Female? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/73 "2025-04-11T02:49:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you moonlight as a flapper in Weimar-Era Berlin? > > 2. Were you diagnosed with a lazy eye, requiring you to wear an eyepatch for a while? > > 3. Did you appear as a newlywed wife with ESP? > > Not Sally Hewes (sp?), dunno and dunno. 1. Sally Bowles, I think you had the right person 2. Sally Brown (_Peanuts_) 3. Sally Field (_The Girl with Something Extra_) Sally x3! 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/74 "2025-04-11T09:22:42Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > 1. Are you the protagonist of Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet? > 2. Are you her friend whose Grandfather is a werewolf? > 3. Are you the Queen of Valdemar in the **Arrows of the Queen** trilogy? Sophronia Temminick, Sidheag, Lady Kingair and Selenay. 3 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:** [April 11, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/75 "2025-04-11T13:11:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you also known as Curumo? > > 2. Did you lose the Centennial presidential election? > > 3. Are you secretly Bicycle Repair Man? > > Not Saruman, not Samuel Tilden, and I should know this but don’t. Correct. Correct. Bicycle Repair Man is the secret identity of Mr. F. G. Superman, as seen on _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ (“Bicycle Repair Man! But… how?”) DQ: Last name stars with S? ---
**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 11, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/76 "2025-04-11T15:25:02Z")
S. 1. fictional 2. female 3. last name starts with S ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/77 "2025-04-11T16:25:44Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s mom? 2. Were you the puppet Indian princess on _The Howdy Doody Show_? 3. Voiced by Sir Harry Secombe, were you the central character on most of the episodes of the highly acclaimed, spearmint-covered, talky-talk wireless 1950’s BBC Radio series _The Goon Show_? ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/78 "2025-04-11T16:55:01Z")
Dunno x3. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/79 "2025-04-11T17:24:39Z")
DQs: Created after 1950? Main character? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/80 "2025-04-11T17:48:44Z")
IQs: 1. Were Scarlett Johansson, Kate Mara, Jennifer Garner, and Kristen Stewart among the actresses considered to play you before Jessica Alba won the role? 2. Have you played a hooker, a witch, a newspaper publisher, and a head of state in Oscar-worthy roles? 3. Did you portray a woman who is the youngest female in United States history to have been tried and convicted of first-degree murder? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476.md?page=5)