# Botticelli - April 2025

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476>\
**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:** 7

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/121 "2025-04-19T03:28:38Z")

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Congrats!

IQs:

1. Did you play Nate Ford on **Leverage**?
2. Were you Roger E. Mosley’s character on the original **Magnum, P.I.**?
3. Are you Soulless?

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**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 19, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/122 "2025-04-19T03:41:38Z")

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IQ1: Did you lead a 19th-century slave rebellion in Virginia?  
IQ2: Do you frequently ask Mr Whoopee for advice?  
IQ3: Are you also known as Paste-Pot Pete?

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/123 "2025-04-19T05:26:28Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > [@knoodler](#):
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> > IQs:
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> > 1. Did you make your film debut in the movie _The Cowboy Millionaire_ in 1909?
> > 2. Were you the driver of the Thunderbolt Grease-Slapper?
> > 3. Were you drafted during the Vietnam War, and serve in the California Army National Guard where you achieved the rank of sergeant?
> 
> 1. I am not Tom Slick.  
> Take 2 DQs.

Tom Mix, correct, Tom Selleck

Toms x3!

2 DQs reserved

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/124 "2025-04-19T05:51:52Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you play opposite of Kathy Bates on _The Big Bang Theory_?
2. Were you the only non-American main cast member in _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_?
3. Did you play a non-human opposite to Will Smith in _I, Robot_?

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**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 19, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/125 "2025-04-19T12:11:30Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?  
> Are you the best-known denizen of the Island of Sodor?  
> Are you Ohio’s most recent honoree in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol?

1. I am not Tecumseh Sherman (?)
2. Take 2 DQs.

> [@kitap](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you play Nate Ford on **Leverage**?
> 2. Were you Roger E. Mosley’s character on the original **Magnum, P.I.**?
> 3. Are you Soulless?

1. I am not Alexia Terabotti (sp?).  
Take 2 DQs.

> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you lead a 19th-century slave rebellion in Virginia?  
> IQ2: Do you frequently ask Mr Whoopee for advice?  
> IQ3: Are you also known as Paste-Pot Pete?

1. I am not Nat Turner.
2. I am not Tennessee Tuxedo.
3. I am not the Trapster.

> [@knoodler](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Did you play opposite of Kathy Bates on _The Big Bang Theory_?
> 2. Were you the only non-American main cast member in _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_?
> 3. Did you play a non-human opposite to Will Smith in _I, Robot_?

1. I am not Teller.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**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 19, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/126 "2025-04-19T12:18:04Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with T
4. Dead
5. Known for the Arts

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/127 "2025-04-19T13:56:59Z")

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Correct, Terry-Thomas, Alan Tudyk

DQs:

Alive in 1950?  
American?

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**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 19, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/128 "2025-04-19T15:07:21Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? - Not [William] Tecumseh Sherman, but George H. Thomas  
Are you the best-known denizen of the Island of Sodor? - Thomas the Tank Engine  
Are you Ohio’s most recent honoree in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol? - Thomas Edison

Thomas x3!

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you hold Cdmr. Spock’s job in an alternative timeline?  
Were you the satyr-like character in the very, very bad movie _Manos: The Hands of Fate_?  
Were you the first U.S. Secretary of State?

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**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 19, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/129 "2025-04-19T22:43:19Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with T
4. Dead
5. Known for the Arts
6. Died before 1950
7. Not American

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**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 19, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/130 "2025-04-19T22:43:45Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> Did you hold Cdmr. Spock’s job in an alternative timeline?  
> Were you the satyr-like character in the very, very bad movie _Manos: The Hands of Fate_?  
> Were you the first U.S. Secretary of State?

1. I am not Thomas Jefferson.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/131 "2025-04-19T23:32:07Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
>
> Congrats!
> 
> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you play Nate Ford on **Leverage**?
> 2. Were you Roger E. Mosley’s character on the original **Magnum, P.I.**?
> 3. Are you Soulless?

Timothy Hutton, TC, correct (Alexia Tarabotti).

IQs:

1. Did Kim Richards play you in **Escape to Witch Mountain**?
2. Did Ike Eisenmann play you in **Escape to Witch Mountain**?
3. Did you play King Richard on **Galavant**?

2 DQs reserved.

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/132 "2025-04-19T23:44:18Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you once say “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated?”
2. Were you Cliff Huxtable’s college track rival?
3. Were you Cliff Huxtable’s son?

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/133 "2025-04-20T00:27:09Z")

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DQs:

Died before 1900?  
European?

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/134 "2025-04-20T00:39:57Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you appointed civilian governor of the Philippines by President William McKinley?
2. Were you the first POTUS to serve an abbreviated term, as well as the first vice president to do the same?
3. Were you compared to George Washington and Andrew Jackson, both generals who had ascended to the presidency?

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**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 20, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/135 "2025-04-20T02:04:46Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did Kim Richards play you in **Escape to Witch Mountain**?
> 2. Did Ike Eisenmann play you in **Escape to Witch Mountain**?
> 3. Did you play King Richard on **Galavant**?

Take 3 DQs.

> [@SunUp](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you once say “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated?”
> 2. Were you Cliff Huxtable’s college track rival?
> 3. Were you Cliff Huxtable’s son?

1. I am not Mark Twain.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Theo.

> [@knoodler](#):
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> - Were you appointed civilian governor of the Philippines by President William McKinley?
> - Were you the first POTUS to serve an abbreviated term, as well as the first vice president to do the same?
> - Were you compared to George Washington and Andrew Jackson, both generals who had ascended to the presidency?

1. I am not William Howard Taft.
2. I am not John Tyler. (Excellent question, BTW.)
3. I am not Zachary Taylor.

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**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 20, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/136 "2025-04-20T02:05:14Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with T
4. Dead
5. Known for the Arts
6. Died before 1950
7. Not American
8. Died before 1900
9. European

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**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 20, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/137 "2025-04-20T03:00:28Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you hold Cdmr. Spock’s job in an alternative timeline? - [Thelin](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Thelin)  
Were you the satyr-like character in the very, very bad movie _Manos: The Hands of Fate_? - Torgo  
Were you the first U.S. Secretary of State? - Yes, Thomas Jefferson

DQs:

Best known for the performing arts?  
Born on the British Isles?

IQs:

Are you an actress with a last name which also appears in Tolkien’s works?  
Did you and your very small wife meet President Lincoln in the White House?  
Did you leap to your death in King’s Landing after learning of your wife’s likely demise?

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/138 "2025-04-20T03:58:09Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > [@SunUp](#):
> >
> > 1. Did you once say “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated?”
> > 2. Were you Cliff Huxtable’s college track rival?
> > 3. Were you Cliff Huxtable’s son?
> 
> 1. I am not Mark Twain.
> 2. Take a DQ.
> 3. I am not Theo.

Correct, Sanford B. “Tailwind” Turner, and correct.

1 DQ reserved.

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**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 20, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/139 "2025-04-20T12:37:24Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > [@SCAdian](#):
> >
> > IQ1: Did you lead a 19th-century slave rebellion in Virginia?  
> > IQ2: Do you frequently ask Mr Whoopee for advice?  
> > IQ3: Are you also known as Paste-Pot Pete?
> 
> 1. I am not Nat Turner.
> 2. I am not Tennessee Tuxedo.
> 3. I am not the Trapster.

correct x3!

IQ1: Did you compose the music for ballets, including _Swan Lake_?  
IQ2: Did you paint _The Fighting_ Temeraire?  
IQ3: Did you invent the Chicago typewriter?

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476/140 "2025-04-20T14:51:55Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. I am not William Howard Taft.
> 2. I am not John Tyler. (Excellent question, BTW.)
> 3. I am not Zachary Taylor.

All correct, good job! POTUS x3

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