Botticelli - April 2025

Thread Games
41

Thanks, knoodler, I missed it. Kindly disregard #3.

42

I am not Yvette Nicole Brown.
I am not NIck Yemana.
I am not Yvonne Craig.

Per knoodler, take 2 DQs.

43

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
44

1 is Yolanda.
2 was Yves Montand.

DQs:

  1. Former Senator?
  2. Democrat?
45

Correct, correct, Yvonne Elliman.
2 DQs reserved.

46

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
47

IQ: Were you Jimmy Carter’s Ambassador to the UN?

48

Swept x3!

2 DQs still reserved

49

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

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:

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 !

50

Thanks!

After Y, let’s try…

Z!

51

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?
52
  1. I am not Moon Unit Zappa.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Zarathustra/Zoroaster.
53

Correct, Dr Zachary Smith, correct.

DQ: Alive?

54

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?
55

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?

56
  1. I am not Zephaniah (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Zebulon Pike (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
57

DQ:

  1. Alive in one medium, dead in another
58

Correct, Fareed Zakaria, and Zoilo Versalles.

Well, I guess “real?” doesn’t give us anything new here.

DQs:

Male?
Last name begins with Z?

59

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?
60

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.