# Botticelli - April 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 1, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923 "2026-04-01T00:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 1, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/1 "2026-04-01T00:49:32Z")
Link to last month: [Botticelli - March 2026 - #405 by knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/405) I am… # E! ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/2 "2026-04-01T02:15:36Z")
> [@Botticelli - March 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/398): > > 1. Are you a dragon in **Tik-Tok of Oz**? > 2. Do you have a daughter named Rashida? > 3. Were you nominated for an acting Oscar for **The Goodbye Girl**? These were Quox, correct, Quinn Cummings. On to E 1. Did you write **Half-Magic**? 2. Did you write **Gone-Away Lake**? 3. Are you the subject of **Born Free**? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/3 "2026-04-01T02:21:19Z")
Let’s go with E! 1-3. Did you survive the gunfight at the OK Corral? ---
**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 1, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/4 "2026-04-01T02:37:31Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > On to E > > 1. Did you write **Half-Magic**? > 2. Did you write **Gone-Away Lake**? > 3. Are you the subject of **Born Free**? 1. I am not Elsa, the lioness. 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 1, 2026, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/5 "2026-04-01T02:39:18Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > 1-3. Did you survive the gunfight at the OK Corral? I am not Wyatt, Virgil or Morgan Earp. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/6 "2026-04-01T03:30:32Z")
IQs: 1. Are you also known as Brock Landers? 2. Were you a coach of the New York Knicks? 3. Did you represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping? ---
**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 1, 2026, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/7 "2026-04-01T04:03:33Z")
IQs: Did your idjit son not destroy a magical artifact when he really should have? Were you Arwen’s husband, once crowned? Were you, as far as we know, their only son? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/8 "2026-04-01T06:49:05Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you write **Half-Magic**? > 2. Did you write **Gone-Away Lake**? > 3. Are you the subject of **Born Free**? Edward Eager, Elizabeth Enright, correct. IQs: 1.Did you write **The Moffats**? 2. Did you write **The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet**? 3. Were you a nasty ghost of a spoiled brat (and half of the title) in a classic Patricia Clapp book? 2 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 1, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/9 "2026-04-01T14:33:03Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you also known as Brock Landers? > 2. Were you a coach of the New York Knicks? > 3. Did you represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping? I am not Eddie the Eagle. Take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil4. \_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your idjit son not destroy a magical artifact when he really should have? > Were you Arwen’s husband, once crowned? > Were you, as far as we know, their only son? Let’s see… 1. I am not Erendil. 2. I am not Elendil’s Heir, Elessar, who married the Evenstar. 3. I am not Eldarion. (Sp?) > [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > 1.Did you write **The Moffats**? > 2. Did you write **The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet**? > 3. Were you a nasty ghost of a spoiled brat (and half of the title) in a classic Patricia Clapp book? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/10 "2026-04-01T15:07:19Z")
Swept me in Tombstone! IQs: 1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer with exactly 300, uh, wins? 2. Have you been played by David Straitharn and Daniel J. Travanti? 3. Did your 1979 disappearance start a moral panic against Dungeons and Dragons? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/11 "2026-04-01T15:11:41Z")
IQs: 1. Are you related to Julia Roberts? 2. Are you a living planet in Marvel comics? 3. Were you a scientifically-minded person who resided in a New Jersey county beginning with M? ---
**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 1, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/12 "2026-04-01T15:20:17Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer with exactly 300, uh, wins? > 2. Have you been played by David Straitharn and Daniel J. Travanti? > 3. Did your 1979 disappearance start a moral panic against Dungeons and Dragons? Take 3 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you related to Julia Roberts? > 2. Are you a living planet in Marvel comics? > 3. Were you a scientifically-minded person who resided in a New Jersey county beginning with M? 1. I am not Eric Roberts. 2. I am not Ego. 3. I am not Thomas Edison. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/13 "2026-04-01T15:22:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Eric Roberts. > 2. I am not Ego. > 3. I am not Thomas Edison. A clean sweep! IQs: 1. Are you related to Julia Roberts? 2. Are you a living planet in Marvel comics? 3. Were you a scientifically-minded person who resided in a New Jersey county beginning with M? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/14 "2026-04-01T15:26:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer with exactly 300, uh, wins? > > 2. Have you been played by David Straitharn and Daniel J. Travanti? > > 3. Did your 1979 disappearance start a moral panic against Dungeons and Dragons? > > Take 3 DQs. #1 was Early Wynn, who with a name like that should have always pitched the front half of a doubleheader. #2 was Edward R. Murrow. #3 was James Dallas Egbert III. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. First name begins with E? ---
**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 1, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/15 "2026-04-01T15:37:40Z")
**DQs:** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with E ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/16 "2026-04-01T16:50:23Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you also known as Brock Landers? > > 2. Were you a coach of the New York Knicks? > > 3. Did you represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping? > > I am not Eddie the Eagle. Take 2 DQs. 1. Eddie Adams (aka Dirk Diggler) _(Boogie Nights)_ 2. Eddie Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) _(Eddie)_ 3. Correct Eddie x3! DQs: 1. First appeared in print? 2. First appeared after 1950? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/17 "2026-04-01T16:53:28Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a teacher at Abbott Elementary School? 2. Did Mickey Rooney spoof you in a beer commercial? 3. Did you perform “Theme from Peter Gunn” with the Art of Noise band? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/18 "2026-04-01T16:56:46Z")
Reposting: > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Eric Roberts. > 2. I am not Ego. > 3. I am not Thomas Edison. A clean sweep! IQs: 1. Are you related to Julia Roberts? 2. Are you a living planet in Marvel comics? 3. Were you a scientifically-minded person who resided in a New Jersey county beginning with M? ---
**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 1, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/19 "2026-04-01T16:57:13Z")
**DQs:** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with E 4. First appeared in print 5. First appeared before 1950 ---
**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 1, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/20 "2026-04-01T16:59:04Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a teacher at Abbott Elementary School? > 2. Did Mickey Rooney spoof you in a beer commercial? > 3. Did you perform “Theme from Peter Gunn” with the Art of Noise band? Take 3 DQs. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923.md?page=2)