# 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:** 8
**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, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/141 "2026-04-20T23:46:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > If he’d asked who succeeded Nicholas Colasanto on Cheers, you’d be right. But since he asked about the character, SunUp’s right. Concur. ---
**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 21, 2026, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/142 "2026-04-21T02:51:51Z")
Anyone else? W. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. not known for the Arts ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/143 "2026-04-21T23:27:37Z")
I agree the question was directed to the role, not the actor. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/144 "2026-04-21T23:40:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you receive a patent for a rotary steam engine at 19? 2. In the book (and movie) _The Odessa File,_ did you inform the protagonist of a secret organization for former members of the SS called ODESSA? 3. Are you also known as “Tater Salad”? ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/145 "2026-04-22T02:04:08Z")
OK, **SunUp** , take another DQ. Not Watt, not Wiesenthal and dunno. ---
**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 22, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/146 "2026-04-22T16:51:18Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the best known person from Elwood, Indiana? 2. Were you the Commander on Apollo 7? 3. Were you Bob Elliott’s best known character? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/147 "2026-04-22T18:36:28Z")
DQ: Known for politics/military? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/148 "2026-04-22T19:07:36Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you the mother in **Baby Blues**? > 2. Are you her sister? > 3. Are you a classmate of Sophronia’s in the Finishing School quartet? Wanda Wizowski McPherson, Rhonda Wizowski, Agatha Woosmoss. 3 DQs reserved ---
**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 22, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/149 "2026-04-22T19:45:18Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the best known person from Elwood, Indiana? > 2. Were you the Commander on Apollo 7? > 3. Were you Bob Elliott’s best known character? Dunno, not White and not Wally. W. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. not known for the Arts 5. known for politics/military, and more ---
**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 22, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/150 "2026-04-22T21:05:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the best known person from Elwood, Indiana? > > 2. Were you the Commander on Apollo 7? > > 3. Were you Bob Elliott’s best known character? > > Dunno, not White and not Wally. > > W. 1 was Wendell L. Willkie. 2 was Wally Schirra. 3 is correct, Wally Ballou. DQs 1. Died after 1950? 2. American? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/151 "2026-04-22T21:12:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Watt, not Wiesenthal and dunno. 1. George Westinghouse 2. Correct 3. Ron White (He does a joke where he’s asked if he has any aliases, and he answers, “Tater Salad.”) DQs: 1. Held elected office? 2. First name begins with W? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/152 "2026-04-22T21:30:29Z")
IQs: 1. Were you crowned King of England but spent most of your life living in continental Europe? 2. Did you serve as a US representative from California from 1975 to 2015? 3. Were you one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century? ---
**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 23, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/153 "2026-04-23T19:14:59Z")
Not William the Conqueror, dunno, and not any of the Wyeths. W. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. not known for the Arts 5. known for politics/military, and more 6. died before 1950 7. American 8. never held elective office 9. first name begins with W ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/154 "2026-04-23T22:41:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not William the Conqueror, dunno, and not any of the Wyeths. Correct Henry Waxman Correct (Andrew Wyeth) 1 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/155 "2026-04-23T22:54:47Z")
IQs: 1. Was Harry S Truman picked over you for VPOTUS? 2. Was your wife referred to as “the first female POTUS”? 3. Were you a Vaudeville performer before becoming a columnist and commentator? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/156 "2026-04-24T00:01:51Z")
IQs: 1. Did you work a menial job in Dilbert’s office? 2. Is your most famous role a character modeled on Muhummad Ali? 3. Did you character light up a cigar just before being incinerated in a nuclear blast? ---
**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 24, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/157 "2026-04-24T03:36:45Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was Harry S Truman picked over you for VPOTUS? > 2. Was your wife referred to as “the first female POTUS”? > 3. Were you a Vaudeville performer before becoming a columnist and commentator? Not George Wallace, Woodrow Wilson or… Walter Winchell? > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you work a menial job in Dilbert’s office? > 2. Is your most famous role a character modeled on Muhummad Ali? > 3. Did you character light up a cigar just before being incinerated in a nuclear blast? Not the inventively slothful Wally (whom I love most of all the _Dilbert_ characters), not Will Smith and dunno. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/158 "2026-04-24T04:21:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not George Wallace, Woodrow Wilson or… Walter Winchell? So close! 1. Wendell Wilkie 2. Correct 3. Correct WW x3! DQs: Died before 1900? Commissioned officer? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/159 "2026-04-24T04:32:02Z")
IQs: 1. Did you paint a portrait of your mother? 2. Was your adopted brother Perry the focus of your eponymous comic strip? 3. Are you colorfully nicknamed “hog of steel”? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923/160 "2026-04-24T05:04:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you work a menial job in Dilbert’s office? > > 2. Is your most famous role a character modeled on Muhummad Ali? > > 3. Did you character light up a cigar just before being incinerated in a nuclear blast? > > Not the inventively slothful Wally (whom I love most of all the _Dilbert_ characters), not Will Smith and dunno. Hmmm, I’ll give you Wally, but I was thinking of Willy the mailboy. #2 was Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed was modeled on Ali. #3 was William Schallert, who played the CIA Director in _Colossus: The Forbin Project_. DQs: Also known for business? Died before 1875? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2026/1028923.md?page=9)