# Botticelli - Aug 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 31, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035 "2026-07-31T01:10:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/181 "2026-08-21T04:36:30Z")
Deadline has passed, so you may begin with your “Firstname Lastname” DQs. George, Billy, 1892 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/182 "2026-08-21T07:14:03Z")
Are you Sam McCloud? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/183 "2026-08-21T15:07:24Z")
Are you Sam Hill? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/184 "2026-08-21T15:53:59Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Are you Sam McCloud? I’m going to take that as a slightly misremembered correct answer. 🙂 I am **S** am McCord. I left Seattle in 1892, along with my partner George Pratt and his brother Billy, and went north to Alaska to hunt for gold. It’s all yours, SunUp! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/185 "2026-08-21T15:58:04Z")
I thought about Sam McCloud too, but from the NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie which also gave us _Columbo._ ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/186 "2026-08-21T16:25:25Z")
Yeah, I was taking a stab at the Taos-based Deputy Marshal who went to the NYPD on loan, ran in the early seventies and gained fame as the subject of a running gag on MST3K. I guess I’m now the host? ---
**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:** [August 21, 2026, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/187 "2026-08-21T16:43:05Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Yeah, I was taking a stab at the Taos-based Deputy Marshal who went to the NYPD on loan I’ve heard of that one – starring Dennis Somebodyorother, right? – but never saw it and don’t recall ever hearing a first name attached to it. But I think you’re not supposed to go stabbing deputies or marshals. . . . > [@SunUp](#): > > I guess I’m now the host? Yep. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/188 "2026-08-21T18:13:35Z")
Name rings a slight bell, but the ear worm! ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/189 "2026-08-22T00:47:24Z")
And now I’ve watched the movie. I can see why, even without the song, Sam McCord would be the kind of character you remember. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/190 "2026-08-22T02:47:24Z")
Means nothing to me. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/191 "2026-08-22T17:13:04Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him. Sometimes this game makes me feel super uneducated. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/192 "2026-08-22T22:10:01Z")
All right, let’s get the next game on the road. I am # A as in aerospace, armaments, or awful. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/193 "2026-08-23T00:04:39Z")
IQs 1. Are you the original Green Lantern? 2. Did Perseus rescue you from Cetus? 3. Were you the first black man to win at Wimbledon? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/194 "2026-08-23T02:53:20Z")
IQs: 1. Did you work in aerospace and take communion on the Moon? 2. Did you use plenty of armaments in _Tomb Raider_, _Mr. and Mrs. Smith_, and _Wanted_? 3. Did you work for the awful Miranda Priestly? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/195 "2026-08-23T02:58:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did your daughter interrupt what could have been a lynching? 2. Were you nicknamed “The wickedest man in the world?” 3. Did you appear in a movie that shared your first name? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/196 "2026-08-23T04:01:20Z")
IQs: Were you Duke Leto’s son? Did Sean Connery play what was almost certainly the nicest cinematic version of you in _Time Bandits_? Were you the public face of the AI brains behind a lunar rebellion? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/197 "2026-08-23T04:25:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Are you the original Green Lantern? > 2. Did Perseus rescue you from Cetus? > 3. Were you the first black man to win at Wimbledon? Take 2 DQs and I am not Arthur Ashe. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you work in aerospace and take communion on the Moon? > 2. Did you use plenty of armaments in _Tomb Raider_, _Mr. and Mrs. Smith_, and _Wanted_? > 3. Did you work for the awful Miranda Priestly? I am not Buzz Aldrin. I am not Angelina Jolie. Don’t remember her name. Take a DQ. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did your daughter interrupt what could have been a lynching? > 2. Were you nicknamed “The wickedest man in the world?” > 3. Did you appear in a movie that shared your first name? I am not Atticus Finch. I am not… Adolf Hitler? Take a DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Duke Leto’s son? > Did Sean Connery play what was almost certainly the nicest cinematic version of you in _Time Bandits_? > Were you the public face of the AI brains behind a lunar rebellion? I am not Paul Atreides. I am not Agamemnon. I am not Adam Selene. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/198 "2026-08-23T12:19:34Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs > > > > 1. Are you the original Green Lantern? > > 2. Did Perseus rescue you from Cetus? > > 3. Were you the first black man to win at Wimbledon? > > Take 2 DQs and I am not Arthur Ashe. 1 is Alan Scott. 2 was Andromeda. 3 is correct. DQs 1. Real ? 2. Male? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/199 "2026-08-23T12:36:42Z")
1. Did Beverley Cleary write a book about you and your twin brother Mitch? 2. Did you run against Mitch McConnell in 2020? 3. Were you a character on _The Big Bang Theory_ played by someone with an advanced degree in real life? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/200 "2026-08-23T14:08:54Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Buzz Aldrin. > I am not Angelina Jolie. > Don’t remember her name. Take a DQ. 3 (Priestly) was Andy Sachs. DQ: first name begins with A? IQs: 1. Are you the likely inspiration for Miranda Priestly? 2. Were you a basketball player nicknamed “The Answer”? 3. Did you play a nun in _Hudson Hawk_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035.md?page=11)