# 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:** 16
**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 30, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/301 "2026-08-30T14:46:49Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with D 3. Female 4. Originally from prose 5. First appeared after 1900 6. Supporting character 7. First appeared after 1950 8. American creator 9. From genre fiction 10. First appeared after 1990 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/302 "2026-08-30T15:46:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Were you the “Brain” of a dystopian version of New York City? > > 2. Did you play Matt Helm in a series of movies? > > 3. Are you a comic book character loosely based on the above mentioned person? > > 1. I am not Harry Dean Stanton. > 2. I am not Dean Martin. > 3. Take a DQ. 3 is Dino Manelli (_Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandos_) DQ: Best known from sci-fi or fantasy genre? ---
**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 30, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/303 "2026-08-30T17:14:20Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with D 3. Female 4. Originally from prose 5. First appeared after 1900 6. Supporting character 7. First appeared after 1950 8. American creator 9. From genre fiction 10. First appeared after 1990 11. Best known from scifi/fantasy ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/304 "2026-08-30T17:53:05Z")
Swept me. New questions; 1. Were you Princess Kareen’s bodyguard? 2. Were you #1’s eldest daughter? 3. Were you #2’s love interest? ---
**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 30, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/305 "2026-08-30T18:20:39Z")
IQs: 1. Was your vice-president Alexander Stephens? 2. Did you and your family live on the end of Oak Street? 3. Can your approach to art, and life, be summed up by your quote “I don’t do drugs–I am drugs”? ---
**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 30, 2026, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/306 "2026-08-30T19:35:29Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > 1. Were you Princess Kareen’s bodyguard? > 2. Were you #1’s eldest daughter? > 3. Were you #2’s love interest? Take 3 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your vice-president Alexander Stephens? > 2. Did you and your family live on the end of Oak Street? > 3. Can your approach to art, and life, be summed up by your quote “I don’t do drugs–I am drugs”? 1. I am not Jefferson Davis. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Salvador Dali. ---
**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 30, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/307 "2026-08-30T19:39:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Jefferson Davis. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Salvador Dali. 2 was Denise, in _The End of Oak Street_. DQ: first appeared in a novel? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/308 "2026-08-30T19:41:37Z")
!. Ludmilla “Drou” Droushnakovi 2. Delia Koudelka 3. Duv Galeni All from the Vorkosigan Series 4 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/309 "2026-08-30T19:42:17Z")
DQ #1: Human? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/310 "2026-08-30T19:55:00Z")
IQs: 1. Was your husband gaslit into thinking you were cheating on him? 2. Was your character best known by a single letter, but not the letter D? 3. Is the MLS MVP award named after you? ---
**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 30, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/311 "2026-08-30T20:20:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did “you” appear on Weekend Update in the Dolly Parton _Saturday Night Live_ episode, predicting an oil spill that had actually happened earlier that week? 2. Did you anchor said Weekend Update? 3. Did you interview Butch Patrick in the episode, saying “It has been said of the Munsters that they are both crime and magic”? ---
**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 30, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/312 "2026-08-30T20:53:30Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with D 3. Female 4. Originally from prose 5. First appeared after 1900 6. Supporting character 7. First appeared after 1950 8. American creator 9. From genre fiction 10. First appeared after 1990 11. Best known from scifi/fantasy 12. First appeared in a relatively unknown continuing online story that became a novel the next year 13. Not human. ---
**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 30, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/313 "2026-08-30T20:56:22Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your husband gaslit into thinking you were cheating on him? > 2. Was your character best known by a single letter, but not the letter D? > 3. Is the MLS MVP award named after you? 1. I am not Desdemona. 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:** [August 30, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/314 "2026-08-30T20:56:56Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did “you” appear on Weekend Update in the Dolly Parton _Saturday Night Live_ episode, predicting an oil spill that had actually happened earlier that week? > 2. Did you anchor said Weekend Update? > 3. Did you interview Butch Patrick in the episode, saying “It has been said of the Munsters that they are both crime and magic”? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 30, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/315 "2026-08-30T21:05:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was Jeanne Dixon; 2 was Dennis Miller; 3 was Dieter. DQ: from science fiction? 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:** [August 30, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/316 "2026-08-30T21:07:37Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with D 3. Female 4. Originally from prose 5. First appeared after 1900 6. Supporting character 7. First appeared after 1950 8. American creator 9. From genre fiction 10. First appeared after 1990 11. Best known from scifi/fantasy 12. First appeared in a relatively unknown continuing online story that became a novel the next year 13. Not human. 14. From science fiction, but with so many fantasy elements that the line is beyond being blurred ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/317 "2026-08-30T21:21:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Was your husband gaslit into thinking you were cheating on him? > > 2. Was your character best known by a single letter, but not the letter D? > > 3. Is the MLS MVP award named after you? > > 1. I am not Desdemona. > Take 2 DQs. Correct on #1. #2 was Desmond Llewelyn, who played Q. #3 is Landon Donovan. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/318 "2026-08-30T23:35:27Z")
Next DQ: is this a robot? DQ #2: has appeared in a tv or movie adaptation 1 DQ 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:** [August 31, 2026, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/319 "2026-08-31T01:05:38Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:316, topic:1032035, full:true”] DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with D 3. Female 4. Originally from prose 5. First appeared after 1900 6. Supporting character 7. First appeared after 1950 8. American creator 9. From genre fiction 10. First appeared after 1990 11. Best known from scifi/fantasy 12. First appeared in a relatively unknown continuing online story that became a novel the next year 13. Not human. 14. From science fiction, but with so many fantasy elements that the line is beyond being blurred 15. Is not a robot. 16. Has not appeared in a TV or movie adaptation, but will in the next few years ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035/320 "2026-08-31T02:37:08Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Shaun Cassidy sing a song about you? > 2. Are you Peter Fox’s blind girlfriend? > 3. Did you write **The Problem of the Green Capsule**? Deanie, correct, John Dickson Carr. DQ: 1. Female creator? 2. Feline? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2026/1032035.md?page=17)