# Botticelli - August 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 31, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070 "2024-07-31T19:27:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/141 "2024-08-19T00:34:21Z")
DQs 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with L. 4. American 5. First appeared after 1950 6. Good guy 7. Not from a work of literature. 8. Not a protagonist 9. Did not first appear in a movie 10. From a TV show 11. First appeared before 1980. 12. From a comedy show 13. First appeared after 1965. 14. From a sitcom 15. Did not win an Emmy for the role 16. I would call it a,large city 17. Human 18. White 19. Maybe. Frankly, I’m not sure. What I think of as a catch phrase for him would probably be unrecognized out of context. 20. First appeared after 1972. 21. Has won several awards in universe. 22. Covered a Thanksgiving promotion that went hilariously, tragically awry. ---
**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 19, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/142 "2024-08-19T01:48:20Z")
Yes, it’s obvious. Great job, **SunUp!** ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/143 "2024-08-19T03:31:50Z")
Go ahead and guess! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/144 "2024-08-19T03:59:05Z")
Are you Les Nessman? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/145 "2024-08-19T07:31:36Z")
**YES!!!** I am LES NESSMAN! 5 time winner of the Buckeye Newshawk Award and winner of the coveted Silver Sow Award! Well done! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/146 "2024-08-19T15:33:12Z")
Thank you, and a great puzzle to guess! Around the middle I was trying to think of Muppets or perhaps characters from the Carol Burnett show. And a [link if you’d like to relive Les’s most famous moment…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFtV6-ALoQ) OK, on to the next round. I am # W ---
**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 19, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/147 "2024-08-19T16:26:39Z")
IQs: 1. Were you in office from 1789 to 1797? 2. Were you in _Mr. Deeds_? 3. Were you a chemistry teacher who turned to making meth? ---
**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 19, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/148 "2024-08-19T16:33:50Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the announcer on the highly acclaimed, water-soluble, wine-soaked, supermegahoneyfied 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? 2. Were you Emmett Kelly’s clown character? 3. Did you create the comic strip _Pogo_? ---
**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 19, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/149 "2024-08-19T17:01:12Z")
Good job, **SunUp**! On to W. IQs: Were you Lincoln’s SECSTATE? Did you leave the Chickamauga battlefield and flee to Nashville? Did you write a stern letter to the mayor and city council of Atlanta in late 1864? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/150 "2024-08-19T18:43:35Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you in office from 1789 to 1797? > 2. Were you in _Mr. Deeds_? > 3. Were you a chemistry teacher who turned to making meth? i am not George Washington. Take a DQ. I am not… Werner Heisenberg (I think he adopted the alias at one point)? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the announcer on the highly acclaimed, water-soluble, wine-soaked, supermegahoneyfied 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > 2. Were you Emmett Kelly’s clown character? > 3. Did you create the comic strip _Pogo_? Still need to bone up on that trivia. Take a DQ. Take another DQ. I am not Walt Kelly. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Lincoln’s SECSTATE? > Did you leave the Chickamauga battlefield and flee to Nashville? > Did you write a stern letter to the mayor and city council of Atlanta in late 1864? I am not William Seward. I am not Willam S. Rosecrans. I am not William T. Sherman. A Civil War William x 3! ---
**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 19, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/151 "2024-08-19T18:53:04Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > i am not George Washington. > Take a DQ. > I am not… Werner Heisenberg (I think he adopted the alias at one point)? 1 was correct; 2 was Winona Ryder; 3 was Walter White (who only used the alias “Heisenberg”, no “Werner”.) DQs: 1. real? 2. first name begins with W? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/152 "2024-08-19T20:02:52Z")
W. 1. Real. 2. First name does not begin with W. ---
**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 19, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/153 "2024-08-19T20:38:43Z")
Swept me - well done! Here’s Sherman’s letter (as good a statement of U.S. policy during the Civil War as anything Lincoln wrote, I’ve always thought): [Letter of William T. Sherman to James M. Calhoun, E.E. Rawson, and S.C. Wells, September 12, 1864 · Civil War Era NC](https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/23) IQs: Did Queen Victoria complain that you “always addressed [her] as if [she] was a public meeting”? Did you play Commodore Decker? Did you like to take pictures of your dogs dressed in human clothes? ---
**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 19, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/154 "2024-08-19T20:45:40Z")
DQs: 1. Did you write a biography of Washington and popularize the cherry tree story? 2. Speaking of religious figures, were you a nun who presented documentaries about art for the BBC? 3. Are you a _very_ tall basketball player who appeared in the recent summer Olympics, playing for France? ---
**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 19, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/155 "2024-08-19T20:46:54Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the announcer on the highly acclaimed, water-soluble, wine-soaked, supermegahoneyfied 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > > 2. Were you Emmett Kelly’s clown character? > > 3. Did you create the comic strip _Pogo_? > > Still need to bone up on that trivia. Take a DQ. > Take another DQ. > I am not Walt Kelly. #1 was the inimitable Wallace Greenslade. #2 was Weary Willie. #3 is correct. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Living? ---
**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 19, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/156 "2024-08-19T20:49:02Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Bab Ballads_? 2. Did you found a line of 5-and-10 cent stores? 3. Were you a Hanna-Barbara character whose voice was based on Ed Wynn? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/157 "2024-08-19T21:59:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Queen Victoria complain that you “always addressed [her] as if [she] was a public meeting”? > Did you play Commodore Decker? > Did you like to take pictures of your dogs dressed in human clothes? I am not William Gladstone. I am not William Windom. Take a DQ for William. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Did you write a biography of Washington and popularize the cherry tree story? > 2. Speaking of religious figures, were you a nun who presented documentaries about art for the BBC? > 3. Are you a _very_ tall basketball player who appeared in the recent summer Olympics, playing for France? I am not Washington Irving. Take a DQ. I am not Victor Wembanyama. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/158 "2024-08-19T22:00:44Z")
W. 1. Real. 2. First name does not begin with W. 3. Male. 4. Dead. ---
**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 19, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/159 "2024-08-19T22:11:52Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Washington Irving. > Take a DQ. > I am not Victor Wembanyama. 1 was Parson Weems; 2 was Sister Wendy Beckett. DQs: 1. died after 1924? 2. American? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/160 "2024-08-20T03:22:29Z")
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