# Botticelli, August 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698 "2025-08-04T18:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/201 "2025-08-23T02:42:49Z")
I remember listening to “Peter and the Wolf” on a Disney record, and reading along with the accompanying story. [![](https://cartoonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/peterwolfdq-600.jpg) ](https://cartoonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/peterwolfdq-600.jpg) In a scene from _Animal House_, Otter whistles the main theme while visiting a sorority house. Back to the game! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/202 "2025-08-23T02:47:51Z")
IQs: 1. Were you served with a technical foul for choking an opponent during an NBA game? 2. Were you the subject of an alliteratively titled book and subsequent movie? 3. Did King Leonidas successfully draw blood from you? ---
**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, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/203 "2025-08-23T03:12:05Z")
I knew this would be short. Yea, i am # Xerxes the Great. Well done, **knoodler!** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/204 "2025-08-23T03:14:00Z")
Wow. I wasn’t expecting this. Give me until tomorrow to come up with a name. EDIT: The other two are: Xavier McDaniel and Xaviera Hollander (“The Happy Hooker”) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/205 "2025-08-23T14:12:13Z")
OK, let’s get this started. I am… [![](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/letter-w-vintage-black-flower-260nw-1632086368.jpg) ](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/letter-w-vintage-black-flower-260nw-1632086368.jpg) **W** ---
**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, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/206 "2025-08-23T14:32:21Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a denizen of the Emerald City who is both Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated? 2. Did you write _One World_? 3. Were you the announcer for the highly esteemed, nostalgia-referenced, monty-pythoned, stone-driven 1950’s BBC radio series [all together now], _The Goon Show_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/207 "2025-08-23T14:49:41Z")
X went so fast last night it got solved between my typing my second and third IQs. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen will have to wait for a later go-around. On to W! IQs: 1. Did you change parties to run against FDR in 1940? 2. Did you play the wife of C.S. Lewis? 3. Did your nickname come from your hearing helicopters before anyone else? ---
**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, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/208 "2025-08-23T14:50:44Z")
**SunUp** , your #1 IQ is the same as my #2 IQ. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/209 "2025-08-23T15:09:52Z")
On review, you are correct. New #1 IQ: 1. Did you order the 1st Minnesota to take Confederate flags at Gettysburg? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/210 "2025-08-23T15:50:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a denizen of the Emerald City who is both Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated? > 2. Did you write _One World_? > 3. Were you the announcer for the highly esteemed, nostalgia-referenced, monty-pythoned, stone-driven 1950’s BBC radio series [all together now], _The Goon Show_? I am not the Wizard Take 2 DQs > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you order the 1st Minnesota to take Confederate flags at Gettysburg? > 2. Did you play the wife of C.S. Lewis? > 3. Did your nickname come from your hearing helicopters before anyone else? Take 2 DQs I am not Walter “Radar” O’Reilly ---
**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, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/211 "2025-08-23T16:16:22Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a denizen of the Emerald City who is both Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated? > > 2. Did you write _One World_? > > 3. Were you the announcer for the highly esteemed, nostalgia-referenced, monty-pythoned, stone-driven 1950’s BBC radio series [all together now], _The Goon Show_? > > I am not the Wizard > Take 2 DQs 1. Not the Wizard, but the Wogglebug, who was always referred to by those epithets. 2 was Wendell L. Willkie. 3 was Wallace Greenslade.. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Last name starts with W? 3. Female? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/212 "2025-08-23T16:24:31Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you order the 1st Minnesota to take Confederate flags at Gettysburg? > > 2. Did you play the wife of C.S. Lewis? > > 3. Did your nickname come from your hearing helicopters before anyone else? > > Take 2 DQs > I am not Walter “Radar” O’Reilly Correct on #3. #1 was MGen Winfield Scott Hancock; #2 was Debra Winger, in _Shadowlands_. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/213 "2025-08-23T18:22:03Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Last name starts with W 3. Female ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/214 "2025-08-23T18:41:27Z")
DQs: Known for the arts? American? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/215 "2025-08-23T18:49:22Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Last name starts with W 3. Female 4. Known for the arts 5. American ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/216 "2025-08-24T01:12:09Z")
IQs: Was your catchphrase, “Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”? Did you, when you became a top American official, write a memo to the President that has been a model for some if not all of your successors? Did _Doonesbury_ joke that your colleagues were expected to rise when you got on a plane with them? ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/217 "2025-08-24T01:40:09Z")
IQs: 1. Do you have a Chocolate Factory? 2. Did you compose _Classical Gas_? 3. Did you never live in the White House, but your wife did? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/218 "2025-08-24T02:59:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your catchphrase, “Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”? > Did you, when you became a top American official, write a memo to the President that has been a model for some if not all of your successors? > Did _Doonesbury_ joke that your colleagues were expected to rise when you got on a plane with them? Take 3 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you have a Chocolate Factory? > 2. Did you compose _Classical Gas_? > 3. Did you never live in the White House, but your wife did? I am not Willy Wonka I am not Mason Williams Take a DQ ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/219 "2025-08-24T14:59:56Z")
Correct x2, 3 was George Washington, whose wife, Martha’s first husband built a mansion he called the White House. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/220 "2025-08-24T15:51:27Z")
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