# 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:** 13
**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 26, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/241 "2025-08-26T02:03:38Z")
I’d already asked about Cronkite, as it happens. Previous IQs: Are you Mrs. Tom Hanks? - Yes, Rita Wilson Did _Family Guy_ joke about your (supposedly) very pointy chin? - Reese Witherspoon Were you the female lead in the movie _The Puppet Masters_? - Julie Warner Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you FDR’s next-to-last VP? Were you, in a Stephen King book, disastrously elected President in 1968? Did your dog’s bungee cord lose its bounce? ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/242 "2025-08-26T02:18:13Z")
She may be a newsperson or show presenter. Hmmmm… ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/243 "2025-08-26T02:33:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’d already asked about Cronkite, as it happens. Oops. Missed that. IQ: Do you turn letters on a game show? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/244 "2025-08-26T03:15:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you FDR’s next-to-last VP? > Were you, in a Stephen King book, disastrously elected President in 1968? > Did your dog’s bungee cord lose its bounce? Take 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/245 "2025-08-26T03:17:23Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Do you turn letters on a game show? **YES!!** I am **Vanna White!** Good job sussing her out, **SCA!** ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/246 "2025-08-26T03:30:22Z")
Previous IQs: Were you FDR’s next-to-last VP? - Henry A. Wallace Were you, in a Stephen King book, disastrously elected President in 1968? - George Wallace, in an alternative timeline in _11/22/63_ (he expands the Vietnam War and repeatedly uses nuclear weapons) Did your dog’s bungee cord lose its bounce? - Wallace, in the window-washing scene of the Wallace & Gromit film _A Close Shave_ Wallace x3! I’m not really sure that game shows are of either “the arts” or the “performing arts,” as such, although they’re certainly a form of entertainment. But well done, in any event, **SCA**! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/247 "2025-08-26T03:36:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’m not really sure that game shows are of either “the arts” or the “performing arts,” as such, although they’re certainly a form of entertainment. But well done, in any event, **SCA**! I defined game shows as entertainment, but if not part of the arts, then what would it be? ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/248 "2025-08-26T03:44:41Z")
Just… entertainment? Pro wrestling and game shows are both in that gray area, I’d say. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/249 "2025-08-26T12:51:03Z")
Good job, SCA! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/250 "2025-08-26T15:08:32Z")
Wow, great get SCA! > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Just… entertainment? Pro wrestling and game shows are both in that gray area, I’d say. Probably have to put reality show celebrities in the same gray area? ---
**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 26, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/251 "2025-08-26T22:59:41Z")
My turn in the barrel again, eh? I don’t think ‘R’ has been used recently, so… I am **R**. Wiki includes professional wrestling as a performing art. Vanna’s role seems to fit under stagecraft, which is also listed there. I think most, if not all, reality shows would count as improv, a subset of acting. ---
**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 26, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/252 "2025-08-26T23:49:54Z")
IQs: 1. Did you create the characters Gertrude and Heathcliff? 2. Did Gene Autry have a hit song about you? 3. Did you star in the 90’s Mummy movies? ---
**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 27, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/253 "2025-08-27T00:16:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you create the characters Gertrude and Heathcliff? > 2. Did Gene Autry have a hit song about you? > 3. Did you star in the 90’s Mummy movies? Not Red Skelton Not … the Yellow Rose of Texas? Not … Rachel Weisz? ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/254 "2025-08-27T01:00:28Z")
1. Correct. 2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 3. Correct. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/255 "2025-08-27T01:12:07Z")
IQs: Did you co-anchor the ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith? Did _Doonesbury_ parody you with a glitchy TV persona? Did you die while riding a Greyhound bus to Florida? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/256 "2025-08-27T06:08:43Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the first Philadelphia Philly to have his number retired by that club? 2. Did you speak out in praise of a Supreme Court nominee, saying that mediocrities needed representation on the bench? 3. Could your character make a telephone out of coconut husks but not fix a hole in a boat? ---
**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 27, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/257 "2025-08-27T14:36:19Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > Did you co-anchor the ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith? > Did _Doonesbury_ parody you with a glitchy TV persona? > Did you die while riding a Greyhound bus to Florida? DQ x3 > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the first Philadelphia Philly to have his number retired by that club? > 2. Did you speak out in praise of a Supreme Court nominee, saying that mediocrities needed representation on the bench? > 3. Could your character make a telephone out of coconut husks but not fix a hole in a boat? DQ DQ Not Russell Lastname (Johnson?) **R** 1. Real ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/258 "2025-08-27T14:38:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the first Philadelphia Philly to have his number retired by that club? > > 2. Did you speak out in praise of a Supreme Court nominee, saying that mediocrities needed representation on the bench? > > 3. Could your character make a telephone out of coconut husks but not fix a hole in a boat? > > DQ > DQ > Not Russell Lastname (Johnson?) #1 was Robin Roberts. #2 was Roman Hruska. Correct on #3, Russell Johnson, The Professor from Gilligan’s Island. DQs: Male? First name begins with R? ---
**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 27, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/259 "2025-08-27T15:33:27Z")
**R** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with R. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698/260 "2025-08-27T16:00:45Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > Did you co-anchor the ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith? > > Did _Doonesbury_ parody you with a glitchy TV persona? > > Did you die while riding a Greyhound bus to Florida? > > DQ x3 Harry Reasoner Ronald Reagan (as Ron Headrest) Ratzo Rizzo (_Midnight Cowboy_) DQs: 1. American? 2. Known for arts? 3. Born after 1950? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2025/1021698.md?page=14)