Botticelli, August 2025

IQs:

Did you direct a movie of yourself directing a documentary?
Was your film debut in Do the Right Thing?
Were you an undefeated MMA fighter who left the sport after suffering two defeats in the ring?

IQs:

Did you play President Reagan in The Butler?
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga?
Were you a shrubber who rebuked King Arthur?

DQ x3

DQ
Not … Rosecrans?
DQ


R

1. Real
2. Male
3. First name begins with R.
4. Not American
5. Not known for arts
6. Not born after 1950

Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap)
Rosie Perez
Ronda Rousey

DQs:

Born after 1900?
European?

1 DQ reserved

R

1. Real
2. Male
3. First name begins with R.
4. Not American
5. Not known for arts
6. Not born after 1950
7. Not born after 1900
8. European

IQs:

  1. Were you born Leonard Slye?
  2. Were you a master Impressionist who refused to use black?
  3. Are you Dr. Frank -N-Furter’s only somewhat faithful servant?

Not Roy Rogers
DQ
DQ

IQs:

  1. Are you the Chief Justice of the United States?
  2. Are you his immediate predecessor in the same position?
  3. Did you, while occupying that same position, write one of the most reviled opinions of that that time and since?

IQs:

  1. Do you hold a singular position from your term as POTUS?
  2. Are you the main human character of Inside Out?
  3. Did you play the main antagonist in 1987’s Robocop?

Not Roberts
DQ
DQ

Not … Teddy Roosevelt?
DQ
DQ

Correct on CJUS John Roberts.
#2 was William Rehnquist.
#3 was Roger B. Taney.

DQ:
Known from politics / military?

1 DQ reserved.

Richard Nixon (first and so far the only sitting president to resign from office)
Riley
Ronny Cox

DQs:

Born after 1850?
Born west of Vienna?
Born north of Vienna?

1 DQ reserved

Previous IQs:

Did you play President Reagan in The Butler? - Alan Rickman (and he was very good, too)
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? - Yes, Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans
Were you a shrubber who rebuked King Arthur? - Behold Roger the Shrubber!

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel?
Did Nigel Bruce play your character’s bumbling sidekick in many movies?
Have you played a different contemporary fictional British prime minister on two different shows?

Not Radagast the Brown
DQ
DQ


R

1. Real
2. Male
3. First name begins with R.
4. Not American
5. Not known for arts
6. Not born after 1950
7. Not born after 1900
8. European
9. Kinda sorta known from politics / military, though not best known for that
10. Not born after 1850
11. Born west of Vienna
12. Born north of Vienna

DQ: Known more for business?

Correct, Renoir and Riff Raff.

DQ: Known for science?

1 DQ reserved

Previous IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? - Yes, Radagast the Brown
Did Nigel Bruce play your character’s bumbling sidekick in many movies? - Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Bruce’s Dr. Watson (much more bumbling than in Conan Doyle’s stories)
Have you played a different contemporary fictional British prime minister on two different shows? - Rory Kinnear, on Black Mirror and The Diplomat

DQs:

Native English speaker?
Knighted or ennobled?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Was your middle name suggested by a novelist to be Thelonious, but eventually revealed to be Thomas?
Did you, in a credit-card ad, pretend to be talking to your dad on the phone?
Did a butler offer to take your trident?

DQ x3


R

1. Real
2. Male
3. First name begins with R.
4. Not American
5. Not known for arts
6. Not born after 1950
7. Not born after 1900
8. European
9. Kinda sorta known from politics / military, though not best known for that
10. Not born after 1850
11. Born west of Vienna
12. Born north of Vienna
13. Not known more for business
14. Not known for science
15. Probably not a native English speaker
16. Not knighted or ennobled

IQs:

  1. Did you create the best known thesaurus?
  2. Were you a comic known as “Oklahoma’s Favorite Son”?
  3. Did Patton Oswalt voice you in Ratatouille?

Not Roget
Not Will Rogers
DQ