# Botticelli February 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 5, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905 "2025-02-05T04:44:26Z")\ **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:** [March 8, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/207 "2025-03-08T16:40:53Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with W 4. Not known for arts 5. Dead 6. American 7. Not known for politics/military 8. Last name starts N-Z 9. Died after 1980 10. I am known for business and commerce 11. Died before 2000 12. Not a CEO but in charge of his enterprise 13. Did not have a product or service named after him 14. Was well known prior to 1970 but greatest fame came after 1970 15. Not a media mogul, although his enterprise expanded after his death 16. Died after 1990 17. Not from a famous family 18. My enterprise involved producing tangible items, but not necessarily considered manufacturing (as in factories and machines). ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/208 "2025-03-08T16:46:21Z")
I’m calling a halt to IQs. Please ask DQs now. @SCAdian , @Elendil_s_Heir , @SunUp , @kitap There is a DQ that is frequently asked, but hasn’t been asked in this round. It could be important. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/209 "2025-03-08T17:00:51Z")
Final DQ: Caucasian? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/210 "2025-03-08T17:16:46Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with W 4. Not known for arts 5. Dead 6. American 7. Not known for politics/military 8. Last name starts N-Z 9. Died after 1980 10. I am known for business and commerce 11. Died before 2000 12. Not a CEO but in charge of his enterprise 13. Did not have a product or service named after him 14. Was well known prior to 1970 but greatest fame came after 1970 15. Not a media mogul, although his enterprise expanded after his death 16. Died after 1990 17. Not from a famous family 18. My enterprise involved producing tangible items, but not necessarily considered manufacturing (as in factories and machines). 19. Caucasian ---
**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:** [March 9, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/211 "2025-03-09T02:55:39Z")
Can’t figure out who this is. I yield my four reserved DQs, one per customer. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/212 "2025-03-09T04:21:39Z")
All I can think.is Sam Walton and we know that’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/213 "2025-03-09T04:27:31Z")
I’ll wait for more replies until Monday noon CST. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/214 "2025-03-09T06:25:58Z")
One of @Elendil_s_Heir 's DQs: Publisher? ---
**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:** [March 9, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/215 "2025-03-09T08:36:45Z")
DQ1: Enterprise involved food/drink? DQ2: Died of natural causes (ie, not murder, accident, &c)? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/216 "2025-03-09T20:43:07Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with W 4. Not known for arts 5. Dead 6. American 7. Not known for politics/military 8. Last name starts N-Z 9. Died after 1980 10. I am known for business and commerce 11. Died before 2000 12. Not a CEO but in charge of his enterprise 13. Did not have a product or service named after him 14. Was well known prior to 1970 but greatest fame came after 1970 15. Not a media mogul, although his enterprise expanded after his death 16. Died after 1990 17. Not from a famous family 18. My enterprise involved producing tangible items, but not necessarily considered manufacturing (as in factories and machines) 19. Caucasian 20. I am a publisher 21. My enterprise does not involve food/drink 22. Died of natural causes ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/217 "2025-03-10T15:54:29Z")
My last DQ: Publisher of periodicals (newspapers, magazines,&c) rather than books? Second of EH’s four DQs: Publications aimed at a specific group (young or old, men or women, Caucasian or other, urban or rural, &c)? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/218 "2025-03-10T17:03:11Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with W 4. Not known for arts 5. Dead 6. American 7. Not known for politics/military 8. Last name starts N-Z 9. Died after 1980 10. I am known for business and commerce 11. Died before 2000 12. Not a CEO but in charge of his enterprise 13. Did not have a product or service named after him 14. Was well known prior to 1970 but greatest fame came after 1970 15. Not a media mogul, although his enterprise expanded after his death 16. Died after 1990 17. Not from a famous family 18. My enterprise involved producing tangible items, but not necessarily considered manufacturing (as in factories and machines) 19. Caucasian 20. I am a publisher 21. My enterprise does not involve food/drink 22. Died of natural causes 23. I published periodicals, with excerpts reprinted in book form 24. Publications not necessarily aimed at a specific audience with regards to race, sex, or ethnicity; you might argue the publications were embraced by a specific group, but its appeal was broad. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/219 "2025-03-10T17:04:54Z")
If anyone wants to guess First Name/Last Name go ahead. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/220 "2025-03-11T04:13:30Z")
Still stumped. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/221 "2025-03-11T06:53:13Z")
Wait! What was the name of the guy who published MAD? William something? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/222 "2025-03-11T07:25:13Z")
Gaines. If not for the last initial, I’d have already guessed him. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/223 "2025-03-11T16:02:06Z")
Dammit! I erred with the last name clue. It’s William Gaines. @SunUp you win. My apologies for the screw up. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/224 "2025-03-11T16:39:30Z")
Well, that was… unexpected. My wife asked me when we were in NYC a year and a half ago why we were walking up Madison Avenue from 34th Street. I had to tell her that there was no way I was going to leave Manhattan without a selfie in front of 485 MADison Avenue. I think I was the last to host. If no one minds a break with protocol, I’d like to turn over host duties to @kitap since they asked the question that yielded the solution. And of course, new month, new thread! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/225 "2025-03-11T17:21:09Z")
Answers 23&24 had me convinced it was the publisher of Reader’s Digest - [William Roy DeWitt Wallace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt_Wallace). Not that I knew him off hand, had to look up in Wiki who published RD. Believe it or not, died in 1981, so that still filled requirements… Oops, no it wouldn’t. Missed 16. Still, pretty damned close. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/226 "2025-03-11T19:24:55Z")
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