# 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:** 5
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/85 "2025-02-14T13:19:44Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a house ghost of Gryffindor? > 2. Did you successfully make the transition from child star to ingénue at age 16 in 1955? > 3. Are you famous for playing the wife of a wealthy castaway? 1. I am not Nearly Headless Nick. Take 2 DQs. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a militant talk show host played by Chris Rock? > 2. Were you the owner of the furniture store _Unpainted Arizona_? > 3. Did you face Cornwallis at the Battle of Guilford Court House? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/86 "2025-02-14T14:30:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you a militant talk show host played by Chris Rock? > > 2. Were you the owner of the furniture store _Unpainted Arizona_? > > 3. Did you face Cornwallis at the Battle of Guilford Court House? > > Take 3 DQs. Nat X, Nathan Arizona Sr. (from _Raising Arizona_), and Nathanael Greene. Nat(han(ael)) x 3! DQs: Living? First name begins with N? American? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/87 "2025-02-14T15:08:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a house ghost of Gryffindor? > > 2. Did you successfully make the transition from child star to ingénue at age 16 in 1955? > > 3. Are you famous for playing the wife of a wealthy castaway? > > 1. I am not Nearly Headless Nick. > Take 2 DQs. 1. Correct (aka, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington) 2. Natalie Wood (_Rebel Without a Cause_) 3. Nataie Schafer (Lovey Howell, _Gilligan’s Island_) 2 DQs reserved ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/88 "2025-02-14T15:15:59Z")
Previous IQs: Are you a noted Latina stage performer and, I think, an EGOT winner? - I was thinking of Chita Rivera, but it could be Rita Moreno Did you star in _A Soldier’s Story_ but have a drug problem? - Yes, Howard Rollins Jr. Were you a private eye played by Denzel Washington? - Yes, Easy Rawlins Good job, **ProPep**! On to N. IQs: Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”? Does a statue of you stand at CIA HQ? Were you Filch’s unpleasant cat? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/91 "2025-02-15T00:28:15Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Ben’s love interest in **'Salem’s Lot**? > 2. Are you the longtime boyfriend of the above Nancy Drew? > 3. Did you star as the victim of a cult in the movie **Ticket to Heaven**? Sue Norton Ned Nickerson Njck Mancuso. 3 DQs reserved ---
**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:** [February 15, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/92 "2025-02-15T02:12:17Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name begins with N 5. American ---
**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:** [February 15, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/93 "2025-02-15T02:13:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”? > Does a statue of you stand at CIA HQ? > Were you Filch’s unpleasant cat? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Richard Nixon (??) 3. I am not Mrs. Norris. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/94 "2025-02-15T05:20:47Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Lilo’s older sister? 2. Did Linda Purl play you in the TV miniseries **The Last Days of Pompei**? 3. Did George Eads play you on **CSI**? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/95 "2025-02-15T05:29:38Z")
DQs: Known for arts? Died before 1900? IQs: 1. Did Renee Zellweger play you in a movie with Chris Rock? 2. Were you a member of Motley Crüe? 3. Did you and Linda Ronstadt sing backup vocals on Neil Young’s “American Stars ‘n Bars” album? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/96 "2025-02-16T03:04:19Z")
Previous IQs: Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”? - Gen. Nathaniel Banks, during the Civil War, after Confederate troops captured a considerable store of supplies from him Does a statue of you stand at CIA HQ? - Not Nixon, [but Nathan Hale](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/headquarters/nathan-hale-statue/) Were you Filch’s unpleasant cat? - Yes, Mrs. Norris, in the _Harry Potter books_ and movies DQs: Caucasian? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did Odysseus say he was you after blinding the Cyclops? Did an expy of you appear in _Gone Girl_? Was your wife not actually the heiress of a timber fortune, as she’d long pretended to be? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/97 "2025-02-16T06:55:42Z")
IQs: 1 .Were you a Canadian master of “anti-comedy”? 2. Did you play guitar on the 1979 hit “Good Times”? 3. Did you star on the sitcom _Gimme A Break!_? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/98 "2025-02-16T22:25:50Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Lilo’s older sister? > 2. Did Linda Purl play you in the TV miniseries **The Last Days of Pompei**? > 3. Did George Eads play you on **CSI**? 1. I am not Nani. Take 2 DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Renee Zellweger play you in a movie with Chris Rock? > 2. Were you a member of Motley Crüe? > 3. Did you and Linda Ronstadt sing backup vocals on Neil Young’s “American Stars ‘n Bars” album? 1. I am not Aaron Neville. Take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Odysseus say he was you after blinding the Cyclops? > Did an expy of you appear in _Gone Girl_? > Was your wife not actually the heiress of a timber fortune, as she’d long pretended to be? 1. I am not Nemo (No-one). Take 2 DQs. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1 .Were you a Canadian master of “anti-comedy”? > 2. Did you play guitar on the 1979 hit “Good Times”? > 3. Did you star on the sitcom _Gimme A Break!_? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/99 "2025-02-16T22:26:41Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name begins with N 5. American 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died after 1900 8. Not Caucasian ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/100 "2025-02-16T23:32:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1 .Were you a Canadian master of “anti-comedy”? > > 2. Did you play guitar on the 1979 hit “Good Times”? > > 3. Did you star on the sitcom _Gimme A Break!_? > > Take 3 DQs. Norm MacDonald, Nile Rodgers, and Nell Carter, respectively. DQs: Known for the performing arts? Died after 1960? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/101 "2025-02-17T00:58:53Z")
Previous IQs: Did Odysseus say he was you after blinding the Cyclops? - Yes, Nemo (or “Noman,” as I’ve seen it translated into English) Did an expy of you appear in _Gone Girl_? - Cable TV legal commentator Nancy Grace Was your wife not actually the heiress of a timber fortune, as she’d long pretended to be? - Dr. Niles Crane, on _Frasier_ (Maris’s family fortune actually came from urinal cakes) DQs: Won a top award in her field? Black? One DQ reserved. IQs: Was your adoptive “father” very sorry to see you leave home? Did a Roman centurion immediately know you weren’t a real person? Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/102 "2025-02-17T06:58:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did Renee Zellweger play you in a movie with Chris Rock? > > 2. Were you a member of Motley Crüe? > > 3. Did you and Linda Ronstadt sing backup vocals on Neil Young’s “American Stars ‘n Bars” album? > > 1. I am not Aaron Neville. > Take 2 DQs. 1. _Nurse Betty_ 2. Nikki Sixx 3. Nicolette Larson DQs: Last name begin with A-M? 2 DQs reserved ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/103 "2025-02-17T14:42:13Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name begins with N 5. American 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died after 1900 8. Not Caucasian 9. Known for the performing arts 10. Died after 1960 11. Did not win a top award in his field 12. Black 13. Last name begins with N-Z ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/104 "2025-02-17T14:42:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your adoptive “father” very sorry to see you leave home? > Did a Roman centurion immediately know you weren’t a real person? > Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? 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:** [February 17, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/105 "2025-02-17T17:23:42Z")
IQs: 1. Did your daughter record a posthumous duet with you? 2. Did you reboot a series that began with Carl Sagan? 3. Did you lead the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/106 "2025-02-17T20:57:36Z")
Correct, Nydia, Nick Stokes. DQs: 1. Famous family? 2. Known for singing? 3 DQs reserved [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905.md?page=6)