# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/107 "2025-02-17T21:18:43Z")
DQ: Died after 1990? IQs: 1. Are you a seven-eyed wizard who sends Fafhrd on quests? 2. Did you play the Tin Man in the movie version of _The Wiz_? 3. Were you a rapper with a stage name which alluded to #2? ---
**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 18, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/108 "2025-02-18T01:00:20Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Did you play the Tin Man in the movie version of _The Wiz_? Yes, I am rhyming TV game show panelist and stand up comedian # Nipsey Russell, who also made a movie or two. Good going, **SunUp!** ---
**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 18, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/109 "2025-02-18T02:02:18Z")
Good job, **SunUp**! Previous IQs: Was your adoptive “father” very sorry to see you leave home? - Hagrid was unhappy when Norbert the baby dragon had to go Did a Roman centurion immediately know you weren’t a real person? - [Nortius Maximus, in _Life of Brian_](https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/nortius-maximus-and-sillius-soddus.3693770/) Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? - FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner, whose birthday was Nov. 22, 1963 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/110 "2025-02-18T05:49:19Z")
Good work, **SunUp**! 1. Nat “King” Cole 2. Neil deGrasse Tyson 3. Nat Turner ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/111 "2025-02-18T15:41:17Z")
Thanks, all! It was a stroke of luck, but once I thought of Nipsey I figured I had to try him, though the person I was actually thinking of was Flip Wilson initially. OK, on to our next person: I am # A Fire away! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/112 "2025-02-18T22:02:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you give golf tips to George W Bush before being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004? 2. Were you a cast member of _MadTV_ before being kicked off the show because of drug use? 3. Were you romantically involved with author Gertrude Stein? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/113 "2025-02-19T03:17:10Z")
Congrats! 1. Did you play Jennie on **Kate and Allie**? 2. Did you play Emma on **Kate and Allie**? 3. Did you play Johnny Cage in 1995’s **Mortal Kombat** movie? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/114 "2025-02-19T04:18:56Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Did you give golf tips to George W Bush before being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004? > 2. Were you a cast member of _MadTV_ before being kicked off the show because of drug use? > 3. Were you romantically involved with author Gertrude Stein? Take a DQ. I am not… Andy Dick? I am not Alice B. Toklas. > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you play Jennie on **Kate and Allie**? > 2. Did you play Emma on **Kate and Allie**? > 3. Did you play Johnny Cage in 1995’s **Mortal Kombat** movie? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/115 "2025-02-19T11:01:55Z")
IQ1: Did you ask your wife to pretend she was your sister?? IQ2: Were you the reason for the second time that happened? IQ3: Were you distracted from your goal by golden fruit? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/116 "2025-02-19T16:54:11Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you give golf tips to George W Bush before being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004? > > 2. Were you a cast member of _MadTV_ before being kicked off the show because of drug use? > > 3. Were you romantically involved with author Gertrude Stein? > > Take a DQ. > I am not… Andy Dick? > I am not Alice B. Toklas. 1. Arnold Palmer 2. Artie Lange 3. Correct DQs: Real? Male? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/117 "2025-02-19T18:00:58Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you ask your wife to pretend she was your sister?? > IQ2: Were you the reason for the second time that happened? > IQ3: Were you distracted from your goal by golden fruit? I am not Abram. I am not… aggh, it wasn’t Melchizedek, what was that name? Take a DQ. I am not Atalanta. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/118 "2025-02-19T18:01:30Z")
# A 1. Fictional 2. Female ---
**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:** [February 19, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/119 "2025-02-19T19:48:19Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did you ask your wife to pretend she was your sister?? > > IQ2: Were you the reason for the second time that happened? > > IQ3: Were you distracted from your goal by golden fruit? > > I am not Abram. > I am not… aggh, it wasn’t Melchizedek, what was that name? Take a DQ. > I am not Atalanta. correct Abimelech correct DQ: Originally from prose fiction? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/120 "2025-02-20T00:30:59Z")
IQs: 1. Are you currently under house arrest, pending deportment to Germany? 2. Did you quit your job as a domestic maid to become a writer? 3. Were you introduced as governess to Franklin Richards? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/121 "2025-02-20T00:53:16Z")
> Blockquote Allison Smith, Ari Meyers, Linden Ashby 3 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/122 "2025-02-20T00:58:46Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Are you currently under house arrest, pending deportment to Germany? > 2. Did you quit your job as a domestic maid to become a writer? > 3. Were you introduced as governess to Franklin Richards? Take 3 DQs. # A 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Originally from prose fiction ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/123 "2025-02-20T04:51:07Z")
Anna Sorkin (aka Anna Delvey); Abileen Clark (_The Help_); Agatha Harkness (_The Fantastic Four_) DQs: Last name start with A-M? Created before 1900? 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:** [February 21, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/124 "2025-02-21T00:07:03Z")
# A 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Originally from prose fiction 4. Last name starts with A-M 5. Created after 1900 ---
**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 21, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/125 "2025-02-21T01:41:47Z")
IQs: 1. Did you work for Count Petoffi on _Dark Shadows_? 2. Did you portray the protagonist in _Enchanted_? 3. Are you a cockroach who had been a vers libre poet in a past life? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/126 "2025-02-21T04:59:52Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the ultimate love interest opposite Steve Carell? 2. Did you prank your father into taking a long-deserved vacation? 3. Did you leave your husband and go to Calcutta to work with Mother Theresa? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905.md?page=7)