# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/167 "2025-02-28T03:12:59Z")
1. Were you a well-known theater critic whose wife Jean wrote **Please Don’t Eat the Daisies**? 2. Were you a fictional Federal Agent in the old West, played by Robert Conrad? 3. Did you voice Chicha in **The Emperor’s New Groove**? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/168 "2025-02-28T05:24:04Z")
IQs: 1. Did you run for president against FDR in 1940? 2. Are you “Weird Al” Yankovic’s longtime guitarist? 3. Were you a Franciscan friar with a famous razor? ---
**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 28, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/169 "2025-02-28T16:17:04Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm as a result of your difficult berth? > > IQ2: Were you the main character in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s _The Cave Girl_? > > IQ3: Were you the fictional inventor of a mechanical manipulating device? > > Take 3 DQs Kaiser Wilhelm II Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones Waldo (after whom the real devices are named) DQ1: Known for the Arts? DQ2: Living? One DQ reserved. “Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm as a result of **your difficult berth**?” Typo – that should have been “difficult **birth** ”. I’ll forego the DQ if you think you would have been able to answer the IQ absent the typo. ---
**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 28, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/170 "2025-02-28T20:00:41Z")
Previous IQs: Was your body too big for the space prepared for it in the floor of the cathedral where you were first buried? - William the Conqueror - it burst as it was being forced into the space, making a huge stink, or so the story goes Were you the most famous person to live in Auburn, N.Y. in 1860? - William H. Seward, who became Lincoln’s Secretary of State the following year Did Gen. George H. Thomas win his best-known nickname at a battle you badly lost? - Gen. William S. Rosecrans; Thomas mounted a stout-hearted defense and held the line against Confederate attack after Rosecrans fled the field, gaining the nickname “the Rock of Chickamauga” William x3! DQs: American? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Did you capture Vincennes and Kaskaskia? Were you arguably the best-known American to visit Paris when the Eiffel Tower was opened? Did James Cagney, who looked quite a bit like you, play you in a late-career biopic? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/171 "2025-02-28T21:34:51Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > - Were you a well-known theater critic whose wife Jean wrote **Please Don’t Eat the Daisies**? > - Were you a fictional Federal Agent in the old West, played by Robert Conrad? > - Did you voice Chicha in **The Emperor’s New Groove**? I am not Jim West; take 2 DQs > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you run for president against FDR in 1940? > 2. Are you “Weird Al” Yankovic’s longtime guitarist? > 3. Were you a Franciscan friar with a famous razor? 1. I am not Wendell Wilkie 2. I am not Kimo West 3. I know the answer has something to do with Occam’s Razor, but I don’t know the source. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/172 "2025-02-28T21:36:02Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > “Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm as a result of **your difficult berth**?” Typo – that should have been “difficult **birth** ”. I’ll forego the DQ if you think you would have been able to answer the IQ absent the typo. It would not have made difference. I read that as “birth.” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/173 "2025-02-28T21:37:03Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with W 4. Known for the arts 5. Dead 6. American ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/174 "2025-02-28T21:40:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you capture Vincennes and Kaskaskia? > Were you arguably the best-known American to visit Paris when the Eiffel Tower was opened? > Did James Cagney, who looked quite a bit like you, play you in a late-career biopic? I am not… Walt Whitman? If yes, take 2 DQs; if not 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 28, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/175 "2025-02-28T23:24:12Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you run for president against FDR in 1940? > > 2. Are you “Weird Al” Yankovic’s longtime guitarist? > > 3. Were you a Franciscan friar with a famous razor? > > 1. I am not Wendell Wilkie > 2. I am not Kimo West > 3. I know the answer has something to do with Occam’s Razor, but I don’t know the source. Take a DQ. William of Ockham was the name. DQ: Known for the performing arts? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/176 "2025-03-01T03:32:58Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you a well-known theater critic whose wife Jean wrote **Please Don’t Eat the Daisies**? > 2. Were you a fictional Federal Agent in the old West, played by Robert Conrad? > 3. Did you voice Chicha in **The Emperor’s New Groove**? Walter Kerr, correct, Wendie Malick. 2 DQs reserved ---
**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 1, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/177 "2025-03-01T06:12:04Z")
IQ1: Did you often need food badly? IQ2: Did you also often need food badly? IQ3: Did you sing about a dead skunk? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/178 "2025-03-01T16:34:41Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with W 4. **Not known for arts** 5. Dead 6. American I made an error – I am NOT known for arts. @SunUp you can ask a different DQ. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/179 "2025-03-01T16:35:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you often need food badly? > IQ2: Did you also often need food badly? > IQ3: Did you sing about a dead skunk? 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:** [March 1, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/180 "2025-03-01T16:46:18Z")
DQ: Known for politics/military? ---
**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 1, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/181 "2025-03-01T18:17:19Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did you often need food badly? > > IQ2: Did you also often need food badly? > > IQ3: Did you sing about a dead skunk? > > Take 3 DQs Warrior Wizard [Loudon Wainwright III](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssSIKOrSNk) DQ: Last name starts A-M? Three DQs reserved. ---
**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 1, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/182 "2025-03-01T18:26:37Z")
IQ1: Do people look for you in the UK? IQ2: Do people look for you in the US? IQ3: Are you especially fond of Wensleydale cheese? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/183 "2025-03-01T23:59:09Z")
DQ: 1. Died before 1980? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/184 "2025-03-02T00:27:49Z")
**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 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/185 "2025-03-02T00:29:32Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do people look for you in the UK? > IQ2: Do people look for you in the US? > IQ3: Are you especially fond of Wensleydale cheese? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not Waldo 3. I am not Wallace (of _Wallace & Gromit_) ---
**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 2, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905/186 "2025-03-02T00:59:33Z")
Wally correct correct Four DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2025/1013905.md?page=10)