Botticelli - February 2026

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Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #141 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our new letter is

J

Botticelli - January 2026
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IQ1: Did you take good care of your mother, though you were only three?
IQ2: Were you a polygynist murdered by an Illinois mob?
IQ3: Were you killed by angry natives on Hawai`i?

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IQs:

  1. Have you been portrayed by Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix?
  2. Have you played an evil wizard, a good vampire and a morally ambiguous pirate?
  3. Did you aid the Bride of Frankenstein in Christopher Moore’s Anima Rising?
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  1. Are you a male US figure skater turned NBC commentator?
  2. Did you own a boat called Calypso?
  3. Were you known as The White Woman of the Genesee?
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IQs:

  1. Are you Woody’s ex?
  2. Were you romantically linked to Woody Harrelson on screen?
  3. Were you romantically inked to Dane Cook on screen?
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I’m not James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby John Dupree (not sure of every single name of the lad in the poem), not Joseph Smith (should that be “polygamist”?) and not the great Capt. James Cook.

Not the Joker, not Johnny “But you have heard of me” Depp and dunno.

Dunno, not Jacques Cousteau and dunno.

Not J. Mia Farrow, not J. Demi Moore and dunno.

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Correct, correct, and Carl Jung.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Did Phil Ochs sing about having a dream in which he saw you “last night, all of he can be”?
  2. Were you the chief of the detectives in The Three Investigators series of books?
  3. Were you a singer known as “the Man in Black”?
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Dunno (are you sure of that lyric?), not Jim and not Johnny Cash.

J.

  1. fictional
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Johnny Weir, correct, Mary Jemison

IQs:

  1. Are you the very successful coach of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Women’s hockey team?
  2. Did you write and sing Harper Valley PTA?
  3. Did you duet with Mark Knopfler on Sailing to Philadelphia?

DQs:

  1. Female?
  2. Known from television?
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correct (though it’s George, not John)
correct
correct


Polygyny (“many women”) – one man, two or more wives
Polyandry (“many men”) – one woman, two or more husbands
Polygamy (“many spouses”) – either of the above, not specified

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#1. Yep, I got the lyric wrong. I’ll try again.
#2 was Jupiter Jones.
#3 is correct, Johnny Cash.

1 DQ reserved.

IQ: Did Phil Ochs sing about having a dream in which he saw you “last night, alive as he could be”?

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Ha ha, no.

  1. Jessie
  2. Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers)
  3. Juliette Binoche (Dan In Real Life)

DQ: Last name begin with J?

2 DQs reserved

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IQs:

  1. Are you a crime-fighting adventurer?
  2. Are you her daughter?
  3. Did you play the wife of Dick Whitman?
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IQs:

  1. Did you, a gallant general, play hell in Tennessee?
  2. Were you the general that #1 replaced?
  3. Did you character sit at a motel’s front desk in Memento?
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Ooo, tough round.

Duly noted as to polygyny, thanks, SCAdian.

Dunno x3.

Hmm. Also dunno.

Also also dunno.

Not John Bell Hood, not Johnston and dunno.

J.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not known from television
  4. first name begins with J
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IQs:

  1. Are you the very successful coach of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Women’s hockey team?
  2. Did you write and sing Harper Valley PTA?
  3. Did you duet with Mark Knopfler on Sailing to Philadelphia?

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Mark Johnson, Jeannie Riley, James Taylor

DQ:

  1. known from a genre?

2 DQs reserved

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J.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not known from television
  4. first name begins with J
  5. kinda sorta known from a genre, but not really, I’d say
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DQ: From a work created before 1900?

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Whoops, forgot to give the IQ answers before the DQ.

Correct, Correct (Joe Johnston, not Albert Sidney) and Mark Boone Junior (a stage name, not a suffix).