# Botticelli - January 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 4, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178 "2022-01-04T01:44:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/21 "2022-01-06T03:32:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Thomas Jefferson. > 2. I am not Harry S Truman. > Take a DQ. 3 was Tahani (on _The Good Place_). IQs: 1. Do you interview people on NPR? 2. Did four men pose for a picture in your bathtub? 3. Asid **e** from your other work, have you deft **ly** written educational songs about spelling for _The Electric Company_? DQs: 1. African? 2. died after 1980? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/22 "2022-01-06T11:08:26Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with T 4. Deceased 5. Not American 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Died after 1900 8. Not European 9. Not Asian 10. Not political/military 11. Died after 1950 12. African 13. Died after 1980 ---
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/23 "2022-01-06T11:09:03Z")
IQs: 1. Do you interview people on NPR? 2. Did four men pose for a picture in your bathtub? 3. Asid **e** from your other work, have you deft **ly** written educational songs about spelling for _The Electric Company_ ? [/quote] #3. I am not Tom Lehrer. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/24 "2022-01-06T18:29:08Z")
Previous IQs: Did your theories of naval power influence a future national leader? - Alfred Thayer Mahan Were you that leader? - Yes, Theodore Roosevelt Were you the Bartlet White House’s director of communications? - The almost-always smug and annoying Toby Zeigler, on _The West Wing_ DQs: From below the equator? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Are you the late Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa? Are you the hard-drinking comic relief from the North Carolina outdoor drama _The Lost Colony_? Did the fan-adored but castmates-hated Jason Nesmith play you? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/25 "2022-01-06T18:43:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the late Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa? Yes, I am **Bishop Desmond Tutu**. Congrats, EH! [https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIF.rKplB0Zifyr3GrA7I9U58A?pid=ImgDet&rs=1](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIF.rKplB0Zifyr3GrA7I9U58A?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/26 "2022-01-07T14:26:52Z")
Thanks, **Prof. P.**! A fine pick - a great man and a notable peacemaker (Lord knows we need more of 'em). I had the honor of meeting and briefly speaking with him when he was the commencement speaker at my college in 1987. Next let’s go with # B Updated for the New Year: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #89 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/89) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/27 "2022-01-07T16:31:29Z")
IQs: 1. Did you found the American Red Cross? 2. Were you POTUS between two other POTUS’s, both of whom would qualify for this round of Botticelli? 3. Did you paint _Calumny of Apelles_? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/28 "2022-01-07T16:52:32Z")
Not Clara Barton, Bill Clinton (or either Bush) and dunno. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/29 "2022-01-07T16:53:42Z")
Correct, Correct, and **Sandro Botticelli.** DQ: Real? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/30 "2022-01-07T17:00:48Z")
B. 1. fictional ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/31 "2022-01-07T17:26:54Z")
IQs: 1. Did your mom have the first name Stanley? 2. Did you recently write your 2021 Year in Review, for the Miami Herald? 3. In _Lake Placid_ do you say the immortal line “If I had a dick, this is where I’d tell you to suck it”? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/32 "2022-01-07T17:31:06Z")
Dunno, not Dave Barry and not Deedee Wallace. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/33 "2022-01-07T17:59:40Z")
1 was Barack Obama; 2 was correct; 3 was Betty White. DQs: 1. male? 2. first name begins with B? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/34 "2022-01-07T18:44:56Z")
B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with B ---
**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:** [January 8, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/35 "2022-01-08T13:16:32Z")
IQs: 1. Do you have a racehorse named Spark Plug? 2. Were you the leading light in men’s fashion in Regency England? 3. Were you the father of the clan that operated the Ponderosa ranch? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/36 "2022-01-08T15:55:25Z")
IQs: 1. Back in the 90s, were you in a very famous teeeeevee shoooow according to the end credits song of the Netflix series about you, by Grouplove? 2. Did you wash your Trans Am in the White House driveway, shirtless? 3. Have you played a high school senior, a vampire, and a White House intern? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/37 "2022-01-08T18:47:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you have a racehorse named Spark Plug? > 2. Were you the leading light in men’s fashion in Regency England? > 3. Were you the father of the clan that operated the Ponderosa ranch? Dunno, but not Beau Brummel or Ben Cartwright ---
**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:** [January 8, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/38 "2022-01-08T18:48:38Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Back in the 90s, were you in a very famous teeeeevee shoooow according to the end credits song of the Netflix series about you, by Grouplove? > 2. Did you wash your Trans Am in the White House driveway, shirtless? > 3. Have you played a high school senior, a vampire, and a White House intern? Dunno, not Joe Biden and dunno ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/39 "2022-01-08T20:38:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Joe Biden and dunno 1 was BoJack Horseman; 2 was correct, [of course](https://www.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732); 3 was Beanie Feldstein (in _Booksmart_, _What We Do in the Shadows_, and _American Crime Story_). DQs: 1. created by an American or Americans? 2. main character? ---
**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:** [January 9, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178/40 "2022-01-09T05:31:57Z")
B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name begins with B 4. created by an American or Americans 5. not a main character [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2022/957178.md?page=3)