# Botticelli - January 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 2, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514 "2024-01-02T20:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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 17, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/121 "2024-01-17T19:15:47Z")
IQs: Did you like to read at home with your shoes off, to let your feet “breathe”? Were you that person’s spouse, who was annoyed by the habit? Were you their eldest child? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/122 "2024-01-17T20:33:27Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Congratulations, @SunUp ! Good guess, I’d have never gotten that one. > > IQs: > > 1. Are you an artist in whose honor biologists named a species of biting louse? > > 2. Did you pitch the only perfect game in a World Series? > > 3. Were you a warrior of the Sevateem and companion of the Fourth Doctor, famous for your leather bikini? I am not Gary Larson, nor Don Larsen, nor Leela. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/123 "2024-01-17T20:34:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Imagine_? > 2. Did you have a hit with _Valotte_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think)_? I am not John Lennon, nor Julian Lennon, 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 17, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/124 "2024-01-17T20:36:20Z")
Correct, correct, and Guy Lombardo. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/125 "2024-01-17T20:41:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you like to read at home with your shoes off, to let your feet “breathe”? > Were you that person’s spouse, who was annoyed by the habit? > Were you their eldest child? Take 3 DQs. (I have a feeling I’m going to kick myself when the answers are posted…) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/126 "2024-01-17T20:41:50Z")
L. 1. Real. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/127 "2024-01-18T02:15:55Z")
1. Are you the most famous person from Pepin, Wisconsin? 2. Did you play Karen Ross in **Congo**? 3. Are you the heroine of the first Pern book, _Dragonflight_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/128 "2024-01-18T02:37:38Z")
I am not Frank Lloyd Wright, or Laura Dern, and dunno. Take at least one DQ. ---
**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 18, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/129 "2024-01-18T03:10:43Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Doc in _Back to the Future_? 2. Were you an old Western movie star whose trademark was carrying a whip? 3. Did you write _The Phantom of the Opera_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/130 "2024-01-18T03:18:19Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you the most famous person from Pepin, Wisconsin? > 2. Did you play Karen Ross in **Congo**? > 3. Are you the heroine of the first Pern book, _Dragonflight_? Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Linney and Lessa. DQs: 1. Female? 2. Living? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/131 "2024-01-18T03:24:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Doc in _Back to the Future_? > 2. Were you an old Western movie star whose trademark was carrying a whip? > 3. Did you write _The Phantom of the Opera_? I am not Christopher Lloyd, Lash Larue, or Gaston LeRoux. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/132 "2024-01-18T03:26:51Z")
L. 1. Real 2. Female 3. Dead 4 DQs pending. ---
**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 18, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/133 "2024-01-18T14:11:16Z")
Swept me! IQs: 1. Were you assisted by Odie Colognie? 2. Were you an ancient Epicurean philosopher? 3. Have you been played by Noel Neill, Teri Hatcher and Amy Adams? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/134 "2024-01-18T15:27:52Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > Congratulations, @SunUp ! Good guess, I’d have never gotten that one. > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you an artist in whose honor biologists named a species of biting louse? > > > > 2. Did you pitch the only perfect game in a World Series? > > > > 3. Were you a warrior of the Sevateem and companion of the Fourth Doctor, famous for your leather bikini? > > I am not Gary Larson, nor Don Larsen, nor Leela Swept me! I was going for a themed set of questions, but I couldn’t think of a third Larson. IQs: 1. Were you a brilliant and innovative guitarist, but better known as the creator of the first solid-body electric guitar? 2. Were you a five-time winner of the “Buckeye Newshawk Award”, as well as the prestigious “Silver Sow Award” (for excellence in hog husbandry reporting)? 3. Did you have a hit song about female masturbation on your first album? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/135 "2024-01-18T15:33:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Swept me! > > IQs: > > 1. Were you assisted by Odie Colognie? > 2. Were you an ancient Epicurean philosopher? > 3. Have you been played by Noel Neill, Teri Hatcher and Amy Adams? Dunno, I am not Lacon, and I am not Lois Lane. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/136 "2024-01-18T15:33:21Z")
IQ1: Did you go on the run with the man who raped you? IQ2: Were you that man? IQ3: Did you play a nurse on a long-running show? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/137 "2024-01-18T15:46:15Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Swept me! I was going for a themed set of questions, but I couldn’t think of a third Larson. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a brilliant and innovative guitarist, but better known as the creator of the first solid-body electric guitar? > > 2. Were you a five-time winner of the “Buckeye Newshawk Award”, as well as the prestigious “Silver Sow Award” (for excellence in hog husbandry reporting)? > > 3. Did you have a hit song about female masturbation on your first album? I am not Les Paul, nor Les Nessman, nor Cindy Lauper. ---
**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 18, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/138 "2024-01-18T15:49:35Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you assisted by Odie Colognie? > > 2. Were you an ancient Epicurean philosopher? > > 3. Have you been played by Noel Neill, Teri Hatcher and Amy Adams? > > Dunno, I am not Lacon, and I am not Lois Lane. #1 was King Leonardo (Saturday morning cartoon). #2 was Lucretius. Correct on #3. DQs: 1. Last name starts with L? 2. American? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/139 "2024-01-18T15:51:45Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you go on the run with the man who raped you? > IQ2: Were you that man? > IQ3: Did you play a nurse on a long-running show? I am not Laura Spencer nee Collins, nor Luke Spencer, and dunno. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514/140 "2024-01-18T15:56:52Z")
L. 1. Real 2. Female 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with L 5. (ETA: Naturalized) American 5 DQs pending. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2024/995514.md?page=8)