# Botticelli - January 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 1, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448 "2025-01-01T18:09:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/241 "2025-01-23T19:56:57Z")
Pacific. Sorry ---
**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 23, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/242 "2025-01-23T20:14:43Z")
Are you Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/243 "2025-01-23T21:19:30Z")
Yes! I am Mark Knopfler! Congrats, Prof. Pepperwinkle! His _Sailing to Philadelphia_ popped up on The Acoustic Storm a week or two ago, which put him in mind. ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/244 "2025-01-24T03:28:36Z")
Thank you very much. And I am # U! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/245 "2025-01-24T04:18:57Z")
Nicely done **Prof**! And hats off to @kitap for stumping me again. IQs: 1. Are you known for wearing briefs and a cape? 2. Were you impersonated on film by a character played by Kevin Kline? 3. Were you the first in a long line of “Bond girls”? ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/246 "2025-01-24T04:49:00Z")
Congrats, Prof.! IQs: 1. Do you wear a cape but, unlike your good Kryptonian counterparts from pre-Crisis Earth-1 and Earth-2, no briefs? 2. Is a gun named after you? 3. Did you work for Bialystock and Bloom? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/247 "2025-01-24T08:27:57Z")
Great catch, Prof.P.! IQs: 1. Are you the title subject of a Fall Out Boy song? 2. Were you a military servant of David Niven during World War II? 3. Did you resign from the Army eleven years after graduating from West Point? ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/248 "2025-01-24T15:13:13Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you known for wearing briefs and a cape? > 2. Were you impersonated on film by a character played by Kevin Kline? > 3. Were you the first in a long line of “Bond girls”? #1. I am not Underdog. #2. Take a DQ. #3. I am not Ursula Undress, er, Andress. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you wear a cape but, unlike your good Kryptonian counterparts from pre-Crisis Earth-1 and Earth-2, no briefs? > 2. Is a gun named after you? > 3. Did you work for Bialystock and Bloom? 1. I am not Ultraman. 2. I am not Mr. Uzi. 3. I need to watch _The Producers_ again. Take a DQ. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the title subject of a Fall Out Boy song? > 2. Were you a military servant of David Niven during World War II? > 3. Did you resign from the Army eleven years after graduating from West Point? #2. I am not Peter Ustinov (??) Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/249 "2025-01-24T15:35:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Ultraman. > 2. I am not Mr. Uzi. > 3. I need to watch _The Producers_ again. Take a DQ. 1 was correct; close enough on Uziel “Uzi” Gal; 3 was Ulla. 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 24, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/250 "2025-01-24T15:36:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Are you the title subject of a Fall Out Boy song? > > 2. Were you a military servant of David Niven during World War II? > > 3. Did you resign from the Army eleven years after graduating from West Point? > > #2. I am not Peter Ustinov (??) > Take 2 DQs. #1 was Uma Thurman. #3 was Ulysses S. Grant. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Female? ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/251 "2025-01-24T15:49:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female **SunUp** take another DQ. **DLR** guessed “Real?” just before you did. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/252 "2025-01-24T16:20:57Z")
Ah, ninja’ed! First name begins with U? ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/253 "2025-01-24T16:37:16Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name starts with U ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/254 "2025-01-24T18:43:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you known for wearing briefs and a cape? > > 2. Were you impersonated on film by a character played by Kevin Kline? > > 3. Were you the first in a long line of “Bond girls”? > > #1. I am not Underdog. > #2. Take a DQ. > #3. I am not Ursula Undress, er, Andress. 1. Captain Underpants (Underdog wore a union suit) 2. Ulysses S. Grant (in _Wild Wild West_) 3. Correct **DQs:** 1. Known from arts? 2. Living? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/255 "2025-01-24T18:44:13Z")
I see Ulysses Grant was asked by **SunUp.** Is that a problem? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/256 "2025-01-24T19:05:36Z")
Actually, you used it before they did, so that’s @SunUp 's problem. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/257 "2025-01-24T19:07:55Z")
Whoops, guess I’ll dial back one IQ for my next round. ---
**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 24, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/258 "2025-01-24T19:29:01Z")
Good job, **Prof. P.**! IQs: Were you UN Secretary-General at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis? Were you Tolkien’s publisher? Were you King Arthur’s impulsive, wenching, hard-drinking dad? ---
**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 24, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/259 "2025-01-24T19:42:58Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the mascot of the University of Georgia? 2. Speaking of canines, did you guest star in “Bart’s Dog Gets an F”? 3. Were you a Quality Comics character who was the loose basis for a two-issue introspective Vertigo series painted by Alex Ross? ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/260 "2025-01-25T02:07:41Z")
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