# 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:** 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 12, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/121 "2025-01-12T03:32:32Z")
Well done, **kitap**! Previous IQs: Best-known as an actor, are you also a licensed helicopter pilot who’s been commended for helping those who got into trouble out west? - Yes, Harrison Ford Did you fall in love with Eliza Doolittle despite yourself? - Yes, Prof. Henry Higgins Did you play the unctuous assistant to a millionaire in _The Big Lebowski_? - Philip Seymour Hoffman [memorably played Brandt.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wviu7dilFg0&t=72s) On to L. IQs: Did your bratty boys annoy your law partner, William Herndon? Did you not like your husband to go around the house barefoot? Was your Vermont home called Hildene? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/122 "2025-01-12T03:35:56Z")
IQs: 1. Are you described as being “a fussbudget”? 2. Are you the baddest man in the whole damn town? 3. Are you a silent-era actress known for suffering for her art to an extreme? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/123 "2025-01-12T04:15:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your bratty boys annoy your law partner, William Herndon? > Did you not like your husband to go around the house barefoot? > Was your Vermont home called Hildene? Take 3 DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you described as being “a fussbudget”? > 2. Are you the baddest man in the whole damn town? > 3. Are you a silent-era actress known for suffering for her art to an extreme? Take a DQ I am not Bad, Bad Leroy Brown i am not Louise um… Bowman? Seymour? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/124 "2025-01-12T04:16:39Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with L. ---
**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 12, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/125 "2025-01-12T16:20:22Z")
Swept me! IQs: 1. Are you Robert Rankin’s absurdist noir private eye character in _Waiting For Godalming_? 2. Were you a 1940’s actress best known for her role in _The Postman Always Rings Twice_? 3. Did Phil Harris voice you in Disney’s _Robin Hood_? ---
**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 12, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/126 "2025-01-12T16:50:02Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a mild-mannered accountant who noticed a producer could make more money with a flop than with a hit? 2. Did you observe in _That Was the Week that Was_ that when Mozart was your age, he’d been dead for two years? (Currently you’ve outlived Mozart by 61.) 3. Were you a White House intern at the center of a late 90s scandal? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/127 "2025-01-12T17:48:35Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you described as being “a fussbudget”? > > 2. Are you the baddest man in the whole damn town? > > 3. Are you a silent-era actress known for suffering for her art to an extreme? > > Take a DQ > I am not Bad, Bad Leroy Brown > i am not Louise um… Bowman? Seymour? 1. Lucy Van Pelt 2. Correct 3. Lillian Gish DQ: 1. Are you American? 2. Known from the arts? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/128 "2025-01-12T19:54:29Z")
IQs: 1. Did you portray Vice Admiral Holdo? 2. Are you one who “ate no basil” according to “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Bob”? 3. Did you sing and play fiddle with your older (and rather better-known) sister Barbara? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/129 "2025-01-12T21:22:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Swept me! > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Robert Rankin’s absurdist noir private eye character in _Waiting For Godalming_? > 2. Were you a 1940’s actress best known for her role in _The Postman Always Rings Twice_? > 3. Did Phil Harris voice you in Disney’s _Robin Hood_? Take a DQ, I am not Lana Turner, I am not Little John > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you a mild-mannered accountant who noticed a producer could make more money with a flop than with a hit? > 2. Did you observe in _That Was the Week that Was_ that when Mozart was your age, he’d been dead for two years? (Currently you’ve outlived Mozart by 61.) > 3. Were you a White House intern at the center of a late 90s scandal? Take a DQ, take another -all I can thhink is Louis Ruykeyser - and I am not Monica Lewinsky > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you portray Vice Admiral Holdo? > 2. Are you one who “ate no basil” according to “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Bob”? > 3. Did you sing and play fiddle with your older (and rather better-known) sister Barbara? Take 2 DQs and I am not Louise Mandrell. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/130 "2025-01-12T21:23:12Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you Robert Rankin’s absurdist noir private eye character in _Waiting For Godalming_? > > 2. Were you a 1940’s actress best known for her role in _The Postman Always Rings Twice_? > > 3. Did Phil Harris voice you in Disney’s _Robin Hood_? > > Take a DQ, I am not Lana Turner, I am not Little John #1 is Laszlo Woodbine. Correct on the others. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/131 "2025-01-12T21:23:27Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with L. 4.American 4. Known for the Arts. ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/132 "2025-01-12T21:29:21Z")
DQ: Living? ---
**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 12, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/133 "2025-01-12T21:32:36Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you a mild-mannered accountant who noticed a producer could make more money with a flop than with a hit? > 2. Did you observe in _That Was the Week that Was_ that when Mozart was your age, he’d been dead for two years? (Currently you’ve outlived Mozart by 61.) > 3. Were you a White House intern at the center of a late 90s scandal? > [@kitap](#): > > Take a DQ, take another -all I can thhink is Louis Ruykeyser - and I am not Monica Lewinsky 1 was Leo Bloom, in _The Producers_; 2 was Tom Lehrer. DQs: 1. last name begins from A-M? 2. known for the performing arts? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/134 "2025-01-12T22:10:15Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you portray Vice Admiral Holdo? > > 2. Are you one who “ate no basil” according to “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Bob”? > > 3. Did you sing and play fiddle with your older (and rather better-known) sister Barbara? > > Take 2 DQs and I am not Louise Mandrell. Laura Dern, Lisa Bonet and correct. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/135 "2025-01-12T22:39:20Z")
IQs: 1. Did you bankroll a substantial bet at an illegal betting house (ya follah?) 2. Did your cow start a major conflagration? 3. Are you best friends with the man you bested in face-to-face combat? ---
**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 12, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/136 "2025-01-12T22:55:56Z")
IQs: 1. Were you arrested for the assassination of JFK? 2. Do you get a mention in Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week”? 3. Did a recently concluded six-season TV mockumentary explore what you do in the shadows? (Well, you and three other people. Four if you count the familiar.) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/137 "2025-01-13T00:05:04Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you bankroll a substantial bet at an illegal betting house (ya follah?) > 2. Did your cow start a major conflagration? > 3. Are you best friends with the man you bested in face-to-face combat? Take a,DQ, I am not Mrs. O’Leary, take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you arrested for the assassination of JFK? > 2. Do you get a mention in Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week”? > 3. Did a recently concluded six-season TV mockumentary explore what you do in the shadows? > (Well, you and three other people. Four if you count the familiar.) I am not Lee Harvey Oswald and take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/138 "2025-01-13T00:06:54Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with L. 4. American 5. Known for the Arts. 6. Last name begins with N-Z. 7. Known for the performing arts 8. Alive (my apologies for missing it!) ---
**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 13, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/139 "2025-01-13T01:41:36Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I am not Lee Harvey Oswald and take 2 DQs. 2 was Lena Horne; 3 was Laszlo Cravensworth, of _What We Do In the Shadows_. DQs: 1. born after 1970? 2. known for acting? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448/140 "2025-01-13T02:23:43Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with L. 4. American 5. Known for the Arts. 6. Last name begins with N-Z. 7. Known for the performing arts 8. Alive (my apologies for missing it!) 9. Born before 1970 10. Known for acting [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448.md?page=8)