Botticelli - January 2026

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Happy New Year!

I am…

That’s…

A!

Previous month’s thread: Botticellii -- Dec 2025 - #290 by Prof.Pepperwinkle

Botticellii -- Dec 2025
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  1. Did you write Escape to Witch Mountain?
  2. Did you write The Classics Reclassified?
  3. Did you write HMS. Ulysses?
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  1. I am not Richard Armour.
  2. Take 2 DQs.
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IQs:

  1. Did you give yourself the nickname “Wolf”?
  2. Were you abducted under the name “Zeev Zichroni”?
  3. Did you play a leader who orders his subordinates to take “the Anthill” in Paths of Glory?
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A it is!

IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO in the 20th Maine?
Were you a Scotland Yard detective known to Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson?
Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?

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Take 3 DQs.

I don’t know Lestrade’s first name.
Take 3 DQs.

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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Eichhmann
Adolphe Menjou

Adolf/phe x3!

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Known from the Arts?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
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IQs:

  1. Did Voila Davis play you in The Help?
  2. Where you in both Elvis and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood?
  3. Were you mocked by a Southwest Airlines’ employee in a viral post?
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  1. I am not Ann Margret (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
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Alexander Key, correct, Alistair MacLean.

DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. Known from the Performing Arts?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
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  1. Abileen Clark
  2. Austin Butler
  3. Abcde Redford

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. American?

1 DQ reserved

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Previous IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO in the 20th Maine? - Col. Adelbert Ames, who later became a carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi
Were you a Scotland Yard detective known to Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson? - Not Lestrade, whose first initial (Conan Doyle never told us his first name) was “G.,” but Athelney Jones
Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Gen. Ambrose Burnside

DQs:

Actress?
Considered a beauty?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did both Lorne Greene and Edward James Olmos play you?
Were you the longtime Congressman from Harlem?
Were you MYCROFT’s fake public identity on the Moon?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
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  1. I am not Commander Adama.
  2. I am not Bella Abzug.
  3. Take a DQ.
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IQs:

  1. Were you Little Miss Sunshine?
  2. Did you often give advice to strangers?
  3. Were you her estranged sister?
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Abigail van Buren.
  3. I am not Ann Landers.
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IQs:

  1. Did Jane Curtin play you in a sitcom co-starring Susan Saint James?
  2. Are you Gary Sanders’s most famous role?
  3. Was your wife Nefertiti?
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  1. I am not Allie.
  2. I am not WKRP’s Andy.
  3. Take a DQ.