# Botticelli, July 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 1, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407 "2023-07-01T15:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 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:** [July 1, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/1 "2023-07-01T15:38:16Z")
Last month’s thread: [Botticelli June 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875) Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #104 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/104) Right. Our new letter is # K ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/2 "2023-07-01T15:44:15Z")
IQs: 1. Did you create Pogo Possum? 2. Did you paint _The Kiss_? 3. Are you Superman’s pet dog? ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/3 "2023-07-01T16:42:00Z")
IQ1: Were Thom, McMahon, Kirksey and Marney associated with you? IQ2: Did you write "The Marching Morons? IQ3: Were you an Irish earl lost when the ship you were riding on was torpedoed? ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/4 "2023-07-01T16:55:33Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the self-proclaimed “Painter of Light”? 2. Are you a jelly doughnut? 3. Are you possibly the most influential economist since the end of World War II? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/5 "2023-07-01T21:42:54Z")
1. Were you Ruggedo’s Chief Steward who later became the Nome King? 2. Are you the dragon jouster formerly known as Vetch in Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jousters series? 3. Are you a former child actress best known for the 1975 movie **Escape to Witch Mountain**? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/6 "2023-07-01T23:44:31Z")
IQ: 1. Are you known for your pleasure dome? 2. With your last words did you quote Melville? 3. Are about 0.5% of the population your direct descendants? ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/7 "2023-07-01T23:50:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you create Pogo Possum? > 2. Did you paint _The Kiss_? > 3. Are you Superman’s pet dog? Dunno, not Klimt and not Krypto. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/8 "2023-07-01T23:52:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were Thom, McMahon, Kirksey and Marney associated with you? > IQ2: Did you write "The Marching Morons? > IQ3: Were you an Irish earl lost when the ship you were riding on was torpedoed? Not Kearney, dunno and not Lord Kitchener. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/9 "2023-07-01T23:53:57Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the self-proclaimed “Painter of Light”? > > 2. Are you a jelly doughnut? > > 3. Are you possibly the most influential economist since the end of World War II? Not Kincaid, not JFK (although that’s a myth about his 1963 Berlin speech, as I’ve pointed out here _several_ times before), and not Keynes. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/10 "2023-07-01T23:55:08Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you Ruggedo’s Chief Steward who later became the Nome King? > > 2. Are you the dragon jouster formerly known as Vetch in Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jousters series? > > 3. Are you a former child actress best known for the 1975 movie **Escape to Witch Mountain**? Dunno x3. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/11 "2023-07-01T23:55:57Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ: > > 1. Are you known for your pleasure dome? > 2. With your last words did you quote Melville? > 3. Are about 0.5% of the population your direct descendants? Not Kublai Khan, dunno, and not Genghis Khan. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/12 "2023-07-02T00:03:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were Thom, McMahon, Kirksey and Marney associated with you? > > IQ2: Did you write "The Marching Morons? > > IQ3: Were you an Irish earl lost when the ship you were riding on was torpedoed? > > Not Kearney, dunno and not Lord Kitchener. JFK – those were members of _PT-109_’s crew. Cyril M Kornbluth correct DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/13 "2023-07-02T01:13:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Are you known for your pleasure dome? > > 2. With your last words did you quote Melville? > > 3. Are about 0.5% of the population your direct descendants? > > Not Kublai Khan, dunno, and not Genghis Khan. 1. Kahn Noonien Singh from the wrath of Kahn: “From hell’s heart, I stab at thee! For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!” Also the last words of Captain Ahab. 1DQ resevered ---
**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:** [July 2, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/14 "2023-07-02T02:25:35Z")
K. 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:** [July 2, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/15 "2023-07-02T13:48:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you create Pogo Possum? > > 2. Did you paint _The Kiss_? > > 3. Are you Superman’s pet dog? > > Dunno, not Klimt and not Krypto. #1 was Walt Kelly. Correct on the others DQ: Last name starts with K? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/16 "2023-07-02T13:51:49Z")
IQs:: 1. Were you the winner of the first season of _American Idol_? 2. Does Ryan Gosling play you in an upcoming summer blockbuster movie? 3. Are you secretly Batwoman? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/17 "2023-07-02T15:14:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the self-proclaimed “Painter of Light”? > > > > 2. Are you a jelly doughnut? > > > > 3. Are you possibly the most influential economist since the end of World War II? > > Not Kincaid, not JFK (although that’s a myth about his 1963 Berlin speech, as I’ve pointed out here _several_ times before), and not Keynes I know. A German translator once told me that “Ich bein ein Berliner” _could_ be construed as “I am a jelly doughnut”, but in the same way “I am Parmesan” could be interpreted as “I am cheese” rather than “I am from Parma”; I just asked it for the funny. Correct, though misspelled, about Thomas Kinkade, and John Maynard Keynes. IQs: 1. Did you kill Harry Dresden? 2. Are you a soccer player who’s here, who’s there, who’s fucking everywhere? 3. Are you IQ2’s girlfriend? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/18 "2023-07-02T15:34:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs:: > > 1. Were you the winner of the first season of _American Idol_? > 2. Does Ryan Gosling play you in an upcoming summer blockbuster movie? > 3. Are you secretly Batwoman? Not Kerry Underwood, dunno, and not Selena Kyle. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/19 "2023-07-02T15:37:27Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you kill Harry Dresden? > > 2. Are you a soccer player who’s here, who’s there, who’s fucking everywhere? > > 3. Are you IQ2’s girlfriend? Dunno, not the great Roy Kent of AFC Richmond, and not Keeley (sp?). ---
**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:** [July 2, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/20 "2023-07-02T15:39:15Z")
K. 1. real 2. female 3. last name starts with K [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=2)