# 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:** 6
**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 9, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/101 "2023-07-09T02:55:23Z")
Ruth seems like a very likely first name to me. ---
**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 9, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/102 "2023-07-09T03:10:27Z")
Hmm, I think I may know who this is. May I ask my Firstname Lastname question now? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/103 "2023-07-09T04:41:31Z")
Go ahead! ---
**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 9, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/104 "2023-07-09T15:00:44Z")
Are you Ruth Gordon? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/105 "2023-07-09T15:53:34Z")
Yes! I am **Ruth Gordon**! Perhaps best known today for **Harold and Maude** and **Rosemary’s Baby**! Congratulations!! ---
**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 9, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/106 "2023-07-09T16:35:37Z")
Good job, **EH**! ---
**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 10, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/107 "2023-07-10T00:00:07Z")
Never heard of her. ---
**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 10, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/108 "2023-07-10T02:06:12Z")
Arwen’s Boo is on fire! Good call, **EH**! ---
**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 10, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/109 "2023-07-10T02:45:03Z")
Thanks! Our next letter is # E ---
**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 10, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/110 "2023-07-10T03:29:13Z")
IQs; 1. Did you fall in love with a beautiful young man, but were unable to speak to him, thanks to the wrath of Hera? 2. Were you accused of torturing and murdering hundreds of young Slovakian women, the truth of which accusations are debated by historians today? 3. Where you nicknamed “Longshanks” and “The Hammer of the Scots”? ---
**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 10, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/111 "2023-07-10T12:11:17Z")
Not Echo, Elizabeth Bathory or King Edward of England. ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/112 "2023-07-10T13:39:05Z")
Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #105 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/105) ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/113 "2023-07-10T13:45:23Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Austin Powers’ brother? 2. Were you “tjhe Wizard of Menlo Park”? 3. Did you write _The Hoosier Schoolmaster_? ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/114 "2023-07-10T13:51:15Z")
Not Eddie Powers, not Thomas Edison 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:** [July 10, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/115 "2023-07-10T13:52:53Z")
#1 was Dr. Evil. (as shown in _Goldmember_) #2 is correct. #3 was Edward Eggleston. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/116 "2023-07-10T14:14:22Z")
IQs: 1. Is a mathematical constant named after you? 2. Are you the most famous person from Metairie, LA? 3. Did you paint _The Gross Clinic_? ---
**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 10, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/117 "2023-07-10T14:15:34Z")
IQs: 1. In a classic Christian allegory, are you the Judas character? 2. Did you play a happily-married, and therefore doomed, naval aviator? 3. Are you Elendil’s Heir, under one of your names? 😁 ---
**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 10, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/118 "2023-07-10T14:36:36Z")
IQs: 1. Are you only half a bee? 2. Was your character nearly seduced by the god Pan in _The Circus of Dr. Lao_? 3. Were you a very early automobile designer for whom a town in Indiana is named? ---
**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 10, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/119 "2023-07-10T16:50:51Z")
IQ 1. Did you write and illustrate the first graphic novel 2. Were you illustrations used as the basis for the animated intro of the BBC show “Mystery!”. 3. Were you the driving force behind Project plowshare ---
**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 10, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/120 "2023-07-10T17:33:31Z")
As per EH’s latest useful list: the following letters are the longest unused, and that was March of this year so, we’re keeping up with it very well: A, C, D, G, P and X. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=7)