# Botticelli, July 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 2, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412 "2025-07-02T17:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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 20, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/241 "2025-07-20T15:51:26Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Are you the superpowered Prince of Markovia? > > 2. Did Spike Milligan call you his greatest inspiration? > > 3. Did you say you’d “send a heavily armed battalion to remind you of my love”? > > Take a DQ. > I am not… Groucho Marx? > I am not George III from _Hamilton_. #1 is Geo-Force in DC comics. Correct on the others. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/242 "2025-07-20T15:57:22Z")
IQs: Are you a fictional woodcarver from a children’s book? Did you confess your true desires for Belle, causing her to flee? Did you play the sidekick of the above-mentioned in a live version? ---
**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 20, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/243 "2025-07-20T16:32:32Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Tipper Gore. > I am not Hugo Gernsback. > Take a DQ. 3 (Alice) was Kathy Griffin. DQ: first name begins with G? IQs: 1. Did you run for president on the Surprise Party ticket? 2. Were you a literate _something_ who helped kids solve mysteries on a PBS show? 3. Was your last word (allegedly) “Water”? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/244 "2025-07-20T19:05:44Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Are you a fictional woodcarver from a children’s book? > Did you confess your true desires for Belle, causing her to flee? > Did you play the sidekick of the above-mentioned in a live version? I am not Gepetto. I am not Gaston. Take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you run for president on the Surprise Party ticket? > 2. Were you a literate _something_ who helped kids solve mysteries on a PBS show? > 3. Was your last word (allegedly) “Water”? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/245 "2025-07-20T19:06:27Z")
# G 1. Fictional 2. Last name begins with G ---
**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 20, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/246 "2025-07-20T19:33:47Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was Gracie Allen; 2 was Ghostwriter; 3 was Ulysses S. Grant. DQs: 1. main character? 2. originally from prose? 3. male? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/247 "2025-07-20T20:34:34Z")
# G 1. Fictional 2. Last name begins with G 3. Not main character 4. Originally from prose fiction 5. Female ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/248 "2025-07-20T21:34:04Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Gepetto. > I am not Gaston. > Take a DQ. Josh Gad DQ: American origin? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/249 "2025-07-20T23:00:11Z")
By that, do you mean American creator, or the character is of American origin (in-universe, as it were)? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/250 "2025-07-20T23:17:45Z")
Sorry I meant to say “creator.” ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/251 "2025-07-21T00:09:18Z")
IQs: 1. Did you carve your son out of wood? 2. Did your husband sculpt you out of marble? 3. Did you voice a character build out of snow by two sisters? ---
**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 21, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/252 "2025-07-21T01:31:13Z")
1. Are you a Swedish environmental activist? 2. Did you say of your newspaper comic that they could have called it _Revenge of the Zucchini People_, for all you cared? 3. Speaking of names, were you the only gargoyle with one (referring to somebody else) at Castle Wyvern in 994? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/253 "2025-07-21T02:27:33Z")
Gail Carriger, correct, Gina Bellman. 2 DQs reserved ---
**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 21, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/254 "2025-07-21T02:49:11Z")
Previous IQs: Did your suit buttons on a very important day in your life bear the wrong date? - George Washington’s [first inauguration, in 1789, was postponed by almost two months](https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/collections-holdings/the-material-culture-of-the-presidency/inaugural-buttons) Did you die at the Presidio in 1870, having never written your memoirs? - Yes, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas Did the same actor who played you in a Spielberg movie, also appear in a Coen Bros. movie? - The same actor who played Gen. George C. Marshall in _Saving Private Ryan_ also played the William H. Macy character’s father-in-law in _Fargo_ George x3! DQs: First appeared since 1900? American character? One DQ reserved. IQs: Are you AKA Tharkun and Olorin? Did Angelina Jolie once play your mom? Were you a poetic name for Queen Elizabeth I? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/255 "2025-07-21T02:50:28Z")
IQs: Were you abducted to serve Zeus in Olympus? Was Uranus your first husband? Are you the youngest person to be named Time’s Person of the Year? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/256 "2025-07-21T15:06:39Z")
# G 1. Fictional 2. Last name begins with G 3. Not main character 4. Originally from prose fiction 5. Female 6. Not an American creator 7. First appeared since 1900 8. Not an American character (ETA: E\_H’s DQs) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/257 "2025-07-21T15:11:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you carve your son out of wood? > 2. Did your husband sculpt you out of marble? > 3. Did you voice a character build out of snow by two sisters? I am not Gepetto. I am not Galatea. I am not Josh Gad. (Careful Professor - two repeats! I know you have a lot going on…) > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Are you a Swedish environmental activist? > 2. Did you say of your newspaper comic that they could have called it _Revenge of the Zucchini People_, for all you cared? > 3. Speaking of names, were you the only gargoyle with one (referring to somebody else) at Castle Wyvern in 994? I am not Greta Thunberg. I am not… Garry Trudeau? Seems like his sense of humor Take a DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you AKA Tharkun and Olorin? > Did Angelina Jolie once play your mom? > Were you a poetic name for Queen Elizabeth I? I am not Gandalf. Take 2 DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > Were you abducted to serve Zeus in Olympus? > Was Uranus your first husband? > Are you the youngest person to be named Time’s Person of the Year? I am not Ganymede. I am not Gaia. I am not (again) Greta Thunberg. ---
**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 21, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/258 "2025-07-21T15:28:35Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Greta Thunberg. > I am not… Garry Trudeau? Seems like his sense of humor > Take a DQ. 2 (_Zucchini People_) was Gary Larson; 3 (gargoyle) was Goliath. DQs: 1. created after 1960? 2. created by European(s)? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/259 "2025-07-21T15:38:46Z")
# G 1. Fictional 2. Last name begins with G 3. Not main character 4. Originally from prose fiction 5. Female 6. Not an American creator 7. First appeared since 1900 8. Not an American character 9. Created after 1960 10. Created by a European ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/260 "2025-07-21T15:55:15Z")
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