# 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:** 14
**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, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/261 "2025-07-21T15:55:22Z")
Swept me. IQs: 1. Are you Tina Louise’s best known role? 2. Are you Ed Asner’s best known role? 3. Were you one of the stars of the popular 1960’s BBC radio series _The Goodies_? ---
**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, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/262 "2025-07-21T16:02:39Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Tanner '88_, _Tanner on Tanner_, and _Alpha House_? 2. In a 1977 strip, did Secretary of Symbolism Duane Delacourt order trophies for a human rights awards banquet and want the inscription to be “something from” you? 3. Do your fellow faculty members/employees include Professor Flutesnoot, Coach Kleats, Coach Clayton, Ms. Beazley, and Svenson? ---
**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 21, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/263 "2025-07-21T16:13:52Z")
IQ1-2: Did you travel with Pepsi and Moxie? IQ3: Whilst dealing with you did Dildo think it was a pity he’d run out of ammo? ---
**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/264 "2025-07-21T17:26:48Z")
Previous IQs: Are you AKA Tharkun and Olorin? - Yes, Gandalf Did Angelina Jolie once play your mom? - Grendel, in the 2007 CGI movie _Beowulf_ Were you a poetic name for Queen Elizabeth I? - 'Twas “Gloriana” DQs: European character? First appeared in a novel? Created by someone from the UK or Ireland? IQs: Are you the best-known movie star who grew up in Main Line Philadelphia? Were you Mr. Darcy’s sweet but naive sister? Were you Sir Launcelot’s mighty but illegitimate son? ---
**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, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/265 "2025-07-21T19:32:51Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the father of Linguini? > Do some people try hard to “look like you?” > Did you appear on early television with a monkey mascot? Ah, swept me. Take 3 DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Tina Louise’s best known role? > 2. Are you Ed Asner’s best known role? > 3. Were you one of the stars of the popular 1960’s BBC radio series _The Goodies_? I am not Ginger Grant. I am not Lou Grant. I am not… uh, Amy Grant. (heh) > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you write _Tanner '88_, _Tanner on Tanner_, and _Alpha House_? > 2. In a 1977 strip, did Secretary of Symbolism Duane Delacourt order trophies for a human rights awards banquet and want the inscription to be “something from” you? > 3. Do your fellow faculty members/employees include Professor Flutesnoot, Coach Kleats, Coach Clayton, Ms. Beazley, and Svenson? I am not Garry Trudeau. Take a DQ. Ah, all I can think of is the Marx Brothers, but it’s not Groucho as Wagstaff. Take another DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1-2: Did you travel with Pepsi and Moxie? > IQ3: Whilst dealing with you did Dildo think it was a pity he’d run out of ammo? I am neither Goodgulf nor Gimlet. I am not Goddam. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the best-known movie star who grew up in Main Line Philadelphia? > Were you Mr. Darcy’s sweet but naive sister? > Were you Sir Launcelot’s mighty but illegitimate son? Take 2 DQs and I am not Sir Galahad. ---
**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, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/266 "2025-07-21T19:34:07Z")
# 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 11. Not a European character 12. First was referred to in a novel 13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/267 "2025-07-21T19:40:32Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > Are you the father of Linguini? > > Do some people try hard to “look like you?” > > Did you appear on early television with a monkey mascot? > > Ah, swept me. Take 3 DQs. We seem to be having a lot of duplicate IQs so let me know if I’ve repeated others. Gusteau (_Ratatouille_) Gary Cooper (“Putin’ On the Ritz”; “Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper”) Dave Garroway (_The Today Show_, with J. Fred Muggs) DQ: First name begins with A-M? 2 DQs reserved ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/268 "2025-07-21T20:30:46Z")
# 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 11. Not a European character 12. First was referred to in a novel 13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland 14. First name begins with A-M ---
**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, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/269 "2025-07-21T21:04:09Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Garry Trudeau. > Take a DQ. > Ah, all I can think of is the Marx Brothers, but it’s not Groucho as Wagstaff. Take another DQ. 2 (human rights trophy with an inscription “something from…”) was Mahatma Gandhi; 3 (faculty) was Miss Grundy, in Archie comics. DQs: 1. created after 1990? 2. from a sci-fi or fantasy novel? ---
**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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/270 "2025-07-21T21:19:45Z")
# 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 11. Not a European character 12. First was referred to in a novel 13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland 14. First name begins with A-M 15. Created before 1990 16. From a fantasy or sci-fi novel ---
**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, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/271 "2025-07-21T22:21:37Z")
DQs: Has appeared in a TV series? Created before 1975? ---
**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 21, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/272 "2025-07-21T22:23:59Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1-2: Did you travel with Pepsi and Moxie? > > IQ3: Whilst dealing with you did Dildo think it was a pity he’d run out of ammo? > > I am neither Goodgulf nor Gimlet. > I am not Goddam. \ DQ x3! ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/273 "2025-07-22T00:32:12Z")
DQs: 1. Human? 2. Takes place at the time it was written? ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/274 "2025-07-22T01:08:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > > > IQ1-2: Did you travel with Pepsi and Moxie? > > > IQ3: Whilst dealing with you did Dildo think it was a pity he’d run out of ammo? > > > > I am neither Goodgulf nor Gimlet. > > I am not Goddam. > > DQ x3! Correction: correct x3! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/275 "2025-07-22T02:22:54Z")
# 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 11. Not a European character 12. First was referred to in a novel 13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland 14. First name begins with A-M 15. Created before 1990 16. From a fantasy or sci-fi novel 17. There has been a TV series made from the franchise; I don’t know if this character appeared or was referenced in the series 18. Created after 1975 19. Probably not human, but humanoid 20. Takes place at a lot of different times, including contemporary to the writing We’re at 20, but I’ll take a last round of IQs tonight. ---
**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 22, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/276 "2025-07-22T03:28:47Z")
IQs: 1. Did you invent the first liquid-fueled rocket? 2. Did you direct _Barbie_? 3. When the sun comes down and the moon comes up, does Lux Interior of the Cramps turn into you? ---
**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 22, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/277 "2025-07-22T03:48:02Z")
IQ1: Was the main character in a Thomas Perry novel named after you? IQ2: Were you played by Yvonne Craig on a '60s TV show? IQ3: Did you play a public defender, a soldier, and a high-school football coach? ---
**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 22, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/278 "2025-07-22T04:13:49Z")
Previous IQs: Are you the best-known movie star who grew up in Main Line Philadelphia? - Grace Kelly Were you Mr. Darcy’s sweet but naive sister? - Georgiana, in Jane Austen’s _Pride and Prejudice_ Were you Sir Launcelot’s mighty but illegitimate son? - Yes, Sir Galahad DQs: From science fiction? Created by a Briton? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/279 "2025-07-22T07:37:52Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you invent the first liquid-fueled rocket? > 2. Did you direct _Barbie_? > 3. When the sun comes down and the moon comes up, does Lux Interior of the Cramps turn into you? I am not Robert Goddard. I am not Greta Gerwig. Take a DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was the main character in a Thomas Perry novel named after you? > IQ2: Were you played by Yvonne Craig on a '60s TV show? > IQ3: Did you play a public defender, a soldier, and a high-school football coach? Take a DQ. I am not Barbara Gordon. I am not… Gregory Peck? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/280 "2025-07-22T07:39:38Z")
# 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 11. Not a European character 12. First was referred to in a novel 13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland 14. First name begins with A-M 15. Created before 1990 16. From a fantasy or sci-fi novel 17. There has been a TV series made from the franchise; I don’t know if this character appeared or was referenced in the series 18. Created after 1975 19. Probably not human, but humanoid 20. Takes place at a lot of different times, including contemporary to the writing 21. From science fiction 22. Created by a Briton [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=15)