# 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:** 18
**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 25, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/341 "2025-07-25T03:26:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Joy Luck Club_? 2. Are you an astrophysicist and explainer of science to the masses, like your stint as host of the recent iteration of _Cosmos_? 3. Does Edi Gathegi play you in _Superman_? ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/342 "2025-07-25T04:19:07Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Ozma when she was a boy? 2. Are you a boy adventurer/inventor in a large series of books? 3. Are you #2’s son? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/343 "2025-07-25T04:31:34Z")
IQs: Did some wild and crazy guy write a song about you? Did you lose your starting position after a team doctor accidentally punctured your lung? Was your first music video based on Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love”? ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/344 "2025-07-25T10:34:06Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Known, though not best known, from prose 4. Only known name starts with T 5. Not a main character 6. Not created after 1930 7. American creator(s) ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/345 "2025-07-25T10:41:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did both the Secretary of Defense and the Governor of Virginia praise you in 2016? > Did you work for the Fat Controller? > Did you sing “What’d I Miss?” in _Hamilton_? DQx3! > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Joy Luck Club_? > 2. Are you an astrophysicist and explainer of science to the masses, like your stint as host of the recent iteration of _Cosmos_? > 3. Does Edi Gathegi play you in _Superman_? DQ Not Neil deGrasse Tyson DQ > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Ozma when she was a boy? > 2. Are you a boy adventurer/inventor in a large series of books? > 3. Are you #2’s son? Not Tip Not Tom Swift Not Tom Swift Jr > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > Did some wild and crazy guy write a song about you? > Did you lose your starting position after a team doctor accidentally punctured your lung? > Was your first music video based on Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love”? Three DQs ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/346 "2025-07-25T14:07:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ > Not Neil deGrasse Tyson > DQ 1 was Amy Tan; 3 was Mr. Terrific. DQs: 1. created after 1900? 2. character is human? ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/347 "2025-07-25T14:23:53Z")
Swept me. IQs: 1. According to your theme song, are you “the undisputible leader of the gang”? 2. Are you one of the two creators of _South Park_? 3. Did you write the voluminous _A Study of History_? ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/348 "2025-07-25T14:37:53Z")
IQs: 1. Did you burst out of a crate of “canned eggs” in the _Futurama_ episode “Roswell That Ends Well”? 2. Man! Did you feel like a woman (and work the word “prerogative” into a song)? 3. Are you the title character of a 1999 animated Disney movie, whose locomotion through his associated environment was inspired by that of surfers? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/349 "2025-07-25T15:19:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > Did some wild and crazy guy write a song about you? > > Did you lose your starting position after a team doctor accidentally punctured your lung? > > Was your first music video based on Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love”? > > Three DQs 1. Tutankhamen (“King Tut” by Steve Martin) 2. Tyrod Taylor 3. Tone Lōc (“Wild Thing”) 3 DQs reserved ---
**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 25, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/350 "2025-07-25T19:09:19Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Known, though not best known, from prose 4. Only known name starts with T 5. Not a main character 6. Not created after 1930 7. American creator(s) 8. Created after 1900 9. Character is human ---
**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 25, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/351 "2025-07-25T19:19:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. According to your theme song, are you “the undisputible leader of the gang”? > 2. Are you one of the two creators of _South Park_? > 3. Did you write the voluminous _A Study of History_? Not Top Cat DQ Not Arnold Toynbee > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you burst out of a crate of “canned eggs” in the _Futurama_ episode “Roswell That Ends Well”? > 2. Man! Did you feel like a woman (and work the word “prerogative” into a song)? > 3. Are you the title character of a 1999 animated Disney movie, whose locomotion through his associated environment was inspired by that of surfers? Three DQs Which brings us up to 21 DQs, so no more, please. ---
**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 25, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/352 "2025-07-25T19:30:26Z")
Previous IQs: Did both the Secretary of Defense and the Governor of Virginia praise you in 2016? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, a Virginian who remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth Did you work for the Fat Controller? - Thomas the Tank Engine Did you sing “What’d I Miss?” in _Hamilton_? - Thomas Jefferson Thomas x3! DQs: American character? Appeared in a movie? Considered a “good guy”? ---
**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 25, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/353 "2025-07-25T19:48:10Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Known, though not best known, from prose 4. Only known name starts with T 5. Not a main character 6. Not created after 1930 7. American creator(s) 8. Created after 1900 9. Character is human 10. American character 11. Appeared in several movies, the most recent 100 years after the first 12. Originally considered a “good guy” ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/354 "2025-07-25T22:56:47Z")
DQs: 1. From a genre? 2. Caucasian? ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/355 "2025-07-25T23:32:38Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Known, though not best known, from prose 4. Only known name starts with T 5. Not a main character 6. Not created after 1930 7. American creator(s) 8. Created after 1900 9. Character is human 10. American character 11. Appeared in several movies, the most recent 100 years after the first 12. Originally considered a “good guy” 13. From a genre 14. Caucasian ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/356 "2025-07-25T23:50:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. According to your theme song, are you “the undisputible leader of the gang”? > > 2. Are you one of the two creators of _South Park_? > > 3. Did you write the voluminous _A Study of History_? > > Not Top Cat > DQ > Not Arnold Toynbee Correct, Trey Parker, correct. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/357 "2025-07-26T00:03:05Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you burst out of a crate of “canned eggs” in the _Futurama_ episode “Roswell That Ends Well”? > 2. Man! Did you feel like a woman (and work the word “prerogative” into a song)? > 3. Are you the title character of a 1999 animated Disney movie, whose locomotion through his associated environment was inspired by that of surfers? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Three DQs 1 was Harry Truman; 2 was Shania Twain; 3 was Tarzan. DQ: originally from prose? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/358 "2025-07-26T00:53:43Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Known, though not best known, from prose 4. Only known name starts with T 5. Not a main character 6. Not created after 1930 7. American creator(s) 8. Created after 1900 9. Character is human 10. American character 11. Appeared in several movies, the most recent 100 years after the first 12. Originally considered a “good guy” 13. From a genre 14. Caucasian 15. Originally from prose ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/359 "2025-07-26T00:57:12Z")
I show knoodler with three remaining DQs, DLR with two, and the Prof with one. ---
**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 26, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/360 "2025-07-26T01:01:31Z")
Well, it’s not Tarzan, Tintin, Toto or Tonto. Hmmm… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=19)