# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/41 "2025-07-04T23:04:00Z")
By my count there’s now 7 DQs out there. That puts it past 20 DQs. No more IQs, just DQs please. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/42 "2025-07-04T23:05:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you have a triphibian atomicar? > IQ2: Did I say that I don’t care what your daddy do? > IQ3: Are your cheeks rosy, and do you look a little nosey? DQ I am not … Susie Q? DQ That’s the last IQ ---
**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 4, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/43 "2025-07-04T23:25:24Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did you have a triphibian atomicar? > > IQ2: Did I say that I don’t care what your daddy do? > > IQ3: Are your cheeks rosy, and do you look a little nosey? > > DQ > I am not … Susie Q? > DQ Tom Swift Jr Sloopy Sheila DQ1: Poem written in English? DQ2: Poem author’s name known? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/44 "2025-07-04T23:28:44Z")
**S** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name begins with S 4. Not known from movies or TV 5. Not created by American(s) 6. Not from prose fiction 7. Caucasian 8. One of the main characters 9. Not from theater 10. Created by European(s) 11. Created before 1900 12. Not from a song 13. From a poem 14. Created before 1700 15. Poem written in English 16. Poem author’s name probably not known ---
**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 5, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/45 "2025-07-05T01:05:08Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you Robin Hood’s cousin who dressed all in red? > > 2. Were you one of Sherlock Holmes’s aliases? > > 3. Are you a horrible skinflint who gets redeemed by the visitation of ghosts? > > DQ > DQ > I am not Ebeneezer Scrooge 1 was Will Scarlet. 2 was Sigerson Bell. 3 is correct. DQ: Religious poem? 1 DQ 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 5, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/46 "2025-07-05T03:16:33Z")
IQs: Were you a principled Conservative and the good guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? Were you his unprincipled Tory grandee rival? Were you Robert Baratheon’s younger, humorless, ambitious brother? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/47 "2025-07-05T08:18:46Z")
DQ: 1. Written before 1600? 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/48 "2025-07-05T14:09:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a principled Conservative and the good guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? > Were you his unprincipled Tory grandee rival? > Were you Robert Baratheon’s younger, humorless, ambitious brother? I closed IQs a few posts ago. But I’ll let you slide. You owe me! Take 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/49 "2025-07-05T14:12:54Z")
**S** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name begins with S 4. Not known from movies or TV 5. Not created by American(s) 6. Not from prose fiction 7. Caucasian 8. One of the main characters 9. Not from theater 10. Created by European(s) 11. Created before 1900 12. Not from a song 13. From a poem 14. Created before 1700 15. Poem written in English 16. Poem author’s name probably not known 17. Not a religious poem 18. Near as I can tell, not written before 1600 ---
**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 5, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/50 "2025-07-05T16:14:50Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > I am not Susan Orleans > I am not Meryl Streep > DQ Correct on Susan Orlean and Streep; 3 (cigar) was Sigmund Freud. Final DQ: from a nursery rhyme? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/51 "2025-07-05T16:48:56Z")
**S** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name begins with S 4. Not known from movies or TV 5. Not created by American(s) 6. Not from prose fiction 7. Caucasian 8. One of the main characters 9. Not from theater 10. Created by European(s) 11. Created before 1900 12. Not from a song 13. From a poem 14. Created before 1700 15. Poem written in English 16. Poem author’s name probably not known 17. Not a religious poem 18. Near as I can tell, not written before 1600 19. From a nursery rhyme ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/52 "2025-07-05T19:29:44Z")
DQ: Licked the platter clean, along with his wife? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/53 "2025-07-06T00:57:35Z")
YES! I am **Jack Sprat**! [![](https://www.grandmasnurseryrhymes.com/images/jacksprat.gif) ](https://www.grandmasnurseryrhymes.com/images/jacksprat.gif) Good job, @SunUp! ---
**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 6, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/54 "2025-07-06T02:20:51Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > Were you a principled Conservative and the good guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? > > Were you his unprincipled Tory grandee rival? > > Were you Robert Baratheon’s younger, humorless, ambitious brother? > > I closed IQs a few posts ago. But I’ll let you slide. You owe me! > > Take 3 DQs Ooops, sorry, I missed that! If **SunUp** (good job!) hadn’t already nailed it, I wouldn’t have expected DQs. The three are Simon Kerslake, Charles Seymour and Stannis Baratheon. ---
**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 6, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/55 "2025-07-06T14:31:12Z")
Well done, **SunUp!** Very nice choice, **knoodler!** ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/56 "2025-07-06T23:07:03Z")
Thanks! In three questions, I had to shift mental gears from _Piers Plowman_ to Mother Goose. On to… # P ! ---
**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 7, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/57 "2025-07-07T00:13:52Z")
IQs: 1. Are you me? 2. Were you D’Artagnan’s valet? 3. Did you pick a peck of pickled peppers? ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/58 "2025-07-07T01:06:24Z")
IQ1: Were you Achilles’s friend who was killed by Hector? IQ2: Was your grandson married to Autumn Kelly? IQ3: Are you that grandson? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/59 "2025-07-07T01:19:03Z")
IQs: 1. Did you campaign for President in 2020? 2. Are you known for your “windmill” style on stage? 3. Did you attain your first number one ranking in mens tennis in 1993? ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/60 "2025-07-07T02:14:30Z")
Congrats, SunUp! IQs: 1. Did _you_ campaign for US vice president in 2012? 2. Were you Abby on _NCIS_? 3. Did you write _The Good Earth_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=4)