# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/61 "2025-07-07T02:18:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you me? > 2. Were you D’Artagnan’s valet? > 3. Did you pick a peck of pickled peppers? I am not Professor Pepperwinkle. I am not Planchet. I am not Peter Piper. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Achilles’s friend who was killed by Hector? > IQ2: Was your grandson married to Autumn Kelly? > IQ3: Are you that grandson? I am not Patroclus. Take 2 DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > 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? I am not Pete Buttigieg. I am not Pete Townshend. I am not Pete Sampras. Pete x 3! > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did _you_ campaign for US vice president in 2012? > 2. Were you Abby on _NCIS_? > 3. Did you write _The Good Earth_? I am not Paul Ryan. Take a DQ. I am not Pearl S. Buck. ---
**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, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/62 "2025-07-07T02:23:16Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Paul Ryan. > Take a DQ. > I am not Pearl S. Buck. 2 was Pauley Perrette. DQ: real? ---
**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, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/63 "2025-07-07T02:32:29Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you Achilles’s friend who was killed by Hector? > > IQ2: Was your grandson married to Autumn Kelly? > > IQ3: Are you that grandson? > > I am not Patroclus. > Take 2 DQs. correct Prince Philip Peter Phillips DQ: Male? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/64 "2025-07-07T07:10:29Z")
# P 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/65 "2025-07-07T12:59:31Z")
Swept me! IQs: 1. Are you the earliest POTUS who fits this round’s letter? 2. Are you the most recent POTUS who fits this round’s letter? 3. Are you the most recent VPOTUS who fits this round’s letter? ---
**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, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/66 "2025-07-07T13:00:09Z")
DQ: Known for the Arts? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/67 "2025-07-07T15:15:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you the earliest POTUS who fits this round’s letter? > 2. Are you the most recent POTUS who fits this round’s letter? > 3. Are you the most recent VPOTUS who fits this round’s letter? I am not James Knox Polk. I am not Franklin Pierce. I am not Mike Pence. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/68 "2025-07-07T15:15:40Z")
# P 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not known for the arts ---
**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, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/69 "2025-07-07T15:55:25Z")
and swept again! IQs: 1. In the comic strip _Pogo_ were you the proprietor of a very down-on-its-luck circus? 2. When your daughter asked you if you loved her, did you reportedly reply, “Of course I love you; just not as much as Sophia Loren.”? 3. Did you create the role of the witch in _Into The Woods_? ---
**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 7, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/70 "2025-07-07T18:04:48Z")
P it is! IQs: Did you win the 1865 Battle of Five Forks? Did you own the bar to which the _FYI_ crew regularly came? Did you offer a teacher $1000 for a piano lesson right away? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/71 "2025-07-07T18:32:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. In the comic strip _Pogo_ were you the proprietor of a very down-on-its-luck circus? > 2. When your daughter asked you if you loved her, did you reportedly reply, “Of course I love you; just not as much as Sophia Loren.”? > 3. Did you create the role of the witch in _Into The Woods_? Swept me this time! Take 3 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you win the 1865 Battle of Five Forks? > Did you own the bar to which the _FYI_ crew regularly came? > Did you offer a teacher $1000 for a piano lesson right away? I am not Phil Sheridan. Take a DQ, but I’m sure it’s a Phil. I am not Phil Connors. ---
**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, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/72 "2025-07-07T18:46:37Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the son of a king who sparked one of the greatest wars in history? 2. Was your name incapable of pronunciation? 3. Are you the alter ego of Wonder Warthog? ---
**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, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/73 "2025-07-07T18:57:34Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. In the comic strip _Pogo_ were you the proprietor of a very down-on-its-luck circus? > > 2. When your daughter asked you if you loved her, did you reportedly reply, “Of course I love you; just not as much as Sophia Loren.”? > > 3. Did you create the role of the witch in _Into The Woods_? > > Swept me this time! Take 3 DQs. #1 was P. T. Bridgeport. #2 was Peter Sellers. #3 was Bernadette Peters. DQs: 1. Last name starts with P? 2. Alive? 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 7, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/74 "2025-07-07T19:45:18Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the shared role of Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi? 2. Did you invent the first fully electronic television? 3. Were you August Derleth’s Sherlock Holmes-esque detective? ---
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/75 "2025-07-07T19:46:17Z")
IQ1: Were you the first husband of the Princess Royal? IQ2: Did you die with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins? IQ3: Do I love you with a love so rare and true? ---
**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 7, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/76 "2025-07-07T20:37:19Z")
Swept me - Phil x3! The second was from _Murphy Brown_, and the last from _Groundhog Day_, of course. IQs: Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? Were you given command of the captured French privateer _Acheron_? Did you rescue a mistreated animal nicknamed Sherry in a YA novel? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/77 "2025-07-08T01:26:48Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Are you the son of a king who sparked one of the greatest wars in history? > 2. Was your name incapable of pronunciation? > 3. Are you the alter ego of Wonder Warthog? Take a DQ. I am not… Phsstpok? (from _Protector_) Take another DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the shared role of Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi? > 2. Did you invent the first fully electronic television? > 3. Were you August Derleth’s Sherlock Holmes-esque detective? Take a DQ. I am not Philo Farnsworth. Take another DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the first husband of the Princess Royal? > IQ2: Did you die with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins? > IQ3: Do I love you with a love so rare and true? Take 3 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? > Were you given command of the captured French privateer _Acheron_? > Did you rescue a mistreated animal nicknamed Sherry in a YA novel? I am not Preem Palver. I should remember this, but I don’t. Take a DQ. Take another DQ. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/78 "2025-07-08T01:27:40Z")
# P 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not known for the arts 4. Last name starts with P 5. Alive ---
**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 8, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/79 "2025-07-08T02:06:14Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the first husband of the Princess Royal? > > IQ2: Did you die with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins? > > IQ3: Do I love you with a love so rare and true? > > Take 3 DQs. Mark Phillips Patsy Cline Peggy Sue DQ1: Known for military/political? DQ2: American? One 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 8, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/80 "2025-07-08T02:14:46Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you the shared role of Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi? > 2. Did you invent the first fully electronic television? > 3. Were you August Derleth’s Sherlock Holmes-esque detective? > [@SunUp](#): > > Take a DQ. > I am not Philo Farnsworth. > Take another DQ. 1 was Elvis Presley (Butler in _Elvis_, Elordi in _Priscilla_); 3 was Solar Pons. DQs: 1. born after 1970? 2. first name begins from A-M? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=5)