# Botticelli – July 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 30, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301 "2026-06-30T15:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/81 "2026-07-05T18:09:08Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Were you so impressed by Holden Caulfield , protagonist in _The Catcher in the Rye_, that led to you being incarcerated for life? > > 2. Did you provide many of the off-screen voices in the TV series you co-created? > > 3. Did you host a late-night TV show called “Freeze-Dried Movies”? > > 1. I am not Mark David Chapman. > 2. I am not Larry David. > 3. I an not David Letterman? Swept me! David x3! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/82 "2026-07-05T18:26:05Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a Hollywood starlet who married into a mobster’s family? 2. Did you audition for the role of Snow White in the eponymous Disney movie, only to be rejected by Walt for sounding too old? 3. Did you pilot your vessel to a safe crash landing, only to be vaporized along with the planet seconds later? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/83 "2026-07-05T19:19:44Z")
1. John Denver 2. Daveed Diggs 3. Emily Dickinson,correct 2 DQs 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 6, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/84 "2026-07-06T03:47:54Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Hollywood starlet who married into a mobster’s family? > 2. Did you audition for the role of Snow White in the eponymous Disney movie, only to be rejected by Walt for sounding too old? > 3. Did you pilot your vessel to a safe crash landing, only to be vaporized along with the planet seconds later? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Bette Davis? 3. I am not Arthur Dent? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/85 "2026-07-06T04:21:07Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Were you a Hollywood starlet who married into a mobster’s family? > > 2. Did you audition for the role of Snow White in the eponymous Disney movie, only to be rejected by Walt for sounding too old? > > 3. Did you pilot your vessel to a safe crash landing, only to be vaporized along with the planet seconds later? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Bette Davis? > 3. I am not Arthur Dent? Deanna Dunn Corleone (_The Godfather II_) Deanna Durbin Deanna Troi (_Star Trek: Generations_) Deanna x3! 3 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 6, 2026, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/86 "2026-07-06T04:24:00Z")
Previous IQs: Did your subordinates secretly create a crude spacecraft so that your world would be better treated? - Yes, the title character in the Jerry Pournelle sf novel _King David’s Spaceship_ Were you Det. Lije Bailey’s android partner? - Yes, R. Daneel Olivaw, in the writings of Isaac Asimov, including _The Caves of Steel_ Were you an officer of the Mad Scientists’ Club? - Mortimer Dalrymple, in the YA books of Bertrand R. Brinley DQs: American? Would be alive today, if definitely real? IQs: Were you said to have remarked, “I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction”? Did Lincoln name you, a friend and former circuit-riding colleague, to SCOTUS? Did your name appear in the citation of a seminal SCOTUS case about the use of scientific evidence? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/87 "2026-07-06T04:31:17Z")
IQs: 1. Were you once known as Delight, of The Endless? 2. Were you known to the Romans as Bacchus? 3. Are you cousin to the Duke brothers? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/88 "2026-07-06T06:39:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play a gadgeteer for a secret agent? 2. Are you ready for your closeup? 3. Were you an apartheid opponent who chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission? ---
**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 6, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/89 "2026-07-06T13:07:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you said to have remarked, “I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction”? > Did Lincoln name you, a friend and former circuit-riding colleague, to SCOTUS? > Did your name appear in the citation of a seminal SCOTUS case about the use of scientific evidence? Respectively: I am not Clarence Darrow. I am not David Davis. Take a DQ. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you once known as Delight, of The Endless? > 2. Were you known to the Romans as Bacchus? > 3. Are you cousin to the Duke brothers? 1. I am not Delirium. 2. I am not Dionysus. 3. I am not Daisy Duke. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play a gadgeteer for a secret agent? > 2. Are you ready for your closeup? > 3. Were you an apartheid opponent who chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reonciliation Commission? 1. I am not Desmond Llewelyn. 2. I am not Norma Desmond. 3. I am not Bishop Desmond Tutu. DQs: 1. thought by some people to be real, by others to be imaginary 2. usually male, sometimes portrayed as female 3. no nationality 4. immortal ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/90 "2026-07-06T13:57:52Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Were you known to the Romans as Bacchus? > > 2. Are you cousin to the Duke brothers? > > 1. I am not Delirium. > 2. I am not Dionysus. > 3. I am not Daisy Duke. Swept again! DQ: First appeared after 1950? 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 6, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/91 "2026-07-06T14:07:30Z")
IQs: 1. Was your father, whom you hated, a laborer who died in a construction accident while you were in college? 2. After a lab accident, did you travel to Tibet only to nearly die on a mountainside before being rescued by monks? 3. Did you lose your left hand while performing with the band Mildred Horowitz? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/92 "2026-07-06T23:01:46Z")
1. Are you the title character in a book by Barbara King solver? 2. Are you the main character in an older book that #1 is based on? 3. Are you the author of the book in #2? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/93 "2026-07-06T23:28:11Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you play a gadgeteer for a secret agent? > > 2. Are you ready for your closeup? > > 3. Were you an apartheid opponent who chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reonciliation Commission? > > 1. I am not Desmond Llewelyn. > 2. I am not Norma Desmond. > 3. I am not Bishop Desmond Tutu. Ah, swept me for Desmond x3. IQs: 1. According to Tommy Chong, are you not here? 2. Were you created to fulfill a Canadian television content requirement? 3. Was your story chronicled in a documentary titled _Rise and Shine_? ---
**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, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/94 "2026-07-07T01:11:32Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your father, whom you hated, a laborer who died in a construction accident while you were in college? > 2. After a lab accident, did you travel to Tibet only to nearly die on a mountainside before being rescued by monks?3. > 3. Did you lose your left hand while performing with the band Mildred Horowitz? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Doctor Doom. 3. Take a DQ. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. According to Tommy Chong, are you not here? > 2. Were you created to fulfill a Canadian television content requirement? > 3. Was your story chronicled in a documentary titled _Rise and Shine_? 1. I am not Dave, man. 2. I am not Doug McKenzie. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. thought by some people to be real, by others to be imaginary 2. usually male, sometimes portrayed as female 4. no nationality 5. immortal 6. first appeared before 1950 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/95 "2026-07-07T01:18:50Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. According to Tommy Chong, are you not here? > > 2. Were you created to fulfill a Canadian television content requirement? > > 3. Was your story chronicled in a documentary titled _Rise and Shine_? > > 1. I am not Dave, man. > 2. I am not Doug McKenzie. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct, correct, and Jay DeMerit, US Men’s Soccer Team central defender in the 2010 World Cup. 1 DQ 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 7, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/96 "2026-07-07T01:29:53Z")
DQ: First appeared after 1500? ---
**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, 2026, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/97 "2026-07-07T02:27:03Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > 1. Are you the title character in a book by Barbara King solver? > 2. Are you the main character in an older book that #1 is based on? > 3. Are you the author of the book in #2? Didn’t see these. Take 3 DQs. DQs: 1. thought by some people to be real, by others to be imaginary 2. usually male, sometimes portrayed as female 4. no nationality 5. immortal 6. first appeared before 1950 7. first appeared before 1500 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/98 "2026-07-07T02:34:14Z")
DQ: First appeared before 1 C.E.? ---
**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, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/99 "2026-07-07T03:58:00Z")
Previous IQs: Were you said to have remarked, “I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction”? - Yes, noted Ohioan and trial lawyer Clarence Darrow Did Lincoln name you, a friend and former circuit-riding colleague, to SCOTUS? - Yes, former Illinois judge David Davis Did your name appear in the citation of a seminal SCOTUS case about the use of scientific evidence? - An infant named Daubert: [Daubert standard - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_standard) One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you say that Washington’s 1776-77 New Jersey campaign was “the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military achievements"? Were you the son of a pair of shrinks? Were you a son of U.S. Grant? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301/100 "2026-07-07T04:50:52Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Was your father, whom you hated, a laborer who died in a construction accident while you were in college? > > 2. After a lab accident, did you travel to Tibet only to nearly die on a mountainside before being rescued by monks?3. > > 3. Did you lose your left hand while performing with the band Mildred Horowitz? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Doctor Doom. > 3. Take a DQ. Doctor Octopus Correct Doctor Bong Doctor x3! DQs: Considered a deity First appeared in BC/BCE? 2 DQs reserved [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2026/1031301.md?page=6)