# Botticelli, June 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 2, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118 "2025-06-02T19:30:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/41 "2025-06-09T03:10:55Z")
Are you that fun-lovin’ guy Karl Rove? ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/42 "2025-06-09T14:12:15Z")
Yes, indeed, I am President George W. Bush’s top political advisor # Karl Rove AKA “The Architect” and “Turdblossom”: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl\_Rove](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove) Well done, **kitap**! ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/43 "2025-06-09T15:56:00Z")
Nicely done, **kitap!** ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/44 "2025-06-09T18:42:37Z")
Yay! If it wasn’t Rove I was stumped. On to **B** As in Boston, Blackbeard’s Ghost and Brazil. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/45 "2025-06-09T19:19:13Z")
IQs: 1. Were you an artist friend of Monet and Renoir who died fighting in a war with Prussia? 2. Are you aka Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith? (sp?) 3. Are you a cardboard boy scout-type lieutenant who is repeatedly “deaded” on the highly esteemed, double-inflated, magnolia-stuffed 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/46 "2025-06-09T22:41:08Z")
Good guess, **kitap**! I was focused on politicians and former politicians/pundits. IQs: 1. Were you the titular heroine of an adult-oriented comic strip about a crime reporter? 2. Are you the inspiration behind the character Gusteau in _Ratatouille_? 3. Did you provide the voice for the same character? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/47 "2025-06-10T00:26:06Z")
Good call on Rove, **kitap**! I was too busy thinking about cabinet secretaries… IQs: 1. Were you a keyboardist for Genesis? 2. Did you “mastermind” the Red River campaign, when you should have been attacking Mobile? 3. Were you played by David Tomlinson in a Disney movie that mixed live action and animation? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/48 "2025-06-10T00:37:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an artist friend of Monet and Renoir who died fighting in a war with Prussia? > 2. Are you aka Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith? (sp?) > 3. Are you a cardboard boy scout-type lieutenant who is repeatedly “deaded” on the highly esteemed, double-inflated, magnolia-stuffed 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? Take a DQ, I am not Button Bright, take a DQ. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the titular heroine of an adult-oriented comic strip about a crime reporter? > 2. Are you the inspiration behind the character Gusteau in _Ratatouille_? > 3. Did you provide the voice for the same character? I am not Brenda Starr, and take 2 DQs. > [@SunUp](#): > > Good call on Rove, **kitap**! I was too busy thinking about cabinet secretaries… > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a keyboardist for Genesis? > 2. Did you “mastermind” the Red River campaign, when you should have been attacking Mobile? > 3. Were you played by David Tomlinson in a Disney movie that mixed live action and animation? Take a DQ, take another and I am not Mr. Banks. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/49 "2025-06-10T00:42:14Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you a keyboardist for Genesis? > > 2. Did you “mastermind” the Red River campaign, when you should have been attacking Mobile? > > 3. Were you played by David Tomlinson in a Disney movie that mixed live action and animation? > > Take a DQ, take another and I am not Mr. Banks. Actually, they were all Mr. Banks! Tony Banks, Nathanael Banks, and George Banks. DQs: Real? Female? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/50 "2025-06-10T01:30:51Z")
IQs: Did you long have a show scheduled in London for New Year’s Eve 1999? Were you arguably the best-known American in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was dedicated? Did you have the handles of far too many rakes hit you in the face for comedic effect? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/51 "2025-06-10T01:41:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs > > Did you long have a show scheduled in London for New Year’s Eve 1999? > Were you arguably the best-known American in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was dedicated? > Did you have the handles of far too many rakes hit you in the face for comedic effect? I am not Banksy, take a DQ (unless the answer is Mary Bassatt) and I am not Bugs Bunny. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/52 "2025-06-10T01:41:49Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/53 "2025-06-10T01:49:33Z")
Previous IQs Did you long have a show scheduled in London for New Year’s Eve 1999? - George Burns; he didn’t make it, alas Were you arguably the best-known American in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was dedicated? - William “Buffalo Bill” Cody Did you have the handles of far too many rakes hit you in the face for comedic effect? - Not Bugs Bunny, but [Sideshow Bob on _The Simpsons_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZLJpMOxS4) DQs: Living? American? Last name starts with B? IQs: Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a computer expert, a concierge and an NBC executive? Were you the best-known person from Russell, Kan.? Did you play a PR guy advising Lincoln on the Gettysburg Address? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/54 "2025-06-10T02:43:42Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the titular heroine of an adult-oriented comic strip about a crime reporter? > > 2. Are you the inspiration behind the character Gusteau in _Ratatouille_? > > 3. Did you provide the voice for the same character? > > I am not Brenda Starr, and take 2 DQs. 1. Correct 2. Ettore Boiardi, better known as Chef Boyardee 3. Brad Garrett 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:** [June 10, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/55 "2025-06-10T02:46:56Z")
Not in play: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you have the handles of far too many rakes hit you in the face for comedic effect? - Not Bugs Bunny, but [Sideshow Bob on _The Simpsons_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZLJpMOxS4) I just watched a recent episode where Bob “invents” a short rake, which no longer smacks him in the face. Instead it smacks him in the crotch. /NIP ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/56 "2025-06-10T04:29:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a computer expert, a concierge and an NBC executive? > Were you the best-known person from Russell, Kan.? > Did you play a PR guy advising Lincoln on the Gettysburg Address? I qm not Sandra Bullock, L. Frank Baum and take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/57 "2025-06-10T04:31:19Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. American 5. First name starts with B ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/58 "2025-06-10T05:49:57Z")
DQs: Known from the arts? Born after 1960? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/59 "2025-06-10T05:54:58Z")
IQs: 1. Are you an English comedian famously known for his fear of flying? 2. Are you an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the “King of Swing”? 3. Is your best friend a dragon named Cecil? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/60 "2025-06-10T19:21:43Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you an artist friend of Monet and Renoir who died fighting in a war with Prussia? > > 2. Are you aka Saladin Paracelsus de Lambertine Evagne von Smith? (sp?) > > 3. Are you a cardboard boy scout-type lieutenant who is repeatedly “deaded” on the highly esteemed, double-inflated, magnolia-stuffed 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > > Take a DQ, I am not Button Bright, take a DQ. #1 is Frederic Bazille. #2 is correct. #3 is Bluebottle! 2 DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118.md?page=4)