# 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:** 8
**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 17, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/141 "2025-06-17T13:53:47Z")
U. 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:** [June 17, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/142 "2025-06-17T14:04:38Z")
Swept me. IQs: 1. Are you a character from Norse mythology also called Skrymir? 2. Are you aka Shoe Shine Boy? 3. Were you Ingmar Bergman’s muse? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/143 "2025-06-17T14:59:48Z")
IQs: 1. Were you considered a failure during your time in office, yet as time progressed your reputation has risen favorably by comparisons of successive leaders? 2. Did you appear in a teen movie with Kirsten Dunst? 3. Are you a philosopher who wrote a famous novel that shares a certain similarity with one of Edgar Allen Poe’s works? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/144 "2025-06-17T15:00:32Z")
@Prof.Pepperwinkle I already asked your #3 question. ---
**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 17, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/145 "2025-06-17T15:23:50Z")
Sorry 'bout that. ---
**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 17, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/146 "2025-06-17T19:06:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Are you a character from Norse mythology also called Skrymir? > 2. Are you aka Shoe Shine Boy? > 3. Were you Ingmar Bergman’s muse? Not Ugrir (sp?), dunno, and still not Liv Ullman. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you considered a failure during your time in office, yet as time progressed your reputation has risen favorably by comparisons of successive leaders? > 2. Did you appear in a teen movie with Kirsten Dunst? > 3. Are you a philosopher who wrote a famous novel that shares a certain similarity with one of Edgar Allen Poe’s works? Not Ulysses S. Grant, dunno and not Umberto Eco. ---
**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 18, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/147 "2025-06-18T00:34:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a character from Norse mythology also called Skrymir? > > 2. Are you aka Shoe Shine Boy? > > 3. Were you Ingmar Bergman’s muse? > > Not Ugrir (sp?), dunno, and still not Liv Ullman. #1 was Utgard-Loki. #2 is Underdog. Correct on #3. DQs: 1. Living? 2. Last name starts with U? ---
**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 18, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/148 "2025-06-18T03:38:11Z")
U. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with U ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/149 "2025-06-18T13:47:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you considered a failure during your time in office, yet as time progressed your reputation has risen favorably by comparisons of successive leaders? > > 2. Did you appear in a teen movie with Kirsten Dunst? > > 3. Are you a philosopher who wrote a famous novel that shares a certain similarity with one of Edgar Allen Poe’s works? > > Not Ulysses S. Grant, dunno and not Umberto Eco. Correct, correct, and Gabrielle Union (_Bring It On_) DQ: Known from prose? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/150 "2025-06-18T14:01:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write a series of books with an animal’s name in the title, but which is not about that animal? 2. Are you a doctor who founded a drug company? 3. Were you kicked out of your home before reconnecting with an old friend, who was also kicked out of his home? ---
**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 18, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/151 "2025-06-18T20:58:11Z")
Dunno, not Dr. Upjohn and dunno. U. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with U 5. not known from prose ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/152 "2025-06-18T22:07:59Z")
John Updike (“Rabbit Run”) Correct Felix Unger (_The Odd Couple_) DQs: Alive after 1950? American? ---
**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 19, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/153 "2025-06-19T02:36:18Z")
Felix Unger, of course! 😖 U. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with U 5. not known from prose 6. alive after 1950 7. American ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/154 "2025-06-19T03:43:18Z")
IQs: 1. Are you well known for your opposition to music streaming services? 2. Did you impress upon your charges the danger of telling lies? 3. Jesus take the wheel! Did you win a Grammy for Best Country Song of 2005? ---
**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 19, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/155 "2025-06-19T19:47:31Z")
Dunno x3. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/156 "2025-06-19T21:52:36Z")
1. Lars Ulrich 2. Dolores Umbridge 3. Carrie Underwood DQs: Alive after 2000? Known from the arts? 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:** [June 20, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/157 "2025-06-20T02:54:14Z")
D’oh! Shoulda known all of those. U. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with U 5. not known from prose 6. alive after 1950 7. American 8. alive after 2000 9. known from 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:** [June 20, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/158 "2025-06-20T14:26:50Z")
IQs: 1. Were you known as Mr. Baseball? 2. Did you produce a popular typewriter in the late 19th/early 20th Centuries? 3. Does your name mean “dark spider” in Sindarin? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/159 "2025-06-20T15:57:36Z")
IQs: 1. Were you born in New Zealand, and married to one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood? 2. Were you also born in New Zealand, and appeared in _Xena, Warrior Princess_ and _Ghost Ship_? 3. Were you initially a patron of Galileo before condemning him in his second trial? ---
**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 20, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118/160 "2025-06-20T15:59:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you known as Mr. Baseball? > 2. Did you produce a popular typewriter in the late 19th/early 20th Centuries? > 3. Does your name mean “dark spider” in Sindarin? Not Bob Uecker (sp?), not Mr. Underwood and not Ungoliant. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you born in New Zealand, and married to one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood? > 2. Were you also born in New Zealand, and appeared in _Xena, Warrior Princess_ and _Ghost Ship_? > 3. Were you initially a patron of Galileo before condemning him in his second trial? Not Keith Urban, not that Urban actor guy, and dunno. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118.md?page=9)