# Botticelli -- June 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 31, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504 "2026-05-31T02:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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:** [June 21, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/281 "2026-06-21T12:54:13Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > I am not Boutros Boutros Ghali > Sounds awesome; take a DQ > DQ 2 (animated ad) was [Barbie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rO6En7flmg); 3 was Beth Broderick. 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 21, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/282 "2026-06-21T14:38:24Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > 1. Did you play a _Golden Girl_? > 2. Did you sing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”? > 3. Did you play Miss Hannigan? I am not Betty White I am not Bobby McFerrin I am not Carol Burnett ---
**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 21, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/283 "2026-06-21T14:45:31Z")
DQs 1. Known for one event or incident? 2. Known from TV/movies? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/284 "2026-06-21T17:07:44Z")
Correct on all three 1 DQ still reserved ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/285 "2026-06-21T18:17:54Z")
IQs. 1. Are you known for doing interviews with people? 2. Did you play the lead role in _Hello Dolly_? 3. Were you First Lady for a single term? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/286 "2026-06-21T18:36:37Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > 1. Are you known for doing interviews with people? > 2. Did you play the lead role in _Hello Dolly_? > 3. Were you First Lady for a single term? I am not Barbara Walters (Assuming you mean the movie version and not the stage version) I am not Barbra Streisand I am not Barbara Bush ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/287 "2026-06-21T18:37:53Z")
# B 1. Real, but also fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with B 4. Not certain if real male is alive or dead 5. First appearance was not in prose fiction 6. Not known for one event or incident 7. Known from TV/movies, in both real and fictional forms ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/288 "2026-06-21T18:52:35Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a founder of the WTA? 2. Did you record the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit”? 3. Did you show a photo of a baby whose eyes were just like the singer’s? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/289 "2026-06-21T19:12:00Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > 1. Were you a founder of the WTA? > 2. Did you record the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit”? > 3. Did you show a photo of a baby whose eyes were just like the singer’s? Take a DQ DQ I am not Billie Jean ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/290 "2026-06-21T19:30:15Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. [quote=“SunUp, post:288, topic:1030504”] > 1. Were you a founder of the WTA? > 2. Did you record the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit”? > 3. Did you show a photo of a baby whose eyes were just like the singer’s? Take a DQ DQ I am not Billie Jean [/quote] Correct on #3. The other two were Billie Jean King and Billie Holliday, respectively. Billie x3! 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:** [June 21, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/291 "2026-06-21T19:30:38Z")
DQs: 1. real person born after 1900? 2. American? IQs: 1. Were you Secretary-General of the UN, after Kofi Annan? 2. Were you Betty Boop’s canine boyfriend in the original animated cartoons? 3. According to a 1975 _National Lampoon_ article, partly reprinted in _The Big Book of Jewish Humor_, are you God? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/292 "2026-06-21T19:42:23Z")
Swept me again. Still have one DQ reserved (Yes, I know Barbra Streisand is not the only actress/singer to play _Hello Dolly_ but she fit my “Barbra” theme, ) ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/293 "2026-06-21T20:05:22Z")
IQs 1. Are you a (fictional) pie-baking Hockey Player? 2. Are you a member of (one of ) #1’s favorite D-man pairs? 3. Do you hate your first name so much you prefer to use a nickname that is a swear word? ---
**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 21, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/294 "2026-06-21T20:33:52Z")
IQs 1. Were you Bing Crosby’s bandleader brother? 2. Are you Nick Cage’s character on Spider-Noir\*? 3. Were you a book editor known for a series of joke books in the 40s and 50s? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/295 "2026-06-21T22:09:39Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Secretary-General of the UN, after Kofi Annan? > 2. Were you Betty Boop’s canine boyfriend in the original animated cartoons? > 3. According to a 1975 _National Lampoon_ article, partly reprinted in _The Big Book of Jewish Humor_, are you God? Take a DQ DQ DQ > [@Eureka](#): > > 1. Are you a (fictional) pie-baking Hockey Player? > 2. Are you a member of (one of ) #1’s favorite D-man pairs? > 3. Do you hate your first name so much you prefer to use a nickname that is a swear word? Take 3 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you Bing Crosby’s bandleader brother? > 2. Are you Nick Cage’s character on Spider-Noir\*? > 3. Were you a book editor known for a series of joke books in the 40s and 50s? 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:** [June 21, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/296 "2026-06-21T22:13:45Z")
# B 1. Real, but also fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with B 4. Not certain if real male is alive or dead 5. First appearance was not in prose fiction 6. Not known for one event or incident 7. Known from TV/movies, in both real and fictional forms 8. Real person born after 1900 9. Nationality not known, either real or fictional, but probably from North America ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/297 "2026-06-21T22:20:28Z")
# B 1. Real, but better known as fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with B 4. Not certain if real male is alive or dead 5. First appearance was not in prose fiction 6. Not known for one event or incident 7. Known from TV/movies, in both real and fictional forms 8. Real person born after 1900 9. Nationality not known, either real or fictional, but probably from North America Please note I altered DQ1 to better suit this character ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/298 "2026-06-21T22:43:08Z")
Real person born after 1950? ---
**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:** [June 21, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/299 "2026-06-21T22:44:47Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you Secretary-General of the UN, after Kofi Annan? > 2. Were you Betty Boop’s canine boyfriend in the original animated cartoons? > 3. According to a 1975 _National Lampoon_ article, partly reprinted in _The Big Book of Jewish Humor_, are you God? > [@knoodler](#): > > Take a DQ > DQ > DQ 1 was Ban Ki-Moon; 2 was Bimbo; 3 was Mel Brooks. DQs: 1. known by alias, pseudonym, or epithet? 2. Caucasian? 3. disappeared? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/300 "2026-06-21T22:46:35Z")
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