# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/21 "2026-06-01T00:19:00Z")
1. Louis XIV 2. Laisa from the Vorkosigan Saga 3. Correct, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/22 "2026-06-01T00:20:17Z")
DQ: Known for sports? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/23 "2026-06-01T00:45:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you cause big mama Lulu Belle to have a nervous breakdown? 2. Were you married to a Kardashian sister, and appear in a spinoff to _Keeping Up with the Kardashians_? 3. Did you rename yourself after screen ingenue Lana Turner? ---
**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 1, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/24 "2026-06-01T00:50:52Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the protagonist of _Ulysses_? 2. Are you playing Helen of Troy in the upcoming film version of _The Odyssey_? 3. Do you play basketball? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/25 "2026-06-01T03:48:43Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you perhaps known for co-starring in **The Road to** movies with Bob Hope & Bing Crosby? > 2. Did you star in the 1995 version of **A Little Princess**? > 3. Did you write **A Sand County Almanac**? Dorothy Lamour, Liesel Matthews, Aldo Leopold DQs: 1. Known for sports? 2. Caucasian? One 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:** [June 1, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/26 "2026-06-01T13:07:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Will the actor who recently played Aquaman play you in the upboming Supergirl movie? > 2. Were you Mary Martin’s actor son? > 3. Were you a character from a 17th century play whose name has come to mean any amoral but charming womanizer? DQ DQ Not … Lothario? > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you cause big mama Lulu Belle to have a nervous breakdown? > 2. Were you married to a Kardashian sister, and appear in a spinoff to _Keeping Up with the Kardashians_? > 3. Did you rename yourself after screen ingenue Lana Turner? Three DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you the protagonist of _Ulysses_? > 2. Are you playing Helen of Troy in the upcoming film version of _The Odyssey_? > 3. Do you play basketball? DQ DQ What’s she doing in \*The Odyssey? Not Lew Alcindor **L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. As best known, only name begins with L 5. Living 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Not known for appearances in media 8. Not born after 1970 9. Not known for sports 10. Caucasian > [@kitap](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Known for sports? DQ 9, fom Eureka. Try again. ---
**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 1, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/27 "2026-06-01T13:23:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs > > > > 1. Will the actor who recently played Aquaman play you in the upboming Supergirl movie? > > 2. Were you Mary Martin’s actor son? > > 3. Were you a character from a 17th century play whose name has come to mean any amoral but charming womanizer? > > DQ > DQ > Not … Lothario? 1 is Lobo, playeed by Jason Momoa. 2 was Larry Hagman. 3 is 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:** [June 1, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/28 "2026-06-01T13:48:11Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the protagonist of _Ulysses_? > 2. Are you playing Helen of Troy in the upcoming film version of _The Odyssey_? > 3. Do you play basketball? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ > DQ What’s she doing in \*The Odyssey? > Not Lew Alcindor 1 was Leo Bloom; 2 was Lupita Nyong’o (Odysseus fought in the Trojan War, so presumably she’ll appear at the start of the movie or in flashbacks); 3 was LeBron James. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired from basketball 37 years ago, and hasn’t been known as Lew Alcindor, legally or publicly, for even longer, so I’m not accepting it. DQs: 1. born after 1950? 2. known for politics, or other form of leadership? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/29 "2026-06-01T14:03:23Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you cause big mama Lulu Belle to have a nervous breakdown? > > 2. Were you married to a Kardashian sister, and appear in a spinoff to _Keeping Up with the Kardashians_? > > 3. Did you rename yourself after screen ingenue Lana Turner? > > Three DQs Leroy Brown [(Queen’s version)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRh-mn3Dnt8) Lamar Odom (_Khloé & Lamar_) Lana Del Rey (nee Elizabeth Woolridge Grant) 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:** [June 1, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/30 "2026-06-01T18:26:03Z")
L it is! IQs: Did the actress who played you, a historic person, tell NPR that she had to drink a lot of disgustingly thick milkshakes to put on weight for the role? Were you that person’s eldest child? Were you another child of that person and the focus of a relatively recent novel? ---
**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 1, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/31 "2026-06-01T18:44:37Z")
DQ: known for fashion? 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:** [June 1, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/32 "2026-06-01T21:42:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did the actress who played you, a historic person, tell NPR that she had to drink a lot of disgustingly thick milkshakes to put on weight for the role? > Were you that person’s eldest child? > Were you another child of that person and the focus of a relatively recent novel? None of those seems likely to be Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, so three DQs. **L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. As best known, only name begins with L 5. Living 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Not known for appearances in media 8. Not born after 1970 9. Not known for sports 10. Caucasian 11. Born after 1950 12. Known for politics, or other form of leadership 13. Not known for fashion And that’s twenty already! No more IQs, please, and ask all remaining earned DQs by 2200 Eastern tomorrow, 2 June. ---
**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 1, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/33 "2026-06-01T22:56:05Z")
Previous IQs: Did the actress who played you, a historic person, tell NPR that she had to drink a lot of disgustingly thick milkshakes to put on weight for the role? - Mary Todd Lincoln, played by Sally Field in Spielberg’s _Lincoln_ Were you that person’s eldest child? - Robert Todd Lincoln Were you another child of that person and the focus of a relatively recent novel? - Willie Lincoln, in the deeply weird but oddly touching _Lincoln in the Bardo_ by George Saunders (2017) DQs: Best known for political activism? Two DQs reserved. ---
**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 2, 2026, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/34 "2026-06-02T01:26:23Z")
DQ: Name usually accompanied by a title, such as Dr. or Sir? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2026, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/35 "2026-06-02T01:44:38Z")
**L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. As best known, only name begins with L 5. Living 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Not known for appearances in media 8. Not born after 1970 9. Not known for sports 10. Caucasian 11. Born after 1950 12. Known for politics, or other form of leadership 13. Not known for fashion 14. Not best known for political activism 15. Name is usually accompanied by a title, such as Dr. or Sir And that’s twenty already! No more IQs, please, and ask all remaining earned DQs by 2200 Eastern tomorrow, 2 June. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/36 "2026-06-02T03:23:55Z")
DQs: 1. From a famous family? 2. Known for social activism? ---
**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:** [June 2, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/37 "2026-06-02T12:18:47Z")
[quote=“SCAdian, post:35, topic:1030504”] **L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. As best known, only name begins with L 5. Living 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Not known for appearances in media 8. Not born after 1970 9. Not known for sports 10. Caucasian 11. Born after 1950 12. Known for politics, or other form of leadership 13. Not known for fashion 14. Not best known for political activism 15. Name is usually accompanied by a title, such as Dr. or Sir 16. Not from a famous family 17. Known for social activism ---
**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:** [June 2, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/38 "2026-06-02T13:40:43Z")
After counting five times, I show six remaining DQs: **knoodler** has 3, **EH** has 2, and **Eureka** has 1. Please ask them by 2300 tonight, Tuesday, 2 June. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/39 "2026-06-02T14:08:25Z")
DQs: 1. Became famous after 2000? 2. Best known from a single event or incident? 1 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2026/1030504/40 "2026-06-02T14:42:30Z")
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