# Botticelli March 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 11, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443 "2025-03-11T19:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/121 "2025-03-19T23:47:02Z")
**P** 1. Fictional 2. First name begins with P 3. Male 4. From a work of prose fiction 5. Not an American author 6. Created before 1900 7. Have appeared outside prose fiction (Movies, TV, plays, etc.) 8. Not created before 1600 9. _A_ main character 10. Created by a European author 11. Not created before 1800 12. Technically not from a novel, though I’m sure many people would say yes 13. Created after 1850 14. Author from the British Isles ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/122 "2025-03-20T01:11:36Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the Rainbow’s daughter in the Oz books? > 2. Are you the main character of the book **Dragondrums** by Anne McCaffrey? > 3. Do you play Emily Prentiss on **Criminal Minds**? Polychrome, correct, Paget Brewster. DQ: 1.From a Dickens work? 2. Caucasian? ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/123 "2025-03-20T02:31:34Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Kris Kringle’s lawyer in the original version of _Miracle on 34th Street_? 2. Did you play Mamaw on _Young Sheldon_? 3. In _A Christmas Carol_ by Dickens, are you Bob Cratchitt’s oldest son? ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/124 "2025-03-20T02:34:05Z")
IQs: 1. Speaking of shows with Aaron Paul, were you a pink anthropomorphic cat and BoJack’s agent on _BoJack Horseman_? 2. Do you and your partner invite magicians to try to do tricks you can’t figure out on _Fool Us_? 3. Do you play football? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/125 "2025-03-20T04:13:59Z")
DQs: Last name begins A-M? Protagonist? Appears as sidekick/friend/associate/partner to another? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/126 "2025-03-20T04:23:50Z")
IQs: 1. In your first appearance, did you disobey your mother’s orders and sneak into Mr. McGregor’s garden? 2. Did you posthumously win an Oscar for Best Actor? 3. Are you best remembered for imprisoning your wife in an unconventional place? ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/127 "2025-03-20T13:06:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you play Kris Kringle’s lawyer in the original version of _Miracle on 34th Street_? > 2. Did you play Mamaw on _Young Sheldon_? > 3. In _A Christmas Carol_ by Dickens, are you Bob Cratchitt’s oldest son? Three DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Speaking of shows with Aaron Paul, were you a pink anthropomorphic cat and BoJack’s agent on _BoJack Horseman_? > 2. Do you and your partner invite magicians to try to do tricks you can’t figure out on _Fool Us_? > 3. Do you play football? DQ Not Penn DQ Can’t think of a single football player, real or fictional, whose name starts with ‘P’. Maybe after I finish waking up… > [@knoodler](#): > > 1. In your first appearance, did you disobey your mother’s orders and sneak into Mr. McGregor’s garden? > 2. Did you posthumously win an Oscar for Best Actor? > 3. Are you best remembered for imprisoning your wife in an unconventional place? Not Peter Rabbit DQ Not Peter the pumpkin eater ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/128 "2025-03-20T13:14:00Z")
**P** 1. Fictional 2. First name begins with P 3. Male 4. From a work of prose fiction 5. Not an American author 6. Created before 1900 7. Have appeared outside prose fiction (Movies, TV, plays, etc.) 8. Not created before 1600 9. _A_ main character 10. Created by a European author 11. Not created before 1800 12. Technically not from a novel, though I’m sure many people would say yes 13. Created after 1850 14. Author from the British Isles 15. Not from a Dickens work 16. Caucasian 17. Last name begins A-M 18. Protagonist 19. Appears as sidekick/friend/associate/partner to another With the DQs I just awarded, plus any reserved DQs, that puts us well over twenty, so no more IQs, please. Ask all your remaining DQs by 0900 EDT Saturday 22 March. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/129 "2025-03-20T13:34:08Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Speaking of shows with Aaron Paul, were you a pink anthropomorphic cat and BoJack’s agent on _BoJack Horseman_? > 2. Do you and your partner invite magicians to try to do tricks you can’t figure out on _Fool Us_? > 3. Do you play football? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ > Not Penn > DQ 1 was Princess Carolyn; 3 was Patrick Mahomes. 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:** [March 20, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/130 "2025-03-20T14:35:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. In your first appearance, did you disobey your mother’s orders and sneak into Mr. McGregor’s garden? > > 2. Did you posthumously win an Oscar for Best Actor? > > 3. Are you best remembered for imprisoning your wife in an unconventional place? > > Not Peter Rabbit > DQ > Not Peter the pumpkin eater 1. Peter Finch (_Network_) Peter x3! 1 DQ 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:** [March 20, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/131 "2025-03-20T23:58:06Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you play Kris Kringle’s lawyer in the original version of _Miracle on 34th Street_? > > 2. Did you play Mamaw on _Young Sheldon_? > > 3. In _A Christmas Carol_ by Dickens, are you Bob Cratchitt’s oldest son? > > Three DQs #1 was John Payne. #2 was Annie Potts. #3 is Peter Cratchitt. 3 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:** [March 21, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/132 "2025-03-21T00:44:50Z")
DQ: Last name begins with A - G? 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:** [March 21, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/133 "2025-03-21T14:28:42Z")
DQ: from a work by George Eliot, William Thackeray, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, any one of the Brontës, H. Rider Haggard, or Arthur Conan Doyle? 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:** [March 21, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/134 "2025-03-21T17:44:55Z")
**P** 1. Fictional 2. First name begins with P 3. Male 4. From a work of prose fiction 5. Not an American author 6. Created before 1900 7. Have appeared outside prose fiction (Movies, TV, plays, etc.) 8. Not created before 1600 9. _A_ main character 10. Created by a European author 11. Not created before 1800 12. Technically not from a novel, though I’m sure many people would say yes 13. Created after 1850 14. Author from the British Isles 15. Not from a Dickens work 16. Caucasian 17. Last name begins A-M 18. Protagonist 19. Appears as sidekick/friend/associate/partner to another 20. Last name begins with A - G 21. From a work by George Eliot, William Thackeray, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, any one of the Brontës, H. Rider Haggard, or Arthur Conan Doyle I show the Prof with 2 reserved DQs, and SunUp, DLR and knoodler with one each. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/135 "2025-03-21T18:21:43Z")
DQ: From a work by H. G. Wells, any one of the Brontes, H. Rider Haggard or Arthur Conan Doyle? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/136 "2025-03-21T19:50:16Z")
I’d like to ask my DQ as a conditional. If the answer to **Prof.Pepperwinkle** ’s question is yes: From a work by a Bronte? If the answer to **Prof.Pepperwinkle** ’s question is no: From a work by George Eliot, William Thackeray or Rudyard Kipling? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/137 "2025-03-21T21:09:24Z")
**P** 1. Fictional 2. First name begins with P 3. Male 4. From a work of prose fiction 5. Not an American author 6. Created before 1900 7. Have appeared outside prose fiction (Movies, TV, plays, etc.) 8. Not created before 1600 9. _A_ main character 10. Created by a European author 11. Not created before 1800 12. Technically not from a novel, though I’m sure many people would say yes 13. Created after 1850 14. Author from the British Isles 15. Not from a Dickens work 16. Caucasian 17. Last name begins A-M 18. Protagonist 19. Appears as sidekick/friend/associate/partner to another 20. Last name begins with A - G 21. From a work by George Eliot, William Thackeray, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, any one of the Brontës, H. Rider Haggard, or Arthur Conan Doyle 22. Not from a work by H. G. Wells, any one of the Brontes, H. Rider Haggard or Arthur Conan Doyle 23. From a work by George Eliot, William Thackeray or Rudyard Kipling I show the Prof, DLR and knoodler with one reserved DQ each. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/138 "2025-03-21T22:40:53Z")
DQ: From a work by Rudyard Kipling? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/139 "2025-03-21T22:51:49Z")
**P** 1. Fictional 2. First name begins with P 3. Male 4. From a work of prose fiction 5. Not an American author 6. Created before 1900 7. Have appeared outside prose fiction (Movies, TV, plays, etc.) 8. Not created before 1600 9. _A_ main character 10. Created by a European author 11. Not created before 1800 12. Technically not from a novel, though I’m sure many people would say yes 13. Created after 1850 14. Author from the British Isles 15. Not from a Dickens work 16. Caucasian 17. Last name begins A-M 18. Protagonist 19. Appears as sidekick/friend/associate/partner to another 20. Last name begins with A - G 21. From a work by George Eliot, William Thackeray, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, any one of the Brontës, H. Rider Haggard, or Arthur Conan Doyle 22. Not from a work by H. G. Wells, any one of the Brontes, H. Rider Haggard or Arthur Conan Doyle 23. From a work by George Eliot, William Thackeray or Rudyard Kipling 24. From a work by Rudyard Kipling I show DLR and knoodler with one reserved DQ each. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443/140 "2025-03-22T03:10:43Z")
Wow, I missed this round! I think I know who this is, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2025/1015443.md?page=8)