# Botticelli - March 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 1, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109 "2026-03-01T15:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/1 "2026-03-01T15:51:26Z")
[Link to rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2025/1016476) I am **R** ---
**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 1, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/2 "2026-03-01T15:54:16Z")
IQs 1. Did you play Evie in _The Mummy_? 2. Did you host _Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous_? 3. Did you sculpt _The Thinker_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/3 "2026-03-01T16:46:03Z")
I am not Rachel Weisz? I am not Robin Leach I am not Rodan ---
**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 1, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/4 "2026-03-01T16:57:51Z")
Correct, correct and correct on Rodin. IQs 1. Were you a French Post-Impressionist with a rhyming name? 2. Will the queen be allowed to keep her baby if she guesses your name? 3. Did you best Isengrim by pissing in his eyes? ---
**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 1, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/5 "2026-03-01T20:53:48Z")
Last month’s game: [Botticelli - February 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2026/1027466) On to R! IQs: Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga and (some said disgracefully) flee afterwards? Was your last public appearance with President Warren G. Harding in Washington, D.C. in 1922? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/6 "2026-03-01T22:44:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct, correct and correct on Rodin. I think my birdbrain short-circuited there. > [@](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you a French Post-Impressionist with a rhyming name? > 2. Will the queen be allowed to keep her baby if she guesses your name? > 3. Did you best Isengrim by pissing in his eyes? 1. DQ 2. I am not Rumpelstiltskin 3. DQ (ick!) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/7 "2026-03-01T22:45:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? > Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga and (some said disgracefully) flee afterwards? > Was your last public appearance with President Warren G. Harding in Washington, D.C. in 1922? 1. DQ 2. DQ 3. I am not Teddy Roosevelt? ---
**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 1, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/8 "2026-03-01T22:46:40Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > IQs > > > > 1. Were you a French Post-Impressionist with a rhyming name? > > 2. Will the queen be allowed to keep her baby if she guesses your name? > > 3. Did you best Isengrim by pissing in his eyes? > > 1. DQ > 2. I am not Rumpelstiltskin > 3. DQ (ick!) 1 was Odilon Redon. 2 is correct. 3 was Reynard the Fox (Isengrim was a wolf). DQs 1. Real? 2. Last name starts with R? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/9 "2026-03-01T22:48:27Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Last name begins with R ---
**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 2, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/10 "2026-03-02T18:34:24Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the title character of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta? 2. Are you J. K. Rowling’s pseudonym for her works aimed at adults? 3. Did you write the Brentford series of fantasy books? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/11 "2026-03-02T20:54:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you the title character of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta? > 2. Are you J. K. Rowling’s pseudonym for her works aimed at adults? > 3. Did you write the Brentford series of fantasy books? Take 3 DQs ---
**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 2, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/12 "2026-03-02T21:00:13Z")
1 was Ruddigore. 2 is Robert Galbraith. 3 is Robert Rankin. DQs: 1. Male? 2. American? 3. Known for the Arts? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/13 "2026-03-02T21:24:28Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Last name begins with R 3. Male 4. American 5. Not known for the Arts, although has appeared in movies and television, and as the subject of stage productions ---
**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 3, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/14 "2026-03-03T04:53:28Z")
Previous IQs: Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? - Radagast the Brown, in the writings of JRR Tolkien Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga and (some said disgracefully) flee afterwards? - Gen. William S. Rosecrans Was your last public appearance with President Warren G. Harding in Washington, D.C. in 1922? - TR was dead by then, alas; this was Robert Todd Lincoln, at the dedication of the memorial to his father DQs: Living? Best known for politics/military? Born since 1950? IQs: Was your family nickname “Teedie”? Did you sail aboard USS _Augusta_ in 1941? Did you write a column called _My Day_? ---
**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 3, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/15 "2026-03-03T18:45:44Z")
IQs 1. Were you Lord Voltemort’s first victim? 2. Are you a collapsible DC supervillain? 3. Were you a leading Impressionist painter who refused to use black paint? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/16 "2026-03-03T19:48:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your family nickname “Teedie”? > Did you sail aboard USS _Augusta_ in 1941? > Did you write a column called _My Day_? Take 3 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you Lord Voltemort’s first victim? > 2. Are you a collapsible DC supervillain? > 3. Were you a leading Impressionist painter who refused to use black paint? 1. Do you mean Voldemort, as Tom Riddle? I am not one of the Riddles (Tom’s father or grandfather). If you mean Voldemort, as he became known as, take a DQ 2. Take a DQ 3. I am not Rembrandt ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/17 "2026-03-03T19:50:09Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Last name begins with R 3. Male 4. American 5. Not known for the Arts, although has appeared in movies and television, and as the subject of stage productions 6. Dead 7. Not best known for politics / military 8. Born before 1950 ---
**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 3, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/18 "2026-03-03T20:31:34Z")
1 is correct. 2. Is Ragdoll. 3. Was Renoir. Rembrandt’s much earlier, and loved using black. 3.DQs 1. Known for sports? 2. Born before 1920? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/19 "2026-03-04T01:15:52Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Last name begins with R 3. Male 4. American 5. Not known for the Arts, although has appeared in movies and television, and as the subject of stage productions 6. Dead 7. Not best known for politics / military 8. Born before 1950 9. Known for sports 10. Born before 1920 ---
**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 4, 2026, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/20 "2026-03-04T05:41:34Z")
Previous IQs: Was your family nickname “Teedie”? - Theodore Roosevelt Did you sail aboard USS _Augusta_ in 1941? - Franklin Roosevelt, to meet Churchill Did you write a column called _My Day_? - Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt x3! DQs: Best known for a sport played with a ball? Best known for a team sport? Greatest fame before 1950? IQs: Was your road-trip roommate said to be the loneliest man in America? Are you a noted tennis player with three-syllable last name that includes the slang name of a particular government agency? Did you play Draco Malfoy? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109.md?page=2)