# 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:** 18
**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 27, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/341 "2026-03-27T15:48:39Z")
_ **C** _ 1. Real ---
**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 27, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/342 "2026-03-27T16:29:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Was your catchphase “Delenda est Carthago.”? > > 2. Did you write the longest running British play? > > 3. Were you the creator of the mobile? > > Not Cato > Not Agatha Christie > DQ Correct, corect, and Alexander Calder. DQ: male? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/343 "2026-03-27T18:31:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you issue a set of end-of-the-word prophecies between 1994 and 2011? > > 2. Was your rough-tough-and-rude persona of prose given a clean-cut hero’s makeover when adapted for movies? > > 3. Were you a former major league second baseman for the Yankees and Padres? > > DQ > Not Hopalong Cassidy > DQ Harold Camping Correct Horace Clarke DQs: First name begins with C? Living? ---
**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 27, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/344 "2026-03-27T20:02:06Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron Were you his first SECTREAS? - Salmon P. Chase Did you command the 20th Maine at Gettysburg? - The gallant [Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain) (played by Jeff Daniels, who shoulda won an Oscar, in _Gettysburg_) DQs: American? Best known for the Arts? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did a critic say you “looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe”? Were you that critic? A British politician, was your nickname “Sunny Jim”? ---
**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 27, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/345 "2026-03-27T20:05:49Z")
IQs: 1. Did you record the album _brat_? 2. Did you succeed Gordon Brown? 3. Did you riff movies on the Satellite of Love? ---
**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 27, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/346 "2026-03-27T20:14:16Z")
IQs: 1. Were you constantly in the company of Miss Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, proverbially blissful, nostalgia-driven 1950’s all-talking BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? 2. Were you known as “His Accidency”? 3. Was Terry Jones of the Monty Python troupe an accredited authority on your writings? ---
**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 27, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/347 "2026-03-27T23:02:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a critic say you “looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe”? > Were you that critic? > A British politician, was your nickname “Sunny Jim”? Three DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you record the album _brat_? > 2. Did you succeed Gordon Brown? > 3. Did you riff movies on the Satellite of Love? Three DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you constantly in the company of Miss Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, proverbially blissful, nostalgia-driven 1950’s all-talking BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > 2. Were you known as “His Accidency”? > 3. Was Terry Jones of the Monty Python troupe an accredited authority on your writings? And three for you. Can’t believe I let EH slip a Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain IQ past me… ☹ _ **C** _ 1. Real 2. Male 3. One-word name begins with C 4. Dead 5. American 6. Associated with, but not really known for, 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:** [March 27, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/348 "2026-03-27T23:05:23Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you constantly in the company of Miss Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, proverbially blissful, nostalgia-driven 1950’s all-talking BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > > 2. Were you known as “His Accidency”? > > 3. Was Terry Jones of the Monty Python troupe an accredited authority on your writings? > > And three for you. 1 was Henry Crun. 2 was Pres. Chester A. Arthur. 3 was Geoffrey Chaucer. 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 27, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/349 "2026-03-27T23:07:06Z")
DQs 1. Died after 1950? 2. Human? 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 27, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/350 "2026-03-27T23:11:05Z")
IQs 1. Were you Gene Autry’s horse? 2. Were you a horse that survived the battle of Little Big Horn? 3. Were you the Native American #2 was named for ? ---
**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 27, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/351 "2026-03-27T23:38:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you Gene Autry’s horse? > 2. Were you a horse that survived the battle of Little Big Horn? > 3. Were you the Native American #2 was named for ? Not … Champion? Not Comanche As far as I know, he was named after the tribe, not one particular member thereof _ **C** _ 1. Real 2. Male 3. One-word name begins with C 4. Dead 5. American 6. Associated with, but not really known for, the Arts 7. Died after 1950 8. Not human ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/352 "2026-03-28T00:05:10Z")
IQs: 1. Are you known for looksmaxxing? 2. Were you played by Kate Mulgrew in a short-lived spinoff? 3. Did you play a bird with a longtime invisible friend? ---
**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 28, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/353 "2026-03-28T00:28:49Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you known for looksmaxxing? > 2. Were you played by Kate Mulgrew in a short-lived spinoff? > 3. Did you play a bird with a longtime invisible friend? DQ DQ Not Carroll Lastname And that puts us over twenty DQs, so no more IQs, please. ---
**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 28, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/354 "2026-03-28T01:06:27Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs > > > > 1. Were you Gene Autry’s horse? > > 2. Were you a horse that survived the battle of Little Big Horn? > > 3. Were you the Native American #2 was named for ? > > Not … Champion? > Not Comanche > As far as I know, he was named after the tribe, not one particular member thereof Correct, correct, and I goofed. DQ: Are you a horse? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/355 "2026-03-28T01:16:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you play the mother of a boy with a peculiar ability? > > 2. Are you the boy? > > 3. Are you the doctor who tries to help the boy? > > DQ x3 Toni Collette (_The Sixth Sense_) Cole Sears Malcolm Crowe 3 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2026, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/356 "2026-03-28T04:55:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you known for looksmaxxing? > > 2. Were you played by Kate Mulgrew in a short-lived spinoff? > > 3. Did you play a bird with a longtime invisible friend? > > DQ > DQ > Not Carroll Lastname Clavicular, Mrs. Columbo, and correct (Carroll Spinney, who played Big Bird). 2 DQs 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 28, 2026, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/357 "2026-03-28T13:31:45Z")
_ **C** _ 1. Real 2. Male 3. One-word name begins with C 4. Dead 5. American 6. Associated with, but not really known for, the Arts 7. Died after 1950 8. Not human 9. Not a horse ---
**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 28, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/358 "2026-03-28T14:29:19Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you record the album _brat_? > 2. Did you succeed Gordon Brown? > 3. Did you riff movies on the Satellite of Love? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Three DQs 1 was Charli XCX; 2 was UK prime minister David Cameron; 3 was Crow T. Robot, on _Mystery Science Theater 3000_. DQ: dog or cat? 2 DQs 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 28, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/359 "2026-03-28T14:46:10Z")
_ **C** _ 1. Real 2. Male 3. One-word name begins with C 4. Dead 5. American 6. Associated with, but not really known for, the Arts 7. Died after 1950 8. Not human 9. Not a horse 10. Dog or cat ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2026/1028109/360 "2026-03-28T15:31:46Z")
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