Botticelli - March 2026

[knoodler]

@SCAdian

@knoodler

1. Are you known for keeping your wife in a relatively tiny space?
2. Are you the first person a newly-deceased person hopes to meet?
3. Was you first love Betty Bryant?

Not Peter Pumpkin-Eater
Not St Peter
Not Peter Parker (assuming you actually meant Betty Brant)

Swept me! Peter x3!

[SCAdian]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Are you the oldest of five children in a series of books by Margaret Sidney?
2. Did you have hits with Roar and Teenage Dream?
3. Did you marry Leonard Hoffstadter?

Three DQs

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Were you and Al Married with Children?
2. Are you the title character, played by Chadwick Boseman, in a critically acclaimed and box office smash 2018 blockbuster movie?
3. Were you made ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991, given your permanent ban from baseball for gambling on your own games, though said ineligibility has ended given the change last year that lifts permanent bans after death?

Not Peg Bundy
DQ
Not … Pete Rose?

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P

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with P
4. Originally from prose
5. A main character
6. Not an American character

SU: DLR already asked about prose origin. Try another DQ.

[De_La_Rue]

@SCAdian

Not Peg Bundy
DQ
Not … Pete Rose?

2 was Black Panther; 3 was indeed Pete Rose.

DQ: created after 1960?

[SCAdian]

@De_La_Rue

3 was indeed Pete Rose.

I have no idea how I came up with that name!

P

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with P
4. Originally from prose
5. A main character
6. Not an American character
7. Not created after 1960

[SunUp]

ReDQ: Created before 1800?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Congrats, SCAdian!

I don’t think titles, even ancient ones closely associated with just one person, should be used as personal names in Botticelli.

Previous IQs:

A retired soldier, did you die aboard the seedship Ark? - Jefri Lion in G.R.R. Martin’s sf novel Tuf Voyaging
Did Bogie and Bacall get married on your farm? - Ohio author and conservationist Louis Bromfield
Were you mean to your younger son after your wife died giving birth to him? - Tywin Lannister, in Martin’s Game of Thrones

On to P!

IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863?
Did Jackie Gleason play you In The Sting II?
A US ambassador, did you die in a Paris swimming pool?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you yet another left-handed gay Maltese-American military vet, mayor, presidential candidate, and Secretary of Transportation?
2. Did Lisa Kudrow play you on Friends?
3. Pete Rose’s ban from baseball was during the tenure of MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti. Are you his son?

[SCAdian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863?
Did Jackie Gleason play you In The Sting II?
A US ambassador, did you die in a Paris swimming pool?

Not … Pendleton?
DQ
DQ

@De_La_Rue

1. Were you yet another left-handed gay Maltese-American military vet, mayor, presidential candidate, and Secretary of Transportation?
2. Did Lisa Kudrow play you on Friends?
3. Pete Rose’s ban from baseball was during the tenure of MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti. Are you his son?

Not … Pete Buttigieg?
DQ
DQ

P

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with P
4. Originally from prose
5. A main character
6. Not an American character
7. Not created after 1960
8. Not created before 1800

“[Y]et another left-handed gay Maltese-American military vet”
Another? Who was the first one?

[De_La_Rue]

@SCAdian

Not … Pete Buttigieg?
DQ
DQ

1 was indeed Buttigieg; 2 was Phoebe; 3 was Paul Giamatti.

@SCAdian

Who was the first one?

wooooooooooooooooooosh

(That’s sound of a joke going over someone’s head.)

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SCAdian

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Are you the oldest of five children in a series of books by Margaret Sidney?
2. Did you have hits with Roar and Teenage Dream?
3. Did you marry Leonard Hoffstadter?

Three DQs

1 was Ben Pepper from the Five Little Peppers series.
2 was Katy Perry.
3 was Penny from The Big Bang Theory

3 DQs reserved.

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Were you the eponymous heroine of a movie serial synonymous with the “damsel in distress?”
2. Were you the actress that played her?
3. Were you last in alphabetical order of a biblically-named folk trio?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Have you been played in separate biopics recently by Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi?
2. Were you his spouse and the titular subject (played by Cailee Spaeny) of the biopic with Jacob Elordi?
3. Were you Elaine’s boss on Seinfeld (or the real-life catalog company founder he was based on)?

[knoodler]

IQs:

1. Are you a frequent panelist on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me?
2. Are you the regular host of the above?
3. Were you a comedian and satirist whose name appeared on the New Hampshire ballot for the Democratic Primary several times?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I heard Mayor Pete speak before he ran for President, and when asked if he might jump into the race, he said, “I don’t know, but if I do, I think I’ll have the gay, small-town mayor, Maltese-American, Navy vet lane all to myself.”

Previous IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863? - Close: not Pendleton, but Pemberton (Gen. John C.)
Did Jackie Gleason play you In The Sting II? - Trevor Plantagenet (I’ve always loved that name!)
A US ambassador, did you die in a Paris swimming pool? - Pamela Harriman

DQs:

European character?
Created by a European?
Good guy?

IQs:

Were you a giant with food in his name?
Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s Hercules?
Was Sam Adams always imposing on you in a kids’ book by Robert Lawson?

[SCAdian]

@SunUp

Qs:

1. Were you the eponymous heroine of a movie serial synonymous with the “damsel in distress?”
2. Were you the actress that played her?
3. Were you last in alphabetical order of a biblically-named folk trio?

Not Pauline
DQ
Not Peter Yarrow (last by both first name and last name!)

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Have you been played in separate biopics recently by Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi?
2. Were you his spouse and the titular subject (played by Cailee Spaeny) of the biopic with Jacob Elordi?
3. Were you Elaine’s boss on Seinfeld (or the real-life catalog company founder he was based on)?

Three DQs

@knoodler

s:

1. Are you a frequent panelist on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me?
2. Are you the regular host of the above?
3. Were you a comedian and satirist whose name appeared on the New Hampshire ballot for the Democratic Primary several times?

DQ
DQ
Nor Pat Paulsen

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you a giant with food in his name?
Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s Hercules?
Was Sam Adams always imposing on you in a kids’ book by Robert Lawson?

DQ
DQ
Not Paul Revere (or his horse)

[SCAdian]

P

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with P
4. Originally from prose
5. A main character
6. Not an American character
7. Not created after 1960
8. Not created before 1800
9. European character
10. Created by a European
11. Good guy

And the DQs I just awarded put us over twenty, so no more IQs, please. Ask your remaining DQs by noon Eastern, Thursday 12 March.

[SunUp]

@SCAdian

@SunUp

1. Were you the eponymous heroine of a movie serial synonymous with the “damsel in distress?”
2. Were you the actress that played her?
3. Were you last in alphabetical order of a biblically-named folk trio?

Not Pauline
DQ
Not Peter Yarrow (last by both first name and last name!)

Correct, the actress was Pearl White, and correct!

DQ: Created before 1900?

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Have you been played in separate biopics recently by Austin Butler and Jacob Elordi?
2. Were you his spouse and the titular subject (played by Cailee Spaeny) of the biopic with Jacob Elordi?
3. Were you Elaine’s boss on Seinfeld (or the real-life catalog company founder he was based on)?

@SCAdian

Three DQs

1 was Elvis Presley; 2 was Priscilla Presley; 3 was J. Peterman.

DQ: created by an author from the UK?

2 DQs reserved.

[knoodler]

@SCAdian

@knoodler

1. Are you a frequent panelist on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me?
2. Are you the regular host of the above?
3. Were you a comedian and satirist whose name appeared on the New Hampshire ballot for the Democratic Primary several times?

DQ
DQ
Nor Pat Paulsen

Paula Poundstone
Peter Sagal
Correct

2 DQs reserved

[SCAdian]

P

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with P
4. Originally from prose
5. A main character
6. Not an American character
7. Not created after 1960
8. Not created before 1800
9. European character
10. Created by a European
11. Good guy
12. Not created before 1900
13. Created by an author from the UK

No more IQs, please. Ask your remaining DQs by noon Eastern, Thursday 12 March.