# Botticelli May 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 8, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078 "2025-05-08T03:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/181 "2025-05-15T17:31:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Dorothy Parker. > Take 2 DQs. 2 was Dale Earnhardt (and that should be “on it”); 3 was Dipper Pines. DQs: 1. British? 2. died before 1900? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/182 "2025-05-15T17:32:24Z")
1. Did you invent the concept of “atoms”? 2. Were you the defense attorney at the Scopes Monkey Trial? 3. Did you write “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”? ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/183 "2025-05-15T17:34:16Z")
“Died before 1900” has already been asked, the answer is yes. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/184 "2025-05-15T17:37:05Z")
Oh, hell. OK: died after 1800? ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/185 "2025-05-15T21:17:56Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with D 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Not known from the arts 7. European 8. Known for a specialized field of writing 9. Not known for politics 10. Known for Science 11. Died before 1900 12. British 13. Died after 1800 ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/186 "2025-05-15T21:19:21Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > - Did you invent the concept of “atoms”? > - Were you the defense attorney at the Scopes Monkey Trial? > - Did you write “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”? 1. I am not John Dalton. 2. I am not Clarence Darrow. 3. I am not Charles Dickens. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/187 "2025-05-15T22:36:37Z")
I had Democritus in mind for #1, but that works too. IQs: 1. Are you an attorney who led Major League Baseball’s investigation into Pete Rose’s gambling activities, and also served as Donald Trump’s personal attorney during the Mueller investigation? 2. Are you Obelix’s pet? 3. Did you draw the first hundred or so issues of _Fantastic Four?_ Still sitting on a DQ. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/188 "2025-05-15T22:36:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you direct _The Dead Zone_? 2. Were you president of the CSA? 3. …What’s it like in New York City, I’m a thousand miles away but tonight you look so pretty, yes you doooo…Times Square can’t shine as bright as yoooou ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/189 "2025-05-15T23:51:01Z")
DQ: are you a chemist or physicist? ---
**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:** [May 16, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/190 "2025-05-16T01:58:22Z")
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**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:** [May 16, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/191 "2025-05-16T02:05:27Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with D 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Not known from the arts 7. European 8. Known for a specialized field of writing 9. Not known for politics 10. Known for Science 11. Died before 1900 12. British 13. Died after 1800 14. Chemist or physicist ---
**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:** [May 16, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/192 "2025-05-16T02:07:36Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > Mea culpa. Take 3 DQs. > [@Thing.Fish](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you an attorney who led Major League Baseball’s investigation into Pete Rose’s gambling activities, and also served as Donald Trump’s personal attorney during the Mueller investigation? > 2. Are you Obelix’s pet? > 3. Did you draw the first hundred or so issues of _Fantastic Four?_ 1. I am not Jack Kirby, who doesn’t start with a D. Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you direct _The Dead Zone_? > 2. Were you president of the CSA? > 3. …What’s it like in New York City, I’m a thousand miles away but tonight you look so pretty, yes you doooo…Times Square can’t shine as bright as yoooou 1. I am not Jefferson Davis. Take 2 DQs. And that takes us over 20 DQs. Please, no more IQs, and ask all outstanding DQs by 10pm EDT tomorrow. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/193 "2025-05-16T02:28:52Z")
Previous IQs: You were Lincoln’s campaign manager, and he put you on the Supreme Court. - Judge David Davis Some (not many) historians believe you were POTUS for a single day. - Sen. David Rice Atchison You were a political patron and eventual frenemy of Winston Churchill’s. - David Lloyd George David x3! DQs: Chemist? Was knighted or ennobled? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/194 "2025-05-16T02:55:59Z")
Can I use a DQ to guess your name at this point, or do I need to wait until all DQs have been asked? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/195 "2025-05-16T03:01:01Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Was your father a famous movie director, and your half-sister and grandfather both actors? > > 2. Are you a former Texas politican who hosts a popular talk show? > > 3. Are you a former sports anchor who hosts a popular sports talk show? > > take 3 DQs. 1. Danny Huston (John, Walter, Angelica) 2. Dan Patrick 3. Dan Patrick Pfugh 4 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:** [May 16, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/196 "2025-05-16T03:22:33Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you direct _The Dead Zone_? > 2. Were you president of the CSA? > 3. …What’s it like in New York City, I’m a thousand miles away but tonight you look so pretty, yes you doooo…Times Square can’t shine as bright as yoooou > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Jefferson Davis. Take 2 DQs. 1 was David Cronenberg; 3 was Delilah (in “Hey There Delilah”, by the Plain White T’s). 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:** [May 16, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/197 "2025-05-16T03:44:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is your daughter noted for her roles in SF movies? > IQ2: Did you play a woman whose boyfriend was killed by a mugger? > IQ3: Were you an Amerind mutant? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. Doodles Weaver Demi Moore (_Ghost_) Dani Moonstar, of the New Mutants Three 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:** [May 16, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/198 "2025-05-16T03:48:51Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Can I use a DQ to guess your name at this point, or do I need to wait until all DQs have been asked? If you have a DQ, you can use it for a “Firstname Lastname” question at any time – I’ve done it at least once. It’s best to make sure there are no unanswered IQs first, in case a correct guess has already been asked. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/199 "2025-05-16T04:20:55Z")
DQ: are you Sir Humfrey Davy? ---
**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:** [May 16, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/200 "2025-05-16T11:56:13Z")
Yes! I am # [Sir Humphrey Davy!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphry_Davy) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Sir_Humphry_Davy%2C_Bt_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg/250px-Sir_Humphry_Davy%2C_Bt_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Sir_Humphry_Davy%2C_Bt_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg/250px-Sir_Humphry_Davy%2C_Bt_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg) Nicely guessed, **Thing.Fish!** The next round is yours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078.md?page=11)