# 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:** 14
**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 21, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/261 "2025-05-21T00:34:42Z")
Anyone? Bueller? ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/262 "2025-05-21T00:59:25Z")
We’re all waiting for EH to come back and ask about Friday. If it is Friday, you could go ahead and give it to EH. ---
**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 21, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/263 "2025-05-21T01:02:13Z")
Yes! Thank God I’m **Friday**. Congratulations, Elendil. Should have figured there are only so many 18th century literary figures… ---
**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 21, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/264 "2025-05-21T02:29:24Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > OK, final guesses! Hey, wait – I still have a DQ! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/265 "2025-05-21T04:04:09Z")
Sorry, mom, the mob has spoken! Monorail, monorail… ---
**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 22, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/266 "2025-05-22T04:22:17Z")
Ah, thanks, **Thing.Fish**! I read - Author native speaker of a Germanic language - Not a native English speaker in conjunction with each other. Here’s more on the character: [Friday (Robinson Crusoe) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_(Robinson_Crusoe)) I’ll start a new round later today. ---
**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 22, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/267 "2025-05-22T17:23:31Z")
Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #134 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/134) And our next letter is # E Have at you! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/268 "2025-05-22T19:26:44Z")
Good guesswork, **E\_H**! IQs: 1. Did you commission a building which would eventually become known as Westminster Abbey? 2. Did you pen “Sonnet XLIII”? 3. Were you the primary target of T-1000? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/269 "2025-05-22T19:44:46Z")
IQs: 1. Did you lead a faction of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men? 2. Did you finish 19th in the 1914 Indianapolis 500 and eventually become head of Eastern Airlines? 3. Were you a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles? ---
**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 22, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/270 "2025-05-22T19:52:28Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a current female cast member of _Saturday Night Live_? 2. Or the above person’s Weekend Update stand-up comedy persona, sucka? 3. Were you Client #9? ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/271 "2025-05-23T03:27:00Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you commission a building which would eventually become known as Westminster Abbey? > 2. Did you pen “Sonnet XLIII”? > 3. Were you the primary target of T-1000? Not King Edward III, dunno, and dunno. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you lead a faction of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men? > 2. Did you finish 19th in the 1914 Indianapolis 500 and eventually become head of Eastern Airlines? > 3. Were you a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles? Not Elendil, dunno and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you a current female cast member of _Saturday Night Live_? > 2. Or the above person’s Weekend Update stand-up comedy persona, sucka? > 3. Were you Client #9? Dunno, dunno and not Eliot Spitzer. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/272 "2025-05-23T03:52:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you lead a faction of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men? > > 2. Did you finish 19th in the 1914 Indianapolis 500 and eventually become head of Eastern Airlines? > > 3. Were you a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles? > > Not Elendil, dunno and dunno. Correct (hey, I had to try it), Eddie Rickenbacker, and Earl Weaver. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Female? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/273 "2025-05-23T06:42:29Z")
Congrats! 1. Did you write, among other books, **Thimble Summer**? 2. Are you perhaps best known for playing Robert McCall? 3. Did you write, among other books, **Magic by the Lake**? ---
**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 23, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/274 "2025-05-23T12:23:21Z")
Nice job, Elendil! 1. Did you play Mary Tyler Moore’s gruff but lovable boss in her titular sitcom? 2. Do you hold the record for most votes received by a US Presidential candidate who was in prison on Election Day? 3. Are you known for writing children’s literature and for your partnership with Strunk? ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/275 "2025-05-23T13:30:02Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you a current female cast member of _Saturday Night Live_? > 2. Or the above person’s Weekend Update stand-up comedy persona, sucka? > 3. Were you Client #9? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, dunno and not Eliot Spitzer. Respectively: 1 was Ego Nwodim; 2 was Miss Eggy. DQ: first name begins with E? 1 DQ reserved. IQs: 1. Were you in the Hellfire Club? 2. Were you leader of Albania? 3. Did you voice Maggie Simpson? ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/276 "2025-05-23T14:13:13Z")
IQs: 1. Have you played a cruel headmistress, a cruel fashion designer and the head of MiB? 2. Did you star in _CHiPs_? 3. Were you the famous fool-among-fools voiced by Spike Milligan and known for catchphrases such as “Hello, dere!” and telling yourself to shut up on the highly acclaimed, bourbon-infused, polyunsaturated 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/277 "2025-05-23T14:31:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you commission a building which would eventually become known as Westminster Abbey? > > 2. Did you pen “Sonnet XLIII”? > > 3. Were you the primary target of T-1000? > > Not King Edward III, dunno, and dunno. 1. I was thinking of Edward the Confessor (last monarch from the House of Wessex, succeeded by William the Conqueror/William I in 1066), but upon verifying with [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_(disambiguation)) it seems you are correct. In fact, there are two crowned monarchs named Edward III. I’ll withdraw my IQ. 2. Edna St Vincent Millay 3. Edward Furlong (John Connor, _Terminator 2_). However, my question was about the role, not the actor. I’ll withdraw this IQ also. 1 DQ reserved ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/278 "2025-05-23T15:41:00Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > … > > 1. Did you write, among other books, **Thimble Summer**? > 2. Are you perhaps best known for playing Robert McCall? > 3. Did you write, among other books, **Magic by the Lake**? Dunno, dunno and not E.B. White. > [@Thing.Fish](#): > > … > > 1. Did you play Mary Tyler Moore’s gruff but lovable boss in her titular sitcom? > 2. Do you hold the record for most votes received by a US Presidential candidate who was in prison on Election Day? > 3. Are you known for writing children’s literature and for your partnership with Strunk? Not Ed Asner, Eugene V. Debs and also not E.B. White. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > IQs: > 1. Were you in the Hellfire Club? > 2. Were you leader of Albania? > 3. Did you voice Maggie Simpson? Dunno, not Enver Hoxha (sp?) and not Elizabeth Taylor (once, and only once!). > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Have you played a cruel headmistress, a cruel fashion designer and the head of MiB? > 2. Did you star in _CHiPs_? > 3. Were you the famous fool-among-fools voiced by Spike Milligan and known for catchphrases such as “Hello, dere!” and telling yourself to shut up on the highly acclaimed, bourbon-infused, polyunsaturated 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? Not the great Emma Thompson, not Erik Estrada and dunno. E. 1. fictional 2. female 3. first name begins with E ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/279 "2025-05-23T15:42:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Have you played a cruel headmistress, a cruel fashion designer and the head of MiB? > > 2. Did you star in _CHiPs_? > > 3. Were you the famous fool-among-fools voiced by Spike Milligan and known for catchphrases such as “Hello, dere!” and telling yourself to shut up on the highly acclaimed, bourbon-infused, polyunsaturated 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > > Not the great Emma Thompson, not Erik Estrada and dunno. Correct, correct and the Famous Eccles! DQ: Originally from TV or movies? ---
**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 23, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/280 "2025-05-23T16:05:03Z")
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