# 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:** 2
**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 9, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/21 "2025-05-09T02:43:54Z")
IQ1: Did Tove Jansson write a book about you at sea? IQ2: Are you #1’s spouse? IQ3: Are you their son? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/22 "2025-05-09T02:44:48Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Regarding your second question, knoodler, are you thinking this a real person? Because I said before you asked that that she’s fictional. I’ll rescind my DQ, I don’t know why I asked it. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/23 "2025-05-09T02:49:17Z")
IQs: 1. Did you take up comedy after your husband walked out? 2. Are you her manager? 3. Did you play her husband? ---
**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 9, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/24 "2025-05-09T02:53:16Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Tove Jansson write a book about you at sea? > IQ2: Are you #1’s spouse? > IQ3: Are you their son? IQ1: I am not Moominpapa. IQ2: I am not Moominmama. IQ3: I am not Moomintroll. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you take up comedy after your husband walked out? > 2. Are you her manager? > 3. Did you play her husband? 1. I am not Mrs. Midge Maisel (previously asked about by Thing.Fish). 2. Take a DQ. 3. Take 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 9, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/25 "2025-05-09T02:56:40Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. I am not Mrs. Midge Maisel (previously asked about by Thing.Fish). > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. Take a DQ. Ah, I missed that earlier IQ. 1. Susie Myerson 2. Michael Zegan (played Joel Maisel) DQs: 1. First appear after 1960? 2. American? 3. American creator? ---
**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 9, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/26 "2025-05-09T02:58:20Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did Tove Jansson write a book about you at sea? > > IQ2: Are you #1’s spouse? > > IQ3: Are you their son? > > IQ1: I am not Moominpapa. > IQ2: I am not Moominmama. > IQ3: I am not Moomintroll. Harrumph. ---
**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 9, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/27 "2025-05-09T03:01:24Z")
Miss Marple is correct!! I am impressed with your erudition. Time to escalate. 1. Did your daughter use her telekinetic powers to stop your heart after you stabbed her with a kitchen knife? 2. Do you invariably wear a large bow and a polka-dot dress? 3. Are you a comic strip character whose speech is lettered in a different style than everyone else in the strip? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/28 "2025-05-09T03:36:24Z")
Ah, swept me! Karl M. x3! IQs: 1. Are you aka Olorin? 2. Were you a former MLS defender whose father played for the Padres, Pirates and Cubs? 3. Were you a slugging Giants right fielder, beloved of crossword composers? ---
**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 9, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/29 "2025-05-09T03:44:43Z")
> [@Thing4. .Fish](#): > > 1. Did your daughter use her telekinetic powers to stop your heart after you stabbed her with a kitchen knife? > 2. Do you invariably wear a large bow and a polka-dot dress? > 3. Are you a comic strip character whose speech is lettered in a different style than everyone else in the strip? 1. I am not Margaret White. 2. I am not Minnie Mouse. 3. Take a DQ. I’m thinking this is someone from Pogo or Li’l Abner. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you aka Olorin? > 2. Were you a former MLS defender whose father played for the Padres, Pirates and Cubs? > 3. Were you a slugging Giants right fielder, beloved of crossword composers? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Mel Ott. DQs: 1. fictional 2. female 3. first appeared after 1900 4. first appeared after 1960 5. American 6. American creators ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/30 "2025-05-09T03:55:32Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Are you aka Olorin? > > 2. Were you a former MLS defender whose father played for the Padres, Pirates and Cubs? > > 3. Were you a slugging Giants right fielder, beloved of crossword composers? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Mel Ott. “I am Mithrandir among the elves”, says Gandalf. Marvell Wynne II. And correct. DQs: 1. First name begins with M? 2. First appeared after 1990? ---
**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 9, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/31 "2025-05-09T03:59:53Z")
Damn, you’re good! #3 was Moe, the bully from Calvin and Hobbes, whose speech was in lowercase, while everyone else talked and thought in all caps. ---
**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 9, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/32 "2025-05-09T04:02:15Z")
DQ: did you first become well known through a literary work (as distinct from movies, comics, etc)? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/33 "2025-05-09T05:33:24Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you Impress 10 fire lizards in the Pern books? > 2. Are you a helpful, friendly witch in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles? > 3. Did you die of starvation while living (with your sister Olive) with the Mohave Indians? Menolly, Morwen, Mary Ann Oatman. DQ: Caucasian? 2 DQs 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 9, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/34 "2025-05-09T12:05:55Z")
Welcome, **Thing.Fish**! Glad to have you here. Please explain your username, if you’re willing. Previous IQs: Were you “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”? - Capt. Marko Ramius in Tom Clancy’s _The Hunt for Red October_ (played by Sean Connery in the movie) Did you go to Vienna to meet up with your ol’ pal Harry Lime? - Holly Martins, the hapless author, in _The Third Man_ Were you Anne Frank’s older sister? - Margot Frank DQs: Main character? From genre fiction (Western, detective, sf, fantasy, etc.)? Considered a beauty? ---
**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 9, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/35 "2025-05-09T13:02:12Z")
DQs: 1. fictional 2. female 3. first appeared after 1900 4. first appeared after 1960 5. American 6. American creators 7. first name begins with M 8. first appeared before 1990 9. did not first appear in a literary work (as distinct from movies, comics, etc.) 10. Caucasian 11. supporting character 12. from a specific genre 13. not considered attractive ---
**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 9, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/36 "2025-05-09T13:59:00Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you play Falseface on the 1960’s Batman TV series? > > 2. Did you play Mrs. Nussbaum on Fred Allen’s radio series? > > 3. Are you a racecar driver who won the Indianapolis 500 once, and whose family, though in the race every year since for decades, has never won again? > > 1. I am not Malachi Throne. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Mario Andretti? Correct on 1 and 3. #2 was Minerva Pious. DQ: From comic books? ---
**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 9, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/37 "2025-05-09T14:02:25Z")
IQs: 1. Were you an associate producer at WJM? 2. Were you Hogwarts’ Transfiguration professor? 3. Did you star in the underrated and badly titled movie _Serial_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/38 "2025-05-09T14:14:48Z")
IQs: 1. Are you married to Chelsea Clinton? 2. Did your vote get the 1993 Clinton budget over the finish line in the House of Representatives? 3. Did you give a ride to a hitchhiking, bow-tie-wearing man-child on the way to the Alamo? ---
**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 9, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/39 "2025-05-09T14:20:59Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > #3 was Moe, the bully from Calvin and Hobbes, whose speech was in lowercase, while everyone else talked and thought in all caps. moe! of course! > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an associate producer at WJM? > 2. Were you Hogwarts’ Transfiguration professor? > 3. Did you star in the underrated and badly titled movie _Serial_? 1. I am not Mary Richards. 2. I am not Minerva McGonagall. 3. Take a DQ. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you married to Chelsea Clinton? > 2. Did your vote get the 1993 Clinton budget over the finish line in the House of Representatives? > 3. Did you give a ride to a hitchhiking, bow-tie-wearing man-child on the way to the Alamo? 1. I am not Mark Nivetsky? 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Large Marge. DQs: 1. fictional 2. female 3. first appeared after 1900 4. first appeared after 1960 5. American 6. American creators 7. first name begins with M 8. first appeared before 1990 9. did not first appear in a literary work (as distinct from movies, comics, etc.) 10. Caucasian 11. supporting character 12. from a specific genre 13. not considered attractive 14. from comic books ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/40 "2025-05-09T14:26:43Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Are you married to Chelsea Clinton? > > 2. Did your vote get the 1993 Clinton budget over the finish line in the House of Representatives? > > 3. Did you give a ride to a hitchhiking, bow-tie-wearing man-child on the way to the Alamo? > > 1. I am not Mark Nivetsky? > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Large Marge. Mark Mezvinsky, his mother Marjorie Margulies-Mezvinsky, and (correct) Large Marge. DQs: 1. First appeared before 1975? 2. Last name begins with A-M? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078.md?page=3)