# Botticelli May 2025

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078>\
**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:** 4

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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 10, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/61 "2025-05-10T00:03:54Z")

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1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Yoda Lady-hoo. No? Take a DQ.
3. I am not Baba Yaga.

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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 10, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/62 "2025-05-10T00:04:52Z")

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DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Created before 1950
4. Did not first appear in prose
5. Not American
6. Only name begins with Y

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/63 "2025-05-10T00:52:55Z")

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DQs:

1. Appeared first in poetry?
2. European?

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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 10, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/64 "2025-05-10T00:54:06Z")

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DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Created before 1950
4. Did not first appear in prose
5. Not American
6. Only name begins with Y
7. Not originally from poetry
8. The author is European; the character is not.

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/65 "2025-05-10T01:19:07Z")

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IQs:

1. Do you have a henchman named Kronk?
2. Did Colleen Camp.play you in a movie?
3. Did you play Shirley on **Community**?

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**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 10, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/66 "2025-05-10T02:34:46Z")

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John Jameson (Jonah’s son) also married Jennifer “She-Hulk” Walters, although that marriage ended before the Aunt May-Jay Jameson relationship began.

IQs:  
1. Did you contribute vocals to “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”?  
2. Did you direct _Poor Things_?  
3. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”?

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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 10, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/67 "2025-05-10T03:02:04Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Do you have a henchman named Kronk?
> 2. Did Colleen Camp.play you in a movie?
> 3. Did you play Shirley on **Community**?

1. I am not Yzma.  
Take 2 DQs.

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> Qs:
> 
> 1. Did you contribute vocals to “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”?
> 2. Did you direct _Poor Things_?
> 3. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”?

1. I am not Yoko Ono.
2. Take a DQ,
3. I am not Yogi Berra (??)

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**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 10, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/68 "2025-05-10T03:18:28Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. I am not Yoko Ono.
> 2. Take a DQ,
> 3. I am not Yogi Berra (??)

2 was Yorgos Lanthimos.

DQ: from theater?

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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 10, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/69 "2025-05-10T03:46:40Z")

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DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Created before 1950
4. Did not first appear in prose
5. Not American
6. Only name begins with Y
7. Not originally from poetry
8. The author is European; the character is not.
9. From theater

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**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 10, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/70 "2025-05-10T13:22:08Z")

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IQs:  
1. Were you secretary of the U.S. treasury?  
2. In a parody song, did Al ‘n’ you have a television set?  
3. Speaking of parody songs, are you Like a Sturgeon, Pretty Fly for a Rabbi, and livin’ in an Amish Paradise?

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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 10, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/71 "2025-05-10T13:55:59Z")

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> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you secretary of the U.S. treasury?
> 2. In a parody song, did Al ‘n’ you have a television set?
> 3. Speaking of parody songs, are you Like a Sturgeon, Pretty Fly for a Rabbi, and livin’ in an Amish Paradise?

1. I am not Janet Yellen.
2. I am not Yetta.
3. I am not Weird Al Yankovic.

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**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 10, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/72 "2025-05-10T14:17:30Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. I am not Janet Yellen.
> 2. I am not Yetta.
> 3. I am not Weird Al Yankovic.

A clean sweep!

IQs:  
1. Were you a cosmonaut?  
2. Did you play Maid Marian in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_?  
3. Were you Philip Fry’s brother?

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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 10, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/73 "2025-05-10T14:38:56Z")

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> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Were you a cosmonaut?
> 2. Did you play Maid Marian in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_?
> 3. Were you Philip Fry’s brother?

1. I am not Yuri Gagarin.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/74 "2025-05-10T16:17:57Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Do you have a henchman named Kronk?
> 2. Did Colleen Camp.play you in a movie?
> 3. Did you play Shirley on **Community**?

Correct, Yvette (in **Clue** ) and Yvette Nicole Brown.

DQ:

From a musical?

One DQ reserved

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/75 "2025-05-10T17:58:37Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you an inanimate object in a Shakespeare play?
2. Were you a British shipbuilder who started a shipbuilding dynasty?
3. Were you Marlo Thomas’ godmother?

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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 10, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/76 "2025-05-10T18:03:39Z")

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1. I am not Yorick, alas.  
Take 2 DQs.

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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 10, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/77 "2025-05-10T18:04:08Z")

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DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Created before 1950
4. Did not first appear in prose
5. Not American
6. Only name begins with Y
7. Not originally from poetry
8. The author is European; the character is not.
9. From theater
10. From a form of musical theater

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/78 "2025-05-10T18:07:41Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> I am not Yorick, alas.  
> Take 2 DQs.

1. Alas, you are correct.
2. Alfred Yarrow
3. Loretta Young

2 DQs reserved

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**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 10, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/79 "2025-05-10T18:11:56Z")

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> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> IQs:  
> 1. Were you a cosmonaut?  
> 2. Did you play Maid Marian in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_?  
> 3. Were you Philip Fry’s brother?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> 1. I am not Yuri Gagarin.  
> Take 2 DQs.

2 was Amy Yasbeck; 3 was Yancy Fry.

DQs:  
1. created by author from the United Kingdom or Ireland?  
2. major character?

IQs:  
1. Were you claimed to be Amy Camus, from Brooklyn?  
2. Did you co-found Yahoo!?  
3. Did you direct _Young Einstein_?

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**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 10, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/80 "2025-05-10T20:32:13Z")

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IQ: Were you one of three little maids who, all unwary, came from a ladies’ seminary?

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