# 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:** 6
**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 12, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/101 "2025-05-12T02:25:30Z")
Yes, I did. He’s quite famous by the standards of academic historians. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/102 "2025-05-12T02:37:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you lose the Battle of Stamford Bridge? > > 2. Did you lose the Battle of Hastings? > > 3. Were you played by Zachary Levi in a mixed live-action/animated film? > > Not … Harald Hardrada? > Not Harold Godwinsson > DQ Correct, correct, and Harold (of _Harold and the Purple Crayon_ fame). Har[oa]ld x3 ! 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/103 "2025-05-12T05:08:52Z")
IQs: 1. Were you worshiped as god incarnate by followers of the Rastafari Movement? 2. Did you appear in an episode of a reality series centered around your father’s store in Red Hook, NJ? 3. Did you attempt to teach your uncle how to run his show, before you left for college? ---
**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 12, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/104 "2025-05-12T11:44:13Z")
H 1, Fictional 2. Female 3. First name begins with H 4, Did not originally appear in prose 5. First appeared in 1950 or later 6. The main protagonist of the best-known story in which I appear 7. By an American author or authors ---
**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 12, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/105 "2025-05-12T11:59:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you score a crushing win in the 1864 Battle of Nashville? > Were you a sickly FDR aide? > Were you, too? Obviously not Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, so take a DQ Not Harry Hopkins DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_? > 2. Were you a New York senator-turned-U.S. secretary of state (not to mention your other position in the 90s)? > 3. Are you the narrator narrator of _Lolita_? Not Hunter S Thompson DQ Not Humbert Humbert > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you worshiped as god incarnate by followers of the Rastafari Movement? > 2. Did you appear in an episode of a reality series centered around your father’s store in Red Hook, NJ? > 3. Did you attempt to teach your uncle how to run his show, before you left for college? Not Ras Tafari (aka Haile Selassie), of course DQ DQ ---
**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 12, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/106 "2025-05-12T12:02:54Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > He’s quite famous by the standards of academic historians. Guess I just read the wrong kind of history. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > My grandson is at college studying to me a historian. You have a grandson? Wow – you must be old! 😃 ---
**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 12, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/107 "2025-05-12T12:45:11Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Hunter S Thompson > DQ > Not Humbert Humbert 2 was Hillary Clinton. DQ: first appeared after 1980? ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/108 "2025-05-12T13:34:38Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the title character of a popular kids’ show whose first and last names rhyme? 2. Are you a superhero who flies using artificial wings and is a sidekick of a male hero with a very similar name? 3. Are you the owner of the Finders Keepers detective agency? ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/109 "2025-05-12T13:37:12Z")
IQs: 1. Are you chief of police in Hawkins, Indiana? 2. …or the actor who plays him on _Stranger Things_? 3. Were you a conductor on a metaphorical railroad? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/110 "2025-05-12T13:39:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you worshiped as god incarnate by followers of the Rastafari Movement? > > 2. Did you appear in an episode of a reality series centered around your father’s store in Red Hook, NJ? > > 3. Did you attempt to teach your uncle how to run his show, before you left for college? > > Not Ras Tafari (aka Haile Selassie), of course > DQ > DQ Correct Haley Quinn Smith (_Comic Book Men_) Harold Green (_The Red Green Show_) 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/111 "2025-05-12T13:45:52Z")
DQs: 1. Created after 1975? 2. Appeared in TV or movies? ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/112 "2025-05-12T14:23:18Z")
Yep, I’m old. IQs: 1. Were you made an honorary citizen of Greece for your books _The Greek Way_ and _Mythology_? 2. Did you play the beauty in the TV serise _Beauty and the Beast_? 3. Did you play both Zorros in _Zorro the Gay Blade_? ---
**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 12, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/113 "2025-05-12T16:20:50Z")
Replacement DQ: Caucasian? ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/114 "2025-05-12T17:55:53Z")
Previous IQs: Did you score a crushing win in the 1864 Battle of Nashville? - Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas Were you a sickly FDR aide? - Yes, Harry Hopkins Were you, too? - Louis Howe Both of them usually looked like death warmed over. Two DQs reserved. IQs: Is a large painting featuring you hung in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? Do you have notes on your husband’s work in _& Juliet_? Did you get your hair hacked short for _Les Miserables_? ---
**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 12, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/115 "2025-05-12T18:01:31Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the title character of a popular kids’ show whose first and last names rhyme? > 2. Are you a superhero who flies using artificial wings and is a sidekick of a male hero with a very similar name? > 3. Are you the owner of the Finders Keepers detective agency? DQ not Hawkgirl DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you chief of police in Hawkins, Indiana? > 2. …or the actor who plays him on _Stranger Things_? > 3. Were you a conductor on a metaphorical railroad? Three DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you made an honorary citizen of Greece for your books _The Greek Way_ and _Mythology_? > 2. Did you play the beauty in the TV serise _Beauty and the Beast_? > 3. Did you play both Zorros in _Zorro the Gay Blade_? Three DQs > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Is a large painting featuring you hung in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? > Do you have notes on your husband’s work in _& Juliet_? > Did you get your hair hacked short for _Les Miserables_? DQ, though I know you’ve asked this before DQ Not Anne Hathaway Which, I believe, brings us to 21 DQs already, so no more IQs, please. H 1, Fictional 2. Female 3. First name begins with H 4, Did not originally appear in prose 5. First appeared in 1950 or later 6. The main protagonist of the best-known story in which I appear 7. By an American author or authors 8. Did not first appear after 1980 9. Not created after 1975 10. Appeared in TV or movies 11. Caucasian > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Yep, I’m old. That’s okay – you can’t possibly be as old as I feel right now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/116 "2025-05-12T18:08:06Z")
DQ: Appeared first on TV? ---
**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 12, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/117 "2025-05-12T18:10:37Z")
Previous IQs: Is a large painting featuring you hung in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? - Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry Do you have notes on your husband’s work in _& Juliet_? - Anne Hathaway Did you get your hair hacked short for _Les Miserables_? - Yes, the other Anne Hathaway DQs: Considered a beauty? First appeared in movies? In a genre piece (fantasy, sf, Western, horror, detective, etc.)? One DQ 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 12, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/118 "2025-05-12T18:12:37Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you chief of police in Hawkins, Indiana? > 2. …or the actor who plays him on _Stranger Things_? > 3. Were you a conductor on a metaphorical railroad? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Three DQs 1 was Jim Hopper; 2 was David Harbour; 3 was Harriet Tubman. 3 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 12, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/119 "2025-05-12T18:26:19Z")
H 1, Fictional 2. Female 3. First name begins with H 4, Did not originally appear in prose 5. First appeared in 1950 or later 6. The main protagonist of the best-known story in which I appear 7. By an American author or authors 8. Did not first appear after 1980 9. Not created after 1975 10. Appeared in TV or movies 11. Caucasian 12. Did not appear first on TV 13. Considered a beauty \* 14. First appeared in movies 15. In a genre piece (fantasy, sf, Western, horror, detective, etc.) \* The character may not be, but the actress certainly is. ---
**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 12, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/120 "2025-05-12T18:36:09Z")
1. Hannah Montana 2. correct 3. Holly Gibney DQ: Are you an ordinary human? (“ordinary” in the sense of not possessing any special powers or characteristics that no actual humans have) One DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078.md?page=7)