# Botticelli - November 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 30, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446 "2024-10-30T12:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/1 "2024-10-30T12:25:19Z")
It’s a new month (sort of), and a new round of Botticelli! Let the congregation say “Amen”! I am **P**! [Linky](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/422)to last month’s thread. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/2 "2024-10-30T12:49:10Z")
IQs: 1. Did you make tents as a job and write a lot of letters in your spare time? 2. Were you a classical music satirist? 3. Was your breakout role in the movie _Coyote Ugly_? ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/3 "2024-10-30T14:47:48Z")
Amen! IQs: 1. Did you write _O Little Town of Bethlehem_? 2. Are you a noted Presbyterian minister with the same name as a game show host? 3. Are you sometimes called the anti-C.S. Lewis? ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/4 "2024-10-30T15:06:06Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a pioneer in the invention of television? 2. Did you create Mary Poppins? 3. Did you play a motel owner with some _serious_ hang-ups in _Psycho_? It’s still October so I’m still doing these ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/5 "2024-10-30T17:03:19Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you make tents as a job and write a lot of letters in your spare time? > 2. Were you a classical music satirist? > 3. Was your breakout role in the movie _Coyote Ugly_? 1. I am not Paul of Tarsus. 2. I am not Peter Schickele. 3. Take a DQ. Saw the movie, can almost picture the actress, but can’t name her. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _O Little Town of Bethlehem_? > 2. Are you a noted Presbyterian minister with the same name as a game show host? > 3. Are you sometimes called the anti-C.S. Lewis? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Pat Sajak. 3. Ah, crap, I should know this. One of the Four Horsemen, right? Take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you a pioneer in the invention of television? > 2. Did you create Mary Poppins? > 3. Did you play a motel owner with some _serious_ hang-ups in _Psycho_? > It’s still October so I’m still doing these 1. I am not Philo T. Farnsworth. 2. I am not P.T. Travers. 3. I am not Anthony Perkins. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/6 "2024-10-30T17:14:31Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. I am not Philo T. Farnsworth. > 2. I am not P.T. Travers. > 3. I am not Anthony Perkins. A clean sweep! Close enough on P.L. Travers. IQs: 1. Were you cheerful goth Abby Sciuto on _NCIS_? 2. Did you ask what about us–what about all the broken happy-ever-afters? 3. Are you the current US Secretary of Transportation? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/7 "2024-10-30T17:34:48Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you cheerful goth Abby Sciuto on _NCIS_? > 2. Did you ask what about us–what about all the broken happy-ever-afters? > 3. Are you the current US Secretary of Transportation? 1. I am not Pauley Perrette. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Pete Buttigeg. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/8 "2024-10-30T17:53:56Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. I am not Pauley Perrette. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Pete Buttigeg. 2 was Pink. DQ: real? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/9 "2024-10-30T18:09:27Z")
DQs: 1. Real. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/10 "2024-10-30T19:12:57Z")
IQs: 1. Are your important to Christians by your prominent place in both the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds? 2. Are you the first pontiff to have a double name? 3. Are the first Central European woman to appear on the cover of the _Sports Illustrated_ swimsuit issue? ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/11 "2024-10-30T19:41:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a pet rabbit named Marlon Bundo? 2. Were you not a fish but Buffy’s vampire-hunting ally in the original film version of _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_? 3. Did you play a vampire in that film (and are you also on the Vampiric Council, according to _What We Do in the Shadows_)? ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/12 "2024-10-30T19:43:21Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you write _O Little Town of Bethlehem_? > > 2. Are you a noted Presbyterian minister with the same name as a game show host? > > 3. Are you sometimes called the anti-C.S. Lewis? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Pat Sajak. > 3. Ah, crap, I should know this. One of the Four Horsemen, right? Take a DQ. #1 was Phillips Brooks. #2 was Peter Marshall. #3 is Philip Pullman, author of _His Dark Materials_. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Living? 3. Last name starts with P? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/13 "2024-10-30T19:44:53Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Are your important to Christians by your prominent place in both the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds? > 2. Are you the first pontiff to have a double name? > 3. Are the first Central European woman to appear on the cover of the _Sports Illustrated_ swimsuit issue? 1. I am not Pontius Pilate. 2. I am not John Paul I 3. I am not…Paulina Porzhikova? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you have a pet rabbit named Marlon Bundo? > 2. Were you not a fish but Buffy’s vampire-hunting ally in the original film version of _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_? > 3. Did you play a vampire in that film (and are you also on the Vampiric Council, according to _What We Do in the Shadows_)? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not…Pisces? 3. Take 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:** [October 30, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/14 "2024-10-30T20:00:55Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not…Pisces? > 3. Take a DQ. 1 was former Second Daughter Charlotte Pence; 2 was Pike; 3 was Paul Reubens. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/15 "2024-10-30T20:27:40Z")
DQs: 1. Real. 2. Male. 3. Living. 4. First name starts with “P”. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/16 "2024-10-31T00:57:26Z")
IQs: 1. Were you governor of New York after Elliot Spitzer? 2. “Oh, _fish_”? 3. Were you working in the lab, late last night, when your eyes beheld an eerie sight–your monster from his slab began to rise, and suddenly, to your surprise… They did the DQs (they did the Monster DQs): 1. born after 1960? 2. American? 3. known from the arts? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/17 "2024-10-31T01:28:28Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you make tents as a job and write a lot of letters in your spare time? > > 2. Were you a classical music satirist? > > 3. Was your breakout role in the movie _Coyote Ugly_? > > 1. I am not Paul of Tarsus. > 2. I am not Peter Schickele. > 3. Take a DQ. Saw the movie, can almost picture the actress, but can’t name her. Correct on #1 & #2. #3 was Piper Perabo. 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:** [October 31, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/18 "2024-10-31T01:51:40Z")
Correct on all three counts. IQs: 1. Is your first name Noel, but you use your second name as a stage name? 2. Were you convicted of a sexual offense but received a presidential pardon by Jimmy Carter on the day before Carter’s presidency ended? 3. Were you found in contempt of Congress in March 1961, and sentenced to ten one-year terms in jail to be served simultaneously? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/19 "2024-10-31T02:14:33Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you governor of New York after Elliot Spitzer? > 2. “Oh, _fish_”? > 3. Were you working in the lab, late last night, when your eyes beheld an eerie sight–your monster from his slab began to rise, and suddenly, to your surprise… Take three DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > Correct on all three counts. > > IQs: > > 1. Is your first name Noel, but you use your second name as a stage name? > 2. Were you convicted of a sexual offense but received a presidential pardon by Jimmy Carter on the day before Carter’s presidency ended? > 3. Were you found in contempt of Congress in March 1961, and sentenced to ten one-year terms in jail to be served simultaneously? You have your revenge; take three DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/20 "2024-10-31T02:22:09Z")
DQs: 1. Real. 2. Male. 3. Living. 4. First name starts with “P”. 5. Born after 1960. 6. Naturalized American. 7. Not known for the arts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446.md?page=2)