# Botticelli- November 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 1, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476 "2025-11-01T13:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/21 "2025-11-02T18:55:15Z")
Got it, thanks! DQs: Known for science? Dead before 1950? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/22 "2025-11-02T19:31:28Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:20, topic:1024476”] DQs 1. Real 2. Male 3. Both names start with G 4. Not known for the arts 5. Dead 6. Caucasian 7. Not American 8. Known for science 9. Died before 1950 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/23 "2025-11-02T22:29:22Z")
IQs: 1. Were you nominated for Best Supporting Actor for _Dances with Wolves_? 2. Were you nominated for Best Actress for _Goodbye Mr. Chips_? 3. Were you nicknamed “the Swedish Sphinx” for your aversion to publicity? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/24 "2025-11-02T22:44:40Z")
1. I am not Greta Garbo. Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/25 "2025-11-03T02:48:47Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Were you nominated for Best Supporting Actor for _Dances with Wolves_? > 2. Were you nominated for Best Actress for _Goodbye Mr. Chips_? > 3. Were you nicknamed “the Swedish Sphinx” for your aversion to publicity? Graham Greene Greer Garson Correct Alliterative G’s x3! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/26 "2025-11-03T02:49:27Z")
DQs: European? Died before 1850? ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/27 "2025-11-03T02:53:39Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:22, topic:1024476”] DQs 1. Real 2. Male 3. Both names start with G 4. Not known for the arts 5. Dead 6. Caucasian 7. Not American 8. Known for science 9. Died before 1950 10. European 11. Died before 1850 ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/28 "2025-11-03T03:13:18Z")
1. Did William Petersen play you on **CSI**? 2. Did you play Nick Stokes on **CSI**? 3. Did you play Warrick Brown on **CSI**? ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/29 "2025-11-03T04:25:14Z")
Previous IQs: Are you usually considered the creator of D&D? - Yes, Gary Gygax Did you come up with a comedy routine about how the US states got their postal abbreviations? - Gary Gulman ([a great bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLECCmKnrys)) Did a key British spy during WWII use your last name as his codename? - This was Garbo, too DQs: Known as an inventor? Native English speaker? IQs: Was a Starfleet shuttlecraft named for you… and then another? Were you Elphaba’s frenemy? Were you a giant robot with a powerful laser weapon in your head? ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/30 "2025-11-03T05:49:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you a young evangelist who admitted to fakery and lies, then became an actor? > > IQ2: Was your name John Clayton? > > IQ3: Were you a particularly flamboyant wrestler? > > 1. I am not Gorgeous George. > Take 2 DQs. Marjoe Gortner Viscount Greystoke correct DQ: Died before 1750? One DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/31 "2025-11-03T15:20:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was a Starfleet shuttlecraft named for you… and then another? Yes, i am # Galileo Galilei. Well done, EH! ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/32 "2025-11-03T21:06:57Z")
Thanks! For those who were wondering about the shuttlecraft: [Galileo | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Galileo_(2267-2268)) My other IQs: Were you Elphaba’s frenemy? - Galinda or Glinda, in _Wicked_ Were you a giant robot with a powerful laser weapon in your head? - Gort, in _The Day the Earth Stood Still_ Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #137 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/137) Our next letter is # H ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/33 "2025-11-04T04:02:55Z")
Previous IQs: > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did William Petersen play you on **CSI**? > 2. Did you play Nick Stokes on **CSI**? > 3. Did you play Warrick Brown on **CSI**? Gil Grissom, George Eads, GaryDourdan. On to H. IQs: 1. Are you **The Ship Who Sang**? 2. Did you star in **Safety Last!** and other movies? 3. Did you coin the phrase _the banality of evil_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/34 "2025-11-04T06:22:50Z")
Good job **EH**! IQs: 1. Did you win a Best Actress award for playing a mute woman? 2. Did you “hitchhike your way across the USA”? 3. Are you an American Geisha, and not a prostitute? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/35 "2025-11-04T22:46:37Z")
IQ1: Did you write _The Pursuit of the Pankera_? IQ2: Did you write about Arrakis? IQ3: Did you write about the June Rebellion? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/36 "2025-11-04T22:51:21Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have to give up the manufacture of immense oak pyramids for the 1950s BBC because you couldn’t get the wood, you know? 2. After you finished school and went into government work, did you marry a professional quidditch player? 3. Were you a regular Welsh cast member on the cracker-filled, nardle noo of the 1950s Bbc radio series, The Goon Show, who also starred in the legit British theater? ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/37 "2025-11-05T05:29:54Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you **The Ship Who Sang**? > 2. Did you star in **Safety Last!** and other movies? > 3. Did you coin the phrase _the banality of evil_? Dunno, not Harold Lloyd (great movie, and he could really _act,_ unlike most other actors of that era) and not Hannah Arendt. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you win a Best Actress award for playing a mute woman? > 2. Did you “hitchhike your way across the USA”? > 3. Are you an American Geisha, and not a prostitute? Not H. Marlee Matlin, dunno and dunno. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _The Pursuit of the Pankera_? > IQ2: Did you write about Arrakis? > IQ3: Did you write about the June Rebellion? Dunno, not Frank Herbert and dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have to give up the manufacture of immense oak pyramids for the 1950s BBC because you couldn’t get the wood, you know? > 2. After you finished school and went into government work, did you marry a professional quidditch player? > 3. Were you a regular Welsh cast member on the cracker-filled, nardle noo of the 1950s Bbc radio series, The Goon Show, who also starred in the legit British theater? Dunno, not Harry Potter and dunno. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/38 "2025-11-05T07:37:09Z")
Good one **E\_H**! H it is. IQs: 1. Were you the Greek writer of _Histories_? 2. Were you the Greek writer of _Theogony_? 3. Were you the Japanese founder of the company that made the Odyssey? ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/39 "2025-11-05T15:05:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you have to give up the manufacture of immense oak pyramids for the 1950s BBC because you couldn’t get the wood, you know? > > 2. After you finished school and went into government work, did you marry a professional quidditch player? > > 3. Were you a regular Welsh cast member on the cracker-filled, nardle noo of the 1950s Bbc radio series, The Goon Show, who also starred in the legit British theater? > > Dunno, not Harry Potter and dunno. #1 was the inimitable Henry Crun. #2 is correct. #3 was Harry Secombe. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476/40 "2025-11-05T16:01:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you win a Best Actress award for playing a mute woman? > > 2. Did you “hitchhike your way across the USA”? > > 3. Are you an American Geisha, and not a prostitute? > > Not H. Marlee Matlin, dunno and dunno. 1. Holly Hunter (_The Piano_) – where did you get the H. Marlee Matlin? 2. Holly Woodlawn (“Walk on the Wild Side”) 3. Holly Golightly (“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”) Holly x3! 3 potential DQs reserved [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2025/1024476.md?page=3)