# Botticelli - Oct 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 1, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517 "2026-10-01T16:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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 7, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/121 "2026-10-07T15:07:54Z")
IQ: Are you the title character of a TV series who slays vampires and the font of whose logo is represented above? ---
**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 7, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/122 "2026-10-07T16:23:52Z")
I am not Buffy Summers. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/123 "2026-10-07T16:39:20Z")
IQs: 1. Did you win the Battle of Fort Sumter? 2. Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? 3. Did you kinda tie the Battle of Perryville? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/124 "2026-10-07T16:45:11Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > This doesn’t apply to a fictional character. Please ask another DQ. Whups. I had a different DQ and changed it at the last second. Revised DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/125 "2026-10-07T16:50:26Z")
IQs: 1. Are you described as “Daddy cool, with a ninety dollar smile”? 2. Are you described having a razor in your shoe? 3. Are you the only NFL player to win both Rookie of the Year and league MVP in the same season? ---
**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 7, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/126 "2026-10-07T16:55:42Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you win the Battle of Fort Sumter? > 2. Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? > 3. Did you kinda tie the Battle of Perryville? Take three DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you described as “Daddy cool, with a ninety dollar smile”? > 2. Are you described having a razor in your shoe? > 3. Are you the only NFL player to win both Rookie of the Year and league MVP in the same season? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. fictional 2. genderless ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/127 "2026-10-07T17:18:54Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you win the Battle of Fort Sumter? > > 2. Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? > > 3. Did you kinda tie the Battle of Perryville? > > Take three DQs. Generals Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, and Don Carlos Buell, respectively. DQs: Originally from prose fiction? Human? American creator? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/128 "2026-10-07T17:38:17Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you described as “Daddy cool, with a ninety dollar smile”? > > 2. Are you described having a razor in your shoe? > > 3. Are you the only NFL player to win both Rookie of the Year and league MVP in the same season? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. > 3. Take a DQ. Leroy Brown (“Bring Back That Leroy Brown”) Correct Jim Brown 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/129 "2026-10-07T22:42:02Z")
1. Did you wear a distinctive fascinator to a Royal Wedding? 2. Did you write about the adventures of Peter Rabbit? 3. Are you Ramona’s older sister? ---
**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 7, 2026, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/130 "2026-10-07T23:27:13Z")
IQs 1. Were you a cardboard Lance-Corporal who was always getting deaded on the highly acclaimed, brilliantly worded, Mondo Durwich 1950s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? 2. Did you write _All The Bells On Earth_? 3. Are you married to Paula Prentiss? ---
**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 7, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/131 "2026-10-07T23:37:09Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > 1. Did you wear a distinctive fascinator to a Royal Wedding? > 2. Did you write about the adventures of Peter Rabbit? > 3. Are you Ramona’s older sister? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Beatrix Potter. 3. I am not Beezus. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you a cardboard Lance-Corporal who was always getting deaded on the highly acclaimed, brilliantly worded, Mondo Durwich 1950s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > 2. Did you write _All The Bells On Earth_? > 3. Are you married to Paula Prentiss? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Richard Benjamin. DQs: 1. fictional 2. genderless 4. not from prose fiction 5. not human 6. American creator(s) ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/132 "2026-10-07T23:49:23Z")
1. Princess Beatrice 2. Beatrix Potter, yes 3. Beatrice “Beezus” Quimby, yes DQ: first appeared before 2000? ---
**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 8, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/133 "2026-10-08T00:27:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs > > > > 1. Were you a cardboard Lance-Corporal who was always getting deaded on the highly acclaimed, brilliantly worded, Mondo Durwich 1950s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > > 2. Did you write _All The Bells On Earth_? > > 3. Are you married to Paula Prentiss? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Richard Benjamin. 1 was Bluebottle. 2 was James Blaylock. 3 is correct? DQs 1. From a cartoon or comic? 2. Animal? ---
**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 8, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/134 "2026-10-08T02:58:25Z")
DQs: 1. fictional 2. genderless 4. not from prose fiction 5. not human 6. American creator(s) 7. first appeared before 2000 8. not from a cartoon or comic 9. not an animal as traditionally understood, but mobile and likely organic ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/135 "2026-10-08T03:25:54Z")
DQs: Mythical creature? First appeared in live action TV or film? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/136 "2026-10-08T03:31:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the divorced wife of the man who was your husband in real life? 2. Were you that character? 3. Are you an anthropomorphic blue heeler? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2026, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/137 "2026-10-08T04:05:16Z")
Previous IQs: Did you lose the Battle of Saratoga? - Gen. John “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne, in 1777 Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Yes, Gen. Ambrose Burnside Did you bungle the Red River Campaign? - Yes, Gen. Nathaniel Banks DQs: First name starts with a B? IQs: Did Lt. Maynard finally defeat you? Did your wife briefly feign illness when Gen. Washington came to call? Did Opray Winfrey play you in a recent WWII movie? ---
**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 8, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/138 "2026-10-08T13:18:53Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the divorced wife of the man who was your husband in real life? > 2. Were you that character? > 3. Are you an anthropomorphic blue heeler? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Bluey. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Lt. Maynard finally defeat you? > Did your wife briefly feign illness when Gen. Washington came to call? > Did Opray Winfrey play you in a recent WWII movie? Take three DQs. DQs: 1. fictional 2. genderless 5. not from prose fiction 6. not human 7. American creator(s) 8. first appeared before 2000 9. not from a cartoon or comic 10. not an animal as traditionally understood, but mobile and likely organic 11. not a mythical creature 12. first appeared in live action TV or film 13. only noun of name/appellation/description begins with B ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/139 "2026-10-08T14:10:00Z")
1. Did you write a series of books featuring the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet? 2. Were you an officer (and hermaphrodite) in the above fleet? 3. Were you raised on the same planet as the admiral of this fleet? ---
**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 8, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-oct-2026/1033517/140 "2026-10-08T17:07:13Z")
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