# Botticelli - October 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 1, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337 "2024-10-01T14:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 1, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/1 "2024-10-01T14:57:55Z")
We have # D! September thread: [Botticelli - Sept. 2024 - #252 by SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/252) ---
**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 1, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/2 "2024-10-01T15:32:58Z")
Congratulations, **Prof**! I had guessed the previous was Mary Richards. On to **D**! 1. Were you either of a pair of brothers who founded a car company and built the first American car to win the French Grand Prix? 2. Perhaps surprisingly to most people, were you an actual person, a travel writer and food critic who wrote a compilation of restaurants nationwide called _Adventures in Good Eating_? 3. As part of your campaign to win Abraham Lincoln the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, did you hire a man – even though he was a Democrat – reputed to have the loudest voice in southern Illinois, and bring him to Chicago to holler every time Lincoln’s name was mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/3 "2024-10-01T16:21:18Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a rapper who had a role on _Degrassi: The Next Generation_? 2. Did you compare yourself to Shakespeare in a Nobel banquet speech? 3. Were you the receptionist for the Blue Moon 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:** [October 1, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/4 "2024-10-01T16:33:32Z")
IQs: 1. Did you cover “Misirlou”? 2. Were you a female writer on _Star Trek_, the original series? 3. Does a message congratulating you on your recent wedding appear at the end of _An American Werewolf in London_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/5 "2024-10-01T17:35:27Z")
Good job **Prof!** IQs: 1. Are you part of a stop-motion animation with Biblical overtones? 2. Were you a former child star who became part of a famous quartet? 3. Did you encounter a mythical person named Slickerty Sam? ---
**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 1, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/6 "2024-10-01T18:34:24Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > - Were you either of a pair of brothers who founded a car company and built the first American car to win the French Grand Prix? > - Perhaps surprisingly to most people, were you an actual person, a travel writer and food critic who wrote a compilation of restaurants nationwide called _Adventures in Good Eating_? > - As part of your campaign to win Abraham Lincoln the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, did you hire a man – even though he was a Democrat – reputed to have the loudest voice in southern Illinois, and bring him to Chicago to holler every time Lincoln’s name was mentioned? Take 3 DQs. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a rapper who had a role on _Degrassi: The Next Generation_? > 2. Did you compare yourself to Shakespeare in a Nobel banquet speech? > 3. Were you the receptionist for the Blue Moon Detective Agency? 1. I am not Snoop Dogg (??) 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Miss Agnes DePesto. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you cover “Misirlou”? > 2. Were you a female writer on _Star Trek_, the original series? > 3. Does a message congratulating you on your recent wedding appear at the end of _An American Werewolf in London_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not D. C. Fontana. 3. I am not Princess Diana. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you part of a stop-motion animation with Biblical overtones? > 2. Were you a former child star who became part of a famous quartet? > 3. Did you encounter a mythical person named Slickerty Sam? Take 3 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 1, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/7 "2024-10-01T18:40:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > - Were you either of a pair of brothers who founded a car company and built the first American car to win the French Grand Prix? > > - Perhaps surprisingly to most people, were you an actual person, a travel writer and food critic who wrote a compilation of restaurants nationwide called _Adventures in Good Eating_? > > - As part of your campaign to win Abraham Lincoln the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, did you hire a man – even though he was a Democrat – reputed to have the loudest voice in southern Illinois, and bring him to Chicago to holler every time Lincoln’s name was mentioned? > > Take 3 DQs. 1. is Frank and August Duesenberg, who pioneered hydraulic brakes. 2. was Duncan Hines, who sold use of his name to a maker of boxed cake mix. 3. was David Davis, whose shenanigans like that helped Lincoln steal the Republican nomination from the favorite, William Seward. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Female? 3. Surname begins with “D”? ---
**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 1, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/8 "2024-10-01T18:42:27Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D ---
**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 1, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/9 "2024-10-01T19:27:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not D. C. Fontana. > 3. I am not Princess Diana. 1 was Dick Dale. DQ: living? IQs: 1. Are you a Thai hippo? 2. Did you represent Jabez Stone against an infernal legal opponent? 3. Did you write _101 Dalmatians_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/10 "2024-10-01T21:15:41Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Are you a rapper who had a role on _Degrassi: The Next Generation_? > > 2. Did you compare yourself to Shakespeare in a Nobel banquet speech? > > 3. Were you the receptionist for the Blue Moon Detective Agency? > > 1. I am not Snoop Dogg (??) > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Miss Agnes DePesto. #1 was Drake. #2 was Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate in Literature. Correct on #3. 2 DQs 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:** [October 1, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/11 "2024-10-01T21:19:24Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D 4. Dead ---
**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 1, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/12 "2024-10-01T21:19:58Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a Thai hippo? > 2. Did you represent Jabez Stone against an infernal legal opponent? > 3. Did you write _101 Dalmatians_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Daniel Webster. 3. I am not Roald Dahl (??) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/13 "2024-10-01T21:21:53Z")
DQ: Born before 1900? ---
**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 1, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/14 "2024-10-01T21:22:16Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D 4. Dead 5. Born before 1900 ---
**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 1, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/15 "2024-10-01T21:40:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Daniel Webster. > 3. I am not Roald Dahl (??) 1 (hippo) was Moo Deng; 3 (_The 101 Dalmatians_) was Dodie Smith. DQs: 1. born after 1700? 2. known from the arts? ---
**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 1, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/16 "2024-10-01T21:45:53Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D 4. Dead 5. Born before 1900 6. Born after 1700 7. 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 2, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/17 "2024-10-02T00:09:21Z")
DQ: American? IQs: 1. Did you break with your party in Parliament over the Corn Laws? 2. Were you a Delaware governor who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988? 3. Were you an American poet who, surprisingly, married an English literary scholar and writer? ---
**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:** [October 2, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/18 "2024-10-02T00:12:54Z")
IQ1: Did you paint a picture of extremely limp timepieces? IQ2: Did you write _Little Dorrit_? IQ3: Did you write _Lest Darkness Fall_? ---
**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 2, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/19 "2024-10-02T00:13:12Z")
IQs: 1. Were you nicknamed “the Misery Chick” in high school, though your personality is not so much moody and depressive but more deadpan and sarcastic? 2. Are your kids Cole and Ella? 3. Did John Goodman play a stand-in for gimmicky horror director William Castle in your movie _Matinee_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337/20 "2024-10-02T01:33:40Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > - Are you part of a stop-motion animation with Biblical overtones? > - Were you a former child star who became part of a famous quartet? > - Did you encounter a mythical person named Slickerty Sam? 1. Davey & Goliath 2. Davy Jones 3. Davy Crockett DQs: 1. Are you known from stage? 2. Are you European? 3. Were you married once? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2024/1008337.md?page=2)