# Botticelli - October 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 3, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641 "2025-10-03T15:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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 23, 2025, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/281 "2025-10-23T11:06:26Z")
Oops! I misread. DQ: Known for novels? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/282 "2025-10-23T13:45:15Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Were you the first Puerto Rican inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame? > > 2. Were you portrayed in a bio-comedy by your former TV costar? > > 3. Did you portray Andy Warhol in a bio-musical movie? > > I am not Chichi Rodriguez, Sid Caesar or, uh, uh… Take a DQ. Correct Chevy Chase (_Community_ costar Joel McHale played him in _A Futile and Stupid Gesture_) Crispin Glover (_The Doors_) DQs: Caucasian? Last name begins Ca-Cl? 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/283 "2025-10-23T13:52:50Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you hold the record for major league consecutive games played? > 2. Did you cowrite the book _Blinded By Might_? > 3. Are you the second American president with an alliterative name? > [@kitap](#): > > I am not Jose Canseco, Carnegie or Calvin Coolidge #1 was Cal Ripken Jr. #2 was Cal Thomas. #3 was Cal(vin) Coolidge, so correct. Cal(vin) x3! DQ: Best known for a particular genre? 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 23, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/284 "2025-10-23T14:02:39Z")
IQs: 1. Are you rumored to gather with your teammates to drink champagne following the first loss of the last undefeated team each year? 2. After declaring bankruptcy, did you auction off a pair of pants and an ice scraper? 3. Are you the voice of Sgt. Boscoe on _Bob’s Burgers_? ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/285 "2025-10-23T14:49:09Z")
IQs: 1. Did you note that it does _not_ say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty? 2. Did you predict the Rapture in 2011? 3. Did you direct _Memoirs of an Invisible Man_, and also some horror movies? ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/286 "2025-10-23T15:09:04Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s SECTREAS? - Salmon P. Chase Were you his first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron Did you play Insp. Lestrade in the Eighties Granada TV _Sherlock Holmes_ series? - Colin Jeavons DQ: Ever won either a Pulitzer or Nobel? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Did you have the silliest alternative name in all of Middle-earth? Did you forge the Rings of Power? Were you lord of the Grey Havens? ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/287 "2025-10-23T18:32:19Z")
IQs 1. Did you write The Well of Souls series? 2. Did you write Piranesi? 3. Did you write the Father Brown mysteries? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/288 "2025-10-24T01:44:35Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you rumored to gather with your teammates to drink champagne following the first loss of the last undefeated team each year? > 2. After declaring bankruptcy, did you auction off a pair of pants and an ice scraper? > 3. Are you the voice of Sgt. Boscoe on _Bob’s Burgers_? Take 3 DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you note that it does _not_ say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty? > 2. Did you predict the Rapture in 2011? > 3. Did you direct _Memoirs of an Invisible Man_, and also some horror movies? And you can take 3 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you have the silliest alternative name in all of Middle-earth? > Did you forge the Rings of Power? > Were you lord of the Grey Havens? I am not Celeborn and take 2 DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Did you write The Well of Souls series? > 2. Did you write Piranesi? > 3. Did you write the Father Brown mysteries? I am not Jack Chalker, Suzanne Clarke or G. K. Chesterton And no more IQs, please. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/289 "2025-10-24T01:48:44Z")
DQs: 1.Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name begins with C. 5. Known for the arts 6. American 7. Not known for the performing arts 8. Died after 1950 9. First name begins with A-M 10. Died before 1990. 11. Known for the literary arts 12. Died after 1970 13. Known for novels 14. Caucasian 15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl 16. Best known for a particular genre. 17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize. Please ask all final DQs by 9 PM Pacific Time Friday. ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/290 "2025-10-24T02:04:10Z")
> [@Who Wants to be a Millionaire - easy way to help win?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-easy-way-to-help-win/102641/285): > > IQs: > 1. Did you note that it does _not_ say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty? > 2. Did you predict the Rapture in 2011? > 3. Did you direct _Memoirs of an Invisible Man_, and also some horror movies? > [@kitap](#): > > And you can take 3 DQs. 1 was Cher, in _Clueless_; 2 was evangelist Harold Camping; 3 was John Carpenter. DQ: known for horror and/or fantasy? 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 24, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/291 "2025-10-24T03:56:00Z")
Swept me! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/292 "2025-10-24T04:56:19Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you rumored to gather with your teammates to drink champagne following the first loss of the last undefeated team each year? > > 2. After declaring bankruptcy, did you auction off a pair of pants and an ice scraper? > > 3. Are you the voice of Sgt. Boscoe on _Bob’s Burgers_? > > Take 3 DQs 1. Larry Csonka (Miami Dolphins’ running back, part of the 1972 team with the only perfect record—14-0—in league history) 2. Gary Coleman (Jimmy Kimmel bought the pants) 3. Gary Cole DQs: Best known for series of novels (as opposed to one book) Also known as a short story writer? Has one or more book adapted for a TV movie/feature film? 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/293 "2025-10-24T10:51:44Z")
DQs: 1.Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name begins with C. 5. Known for the arts 6. American 7. Not known for the performing arts 8. Died after 1950 9. First name begins with A-M 10. Died before 1990. 11. Known for the literary arts 12. Died after 1970 13. Known for novels 14. Caucasian 15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl 16. Best known for a particular genre. 17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize. 18. Not known for horror or fantasy 19. Yes, probably best known for a series, or possibly for 2 20. Also known for short stories. 21. Has been adapted for film ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/294 "2025-10-24T13:17:42Z")
Final DQ: Known for mysteries? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/295 "2025-10-24T23:12:47Z")
DQs: 1.Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name begins with C. 5. Known for the arts 6. American 7. Not known for the performing arts 8. Died after 1950 9. First name begins with A-M 10. Died before 1990. 11. Known for the literary arts 12. Died after 1970 13. Known for novels 14. Caucasian 15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl 16. Best known for a particular genre. 17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize. 18. Not known for horror or fantasy 19. Yes, probably best known for a series, or possibly for 2 20. Also known for short stories. 21. Has been adapted for film 22. Known for mysteries ---
**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 25, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/296 "2025-10-25T03:46:14Z")
Final DQs: 1. last name begins Ca or Ce? 2. greatest fame from 1930-1950? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/297 "2025-10-25T07:08:24Z")
DQs: 1.Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name begins with C. 5. Known for the arts 6. American 7. Not known for the performing arts 8. Died after 1950 9. First name begins with A-M 10. Died before 1990. 11. Known for the literary arts 12. Died after 1970 13. Known for novels 14. Caucasian 15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl 16. Best known for a particular genre. 17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize. 18. Not known for horror or fantasy 19. Yes, probably best known for a series, or possibly for 2 20. Also known for short stories. 21. Has been adapted for film 22. Known for mysteries 23. Last name begins with Ca or Ce 24. Greatest fame between 1930-1950 ---
**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 25, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/298 "2025-10-25T12:25:42Z")
Time for “Firstname Lastname” questions, no? I have an idea, but I’m going to wait… ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/299 "2025-10-25T14:10:06Z")
Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/300 "2025-10-25T20:36:23Z")
Sorry! Yep, it’s time for First name Last name guesses. Go ahead and guess until Monday noon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=16)