# 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:** 16
**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 26, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/301 "2025-10-26T12:55:55Z")
Are you John Dickson Carr? ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/302 "2025-10-26T16:53:12Z")
That was my guess. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/303 "2025-10-26T22:26:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you John Dickson Carr? Yes! I am the master of locked room mysteries **John Dickson Carr**! Well done! ---
**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 26, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/304 "2025-10-26T23:37:56Z")
My sister loved reading about Gideon Fell. It made gift-giving easy. Then she had 'em all. Nextly, I am… # N! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/305 "2025-10-26T23:57:39Z")
Good job **Prof**! IQs: Were you Robin’s lead minstrel? Were you erroneously held responsible for the degradation of Pluto? Did you tell certain people “You can make the impossible happen”? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/306 "2025-10-27T00:23:03Z")
Good call, **Prof**! I would not have gotten that one. IQs: 1. Are you the author of the poem “First They Came”, commonly credited to Dietrich Bonhoeffer? 2. Were you an American theologian who corresponded with Dietrich Bonhoeffer? 3. Were you #2’s brother? ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/307 "2025-10-27T01:09:00Z")
Congrats, Prof.! I totally should read more John Dickson Carr. (I _have_ read “The Man who Read John Dickson Carr”, about a guy who plans the perfect locked room murder.) IQs: 1. Did you do “hatchetations”? 2. Were your boots made for walkin’? 3. Are you Ben and Esther’s uncle, and a ghost, on the unimaginatively-titled Netflix series _Haunted Hotel_? ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/308 "2025-10-27T01:20:24Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Were you Robin’s lead minstrel? > Were you erroneously held responsible for the degradation of Pluto? > Did you tell certain people “You can make the impossible happen”? #1. I thought that was Alan a Dale. Take a DQ. #2. I am not Neal DeGrassi Tyson. #3. I am not Niccolo Machiavelli (??) > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the author of the poem “First They Came”, commonly credited to Dietrich Bonhoeffer? > 2. Were you an American theologian who corresponded with Dietrich Bonhoeffer? > 3. Were you #2’s brother? 1. I am not Nathaniel Hawthorne (??) 2. I am not Richard Niebuhr. 3. Take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you do “hatchetations”? > 2. Were your boots made for walkin’? > 3. Are you Ben and Esther’s uncle, and a ghost, on the unimaginatively-titled Netflix series _Haunted Hotel_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Nancy Sinatra. 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 27, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/309 "2025-10-27T01:41:04Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Nancy Sinatra. > 3. Take a DQ. 1 was Carrie Nation; 3 was Nathan. DQs: 1. real? 2. female? ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/310 "2025-10-27T01:57:06Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/311 "2025-10-27T03:05:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > Were you Robin’s lead minstrel? > > Were you erroneously held responsible for the degradation of Pluto? > > Did you tell certain people “You can make the impossible happen”? > > #1. I thought that was Alan a Dale. Take a DQ. > #2. I am not Neal DeGrassi Tyson. > #3. I am not Niccolo Machiavelli (??) 1. Neil Innes (_Monty Python and the Holy Grail_) 2. Correct 3. Phoebe Figalilly, better known as “Nanny.” DQ: Last name begins with N? 1 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:** [October 27, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/312 "2025-10-27T17:36:16Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name begins with N ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/313 "2025-10-27T18:38:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write a screenplay about several parodied literary detectives who meet at a remote mansion? 2. Were you one of the parodied detectives? 3. Were you the actor which played him? ---
**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 27, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/314 "2025-10-27T20:02:10Z")
1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Nick Charles. 3. I am not David Niven. I enjoyed _Murder By Death._ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/315 "2025-10-28T01:02:47Z")
It’s one of my favorite comedies. It was written by Neil Simon, and you are correct 2x. 2 DQs reserved ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/316 "2025-10-28T01:08:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in _Russian Doll_? 2. Are you the prime minister of India? 3. Did you tell Marion Crane your motel had “twelve cabins, twelve vacancies”? ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/317 "2025-10-28T01:30:14Z")
Blink. Blink. How DO you do that? Yes, I am # Norman Bates From _Psycho_. Take it away, DLR!!! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/318 "2025-10-28T01:33:21Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the “other” One in the Harry Potter universe? 2. Despite having a name that sounds like you were one of the Transformers, were a running back for the San Diego Chargers? 3. Were you one of the cast members from _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ to win an Academy Award? ---
**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 28, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/319 "2025-10-28T02:29:21Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > How DO you do that? An incredibly lucky unintentional guess. I am **D**. [![](https://see.fontimg.com/api/rf5/rg2A/NzEwMzMxYmNmMWI1NDU3Mjk1NDUyYjA3MDVmYzYzYmQudHRm/RA/blood-of-dracula.png?r=fs&h=267&w=1500&fg=F84E30&bg=1B0101&tb=1&s=178) ](https://see.fontimg.com/api/rf5/rg2A/NzEwMzMxYmNmMWI1NDU3Mjk1NDUyYjA3MDVmYzYzYmQudHRm/RA/blood-of-dracula.png?r=fs&h=267&w=1500&fg=F84E30&bg=1B0101&tb=1&s=178) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/320 "2025-10-28T03:17:40Z")
I missed that previous post! Good job **De\_La\_Rue**! - Were you the “other” One in the Harry Potter universe? Neville Longbottom - Despite having a name that sounds like you were one of the Transformers, were a running back for the San Diego Chargers? Natrone Means - Were you one of the cast members from _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ to win an Academy Award? Nicolas Cage [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=17)