# 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:** 18
**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 29, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/341 "2025-10-29T17:14:53Z")
Old English Font by Alamy. That’s all I know. ---
**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 29, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/342 "2025-10-29T17:28:52Z")
IQs: 1. Is a New Jersey turnpike rest area named after you? 2. Were you actually Mary Ann Evans? 3. Did you write a poem about the object in the climax of _Ghostbusters II_? ---
**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 29, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/343 "2025-10-29T17:31:39Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is a New Jersey turnpike rest area named after you? > 2. Were you actually Mary Ann Evans? > 3. Did you write a poem about the object in the climax of _Ghostbusters II_? #2. I am not George Eliot. 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:** [October 29, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/344 "2025-10-29T18:28:07Z")
Great job **Prof**! IQs: 1. Were you married to a Beatle? 2. Were you married to John Derek? 3. Was your character married to Jeff Greene? ---
**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 29, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/345 "2025-10-29T19:43:21Z")
Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/346 "2025-10-29T19:56:54Z")
Great detective work, **Prof.**! As soon as I saw your IQ, I thought “that’s it!” On to E. IQs: 1. Are you the eponymous subject of a Billboard #1 hit by Gene Chandler? 2. Did you stop U.S. Grant’s first drive on Vicksburg by capturing his supply depot at Holly Springs? 3. Were you the perpetrator of an April 4, 1968 assassination? ---
**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 29, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/347 "2025-10-29T20:34:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #2. I am not George Eliot. Take 2 DQs. 1 (rest area) was Thomas Edison; 3 was Emma Lazarus (the climax of _Ghostbusters II_ involves the Statue of Liberty). DQs: #1. real? #2. male? ---
**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 29, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/348 "2025-10-29T21:22:59Z")
IQs: #1. Did you invent the cotton “gin”? #2. Did you appear in _Freaks_? #3. Were you on Team Cockroach? ---
**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 29, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/349 "2025-10-29T21:28:00Z")
IQ1: Were you Freydis’s brother (or possibly half-brother)? IQ2: Were you their father? IQ3: Was your original name Mary Doud? ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/350 "2025-10-30T00:19:41Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the eponymous subject of a Billboard #1 hit by Gene Chandler? > 2. Did you stop U.S. Grant’s first drive on Vicksburg by capturing his supply depot at Holly Springs? > 3. Were you the perpetrator of an April 4, 1968 assassination? 1. I am not the Duke of Earl. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not James Earl Ray. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > #1. Did you invent the cotton “gin”? > #2. Did you appear in _Freaks_? > #3. Were you on Team Cockroach? 1. I am not Eli Whitney. Take 2 DQs. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Q1: Were you Freydis’s brother (or possibly half-brother)? > IQ2: Were you their father? > IQ3: Was your original name Mary Doud? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/351 "2025-10-30T00:20:05Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Female ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/352 "2025-10-30T00:22:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the eponymous subject of a Billboard #1 hit by Gene Chandler? > > 2. Did you stop U.S. Grant’s first drive on Vicksburg by capturing his supply depot at Holly Springs? > > 3. Were you the perpetrator of an April 4, 1968 assassination? > > 1. I am not the Duke of Earl. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not James Earl Ray. Correct on #1 and #3. #2 was Major General (CSA) Earl Van Dorn. Earl x3! DQ: Last name starts with E? ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/353 "2025-10-30T00:24:04Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Only name starts with E ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/354 "2025-10-30T00:38:15Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > #1. Did you invent the cotton “gin”? > #2. Did you appear in _Freaks_? > #3. Were you on Team Cockroach? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Eli Whitney. > Take 2 DQs. 2 was Johnny Eck; 3 was Eleanor Shellstrop, in _The Good Place_. DQs: 1. created after 1980? 2. from movies and/or TV? ---
**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 30, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/355 "2025-10-30T00:51:02Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > Q1: Were you Freydis’s brother (or possibly half-brother)? > > IQ2: Were you their father? > > IQ3: Was your original name Mary Doud? > > Take 3 DQs. Leif Eriksson Erik the Red Mamie Eisenhower DQ1: American creator(s)? DQ2: Originally from prose fiction? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/356 "2025-10-30T01:33:12Z")
Congrats! IQs: 1. Were you nicknamed The Desert Fox? 2. Are you perhaps Rachel Weisz’s most famous role? 3. Did you play the original Equalizer? ---
**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 30, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/357 "2025-10-30T01:43:52Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the introduction to the first American edition of _The Diary of Anne Frank_? 2. Did you try to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket? 3. Do Lock, Shock, and Barrel first mistakenly kidnap you in _The Nightmare before Christmas_? ---
**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 30, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/358 "2025-10-30T02:01:55Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you nicknamed The Desert Fox? > 2. Are you perhaps Rachel Weisz’s most famous role? > 3. Did you play the original Equalizer? 1. I am not Erwin Rommel. 2. I am not Evie O’Connell. 3. Take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the introduction to the first American edition of _The Diary of Anne Frank_? > 2. Did you try to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket? > 3. Do Lock, Shock, and Barrel first mistakenly kidnap you in _The Nightmare before Christmas_? 1. I am not Albert Einstein (??). 2. I am not Evel Knievel. 3. I am not the Easter Bunny. ---
**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 30, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/359 "2025-10-30T02:02:50Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Only name starts with E 4. Created after 1980 5. From movies and TV 6. American creator(s) 7. Not originally from prose fiction ---
**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 30, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/360 "2025-10-30T02:25:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Albert Einstein (??). > 2. I am not Evel Knievel. > 3. I am not the Easter Bunny. 1 was Eleanor Roosevelt (I went to the Anne Frank exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in NY on Sunday; near the end, there’s a long display of various editions and translations of the diary.). DQ: created after 2000? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=19)