# 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:** 19
**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, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/361 "2025-10-30T02:54:44Z")
IQ: Are you the most famous role of Cassandra Peterson? ---
**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, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/362 "2025-10-30T03:28:20Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 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? Correct, correct, Edward Woodward ---
**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 30, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/363 "2025-10-30T04:00:23Z")
Good job, **Prof. P.**! Previous “D” IQs: Did you write _We Are Lincoln Men_? - David Herbert Donald Did you attend a military school and later Wharton? - Donald Trump Were you a political operative most closely associated with the phrase “ratfucking”? - Donald Segretti, a Nixon '72 campaign guy Donald x3! And now, on to E! IQs: Were you Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s first child, who died young? Did Vincent Price’s character die before he could give you an important gift? Was your coronation postponed due to your illness? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/364 "2025-10-30T05:09:54Z")
1. Were you married to a Beatle? **Linda Eastman** 2. Were you married to John Derek? **Linda Evans** 3. Was your character married to Jeff Greene? **Susie Essman** DQs: Created before 2000? Same sex creators? Best known for one movie/TV show? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/365 "2025-10-30T05:17:18Z")
IQs: 1. Did Michael Cera play your alter ego in a comedy/buddy movie? 2. Did you make your film debut in the same movie? 3. Were you one of the “Big 5” supermodels of the fashion industry? ---
**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, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/366 "2025-10-30T12:30:17Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQ: Are you the most famous role of Cassandra Peterson? # Yes! I am # Elvira, Mistress of the Dark! [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814fVCL4DDL.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814fVCL4DDL.jpg) Good job, **SunUp!** ---
**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, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/367 "2025-10-30T20:45:29Z")
All right, on we go. We’ve had D, we’ve had E, so let’s go for # F Bring the IQs! ---
**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 30, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/368 "2025-10-30T21:31:52Z")
Good job, **SunUp**! Previous “E” IQs: Were you Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s first child, who died young? - Edward Lincoln Did Vincent Price’s character die before he could give you an important gift? - Edward Scissorhands Was your coronation postponed due to your illness? - King Edward VII Edward x3! On to F. IQs: Did you command Hill Street Station? Did your dad say he’d rather you had died, and not your older brother? Were you “the Swamp Fox” during the American Revolution? ---
**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, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/369 "2025-10-30T21:48:05Z")
Congrats, SunUp! IQs: 1. Did you run as Lola in _Run Lola Run_? 2. Were you “the guy they called Deep Throat”? 3. In _Hitchcock_, does Hitch quip at a pwess confewence about _Psycho_ that he only wishes Ed Gein wooked a wittle mowe wike William Holden instead of you, heh-heh-heh-heh-heh? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/370 "2025-10-31T00:02:53Z")
Good job! IQs: 1. Are you a former NFL player turned actor who’s catch phrase is “Works for me”? 2. Have you played a cop, a judge, and a TV dad? 3. Are you the first-born scion of a Sackler-esque family with many ties to Edgar Allen Poe? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/371 "2025-10-31T03:31:10Z")
Congrats! IQs: 1. Did Kevin McNally play you on **Supernatural**? 2. Did you play Charlie Bradbury on **Supernatural**? 3. Were you and your husbands ornithologists who spent their lives studying the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/372 "2025-10-31T04:24:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you command Hill Street Station? > Did your dad say he’d rather you had died, and not your older brother? > Were you “the Swamp Fox” during the American Revolution? I am not Frank Furillo. I am not Faramir. I am not Francis Marion. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you run as Lola in _Run Lola Run_? > 2. Were you “the guy they called Deep Throat”? > 3. In _Hitchcock_, does Hitch quip at a pwess confewence about _Psycho_ that he only wishes Ed Gein wooked a wittle mowe wike William Holden instead of you, heh-heh-heh-heh-heh? I am not Franka Potente. Take 2 DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a former NFL player turned actor who’s catch phrase is “Works for me”? > 2. Have you played a cop, a judge, and a TV dad? > 3. Are you the first-born scion of a Sackler-esque family with many ties to Edgar Allen Poe? Take 3 DQs. > [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Kevin McNally play you on **Supernatural**? > 2. Did you play Charlie Bradbury on **Supernatural**? > 3. Were you and your husbands ornithologists who spent their lives studying the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/373 "2025-10-31T05:29:49Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you a former NFL player turned actor who’s catch phrase is “Works for me”? > > 2. Have you played a cop, a judge, and a TV dad? > > 3. Are you the first-born scion of a Sackler-esque family with many ties to Edgar Allen Poe? > > Take 3 DQs. Fred Dryer Fred Gwynne Frederick Usher (_The Fall of the House of Usher_) Fred x3! DQs: Real? Male? 1 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/374 "2025-10-31T06:07:12Z")
# F 1. Fictional 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 31, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/375 "2025-10-31T13:43:58Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you run as Lola in _Run Lola Run_? > 2. Were you “the guy they called Deep Throat”? > 3. In _Hitchcock_, does Hitch quip at a pwess confewence about _Psycho_ that he only wishes Ed Gein wooked a wittle mowe wike William Holden instead of you, heh-heh-heh-heh-heh? > [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Franka Potente. > Take 2 DQs. 2 was Mark Felt; 3 was Elmer Fudd. DQs: 1. first name begins with F? 2. created after 1925? ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/376 "2025-10-31T13:59:56Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the doctor, not the monster? 2. Are you the eponymous character in a story by Tim Burton about a boy and his dog? 3. Are you the reason there are nightmares on Elm Street? ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/377 "2025-10-31T14:43:54Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play _Eye_-gor? 2. Did you say we have nothing to fear except fear itself? 3. In the current storyline, did your niece Bettina get a role as a pumpkin in a school play that her parents (your sister Jackie and brother-in-law Ralph) are now attending? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/378 "2025-10-31T15:04:45Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a member of the Mexican Communist Party, where you met your husband and fellow artist? 2. Did you direct the silent version of _Metropolis_? 3. Did you rescue a pig named Wilbur? ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/379 "2025-10-31T16:08:19Z")
IQ1: Were you a waitress in a sitcom diner who got her own show? IQ2: Were you an employee in a sitcom brewery who was spun off to star in another show? IQ3: Was #2 initially introduced as a friend of yours? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/380 "2025-10-31T16:30:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the doctor, not the monster? > 2. Are you the eponymous character in a story by Tim Burton about a boy and his dog? > 3. Are you the reason there are nightmares on Elm Street? I am not Frankenstein (who was the doctor _and_ the monster). I am not Frankenweenie. I am not Freddy Krueger. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play _Eye_-gor? > 2. Did you say we have nothing to fear except fear itself? > 3. In the current storyline, did your niece Bettina get a role as a pumpkin in a school play that her parents (your sister Jackie and brother-in-law Ralph) are now attending? I am not Marty Feldman. I am not Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Take a DQ. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a member of the Mexican Communist Party, where you met your husband and fellow artist? > 2. Did you direct the silent version of _Metropolis_? > 3. Did you rescue a pig named Wilbur? I am not Frida Kahlo. I am not Fritz Lang. I am not Fern Arable. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a waitress in a sitcom diner who got her own show? > IQ2: Were you an employee in a sitcom brewery who was spun off to star in another show? > IQ3: Was #2 initially introduced as a friend of yours? I am not Flo. I am not Shirley Feeney. I am not Arthur Fonzarelli. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=20)