# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/61 "2025-10-06T22:35:35Z")
IQs: 1. Are you about to put on the red light? 2. Are you a closeted TV dad of a 70s sitcom? 3. Are you the founder of the Sundance Film Festival? ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/62 "2025-10-07T02:45:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you Love a Mystery along with Jack and Doc? > 2. Did you paint _The Night Watch_? > 3. Are you the current Secretary of State of the United States of America? DQ Not Rembrandt DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Can we stand under your umbrella, ella, ella? > 2. Did you claim to have “binders full of women”? > 3. Did you star in _The Invisible Man_? DQ DQ Not … Claude Rains? > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you about to put on the red light? > 2. Are you a closeted TV dad of a 70s sitcom? > 3. Are you the founder of the Sundance Film Festival? DQ DQ Not Robert Redford ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/63 "2025-10-07T02:55:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > Were you Lincoln’s first AG? > > Were you his second SECWAR? > > Did you say that you had made two mistakes, and both of them were on the Supreme Court? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Edwin Stanton. > 3. I am not Dwight D. Eisenhower (??) Edward Bates, correct and correct (referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan). Wow, W is done already, and now we’re on to R! IQs: Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? Were you Earl Hickey’s even dumber younger brother? ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/64 "2025-10-07T03:24:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? > Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? > Were you Earl Hickey’s even dumber younger brother? Not Radagast the Brown DQ 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 7, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/65 "2025-10-07T03:34:22Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Can we stand under your umbrella, ella, ella? > 2. Did you claim to have “binders full of women”? > 3. Did you star in _The Invisible Man_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ > DQ > Not … Claude Rains? 1 was singer Rihanna; 2 was Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012; 3 was correct. DQs: 1. real? 2. first name begins with R? ---
**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 7, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/66 "2025-10-07T04:05:48Z")
Previous IQs: Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? - Yes, the wizard Radagast the Brown Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? - Gen. William Rosecrans Were you Earl Hickey’s even dumber younger brother? - Randy Hickey, on _My Name Is Earl_ DQs: Real? Male? IQs: Were you Dracula’s mentally-disturbed, bug-eating familiar? Have you played two different British Prime Ministers in two different shows? Did you write _The Plot Against America_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/67 "2025-10-07T05:23:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you about to put on the red light? > > 2. Are you a closeted TV dad of a 70s sitcom? > > 3. Are you the founder of the Sundance Film Festival? > > DQ > DQ > Not Robert Redford Roxanne (_Roxanne_, The Police) Robert Reid (Mike Brady, _The Brady Bunch_) Correct 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 7, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/68 "2025-10-07T14:06:07Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Barack Obama’s chief of staff, then mayor of Chicago? 2. Were you one of the main female characters on _Friends_? 3. Did your books warn kids that “Reader beware–you’re in for a scare”? ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/69 "2025-10-07T14:30:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you Dracula’s mentally-disturbed, bug-eating familiar? > Have you played two different British Prime Ministers in two different shows? > Did you write _The Plot Against America_? Not Renfield DQ DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Barack Obama’s chief of staff, then mayor of Chicago? > 2. Were you one of the main female characters on _Friends_? > 3. Did your books warn kids that “Reader beware–you’re in for a scare”? Three DQs (I think your #3 is a reference to Stine, the author of Goosebumps, but I’ve no idea what his first name is.) > [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Are you a closeted TV dad of a 70s sitcom? > [@knoodler](#): > > Robert Reid (Mike Brady, _The Brady Bunch_) No DQ for that one – Brady wasn’t closeted, and isn’t an R; Reid may have been closeted, but he was a real-life actor, not a TV dad. ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/70 "2025-10-07T14:35:56Z")
**R**. 1. Fictional 2. Last part of name begins with R 3. Male EH, ask another one. DLR beat you to “Real?” by 34 minutes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/71 "2025-10-07T14:43:45Z")
I should’ve asked, ‘Did you play…’ DQ: Literary character? ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/72 "2025-10-07T15:07:10Z")
**R**. 1. Fictional 2. Last part of name begins with R 3. Male 4. Literary character ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/73 "2025-10-07T15:16:36Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Three DQs > (I think your #3 is a reference to Stine, the author of Goosebumps, but I’ve no idea what his first name is.) 1 (chief of staff) was Rahm Emmanuel; 2 (_Friends_) was Rachel; 3 was indeed R.L. Stine. DQs: 1. main character? 2. created before 1950? 3. created by American(s)? ---
**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 7, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/74 "2025-10-07T23:26:33Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the bloody title character of the second novel in the Anno Dracula series, a German flying ace and (unlike in real life) vampire? 2. Did you voice Terk in the 1999 animated Tarzan movie? 3. Did Pedro Pascal play you in a superhero blockbuster this summer (not _Superman_, the other one)? ---
**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 8, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/75 "2025-10-08T00:48:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you Love a Mystery along with Jack and Doc? > > 2. Did you paint _The Night Watch_? > > 3. Are you the current Secretary of State of the United States of America? > > DQ > Not Rembrandt > DQ #1 was Reggie, from the OTR series _I Love A Mystery_. #2 is correct. #3 is Marco Rubio. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/76 "2025-10-08T01:39:59Z")
IQs: 1. Did you co-anchor the _ABC Evening News_ in the 1970s? 2. Were you replaced by the person mentioned above? 3. Did you play Henry Higgins in the original Broadway cast of _My Fair Lady_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/77 "2025-10-08T01:46:39Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a charter member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame? 2. Were you the other one? 3. Were you made a member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2003? ---
**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 8, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/78 "2025-10-08T01:47:10Z")
**R**. 1. Fictional 2. Last part of name begins with R 3. Male 4. Literary character 5. Main character 6. Created before 1950 7. American creator(s) ---
**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 8, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/79 "2025-10-08T01:51:19Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the bloody title character of the second novel in the Anno Dracula series, a German flying ace and (unlike in real life) vampire? > 2. Did you voice Terk in the 1999 animated Tarzan movie? > 3. Did Pedro Pascal play you in a superhero blockbuster this summer (not _Superman_, the other one)? Not Manfred Frhr v Richthofen? DQ DQ (There was another one?) > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you co-anchor the _ABC Evening News_ in the 1970s? > 2. Were you replaced by the person mentioned above? > 3. Did you play Henry Higgins in the original Broadway cast of _My Fair Lady_? DQ DQ Not Rex Harrison > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a charter member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame? > 2. Were you the other one? > 3. Were you made a member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2003? Three DQs (Baseball, right? 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/80 "2025-10-08T01:54:06Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a charter member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame? > > 2. Were you the other one? > > 3. Were you made a member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2003? > > Three DQs > (Baseball, right?) Yep. Frank Robinson / Brooks Robinson (in any order) Cal Ripken, Jr. DQ: Created before 1900? 2 DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641.md?page=5)