# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/161 "2025-10-16T00:05:23Z")
Yay me! (Also: Irving x3!) Our next letter: **B** ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/162 "2025-10-16T00:48:32Z")
We B jammin’! IQs: 1. Are you a film critic with special emphasis on drive-in-theater movies? 2. Were you the wife of “the Pathfinder of the West”? 3. Were you his father-in-law (and #2’s father)? ---
**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 16, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/163 "2025-10-16T00:49:30Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Zelda on _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_? 2. Did you produce the 80s version of _The Fly_? 3. Were you a diplomat who vanished in 1809? ---
**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 16, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/164 "2025-10-16T15:19:34Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Death of the Messiah_ and _The Birth of the Messiah_? 2. Were you one of the opposing party sent to a concentration camp in _Anno Dracula_? 3. Are you a little cardboard boy scout doomed to weekly demises in the all-mercurial, sensationally bombastic, bagpipe-driven 1950s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/165 "2025-10-16T15:20:45Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > - Are you a film critic with special emphasis on drive-in-theater movies? > - Were you the wife of “the Pathfinder of the West”? > - Were you his father-in-law (and #2’s father)? 1. I am not Joe Bob Briggs Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you play Zelda on _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_? > 2. Did you produce the 80s version of _The Fly_? > 3. Were you a diplomat who vanished in 1809? 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 16, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/166 "2025-10-16T15:22:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you write _The Death of the Messiah_ and _The Birth of the Messiah_? > 2. Were you one of the opposing party sent to a concentration camp in _Anno Dracula_? > 3. Are you a little cardboard boy scout doomed to weekly demises in the all-mercurial, sensationally bombastic, bagpipe-driven 1950s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? 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 16, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/167 "2025-10-16T15:31:24Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > - Are you a film critic with special emphasis on drive-in-theater movies? > > - Were you the wife of “the Pathfinder of the West”? > > - Were you his father-in-law (and #2’s father)? > > 1. I am not Joe Bob Briggs > > Take 2 DQs. Correct on #1. #2 was Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of John Charles Fremont. #3 was Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri senator. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Female? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/168 "2025-10-16T15:36:44Z")
**B** 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 16, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/169 "2025-10-16T15:49:30Z")
> [@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/102641/163): > > IQs: > 1. Did you play Zelda on _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_? > 2. Did you produce the 80s version of _The Fly_? > 3. Were you a diplomat who vanished in 1809? > [@knoodler](#): > > Take 3 DQs 1 was Beth Broderick; 2 was Mel Brooks; 3 was Benjamin Bathurst. DQs: 1. living? 2. first name starts with B? 3. American? ---
**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 16, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/170 "2025-10-16T16:12:16Z")
IQ1: Did your parent run the Shady Rest? IQ3: Were you that parent? IQ2: Did you play #2? ---
**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 16, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/171 "2025-10-16T16:38:01Z")
IQs: 1. Did you spend “ten days in a mad-house” undercover to report on its conditions, and go around the world in 72 days? 2. Back in the 90s, were you the Horse in _Horsin’ Around_? 3. From the Presidential Monsters toyline, is this wolf-you? [![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFweaaXkZBTMGsZ9zeREsEQznt95XsUwSKlL1ekaz9HIEpRuFovjKPmgy9o-Ouw6l-bnAQJ6IdNhBuL2vkolJOoyHu9LihAopO3aFUNCEtAFPuTtdoZxxioPPyB0S0vOi_VMrLEA1DpDs/s1600/0N9A6862.JPG) ](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFweaaXkZBTMGsZ9zeREsEQznt95XsUwSKlL1ekaz9HIEpRuFovjKPmgy9o-Ouw6l-bnAQJ6IdNhBuL2vkolJOoyHu9LihAopO3aFUNCEtAFPuTtdoZxxioPPyB0S0vOi_VMrLEA1DpDs/s1600/0N9A6862.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/172 "2025-10-16T18:18:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did your parent run the Shady Rest? > IQ3: Were you that parent? > IQ2: Did you play #2? Take 3 DQs (my memory is movin’ kinda slow these days) > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you spend “ten days in a mad-house” undercover to report on its conditions, and go around the world in 72 days? > 2. Back in the 90s, were you the Horse in _Horsin’ Around_? > 3. From the Presidential Monsters toyline, is this wolf-you? 1. I am not Nelly Bly 2. Take a DQ 3. I am not… Bill Clinton? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/173 "2025-10-16T18:19:39Z")
**B** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not living 4. First name (as best known by) begins with B 5. American 6. Died after 1970 ---
**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 16, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/174 "2025-10-16T18:24:22Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. I am not Nelly Bly > 2. Take a DQ > 3. I am not… Bill Clinton? 2 was BoJack Horseman, on Netflix’s _BoJack Horseman_; correct on Bly and Wolf Bill (aah-oooo!). DQ: died after 1970? ---
**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 16, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/175 "2025-10-16T19:29:47Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did your parent run the Shady Rest? > > IQ3: Were you that parent? > > IQ2: Did you play #2? > > Take 3 DQs (my memory is movin’ kinda slow these days) Take your pick: Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, or Betty Jo Bradley Kate Bradley Bea Benederet DQ: Known for the Arts? Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Were you the fifteenth pelican? IQ2: Were you a Banana Split? IQ3: Was your Medal of Honor revoked in 1917, but then restored in the 1980s? ---
**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 16, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/176 "2025-10-16T19:33:20Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Died after 1970 > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > DQ: died after 1970? Excellent play there, knoodler – answering the question five minutes before it was asked! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/177 "2025-10-16T20:29:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the fifteenth pelican? > IQ2: Were you a Banana Split? > IQ3: Was your Medal of Honor revoked in 1917, but then restored in the 1980s? 1. DQ 2. I am not Bingo 3. DQ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/178 "2025-10-16T20:30:28Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Excellent play there, knoodler – answering the question five minutes before it was asked! Only by the magic of the interwebs. **B** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not living 4. First name (as best known by) begins with B 5. American 6. Died after 1970 7. Not known for the arts ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/179 "2025-10-17T00:38:30Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the fifteenth pelican? > > IQ2: Were you a Banana Split? > > IQ3: Was your Medal of Honor revoked in 1917, but then restored in the 1980s? > > 1. DQ > 2. I am not Bingo > 3. DQ Sister Bertrille correct “Buffalo Bill” Cody DQ: Known for military/political reasons? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2025/1023641/180 "2025-10-17T01:29:14Z")
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