# Botticelli, Sept. 2022

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**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [September 1, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748 "2022-09-01T17:46:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**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:** [September 1, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/1 "2022-09-01T17:46:37Z")

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Previous thread: [Botticelli August 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071)

Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #95 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/95)

And our new letter is

## I

as in “I… can’t believe it’s a new month of Botticelli!”

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**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:** [September 1, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/2 "2022-09-01T18:25:24Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you marry the Flash?
2. Were you Dr. Fate’s wife?
3. Were you Black Adam’s wife?

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/3 "2022-09-01T20:24:40Z")

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IQ1: “My name is \_\_\_\_\_\_. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”  
IQ2: Are you a former Stooge with a lust for life?  
IQ3: Are you the rodent half of an ultra-violent cat-and-mouse team?

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**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:** [September 1, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/4 "2022-09-01T20:41:58Z")

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Dunno x3, **Prof. P.**

**CFOHG** , I’m not Inigo Montoya, Ibinezer Stooge or Itchy from _The Simpsons_.

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**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:** [September 1, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/5 "2022-09-01T21:11:34Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Did you marry the Flash?
> 2. Were you Dr. Fate’s wife?
> 3. Were you Black Adam’s wife?

#1 was Iris West.  
#2 was Inza Nelson.  
#3 was Isis.

DQs:

1. Real?
2. Male?
3. Last name starts with I?

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**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:** [September 1, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/6 "2022-09-01T21:34:57Z")

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IQ1: Was your father’s life saved by the presence of a ram?  
IQ2: Were you that father?  
IQ3: Were you one of the Howling Commandos?

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/7 "2022-09-02T08:21:27Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: “My name is \_\_\_\_\_\_. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”  
> IQ2: Are you a former Stooge with a lust for life?  
> IQ3: Are you the rodent half of an ultra-violent cat-and-mouse team?

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I’m not Inigo Montoya, Ibinezer Stooge or Itchy from _The Simpsons_.

Correct  
Iggy Pop  
Correct

Holding one DQ

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**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:** [September 2, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/8 "2022-09-02T13:59:01Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Was your father’s life saved by the presence of a ram?  
> IQ2: Were you that father?  
> IQ3: Were you one of the Howling Commandos?

I’m not Isaiah, not Isaac and dunno.

I.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with I

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**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:** [September 2, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/9 "2022-09-02T15:47:39Z")

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IQs:

1. Have you been portrayed by both Johnny Depp and Bing Crosby?
2. Were you a comic on the radio show _Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge_?
3. Did Groucho like to sing _Down Below_ to you to torment you?

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**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:** [September 2, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/10 "2022-09-02T17:09:42Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@SCAdian](#):
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> > IQ1: Was your father’s life saved by the presence of a ram?  
> > IQ2: Were you that father?  
> > IQ3: Were you one of the Howling Commandos?
> 
> I’m not Isaiah, not Isaac and dunno.

1. Israel, formerly known as Jacob
2. correct
3. Izzy Cohen

DQ1: Would be alive today if real?  
DQ2: Originally appeared in prose fiction?

IQ1: Did you play a WWII POW in a fictional POW Camp?  
IQ2: Were you a fictional former POW in the gulag?  
IQ3: Did you allegedly have an affair with Capt Summersby?

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**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:** [September 2, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/11 "2022-09-02T18:41:48Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Have you been portrayed by both Johnny Depp and Bing Crosby?
> 2. Were you a comic on the radio show _Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge_?
> 3. Did Groucho like to sing _Down Below_ to you to torment you?

Not Irving Berlin, not Imogene Coca and dunno

> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play a WWII POW in a fictional POW Camp?  
> IQ2: Were you a fictional former POW in the gulag?  
> IQ3: Did you allegedly have an affair with Capt Summersby?

Dunno, not Ivan Kinchloe and not Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower

I.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with I
4. would not be alive today, if real
5. did not originally appear in prose fiction

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/12 "2022-09-02T19:56:35Z")

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Held DQ: First appeared on screen (TV or movie)?

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**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:** [September 2, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/13 "2022-09-02T19:59:33Z")

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I.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with I
4. would not be alive today, if real
5. did not originally appear in prose fiction
6. first was mentioned on screen (TV or movie)

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/14 "2022-09-02T20:04:59Z")

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IQ1: Were you an animated rip-off of Maxwell Smart?  
IQ2: Did you write a play in which an entire French town turns into rhinoceroses?  
IQ3: Are you friends with Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde?

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**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:** [September 2, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/15 "2022-09-02T20:32:32Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@SCAdian](#):
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> > IQ1: Did you play a WWII POW in a fictional POW Camp?  
> > IQ2: Were you a fictional former POW in the gulag?  
> > IQ3: Did you allegedly have an affair with Capt Summersby?
> 
> Dunno, not Ivan Kinchloe and not Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower

1. Ivan Dixon, in _Hogan’s Heroes_
2. Ivan Denisovich
3. correct

DQ1: Originally from a movie?  
DQ2: American character?

IQ1: Were you a notable Islamic prophet?  
IQ2: Was Alexander Waverly your boss?  
IQ3: Were you an extremely hairy cousin?

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**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:** [September 2, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/16 "2022-09-02T21:02:27Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > IQs:
> > 
> > 1. Have you been portrayed by both Johnny Depp and Bing Crosby?
> > 2. Were you a comic on the radio show _Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge_?
> > 3. Did Groucho like to sing _Down Below_ to you to torment you?
> 
> Not Irving Berlin, not Imogene Coca and dunno

#1 was Ichabod Crane.  
#2 was Ish Kabibble.  
#3, correct, was Irving Berlin.

DQ: Protagonist?

1 DQ reserved.

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**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:** [September 4, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/17 "2022-09-04T14:52:16Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Were you an animated rip-off of Maxwell Smart?  
> IQ2: Did you write a play in which an entire French town turns into rhinoceroses?  
> IQ3: Are you friends with Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde?

Dunno x3

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**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:** [September 4, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/18 "2022-09-04T14:53:59Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > > [@SCAdian](#):
> > >
> > > IQ1: Did you play a WWII POW in a fictional POW Camp?  
> > > IQ2: Were you a fictional former POW in the gulag?  
> > > IQ3: Did you allegedly have an affair with Capt Summersby?
> > 
> > Dunno, not Ivan Kinchloe and not Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower
> 
> 1. Ivan Dixon, in _Hogan’s Heroes_
> 2. Ivan Denisovich
> 3. correct

Ivan Denisovich was a political prisoner, not a POW, wasn’t he?

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**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:** [September 4, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/19 "2022-09-04T14:56:16Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
>
> …  
> IQ1: Were you a notable Islamic prophet?  
> IQ2: Was Alexander Waverly your boss?  
> IQ3: Were you an extremely hairy cousin?

Not Isaiah, not Ilya Kuyakin and not Cousin It

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**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:** [September 4, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/20 "2022-09-04T14:57:34Z")

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I.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with I
4. would not be alive today, if real
5. did not originally appear in prose fiction
6. first was mentioned on screen (TV or movie)
7. originally from a movie
8. not the protagonist

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