# Botticelli - Sept. 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843 "2024-09-06T03:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 6, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/1 "2024-09-06T03:00:15Z")
Last month’s thread: [Botticelli - August 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070) Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #126 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/126) Our first letter for this month is # T ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/2 "2024-09-06T03:34:54Z")
IQ: 1. Do you and your friends hail from Sodor? 2. Did you shelter Lucy Pevensie? 3. Did you die on Mt St Helens? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/3 "2024-09-06T13:30:41Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the only woman on Country Music Televisions list of “Top Ten Outlaw Singers”? 2. Are you a somewhat unusual sexual assault survivor and activist for the MeToo movement? 3. Just because it’s been a minute since his name’s come up, did you have the most awkward name in Middle Earth? (That one’s just for you, **EH** 😁) ---
**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 6, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/4 "2024-09-06T14:23:19Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a Chaucerean scholar who has also written histories of barbarian tribes? 2. Did Arte Johnson play you regularly on _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_? 3. Did you have a hit with _Un-Break My Heart_? ---
**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 6, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/5 "2024-09-06T15:04:07Z")
IQ1: Did you steal a pig and run away? IQ2: Were you a thieving Welshman who stole food? IQ3: Did you live in the forest with Hashberry? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/6 "2024-09-06T16:48:53Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia? 2. Were you a corps commander in the Army of the Cumberland? 3. Were you Lummox’s pet? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/7 "2024-09-06T18:08:17Z")
1. Is your show narrated by Ringo Star? 2. Did you sing a dreadful rendition “I’ve got you babe” in duet with Bob Dylan? 3. Were you a Swiss freedom fighter known for your skill with a crossbow? ---
**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 6, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/8 "2024-09-06T20:51:50Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQ: > > 1. Do you and your friends hail from Sodor? > 2. Did you shelter Lucy Pevensie? > 3. Did you die on Mt St Helens? Not Thomas the Tank Engine, not Mr. Tumnus, and not Harry Truman (the quotable ol’ coot, not the POTUS). > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the only woman on Country Music Televisions list of “Top Ten Outlaw Singers”? > 2. Are you a somewhat unusual sexual assault survivor and activist for the MeToo movement? > 3. Just because it’s been a minute since his name’s come up, did you have the most awkward name in Middle Earth? (That one’s just for you, **EH** 😁) Not Tanya Tucker, dunno, and not (thanks for that, **SMV** ) Teleporno AKA Celeborn! > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a Chaucerean scholar who has also written histories of barbarian tribes? > 2. Did Arte Johnson play you regularly on _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _Un-Break My Heart_? Not JRR Tolkien, dunno, and not Tennille. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you steal a pig and run away? > IQ2: Were you a thieving Welshman who stole food? > IQ3: Did you live in the forest with Hashberry? Not Tom Tom, dunno, and not Tom Bomberdill in _Bored of the Rings_. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia? > 2. Were you a corps commander in the Army of the Cumberland? > 3. Were you Lummox’s pet? Not Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, not George H. Thomas (huzzah!) and not Thomas in Heinlein’s _Star Beast_. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Is your show narrated by Ringo Star? > 2. Did you sing a dreadful rendition “I’ve got you babe” in duet with Bob Dylan? > 3. Were you a Swiss freedom fighter known for your skill with a crossbow? Also not Thomas the Tank Engine, not Tom Petty and not William Tell. ---
**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 6, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/9 "2024-09-06T21:41:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a Chaucerean scholar who has also written histories of barbarian tribes? > > 2. Did Arte Johnson play you regularly on _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_? > > 3. Did you have a hit with _Un-Break My Heart_? > > Not JRR Tolkien, dunno, and not Tennille. #1 was Monty Python’s own Terry Jones. #2 was Tyrone F. Horneigh. #3 is Toni Braxton. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with T? ---
**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 6, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/10 "2024-09-06T21:51:10Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the 12-volume _A Study of History_? 2. Were you the Herd Godfather of a musk ox farm in Alaska? 3. Did your celebrity husband pass away within the last month? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/11 "2024-09-06T22:06:57Z")
IQs: 1. Did you and your husband record a song written by John Fogarty? 2. Did you fight zombies with Little Rock? 3. Were you a backup to Jalen Hurts in college? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/12 "2024-09-07T00:14:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia? > > 2. Were you a corps commander in the Army of the Cumberland? > > 3. Were you Lummox’s pet? > > Not Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, not George H. Thomas (huzzah!) and not Thomas in Heinlein’s _Star Beast_. Ah, swept me. The last was John Thomas Stuart XI. Thomas x3! IQs: 1. Were you a New York Giant first baseman who was the last National Leaguer to hit .400 in a season? 2. Did you organize the Credit Mobilier, thus being at the center of one of the biggest political corruption scandals in U.S. history? 3. Are you a Trollop who hangs around with a Klahd and a Pervect? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/13 "2024-09-07T00:22:23Z")
[quote=“Elendil\_s\_Heir, post:8, topic:1006843”] > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Is your show narrated by Ringo Star? > 2. Did you sing a dreadful rendition “I’ve got you babe” in duet with Bob Dylan? > 3. Were you a Swiss freedom fighter known for your skill with a crossbow? Also not Thomas the Tank Engine, not Tom Petty and not William Tell. Yes on Thomas the tank Engine and Tell, but unless you can produce evidence to the contrary, no on Petty. Should be Tiny Tim [got you babe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd_7Vw_0DyE) (Note: I will not be held responsible for any brain damaged caused by clicking on the blurred link. You have been warned!) 1DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/14 "2024-09-07T03:25:43Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the main character in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet? 2. Are you a writer known for, among other books, **The “Good” War**? 3. Are you a scary doll who famously said “You better be nice to me”? ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/15 "2024-09-07T03:34:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did you steal a pig and run away? > > IQ2: Were you a thieving Welshman who stole food? > > IQ3: Did you live in the forest with Hashberry? > > Not Tom Tom, dunno, and not Tom Bomberdill in _Bored of the Rings_. correct Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief. / Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef. Tim Benzedrine (though you’re right about the source) Two DQs reserved. ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/16 "2024-09-07T03:37:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the 12-volume _A Study of History_? > 2. Were you the Herd Godfather of a musk ox farm in Alaska? > 3. Did your celebrity husband pass away within the last month? Not Tacitus, dunno and dunno. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you and your husband record a song written by John Fogarty? > 2. Did you fight zombies with Little Rock? > 3. Were you a backup to Jalen Hurts in college? Dunno, not Tallahassee in _Zombieland_ and dunno. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a New York Giant first baseman who was the last National Leaguer to hit .400 in a season? > 2. Did you organize the Credit Mobilier, thus being at the center of one of the biggest political corruption scandals in U.S. history? > 3. Are you a Trollop who hangs around with a Klahd and a Pervect? Dunno and dunno (although I’m sure I’ll recognize the names when I read 'em), and not Toni Trollope. > [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the main character in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet? > 2. Are you a writer known for, among other books, **The “Good” War**? > 3. Are you a scary doll who famously said “You better be nice to me”? Dunno, not Studs Terkel and not Tammy. T. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with T ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/17 "2024-09-07T03:43:53Z")
IQ1: Originally from prose fiction? IQ2: American creator(s)? ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/18 "2024-09-07T03:51:12Z")
T. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with T 4. originally from prose fiction 5. American creator(s) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/19 "2024-09-07T03:51:51Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the main character in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet? > 2. Are you a writer known for, among other books, **The “Good” War**? > 3. Are you a scary doll who famously said “You better be nice to me”? Sophronia Temminick, correct and Talky Tina. IQs: 1. Did you famously fall in love with a ghost named Marion Kerby? 2. Were you trying to Escape to Witch Mountain? 3. Were you #2’s sibling, who was also trying to Escape? ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/20 "2024-09-07T03:59:45Z")
Dunno x3. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843.md?page=2)