# Botticelli, September 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 3, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694 "2025-09-03T01:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/281 "2025-09-23T23:51:25Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > - Were you a Dodgers outfielder whose promising career was cut short due to multiple injuries? > - Are you, sixty years since the start of your collegiate career, still the top scorer in NCAA basketball history? > - Did your former bandmates put some tracks that included you on their compilation album that helped make your retirement more comfortable? I am not Jose Pena I am not “Pistol” Pete Maravich Take a DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you star in _The Simple Life_? > 2. Was there a gentleman’s agreement that no building in the city (of brotherly love) could be taller than the statue of you atop City Hall? > 3. Did Mark Mothersbaugh voice himself as part of a future sewer mutant version of Devo in “The Mutants are Revolting”, the 100th episode of the TV show of which you are a character? I am not Paris Hilton Take 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/282 "2025-09-23T23:55:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Did you possibly do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe? > - Were you the voice of Bluebottle in the grease-encrusted, zeppelin-lined, slightly volcanic 1950s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > - Did you have a nasty habit of nailing people’s heads to the furniture? I am not Miss Peacock I am not Peter Sellers Take a DQ (I can only remember Dinsdale) > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the best-known person born on Corfu? > Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s _Hercules_? > A Harvard Law grad, were you named to the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio five years ago? 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:** [September 23, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/283 "2025-09-23T23:56:43Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. First name begins with P 3. American 4. Male 5. Not living 6. Known for the Arts ---
**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:** [September 24, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/284 "2025-09-24T00:10:07Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you star in _The Simple Life_? > 2. Was there a gentleman’s agreement that no building in the city (of brotherly love) could be taller than the statue of you atop City Hall? > 3. Did Mark Mothersbaugh voice himself as part of a future sewer mutant version of Devo in “The Mutants are Revolting”, the 100th episode of the TV show of which you are a character? > [@knoodler](#): > > I am not Paris Hilton > Take 2 DQs 2 was William Penn; 3 was Phillip J. Fry, of _Futurama_. DQs: 1. died after 1950? 2. known for the literary arts? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/285 "2025-09-24T01:13:47Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > - Were you a Dodgers outfielder whose promising career was cut short due to multiple injuries? > > - Are you, sixty years since the start of your collegiate career, still the top scorer in NCAA basketball history? > > - Did your former bandmates put some tracks that included you on their compilation album that helped make your retirement more comfortable? > > I am not Jose Pena > I am not “Pistol” Pete Maravich > Take a DQ The only Jose Pena I can see who played for the Dodgers was a pitcher; this was a guess for “Pistol Pete” Reiser, who did play the outfield. Correct on Maravich. #3 was Pete Best, who drums on several tracks on the Beatles’ \*Anthology 1" album. 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:** [September 24, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/286 "2025-09-24T02:04:59Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. First name begins with P 3. American 4. Male 5. Not living 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died after 1950 8. Not _best_ known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/287 "2025-09-24T02:43:04Z")
DQs: Known for the performing arts? Died after 1980? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/288 "2025-09-24T02:58:49Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the founder and vocalist of Jane’s Addiction? 2. Were you “Tania” when you were with the SLA? 3. Are you pondering what I’m pondering? ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/289 "2025-09-24T03:00:33Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the best-known person born on Corfu? - The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s _Hercules_? - Philoctetes AKA Phil (Danny DeVito) A Harvard Law grad, were you named to the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio five years ago? - Judge Philip Calabrese Phil x3! DQs: Has won a top award in his field? Considered handsome? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you write _The Plot Against America_? Did you lead the 1984 LA Olympics project? Were you the first woman elected to the US Senate from Florida? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/290 "2025-09-24T04:05:53Z")
1. Are you better known as Soap in the Finishing School quartet by Gail Carriger? 2. Are you the main character in **Dragondrums**? 3. Do you host **The Amazing Race**? ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/291 "2025-09-24T15:21:07Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - Did you possibly do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe? > > - Were you the voice of Bluebottle in the grease-encrusted, zeppelin-lined, slightly volcanic 1950s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? > > - Did you have a nasty habit of nailing people’s heads to the furniture? > > I am not Miss Peacock > I am not Peter Sellers > Take a DQ (I can only remember Dinsdale) Correct. Correct. #3 is Dinsdale Piranha from _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/292 "2025-09-24T19:56:52Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you the founder and vocalist of Jane’s Addiction? > 2. Were you “Tania” when you were with the SLA? > 3. Are you pondering what I’m pondering? I am not Perry Ferrell I am not Patty Hearst Take a DQ > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you write _The Plot Against America_? > Did you lead the 1984 LA Olympics project? > Were you the first woman elected to the US Senate from Florida? I am not Pete Uberroth [sp?] Take 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/293 "2025-09-24T19:58:01Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > - Are you better known as Soap in the Finishing School quartet by Gail Carriger? > - Are you the main character in **Dragondrums**? > - Do you host **The Amazing Race**? Take 3 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #3 is Dinsdale Piranha from _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_. Piranha! /slaps head ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/294 "2025-09-24T20:02:09Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. First name begins with P 3. American 4. Male 5. Not living 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died after 1950 8. Not _best_ known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it) 9. Known for the performing arts 10. Died after 1980 11. Has received several awards related to his field 12. Not notably recognized as handsome but not an uggo either, in my opinion ---
**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 24, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/295 "2025-09-24T20:15:23Z")
DQ: Known as an actor? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/296 "2025-09-24T21:24:16Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. First name begins with P 3. American 4. Male 5. Not living 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died after 1950 8. Not _best_ known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it) 9. Known for the performing arts 10. Died after 1980 11. Has received several awards related to his field 12. Not notably recognized as handsome but not an uggo either, in my opinion 13. Not known as an actor ---
**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 24, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/297 "2025-09-24T21:26:25Z")
IQs: 1. Did you front the band known as the Raiders? 2. Are you the title character of a ballet by Stravinsky? 3. Are you the son of the giant Gargantua? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/298 "2025-09-24T21:27:03Z")
I am not Paul Revere Take 2 DQs ---
**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 24, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/299 "2025-09-24T21:29:02Z")
Correct. #2 is Petrouchka. #3 is Pantagruel. DQ: Singer or musician? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/300 "2025-09-24T21:32:23Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. First name begins with P 3. American 4. Male 5. Not living 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died after 1950 8. Not _best_ known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it) 9. Known for the performing arts 10. Died after 1980 11. Has received several awards related to his field 12. Not notably recognized as handsome but not an uggo either, in my opinion 13. Not known as an actor 14. Not a singer or musician [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=16)