# 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:** 17
**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 27, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/321 "2025-09-27T00:57:25Z")
This is a long shot. Are you Paul Harvey? ---
**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 27, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/322 "2025-09-27T03:24:34Z")
Hmm, I think that just might be the guy. I yield my remaining DQ to anyone who’d like to ask it. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/323 "2025-09-27T03:56:21Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you Paul Harvey? YES!! I am Paul Harvey, conservative radio pundit of the 70s and 80s. Also the author of collected anecdotes from his _The Rest of the Story_ episodes. ---
**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 27, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/324 "2025-09-27T14:57:09Z")
Yay! Next up… # S! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/325 "2025-09-27T15:30:06Z")
Good call on Paul Harvey! On to S. 1. Were you an 1852 presidential candidate and hero of the Mexican-American War? 2. Were you named after #1? 3. Are you a soccer and volleyball player for Yale who often gets hit in the face with a ball? ---
**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 27, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/326 "2025-09-27T15:45:55Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > On to S. > > 1. Were you an 1852 presidential candidate and hero of the Mexican-American War? > 2. Were you named after #1? > 3. Are you a soccer and volleyball player for Yale who often gets hit in the face with a ball? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 27, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/327 "2025-09-27T20:16:26Z")
IQ1: Were you an Olympic swimmer better known for co-starring in spaghetti westerns? IQ2: Did you play a civil engineer’s valet? IQ3: Were you a TV newsperson who was on board a plane that crashed in headhunter country during WW II? ---
**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 27, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/328 "2025-09-27T20:20:27Z")
Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 27, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/329 "2025-09-27T20:29:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you an Olympic swimmer better known for co-starring in spaghetti westerns? > IQ2: Did you play a civil engineer’s valet? > IQ3: Were you a TV newsperson who was on board a plane that crashed in headhunter country during WW II? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. Carlo Pedersoli, better known in this country as Bud Spencer Sebastian Cabot, on _Family Affair_ Eric Sevareid ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/330 "2025-09-27T21:55:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > On to S. > > > > 1. Were you an 1852 presidential candidate and hero of the Mexican-American War? > > 2. Were you named after #1? > > 3. Are you a soccer and volleyball player for Yale who often gets hit in the face with a ball? > > Take 3 DQs. #1 was Winfield Scott. #2 was Winfield Scott Hancock. #3 is Scott Sterling, a character who went viral back in 2016, created by comic actor Matthew Meece. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. First name begins with S? ---
**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 27, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/331 "2025-09-27T23:09:57Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with 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:** [September 28, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/332 "2025-09-28T00:33:37Z")
DQ1: Known for the Arts? DQ2: American? One DQW reserved. ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/333 "2025-09-28T01:27:31Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with S 4. Known for the Arts 5. American ---
**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 28, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/334 "2025-09-28T02:30:35Z")
Good job, **Prof. P.** And now you know… the rest of the Botticelli story. On to S! IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? Were you his second? Were you his only SECSTATE? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/335 "2025-09-28T03:29:04Z")
IQs: Are you known for creating paintings with double images? Were you the only president of your country to be assassinated in office? Did you share the cover of TIME Magazine with Patricia Hearst? ---
**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 28, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/336 "2025-09-28T12:55:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? > Were you his second? > Were you his only SECSTATE? I am not Simon Cameron. I am not Edwin Stanton. I am not William Seward. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > Are you known for creating paintings with double images? > Were you the only president of your country to be assassinated in office? > Did you share the cover of TIME Magazine with Patricia Hearst? 1. I am not Anwar Sadat. 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 28, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/337 "2025-09-28T13:52:59Z")
Salvador Dali Correct Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; however, the magazine in question was [Newsweek](https://images.wolfgangsvault.com/m/xlarge/OMS03381-MZ/newsweek-vintage-magazine-feb-25-1974.jpg), not TIME. DQ: Known for painting or literature? ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/338 "2025-09-28T15:29:21Z")
Congrats, Prof.! IQs: 1. Were you a bandleader who never slept, came from Saturn, and starred in _Space is the Place_? 2. Were you the Man, and a Cardinal? 3. Have you played a worm, Count Orlok, and the “wife” of Flaco the owl on _SNL_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/339 "2025-09-28T16:26:28Z")
IQs: 1. Did you, when you retired, hold the record for most home runs hit by an Angel? 2. Have you held senior positions in all three branches of the U.S. government, including Chief Justice? 3. Did you make oral arguments before the Supreme Court in _U.S. vs. Skrmetti_? ---
**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 29, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/340 "2025-09-29T01:51:05Z")
IQ1: Did you sing “Johnny Come Lately”? IQ2: Did you sing “You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma”? IQ3: Did you sing “War Is Hell (on the Home Front Too)”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=18)