# Botticelli, September 2025

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694>\
**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:** 2

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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 4, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/21 "2025-09-04T00:48:16Z")

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**V**

1. Real  
2. Male  
3. Last name starts with V  
4. Dead  
5. American  
6. Best known for the Arts  
7. Did not die before 1900  
8. Known for the performing arts  
9. Best known from movies or TV  
10. Did not die before 1990

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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 4, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/22 "2025-09-04T00:51:33Z")

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DQs:

1. Died after 2010?
2. Best known from TV?

1 DQ reserved.

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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 4, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/23 "2025-09-04T00:58:05Z")

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**V**

1. Real  
2. Male  
3. Last name starts with V  
4. Dead  
5. American  
6. Best known for the Arts  
7. Did not die before 1900  
8. Known for the performing arts  
9. Best known from movies or TV  
10. Did not die before 1990  
11. Died after 2010  
12. Probably best known from TV

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/24 "2025-09-04T01:08:28Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you provide narration on Michael Jackson’s _Thriller_?
2. Did you cut off a policeman’s ear in _Reservoir Dogs_?
3. Are you his brother?

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**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 4, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/25 "2025-09-04T01:11:13Z")

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IQs:  
1. Are you a former Atlanta Falcon and Philadelphia Eagle who got busted for dogfighting?  
2. Is a reality show about you and the staff of your West Hollywood restaurant, SUR?  
3. Does a song by the Zutons and covered by Amy Winehouse address you?

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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 4, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/26 "2025-09-04T01:15:15Z")

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DQ: Best known for one Tv show?

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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 4, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/27 "2025-09-04T01:16:41Z")

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> [@knoodler](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you provide narration on Michael Jackson’s _Thriller_?
> 2. Did you cut off a policeman’s ear in _Reservoir Dogs_?
> 3. Are you his brother?

DQ x3

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> 1. Are you a former Atlanta Falcon and Philadelphia Eagle who got busted for dogfighting?
> 2. Is a reality show about you and the staff of your West Hollywood restaurant, SUR?
> 3. Are you addressed in a song by the Zutons, covered by Amy Winehouse?

DQ x3

Aaaaand … that brings us up to 23 DQs, so no more IQs, please. Ask your earned DQs by noon Friday 5 September.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/28 "2025-09-04T01:19:32Z")

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- Did you provide narration on Michael Jackson’s _Thriller_? Vincent Price
- Did you cut off a policeman’s ear in _Reservoir Dogs_? Vic Vega
- Are you his brother? Vincent Vega

3 DQs reserved

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**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 4, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/29 "2025-09-04T01:28:21Z")

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> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
>
> IQs:  
> 1. Are you a former Atlanta Falcon and Philadelphia Eagle who got busted for dogfighting?  
> 2. Is a reality show about you and the staff of your West Hollywood restaurant, SUR?  
> 3. Does a song by the Zutons and covered by Amy Winehouse address you?

> [@SCAdian](#):
>
> DQ x3

1 was Michael Vick; 2 was Lisa Vanderpump, of _Vanderpump Rules_; 3 was Valerie.

DQ: known for acting?

2 DQs reserved.

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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 4, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/30 "2025-09-04T01:38:09Z")

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> [@knoodler](#):
>
> - Did you provide narration on Michael Jackson’s _Thriller_? Vincent Price
> - Did you cut off a policeman’s ear in _Reservoir Dogs_? Vic Vega
> - Are you his brother? Vincent Vega
> 
> 3 DQs reserved

Prof P already used Vincent Price. Only two DQs for you.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/31 "2025-09-04T01:47:40Z")

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Ok, Ok…

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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 4, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/32 "2025-09-04T01:47:45Z")

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**V**

1. Real  
2. Male  
3. Last name starts with V  
4. Dead  
5. American  
6. Best known for the Arts  
7. Did not die before 1900  
8. Known for the performing arts  
9. Best known from movies or TV  
10. Did not die before 1990  
11. Died after 2010  
12. Probably best known from TV  
13. Best known for one Tv show, though I was in a lot of others  
14. Known for acting

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/33 "2025-09-04T01:49:36Z")

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DQ: Worked with an ensemble cast in TV?

1 DQ reserved

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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 4, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/34 "2025-09-04T11:09:21Z")

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**V**

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with V
4. Dead
5. American
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Did not die before 1900
8. Known for the performing arts
9. Best known from movies or TV
10. Did not die before 1990
11. Died after 2010
12. Probably best known from TV
13. Best known for one Tv show, though I was in a lot of others
14. Known for acting
15. Did not work with an ensemble cast on TV

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/35 "2025-09-04T18:04:22Z")

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Last DQ: First name begins A - M?

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**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 4, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/36 "2025-09-04T18:19:29Z")

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DQ: best known for TV show from the 1960s?

1 DQ reserved.

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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 4, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/37 "2025-09-04T19:05:00Z")

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**V**

1. Real  
2. Male  
3. Last name starts with V  
4. Dead  
5. American  
6. Best known for the Arts  
7. Did not die before 1900  
8. Known for the performing arts  
9. Best known from movies or TV  
10. Did not die before 1990  
11. Died after 2010  
12. Probably best known from TV  
13. Best known for one Tv show, though I was in a lot of others  
14. Known for acting  
15. Did not work with an ensemble cast on TV  
16. First name begins A - M  
17. Not best known for TV show from the 1960s

DLR still has one remaining DQ; EH has four.

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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, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/38 "2025-09-04T20:48:59Z")

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Previous IQs:

Do you hold the job once held by Hannibal Hamlin? - Hamlin was Lincoln’s first Vice President; J.D. Vance has the gig now  
Were you Jimmy Smits’s breakout role? - Atty. Victor Sifuentes on _L.A. Law_  
Did you flirt with Picard on Risa? - The lovely but less-than-forthrightly-honest Vash

DQs:

Was the lead actor of his best-known TV show?  
That show was a sitcom?  
Won an Emmy?

One DQ reserved.

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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 4, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/39 "2025-09-04T23:49:18Z")

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**V**

1. Real  
2. Male  
3. Last name starts with V  
4. Dead  
5. American  
6. Best known for the Arts  
7. Did not die before 1900  
8. Known for the performing arts  
9. Best known from movies or TV  
10. Did not die before 1990  
11. Died after 2010  
12. Probably best known from TV  
13. Best known for one Tv show, though I was in a lot of others  
14. Known for acting  
15. Did not work with an ensemble cast on TV  
16. First name begins A - M  
17. Not best known for TV show from the 1960s  
18. The lead actor of my best-known TV show  
19. That show was not a sitcom  
20. Neither the show nor I won an Emmy

DLR and EH have one remaining DQ each. Please ask them by noon EDT tomorrow.

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**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 5, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/40 "2025-09-05T15:34:51Z")

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Final DQ: best known for TV show from the 1970s?

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