# 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:** 3
**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 5, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/41 "2025-09-05T18:51:30Z")
**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 21. Not best known for TV show from the 1970s Please ask your “Firstname Lastname” DQs before 2400 EDT tomorrow, Saturday 6 September. Somebody get it right, please – I’m not sure I want to do three games in a row. 😃 (EH & Prof: Have any of us done a triple like that yet?) ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/42 "2025-09-05T19:13:38Z")
Not that I recall. And right now I’m drawing a blank… ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/43 "2025-09-05T19:30:01Z")
I have a guess… ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/44 "2025-09-05T19:32:57Z")
I don’t think we have had a triple. Are you Jan-Michael Vincent? ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/45 "2025-09-05T19:38:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you Jan-Michael Vincent? Yes! I am Jan-Michael **V** incent, star of the mid-80s _Airwolf_, which Wiki calls “an American action military drama television series”. Take it away, Professor! ---
**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, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/46 "2025-09-05T20:27:43Z")
Only the one? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nLB4dU3Yc6M/maxresdefault.jpg "Jan Quadrant Vincent 16 | Rick and Morty | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLB4dU3Yc6M) ---
**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 5, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/47 "2025-09-05T20:52:46Z")
Thank you, I am # O! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/48 "2025-09-05T22:49:55Z")
Brilliant guess, Prof! IQs: 1. Did you take a plane off from Chicago at the end of a movie? 2. Did you govern a unified Germany as its first chancellor? 3. Were you a heavier-than-air flight pioneer who died while gliding? ---
**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 5, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/49 "2025-09-05T23:02:19Z")
Only the one show, you mean? Wiki lists 31 other TV shows and TV movies, but he wasn’t the star of them. 54 movies, too (of which I’ve seen one, and possibly a second one). I based my answer to DQ12 on the statement that “[d]uring the height of his career, Vincent was the highest-paid actor on American television.” ---
**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 5, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/50 "2025-09-05T23:03:29Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I have a guess… What was your guess? ---
**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, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/51 "2025-09-06T00:30:05Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you take a plane off from Chicago at the end of a movie? > 2. Did you govern a unified Germany as its first chancellor? > 3. Were you a heavier-than-air flight pioneer who died while gliding? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Otto von Bismarck. 3. I am not Orville Wright. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/52 "2025-09-06T00:52:39Z")
Good job **Prof**! I was going to guess Abe Vigoda up until Answer 19. IQs: 1. Are you an original cast member/muppet from _Sesame Street_? 2. Were you married to Blanche Madison before she threw you out? 3. Did your company locate their corporate headquarters in Madison, WI in 1957? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/53 "2025-09-06T00:53:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you take a plane off from Chicago at the end of a movie? > > 2. Did you govern a unified Germany as its first chancellor? > > 3. Were you a heavier-than-air flight pioneer who died while gliding? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Otto von Bismarck. > 3. I am not Orville Wright. Otto the Autopilot, from _Airplane!_ Correct on #2 Otto Lilienthat was #3 - he is credited with developing the modern wing shape. DQs: Real? Female? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/54 "2025-09-06T00:53:25Z")
Jan-Michael Vincent. ---
**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, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/55 "2025-09-06T01:19:04Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you an original cast member/muppet from _Sesame Street_? > 2. Were you married to Blanche Madison before she threw you out? > 3. Did your company locate their corporate headquarters in Madison, WI in 1957? 1. I am not Oscar the Grouch. 2. I am not Oscar Madison. 3. I am not Oscar somebody, but take a DQ. ---
**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, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/56 "2025-09-06T01:19:18Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/57 "2025-09-06T01:32:56Z")
All correct; #3 is Oscar F Mayer. Oscar x3! DQ: Alive? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/58 "2025-09-06T01:41:27Z")
IQs: 1. Did you share an onscreen kiss with Steve Carell? 2. Are you married to Hyacinth’s sister Daisy? 3. Did you create a comic about a man who drives a school bus by day and fights vampires in a post-apocalyptic warzone by night? ---
**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 6, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/59 "2025-09-06T03:10:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Only the one show, you mean? No, only the one Jan-Michael Vincent (as opposed to the multiple Jan-Michael Vincents seen in the accompanying Youtube clip in the above post). IQs: 1. Did you show Vladimir Putin _Dr. Strangelove_? 2. Were you shot by Jack Ruby? 3. Did you write _Grapefruit_? ---
**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, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/60 "2025-09-06T03:12:42Z")
Good job, **Prof. P.**. I wouldn’t have guessed JMV. On to O. IQs: Were you a Civil War general after whom a major university was named? Were you, since 2000, photographed enjoying ice cream with two Japanese women in kimonos? Did your respected boss’s headstrong son fire you, which many people both then and later thought was a big mistake? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=4)