# 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:** 4
**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, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/61 "2025-09-06T03:24:50Z")
Well, I thought it would take a bit longer than that… > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you write _Grapefruit_? Yes, I am… # Yoko Ono! Very nicely done, **De\_La\_Rue**!! ---
**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, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/62 "2025-09-06T21:39:21Z")
All right then: I am **K**. (belated link to rules [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nVLOdq6IptN1UPXz3Tu9WAVrnQPyWSZ65Tqr5TS4L40/edit?tab=t.0).) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/63 "2025-09-07T01:19:08Z")
Good work! IQs: 1. Are you considered an early pioneer in television comedy shows? 2. Did you have facial reconstruction surgery due to a severe bike accident when you were in your teens? 3. Were you the inspiration for the family name in _Married… with Children_? ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/64 "2025-09-07T02:13:14Z")
IQs: 1. Were you an early MTV VJ? 2. Did you write _Ode to a Grecian Urn_? 3. Did you and Bia chain Prometheus to a rock? ---
**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 7, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/65 "2025-09-07T02:16:04Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you considered an early pioneer in television comedy shows? > 2. Did you have facial reconstruction surgery due to a severe bike accident when you were in your teens? > 3. Were you the inspiration for the family name in _Married… with Children_? 1. I am not Ernie Kovacs, and I really should finish watching that best-of-Kovacs set I have. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not King Kong Bundy. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an early MTV VJ? > 2. Did you write _Ode to a Grecian Urn_? > 3. Did you and Bia chain Prometheus to a rock? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Keats. 3. I am not Kronos? If not Kronos, take a DQ. ---
**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, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/66 "2025-09-07T03:11:49Z")
Good job, **DLR**! Previous IQs: Were you a Civil War general after whom a major university was named? - Oliver O. Howard Were you, since 2000, photographed enjoying ice cream with two Japanese women in kimonos? - [Barack Obama](https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photo/2010/12/president-obama-eats-green-tea-ice-cream) Did your respected boss’s headstrong son fire you, which many people both then and later thought was a big mistake? - Otto von Bismarck On to K! IQs: Were you the protagonist of the Nancy Freedman novel _Joshua Son of None_? Were you a U.S. Cavalry general who got an unflattering nickname? Did you ask if the President could maybe talk to the British Prime Minister when the former wasn’t drunk? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/67 "2025-09-07T04:15:16Z")
Great get on Ono **DLR** IQs: 1. Were you Busy Phillips’s breakout role? 2. Did you start a war in an attempt to unify the Korean Peninsula? 3. Did you win the first season of _American Idol_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/68 "2025-09-07T04:31:44Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. I am not Ernie Kovacs, and I really should finish watching that best-of-Kovacs set I have. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not King Kong Bundy. Correct, Kaitlyn Olson (_It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_), correct DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/69 "2025-09-07T04:38:04Z")
IQs: 1. Did you fall in love with a cabaret star in Paris? 2. Are you a famous American frontiersman? 3. Were you chairman and CEO of a bankrupt energy company? ---
**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 7, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/70 "2025-09-07T13:42:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the protagonist of the Nancy Freedman novel _Joshua Son of None_? > Were you a U.S. Cavalry general who got an unflattering nickname? > Did you ask if the President could maybe talk to the British Prime Minister when the former wasn’t drunk? Respectively: I am not Josh Kellog. I am not “Kommissary” Banks. I am not Henry Kissinger? > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Busy Phillips’s breakout role? > 2. Did you start a war in an attempt to unify the Korean Peninsula? > 3. Did you win the first season of _American Idol_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Kim Il-Sung? 3. I am not Kelly Clarkson. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you fall in love with a cabaret star in Paris? > 2. Are you a famous American frontiersman? > 3. Were you chairman and CEO of a bankrupt energy company? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Kit Carson. 3. I am not Ken Lay. DQs: 1. fictional ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/71 "2025-09-07T13:47:29Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Kit Carson. > 3. I am not Ken Lay. King Marchand (_Victor/Victoria_) Correct Correct DQ: Known from a novel? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/72 "2025-09-07T14:47:32Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you Busy Phillips’s breakout role? > > 2. Did you start a war in an attempt to unify the Korean Peninsula? > > 3. Did you win the first season of _American Idol_? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Kim Il-Sung? > 3. I am not Kelly Clarkson. #1 was Kim Kelly, on _Freaks and Geeks_. Correct on 2 & 3. DQ: Male? ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/73 "2025-09-07T15:08:21Z")
DQs: 1. fictional 2. not from a novel 3. female ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/74 "2025-09-07T18:31:41Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Zoe McPherson’s best friend? 2. Were you the Gnome King’s Chief Steward? 3. Were you the star of **The Pirate Movie**? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/75 "2025-09-07T21:25:12Z")
IQs: 1. Are you among the three people close to JFK to die in airplane accidents? 2. Did you play a woman married to a rabbit? 3. Did you play a woman married to an astronaut? ---
**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 7, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/76 "2025-09-07T21:37:25Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Zoe McPherson’s best friend? > 2. Were you the Gnome King’s Chief Steward? > 3. Were you the star of **The Pirate Movie**? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Kevin Kline. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you among the three people close to JFK to die in airplane accidents? > 2. Did you play a woman married to a rabbit? > 3. Did you play a woman married to an astronaut? 1. I am not JFK Jr. 2. I am not Kathleen Turner. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/77 "2025-09-07T21:41:51Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you among the three people close to JFK to die in airplane accidents? > > 2. Did you play a woman married to a rabbit? > > 3. Did you play a woman married to an astronaut? > > 1. I am not JFK Jr. > 2. I am not Kathleen Turner. > 3. Take a DQ. 1. I’ll give you this, it’s not incorrect; I was asking about _Kathleen_ Kennedy, JFK’s sister. 2. Correct 3. Kathleen Quinlan (Mrs. Marilyn Lovell, _Apollo 13_) Kathleens x3! DQ: American creator? ---
**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 8, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/78 "2025-09-08T00:12:49Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the protagonist of the Nancy Freedman novel _Joshua Son of None_? - Close enough: it was Joshua “Josh” F. Kellogg (strongly implied to be a clone of John F. Kennedy) Were you a U.S. Cavalry general who got an unflattering nickname? - Banks was nicknamed “Commissary,” and wasn’t a Cavalry general; this was Judson “Kill-Cavalry” Kilpatrick, for allegedly being heedless of his men’s lives Did you ask if the President could maybe talk to the British Prime Minister when the former wasn’t drunk? - Yes, [Henry Kissinger](https://www.straightdope.com/21344000/is-the-secret-service-responsible-for-keeping-the-president-from-getting-drunk) DQs: First appeared since 1945? IQs: Did you write the screenplay for Spielberg’s movie _Lincoln_? Did you advise that person to take the job? Did you apologize for spitting on the carpet of your posh future father-in-law’s carpet? ---
**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 8, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/79 "2025-09-08T00:37:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you write the screenplay for Spielberg’s movie _Lincoln_? > Did you advise that person to take the job? > Did you apologize for spitting on the carpet of your posh future father-in-law’s carpet? Respectively: I am not Tony Kushner. I am not Doris Kearns Goodwin? I am not John F. Kennedy. DQs: 1. fictional 2. not from a novel 3. female 4. American creators 5. first appeared after 1945 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/80 "2025-09-08T00:43:46Z")
IQs: 1. Was your story told in the movie _The Other Side of the Mountain_? 2. Were you a three-time mayor of New York whose catchphrase was “How’m I doin’?” 3. Did you sing “We Are Not Alone” for the soundtrack to _The Breakfast Club_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=5)