# 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:** 5
**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, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/81 "2025-09-08T01:07:25Z")
Previous IQs: Did you write the screenplay for Spielberg’s movie _Lincoln_? - Yes, Tony Kushner Did you advise that person to take the job? - Yes, Doris Kearns Goodwin, who told him, “Whether this project is a success or a failure, you will be glad to have spent a few years with Lincoln.” Did you apologize for spitting on the carpet of your posh future father-in-law’s carpet? - Shabby, Ken Shabby, in a _Monty Python_ sketch DQ: Lead character? IQs: Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in the movie _Breaker Morant_? Did you end up marrying the title character in Jane Austen’s _Emma_? Have you played, among other roles, a duchess, a codebreaker, an intelligence analyst, a governor’s daughter and a bounty hunter? ---
**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, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/82 "2025-09-08T01:22:27Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > 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_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Ed Koch. 3. Take a DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in the movie _Breaker Morant_? > Did you end up marrying the title character in Jane Austen’s _Emma_? > Have you played, among other roles, a duchess, a codebreaker, an intelligence analyst, a governor’s daughter and a bounty hunter? Respectively: I am not Lord Kitchener. I am not Mr. Knightley. I am not Keira Knightley. DQs: 1. fictional 2. not from a novel 3. female 4. American creators 5. first appeared after 1945 6. side character ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/83 "2025-09-08T01:46:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the lead female character in _Animal House_? 2. Were you a regular on _Will & Grace_? 3. Did you appear in the music video “Happy Idiot” by TV On the Radio? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/84 "2025-09-08T01:51:09Z")
> [@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**? Keesha, Kaliko and Kristy McNichol. DQs: 1. Caucasian? 2. From a movie? 3. From a genre? ---
**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, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/85 "2025-09-08T01:57:20Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 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_? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Ed Koch. > 3. Take a DQ. #1 was Jill Kinmont. Correct on #2. #3 was Karla Devito. DQs: 1. First name begins with K? 2. First appeared after 1985? ---
**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, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/86 "2025-09-08T01:58:42Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the lead female character in _Animal House_? > 2. Were you a regular on _Will & Grace_? > 3. Did you appear in the music video “Happy Idiot” by TV On the Radio? 1. I am not Karen Allen. 2. I am not Karen. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. fictional 2. not from a novel 3. female 4. American creators 5. first appeared after 1945 6. side character 7. Caucasian, sort of 8. not from a movie 9. from a genre 10. last name begins with K 11. first appeared after 1985 ---
**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 8, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/87 "2025-09-08T14:24:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@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. #1 was Kennedy. #2 is correct. #3 was Kratos. DQs: 1. Cartoon or comic book character? 2. First appeared after 2010? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/88 "2025-09-08T16:44:21Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you play the lead female character in _Animal House_? > > 2. Were you a regular on _Will & Grace_? > > 3. Did you appear in the music video “Happy Idiot” by TV On the Radio? > > 1. I am not Karen Allen. > 2. I am not Karen. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct Correct (Karen Walker) Karen Gillan (Amy Pond, _Dr Who_) Karen x3! 1 DQ reserved ---
**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, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/89 "2025-09-08T17:10:30Z")
Swept me! IQs: Are you the Ohio Senate minority leader? Did you illustrate Melville’s _Moby-Dick_ with black and white woodblock prints? Did you, for one, welcome our new insect overlords? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/90 "2025-09-08T17:59:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you, along with H. G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sign a declaration accusing Germany of brutally invading Belgium during WWI? 2. Was your father the first African-American to be granted tenure at Stanford University’s economics department? 3. Was your burial kept secret, as per ancient customs of your people, even from your royal successors? ---
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/91 "2025-09-08T18:04:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the Ohio Senate minority leader? > Did you illustrate Melville’s _Moby-Dick_ with black and white woodblock prints? > Did you, for one, welcome our new insect overlords? Respectively: Take a DQ. Take a DQ. I am not Kent Brockman. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you, along with H. G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sign a declaration accusing Germany of brutally invading Belgium during WWI? > 2. Was your father the first African-American to be granted tenure at Stanford University’s economics department? > 3. Was your burial kept secret, as per ancient customs of your people, even from your royal successors? 1. I am not Rudyard Kipling. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Gengis Khan? DQs: 1. fictional 2. not from a novel 4. female 5. American creators 6. first appeared after 1945 7. side character 8. Caucasian, sort of 9. not from a movie 10. from a genre 11. last name begins with K 12. first appeared after 1985 13. cartoon or comic book character 14. first appeared before 2010 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/92 "2025-09-08T18:19:57Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you, along with H. G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sign a declaration accusing Germany of brutally invading Belgium during WWI? > > 2. Was your father the first African-American to be granted tenure at Stanford University’s economics department? > > 3. Was your burial kept secret, as per ancient customs of your people, even from your royal successors? > > 1. I am not Rudyard Kipling. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Gengis Khan? Correct Kamela Harris (hopefully no one has used this name) King Kamehameha I (Your answer of Genghis Khan is appropriate, but insofar as I know Khan personally requested his site be kept secret, while Kamehameha’s burial followed early Hawaiian customs) 3 DQs reserved (pending) ---
**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, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/93 "2025-09-08T18:39:14Z")
Nitpick: it’s “Kamala.” Previous IQs: Are you the Ohio Senate minority leader? - Kent Smith Did you illustrate Melville’s _Moby-Dick_ with black and white woodblock prints? - Rockwell Kent (and [they were amazing](https://kevernacular.com/?p=13454)) Did you, for one, welcome our new insect overlords? - Yes, Kent Brockman, on _The Simpsons_ Kent x3! DQs: American character? Married or has a steady boyfriend? IQs: Did you play Ted Baxter? Did Prof. Josiah Thompson of Haverford U. write an acclaimed bio of you? Were you a top US Navy admiral in WWII? ---
**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 8, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/94 "2025-09-08T20:24:57Z")
IQs: 1. Did you create _Dennis the Menace_? 2. Were you the Elegant Elephant of Oz? 3. Were you Premier of the Soviet Union in the 1970’s? ---
**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, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/95 "2025-09-08T22:44:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you play Ted Baxter? > Did Prof. Josiah Thompson of Haverford U. write an acclaimed bio of you? > Were you a top US Navy admiral in WWII? Respectively: I am not Ted Knight. Take a DQ. Take a DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you create _Dennis the Menace_? > 2. Were you the Elegant Elephant of Oz? > 3. Were you Premier of the Soviet Union in the 1970’s? 1. I am not Hank Ketcham. 2. I am not Kabumpo. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. fictional 2. not from a novel 4. female 5. American creators 6. first appeared after 1945 7. side character 8. Caucasian, sort of 9. not from a movie 10. from a genre 11. last name begins with K 12. first appeared after 1985 13. cartoon or comic book character 14. first appeared before 2010 15. American character 16. has been married, has had a steady boyfriend ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/96 "2025-09-09T00:15:20Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the head cheerleader at Bayside High? 2. Did you sing a massive hit in 1985 (and don’t it feel good?) 3. Were you a former secretary and new wife on _Dynasty_? ---
**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 9, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/97 "2025-09-09T00:25:39Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you create _Dennis the Menace_? > > 2. Were you the Elegant Elephant of Oz? > > 3. Were you Premier of the Soviet Union in the 1970’s? > > 1. I am not Hank Ketcham. > 2. I am not Kabumpo. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct, Correct, and Alexei Kosygin. lDQ: From comic books? ---
**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 9, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/98 "2025-09-09T00:30:23Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the head cheerleader at Bayside High? > 2. Did you sing a massive hit in 1985 (and don’t it feel good?) > 3. Were you a former secretary and new wife on _Dynasty_? 1. I am not Kelly Kapowski. 2. Take a DQ. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. fictional 2. not from a novel 4. female 5. American creators 6. first appeared after 1945 7. side character 8. Caucasian, sort of 9. not from a movie 10. from a genre 11. last name begins with K 12. first appeared after 1985 13. cartoon or comic book character 14. first appeared before 2010 15. American character 16. has been married, has had a steady boyfriend 17. not originally from comic books/comic strips ---
**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 9, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/99 "2025-09-09T03:44:21Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play Ted Baxter? - Yes, Ted Knight Did Prof. Josiah Thompson of Haverford U. write an acclaimed bio of you? - Soren Kierkegaard Were you a top US Navy admiral in WWII? - Ernest J. King DQs: Considered a beauty? From sf or fantasy? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/100 "2025-09-09T05:09:03Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the head cheerleader at Bayside High? > > 2. Did you sing a massive hit in 1985 (and don’t it feel good?) > > 3. Were you a former secretary and new wife on _Dynasty_? > > 1. I am not Kelly Kapowski. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct on #1. #2 was Katrina Leskanich, lead singer of Katrina and the Waves. #3 was Krystle Carrington. 2 DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=6)