# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/141 "2025-09-12T16:36:52Z")
DQ: Corporate HQ in Pacific Time zone? 2 DQs 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 12, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/142 "2025-09-12T16:53:23Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with J 4. American 5. Born before 1950 6. Dead 7. Not known for the Arts 8. Not known for politics 9. Died before 2000 10. Known for business or industry 11. Known in connection with a company 12. Born before 1900 13. Company bears my name 14. Company still in existence 15. Last name begins with N-Z 16. Born after 1850 17. Best known as retail stores, but many of their items are manufactured specifically for them 18. On the Fortune 500 list 19. Corporate HQ west of the Mississippi River 20. Corporate HQ south of the Mason-Dixon Line 21. Corporate HQ not in Pacific Time zone ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/143 "2025-09-12T16:59:03Z")
DQ: Corporate HQ in Central Time zone? 1 DQ 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 12, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/144 "2025-09-12T17:00:10Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with J 4. American 5. Born before 1950 6. Dead 7. Not known for the Arts 8. Not known for politics 9. Died before 2000 10. Known for business or industry 11. Known in connection with a company 12. Born before 1900 13. Company bears my name 14. Company still in existence 15. Last name begins with N-Z 16. Born after 1850 17. Best known as retail stores, but many of their items are manufactured specifically for them 18. On the Fortune 500 list 19. Corporate HQ west of the Mississippi River 20. Corporate HQ south of the Mason-Dixon Line 21. Corporate HQ not in Pacific Time zone 22. Corporate HQ in Central Time Zone ---
**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 13, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/145 "2025-09-13T00:01:05Z")
Okay. No more DQs, and please ask all final “Are you FirstName LastName?” questions by 8pm EDT tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/146 "2025-09-13T06:32:32Z")
Are you James Cash Penney? ---
**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 13, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/147 "2025-09-13T13:41:02Z")
Excellent work, **knoodler!** Yes, I am the perpetually dour-faced # J. C. Penney. [![](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/2161023529/photo/american-businessman-and-entrepreneur-james-cash-penney-wearing-a-blazer-over-a-shirt-with-a.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=WEXuj8PKBhZaUjo-ZwnynY1Tp197JBH4VfcfWs-w1JI=) ](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/2161023529/photo/american-businessman-and-entrepreneur-james-cash-penney-wearing-a-blazer-over-a-shirt-with-a.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=WEXuj8PKBhZaUjo-ZwnynY1Tp197JBH4VfcfWs-w1JI=) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/148 "2025-09-13T13:47:59Z")
Thanks **Prof**! I worked in the Boys Clothing department at JC Penney while in high school. Our next letter: **H** ---
**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 13, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/149 "2025-09-13T13:52:54Z")
IQs: 1. Were you frequently found to be in the company of the delightful Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, teeth-gnashing, underwater racing, electrothermal 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Goon Show_? 2. Did Erik Weisz swipe his stage performer name from you? 3. Were you “a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, who grew up to be a hero and a scholar?” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/150 "2025-09-13T14:04:47Z")
DQ I am not Harry Houdini DQ (Although I have heard that epithet, I can’t match the source.) ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/151 "2025-09-13T14:07:01Z")
IQ1: Are you now known as Shōwa? IQ2: Did a Des Moines columnist say that you would be tried by a jury of your peers (well, your financial inferiors and intellectual superiors – it would all balance out)? ID3: Were you accidentally killed in a fall whilst attempting to escape from a small Scottish town? ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/152 "2025-09-13T14:07:23Z")
#1 was Henry Crum. #2 was not Harry Houdini (who was Erik), but magician Jean-Eugene Houdin, whose name Erik swiped. #3 is the first line from the musical _Hamilton_. Alexander, that is. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with H? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/153 "2025-09-13T14:34:12Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you now known as Shōwa? > IQ2: Did a Des Moines columnist say that you would be tried by a jury of your peers (well, your financial inferiors and intellectual superiors – it would all balance out)? > ID3: Were you accidentally killed in a fall whilst attempting to escape from a small Scottish town? Take 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/154 "2025-09-13T14:36:17Z")
Hamilton! /slaps head **H** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with H ---
**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 13, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/155 "2025-09-13T19:05:26Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Are you now known as Shōwa? > > IQ2: Did a Des Moines columnist say that you would be tried by a jury of your peers (well, your financial inferiors and intellectual superiors – it would all balance out)? > > ID3: Were you accidentally killed in a fall whilst attempting to escape from a small Scottish town? > > Take 3 DQs Hirohito Patty Hearst Harry Beaton, in _Brigadoon_ DQ1: Living DQ2: Known for the Arts? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/156 "2025-09-13T19:33:22Z")
**H** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with H 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts ---
**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 13, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/157 "2025-09-13T20:40:06Z")
Congrats, Knoodler! IQs: 1. Do you play one of the titular group in _The Thursday Murder Club_? 2. Were you _very_ close to Clyde Tolson? 3. Did you also write _Go Set a Watchman_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/158 "2025-09-13T21:21:20Z")
Penney! Excellent get! IQs: 1. Have you played a burnout DJ, a high school teacher, and a small-time Chicago pimp? 2. Are you an aerospace engineer who always hangs out at his friends’ apartment? 3. Were you known as “The Christian General” during the Civil War? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/159 "2025-09-13T21:49:23Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Do you play one of the titular group in _The Thursday Murder Club_? > 2. Were you _very_ close to Clyde Tolson? > 3. Did you also write _Go Set a Watchman_? Take 3 DQs > [@SunUp](#): > > - Have you played a burnout DJ, a high school teacher, and a small-time Chicago pimp? > - Are you an aerospace engineer who always hangs out at his friends’ apartment? > - Were you known as “The Christian General” during the Civil War? DQ I am not Howard Wololwitz (sp?) DQ ---
**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 13, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694/160 "2025-09-13T21:52:32Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Take 3 DQs 1 was Helen Mirren; 2 was J. Edgar Hoover; 3 was Harper Lee. DQs: 1. American? 2. died after 1980? 3. last name begins from A-M? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2025/1022694.md?page=9)