# Botticellii -- Dec 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303 "2025-12-01T21:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/21 "2025-12-03T22:32:03Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the drummer in the White Stripes? > 2. Were you a Planeteer? > 3. Did you co-found Apple? 1 & 2. Take 2 DQs. 3. I am not Steve Wozniak. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/22 "2025-12-03T22:40:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1 & 2. Take 2 DQs. > 3. I am not Steve Wozniak. 1 was Meg White; 2 was Wheeler. DQs: 1. created after 1980? 2. from a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/23 "2025-12-04T03:03:17Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with W 4. Created after 1930 5. Supporting character 6. Created before 1980 7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/24 "2025-12-04T04:06:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you an NBA player nicknamed “Wally Who”? > > 2. Were you a large, black assassin played by Earl J Brown? > > 3. Did you and your husband live on 201 Cobblestone Lane? > > Take 3 DQs. Wally Walker Whisper (_Live and Let Die_) Wilma Flintstone DQs: Created after 1960? Has appeared in animation? 1 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/25 "2025-12-04T10:39:07Z")
1. Were you a classmate of Sophronia Temminick’s? 2. Were you the subject of the book **The Redeemed Captive?** 3. Were you the subject of the book **The Unredeemed Captive**? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/26 "2025-12-04T15:14:35Z")
IQs: 1. Appropriately enough, were you Jennifer in _Back to the Future_? 2. Did you invent a rotary engine? 3. According to Loki in _Dogma_, do you represent the Eastern religions, with your girth invoking Buddha and your tusks like those of Ganesha (i.e. Hinduism)? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/27 "2025-12-04T15:34:37Z")
DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/28 "2025-12-04T17:03:52Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:23, topic:1025303, full:true”] DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with W 4. Created after 1930 5. Supporting character 6. Created before 1980 7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since 8. Created before 1960 9. Has appeared in animation 10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/29 "2025-12-04T17:05:32Z")
**kitap** and **De\_La\_Rue** , both of you take 3 DQs each. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/30 "2025-12-04T17:20:10Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Appropriately enough, were you Jennifer in _Back to the Future_? > 2. Did you invent a rotary engine? > 3. According to Loki in _Dogma_, do you represent the Eastern religions, with your girth invoking Buddha and your tusks like those of Ganesha (i.e. Hinduism)? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > both of you take 3 DQs each 1 was Jennifer Wells; 2 was Felix Wankel; 3 was the Walrus. (The Carpenter, of course, represents the Western religions.) DQs: 1. originally from comic strips/books? 2. created after 1945? 3. created by American(s) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/31 "2025-12-04T20:26:18Z")
Previous IQs: Were you supposedly introduced by your Scottish nanny to your namesake on a Manhattan street? - Washington Irving, when he was still a wee babe in arms, to George Washington Were you, after 1950, one of the first elected mayors of a national capital? - Walter Washington of (you guessed it) Washington, D.C. Did you win the mayor’s post in a major American city despite racist campaign buttons appearing against you? - Harold Washington (he was the first Chicago mayor of color, and some racist idjits circulated buttons showing a watermelon with the international “No” circle around it) Washington x3! Three DQs reserved. IQs: Were you Harry Mudd’s alias when he first met Capt. James T. Kirk? Were you Haviland Tuf’s alias when he returned to Suthlam? Did you run against FDR in 1940? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/32 "2025-12-04T20:28:04Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the _Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia_? 2. Did Edward VIII abdicate for you? 3. “Follow the rainbow over the stream, Follow the fellow who follows a dream, Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the [redacted]” Weeeeeeeee’re…mentioning you, the person to be visited, in the next verse? (That is, your job/title, not your actual name.) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/33 "2025-12-05T01:07:46Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you a classmate of Sophronia Temminick’s? > 2. Were you the subject of the book **The Redeemed Captive?** > 3. Were you the subject of the book **The Unredeemed Captive**? Agatha Woosmoss, Reverend John Williams, his daughter Eunice Williams. 3 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:** [December 5, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/34 "2025-12-05T02:01:09Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with W 4. Created after 1930 5. Supporting character 6. Created before 1980 7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since 8. Created before 1960 9. Has appeared in animation 10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction 11. Originally from comic strips/books 12. Created before 1945 13. Created by an American ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/35 "2025-12-05T02:02:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Harry Mudd’s alias when he first met Capt. James T. Kirk? > Were you Haviland Tuf’s alias when he returned to Suthlam? > Did you run against FDR in 1940? 1. I am not Wendell L. Willkie. Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the _Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia_? > 2. Did Edward VIII abdicate for you? > 3. “Follow the rainbow over the stream, > Follow the fellow who follows a dream, > Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the [redacted]” 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Wallis Simpson. 3. I am not the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/36 "2025-12-05T05:35:43Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Harry Mudd’s alias when he first met Capt. James T. Kirk? - Leo Walsh Were you Haviland Tuf’s alias when he returned to Suthlam? - Weemowet (he dressed in the costume of a lion-worshipping humanoid culture, too, in _Tuf Voyaging_ by George R.R. Martin) Did you run against FDR in 1940? - Yes, Wendell Willkie DQs: American character? From superhero comics? A sidekick? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you Batman’s dad? Were you the sometimes-annoying son of a doctor on TV? Did you play him? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/37 "2025-12-05T15:31:26Z")
IQs: 1. Did you score 100 points in a professional basketball game? 2. Were you also known as “Heisenberg”? 3. Were you Clark Kent’s boss? ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/38 "2025-12-05T15:56:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. 1 (trivia encyclopedia) was Fred Worth. DQ: originally from comic strip? IQs: 1. Was Curtis LeMay your running mate? 2. Did you tell Gilbert that some of these cereal nuts were kind of cute? (Had you known what the “cereal convention” _actually_ was, you likely would’ve taken this back.) 3. (allegedly) Asked to audition for a role later in your career, did you arrive with an enormous carpet bag, and rummage in it looking for your headshot…then take out your Golden Globe…then rummage around some more…then take out your Emmy…then do some more rummaging…then, finally, take out your Oscar, and tell the producers “And you want me to audition”? ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/39 "2025-12-05T17:43:21Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with W 4. Created after 1930 5. Supporting character 6. Created before 1980 7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since 8. Created before 1960 9. Has appeared in animation 10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction 11. Originally from comic strips/books 12. Created before 1945 13. Created by an American 14/ American character 14. Not from superhero comics 15. Not so much a sidekick as a hanger-on 16. Originally from a comic strip ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/40 "2025-12-05T17:45:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Batman’s dad? > Were you the sometimes-annoying son of a doctor on TV? > Did you play him? 1. I am not Thomas Wayne. Take 2 DQs. > [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you score 100 points in a professional basketball game? > 2. Were you also known as “Heisenberg”? > 3. Were you Clark Kent’s boss? 1. I am not Perry White. Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was Curtis LeMay your running mate? > 2. Did you tell Gilbert that some of these cereal nuts were kind of cute? (Had you known what the “cereal convention” _actually_ was, you likely would’ve taken this back.) > 3. (allegedly) Asked to audition for a role later in your career, did you arrive with an enormous carpet bag, and rummage in it looking for your headshot…then take out your Golden Globe…then rummage around some more…then take out your Emmy…then do some more rummaging…then, finally, take out your Oscar, and tell the producers “And you want me to audition”? 1. I am not George Wallace. Take 2 DQs. And that puts us at over 20 DQs. No more IQs please. Please ask all outstanding DQs by 10pm EST tomorrow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303.md?page=3)