# 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:** 3
**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, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/41 "2025-12-05T18:09:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not George Wallace. > Take 2 DQs. 2 was Rose Walker, in the _Sandman_ storyline “The Doll’s House”; 3 was Shelley Winters. This is the version of the Winters audition anecdote Wings Hauser told, when accepting the Psychotronic Award for best performance. Two DQs reserved. also, a correction; the actress who appropriately enough appeared in _Back to the Future_ was CLAUDIA Wells, not Jennifer. We regret the error. ---
**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, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/42 "2025-12-05T19:33:49Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Batman’s dad? - Yes, Thomas Wayne Were you the sometimes-annoying son of a doctor on TV? - Wesley Crusher, on _ST:TNG_ Did you play him? - Wil Wheaton I think I know who this is, so I’ll burn a DQ. DQ: Are you Wimpy, Popeye’s hamburger-loving pal? Three 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, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/43 "2025-12-05T19:52:37Z")
I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Take it away, **EH!** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/44 "2025-12-06T15:21:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 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. Wilt Chamberlain Walter White (_Breaking Bad_) Correct And congrats to **E\_H**! ---
**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 7, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/45 "2025-12-07T03:16:45Z")
Thanks! That was a good one, **Prof. P.** I vaguely remember those old cartoons. There’s even a restaurant chain: [Wimpy (restaurant) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimpy_(restaurant)) Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #138 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/138) Our next letter is # X ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/46 "2025-12-07T04:05:59Z")
X it is! IQs: 1. Were you a central character in the play _The Persians_ by Greek writer Aeschylus? 2. Are you listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics by _BusinessWeek_? 3. In 1985 did you spend several nights in a modest house in Muscatine, IA, as part of an international agricultural delegation? ---
**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 7, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/47 "2025-12-07T04:22:55Z")
IQs: 1. Fittingly, does your first name mean “lover of the strange”? 2. Do you get an ironic mention in Tom Lehrer’s intro to “National Brotherhood Week”? 3. Does the book’s title refer to your disposition and occupation? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/48 "2025-12-07T04:32:43Z")
On to X! IQs: 1. Were you the wife of Socrates? 2. Were you the author of _The Anabasis_? 3. Did you license the Cabbage Patch Kids to Coleco? ---
**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 7, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/49 "2025-12-07T18:21:02Z")
IQs 1. Are you the leader of China? 2. Were you a major silent movie star? 3. Did you write _The Happy Hooker_? ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/50 "2025-12-08T04:42:12Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a central character in the play _The Persians_ by Greek writer Aeschylus? > 2. Are you listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics by _BusinessWeek_? > 3. In 1985 did you spend several nights in a modest house in Muscatine, IA, as part of an international agricultural delegation? Not Xerxes, Prof. Charles Xavier or Deng Xiaoping. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Fittingly, does your first name mean “lover of the strange”? > 2. Do you get an ironic mention in Tom Lehrer’s intro to “National Brotherhood Week”? > 3. Does the book’s title refer to your disposition and occupation? Not Xenophilius (sp?) Lovegood, dunno and dunno. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the wife of Socrates? > 2. Were you the author of _The Anabasis_? > 3. Did you license the Cabbage Patch Kids to Coleco? Not the supposedly-shrewish Xanthippe, dunno and dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Are you the leader of China? > 2. Were you a major silent movie star? > 3. Did you write _The Happy Hooker_? Not Xi, dunno and not Xaviera Hollander (sp?). ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/51 "2025-12-08T04:45:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a central character in the play _The Persians_ by Greek writer Aeschylus? > > 2. Are you listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics by _BusinessWeek_? > > 3. In 1985 did you spend several nights in a modest house in Muscatine, IA, as part of an international agricultural delegation? > > Not Xerxes, Prof. Charles Xavier or Deng Xiaoping. Correct Correct Xi Jinping 1 DQ reserved ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/52 "2025-12-08T04:46:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Xenophilius (sp?) Lovegood, dunno and dunno. 2 was Malcolm X; 3 was Xaviera Hollander. DQs: 1. real? 2. first name starts with X? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/53 "2025-12-08T04:49:47Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a forward for the Seattle Supersonics? 2. Are you a receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs? 3. Are you a receiver for the Carolina Panthers? ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/54 "2025-12-08T04:52:53Z")
Not Xiao, not Xiao, and not Xiao. X. 1. real 2. only name starts with X ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/55 "2025-12-08T07:08:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the wife of Socrates? > > 2. Were you the author of _The Anabasis_? > > 3. Did you license the Cabbage Patch Kids to Coleco? > > Not the supposedly-shrewish Xanthippe, dunno and dunno. Correct on #1. Xenophon. Xavier Roberts. DQs: Male? Living? ---
**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 8, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/56 "2025-12-08T14:52:43Z")
IQs: 1. Did you wield a chakram? 2. Were you a character in the Schoolhouse Rock song about pronouns? 3. As quoted on the back of my _Bartlett’s_, “Yellow cat, black cat–as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat”? ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/57 "2025-12-08T16:42:57Z")
Dunno, not Xavier and still not Deng Xiaoping. X. 1. real 2. only name starts with X 3. male 4. dead ---
**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 8, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/58 "2025-12-08T17:12:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Xavier and still not Deng Xiaoping. Respectively: 1 (chakram) was Xena, warrior princess; close enough on Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla; 3 was correct. DQ: died before 1800? ---
**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 8, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/59 "2025-12-08T18:45:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs > > > > 1. Are you the leader of China? > > 2. Were you a major silent movie star? > > 3. Did you write _The Happy Hooker_? > > Not Xi, dunno and not Xaviera Hollander (sp?). Correct, Francis X. Bushman, correct. DQ: Known for military/politics? ---
**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 8, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/60 "2025-12-08T19:17:28Z")
X. 1. real 2. only name starts with X 3. male 4. dead 5. died after 1800 6. known for military/politics [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303.md?page=4)