# 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:** 6
**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 13, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/101 "2025-12-13T23:28:48Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the Hick from French Lick? > 2. Are you the boss of Samantha Stephen’s husband? > 3. Are you the mother of Biff and Happy? 1. I am not Larry Bird. 2. I am not Larry Talbot. 3. Take a DQ. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the White House Press Secretary? > 2. Are you a right-wing provocateur who once chained herself to the door of a Twitter office? > 3. Did you once offer psychiatric help for the low, low price of a nickel? 1. I am not Karoline Leavitt. 2. I am not Lauren Boebert. 3. I am not Lucy van Pelt. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. According to a song in _Sunday in the Park with George_, does everybody love you? > 2. Did you have an affair with your boss, who happened to be president of the US? > 3. In a comedy, does your character climb the side of a department store building as a publicity stunt, planning to switch places with his acrobatic friend after the first floor—except the friend keeps getting delayed, so you keep climbing, higher and higher, all the way to the top, leading to the iconic image you’re best known for? Take 2 DQs. 3. I am not Harold Lloyd. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/102 "2025-12-13T23:43:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > Qs: > > > > 1. Are you the White House Press Secretary? > > 2. Are you a right-wing provocateur who once chained herself to the door of a Twitter office? > > 3. Did you once offer psychiatric help for the low, low price of a nickel? > > 1. I am not Karoline Leavitt. > 2. I am not Lauren Boebert. > 3. I am not Lucy van Pelt. Correct on #1 and #3. The right-wing provocateur I was thinking of was Laura Loomer rather than Boebert, but if you can show that Boebert pulled that stunt as well, I’ll surrender the DQ. Until then: DQ: Known for a team sport? ---
**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 14, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/103 "2025-12-14T00:09:29Z")
**DQs** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with L 4. No obvious Christmas connection 5. Born after 1950 6. Alive 7. Not known for the Arts 8. American 9. Born after 1980 10. Known for sports 11. Caucasian 12. Not known for a team sport ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/104 "2025-12-14T02:38:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Are you the Hick from French Lick? > > 2. Are you the boss of Samantha Stephen’s husband? > > 3. Are you the mother of Biff and Happy? > > 1. I am not Larry Bird. > 2. I am not Larry Talbot. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct Larry Tate (_Bewitched_) Linda Loman (_Death of a Salesman_) DQs: Known for physically active sports? Has competed in Olympics? 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 14, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/105 "2025-12-14T02:55:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 2 DQs. > 3. I am not Harold Lloyd. 1 (song from _Sunday in the Park with George_) is Louis; 2 (affair with the president of the US) is Monica Lewinsky. DQ: first name begins from A-M? ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/106 "2025-12-14T03:17:14Z")
**DQs** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with L 4. No obvious Christmas connection 5. Born after 1950 6. Alive 7. Not known for the Arts 8. American 9. Born after 1980 10. Known for sports 11. Caucasian 12. Not known for a team sport 13. Known for a physically active sport 14. Has competed in the Olympics 15. First name begins with N - Z ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/107 "2025-12-14T04:51:30Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the main character of **Dragonflight**? 2. Are you Charmian Carr’s best-known role? 3. Did you win, among other awards, the coveted Silver Sow award? ---
**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 14, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/108 "2025-12-14T04:56:54Z")
IQs: 1. Did you lay down a hipster-beatnik version of _A Christmas Carol_ in 1960, man? 2. Do your songs include “Abracadabra” and the racy “Christmas Tree”? 3. Is your autobiography _“WE”_, referring to you and your airplane? ---
**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 14, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/109 "2025-12-14T05:16:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Qs: > > > > Did you hang around the house barefoot sometimes, as you said, to let your feet “breathe”? > > Were you his more prim, proper and disapproving wife? > > Were you their eldest son, and their only child to live into old age? > > 1. I am not Abraham Lincoln. > 2. I am not Mary Todd Lincoln. > 3. I am not Robert Todd Lincoln. Swept me! IQs: Did you shoot Holden during an interview in LA? Did Johnny say you were “getting larrrrrrrger”? Were you a prominent Watergate prosecutor? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/110 "2025-12-14T16:04:28Z")
IQs: 1. Is your last name Tremblechin? 2. Do you have friends named Annie and Tubby? 3. Are you a human child who resembles a rodent? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/111 "2025-12-14T16:20:56Z")
IQs: 1. Did you score a hat trick in a World Cup final against Japan? 2. Did you hold up a boom box in front of the house of the girl you were in love with? 3. Did you become Minister of Munitions in an effort to increase British artillery shell production? ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/112 "2025-12-15T02:18:10Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the main character of **Dragonflight**? > 2. Are you Charmian Carr’s best-known role? > 3. Did you win, among other awards, the coveted Silver Sow award? 1. I am not Les Nessman. Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you lay down a hipster-beatnik version of _A Christmas Carol_ in 1960, man? > 2. Do your songs include “Abracadabra” and the racy “Christmas Tree”? > 3. Is your autobiography _“WE”_, referring to you and your airplane? 1. I am not Lady Gaga. Take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you shoot Holden during an interview in LA? > Did Johnny say you were “getting larrrrrrrger”? > Were you a prominent Watergate prosecutor? 2 and 3 escape me at the moment. Take 3 DQs. [quote=“knoodler, post:110, topic:1025303”] IQs: 1. Is your last name Tremblechin? 2. Do you have friends named Annie and Tubby? 3. Are you a human child who resembles a rodent? 4. I am not Stuart Little. Take 2 DQs. > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you score a hat trick in a World Cup final against Japan? > 2. Did you hold up a boom box in front of the house of the girl you were in love with? > 3. Did you become Minister of Munitions in an effort to increase British artillery shell production? Take 3 DQs. And that will definitely put us over 20 DQs. No more IQs, and please ask all outstanding DQs by 10pm EST tomorrow. Happy Hanukkah! ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/113 "2025-12-15T02:34:35Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the main character of **Dragonflight**? > 2. Are you Charmian Carr’s best-known role? > 3. Did you win, among other awards, the coveted Silver Sow award? Lessa, Liesl von Trapp, correct. DQ: 1. Known for a Winter Sport? 2. Has won an Olympic medal? One 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 15, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/114 "2025-12-15T02:51:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Lady Gaga. Take 2 DQs. 1 (hipster _Christmas Carol_) was Lord Buckley; 3 (airplane) was Charles Lindbergh. 2 DQs reserved. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Happy Hanukkah! Went to my mother’s for latkes tonight, with sour cream and applesauce. I think we should add tzatziki next year. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/115 "2025-12-15T02:58:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you score a hat trick in a World Cup final against Japan? > > 2. Did you hold up a boom box in front of the house of the girl you were in love with? > > 3. Did you become Minister of Munitions in an effort to increase British artillery shell production? > > Take 3 DQs. #1 was Carli Lloyd. #2 was Lloyd Dobler from _Say Anything_. #3 was British politician (and eventual PM) David Lloyd George. Lloyd x3 ! 3 DQs 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:** [December 15, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/116 "2025-12-15T04:54:07Z")
Previous IQs: Did you shoot Holden during an interview in LA? - Leon, in the opening scene of _Blade Runner_ Did Johnny say you were “getting larrrrrrrger”? - [Leon, in _Airplane!_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9vggKd9VPs) Were you a prominent Watergate prosecutor? - Leon Jaworski Leon x3! DQ: Sport involves a ball? I yield my other two DQs to anyone who’d like to ask 'em, one per customer. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/117 "2025-12-15T06:16:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Is your last name Tremblechin? > - Do you have friends named Annie and Tubby? > - Are you a human child who resembles a rodent? > - I am not Stuart Little. Take 2 DQs. Little Iodine Little Lulu Correct Little x3! DQs: Competed in track and field? Won an Olympic medal? 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:** [December 15, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/118 "2025-12-15T16:04:00Z")
**DQs** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with L 4. No obvious Christmas connection 5. Born after 1950 6. Alive 7. Not known for the Arts 8. American 9. Born after 1980 10. Known for sports 11. Caucasian 12. Not known for a team sport 13. Known for a physically active sport 14. Has competed in the Olympics 15. First name begins with N - Z 16. Known for a Winter Sport 17. Has won an Olympic Medal 18. Sport does not involve a ball 19. Did not compete in track and field **knoodler** , **kitap** already guessed the Olympic medal. Take another try. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/119 "2025-12-15T16:53:27Z")
DQ: Known for a sport involving skiing or sledding? 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:** [December 15, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303/120 "2025-12-15T17:17:49Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:118, topic:1025303”] **DQs** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with L 4. No obvious Christmas connection 5. Born after 1950 6. Alive 7. Not known for the Arts 8. American 9. Born after 1980 10. Known for sports 11. Caucasian 12. Not known for a team sport 13. Known for a physically active sport 14. Has competed in the Olympics 15. First name begins with N - Z 16. Known for a Winter Sport 17. Has won an Olympic Medal 18. Sport does not involve a ball 19. Did not compete in track and field 20. Not known for skiing or sledding [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticellii-dec-2025/1025303.md?page=7)