DQ: Cartoon character (from an advertisement, comic book, comic strip, etc.)?
M
DQs:
- Fictional
- Last name starts with M
- Male
- Not created by an American or Americans
- Not originally from a work of prose
- Could be alive today, if real
- Not an American character
- Not originally from a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
- Created after 1922
- Created by Europeans
- Not originally from a song
- European character
- Considered a good guy 83% of the time, but definitely not the for the remainder
- Created before 1972
- Not originally from a play
- Presumably British
- Part of an equally weighted ensemble
- Not best known for genre fiction
- White
- First appeared after 1947 - it’s possible the creator created him before 1947
- Not a cartoon character (from an advertisement, comic book, comic strip, etc.)
Think think think….
Final DQ: first appeared in a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.) after 1970?
M
DQs:
- Fictional
- Last name starts with M
- Male
- Not created by an American or Americans
- Not originally from a work of prose
- Could be alive today, if real
- Not an American character
- Not originally from a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
- Created after 1922
- Created by Europeans
- Not originally from a song
- European character
- Considered a good guy 83% of the time, but definitely not the for the remainder
- Created before 1972
- Not originally from a play
- Presumably British
- Part of an equally weighted ensemble
- Not best known for genre fiction
- White
- First appeared after 1947 - it’s possible the creator created him before 1947
- Not a cartoon character (from an advertisement, comic book, comic strip, etc.)
I need to make sure I parse this sentence correctly and accurately.
“First appeared in a filmed” “after 1970”. #8 already states I did not originate from filmed works.
If I parse it as “I originated in a non-film medium, but I have appeared in a filmed dramatic work, and the first time that happened was after 1970”, then the answer is Yes.
- Originated in a non-film medium, but I have appeared in a filmed dramatic work, and the first time that happened was after 1970
Yeah, like that. I guessed that the character originated somewhere we haven’t covered, but only realized now I should have been asking about the appearances in other media.
Well, he’s not from Cats…
I believe that is all the DQs. Please submit your (Firstname Lastname) guesses by 9:00 pm PST Monday 3/28.
British, circa 1948-1971, possibly from a poem or poems, made into a movie.
The character is revealed as a traitor/villain/bad person at the end.
Huh.
For the record, I never said that. That was thread chatter.
In #13 I did not indicate a temporal relationship between the state of being considered good and being considered bad. I merely indicated the percentage or fraction of time in each state.
With some precision, too! 
Actually I rounded. Better precision would be considered good 83.333% (don’t know how to type a vinculum) and bad 16.666% of the time.
Which implies that this is something with six parts.
Six or a billion, I’m still stumped.
I was hoping my extra hints would work.
I am Colonel Mustard from the board game Clue/Cluedo
With a truly random shuffle of the cards, I have a 1/6 chance of being the murderer and a 5/6 chance of being a good guy.
I was played by Martin Mull in the 1985 film.
The game was first published in 1949, but the creator applied for a patent in 1947, which is why I waffled on the answer to #20.
Good one! I shoulda gotten that one; I was Prof. Plum in this game before.
Of course! It’s all so obvious in retrospect.
Next up…
D
IQs:
- Do you have a weekly podcast (and formerly a long-running radio show) highlighting novelty songs?
- Did you team up with Peter Cook for decades?
- Were you one the founders and main contributors to the Encyclopédie?
IQs:
1. Were you William Randolph Hearst’s mistress?
2. Were you, in fact, W. Mark Felt?
3. Were you a voiceover actor noted for narrating movie trailers?