Botticelli - April 2017

Thread Games
241

Manfred Frhr v Richthofen.
Correct.
Metacomet.
IQ1: Were you a secret agent whose code name was Eric?
IQ2: Were you #1’s boss?
IQ3: Did you play #1 in a quartet of rather dreadful movies?

242

IQs:

  1. Did Tommy Kirk play you opposite Annette Funicello in a Disney live action movie?
  2. Is there never a cat so clever as you?
  3. Did your band have a hit with Abracadabra?
243

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1900
  4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. Last name starts with M
  6. Created after 1960
  7. Created by an American or Americans
  8. From a work of Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy
244

3 DQs for you

245

DQ, not Morris, not Steve Miller

246

Matt Helm.
Mac.
Dean Martin.
DQ1: First appeared after 2000?
DQ2: Would (or could) be alive today, if real?
DQ3: Protagonist?
Two DQs reserved.

247
  1. Merlin Jones in The Misadventures of Merlin Jones.
  2. Morris was Finicky. To quote T. S. Eliot: "And we all say
    “Oh, well I never, was there ever
    A cat so clever as magical
    Mr. Mistoffelees”
  3. Correct.

2 DQs reserved.

248

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1900
  4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. Last name starts with M
  6. Created after 1960
  7. Created by an American or Americans
  8. From a work of Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy
  9. First appeared before 2000
  10. Would (or could) be alive today, if real
  11. Not the Protagonist
249

DQs:

  1. From a work of Horror?
  2. Created before 1980?
250

IQs:

  1. In Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House, are you the scientist who is there in search of the supernatural?
  2. Did you attend your college, Wossamotta U. on a football scholarship?
  3. Were you married to the Comte de la Fere?
251

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1900
  4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. Last name starts with M
  6. Created after 1960
  7. Created by an American or Americans
  8. From a work of Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy
  9. First appeared before 2000
  10. Would (or could) be alive today, if real
  11. Not the Protagonist
  12. Not from a work of Horror
  13. Created before 1980
252

DQ, not Bullwinkle J. Moose, not Madame Bovary(?)

253

#1 was Dr. John Montague.
Correct on Bullwinkle.
#3 was Milady de Winter. The Comte de la Fere was better known as Athos, of the Three Musketeers.

DQs:

  1. From a work of Science Fiction?
  2. Human?
254

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1900
  4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. Last name starts with M
  6. Created after 1960
  7. Created by an American or Americans
  8. From a work of Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy
  9. First appeared before 2000
  10. Would (or could) be alive today, if real
  11. Not the Protagonist
  12. Not from a work of Horror
  13. Created before 1980
  14. Not from a work of Science Fiction
  15. Human

to clarify #10: The mystery guest did not die in the story, and it took place in a fictional time

255

So, from a Fantasy story of the 60’s or 70’s, set in a fictional time.

IQs:

  1. Did you accompany Schmendrick and the Last Unicorn?
  2. Are you a bored little boy who receives a Phantom Tollbooth?
  3. Are you a boy who’s a smart sport in A Wrinkle In Time?
256

I haven’t read WiT since grade school. Take 3 DQs.

257

#1 was Molly Grue. #2 is Milo. #3 is Charles Wallace Murry.

3 DQs reserved.

258

IQ1: Was your patron Sheelba of the Eyeless Face?
IQ2: Were you a Pictish king created by Robert E Howard?
DQ1: Appeared in more than one book?
DQ2: Adapted to film or television?

259

DQ: Villain?

2 DQs reserved.

260

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1900
  4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. Last name starts with M
  6. Created after 1960
  7. Created by an American or Americans
  8. From a work of Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy
  9. First appeared before 2000
  10. Would (or could) be alive today, if real
  11. Not the Protagonist
  12. Not from a work of Horror
  13. Created before 1980
  14. Not from a work of Science Fiction
  15. Human
  16. Has not appeared in more than one book
  17. Adapted to film or television
  18. Not a villain