Botticelli - April 2024

Thread Games
261

IQs:
1. Did you write My Brilliant Friend?
2. Were you a clerk at a Swiss patent office, relatively speaking?
3. Were you previously voiced and played by Kevin Clash?

262

I somehow always thought Jimmy Crack corn was much older. Maybe I confused it with John Barleycorn.

IQs:

  1. Did you write, among other books, Half-Magic?
  2. Are you Queen Selenay’d daughter in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books?
  3. Are you the character referred to in the title of Honor Raconteur’s book Magic and the Shinigami Detective, which is the first book in the Case Files of Heni Davenforth series?
263

Dunno, not Einstein and dunno.

Dunno x3.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. first name starts with E
  3. male
  4. created since 1950
  5. created by Americans
  6. not main character
  7. character is American, as far as we know
  8. from prose
  9. first name does not start with ED

I believe I could have truthfully answered the question “Created by an American?” with a “No,” since more than one writer was involved, but thought that would be misleading.

The character is “from prose” as defined here: Prose - Wikipedia

264

Edward Eager, Elspeth, Jamie Edwards.

DQ:
Caucasian?

2 DQs held.

IQs:

  1. Did you write, among other books, Spiderweb for Two?
  2. Did Rachel Weisz play you in 1999’s The Mummy?
  3. Are you “of Melniboné”?
265

Not E.B. White, Eliza or Elric.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. first name starts with E
  3. male
  4. created since 1950
  5. created by Americans
  6. not main character
  7. character is American, as far as we know
  8. from prose
  9. first name does not start with ED
  10. Caucasian
266

1 was Elena Ferrante; 3 was Elmo, on Sesame Street.

DQs:
1. from a novel?
2. created after 1980?

267

DQ: Antagonist?

1 DQ reserved.

268

IQs:

  1. Do you and your comic foil share names (coincidentally) with a pair of characters from It’s A Wonderful Life?
  2. Were you a character played by comedian Jim Varney?
  3. Are you Great Britain’s first ever competitor in Olympic ski jumping?
269

Elizabeth Enright, Evelyn Carnahan, correct.

DQ:

  1. Appears in more than one work?
  2. Common first name?

2 DQs reserved.

270

IQs:
1. Is a New Jersey turnpike rest stop named after you?
2. Were you the unusually-eyed member of Bill Cipher’s extra-dimensional Henchmaniacs in Gravity Falls?
3. Are you Mary-Kate and Ashley’s younger sister?

271

Not Ernie (or Bert), not Ernest (or Vern), and not Eddie the Eagle.

Not Albert Einstein, dunno, and not Elizabeth Olsen.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. first name starts with E
  3. male
  4. created since 1950
  5. created by Americans
  6. not main character
  7. character is American, as far as we know
  8. from prose
  9. first name does not start with ED
  10. Caucasian
  11. not from a novel
  12. created before 1980
  13. not an antagonist
  14. only appears in one work, as far as I know
  15. not a particularly common first name
272

1 was Thomas Edison; 2 was Eight Ball.

DQs:
1. from a short story?
2. created after 1965?

273

DQ: From genre fiction (mystery, science fiction, western, fantasy, &c.)?

274

E.

  1. fictional
  2. first name starts with E
  3. male
  4. created since 1950
  5. created by Americans
  6. not main character
  7. character is American, as far as we know
  8. from prose
  9. first name does not start with ED
  10. Caucasian
  11. not from a novel
  12. created before 1980
  13. not an antagonist
  14. only appears in one work, as far as I know
  15. not a particularly common first name
  16. not from a short story
  17. created after 1965
  18. not from genre fiction (mystery, science fiction, western, fantasy, &c.)

I’ll take the next set of three IQs, then no more, unless at least two DQs aren’t earned.

275

IQs:

  1. Were you a cousin of Nathaniel Banks who invented the sewing machine?
  2. Did your 1979 disappearance spark a moral panic about Dungeons & Dragons?
  3. Did you write an advice column under the pen name “Ann Landers”?
276

DQ:

Work has won a major award?

One DQ reserved

277

Not E. Singer, dunno and dunno.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. first name starts with E
  3. male
  4. created since 1950
  5. created by Americans
  6. not main character
  7. character is American, as far as we know
  8. from prose
  9. first name does not start with ED
  10. Caucasian
  11. not from a novel
  12. created before 1980
  13. not an antagonist
  14. only appears in one work, as far as I know
  15. not a particularly common first name
  16. not from a short story
  17. created after 1965
  18. not from genre fiction (mystery, science fiction, western, fantasy, &c.)
  19. work has had significant recognition, but has not won a major award
    19a. from a movie

Since, despite the definition of “prose” earlier provided, I don’t want people barking up the wrong tree.

No more IQs, please. Ask all earned DQs by noon EDST tomorrow.

278

Elias Howe, James Dallas Egbert III, and Eppie Lederer.

DQs:

  1. From a musical or comedy movie?
  2. First name starts with Ea-Em?
  3. Created after 1972?
279

E.

  1. fictional
  2. first name starts with E
  3. male
  4. created since 1950
  5. created by Americans
  6. not main character
  7. character is American, as far as we know
  8. from prose
  9. first name does not start with ED
  10. Caucasian
  11. not from a novel
  12. created before 1980
  13. not an antagonist
  14. only appears in one work, as far as I know
  15. not a particularly common first name
  16. not from a short story
  17. created after 1965
  18. not from genre fiction (mystery, science fiction, western, fantasy, &c.)
  19. work has had significant recognition, but has not won a major award
    19a. from a movie
  20. from a musical or comedy movie
  21. first name starts with Ea-Em
  22. created after 1972
280

Final DQ:

  1. Last name starts with A-M?