Botticelli - Aug 2026

P

1. fictional
2. only name starts with P
3. male
4. human
5. originally from prose
6. main character
7. created by American(s)
8. would probably not be alive today, if real
9. sorta kinda from fantasy or sci/fi genre
10. not created after 1960
11. considered a “good guy”
12. not an American character
13. not created before 1900
14. is married or in a romantic relationship
15. Caucasian
16. character is of British descent
17. created after 1930
18. not originally from a novel
19. originally from comics
20. character does not have enhanced or “super” abilities


@Elendil_s_Heir has two remaining DQs, and @De_La_Rue has one. Please ask remaining DQs by 2100 Eastern today ~ six and a half hours from now.

Final DQ: first appeared after 1945?

P

1. fictional
2. only name starts with P
3. male
4. human
5. originally from prose
6. main character
7. created by American(s)
8. would probably not be alive today, if real
9. sorta kinda from fantasy or sci/fi genre
10. not created after 1960
11. considered a “good guy”
12. not an American character
13. not created before 1900
14. is married or in a romantic relationship
15. Caucasian
16. character is of British descent
17. created after 1930
18. not originally from a novel
19. originally from comics
20. character does not have enhanced or “super” abilities
21. first appearance not after 1945


Waiting on EH . . . .

Time for “Firstname Lastname” DQs.
@kitap, @knoodler, @De_La_Rue, @Eureka, @Elendil_s_Heir, @SunUp


Fictional human male best known by a one-word name that starts with ‘P’.
Originally from American comics with a sorta-kinda fantasy or SF theme; a main character; made his first appearance 1931-1945.
Caucasian of British ancestry; educated in America (a point which I had meant to add to DQ12); married or in a romantic relationship. Would probably not be alive today, if real.
A “good guy” who does not have enhanced or “super” abilities.

I’ll take a swing at it.

Are you the Phantom?

Great guess.

Yes! I am “The Ghost Who Walks”: Kit Walker, the 21st Phantom!

An interesting choice (I did a little research this morning). Would not have figured out, am unsure whether I have heard of this Phantom before.

The movie with Billy Zane was fun.

Sorry, I’ve been off the grid since Saturday.

Previous IQs:

Did you play the title character’s doomed lover in Oppenheimer? - Florence Pugh
Did Sam Adams abuse your hospitality in a Robert Lawson book? - Yes, Paul Revere, in Mr. Revere and I, told from the perspective of Revere’s gallant horse
Did Dame Judi Dench play you in a movie about a woman who gave up her son? - The title character in Philomena

Well done, SunUp!

Wow. I’ve known about the Phantom since I was in the single-digit age range (early '60s). Where/when did you grow up, if you don’t mind my asking?

I’m more of an '80s kid, grew up in Minnesota, and am female, which may be relevant.

Or possibly I had heard of the Phantom, and just plain forgot, did not pay enough attention to have linked the Phantom to the clues, especially under the circumstances. (Circumstances: stuff going on in real life I’m not talking about here).

Thank you. I’m a couple decades older, and lived in Michigan (as a kid) and Illinois (as a teenager). And I suspect the gender difference may be quite relevant in this case.

I remember watching Billy Zane in The Phantom movie, and having seen him prior in Dead Calm, a really good thriller with Sam Neill and a young Nicole Kidman.

I remember reading The Phantom in the newspaper when I was growing up. I haven’t seen it in a long time, but it’s apparently still running.

Although - isn’t “The Phantom” more a title than a name? Kinda like the Dread Pirate Roberts?

Anyhow, on we go: I am

R

Oh, and I updated our “letters so far”.

IQs:

  1. Are you perhaps best known for playing Evelyn Carnahan O’Connell?
  2. Did you write Escape From Sobibor?
  3. Are you the main character in Death Comes As the End?

IQs:

  1. Were you an influential mystic who was assassinated in 1916?
  2. Were you stranded on an uncharted island, after a mysterious “illness” claimed the other members of your party?
  3. Were you able to spin straw into gold?

R it is.

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosghobel?
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga?
Are you the best-known person from Dixon, Ill.?

Take 3 DQs.

I am not Rasputin.
I am not… Robinson Crusoe?
I am not Rumplestiltskin.

I am not Radagast.
I am not Major General William Starke Rosecrans.
Take a DQ.

Rachel Weisz, Richard Rashke, Renisenb

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?

One DQ reserved