Botticelli - January 2015

Thread Games
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DQ: Was your story set in “modern times” contemporary with when it was published?

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Y

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not (I think) best known from movies
  4. Probably (I think) best known from works of the written word
  5. Last name does not start with Y
  6. Not military genre
  7. Not from a series
  8. My first appearance was not published after 1964
  9. The protagonist of the work for which I’m best known
  10. Introduced in a novel
  11. Created by an American
  12. Did not first appear before 1900
  13. Not a child hero
  14. Human
  15. The word(s) of my name that begin with a Y can not be found as an uncapitalized entry in an English-language dictionary
  16. My story was set in “modern times” contemporary with when it was published
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DQ: Western genre?

holding 2 DQs

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IQ1: Are you the protagonist of Catch-22?
IQ2: Are you the dinosaur sidekick of Mario and Luigi?
IQ3: Are you a female ninja comrade of Wolverine, whose philosophy is “living in danger is the ultimate adventure”?

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Previous IQs:

Are you the last man on Earth in a graphic novel series? - Yes, Yorick Brown.
Did you found a prominent New England university? - Elihu Yale.
Were you a Pythoneseque pirate? - Yes, Yellowbeard: Yellowbeard - Wikipedia

DQ:

Associated with NYC?

IQs:

Were you raised on an anarchic world?
Are you the protagonist of Holes?
Are you the author of the “Torture Memos”?

Coming up with Y-names is hard!

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Prince Ypsilanti is correct.

Nately’s whore kept trying to kill bombardier John Yossarian of*** Catch .22***

Hall of Fame quarterback Yelverton Abraham “Y.A.” Tittle was traded from the 49ers to the NY Giants.
DQ) Are you American?

DQ2) Are you human?

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Not … Yossarian?
DQ.
DQ.

DQ.
Not Stanley Yelnats.
DQ.

Y

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not (I think) best known from movies
  4. Probably (I think) best known from works of the written word
  5. Last name does not start with Y
  6. Not military genre
  7. Not from a series
  8. My first appearance was not published after 1964
  9. The protagonist of the work for which I’m best known
  10. Introduced in a novel
  11. Created by an American
  12. Did not first appear before 1900
  13. Not a child hero
  14. Human
  15. The word(s) of my name that begin with a Y can not be found as an uncapitalized entry in an English-language dictionary
  16. My story was set in “modern times” contemporary with when it was published
  17. Not western genre
  18. Associated with NYC
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Y

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not (I think) best known from movies
  4. Probably (I think) best known from works of the written word
  5. Last name does not start with Y
  6. Not military genre
  7. Not from a series
  8. My first appearance was not published after 1964
  9. The protagonist of the work for which I’m best known
  10. Introduced in a novel
  11. Created by an American
  12. Did not first appear before 1900
  13. Not a child hero
  14. Human
  15. The word(s) of my name that begin with a Y can not be found as an uncapitalized entry in an English-language dictionary
  16. My story was set in “modern times” contemporary with when it was published
  17. Not western genre
  18. Associated with NYC
  19. American

Your second DQ was a repeat of #14, astorian.

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correct, Yoshi, Yukio

5 DQs in reserve, no idea what to ask

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Last DQ: Police or private detective story genre?

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Y

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not (I think) best known from movies
  4. Probably (I think) best known from works of the written word
  5. Last name does not start with Y
  6. Not military genre
  7. Not from a series
  8. My first appearance was not published after 1964
  9. The protagonist of the work for which I’m best known
  10. Introduced in a novel
  11. Created by an American
  12. Did not first appear before 1900
  13. Not a child hero
  14. Human
  15. The word(s) of my name that begin with a Y can not be found as an uncapitalized entry in an English-language dictionary
  16. My story was set in “modern times” contemporary with when it was published
  17. Not western genre
  18. Associated with NYC
  19. American
  20. Not police or private detective story genre
    Aaaaaand - that’s twenty! Chat a bit if you want, or start asking your final “Are you Firstname Lastname?” DQs. I’ll be back later…
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Well. Ah. Chat, chat, chatty chat. Not a clue, not a nibble.

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Previous IQs:

Were you raised on an anarchic world? - Tasha Yar, from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Are you the protagonist of Holes? - Yes, Stanley Yelnats (a palindrome!).
Are you the author of the “Torture Memos”? - Then-Bush Justice Department lawyer John Yoo.

Hmm. American male, fictional, protagonist, first (or commonly-included middle) name starts with Y, first appeared in a novel between 1900-64, associated with NYC, not a cop or private eye.

I’m drawing a blank.

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I’m stumped. I pass.

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A hint: Book and movie are both from the '60s.

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I’m also stumped.

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My only two cents to toss in the brainstorm would be that it would not surprise me if a fictional NYC-associated male Y name from the early 1960s was Jewish.

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The best I can come up with is Yondo, from Clark Ashton Smith’s The Abominations of Yondo.

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Thinking…

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Just plain stumped.