Botticelli June 2023

Thread Games
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O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction
  11. From Science fiction or fantasy
  12. From book originally written in English language
  13. Not a comic character
  14. Urban fantasy
  15. Male author
  16. Not a magic user in the sense of wands and spells, but has some supernatural abilities
  17. Character from the British Isles
  18. Written after 1970
  19. Not from a series of books
  20. British author
  21. Written after 2000
  22. Last name does not start with O’ (but does start with O per #3)
262

Correct on Oddjob and Elizabeth Olsen. No. 1 was Ozzy Osbourne.

DQs:

  1. Are you from a single work, but your author has also written series (for example, a character from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere or Coraline)?

  2. Is yours a typical British name (i.e., Anglo-Saxon or Celtic)?

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O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction
  11. From Science fiction or fantasy
  12. From book originally written in English language
  13. Not a comic character
  14. Urban fantasy
  15. Male author
  16. Not a magic user in the sense of wands and spells, but has learned some supernatural abilities
  17. Character from the British Isles
  18. Written after 1970
  19. Not from a series of books
  20. British author
  21. Written after 2000
  22. Last name does not start with O’ (but does start with O per #3)
  23. From a single work, but my author has also written series (for example, a character from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere or Coraline or)
  24. Last name is a typical British name (i.e., Anglo-Saxon or Celtic); first name is not

NOTE: update to #16

264

Hmm. I have a feeling I will have never heard of this character before.

265

Hmmm…

Cordwainer Oldham?
Ogham Owens?
Meretricious Overton?

I’m not coming up with anyone either.

266

By my count @Buck_Godot still has one outstanding DQ.

267

Last DQ:

  1. Human?
268

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction
  11. From Science fiction or fantasy
  12. From book originally written in English language
  13. Not a comic character
  14. Urban fantasy
  15. Male author
  16. Not a magic user in the sense of wands and spells, but has learned some supernatural abilities
  17. Character from the British Isles
  18. Written after 1970
  19. Not from a series of books
  20. British author
  21. Written after 2000
  22. Last name does not start with O’ (but does start with O per #3)
  23. From a single work, but my author has also written series (for example, a character from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere or Coraline or ???)
  24. Last name is a typical British name (i.e., Anglo-Saxon or Celtic); first name is not
  25. Human
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All DQs have been asked. Get in your firstname-lastname guesses by 9 pm PDT tomorrow, Tuesday, June 27th.

270

Still stumped.

271

I got nuttin’.

272

I got plenty of nuttin’.

273

Think it’s up to you, @Buck_Godot.

274

I’m stumped.

275

Best I can come up with is one of the principles from Jonathan Strange and Mr. N. Orrell.
:stuck_out_tongue:

276

I will say that one of Slow_Moving_Vehicle’s DQs came so close that I thought SLV already had figured it out.

277

Heh. I had a similar thought.

278

Okay, I’ll shoot my bolt:

Are you Nobody Owens, from Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book?

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YES!! I am indeed Nobody “Bod” Owens
Protaganist of Neil Gaiman’s Hugo, Newbery and Carnegie Award winning 2008 novel The Graveyard Book.

Congratulations, SMV! Once you specified Neil Gaiman in your DQ, I figured you probably had it.

280

Great choice, Chock!
Nicely guessed, SMV!

I read the book once when it first came out, and haven’t read it since. I liked it, but the character’s names didn’t stick. (I did remember “Nobody”, but not Owens.)