Botticelli - March 2020

Thread Games
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I have a feeling this will be a character from some book or short story I’ve never heard of. Hmm…

42

I’m almost 100% sure you have.

43

Definitely not Gary Gygax.

I yield.

44

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not an American, but created by American authors
  4. Not European
  5. Both names start with G
  6. First appeared after 1950
  7. Not from a movie
  8. First appeared before 2000
  9. Only appeared in print
  10. Alive at the end of the story
  11. Ally to the protagonist
  12. Not from our Earth
  13. Not a comic book character.
  14. Humanoid
  15. From an alternate fantasy universe type of Solar System
  16. Story not set in a contemporaneous present day
  17. Appearance not scary to the average human
  18. Comic relief, but, then, so is everyone else in the story
  19. Set on a muddle of an Earth
  20. From a parody of a classic fantasy story
    Maybe that’ll do it.
45

And that’s 20. Have any final guesses in by Noon EDT Saturday.

46

Is it someone from Bored of the Rings?

47

Final questions have to be in the form of “Are you Firstname Lastname?”. You’re on the right track, though.

48

I take my yield back, if I may.

Are you Good Gulf, the Gandalf parody from Bored of the Rings?

49

One question, kitap, did you know who it is?

50

Yeah, verily, foolish mortals! I am Goodgulf Greyteeth, Wizard Extraordinaire, and taxes filed while you wait.

Continue on, Scion of the scion of Orlon!

51

Thank you, but what say you, O worthy kitap?

52

Nah, I had no ideas. The clues and comments led me to think of it - I’ve never actually read the thing. Or even seen a copy, I think.

53

OK, thanks, kitap. That last hint did the trick for me.

Our next letter is

W

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IQs:

  1. Did you compose Classical Gas?
  2. Did you have a hit with It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels?
  3. Did you almost officiate at Sheldon and Amy’s wedding on The Big Bang Theory?
55

Not Williams, Williams or Wil Wheaton.

56

#1. Correct on Mason Williams.
#2 was Kitty Wells.
#3. Correct on Wil Wheaton.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Are you the best known person from Elwood, Indiana?
  2. Are you the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts?
  3. Did you write O Captain, My Captain?
57

Dunno, not Elizabeth Warren, and not Walt Whitman.

W.

  1. real
58

#1 was Wendell L. Willkie.
Correct on the others.

DQ: Living?

IQs:

  1. Were you the star of a 1950’s children’s TV show that had children drawing on the screen to help you out?
  2. Were you an American artist whose best known work is arguably Christina’s World?
  3. Did you write The Book of Merlin?
59

Dunno, not Wyeth, and not E.B. White.

W.

  1. real
  2. deceased
60

IQ1. Are you a fictional character known as Wally in England?
IQ2. Were you and Daniel Boone survivors of a battle during the French & Indian War?
IQ3. Were you a Heinlein character after whom certain mechanical devices were named?