Botticelli - March 2020

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Chelsea Clinton who, when hearing that Jared was leading up the national COVID recovery effort, recently tweeted:

(Keep thinking: I’ve a Masters in Public Health; wrote my doctoral dissertation on global efforts to tackle AIDS pandemic; co-authored a book on global health governance; teach MPH courses on health systems & global health & I’m not qualified to lead a national #covid19 effort.)

DQ: A supernatural entity?

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C.

  1. fictional
  2. not male
  3. first name starts with C
  4. from a book
  5. European
  6. created after 1899
  7. created after 1959
  8. arguably the protagonist
  9. was in a movie
  10. created before 1979
  11. created by a British or Irish author or authors
  12. not from a work of mainstream fiction (could be from science fiction, fantasy, western, mystery or horror)
  13. first name starts with Ca-to-Ci
  14. from a work of fantasy or horror
  15. not created by a female author
  16. not a human character
  17. not female
  18. not a robot or android, as usually defined
  19. not an animal
  20. implied to be a supernatural entity

Please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon Sunday EST.

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I’m coming up blank. Happy Easter!

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To you and to all my fellow Christian Dopers as well!

Time’s up, and I am

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

First appearing in a children’s book by Ian Fleming, and then in the much-better-known movie: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Wikipedia

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I’d facepalm but I’m not supposed to touch my face.

Great choice, EH! I oughta shoulda guessed about children’s books.

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I never would have guessed Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang! My mind was stuck on monsters.

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I had thought of Christine, but that was written later and by an American author.

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Thanks, all. Here’s the April thread at long last: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=894073