Botticelli - May 2014

Thread Games
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DQ: Original appearance published after 1970?

IQ1: Did you conceal your master under a turban?
IQ2: Were you introduced with the sound of fingernails scraping on a chalkboard?
IQ3: Did the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of your death end up on the cover of a Rage Against The Machine album?

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  1. Quasimodo
  2. Olaf Quimby II
  3. Questor

DQ1: Are you supernatural in nature?
DQ2: Is your author still alive?
DQ3: Are you in more than one book?

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Dunno any of these three, either.

Not Prof. Quirrell; dunno the other two.

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century
  6. last name starts with Q
  7. from literature
  8. set in the 20th century
  9. not the protagonist
  10. original appearance published before 1970
  11. not supernatural
  12. author now deceased
  13. in more than one book

Although the other books/stories are not all sequels, as such.

264

#1 is Quentin Durward, from the book of the same name.
#2 is Mr. Harley Quin.
#3 is Joe Quesada.

DQ: Set in the second half of the 20th Century?

2 DQs reserved.

265

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century
  6. last name starts with Q
  7. from literature
  8. set in the 20th century
  9. not the protagonist
  10. original appearance published before 1970
  11. not supernatural
  12. author now deceased
  13. in more than one book
  14. set in the second half of the 20th century
266

IQ: Did Humphrey Bogart play you in The Caine Mutiny?

267

1: Correct on Quirrell.
2: Jaws shark hunter Quint, played by Robert Shaw
3: Self-immolating Vietnamese Buddhist monk Quang Duc

DQ: Author American?

I’ll reserve the second one for now.

268

Not Capt. Queeg.

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century
  6. last name starts with Q
  7. from literature
  8. set in the 20th century
  9. not the protagonist
  10. original appearance published before 1970
  11. not supernatural
  12. author now deceased
  13. in more than one book
  14. set in the second half of the 20th century
  15. American author
269

IQ1: Are you alien with a propeller on your head that has your own cereal?
IQ2: Are you a supporting character in 20 James Bond films?
IQ3: Are you a video game character that jumps on cubes and makes them change color?

270

Not Quix, Q the MI6 weapons and gadget guy, or Qbert (after whom Cletus Spuckler on The Simpsons named one of his kids): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2nFjgm6Ac

271

DQ: Antagonist?

One DQ reserved.

272

Actually, the first one is Quisp.

DQ: Is the author Robert Jordan?

273

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century
  6. last name starts with Q
  7. from literature
  8. set in the 20th century
  9. not the protagonist
  10. original appearance published before 1970
  11. not supernatural
  12. author now deceased
  13. in more than one book
  14. set in the second half of the 20th century
  15. American author
  16. antagonist
  17. author is not Robert Jordan
274

Fictional male, last name starts with Q, antagonist of more than one book, set in the second half of the 20th Century. At least one movie from the books. The author is deceased, was American.

…and EH reads voraciously…

DQ: Mystery or spy genre?

IQs:

  1. Are you Brainiac 5’s lesser known identity?
  2. Were you a ghost who haunted children, a gypsy-cursed werewolf , a faux Edward Rochester, the subject of a Dorian Gray-like painting, and, oddly enough, one of the good guys?
  3. Did Gene Wilder play you in one his earliest starring vehicles?
275

I ought to know those, but you got me. Take three DQs.

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century
  6. last name starts with Q
  7. from literature
  8. set in the 20th century
  9. not the protagonist
  10. original appearance published before 1970
  11. not supernatural
  12. author now deceased
  13. in more than one book
  14. set in the second half of the 20th century
  15. American author
  16. antagonist
  17. author is not Robert Jordan
  18. not in the mystery or spy genre

At least as those genres are typically thought of; I understand that the original book in which this character appears has a somewhat mysterious element to it (although, truth be told, I’ve never read it).

276

#1 is Qwerl Dox. #2 is Quentin Collins from the old TV soap opera Dark Shadows. #3 is Quackser Fortune from the very forgettable Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx.

DQ: from a children’s book?

2 DQs reserved.

IQs:

  1. Are you playing the lead in the upcoming remake of the musical movie Annie?
  2. Are you the cat-owning detective in the mystery series: The Cat Who…?
  3. Did you stalk Lolita and Humbert Humbert?
277

IQ1: Are you a Marvel comics character that was formerly named Marvel Boy?
IQ2: Are you a goalie for the LA Kings?
IQ3: Do you stalk Humbert Humbert?

278

Gah, got question-stealed again…

IQ3 Resubmit: Are you a Charles Dickens character, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender?

279

I won’t bother answering the others, because yes, I am

Clare Quilty

from Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Well done, Prof. P.! And Knowed Out was not far behind you.

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Great choice, EH! (Actually, I thought Nabokov was Russian-English, but checking AFTER the fact I find he’s Russian-American, so I’m surprised.)

#1 is Quvenzhane Wallis. #2 was James Qwilleran.

I’ll think about it and start the next game tomorrow in a June Botticelli thread.