Botticelli May 2015

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DQ Roundup

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Character first appeared in a book
  5. Not a fictional American
  6. Not created by an American
  7. First created after 1900
  8. Created by a European
  9. Protagonist
  10. Still alive when last heard from
  11. European character
  12. Would not be alive in 2015
  13. Considered by many but not all to be a “good guy”
  14. Character created by someone from the British Isles
  15. British character
  16. First appeared after 1950
  17. Not a cop or detective
  18. Character is mainly of English descent
  19. Not created by a woman
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take yet another DQ

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** Merthyn FitzGerald**, from Ken Follett’s World Without End.

You’re fast exhausting my knowledge of British authors…

DQ. Character would have been alive after 1900?

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DQ: From Children’s literature?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Character first appeared in a book
  5. Not a fictional American
  6. Not created by an American
  7. First created after 1900
  8. Created by a European
  9. Protagonist
  10. Still alive when last heard from
  11. European character
  12. Would not be alive in 2015
  13. Considered by many but not all to be a “good guy”
  14. Character created by someone from the British Isles
  15. British character
  16. First appeared after 1950
  17. Not a cop or detective
  18. Character is mainly of English descent
  19. Not created by a woman
  20. Character would have been alive after 1900
  21. Definitely not from children’s literature

Bonus hint: I was originally a minor character in a novel written by a different author. My new author wrote his first book about me in 1969, and 12 books followed until his death.

Guessing time, tomorrow evening is deadline.

586

Oh, well, if you’re going to give it away…

DQ: Are you Harry Paget Flashman?

587

I bet he is.

Previous IQs:

Did Lizzie Bennet eventually marry you? - Fitzwilliam Darcy, in Pride and Prejudice.
Did you like the song “The Candy-Colored Clown” a bit too much? - Frank Booth, yes, from Blue Velvet.
Were you otherwise known as “Jughead”? - Forsythe Jones, from the Archie comics.

588

Yes I am.

Congrats, Prof!

589

Thank you. I am B!

590

Want to start a June thread first?

591

Oh! Good idea.

BTW, I just started re-reading the Flashman books last year, so they were fairly fresh in my mind.

Link to June thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18408216#post18408216

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I was almost going to guess Flambeau, the master thief created by GK Chesterton as a foil for Father Brown.