Botticelli - Nov 2020

Thread Games
482

#1 was Titian.
#2 was Tom Terrific.
#3 was Ivan Turgenev.

DQs:

  1. From a commercial or advertising?
  2. Created after 1980?

1 DQ reserved.

483

Previous IQs:

Were you, a Vermonter living in Pennsylvania, played in a movie by a Texan? - Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, played by Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln
Did you harshly criticize children’s holiday plays in print? - Thaddeus Bristol, in a very funny David Sedaris seasonal short story: Front Row Center With Thaddeus Bristol - This American Life
Were you the only son of Will and Deanna? - A small spoiler from Star Trek: Picard: Will and Deanna Riker-Troi have a son named Thaddeus, named after Will’s Civil War soldier ancestor

Thaddeus x3!

DQs:

Associated with London?
Best known for a single work of fiction?

One DQ reserved.

484

DQs:

  1. Not Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with ‘T’
  4. Created in or after 1954
  5. Not American
  6. Not American creator(s)
  7. Not originally from prose fiction
  8. Not originally from a movie
  9. Caucasian - most likely - not explicitly specified in original source material
  10. Not from a TV/streaming show
  11. From a European creator or creators
  12. Could be alive today, if real - it’s possible
  13. British
  14. Not from a song
  15. Not primarily known from the web
  16. Not originally from a theatrical work
  17. Not originally from comics or cartoons
  18. Protagonist
  19. Not from a commercial or advertising
  20. Created before 1980
  21. Not especially associated with London - Very, very, very indirectly with Soho
  22. Best known for a single work of fiction - single work in the sense of one story, although it has had multiple adaptations

We’re over 20 DQs, so I’ll cut off IQs at 12 noon PST today (12/2)

485

DQ: Human?

486

DQs:

  1. Not Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with ‘T’
  4. Created in or after 1954
  5. Not American
  6. Not American creator(s)
  7. Not originally from prose fiction
  8. Not originally from a movie
  9. Caucasian - most likely - not explicitly specified in original source material
  10. Not from a TV/streaming show
  11. From a European creator or creators
  12. Could be alive today, if real - it’s possible
  13. British
  14. Not from a song
  15. Not primarily known from the web
  16. Not originally from a theatrical work
  17. Not originally from comics or cartoons
  18. Protagonist
  19. Not from a commercial or advertising
  20. Created before 1980
  21. Not especially associated with London - Very, very, very indirectly with Soho
  22. Best known for a single work of fiction - single work in the sense of one story, although it has had multiple adaptations
  23. Human
487

If I counted correctly, there is still one outstanding DQ.
I’ll keep it open until 3 pm PST (GMT -8) tomorrow 12/4, then move onto “Are you…” questions.

488

Hmm. Still can’t figure out who this is. I yield my unasked DQ to whoever would like to ask it - first come, first served.

489

I’ll take it. From science fiction/fantasy?

490

DQs:

  1. Not Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with ‘T’
  4. Created in or after 1954
  5. Not American
  6. Not American creator(s)
  7. Not originally from prose fiction
  8. Not originally from a movie
  9. Caucasian - most likely - not explicitly specified in original source material
  10. Not from a TV/streaming show
  11. From a European creator or creators
  12. Could be alive today, if real - it’s possible
  13. British
  14. Not from a song
  15. Not primarily known from the web
  16. Not originally from a theatrical work
  17. Not originally from comics or cartoons
  18. Protagonist
  19. Not from a commercial or advertising
  20. Created before 1980
  21. Not especially associated with London - Very, very, very indirectly with Soho
  22. Best known for a single work of fiction - originally appeared in a single self-contained work, although that work has been adapted multiple times
  23. Human
  24. Not from science fiction/fantasy

Reworded my answer to #22 to be clearer.

491

Well, I’m stumped. What we left with? From a poem?

492

Hints:
I feel I gave accurate truthful answers to all the DQs as asked.

That said, it is possible that if #14 had been phrased differently or broadened in scope, I may have answered differently.
Also, had #8 and #16 not included the word “originally”, I would have had to answer differently.

493

So, maybe a poem or chant or riddle or jingle or folktale that became an opera or a ballet or a musical?

494

A folktale created in or after 1954? Seems unlikely.

495

Urban legend, then.

496

Maybe it’s not from a single song, but from an album…

497

I have an inkling of who it might be, actually, but I’m not ready to jump in this round.

498

You can have my guess. I don’t have a clue.

499

Do you mean DQ or IQ?

501

I’m thinking you are probably correct, if you’re thinking Who I’m thinking of.

502

Well, what the heck. Are you a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who plays a mean pinball?