Botticelli (Part Whatever)

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Wickedly done!

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You are quite right - Marcus Didius Falco, narrator of Lindsay Davis’ thoroughly enjoyable series of mysteries.

2: is Frank Zappa. Far better known for his rock music with salacious lyrics, he was also a composer of serious contemporary music, such that the exigeant Pierre Boulez consented to conduct his album of chamber music, The Perfect Stranger.

  1. is St. Francis of Assisi (Technically, Saint François d’Assise, as the opera is in French.), the title character of Olivier Messiaen’s opera.
    So -

IQ1: Do you originally appear in a work of literature?

IQ2: Is your creator still alive today?

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IQ1: Have you been played by Karloff and De Niro?
IQ2: Were you the subject of the first X rated animated movie?
IQ3: Have you been used in many of Shakespear’s plays?

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Frank Black (or Black Francis, as he was known when he fronted the Pixies) and Carlton Fisk.

DQs to follow after le Ministre’s questions are answered.

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Thanks! :slight_smile: That one was kind of fun to think of.

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Hmm. Falco was also the name of a top Roman official played by David Warner in the 1981 TV movie Masada, about the AD 73 siege. Any connection, I wonder?

I’m neither Frankenstein’s monster, nor Fritz the Cat, nor Falstaff.

F.

  1. Not alive
  2. Not American
  3. Fictional
  4. Male
  5. Originally appeared in a work of literature
  6. Creator not now alive
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Were you a (fictional) friend of King Henry V?

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IQ1: If you put a light bulb in your mouth, does it light up?

IQ2: Would you rather stop and smell the flowers instead of fighting?

IQ3: Does Yosemite Sam want to see your high-diving act?

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:: checking ::

No, I’m still not Falstaff.

I should know the first and third, but don’t. Two DQs. As to the second, no, I’m not everyone’s favorite pacifist bull, Ferdinand.

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Correct on Ferdinand.

IQ1 was looking for Uncle Fester of the Addams Family.

IQ3 was looking for Fearless Freep. He was the high-diver in the cartoon “High Diving Hare” who never showed up, so Yosemite Sam forces Bugs Bunny to do the high dive instead. Of course, Sam ends up doing the dive more often than Bugs, and to greater comedic effect.

I’ll think about my DQs for a bit.

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IQ1: Are you a Shakespearean character who thinks he has reason to be jealous of Falstaff?

IQ2: Are you in love with the daughter of the subject of IQ1?

IQ3: Are you a famous castrato?

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IQ1: Did you start a famous clothing trend?
IQ2: Did Data play you in a fantasy episode?

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Okay, let’s try these:

DQ: Are you European?

DQ: Did you appear in more than one work of literature?

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Dunno any of those, although I’m sure I’ll recognize the names when you tell me. Three DQs.

Two DQs. I’m sure I’ll hate myself for the Data answer - I can only think of Henry V and Sherlock Holmes.

F.

  1. Not alive
  2. Not American
  3. Fictional
  4. Male
  5. Originally appeared in a work of literature
  6. Creator not now alive
  7. European
  8. Has appeared in more than one work of literature
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Do you owe your life to a man on the run for stealing bread?

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DQ1: Have you appeared in film(s)?

DQ2: Is the literature in which you appear set primarily after 1900?

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  1. is Master Ford (from ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’), who is convinced that Falstaff is having an affair with his wife.

  2. is wrong. Fenton is in love with Anne Page, not Anne Ford.

  3. is Farinelli, one of the most famous of all castrati and the subject of a film made in the last 10 - 15 years.

Two DQs -

  1. Were the works of literature in which you appear originally written in English?

  2. Were the works of literature in which you appear written for the theatre? (As opposed to novels or short stories.)

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No, I’m not Fantine in Les Miserables.

F.

  1. Not alive
  2. Not American
  3. Fictional
  4. Male
  5. Originally appeared in a work of literature
  6. Creator not now alive
  7. European
  8. Has appeared in more than one work of literature
  9. Has appeared in films
  10. Literature in which he appears is set before 1900
  11. Originally appeared in an English-language work
  12. Not originally in work written for the theatre
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Little Lord Fauntleroy and Friar Tuck, respectively

DQ1: Are you a main character?
DQ2: Is the author British?

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IQ1: Are you one of a pair of teen detectives in a popular series of children’s books?

IQ2: Did you and your valet accept a wager involving a long trip through such places as Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and New York?

IQ3: Were you a “gentleman’s gentleman” to a man named Bill Davis in a 1960s TV series?