The Wednesday Quiz is infallible, mostly

Before we go any further with this online enterprise, I'm afraid I have some... well... unpleasantness to report.

It has to do with the "C" Quiz of last Wednesday.  In that entertaining challenge, you might remember, you were presented with the following query:

I subsequently provided the correct answer in my usual prompt and efficient manner:

And everything was fine.  Everybody was happy.  People went forward with their lives, content in the knowledge that the Wednesday Quiz had run its weekly cycle.

Until!

Until Monday afternoon, when I found this threatening message lingering like a foul smell in my comment approval tab:

Well, naturally, my first concerned thought was to let legendary L&TM5K Dork-Emeritus-for-Life G know that someone was using her online identity for malicious purposes.

To my horror, she made a brazen attempt at extortion!

She should have known that there's no way for an honest blogger like me to come up with that kind of scratch.  Which is why I'm telling you this.  I want you to get the story straight, from me, and not from some power-addled, money-hungry student of Art History.  You deserve that much.

Oh, and I suppose I should mention that the Manhattan resident who generally answers the Quiz by postcard -- I think you know who you are -- gets a little bonus credit for the sentence "Gosh, I thought it was a lot too beautiful & serene to be Caravaggio." Apparently, it was.

Tomorrow: The Wednesday Quiz!  Now with more or less accurate answers!