Game #198: Generation Gap
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:03 am
Game #198: Generation Gap
Identify the 150 people below. (Yes, that’s a lot of people, but the Tangredi is fairly simple – I hope.) Match them into 75 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. No name will be used twice.
1. This President facilitated the opening of the American West when he signed the Homestead Act.
2. He first hit the charts in 1955 with a song inspired by a traditional tune called “Ida Red.”
3. In 1689, this political philosopher wrote, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
4. Lobsters and oysters play major roles in separate poems within this author’s most famous works of fiction.
5. Alonzo Morning was only the #2 draft pick, behind this man who fully justified his #1 spot.
6. In 1996, this actress did something that Ingrid Bergman, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn, and Anne Bancroft had previously failed to do.
7. This physicist won the Nobel Prize for the discoveries he made as a result of his development of the hydrogen bubble chamber.
8. DJMQ: In 1944, he choreographed a ballet for the Metropolitan Opera – partially inspired by a painting called The Fleet’s In – that itself became the inspiration for the first of his many Broadway musicals.
Another DJMQ appears at #127.
9. This Mannerist was considered a “flawless painter” but – thanks to Vasari and Browning – he is better remembered today as an unambitious artist whose reach did not exceed his grasp.
10. This civil rights leader became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
11. The first Cistercian abbot to the canonized, he played a key role in resolving a schism in the papacy and in organizing the Second Crusade.
12. This Belgian designer did not, as some claim, invent the wrap dress, but certainly brought it into the fashion mainstream in the 1970s.
13. He was the first – and only – Colombian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
14. This New Hampshire Republican was the only Senator from New England to vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
15. Between 1963 and 2018, this pop singer won 20 Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award.
16. This English astronomer was the first to correctly hypothesize that the source of stellar energy was the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
17. Between 1945 and 1961, this American golfer amassed 40 PGA tour wins, placing him tenth on the all-time list.
18. Since 2001, this American filmmaker has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay, two for Best Animated Feature, and one each for Best Director and Best Picture.
19. This entrepreneur and his brothers began by buying and selling picture postcards, but things really took off in 1916 when he bought an engraving business and began selling his own creations.
20. As he “eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.“ Poor guy.
21. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving U.S. Fleet Admiral.
22. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
23. A leading figure in the Progressive movement, this journalist was nicknamed the “Sage of Emporia.”
24. A leading figure in the “Kosher Nostra,” this Los Angeles crime boss was the only prisoner ever bailed out of Alcatraz.
25. He was executed, and his head put on public display, in 1661 – more than two years after his death.
26. This influential soul artist released his last album six years after a concert accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.
27. This Rangers defenseman was the last winner of the Norris Trophy before Bobby Orr began his eight-year run.
28. This international cinema star died in 2017 at the age of 100.
29. This novelist won eight Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, which also named him the great Western writer of all time.
30. He did not invent the device most associated with his name, but he developed the stamped steel blades that made the device highly profitable.
31. Since opening his first restaurant in Santa Monica in 1979, this celebrity chef has become the dean of California cuisine, which he is also credited with introducing to New York.
32. This American social reformer served as first general secretary of the National Consumers League and was one of the founding members of the NAACP.
33. What this New Zealander accomplished on May 29, 1953, drove even the imminent coronation of Elizabeth II off the front pages of British newspapers.
34. A member of the Vienna Circle, this philosopher’s 1926 work The Logical Structure of the World is considered one of the seminal texts of logical positivism.
35. Today, more than 16 million people belong to the church that traces its origins to a book published by this religious leader in 1830.
36. This Cubist sculptor, who held his first solo exhibition in 1920, was later forced to flee Nazi-occupied France and eventually settled in upstate New York.
37. In 2020, he was freed by the same man who once fired him.
38. He was the first of only two Norwegian-born scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
39. This jazz trombonist and bandleader is better known for his role as the father of one of the title characters of a hit sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1982.
40. This writer’s most popular play is a satirical fantasy in which the title character, Countess Aurelia, saves Paris from destruction.
41. One of the eight inaugural members of the Motorsports Hall of Fame, he was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
42. In 1955, this Italian soprano made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Desdemona – the same role in which she made her farewell Met performance in 1973.
43. The “Effect” named for this fictional character refers to an increase in young women choosing to enter the field of medicine, science, and law enforcement.
44. This Internet billionaire is most closely associated with a file-sharing service he co-founded and a social media site he helped turn into a big business.
45. In books such as The First New Nation, this American political sociologist helped define and promote the idea of American exceptionalism.
46. In 1777, this American general was court-martialed for his retreat from Fort Ticonderoga; fourteen years later, he lost more than 600 troops in what remains the single greatest defeat of the U.S. Army by Native American forces.
47. She was the nation’s oldest First Lady … and the only once since Martha Washington to never once set foot in the White House.
48. His industrial designs included the Shell and Exxon logos … the Coca-Cola vending machine … and the 1932 Hupmobile.
49. This American engineer is the most recent of five women who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
50. After completing his term as Prime Minister, he was indicted and convicted on corruption charges stemming from his earlier stints as Trade Minister and Mayor of Jerusalem.
51. He completes a list that also includes Al Barlick, Jocko Conlan, Tom Connolly, Billy Evans, Doug Harvey, Cal Hubbard, Bill Klem, Bill McGowan, and Hank O’Day.
52. The daytime drama that she created was the first to include a story line involving the Vietnam War.
53. This Chicago blues vocalist and harmonica player is best remembered for his classic 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues.
54. This poet – son of the co-founder of a famous New York brokerage house – is one of only two people to win both the Glascock Prize (given to college undergraduates) and the Pulitzer Prize. (The other is Sylvia Plath.)
55. The work of this influential fashion photographer also included notable portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Dwight Eisenhower, Andy Warhol, Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, and the Beatles.
56. The outcome of this man’s trial resulted in what became known as the “White Night Riots.”
57. In one of the several protest songs he wrote, this labor activist coined the phrase “pie in the sky.”
58. Though best remembered today as co-author a monumental 11-volume work, this historian first achieved prominence with a 1935 book that profiled Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
59. In the 1920s, this evangelist drew the ire of the Ku Klux Klan for holding fully integrated tent meetings and services at the Foursquare Church.
60. This philosopher and logician had quite a pedigree: his paternal grandfather served as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria, and John Stuart Mill was his “secular godfather.”
61. In 1994, a chemical element was named in honor of this physicist who had made a seminal – and accidental – discovery 99 years earlier.
62. Two years after representing Clarence Earl Gideon in a landmark Supreme Court case, this jurist was himself appointed to the Court. (He didn’t stay there long.)
63. This Italian writer’s masterpiece – a novel in which two young lovers are separated by the machinations of an evil nobleman – was regarded as a veiled attack on the Austrian empire.
64. He was the only knighted actor to appear on an episode of The Twilight Zone.
65. A member of the Songwriters and Country Music halls of fame, he penned – but did not sing – a 1968 narrative hit that went to #1 on both the Pop and Country charts.
66. Winner of 42 PBA titles, he was the first bowler to amass over a million dollars in career earnings.
67. In 1967, this airline executive founded what is today the world’s largest low-cost carrier, and remained its chairman emeritus until his death last year.
68. As a criminal lawyer, he won 13 out of the 15 murder or attempted murder cases he tried, but arguably his most important case took place this year.
69. He served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army under seven Presidents – including the man who defeated him in a presidential race.
70. In addition to his 25 year stint with NBC News – during which he reported on the Vietnam War, won a Peabody for his coverage of the Black September conflict, and served as commentator on Richard Nixon’s departure from office – this correspondent also published three successful mystery novels.
71. This astronaut served as the first female commander of the International Space Station.
72. The lyrics that earned him his first Tony included the memorable lines, “When a person’s personality is personable/He shouldn’t oughta sit like a lump/It’s harder than a matador coercin’ a bull/To try to get you off of your rump.”
73. A proud member of the Ku Klux Klan, this Mississippi Senator supported the New Deal but violently opposed any moves toward desegregation and fought against an anti-lynching bill which he claimed would “open the floodgates of hell in the South.”
74. During his five seasons in the NFL (with the Seahawks and the Redskins), this wide receiver played in 54 games … which was four seasons and 53 games more than his father had managed.
75. This brunette…
76. … and this blonde were the eponymous protagonists of the longest running comic strip in U.S. history.
77. This actress has been nominated for a record 16 Cesar Awards … and one Oscar.
78. For more than 50 years, this novelist and Margaret Mitchell belonged to a very exclusive club – which now includes only Mitchell.
79. In addition to his famous experiment involving maggots, this biologist also proved that vipers do not drink wine and that snake venom is not produced in the gall bladder
80. A former administrator for the Republican National Committee, she became a passionate activist as the result of an event that took place on March 30, 1981,
81. Paintings such as Dutch Masters and Cigars and his own take on Washington Crossing the Delaware earned this American artist the title “Grandfather of Pop Art.”
82. Lacking official credentials to cover the Normandy landings, this reporter hid in a hospital ship bathroom and went ashore disguised as a stretcher bearer.
83. In 1883, this German immigrant opened a sausage-making shop in Chicago … and the rest is history.
84. While Secretary of War, he organized the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.
85. This early self-help guru developed a self-actualization technique which he dubbed Psycho-Cybernetics.
86. In the 1930s, this inventor postulated a machine called the memex which – though never constructed – is credited with inspiring the development of hypertext.
87. The titles of this writer’s first and most recent novels are both allusions to works by Elvis Costello.
88. This soft rock singer and his partner Jim scored three Top Ten hits in the 1970s – all of which peaked at #6.
89. This influential Romanian-born theatre director has worked in such venues as the Café La Mama, Circle in the Square, and the Metropolitan Opera, but perhaps his most memorable work was his innovative staging of The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center in 1977.
90. He has won more medals in the Winter Olympics than any other American skier.
91. This German philosopher – whose students included Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud – is best known for bringing the medieval concept of intentionality back into the mainstream of modern thought.
92. This educator opened the first “Casa dei Bambini” in January 1907.
93. In 1997, this Italian designer inherited 20% of the eponymous fashion house founded by her brother.
94. When this leader of Reform Judaism died in 1900, the New York Times called him “the foremost rabbi in America.”
95. Known as the “Rostov Ripper,” this Soviet serial killer murdered at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990.
96. This British scientist and his American colleague Paul Lauterbur shared a Nobel Prize for their development of MRI techniques.
97. Lead singer of an acclaimed band, he was named World’s Sexiest Vegetarian by PETA in 2005 – but began eating meat again after the breakup of his marriage to a movie star.
98. First executive director of the NHL Players Association, he became a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989 – and became a non-member nine years later after his convictions for fraud and embezzlement.
99. In a 2013 article, Entertainment Weekly called her "arguably the most iconic actress in the action genre, as well as one of the most visible Latinas in Hollywood."
100. In 1964, he became the first prime minister of what had been the British colony of Nyasaland.
101. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo
102. Separated by a miscommunication from the other eight, she – all by herself – became the first black student to integrate a white southern high school.
103. This cartoonist achieved wide popularity for his “drawn-out dramas” that infested the margins of a popular magazine.
104. This military leader’s iconic look was due to a loss he had sustained during a 1941 raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon.
105. This journalist was credited with breaking the Iran-Contra affair and revealing the CIA’s plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.
106. In addition to his evangelical work, he serves as President of the international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse.
107. He is the most notable Jewish title character in Victorian fiction – though he himself is not aware of his origins when the novel begins.
108. In 1844, this dentist begin his experiments with nitrous oxide by having one of his own teeth extracted by a colleague.
109. In the middle of his reign as world bantamweight champion, this Mexican boxer almost gave up fighting after one of his punches put his opponent into a coma from which he never awoke.
110. A member of an American dynasty, he was his state’s junior Senator for 25 years and it’s senior Senator for five.
111. When this film star took a role opposite Barbra Streisand, his country’s government formally objected. (Streisand responded, “You should see the letter I got from my Aunt Rose!”)
112. This writer considered her translation of The Divine Comedy to be her best work; millions of mystery fans beg to disagree.
113. This French philosopher’s 1945 book The Phenomenology of Perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
114. This Italian baroque composer is the father of both the Neapolitan school of opera and of Domenico
115. Founder of a cosmetics company, she was the only woman on Time magazine’s list of 20 most influential business leaders of the 20th century.
116. In 1946, this American anthropologist published an acclaimed study of Japanese culture and society.
117. This English nobleman was briefly the brother-in-law of the king – and, for a longer period, the fourth husband of his former brother-in-law’s widow. Got that?
118. The classic magazine ads for the company he founded began with the taunt, “Hey, Skinny, yer ribs are showing!”
119. Among the designs of this French Renaissance architect is the wing of the Louvre that now bears his name.
120. In recognition of her many philanthropic works – which ranged from endowing a haven for young prostitutes to financing efforts to clean up London’s drinking water to serving as president of the British Beekeepers’ Association – this Baroness became the first woman to be presented with the Freedom of the City of London.
121. A pioneer in the modern science of animal behavior, this Dutch biologist made his reputation with his 1951 book The Study of Instinct.
122. When he assumed the throne of his newly unified country, this monarch became known by his subjects as Padre della Patria.
123. This British keyboardist famously brought Bruce Springsteen his only #1 song on the pop charts.
124. Dubbed “The Ping Girl,” this starlet is best known for a 1940 role that would later be reprised by Raquel Welch.
125. Under a pseudonym, this British Poet Laureate also wrote a popular series of mystery novels featuring an amateur detective originally modeled on W.H. Auden.
126. A charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame, this tackle went from Ole Miss to the Brooklyn Dodgers (no, not those Brooklyn Dodgers) and eventually ended up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as well.
127. DJMQ: A onetime member of the Lester Horton Dance Theatre, she moved on to Broadway where she met the tall Trinidadian who became her husband – and with whom she choreographed her signature solo.
128. Along with a Jesuit missionary, he became the first white man to map the Mississippi River.
129. He was hanged for horse theft in 1739, at the age of 34, but is far better known for another type of crime.
130. This German-American developmental psychologist is credited with coining the term “identity crisis” to describe the failure to achieve ego individuation during adolescence.
131. James Watt’s business partner, he also made major contributions to the process for minting coins.
132. There is some dispute as to whether he invented the typewriter, but there is no doubt that he gave us QWERTY.
133. He only published four short novels before his death in a 1940 car crash, but two of them are considered literary classics – and depressing as all hell.
134. Of the five members of a supergroup that formed in 1988 – all of whom eventually ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – he was the only one who never had a solo hit.
135. This German director’s 1996 film about an alien invasion became the first movie to gross $100 million in less than a week.
136. He is the last remaining “Watergate Baby” in the United States Senate.
137. A member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, this Aussie won the 1957 US Open as an unseeded player.
138. This sci fi icon made his first appearance in a pulp magazine in 1928, his first appearance in a comic strip in 1929, his first appearance on radio in 1932, and his first appearance on film in 1933.
139. This cookbook author is credited with introducing the practice of using standardized measuring spoons and cups.
140. This influential 18th century Irish philosopher formulated the concept of immaterialism, which contends that objects such as tables and chairs cannot exist without being perceived
141. The works of this Pre-Raphaelite painter – a colleague of Rosetti and Morris – included a watercolor called Love Among the Ruins which was accidentally destroyed by a cleaner who mistook it for an oil painting.
142. He is the founder and last surviving original member of a Motown group that amassed 16 Top Ten hits between 1965 and 1973.
143. Brother Arthur, Sister June, and Brother Michael are the only living members of the religious sect that she founded.
144. This actor received four Oscar nominations – the first under the direction of Frank Capra and the last under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.
145. This general, who died in the 180s B.C., was the subject of one of the most memorable questions in the history of WWTBAM.
146. This Mongol emperor founded the Yuan dynasty.
147. As a home run hitter, he is 17th on MLB’s all-time list – and first among designated hitters.
148. This playwright’s notable works include a 1978 drama an extra-marital affair, presented in reverse chronology.
149. The law formulated by this English scientist states that the induced electromotive force in any closed circuit is equal to the rate of the magnetic flux enclosed by the circuit.
150. Her most influential book – subtitled ‘A Fable for Tomorrow’ – begins with the words, “There once was a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings."
ASSOCIATED WORDS
7
22
86
500
F
H
IQ
CBC
Chicago
Chicago
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Las Vegas
Atlantic City
Oklahoma
Idaho
Nebraska
New England
Germany
India
Israel
Vietnam
Australia
Scotland
Churchill
JFK
Harding
Trump
Veep
Attorney General
Neocon
Captain
Archbishop
Chef
Soprano
Hobbitt
Klingon
Pete
Wesley
Carrie
Victoria
Abby
Othello
Supermarket
Dock
Farm
Cloister
Upstairs
Arsenic
Ammonia
Peas
Spaghetti
Violin
Piano
Drums
Pole
Camera
Rocket
Army
Police
Crowd
Strangers
Clueless
Mad
Hypnotism
Orgasm
Creepers
Twist
Graduation
Romance
Quantum
Imitation
Bulldog
Labour
Sunny Side
Identify the 150 people below. (Yes, that’s a lot of people, but the Tangredi is fairly simple – I hope.) Match them into 75 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. No name will be used twice.
1. This President facilitated the opening of the American West when he signed the Homestead Act.
2. He first hit the charts in 1955 with a song inspired by a traditional tune called “Ida Red.”
3. In 1689, this political philosopher wrote, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
4. Lobsters and oysters play major roles in separate poems within this author’s most famous works of fiction.
5. Alonzo Morning was only the #2 draft pick, behind this man who fully justified his #1 spot.
6. In 1996, this actress did something that Ingrid Bergman, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn, and Anne Bancroft had previously failed to do.
7. This physicist won the Nobel Prize for the discoveries he made as a result of his development of the hydrogen bubble chamber.
8. DJMQ: In 1944, he choreographed a ballet for the Metropolitan Opera – partially inspired by a painting called The Fleet’s In – that itself became the inspiration for the first of his many Broadway musicals.
Another DJMQ appears at #127.
9. This Mannerist was considered a “flawless painter” but – thanks to Vasari and Browning – he is better remembered today as an unambitious artist whose reach did not exceed his grasp.
10. This civil rights leader became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
11. The first Cistercian abbot to the canonized, he played a key role in resolving a schism in the papacy and in organizing the Second Crusade.
12. This Belgian designer did not, as some claim, invent the wrap dress, but certainly brought it into the fashion mainstream in the 1970s.
13. He was the first – and only – Colombian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
14. This New Hampshire Republican was the only Senator from New England to vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
15. Between 1963 and 2018, this pop singer won 20 Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award.
16. This English astronomer was the first to correctly hypothesize that the source of stellar energy was the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
17. Between 1945 and 1961, this American golfer amassed 40 PGA tour wins, placing him tenth on the all-time list.
18. Since 2001, this American filmmaker has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay, two for Best Animated Feature, and one each for Best Director and Best Picture.
19. This entrepreneur and his brothers began by buying and selling picture postcards, but things really took off in 1916 when he bought an engraving business and began selling his own creations.
20. As he “eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.“ Poor guy.
21. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving U.S. Fleet Admiral.
22. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
23. A leading figure in the Progressive movement, this journalist was nicknamed the “Sage of Emporia.”
24. A leading figure in the “Kosher Nostra,” this Los Angeles crime boss was the only prisoner ever bailed out of Alcatraz.
25. He was executed, and his head put on public display, in 1661 – more than two years after his death.
26. This influential soul artist released his last album six years after a concert accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.
27. This Rangers defenseman was the last winner of the Norris Trophy before Bobby Orr began his eight-year run.
28. This international cinema star died in 2017 at the age of 100.
29. This novelist won eight Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, which also named him the great Western writer of all time.
30. He did not invent the device most associated with his name, but he developed the stamped steel blades that made the device highly profitable.
31. Since opening his first restaurant in Santa Monica in 1979, this celebrity chef has become the dean of California cuisine, which he is also credited with introducing to New York.
32. This American social reformer served as first general secretary of the National Consumers League and was one of the founding members of the NAACP.
33. What this New Zealander accomplished on May 29, 1953, drove even the imminent coronation of Elizabeth II off the front pages of British newspapers.
34. A member of the Vienna Circle, this philosopher’s 1926 work The Logical Structure of the World is considered one of the seminal texts of logical positivism.
35. Today, more than 16 million people belong to the church that traces its origins to a book published by this religious leader in 1830.
36. This Cubist sculptor, who held his first solo exhibition in 1920, was later forced to flee Nazi-occupied France and eventually settled in upstate New York.
37. In 2020, he was freed by the same man who once fired him.
38. He was the first of only two Norwegian-born scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
39. This jazz trombonist and bandleader is better known for his role as the father of one of the title characters of a hit sitcom that ran from 1978 to 1982.
40. This writer’s most popular play is a satirical fantasy in which the title character, Countess Aurelia, saves Paris from destruction.
41. One of the eight inaugural members of the Motorsports Hall of Fame, he was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
42. In 1955, this Italian soprano made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Desdemona – the same role in which she made her farewell Met performance in 1973.
43. The “Effect” named for this fictional character refers to an increase in young women choosing to enter the field of medicine, science, and law enforcement.
44. This Internet billionaire is most closely associated with a file-sharing service he co-founded and a social media site he helped turn into a big business.
45. In books such as The First New Nation, this American political sociologist helped define and promote the idea of American exceptionalism.
46. In 1777, this American general was court-martialed for his retreat from Fort Ticonderoga; fourteen years later, he lost more than 600 troops in what remains the single greatest defeat of the U.S. Army by Native American forces.
47. She was the nation’s oldest First Lady … and the only once since Martha Washington to never once set foot in the White House.
48. His industrial designs included the Shell and Exxon logos … the Coca-Cola vending machine … and the 1932 Hupmobile.
49. This American engineer is the most recent of five women who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
50. After completing his term as Prime Minister, he was indicted and convicted on corruption charges stemming from his earlier stints as Trade Minister and Mayor of Jerusalem.
51. He completes a list that also includes Al Barlick, Jocko Conlan, Tom Connolly, Billy Evans, Doug Harvey, Cal Hubbard, Bill Klem, Bill McGowan, and Hank O’Day.
52. The daytime drama that she created was the first to include a story line involving the Vietnam War.
53. This Chicago blues vocalist and harmonica player is best remembered for his classic 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues.
54. This poet – son of the co-founder of a famous New York brokerage house – is one of only two people to win both the Glascock Prize (given to college undergraduates) and the Pulitzer Prize. (The other is Sylvia Plath.)
55. The work of this influential fashion photographer also included notable portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Dwight Eisenhower, Andy Warhol, Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, and the Beatles.
56. The outcome of this man’s trial resulted in what became known as the “White Night Riots.”
57. In one of the several protest songs he wrote, this labor activist coined the phrase “pie in the sky.”
58. Though best remembered today as co-author a monumental 11-volume work, this historian first achieved prominence with a 1935 book that profiled Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
59. In the 1920s, this evangelist drew the ire of the Ku Klux Klan for holding fully integrated tent meetings and services at the Foursquare Church.
60. This philosopher and logician had quite a pedigree: his paternal grandfather served as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria, and John Stuart Mill was his “secular godfather.”
61. In 1994, a chemical element was named in honor of this physicist who had made a seminal – and accidental – discovery 99 years earlier.
62. Two years after representing Clarence Earl Gideon in a landmark Supreme Court case, this jurist was himself appointed to the Court. (He didn’t stay there long.)
63. This Italian writer’s masterpiece – a novel in which two young lovers are separated by the machinations of an evil nobleman – was regarded as a veiled attack on the Austrian empire.
64. He was the only knighted actor to appear on an episode of The Twilight Zone.
65. A member of the Songwriters and Country Music halls of fame, he penned – but did not sing – a 1968 narrative hit that went to #1 on both the Pop and Country charts.
66. Winner of 42 PBA titles, he was the first bowler to amass over a million dollars in career earnings.
67. In 1967, this airline executive founded what is today the world’s largest low-cost carrier, and remained its chairman emeritus until his death last year.
68. As a criminal lawyer, he won 13 out of the 15 murder or attempted murder cases he tried, but arguably his most important case took place this year.
69. He served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army under seven Presidents – including the man who defeated him in a presidential race.
70. In addition to his 25 year stint with NBC News – during which he reported on the Vietnam War, won a Peabody for his coverage of the Black September conflict, and served as commentator on Richard Nixon’s departure from office – this correspondent also published three successful mystery novels.
71. This astronaut served as the first female commander of the International Space Station.
72. The lyrics that earned him his first Tony included the memorable lines, “When a person’s personality is personable/He shouldn’t oughta sit like a lump/It’s harder than a matador coercin’ a bull/To try to get you off of your rump.”
73. A proud member of the Ku Klux Klan, this Mississippi Senator supported the New Deal but violently opposed any moves toward desegregation and fought against an anti-lynching bill which he claimed would “open the floodgates of hell in the South.”
74. During his five seasons in the NFL (with the Seahawks and the Redskins), this wide receiver played in 54 games … which was four seasons and 53 games more than his father had managed.
75. This brunette…
76. … and this blonde were the eponymous protagonists of the longest running comic strip in U.S. history.
77. This actress has been nominated for a record 16 Cesar Awards … and one Oscar.
78. For more than 50 years, this novelist and Margaret Mitchell belonged to a very exclusive club – which now includes only Mitchell.
79. In addition to his famous experiment involving maggots, this biologist also proved that vipers do not drink wine and that snake venom is not produced in the gall bladder
80. A former administrator for the Republican National Committee, she became a passionate activist as the result of an event that took place on March 30, 1981,
81. Paintings such as Dutch Masters and Cigars and his own take on Washington Crossing the Delaware earned this American artist the title “Grandfather of Pop Art.”
82. Lacking official credentials to cover the Normandy landings, this reporter hid in a hospital ship bathroom and went ashore disguised as a stretcher bearer.
83. In 1883, this German immigrant opened a sausage-making shop in Chicago … and the rest is history.
84. While Secretary of War, he organized the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.
85. This early self-help guru developed a self-actualization technique which he dubbed Psycho-Cybernetics.
86. In the 1930s, this inventor postulated a machine called the memex which – though never constructed – is credited with inspiring the development of hypertext.
87. The titles of this writer’s first and most recent novels are both allusions to works by Elvis Costello.
88. This soft rock singer and his partner Jim scored three Top Ten hits in the 1970s – all of which peaked at #6.
89. This influential Romanian-born theatre director has worked in such venues as the Café La Mama, Circle in the Square, and the Metropolitan Opera, but perhaps his most memorable work was his innovative staging of The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center in 1977.
90. He has won more medals in the Winter Olympics than any other American skier.
91. This German philosopher – whose students included Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud – is best known for bringing the medieval concept of intentionality back into the mainstream of modern thought.
92. This educator opened the first “Casa dei Bambini” in January 1907.
93. In 1997, this Italian designer inherited 20% of the eponymous fashion house founded by her brother.
94. When this leader of Reform Judaism died in 1900, the New York Times called him “the foremost rabbi in America.”
95. Known as the “Rostov Ripper,” this Soviet serial killer murdered at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990.
96. This British scientist and his American colleague Paul Lauterbur shared a Nobel Prize for their development of MRI techniques.
97. Lead singer of an acclaimed band, he was named World’s Sexiest Vegetarian by PETA in 2005 – but began eating meat again after the breakup of his marriage to a movie star.
98. First executive director of the NHL Players Association, he became a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989 – and became a non-member nine years later after his convictions for fraud and embezzlement.
99. In a 2013 article, Entertainment Weekly called her "arguably the most iconic actress in the action genre, as well as one of the most visible Latinas in Hollywood."
100. In 1964, he became the first prime minister of what had been the British colony of Nyasaland.
101. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo
102. Separated by a miscommunication from the other eight, she – all by herself – became the first black student to integrate a white southern high school.
103. This cartoonist achieved wide popularity for his “drawn-out dramas” that infested the margins of a popular magazine.
104. This military leader’s iconic look was due to a loss he had sustained during a 1941 raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon.
105. This journalist was credited with breaking the Iran-Contra affair and revealing the CIA’s plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.
106. In addition to his evangelical work, he serves as President of the international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse.
107. He is the most notable Jewish title character in Victorian fiction – though he himself is not aware of his origins when the novel begins.
108. In 1844, this dentist begin his experiments with nitrous oxide by having one of his own teeth extracted by a colleague.
109. In the middle of his reign as world bantamweight champion, this Mexican boxer almost gave up fighting after one of his punches put his opponent into a coma from which he never awoke.
110. A member of an American dynasty, he was his state’s junior Senator for 25 years and it’s senior Senator for five.
111. When this film star took a role opposite Barbra Streisand, his country’s government formally objected. (Streisand responded, “You should see the letter I got from my Aunt Rose!”)
112. This writer considered her translation of The Divine Comedy to be her best work; millions of mystery fans beg to disagree.
113. This French philosopher’s 1945 book The Phenomenology of Perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
114. This Italian baroque composer is the father of both the Neapolitan school of opera and of Domenico
115. Founder of a cosmetics company, she was the only woman on Time magazine’s list of 20 most influential business leaders of the 20th century.
116. In 1946, this American anthropologist published an acclaimed study of Japanese culture and society.
117. This English nobleman was briefly the brother-in-law of the king – and, for a longer period, the fourth husband of his former brother-in-law’s widow. Got that?
118. The classic magazine ads for the company he founded began with the taunt, “Hey, Skinny, yer ribs are showing!”
119. Among the designs of this French Renaissance architect is the wing of the Louvre that now bears his name.
120. In recognition of her many philanthropic works – which ranged from endowing a haven for young prostitutes to financing efforts to clean up London’s drinking water to serving as president of the British Beekeepers’ Association – this Baroness became the first woman to be presented with the Freedom of the City of London.
121. A pioneer in the modern science of animal behavior, this Dutch biologist made his reputation with his 1951 book The Study of Instinct.
122. When he assumed the throne of his newly unified country, this monarch became known by his subjects as Padre della Patria.
123. This British keyboardist famously brought Bruce Springsteen his only #1 song on the pop charts.
124. Dubbed “The Ping Girl,” this starlet is best known for a 1940 role that would later be reprised by Raquel Welch.
125. Under a pseudonym, this British Poet Laureate also wrote a popular series of mystery novels featuring an amateur detective originally modeled on W.H. Auden.
126. A charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame, this tackle went from Ole Miss to the Brooklyn Dodgers (no, not those Brooklyn Dodgers) and eventually ended up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as well.
127. DJMQ: A onetime member of the Lester Horton Dance Theatre, she moved on to Broadway where she met the tall Trinidadian who became her husband – and with whom she choreographed her signature solo.
128. Along with a Jesuit missionary, he became the first white man to map the Mississippi River.
129. He was hanged for horse theft in 1739, at the age of 34, but is far better known for another type of crime.
130. This German-American developmental psychologist is credited with coining the term “identity crisis” to describe the failure to achieve ego individuation during adolescence.
131. James Watt’s business partner, he also made major contributions to the process for minting coins.
132. There is some dispute as to whether he invented the typewriter, but there is no doubt that he gave us QWERTY.
133. He only published four short novels before his death in a 1940 car crash, but two of them are considered literary classics – and depressing as all hell.
134. Of the five members of a supergroup that formed in 1988 – all of whom eventually ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – he was the only one who never had a solo hit.
135. This German director’s 1996 film about an alien invasion became the first movie to gross $100 million in less than a week.
136. He is the last remaining “Watergate Baby” in the United States Senate.
137. A member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, this Aussie won the 1957 US Open as an unseeded player.
138. This sci fi icon made his first appearance in a pulp magazine in 1928, his first appearance in a comic strip in 1929, his first appearance on radio in 1932, and his first appearance on film in 1933.
139. This cookbook author is credited with introducing the practice of using standardized measuring spoons and cups.
140. This influential 18th century Irish philosopher formulated the concept of immaterialism, which contends that objects such as tables and chairs cannot exist without being perceived
141. The works of this Pre-Raphaelite painter – a colleague of Rosetti and Morris – included a watercolor called Love Among the Ruins which was accidentally destroyed by a cleaner who mistook it for an oil painting.
142. He is the founder and last surviving original member of a Motown group that amassed 16 Top Ten hits between 1965 and 1973.
143. Brother Arthur, Sister June, and Brother Michael are the only living members of the religious sect that she founded.
144. This actor received four Oscar nominations – the first under the direction of Frank Capra and the last under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.
145. This general, who died in the 180s B.C., was the subject of one of the most memorable questions in the history of WWTBAM.
146. This Mongol emperor founded the Yuan dynasty.
147. As a home run hitter, he is 17th on MLB’s all-time list – and first among designated hitters.
148. This playwright’s notable works include a 1978 drama an extra-marital affair, presented in reverse chronology.
149. The law formulated by this English scientist states that the induced electromotive force in any closed circuit is equal to the rate of the magnetic flux enclosed by the circuit.
150. Her most influential book – subtitled ‘A Fable for Tomorrow’ – begins with the words, “There once was a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings."
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