jarnon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:25 pm
franktangredi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:32 pm
Only one of the definite answers is wrong.
Stuck at home and in no rush to do my taxes, I have time to go through all the definites to find the wrong one:
113. This French philosopher’s 1945 book
The Phenomenology of Perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
ALBERT CAMUS
That means the other definites are right…
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. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
2. CHUCK BERRY
3. JOHN LOCKE
4. LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Dodgson)
5. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL
6. In 1996, this actress did something that Ingrid Bergman, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn, and Anne Bancroft had previously failed to do.
SUSAN SARANDON? Confirmed
7. This physicist won the Nobel Prize for the discoveries he made as a result of his development of the hydrogen bubble chamber.
NIELS BOHR? No, this was DONALD GLASER
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. RALPH ABERNATHY
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
12. DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
13. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
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.
TONY BENNETT
16. This English astronomer was the first to correctly hypothesize that the source of stellar energy was the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
ARTHUR EDDINGTON
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.
BRAD BIRD? It's actually WES ANDERSON
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.
HALL? CURRIER? IVES? JOYCE HALL is correct
20. GREGOR SAMSA
21. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving U.S. Fleet Admiral.
CHESTER NIMITZ? Confirmed
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. WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
24. MICKEY COHEN
25. OLIVER CROMWELL
26. CURTIS MAYFIELD
27. This Rangers defenseman was the last winner of the Norris Trophy before Bobby Orr began his eight-year run.
BRAD PARK? No, it's HARRY HOWELL and that's the third wrong single question mark, so the rest must be right
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.
ZANE GREY? LOUIS L'AMOUR? Surprisingly, this is someone named ELMER KELTON. And that's the one with alternates that did not contain the correct answer
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.
JOHN DEERE? GILETTE? SCHICK? Looks like KING GILLETTE is the subject of this clue
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. FLORENCE KELLEY
33. EDMUND HILLARY
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.
RUDOLPH CARNAP
35. JOSEPH SMITH
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. ROD BLAGOJEVICH
38. He was the first of only two Norwegian-born scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
LARS ONSAGER
39. CONRAD JANIS
40. This writer’s most popular play is a satirical fantasy in which the title character, Countess Aurelia, saves Paris from destruction.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
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.
RENATA TIBALDI
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. SEAN PARKER
45. In books such as
The First New Nation, this American political sociologist helped define and promote the idea of American exceptionalism.
LIPSETT? SEYMOUR LIPSET is correct
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.
ST. CLAIR or SCHUYLER ARTHUR ST. CLAIR is correct
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.
BESS TRUMAN? RACHEL JACKSON? HARRISON? ANNA HARRISON is correct
48. RAYMOND LOEWY
49. This American engineer is the most recent of five women who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
FRANCES ARNOLD
50. EHUD OLMERT
51. NESTOR CHYLAK
52. AGNES NIXON
53. JUNIOR WELLS
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. RICHARD AVEDON
56. DAN WHITE
57. JOE HILL
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. AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON
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.”
BERTRAND RUSSELL? Confirmed
61. WILHELM ROENTGEN
62. ABE FORTAS
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. TOM T. HALL
66. EARL ANTHONY
67. HERB KELLEHER
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.
DERSHOWITZ? Confirmed
69. WINFIELD SCOTT
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.
PEGGY WHITSON
72. STEPHEN SONDHEIM
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…
FRITZ or HANS
76. … and this blonde were the eponymous protagonists of the longest running comic strip in U.S. history.
HANS or FRITZ KATZENJAMMER
77. This actress has been nominated for a record 16 Cesar Awards … and one Oscar.
78. HARPER LEE
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. SARAH BRADY
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. MARTHA GELHORN
83. OSCAR MEYER
84. EDWIN STANTON
85. This early self-help guru developed a self-actualization technique which he dubbed Psycho-Cybernetics.
SEWARD?
86. VANNEVAR BUSH
87. BRET EASTON ELLIS
88. DASH CROFTS
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. BODE MILLER
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. MARIA MONTESSORI
93. In 1997, this Italian designer inherited 20% of the eponymous fashion house founded by her brother.
DONATELLA VERSACE?
94. ISAAC MAYER WISE
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.
PETER MANSFIELD
97. CHRIS MARTIN
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.
ALAN EAGLESON? Confirmed
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."
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ
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
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
102. ELIZABETH ECKFORD
103. SERGIO ARAGONES
104. MOSHE DAYAN
105. This journalist was credited with breaking the Iran-Contra affair and revealing the CIA’s plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.
JACK ANDERSON
106. In addition to his evangelical work, he serves as President of the international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM
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.
CARLOS ZARATE? Confirmed, although Wikipedia lists his full name as CARLOS ZARATE SERNA
110. A member of an American dynasty, he was his state’s junior Senator for 25 years and it’s senior Senator for five.
JAY ROCKEFELLER? Confirmed
111. OMAR SHARIF
112. DOROTHY SAYERS
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. ESTEE LAUDER
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. CHARLES ATLAS
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. VICTOR EMMANUEL
123. MANFRED MANN
124. CAROLE LANDIS
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.
LOUIS JOLIET
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.
CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES
133. NATHANIEL WEST
134. JEFF LYNNE
135. This German director’s 1996 film about an alien invasion became the first movie to gross $100 million in less than a week.
ROLAND EMMERICH
136. He is the last remaining “Watergate Baby” in the United States Senate.
PATRICK LEAHY
137. ROD LAVER
138. BUCK ROGERS
139. FANNY FARMER
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. OTIS WILLIAMS
143. Brother Arthur, Sister June, and Brother Michael are the only living members of the religious sect that she founded.
MOTHER ANN LEE? Confirmed
144. This actor received four Oscar nominations – the first under the direction of Frank Capra and the last under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.
CLAUDE RAINS? JAMES STEWART? CLAUDE RAINS is correct
145. HANNIBAL
146. KUBLAI KHAN
147. DAVID ORTIZ
148. HAROLD PINTER
149. MICHAEL FARADAY
150. RACHEL CARSON
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