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If this is definitely right, than my clues is definitely wrong. I don't know how to fix the clue adequately, and somebody already mentioned the guy I had in mind, so I'll just tell you I want LE CORBUSIERmrkelley23 wrote:Consolidating...
Game #115: False Starts
Identify the 80 people indicated in the clues below. Match them up into 28 triples according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Four names will be used twice, each in two different capacities.
In honor of last month’s holiday, five of the people in the clues below were residents of the White House at one time or another.
1. Although not usually associated with the “winning of the West,” this President signed into law the bill that eventually led to the creation of 1.6 million homesteads. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
WALLACE HARRISON
Okay, I went back and saw where I went wrong here. I only looked at those teams that were listed as having three MVPs, not taking into account that one person won three of them himself for the same team. Sorry.mrkelley23 wrote:
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
This sounds like JOE MONTANA. Montana, Rice, and Young won Super Bowl MVP trophies. But also PHIL SIMMS works.
The correct answer for this was given by somebody early on, and disappeared.mrkelley23 wrote:
4. This author’s masterpiece is one of the leading candidates for the title of Great American Novel, but he lost the Pulitzer Prize to Edna Ferber.
F SCOTT FITZGERALD (for The Great Gatsby)? SINCLAIR LEWIS?
5. This empiricist philosopher opined, “All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.”
GEORGE BERKELEY
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
MARIE TAGLIONI? ANNA PAVLOVA? MARGOT FONTEYN?
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
CARLOS FINLAY
8. In his penultimate film – 47 years before his death – he played his own nephew. (Well, sorta.)
9. This pioneer of American finance brought the middle class into the stock market – and the supermarket.
10. One of the giants of the struggle for African American civil rights, he died at the age of 93 just one day before the March of Washington.
WEB DUBOIS
11. He is far from the only rock musician to be nominated for an Oscar … but he is the only to be also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
BONO (or maybe BOB GELDOF)
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
LUCKY LUCIANO? AL CAPONE? MEYER LANSKY?
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
LOUIS JOSEPH DE MONTCALM
14. She chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
15. He got his current job on April 19, 2005 – only seventeen days after the post became vacant.
POPE BENEDICT XVI
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate."
SIMON COWELL
17. This amateur detective solved murders that took place on a moving train, at a resort in the tropics, during a game of Murder, and in the local minister’s study.
JANE MARPLE
18. This popular writer’s best-known characters included a South Sea island prostitute and a club-footed doctor.
SOMERSET MAUGHAM
19. On August 6, 1926, she gained instant fame by doing something only five men had done before – and doing it faster than any of them.
GERTRUDE EDERLE
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973.
CARL BERNSTEIN and BOB WOODWARD
21. In consecutive years, this television star won an award for playing a real-life athlete and lost an award for playing a real-life aviator.
SUSAN CLARK
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
WILLIAM MORTON
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER?
24. She was already an established country music star when she recorded her signature tune and biggest pop hit – penned by a relative newcomer named Willie Nelson.
PATSY CLINE
25. During his four-year tenure as U.S. Army Chief of Staff, this general strongly advocated full military mobilization in Vietnam, and almost resigned in protest over LBJ’s failure to do so.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND? MAXWELL TAYLOR?
No.mrkelley23 wrote:
26. By the time he started his own aircraft company in 1962, this inventor and entrepreneur already held more than 100 patents for aircraft communication and navigational devices.
WILLIAM LEAR
27. A member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, this colonial leader also signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
ROGER SHERMAN
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
MARJORY DOUGLAS
29. This French chef’s work at the Fleur de Lys restaurant in San Francisco won him a citation as the best chef in California.
HUBERT KELLER?
30. This trailblazing fur trader’s 1826-1827 expedition took him from the Great Salt Lake to the San Joaquin Valley and back across the Sierra Nevadas.
JIM BRIDGER
Right First Lady, but wrong designer.mrkelley23 wrote:
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
JEREMY TAYLOR
32. Explaining why he decided not to fire this long-time civil servant, Lyndon Johnson reportedly said, “I’d rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.”
J EDGAR HOOVER
33. One of his best poems ends with the memorable couplet, “It is the blight man was born for,/It is Margaret you mourn for.”
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
DOMINIQUE WILKINS
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
JAMES CHADWICK
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
LINDSAY ANDERSON
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
CHARLES IVES
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
SWEENEY TODD
39. This journalist wasn’t so popular with the Nixon administration while he was working for Jack Anderson, but his work with Fox News has made him much more palatable to the Bush administration.
BRIT HUME
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
GROVER CLEVELAND
41. This educational reformer was also one of the architects of the philosophy of Pragmatism.
JOHN DEWEY
42. President of a major union for forty years, he founded an even larger labor organization in 1935
JOHN LEWIS?
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
GEORGE MARSHALL
44. One of the greatest American fashion designers, he first won fame for what he put on top of a First Lady’s head.
OLEG CASSINI
Somebody is selling Martina way short here.mrkelley23 wrote:
45. This artist helped define the image of the Roaring Twenties with his magazine covers depicting short-skirted flappers and college boys with slicked-back hair.
JOHN HELD, JR.
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
GREGORY PINCUS?
47. This English author’s writing career began in the 1890s when she sent a sick child a series of illustrated animal stories.
BEATRIX POTTER
48. Arguably the greatest American movie actor never nominated for an Oscar, he died shortly after learning that he had been voted a Lifetime Achievement award. (The Oscar was accepted by his widow.)
EDWARD G ROBINSON
49. This tennis great accumulated 31 Grand Slam titles – including four singles titles at the French championships, seven at the U.S championships, and eight at Wimbledon – as well as Olympic gold medals for both singles and doubles.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
mrkelley23 wrote:
50. This English explorer was the first European to reach the Lake Victoria, which he argued – but never proved – was the source of the Nile.
JOHN SPEKE
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
EDWARD K. "DUKE" ELLINGTON
52. This Utah native …
BUTCH CASSIDY (Robert LeRoy Parker)
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
THE SUNDANCE KID (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh)
54. This monarch called smoking “a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the stinking fume thereof resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."
JAMES I STUART
55. Only three years after his conversion, he became one of the original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and quickly rose to full leadership the Church.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
56. Longtime head of one of the nation’s most successful corporations, he is credited with introducing annual style changes – and thereby planned obsolescence – to the auto industry.
ALFRED SLOAN
57. Inspired by the work of Jane Addams, this reformer’s efforts on behalf of slum dwellers and striking workers earned her the soubriquet “Angel of the Stockyards.”
MARY MCDOWELL
58. Not only were this baseball great and a National Leaguer who played the same position each named MVP three times – they both received their first and third citations the same year. Got that?
YOGI BERRA
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
GEORGE THOMAS
60. On March 7, 1876, this inventor was granted Patent No. 174,465 – arguably the most valuable U.S. patent ever issued – by a nose.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
61. The first of his four novels won him the most acclaim; the title of his posthumously-published last novel became a timeless aphorism.
THOMAS WOLFE?
62. Though best known for a far different type of Broadway entertainment, he also produced what is generally considered the most influential musical of the pre-Okalahoma era.
GEORGE M COHAN? FLORENZ ZIEGFELD?
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU?
64. In 1934, this radio announcer broadcast the first major league baseball game he had ever attended; he like it so much, he kept doing play-by-plays for 33 years.
RED BARBER?
65. This soprano made her La Scala debut in 1946 under the direction of Toscanini, who declared that she had “the voice of an angel.”
MARIA CALLAS?
66. The member of the Ashcan School started out as a newspaper illustrator, but became better known for realistic paintings of ordinary life, such as The Rag Picker and Hester Street.
GEORGE LUKS
67. This First Lady predeceased her husband by ten months to the day.
PAT NIXON?
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
SCOTT CARPENTER
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
ROGER BACON
70. The wedding of this mismatched pair was presided over by a real turkey.
71. This Canadian-born entrepreneur opened the first of what became a chain of famous establishments on New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1907.
72. This jurist took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court in order to prosecute some of the worst criminals of all time.
ROBER JACKSON
73. This Victorian cleric helped shape the modern concept of a “liberal education.”
74. This general, who learned to fly from the Wright Brothers, earned his fifth star as a result of his leadership during World War II.
HAP ARNOLD?
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
ISHMAEL REED?
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
GARY COOPER?
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
78. Once a pin boy in his father’s St. Louis bowling center, this future PBA Hall of Famer won the first of his 17 titles at the age of 22.
DICK WEBER? DON CARTER?
79. He is a double inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame –as a solo artist and as a member of a group whose membership included two other double inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – and has hit Number One on the pop charts in duets with one single inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one double inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Got that?
PAUL MCCARTNEY
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
WOODROW WILSON
