SSS Puzzle

[Bob Juch]

90. During his presidential campaign, he told a group of local Jewish leaders shortly before the New York primary that he would consider selecting Jesse Jackson as his Vice-Presidential candidate, a mistake that cost him any chance of winning the primary and the Democratic nomination.

GARY HART?

[macrae1234]

66. He threatened to quit the Michigan football team in 1934 when a black teammate was benched before a game with Georgia Tech to avoid a threatened boycott by the Tech team; ironically, that would be the only game Michigan won that season.

GERALD FORD? BYRON WHITE?
White played for the Colorado Buffaloes still the only Colorad native Justice

[mellytu74]

68. He is the better known of the Joy Boys.

This is WILLARD SCOTT

[macrae1234]

2. He holds the record, since tied by Jim Thome, for most career walk-off home runs.

I believe there are 5 choices here Ruth, Mantle, Foxx, Musial and Robinson all have 12 Thome 13

[mellytu74]

57. His most famous quote first appeared on a poster featuring for Earth Day 1970 featuring his most famous literary creation.

I believe this is WALT KELLY. We have met the enemy and he is us, with Pogo.

[silverscreenselect]

2. He holds the record, since tied by Jim Thome, for most career walk-off home runs.

I believe there are 5 choices here Ruth, Mantle, Foxx, Musial and Robinson all have 12 Thome 13

This includes postseason home runs as well as regular season.

[macrae1234]

30. This Irish writer was living in Paris when World War II broke out and joined the resistance; when he wasn’t supplying arms to the resistance (for which he won the Croix de Guerre) or running from the Gestapo, he managed to write his second novel
Scott Bakula I mean Sam Beckett

[mellytu74]

82. Sixty years before Matt Damon tied up Jimmy Kimmel, Red Skelton similarly tied up this performer so he could host the performer’s local TV show.

I just saw this on PBS.

It's JOHNNY CARSON.

[macrae1234]

This includes postseason home runs as well as regular season.

IN the question or the answer Mantle was the only one to hit a post season walk off

[mellytu74]

87. He was the first defensive player to win the Bert Bell MVP Award.

Boonie thinks this is ANDY ROBUSTELLI, defensive end for the New York Football Giants.

[macrae1234]

71. His first significant job was clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes; his last significant job, which ended shortly after his arrest, was as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Alger Hiss I know he fits 2 clerked for Holmes and arrested

[macrae1234]

13. The epitaph on his piano-shaped mausoleum reads “Here lies one Hell of a man.”

JIMMY DEAN? LIBERACE? It's not Liberace I have seen his gravesite at Forest lawn

[macrae1234]

34. His refusal to sign the Constitution because it did not contain a Bill of Rights led to the end of his long friendship with George Washington.

GEORGE MASON? PATRICK HENRY?
I remember them saying that about him when George Mason U had the run in the NCAA tournament, most people didn't know who he was>

[macrae1234]

35. During the French and Indian War, he surveyed much of the St. Lawrence River, allowing General Wolfe to successfully navigate the river and land his forces for the attack on Quebec.

GEORGE WASHINGTON? JAMES COOK?
While he was a surveyor Washington never ventured that far north from Virginia

[macrae1234]

In 1922, he sponsored a group of researchers at the University of Toronto in their efforts to mass-produce insulin: they won the Nobel Prize for medicine, and his company became the first to market insulin commercially.

Ah yes Dr Frederick Banting and Dr Charles Best. Banting a Nobel Laureate for medicine was born in Alliston ON where Canadian and some American Hondas are assembled. Their story was immortalized in a late 1980's CBC production Glory Enough for All, but I digress the Eli Lilly Co of Indianapolis were their sponsers at least as so depicted in the biopic.

[macrae1234]

51. This financier was convicted in both state and federal court on multiple fraud and bribery counts involving cotton and fertilizer scams and was a prime suspect in the unsolved murder of the man who initially blew the whistle on him, but he claimed the murder was actually ordered by Lyndon Johnson to cover up LBJ’s own role in the scam.
Has to be Billy Sol Estes
**sorry missed someone got that one

[macrae1234]

85. He was the first non-monarch to have a furniture style named after him.
And a group of dancers Thomas Chippendale

[macrae1234]

95. This producer’s first TV series, about the modern day peace time military, was cancelled after one season, but the star of that series had a memorable guest star role on the pilot episode of his much better known second TV series.

Could this be "The Lieutenant" Gene Roddenberry's 60's show about marines in California starring Gary Lockwood and Robert Vaughn Lockwood had a major role in an early Star Trek episode

[smilergrogan]

Hey you guys, it's ok to answer more than one question per post.

[macrae1234]

This cabinet official created the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a division within his department without authorization by Congress and appointed its first head, eight years before Congress formally established the position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

I know it was originally part of the War Department "now there is a news flash" who were Secretaries of War that became famous James Monroe, John C Calhoun Jeff Davis. Davis is too late must have had one before him in the 1850's, did you know he married Zachary Taylor's daughter she died not long after of malaria, this sounds more like what Calhoun would do

[Pastor Fireball]

26. This musician has his own signature line of hot sauces; a quesadilla flavored with his sauce is available at the Hard Rock Café.

JOE PERRY of Aerosmith

[Bob Juch]

Hey you guys, it's ok to answer more than one question per post.

Sorry, but with the outages we've been having I was afraid of losing my post if I put it all in one. Yeah, I know I could paste into a Notepad Window then cut and paste into the reply, but I'm on my laptop so don't have the screen area to do that easily.

[Bob Juch]

71. His first significant job was clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes; his last significant job, which ended shortly after his arrest, was as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Alger Hiss I know he fits 2 clerked for Holmes and arrested

It sucks getting old. I switched Hiss and Chambers.

[elwoodblues]

91. He was selected for a key government post after John Tower failed to get the job.

Dick Cheney. He was George HW Bush's choice for Sec. of Defense after the Tower nomination was defeated.

[Estonut]

90. During his presidential campaign, he told a group of local Jewish leaders shortly before the New York primary that he would consider selecting Jesse Jackson as his Vice-Presidential candidate, a mistake that cost him any chance of winning the primary and the Democratic nomination.

GARY HART?

No, as I said before, this was Jerry Brown. My answers were lost in an inept consolidation.