#42
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by franktangredi » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:46 am
Updated consolidation. I know some of th matches are probably wrong. And there are other people one can make - such as playwright Maxwell Anderson - who aren't clearly associated with a state. But it's a start.
Alabama: 99 + ??? = Harper Lee
Alaska: 43 + 2 = Jack London
Arizona:
Arkansas:
California: 56 + 27 = Raymond Chandler
Colorado:
Connecticut:
Delaware: 68 + 42 = Caesar Rodney
Florida:
Georgia:
Hawaii:
Idaho:
Illinois: ??? + 85 = Paul Simon
Indiana:
Iowa:
Kansas: 21 + 86 = Charles Curtis
Kentucky:
Louisiana:
Maine: 41 + ??? = Stephen King
Maryland:
Massachusetts: 20 + 1 = William Bradford
Michigan:
Minnesota: 54 + 91 = Sinclair Lewis
Mississippi:
Missouri: 83 + 14 = Harry Truman
Montana:
Nebraska:
Nevada:
New Hampshire: 5 + 47 = Judd Gregg
New Jersey:
New Mexico:
New York: ??? + 96 = Thomas Dewey
North Carolina:
North Dakota: 95 + 25 = Kent Conrad
Ohio:
Oklahoma:
Oregon:
Pennsylvania:
Rhode Island:
South Carolina: 33 + 89 = Lindsey Graham
South Dakota:
Tennessee: 77 + 3 = Howard Baker
Texas: 4 + 48 = Nolan Ryan
Utah:
Vermont:
Virginia: 40 + 11 = James Madison
Washington:
West Virginia: 29 + ??? = Jennings Randolph
Wisconsin: 44 + 10 = Penny Marshall
Wyoming:
* 1. BRADFORD DILLMAN
*2. LONDON FLETCHER
*3. BAKER MAYFIELD
*4. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
*5. ASHLEY JUDD
6. BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON
7. DEAN ACHESON
8. CLAY CARROLL
9. ALLEN DRURY
*10. MARSHALL APPLEWHITE
*11. MADISON KEYS
12. RONALD WAYNE
13. GILBERT STUART
*14. TRUMAN CAPOTE
15. HANK AARON
16. EMERSON FITTIPALDI
17. In one of his more acclaimed films, this Danish director’s wife played the mother of a better known Swedish director.
18. MURRAY HAMILTON
19. Her final best-selling book begins with a chapter called “A Fable for Tomorrow,” a parable about the effects of the dangers warned about in the book.
RACHEL CARSON
* 20. WARREN WILLIAM
*21. RAY CHARLES
22. MARILYN MAXWELL
23. MICHELLE TRIOLA MARVIN
24. KIRBY GRANT
*25. CONRAD HILTON
26. CARTER HARRISON
*27. CHANDLER RIGGS
28. COOPER MANNING
*29. WAYLON JENNINGS
30. MARY BRIAN
31ALEXANDER POPE
32. GEORGE WILL
*33. HAL LINDSEY
34. CAMPBELL BROWN
35. SEYMOUR CRAY
36. This scientist, who described himself as “100% Democrat,” is perhaps the most prominent scientific opponent of the Paris Climate Accords and has stated that the environmental movement had been “hijacked by a bunch of climate fanatics.”
37. Her first marriage at age 16 to a well-known painter three decades her senior lasted less than a year but led to her meeting and later posing for a number of her husband’s artist friends, including photographer Julia Cameron, who took a famous photograph of her on her honeymoon at the home of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
38. He used the alias A.J. Hidell on occasion, although a number of people believe Hidell was actually a real person.
39. KEITH DAVID
*40. DENNIS JAMES
*41. LESLIE STEPHEN
*42. RODNEY DANGERFIELD
*43. JARRETT JACK
*44. JOE PENNY
45. A mountain range in Utah was named in honor of this scientist in 1872, the last range to be added to the map of the contiguous United States.
46. TONY BILL
*47. GREGG ALLMAN
*48. RYAN REYNOLDS
49. Although a non-gambler himself, this former Representative was probably the leading Congressional proponent of legalizing online gambling while he was in office; in fact, a number of the country’s most prominent poker players held fundraisers for him.
50. BRYAN SINGER
51. “And Sudden Death,” an article he published in his magazine in 1935, was one of the first to describe the aftermath of auto accidents in (for the time) rather graphic fashion and is credited with first raising public consciousness about auto safety issues.
52. EDDIE FLOYD
53. Before becoming an actor, he was the lead guitarist for the Blinking Underdogs, which experience may have been helpful for his role in a Coen Brothers film.
*54. MADGE SINCLAIR
55. JACKSON BROWNE
*56. USHER RAYMOND
57. He was the oldest player to win a PGA tournament since the advent of the Senior PGA Tour (now PGA Champions Tour).
58. This painter, who was loosely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is best known for a series of twelve paintings commemorating the exploits of John Henry, which are on permanent display at the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles.
59. This suffragette, a cousin of Emma Lazarus, helped found the National Consumers League, an organization dedicated to improving wages and conditions for retail working women at the turn of the century, and was President of the New York chapter for 20 years; during this same time period, her younger sister was one of the leading anti-suffragettes of the era.
60. This white Pittsburgh businessman is best remembered today for a historically black university in Charlotte, NC, that bears his name.
61. He won an Emmy for playing a politician and a second Emmy for playing a crossdresser (no, they weren’t the same character).
62. Knowing this politician’s most infamous quote won me $32,000 on a certain game show.
63. This actor is best known for his role on The Wire, but has been seen recently in series on BET and VH1, as well as a guest-starring stint on Justified with his better known younger brother as a pair of Shakespeare-quoting goons.
64. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
65. On St. Patrick’s Day, 1955, hometown fans of this hockey player started a major riot in a shopping district near the arena, resulting in three dozen injuries and over 60 arrests, following the announcement of his suspension for the remainder of the season as a result of a fight in an earlier game.
66. Although authors are only eligible to win the Prix Goncourte once, he won it a second time under a pseudonym and had a relative pose as the author; the subterfuge was not discovered until the publication of his posthumous memoir on the matter.
67. JERRY RUBIN
*68. JULIUS CAESAR
69. This member of the Adult Video News Hall of Fame made news of a different sort in 2015 when TMZ aired film of her passed out on the sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip; she later claimed she had been roofied.
70. He hosted the first television news broadcast in 1939 and, a year later, anchored the first live TV coverage of the Republican Nation Convention in Philadelphia, even though he was in a New York studio at the time.
71. MARTIN LUTHER
72. On the subject of dropouts, he dropped out of Baylor, where he was a member of a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood, but was then admitted to Duke Medical School where he graduated and was subsequently licensed to practice medicine.
73. His books were subsequently made into movies starring Glenn Ford, Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Roy Scheider, and Randolph Scott.
74. This 19th century artist was renowned for her popular paintings of flowers, which illustrated books of poetry, the best known of which was commonly called The Wild Flowers of America.
75. ANDERSON SILVA
76. NEWTON MINOW
*77. DWIGHT HOWARD
78. SCOTT GLENN
79. This actress is best known for her role as the stepmother and high school principal of the title character on a popular sitcom and later appeared as the mother of the title character on another sitcom and the mistress of the title character’s father on a show that was far from a sitcom. Got that?
80. One of the minor characters in Gone with the Wind is named after this real life Confederate general who became a significant political figure after the Civil War.
NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST?
81. JOYCE MAYNARD
82. EDWIN MOSES
*83. DEBBIE HARRY
84. DICK SHAWN
*85. SIMON WARD
*86. CURTIS LeMAY
87. In 1974, Philip K. Dick sent a letter to the FBI claiming that this foreign science fiction writer was actually a Communist committee created to foment Communist propaganda in the guise of science fiction; ironically, although this writer had previously been publicly critical of American science fiction in general, he specifically exempted Dick’s work from criticism, hailing Dick as a visionary.
88. LARRY CRAIG
*89. GRAHAM NASH
90. KELLY PRESTON
*91. LEWIS POWELL
92. This Nixon cabinet member from Maryland often joked that his middle initials stood for “Chesapeake Bay.”
93. FORREST TUCKER
94. This British scientist is best remembered for a spherical bomb/torpedo he developed in World War II, the successful use of which against a seemingly indestructible German target was dramatized in a 1955 movie in which he was portrayed by Michael Redgrave.
*95. JEFF KENT
*96. DEWEY BALFA
97. The only movie this actor ever directed featured the first nude scene by a mainstream star in a U.S. movie since the adoption of the Production Code; somewhat fittingly, bodies featured rather prominently in his best-known film role as well.
98. In 1998, only a few months before his death, he and his law partner agreed to forfeit $5 million in company stock to settle charges stemming from their involvement in the B.C.C.I. scandal.
*99. JESSICA HARPER
100. PARKER POSEY