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by smilergrogan » Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:36 am
Here's a consolidation (if you find it to be inept, then do your own damn consolidation instead of whining).
Could be coincidence, but there are a lot of last names that could be first names, and some direct combinations such as Dean Martin and Campbell Brown (or Scott Brown) and Ruby Keeler (almost Garrison Keillor) could be made, but that's not going to work 50 times.
There are a few repeat first names, so that usually means first names aren't involved in the matches.
Back by popular demand, the SSS Puzzle. First, you must identify the 100 famous people from the following clues. Then, you must match these people up to form 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle which you must discover for yourself. There are some alternate pairings possible, but many of these will not allow you to solve the entire puzzle. I think you'll be able to get a general idea of the Tangredi fairly quickly, but the sooner you figure out exactly how it works, the sooner you will eliminate a lot of potential dead ends. Unlike some of my puzzles, there is absolutely no significance to the number of clues, or pairs, in this puzzle.
1. This prominent Republican voted against the War in Iraq and later claimed he wrote in George H. Bush for President in 2004 instead of George W. because of the Iraq War.
LINCOLN CHAFEE? CHUCK HAGEL?
2. He holds the record, since tied by Jim Thome, for most career walk-off home runs.
MICKEY MANTLE
3. At the time he became known to the general public, he was the owner of the Carousel Club.
JACK RUBY
4. His father was first elected to Congress in 1932, and either he or his father has served in Congress ever since
JOHN DINGELL
5. This actor turned down Don Johnson’s role in Miami Vice; ironically, in his breakthrough film a few years earlier, he played an actor who played a detective on a popular TV series.
TOM BERENGER?
6. This reporter first gained widespread recognition for covering Barack Obama’s presidential campaign for Fox, and, shortly before Obama’s inauguration, became Fox’s White House correspondent.
SHEPARD SMITH?
7. In 1835, the Georgia legislature passed a bill offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who could arrest this prominent northerner and bring him to Georgia for trial on charges of fomenting a slave insurrection.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
8. A nightclub brawl at the Copacabana in which he participated led to his trade to Kansas City a month later.
BILLY MARTIN
9. In 1981, he was badly injured in a private airplane crash, which led to a reduced role and his eventual departure from the company he had co-founded several years earlier.
STEVE WOZNIAK
10. One of his earliest acting roles was as a boy needing a liver transplant on an X-Files episode remarkably similar to the current TV series, Touch.
11. In his autobiography, Malcolm X referred to this comic as “the funniest dishwasher on this earth.”
REDD FOXX
12. In 1960, this clergyman came out with a statement opposing the election of JFK, saying “our culture is at stake,” because he felt Kennedy would support the Catholic Church over U.S. interests; his opposition to Kennedy soon became a campaign issue even though Nixon tried to distance himself from the comments.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
13. The epitaph on his piano-shaped mausoleum reads “Here lies one Hell of a man.”
JIMMY DEAN
14. She was the earliest born of any Academy Award acting nominee.
MAY ROBSON
15. Producer Joseph Levine signed this actor to a seven-year contract shortly before the actor’s breakthrough picture, but when Levine saw the finished picture, he fired the actor, who would soon become one of the world’s leading sex symbols, because he thought the actor’s onscreen acting style was too gay.
MICHAEL CAINE?
16. He is the only person to have served two different times on the U.S. Supreme Court.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
17. After Woodrow Wilson, who had called him a traitor, denied him a pardon earlier in 1921, Warren Harding commuted his sentence to time served, and he was released on Christmas Day, visiting Harding in the White House on his way home.
EUGENE DEBS
18. In 1943, this chemist performed an experiment on himself to test the effects of his best known discovery; the event has since been celebrated by his admirers as Bicycle Day.
ALBERT HOFFMAN
19. One of his greatest victories came when his troops used homemade ropes to climb down the steep side of Mount Vesuvius and attack the unsuspecting enemy in the rear.
SPARTACUS? HANNIBAL?
20. No fan of Margaret Thatcher, this singer had a song on his first solo album entitled “Margaret on the Guillotine.”
MORRISSEY
21. He moved from New York to Seattle to start his business because he realized that, by locating the business in Washington, fewer of his customers would have to pay sales tax.
JEFF BEZOS?
22. He wrote the phrase: “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
23. She appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue three times, the third when she was pregnant.
KATHY IRELAND
24. In his eulogy at Michael Jackson’ s funeral, he said that Jackson was the greatest entertainer who had ever lived.
BERRY GORDY
25. Late in his career, he played William McKinley in a TV miniseries; earlier, he had one of his better film roles playing McKinley’s successor.
BRIAN KEITH
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
27. This state governor tan for office in 1859 on an antisecession platform, but was removed from office after refusing to take an oath supporting the Confederacy after the state legislature voted to secede.
SAM HOUSTON
28. This model-turned-actress got her first major role because the film’s producers thought she looked like Cybill Shepherd, but when they publicized her best-known modeling assignment in connection with the film, the client fired her and her modeling career essentially came to an end.
MARILYN CHAMBERS?
29. A photograph of the Fort Peck Dam by this photographer was on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT
31. She originally planned to call her highly successful first novel The Tree and the Blossom but decided to give it the name of the small town where it takes place, a fictionalized version of her own New Hampshire home town.
GRACE METALIOUS
32. He was offered a role in The Shining but refused it unless Stanley Kubrick, who directed him previously in his best role, would agree to film his scenes in less than 100 takes; when Kubrick refused, Scatman Crothers was cast instead.
WOODY STRODE?
33. This actor/director, considered one of the best dressed men in Hollywood, had an office in the White House when he worked for Dwight Eisenhower as probably the world’s first political image consultant, preparing Ike for his TV appearances.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
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
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.
JAMES COOK
36. This actress got started in vaudeville working with two comics who dressed as a performing horse; she adopted the name of their act as her own stage name.
37. Lots of politicians have gotten in trouble for arranging cushy jobs for their mistresses; this one got in trouble for getting his male lover a position as the state’s homeland security adviser.
JIM MCGREEVEY
38. This Hall of Fame baseball player’s relationship with his first team soured when the club owner’s wife offered him a part-time job as an assistant gardener on her estate.
39. During testimony before a postwar commission, he was the first person to go on record claiming that Germany’s loss in World War I was due to a “stab in the back by disloyal elements.”
PAUL VON HINDENBURG
40. As a young man, he worked as a reporter at a Raleigh TV station managed by family friend Jesse Helms, who nominated him for the Freedoms Foundation Leadership Award for his work with Vietnam vets; later he would publicly condemn Helms at a gay pride parade on the steps of the North Carolina State Capitol.
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN?
41. 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.
ELI LILLY
42. This former Congressman succeeded Jack Valenti as president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
DAN GLICKMAN
43. In his best known film role, he was overshadowed by Anthony Perkins, who played one of his brothers; in his best known TV role, he was also overshadowed by his brothers.
PERNELL ROBERTS
44. You might be surprised to learn that Alex Trebek briefly hosted the syndicated version of To Tell the Truth; you’d be even more surprised that this celebrity immediately preceded Trebek as host.
LYNN SWANN
45. She has more Billboard 100 hits than any female singer other that Aretha Franklin.
MARIAH CAREY? JANET JACKSON? RIHANNA? KATY PERRY? CELINE DION?
46. Although she retired from pro golf at the age of 34 due to physical ailments and competed only occasionally after that, she is second all time in both LPGA tour wins and major championships.
MICKEY WRIGHT
47. This actor, who was best known for his role in a famous ensemble film, once saved Frank Sinatra and the producer’s wife from drowning while on location in Hawaii.
BRAD DEXTER
48. He and Mickey Spillane were the first two celebrity spokesmen for Miller Lite Beer.
BUBBA SMITH?
49. This horror writer’s best known short story concerns a clergyman who is driven mad, and eventually to suicide, by a ghostly, blaspheming monkey that only he can see.
50. He is the only lyricist to win Best Song Oscars in two consecutive years.
JOHNNY MERCER
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.
BILLY SOL ESTES
52. Her knowledge of Princess Di helped a contestant win $32,000 on a popular game show.
ROSIE O'DONNELL
53. He is the only college football coach to take six different schools to bowl games.
LOU HOLTZ
54. He was suspended by ESPN following an appearance on The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn in which he referred to Bristol, CT, as a godforsaken place; he left the network shortly thereafter.
KEITH OLBERMANN
55. This director was the subject of a documentary in which he ate his shoe, on camera, as the result of a lost bet with another director.
WERNER HERZOG
56. He was scheduled to be CBS’s lead broadcaster for the 1960 Winter Olympics but his fear of failure led to a nervous breakdown, and he was replaced by Walter Cronkite.
JIM MCKAY
57. His most famous quote first appeared on a poster featuring for Earth Day 1970 featuring his most famous literary creation.
WALT KELLY
58. In his first movie, he is chased by Charles Durning, who was upset because he turned down Durning’s offer to be a celebrity spokesperson for his business.
KERMIT THE FROG
59. In 2010, he confessed his illegal activities in a series of IM chats to well-known hacker Adrian Lamo, who then reported him to the FBI.
BRADLEY MANNING
60. A tapestry he created for the opening of the World Trade Center was probably the most valuable artwork destroyed during the 9/11 attack.
61. This celebrity tried to improve the eating habits of the people of Huntington, WV, which had been named the unhealthiest city in America.
JAMIE OLIVER
62. Nearly half a century before his actual death, he became seriously ill while visiting China, and the Japanese press mistakenly reported he had died; ironically, this “news” reached Britain the day before the report of his divorce from his first wife, leading to some juicy speculation.
63. While serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I, he was imprisoned for several months on treason charges following some injudicious comments written in a letter to home that was intercepted by French censors; the experience formed the basis for his first novel.
e.e cummings
64. Four days before her death in 1975, she opened in a review in Paris that celebrated her 50 years in show business whose attendees included Princess Grace, Diana Ross, Sophia Loren, and Mick Jagger; newspapers containing rave reviews of the event were found in the bed where she died.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
65. Perhaps his best film role was remade almost forty years later by Matt Damon.
GLEN CAMPBELL
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
67. He is the most recent head coach to have a losing season at the same school the year after playing in the BCS Championship Game.
GENE CHIZIK
68. He is the better known of the Joy Boys.
WILLARD SCOTT
69. In her last widely released film, she shared a Razzie nomination with four other actresses; in her only independent film since then, she tied her husband with duct tape to a toilet seat.
MEG RYAN
70. He made his film debut in an Elvis Presley movie and later played both Elvis and an Elvis impersonator.
KURT RUSSELL
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
72. She is the most recent female astronaut.
73. He holds the Major League record for most all-time opening day starts by a pitcher (16).
TOM SEAVER
74. La Toya Jackson’s future husband, Jack Gordon, was convicted of trying to bribe him; when FBI agents arrived in his office to arrest Gordon, Gordon tried to strangle him.
75. This composer’s best known work was originally commissioned and performed as a ballet by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, but it became a big success a year later when first performed in the U.S. as an orchestral piece (as it’s almost always performed today) by Arturo Toscanini.
ARAM KHACHATURIAN? AARON COPLAND?
76. Many in the south blamed him for the loss at Gettysburg, although that may have resulted more from his joining the Republican Party and endorsing Grant for president in 1868 than from his actual conduct during the battle.
JAMES LONGSTREET
77. Her former residence, commonly referred to as the Dump, was a destination on the final leg of a recent season of The Amazing Race.
MARGARET MITCHELL
78. In her best known film role, she became familiar with a playlist; in her best known TV role, she became familiar with a menu.
THE GIRL FROM "NICK AND NORA'S INFINITE PLAYLIST" AND "TWO BROKE GIRLS"
79. During his career, which included 17 wins over world champions and 10 world titles, this boxer’s fights made more money on pay-per-view, than any other boxer in history.
80. Better known for the plays he wrote, late in his career, he directed two highly successful Lerner and Loewe musicals on Broadway.
MOSS HART
81. His most popular book, published in 1919, was highly critical of the Versailles Treaty, Woodrow Wilson, and David Lloyd George, and accurately predicted the Treaty’s economic effects on Germany; many people believed public reaction to the book was the primary reason the U.S. never joined the League of Nations.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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.
JOHNNY CARSON
83. In 2006, he sold his kidney stone to an online casino for $25,000, using the money to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity.
WILLIAM SHATNER?
84. This country singer’s life sounds like something out of a country song: six marriages, a bankruptcy, and affairs with an All-Pro quarterback and a U.S. senator.
LORRIE MORGAN?
85. He was the first non-monarch to have a furniture style named after him.
THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
86. In 1962, she was having affairs with an Antiguan drug dealer, a Jamaican drug dealer, and a Russian naval attaché/spy, but she is remembered today for another affair she was having at the same time with a far more prominent personality.
CHRISTINE KEELER
87. He was the first defensive player to win the Bert Bell MVP Award.
ANDY ROBUSTELLI?
88. Last year, this reality series host and his film crew were granted access to the Pentagon’s War Room, the first non-reporter to be allowed to film there.
89. After spending over a decade in mental institutions, he was convicted of murder one time, eight years after the first famous movie featuring a character based on him and six years before the second famous movie featuring a character based on him.
ED GEIN
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.
JERRY BROWN
91. He was selected for a key government post after John Tower failed to get the job.
DICK CHENEY
92. In his first season as a major league manager, his team set the American League record for most losses in a season and had to win five of its last six games to avoid tying or breaking the 1962 Mets’ all-time record.
ALAN TRAMMELL
93. He is the only actor to have played both John and Robert Kennedy—both times on TV.
MARTIN SHEEN
94. He supported Zachary Taylor for President in 1848 but then turned down Taylor’s offers to make him secretary and later governor of the Oregon Territory.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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.
GENE RODDENBERRY?
96. The best-selling song of his career made no impression on the public when it was first performed as a production number in a lavish musical review, but after Al Jolson performed the song in his own review, it sold over two million copies.
GEORGE GERSHWIN
97. He first gained significant public attention when he roped and subdued a bull that got loose and charged into the stands at Madison Square Garden.
WILL ROGERS
98. While hosting the late night series Fridays, this Jewish actor announced that he had become a Christian and that he was engaged to Lawrence Welk gospel singer Kathie Sullivan; however, the marriage never occurred.
ANDY KAUFMAN
99. She coined the phrase, “Read my lips: no new taxes.”
PEGGY NOONAN
100. 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.
JOHN C. CALHOUN?
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