Game #120: Pot Luck
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:01 am
Game #120 – Pot Luck
Identify the 99 people indicated in the clues below. (Where an image appears, give the name of the artist or architect.) Form 33 triples according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each triple with one of the Associated Words.
1. Despite having “small Latin and less Greek,” this writer still managed to come up with a few decent plays.
2. Though best remembered today for his work in the treatment of a single disease, this immunologist was already a Nobel laureate when he began testing his famous arsenic compound.
3. Tragic or hapless? This explorer missed achieving his greatest ambition by a month, and then died only eleven miles short of reaching his base camp.
4. His skills as a preacher helped spark both the Methodist movement in England and the Great Awakening in the American colonies; he was also one of the first to preach to slaves.
5. This actor received his only Oscar nomination (so far) seventeen years after his screenwriter mother received hers.
6. By the time he was eighteen, this knighted entrepreneur had already started his first business, a magazine, as well as his first charity.
7. Thirteen years after becoming the first woman in Italy to receive a medical degree, she opened the Casa dei Bambini in Rome.
8. In addition to his string of conquests against such peoples as the Medes and Lydians, this ancient ruler was instrumental in insuring the survival of the Hebrew people.
9. DJMQ:
One of the first five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, this choreographer co-founded a prominent ballet school only a year after coming to the United States.
10. Jack Nicklaus rates this golfer the best “ball striker” of all time, while Tiger Woods considers him one of only two golfers to ever completely “own” his swing. (You gonna argue with the Bear and the Tiger?)
11. His writings added the terms “comparative value” and “diminishing returns” to the lexicon of economics.
12.
13. Of the two blues harmonica players to use this name, the first was the younger, and the second the more famous – at least, to those who knew the difference.
14. His daring escapes from Newgate prison made this housebreaker a legend in his own time, but he was finally hanged in 1724, at the age of 23.
15. This influential German philosopher observed, “The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
16. This writer is best known for his first published novel, the eponymous hero of which is a lecturer in medieval history at a provincial British university.
17. One of the most respected names in television journalism, he spent fourteen years with one network, moved to another network for eight, then went back to the first network for the remaining thirteen years of his career.
18. Convinced that his research had become meaningless, this chemist swallowed cyanide in 1937 – only three weeks after receiving a patent for an invention that would revolutionize American life.
19. In her signature song, this vaudevillian and Ziegfeld star complained about not having had any lovin’ for at least seven months. (At Cohan’s request, she was also the first singer to record “Over There.”)
20. This statesman served as Secretary of War under one Republican President and two Democratic Presidents, with a stint as Secretary of State somewhere in between.
21. The granddaddy of American “robber barons,” he was nearly 70 when he bought a controlling interest in the New York and Harlem railroad line and nearly 80 when he built the Grand Central Terminal.
22. Also known by her Ponca name ‘Bright Eyes,’ this Native American writer and activist entranced Longfellow, who compared her to his own Minnehaha.
23. He was the second center fielder inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
24. Controversy still continues to dog the memory of this military leader – particularly concerning his death, his sexuality, and his involvement in the Breaker Morant incident.
25. This astronaut commanded the first space mission to see the dark side of the moon.
26. This pioneer of cultural anthropology is best known for her studies of advanced societies, such as her analysis of the Japanese national character in the aftermath of World War II.
27. His resume included a doctoral dissertation titled “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in Light of the Philosophy of St. Thomas”. . . and an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Television Personality.”
28. This budding author’s grumblings about the holiday season kick off what is arguably the single most beloved American novel – at least among a segment of the population.
29. Five years after losing control of his company to a huge Italian firm, this Austrian designer sold out of his own line completely.
30. This Baroque composer is known today almost exclusively for a single piece of music, originally scored for three violins plus Basso Continuo.
31.
32. This novelist’s 1918 masterpiece ends with the narrator saying of himself and the eponymous heroine, “Whatever we had missed. we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
33. Royal surgeon to four French kings, he was a pioneer in the treatment of battlefield wounds and correctly theorized that phantom pains after amputation were all in the head.
34. Beyond any doubt the most reluctant First Lady in American history, she spent the first half of her tenure secluded upstairs in the White House, writing letters to her dead son.
35. Lillian Gish, who appeared opposite this actor in two of her best roles, said that he had “the most beautiful face of any man who ever went before the camera.”
36. An implacable foe of socialists and Wobblies, this influential labor leader insisted that the ultimate goal of his organization was “to improve the standard of life, to uproot ignorance and foster education, to instill character, manhood and independent spirit among our people; to bring about a recognition of the interdependence of man upon his fellow man.”
37. He was the only British-born jockey born in England to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
38. This Spanish philosopher extended “Cogito ergo sum” to “Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia." (You gonna argue with him?)
39. One of the most important medieval historians, this Benedictine monk wrote a history of England as well as biographies of Becket and Edward the Confessor.
40. During the Mexican War, this officer provided naval support for the siege of Veracruz, but he is best known for the very different mission he undertook five years later.
41. This singer has had more Number One hits in the United States than any other winner of the (prestigious/notorious) Eurovision Song Contest..
42. In 1963, his colleagues were rather displeased when he publicly acknowledged the existence of their thing.
43. This year, she and her sunglasses celebrate their twentieth anniversary at the helm of the American version of a highly popular magazine.
44. And last year, this Chicago chef celebrated the twentieth anniversary of an eponymous restaurant that has consistently been ranked among the best in America.
45.
46. In many of his poems, stories, and autobiographical writings, this Italian author tried to come to terms with the fact that he had survived Auschwitz.
47. He served the longest term of any Chief Justice within the 20th century.
48. He led the first European expedition to sight the Zambezi River in 1851, but was far more interested in helping the natives and stopping the slave trade.
49. This German chemist won the Nobel Prize for his seminal work in nuclear fission, but was unable to accept in person, since he was interned in England at the time.
50. Named in the Books of Daniel and Revelations, he is the patron saint of paratroopers and police.
51. He was the second swimmer to win seven gold medals in a single Olympiad.
52. If it weren’t for the Hollywood blacklist, this character actress might be best remembered for her role on a classic sitcom; as it is, she is best remembered for her role in the stage and screen versions of a classic musical.
53. This entrepreneur started building a business empire out of his freshman dorm room at the University of Texas.
54. This controversial activist has freely admitted that some of the exploits that brought him to the attention of New Yorkers back in the 1980s never happened.
55. He was twenty when he entered medical school with the intention of devoting himself to the study of sex … and still a virgin twelve years later when he finally married – a lesbian.
56. In one of his more romantic moods, this often-caustic lyricist noted that “Some things that happen for the first time/Seem to be happening again.”
57. As this general surrendered, a band played an appropriate little ditty titled “The World Turned Upside Down.”
58. This genial fictional detective – a specialist in locked rooms and other impossible crimes – was modeled after G.K. Chesterton.
59.
60. This diplomat railroaded the Irish Act of Union through Parliament, but is even better remembered for his role at the Congress of Vienna.
61. Appropriately, this poet wrote, “How dreary to be somebody!/ How public, like a frog/ To tell your name the livelong day/ To an admiring bog!”
”
62. It is generally agreed today that his true political philosophy is expressed in his history of Rome – wherein he opined that “in a well-ordered republic it should never be necessary to resort to extra-constitutional measures” – rather than in his most famous work.
63. On March 7, 1876 – a mere three hours before another claimant – this inventor was granted what was arguably the most valuable U.S. patent ever issued.
64. This Brit was Sports Illustrated’s first Sportsman of the Year.
65. One of the leading lights of a great postwar movement, this director first won fame with a stark drama about the anti-Nazi resistance in his nation’s capital.
66. The organization founded by this Brooklyn housewife in 1963 became a multimillion dollar empire, but she was really just looking for some help from her friends.
67. News that he had (in his own words) “knocked the bastard off” reached England on the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
68. After 148 years, doubts still remain as to whether – despite her guilty plea – she really did stab her three year-old half-brother to death.
69. This San Francisco columnist’s self-named style of “three dot journalism” earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
70. After spending fifteen years as editor-in-chief of all publications for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this zoologist hit the best-seller lists with a lyrical study of ocean life; an even more important book came along a decade later.
71. In 1975 – after a decade of tireless touring and not-too-successful recording – this future member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally made his breakthrough with the first of ten consecutive platinum albums.
72. This medieval philosopher was considered a pretty good thinker in his day, but lent his name to people who weren’t quite so good at it.
73. He was the last American military leader named Man of the Year by Time magazine.
74. In between his two stints as Secretary of State, this politico became only the second Republican candidate to lose a Presidential election.
75. This interior designer founded his celebrity on seven layers of design and one very thick layer of pretending to be gay.
76. This Nobel laureate’s most famous play takes its title from the Father, the Mother, the Son, the Stepdaughter, the Boy, and the Child.
77. This eminent photographer took his most famous picture on August 14, 1945.
78. This Swedish diplomat has been named an honorary citizen by the United States, Canada, Hungary, and Israel.
79. This Texas cattleman first teamed up with his partner Charlie on a drive to Fort Sumter, New Mexico.
80. This college football coach amassed a lifetime record of 170-58-6, finally achieving a perfect season the year before he retired.
81. The discovery this scientist made while experimenting with vacuum tubes earned him the very first Nobel Prize for Physics.
82. The first scholar to systematically encode all Jewish law, this rabbi’s work influenced Thomas Aquinas
83. In 1997, this British actor completed the Triple Crown when he picked up an Emmy to go with his Tony and Oscar.
84. His experiments with the chromatic scale made him one of the most influential modern composers, but the Nazis were not impressed: they branded his music degenerate.
85. He “never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.”
86. This winner of the Nobel peace prize was his nation’s first native-born prime minister.
87. In his first and most influential book, this German psychologist examined the concept of freedom, as well as how people tried to escape the burden of freedom through authoritarianism, destructiveness, or conformity.
88. This field marshal served fourteen years as chief of the German General Staff, but his most famous stratagem was not attempted until after his death.
89. This cofounder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was the second of the three American women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
90. The quickest route from Old Blood and Guts to Broadway Joe is via this business tycoon.
91. One of this writer’s best-known short stories involves a pastor who disconcerts his congregation when he starts to hide his face with a piece of black cloth.
92.
93. This explorer, who once served under the man in Clue #3, was no more successful in achieving his main goal, but far more successful at keeping himself and his men alive.
94. This basketball great had his number retired by two different NBA teams … as well as by the Harlem Globetrotters.
95. This pessimistic German philosopher taught that the only way to escape the irrationality of the human will was through philosophic knowledge, contemplation of works of art, and sympathy for others.
96. This actor won the first of his three Tony Awards for turning into a pachyderm right onstage.
97. This physicist won the Nobel Prize for his development of a principle he called Ungenauigkeit. (I’m not quite sure what we call it.)
98. This popular singer-songwriter was the only artist ever to receive the Kennedy Center Honors before the age of 50 – in fact, even nine years later, he’s still younger than any subsequent honoree.
99. The only President elected of his party elected during a span of more than half a century, he declared, “He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.”
Associated Words
ORGASM
BOSOM
HANGING
HARDER
LOVE STORY
ICE
MONEY
DODGE
COMET
NUMBER ONE
NUMBER SEVEN
SEVENTEEN
THIRD
NANA
NORMA
SUE
BOBBY
HUMPHREY
LAMONT
CARTER
BRINKLEY
TARZAN
DANTON
ALIENS
METS
MARYLAND
TEXAS
CLEVELAND
BERLIN
TREASON
TWILIGHT
JACKET
RACKET
Identify the 99 people indicated in the clues below. (Where an image appears, give the name of the artist or architect.) Form 33 triples according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each triple with one of the Associated Words.
1. Despite having “small Latin and less Greek,” this writer still managed to come up with a few decent plays.
2. Though best remembered today for his work in the treatment of a single disease, this immunologist was already a Nobel laureate when he began testing his famous arsenic compound.
3. Tragic or hapless? This explorer missed achieving his greatest ambition by a month, and then died only eleven miles short of reaching his base camp.
4. His skills as a preacher helped spark both the Methodist movement in England and the Great Awakening in the American colonies; he was also one of the first to preach to slaves.
5. This actor received his only Oscar nomination (so far) seventeen years after his screenwriter mother received hers.
6. By the time he was eighteen, this knighted entrepreneur had already started his first business, a magazine, as well as his first charity.
7. Thirteen years after becoming the first woman in Italy to receive a medical degree, she opened the Casa dei Bambini in Rome.
8. In addition to his string of conquests against such peoples as the Medes and Lydians, this ancient ruler was instrumental in insuring the survival of the Hebrew people.
9. DJMQ:
One of the first five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, this choreographer co-founded a prominent ballet school only a year after coming to the United States.
10. Jack Nicklaus rates this golfer the best “ball striker” of all time, while Tiger Woods considers him one of only two golfers to ever completely “own” his swing. (You gonna argue with the Bear and the Tiger?)
11. His writings added the terms “comparative value” and “diminishing returns” to the lexicon of economics.
12.
13. Of the two blues harmonica players to use this name, the first was the younger, and the second the more famous – at least, to those who knew the difference.
14. His daring escapes from Newgate prison made this housebreaker a legend in his own time, but he was finally hanged in 1724, at the age of 23.
15. This influential German philosopher observed, “The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
16. This writer is best known for his first published novel, the eponymous hero of which is a lecturer in medieval history at a provincial British university.
17. One of the most respected names in television journalism, he spent fourteen years with one network, moved to another network for eight, then went back to the first network for the remaining thirteen years of his career.
18. Convinced that his research had become meaningless, this chemist swallowed cyanide in 1937 – only three weeks after receiving a patent for an invention that would revolutionize American life.
19. In her signature song, this vaudevillian and Ziegfeld star complained about not having had any lovin’ for at least seven months. (At Cohan’s request, she was also the first singer to record “Over There.”)
20. This statesman served as Secretary of War under one Republican President and two Democratic Presidents, with a stint as Secretary of State somewhere in between.
21. The granddaddy of American “robber barons,” he was nearly 70 when he bought a controlling interest in the New York and Harlem railroad line and nearly 80 when he built the Grand Central Terminal.
22. Also known by her Ponca name ‘Bright Eyes,’ this Native American writer and activist entranced Longfellow, who compared her to his own Minnehaha.
23. He was the second center fielder inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
24. Controversy still continues to dog the memory of this military leader – particularly concerning his death, his sexuality, and his involvement in the Breaker Morant incident.
25. This astronaut commanded the first space mission to see the dark side of the moon.
26. This pioneer of cultural anthropology is best known for her studies of advanced societies, such as her analysis of the Japanese national character in the aftermath of World War II.
27. His resume included a doctoral dissertation titled “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in Light of the Philosophy of St. Thomas”. . . and an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Television Personality.”
28. This budding author’s grumblings about the holiday season kick off what is arguably the single most beloved American novel – at least among a segment of the population.
29. Five years after losing control of his company to a huge Italian firm, this Austrian designer sold out of his own line completely.
30. This Baroque composer is known today almost exclusively for a single piece of music, originally scored for three violins plus Basso Continuo.
31.
32. This novelist’s 1918 masterpiece ends with the narrator saying of himself and the eponymous heroine, “Whatever we had missed. we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
33. Royal surgeon to four French kings, he was a pioneer in the treatment of battlefield wounds and correctly theorized that phantom pains after amputation were all in the head.
34. Beyond any doubt the most reluctant First Lady in American history, she spent the first half of her tenure secluded upstairs in the White House, writing letters to her dead son.
35. Lillian Gish, who appeared opposite this actor in two of her best roles, said that he had “the most beautiful face of any man who ever went before the camera.”
36. An implacable foe of socialists and Wobblies, this influential labor leader insisted that the ultimate goal of his organization was “to improve the standard of life, to uproot ignorance and foster education, to instill character, manhood and independent spirit among our people; to bring about a recognition of the interdependence of man upon his fellow man.”
37. He was the only British-born jockey born in England to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
38. This Spanish philosopher extended “Cogito ergo sum” to “Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia." (You gonna argue with him?)
39. One of the most important medieval historians, this Benedictine monk wrote a history of England as well as biographies of Becket and Edward the Confessor.
40. During the Mexican War, this officer provided naval support for the siege of Veracruz, but he is best known for the very different mission he undertook five years later.
41. This singer has had more Number One hits in the United States than any other winner of the (prestigious/notorious) Eurovision Song Contest..
42. In 1963, his colleagues were rather displeased when he publicly acknowledged the existence of their thing.
43. This year, she and her sunglasses celebrate their twentieth anniversary at the helm of the American version of a highly popular magazine.
44. And last year, this Chicago chef celebrated the twentieth anniversary of an eponymous restaurant that has consistently been ranked among the best in America.
45.
46. In many of his poems, stories, and autobiographical writings, this Italian author tried to come to terms with the fact that he had survived Auschwitz.
47. He served the longest term of any Chief Justice within the 20th century.
48. He led the first European expedition to sight the Zambezi River in 1851, but was far more interested in helping the natives and stopping the slave trade.
49. This German chemist won the Nobel Prize for his seminal work in nuclear fission, but was unable to accept in person, since he was interned in England at the time.
50. Named in the Books of Daniel and Revelations, he is the patron saint of paratroopers and police.
51. He was the second swimmer to win seven gold medals in a single Olympiad.
52. If it weren’t for the Hollywood blacklist, this character actress might be best remembered for her role on a classic sitcom; as it is, she is best remembered for her role in the stage and screen versions of a classic musical.
53. This entrepreneur started building a business empire out of his freshman dorm room at the University of Texas.
54. This controversial activist has freely admitted that some of the exploits that brought him to the attention of New Yorkers back in the 1980s never happened.
55. He was twenty when he entered medical school with the intention of devoting himself to the study of sex … and still a virgin twelve years later when he finally married – a lesbian.
56. In one of his more romantic moods, this often-caustic lyricist noted that “Some things that happen for the first time/Seem to be happening again.”
57. As this general surrendered, a band played an appropriate little ditty titled “The World Turned Upside Down.”
58. This genial fictional detective – a specialist in locked rooms and other impossible crimes – was modeled after G.K. Chesterton.
59.
60. This diplomat railroaded the Irish Act of Union through Parliament, but is even better remembered for his role at the Congress of Vienna.
61. Appropriately, this poet wrote, “How dreary to be somebody!/ How public, like a frog/ To tell your name the livelong day/ To an admiring bog!”
”
62. It is generally agreed today that his true political philosophy is expressed in his history of Rome – wherein he opined that “in a well-ordered republic it should never be necessary to resort to extra-constitutional measures” – rather than in his most famous work.
63. On March 7, 1876 – a mere three hours before another claimant – this inventor was granted what was arguably the most valuable U.S. patent ever issued.
64. This Brit was Sports Illustrated’s first Sportsman of the Year.
65. One of the leading lights of a great postwar movement, this director first won fame with a stark drama about the anti-Nazi resistance in his nation’s capital.
66. The organization founded by this Brooklyn housewife in 1963 became a multimillion dollar empire, but she was really just looking for some help from her friends.
67. News that he had (in his own words) “knocked the bastard off” reached England on the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
68. After 148 years, doubts still remain as to whether – despite her guilty plea – she really did stab her three year-old half-brother to death.
69. This San Francisco columnist’s self-named style of “three dot journalism” earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
70. After spending fifteen years as editor-in-chief of all publications for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this zoologist hit the best-seller lists with a lyrical study of ocean life; an even more important book came along a decade later.
71. In 1975 – after a decade of tireless touring and not-too-successful recording – this future member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally made his breakthrough with the first of ten consecutive platinum albums.
72. This medieval philosopher was considered a pretty good thinker in his day, but lent his name to people who weren’t quite so good at it.
73. He was the last American military leader named Man of the Year by Time magazine.
74. In between his two stints as Secretary of State, this politico became only the second Republican candidate to lose a Presidential election.
75. This interior designer founded his celebrity on seven layers of design and one very thick layer of pretending to be gay.
76. This Nobel laureate’s most famous play takes its title from the Father, the Mother, the Son, the Stepdaughter, the Boy, and the Child.
77. This eminent photographer took his most famous picture on August 14, 1945.
78. This Swedish diplomat has been named an honorary citizen by the United States, Canada, Hungary, and Israel.
79. This Texas cattleman first teamed up with his partner Charlie on a drive to Fort Sumter, New Mexico.
80. This college football coach amassed a lifetime record of 170-58-6, finally achieving a perfect season the year before he retired.
81. The discovery this scientist made while experimenting with vacuum tubes earned him the very first Nobel Prize for Physics.
82. The first scholar to systematically encode all Jewish law, this rabbi’s work influenced Thomas Aquinas
83. In 1997, this British actor completed the Triple Crown when he picked up an Emmy to go with his Tony and Oscar.
84. His experiments with the chromatic scale made him one of the most influential modern composers, but the Nazis were not impressed: they branded his music degenerate.
85. He “never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.”
86. This winner of the Nobel peace prize was his nation’s first native-born prime minister.
87. In his first and most influential book, this German psychologist examined the concept of freedom, as well as how people tried to escape the burden of freedom through authoritarianism, destructiveness, or conformity.
88. This field marshal served fourteen years as chief of the German General Staff, but his most famous stratagem was not attempted until after his death.
89. This cofounder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was the second of the three American women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
90. The quickest route from Old Blood and Guts to Broadway Joe is via this business tycoon.
91. One of this writer’s best-known short stories involves a pastor who disconcerts his congregation when he starts to hide his face with a piece of black cloth.
92.
93. This explorer, who once served under the man in Clue #3, was no more successful in achieving his main goal, but far more successful at keeping himself and his men alive.
94. This basketball great had his number retired by two different NBA teams … as well as by the Harlem Globetrotters.
95. This pessimistic German philosopher taught that the only way to escape the irrationality of the human will was through philosophic knowledge, contemplation of works of art, and sympathy for others.
96. This actor won the first of his three Tony Awards for turning into a pachyderm right onstage.
97. This physicist won the Nobel Prize for his development of a principle he called Ungenauigkeit. (I’m not quite sure what we call it.)
98. This popular singer-songwriter was the only artist ever to receive the Kennedy Center Honors before the age of 50 – in fact, even nine years later, he’s still younger than any subsequent honoree.
99. The only President elected of his party elected during a span of more than half a century, he declared, “He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.”
Associated Words
ORGASM
BOSOM
HANGING
HARDER
LOVE STORY
ICE
MONEY
DODGE
COMET
NUMBER ONE
NUMBER SEVEN
SEVENTEEN
THIRD
NANA
NORMA
SUE
BOBBY
HUMPHREY
LAMONT
CARTER
BRINKLEY
TARZAN
DANTON
ALIENS
METS
MARYLAND
TEXAS
CLEVELAND
BERLIN
TREASON
TWILIGHT
JACKET
RACKET
