I wouldn't be surprised if a number of people think they have this one before they actually do, hence the title.
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.
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
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.
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.
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
14. She chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
15. He got his current job on April 19, 2005 – only seventeen days after the post became vacant.
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
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.
18. This popular writer’s best-known characters included a South Sea island prostitute and a club-footed doctor.
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.
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973.
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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.
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.
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.
27. A member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, this colonial leader also signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
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.
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.
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
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.”
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
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.
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
41. This educational reformer was also one of the architects of the philosophy of Pragmatism.
42. President of a major union for forty years, he founded an even larger labor organization in 1935
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
44. One of the greatest American fashion designers, he first won fame for what he put on top of a First Lady’s head.
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.
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
47. This English author’s writing career began in the 1890s when she sent a sick child a series of illustrated animal stories.
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.)
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.
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.
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
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."
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.
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.
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.”
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?
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
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.
61. The first of his four novels won him the most acclaim; the title of his posthumously-published last novel became a timeless aphorism.
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.
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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.
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.”
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.
67. This First Lady predeceased her husband by ten months to the day.
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
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?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
Game #115: False Starts
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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.
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
WALTER REED
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.
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
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
MEYER LANSKY
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
JAMES WOLFE
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.
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
SIMON CROWELL
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.
18. This popular writer’s best-known characters included a South Sea island prostitute and a club-footed doctor.
SOMERSET MAUGHMAM
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.
AMELIA EARHARDT
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973.
WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
MORTON (CAN'T GET FIRST NAME...)
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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 (CRAZY)
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.
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.
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.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
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.
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
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
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.”
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
DOMINIQUE WILKENS
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
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.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
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.
ROBERT NOVAK
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
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
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
44. One of the greatest American fashion designers, he first won fame for what he put on top of a First Lady’s head.
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.
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
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.)
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
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.
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
HARRY LONGABAUGH
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
BUTCH CASSIDY
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."
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.
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.
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.”
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?
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
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.
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.
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.
FLO ZIEGFELD
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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.
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.
67. This First Lady predeceased her husband by ten months to the day.
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
VIRGIL GUS GRISSOM
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
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?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
WALTER REED
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.
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
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
MEYER LANSKY
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
JAMES WOLFE
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.
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
SIMON CROWELL
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.
18. This popular writer’s best-known characters included a South Sea island prostitute and a club-footed doctor.
SOMERSET MAUGHMAM
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.
AMELIA EARHARDT
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973.
WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
MORTON (CAN'T GET FIRST NAME...)
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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 (CRAZY)
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.
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.
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.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
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.
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
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
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.”
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
DOMINIQUE WILKENS
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
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.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
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.
ROBERT NOVAK
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
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
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
44. One of the greatest American fashion designers, he first won fame for what he put on top of a First Lady’s head.
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.
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
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.)
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
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.
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
HARRY LONGABAUGH
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
BUTCH CASSIDY
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."
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.
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.
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.”
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?
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
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.
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.
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.
FLO ZIEGFELD
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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.
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.
67. This First Lady predeceased her husband by ten months to the day.
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
VIRGIL GUS GRISSOM
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
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?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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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.
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
WALLACE HARRISON
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
WALTER REED?
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.
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
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
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.
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
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.
HERCULE POIROT
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.
BOB WOODWARD & CARL BERNSTEIN
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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.
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.
27. A member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, this colonial leader also signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
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.
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.
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
BOBBY BAKER?
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.”
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.
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
WHO DIRECTED WHALES OF AUGUST? It had Lillian Gish, Bette Davis & Ann Sothern.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
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.
41. This educational reformer was also one of the architects of the philosophy of Pragmatism.
42. President of a major union for forty years, he founded an even larger labor organization in 1935
JOHN L. LEWIS?
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
44. One of the greatest American fashion designers, he first won fame for what he put on top of a First Lady’s head.
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
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
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.
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.
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
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."
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.
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.
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?
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
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.
61. The first of his four novels won him the most acclaim; the title of his posthumously-published last novel became a timeless aphorism.
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.
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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.
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.”
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.
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
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?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
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.
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
WALLACE HARRISON
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
WALTER REED?
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.
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
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
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.
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
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.
HERCULE POIROT
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.
BOB WOODWARD & CARL BERNSTEIN
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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.
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.
27. A member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, this colonial leader also signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
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.
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.
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
BOBBY BAKER?
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.”
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.
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
WHO DIRECTED WHALES OF AUGUST? It had Lillian Gish, Bette Davis & Ann Sothern.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
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.
41. This educational reformer was also one of the architects of the philosophy of Pragmatism.
42. President of a major union for forty years, he founded an even larger labor organization in 1935
JOHN L. LEWIS?
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
44. One of the greatest American fashion designers, he first won fame for what he put on top of a First Lady’s head.
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
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
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.
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.
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
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."
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.
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.
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?
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
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.
61. The first of his four novels won him the most acclaim; the title of his posthumously-published last novel became a timeless aphorism.
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.
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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.
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.”
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.
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
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?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
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Re: Game #115: False Starts
franktangredi wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if a number of people think they have this one before they actually do, hence the title.
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.
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
EERO SAARINEN
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
JOE MONTANA
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
WALTER REED
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.
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?
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
AL CAPONE?
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
MONTGOMERY
14. She chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
15. He got his current job on April 19, 2005 – only seventeen days after the post became vacant.
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.
HERCULE POIROT?
18. This popular writer’s best-known characters included a South Sea island prostitute and a club-footed doctor.
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.
WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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.
CURTIS LEMAY?
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.
27. A member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, this colonial leader also signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
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.
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.
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
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.”
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
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.
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
41. This educational reformer was also one of the architects of the philosophy of Pragmatism.
42. President of a major union for forty years, he founded an even larger labor organization in 1935
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
OMAR BRADLEY?
44. One of the greatest American fashion designers, he first won fame for what he put on top of a First Lady’s head.
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.
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
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.)
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.
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.
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
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."
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.
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.
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.”
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?
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
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.
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.
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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.
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.
67. This First Lady predeceased her husband by ten months to the day.
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
GUS GRISSOM OR WALLY SCHIRRA
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
WEBER
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?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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Re: Game #115: False Starts
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
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
Bart Starr?
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?
15. He got his current job on April 19, 2005 – only seventeen days after the post became vacant.
either Benedict XVI or John Roberts
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
Simon Cowell
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?
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
William Morton
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.
Was that Harold Johnson or William Westmoreland?
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?
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.”
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
J.J. Thompson?
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
Grover Cleveland?
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
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
Woodrow Wilson
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
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
Bart Starr?
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?
15. He got his current job on April 19, 2005 – only seventeen days after the post became vacant.
either Benedict XVI or John Roberts
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
Simon Cowell
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?
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
William Morton
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.
Was that Harold Johnson or William Westmoreland?
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?
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.”
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
J.J. Thompson?
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
Grover Cleveland?
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
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
Woodrow Wilson
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Re: Game #115: False Starts
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
I. M. Pei?
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
Walter Reed
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.
Bob Geldof?
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.
Hercule Poirot? (sp?)
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.
Woodward & Bernstein?
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?
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
Sweeney Todd
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
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
52. This Utah native …
Butch Cassidy
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
and the Sundance Kid?
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.
Simon Peter?
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
I. M. Pei?
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
Walter Reed
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.
Bob Geldof?
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.
Hercule Poirot? (sp?)
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.
Woodward & Bernstein?
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?
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
Sweeney Todd
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
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
52. This Utah native …
Butch Cassidy
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
and the Sundance Kid?
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.
Simon Peter?
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
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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.
Lear
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
George Marshall
72. This jurist took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court in order to prosecute some of the worst criminals of all time.
Robert Jackson
Lear
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
George Marshall
72. This jurist took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court in order to prosecute some of the worst criminals of all time.
Robert Jackson
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Game #115: False Starts
I have to work until about three - but I had a break, did what I could to help. Will be back. Could it have something to do with differing first names? Pat Nixon, for example?
Game #115: False Starts
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
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?
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?
52. This Utah native …
BUTCH CASSIDY
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
...and THE SUNDANCE KID
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."
This is probably JAMES I STUART
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
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.
ZIEGFIELD?
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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?
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.
Can give you three Ashcan guys: GEORGE BELLOWS, ROBERT HENRI, and GEORGE LUKS. Maybe it's one of those three.
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.
This would be the fourth Mercury mission, meaning it has to be SCOTT CARPENTER.
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
I think this is ROGER BACON.
72. This jurist took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court in order to prosecute some of the worst criminals of all time.
ROBERT JACKSON went to Nuremberg.
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?
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
This is ERNEST RUTHERFORD.
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?
Wag, but MICHAEL JACKSON?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
WOODROW WILSON beat Taft and Charles Evans Hughes.
Game #115: False Starts
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
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?
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?
52. This Utah native …
BUTCH CASSIDY
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
...and THE SUNDANCE KID
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."
This is probably JAMES I STUART
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
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.
ZIEGFIELD?
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
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?
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.
Can give you three Ashcan guys: GEORGE BELLOWS, ROBERT HENRI, and GEORGE LUKS. Maybe it's one of those three.
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.
This would be the fourth Mercury mission, meaning it has to be SCOTT CARPENTER.
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
I think this is ROGER BACON.
72. This jurist took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court in order to prosecute some of the worst criminals of all time.
ROBERT JACKSON went to Nuremberg.
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?
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
This is ERNEST RUTHERFORD.
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?
Wag, but MICHAEL JACKSON?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
WOODROW WILSON beat Taft and Charles Evans Hughes.
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Re: Game #115: False Starts
Few more, quickly:
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.
LINCOLN
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
MIES VAN DER ROHE?
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.
My guess is FITZGERALD since Ferber won during the mid-20s for "So Big."
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.”
Hmm, empiricist says Hume, but the quote sounds like Berkeley, who was more of an idealist. One or the other?
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
TAGLIONI? PAVLOVA?
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
*not* WALTER REED
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.
GELDOF?
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
CAPONE?
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
MONTCALM, don't know first name
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.
the POPE
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
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.
POIROT
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.
EDERLE
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973.
W&B?
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
CRAWFORD LONG? the ether guy
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.
Nelson wrote "Crazy" - 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.
MAXWELL TAYLOR? WESTMORELAND?
Gotta run, later
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.
LINCOLN
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
MIES VAN DER ROHE?
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.
My guess is FITZGERALD since Ferber won during the mid-20s for "So Big."
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.”
Hmm, empiricist says Hume, but the quote sounds like Berkeley, who was more of an idealist. One or the other?
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
TAGLIONI? PAVLOVA?
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
*not* WALTER REED
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.
GELDOF?
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
CAPONE?
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
MONTCALM, don't know first name
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.
the POPE
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.”
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.
POIROT
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.
EDERLE
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973.
W&B?
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
CRAWFORD LONG? the ether guy
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.
Nelson wrote "Crazy" - 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.
MAXWELL TAYLOR? WESTMORELAND?
Gotta run, later
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Adding a few:
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.
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
As of last month, PHIL SIMMS also fits this clue (followed by Ottis Anderson & Eli Manning), as well as JOE MONTANA (Jerry Rice & Steve Young)...
15. He got his current job on April 19, 2005 – only seventeen days after the post became vacant.
POPE BENEDICT XVI
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 (just did this show about a month ago...)
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
GROVER CLEVELAND
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
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 (the other being Roy Campanella)
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
The earlier of L. GORDON COOPER or SCOTT CARPENTER -- I always forget which of them went first. (Schirra was third to orbit, in between the above two; Grissom was the second in space, but his flight was sub-orbital).
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
GARY COOPER?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
WOODROW WILSON
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.
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
As of last month, PHIL SIMMS also fits this clue (followed by Ottis Anderson & Eli Manning), as well as JOE MONTANA (Jerry Rice & Steve Young)...
15. He got his current job on April 19, 2005 – only seventeen days after the post became vacant.
POPE BENEDICT XVI
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 (just did this show about a month ago...)
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
GROVER CLEVELAND
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
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 (the other being Roy Campanella)
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
The earlier of L. GORDON COOPER or SCOTT CARPENTER -- I always forget which of them went first. (Schirra was third to orbit, in between the above two; Grissom was the second in space, but his flight was sub-orbital).
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
GARY COOPER?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
WOODROW WILSON
Bazinga!
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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.”
I just figured this one out. It's everybody's favorite cop in a dress--J. Edgar Hoover.
I just figured this one out. It's everybody's favorite cop in a dress--J. Edgar Hoover.
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Couple fast ones...
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 (not Sonny, the other one)
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century. Charles Lucania aka Lucky Luciano
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British. 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 (or, Joe Ratzinger, if you need the original name)
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.” Simon Cowell?
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 who swam the Channel
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon." Somebody Morton, who used ether as an anesthetic
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?
27. A member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, this colonial leader also signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Robert Sherman
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, SJ
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
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 (I assume that you mean that he did not win the electoral vote in all three elections, rather than, he never won the electoral vote in any of the three)
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 L. Lewis
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize. George C. Marshall. Was by his place last weekend
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
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.) Manny Goldenberg, aka 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
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. Somebody Speke
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/VI of England and Scotland
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
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.” Somebody 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.
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?
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. Sounds like Roger Bacon
70. The wedding of this mismatched pair was presided over by a real turkey.
72. This jurist took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court in order to prosecute some of the worst criminals of all time. Robert Jackson Probably kept him from being named Chief Justice, when that job opened up in 1946
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 (not Sonny, the other one)
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century. Charles Lucania aka Lucky Luciano
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British. 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 (or, Joe Ratzinger, if you need the original name)
16. A familiar face on American television, he placed #33 on a BBC poll of “100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate.” Simon Cowell?
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 who swam the Channel
20. Though they never received individual Pulitzers, these journalists helped their paper win the prize for Public Service in 1973. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon." Somebody Morton, who used ether as an anesthetic
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?
27. A member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, this colonial leader also signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Robert Sherman
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, SJ
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
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 (I assume that you mean that he did not win the electoral vote in all three elections, rather than, he never won the electoral vote in any of the three)
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 L. Lewis
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize. George C. Marshall. Was by his place last weekend
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
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.) Manny Goldenberg, aka 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
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. Somebody Speke
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/VI of England and Scotland
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
59. This Union general’s steadfast determination in battle earned him the nickname “The Rock of Chickamauga.” Somebody 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.
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?
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. Sounds like Roger Bacon
70. The wedding of this mismatched pair was presided over by a real turkey.
72. This jurist took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court in order to prosecute some of the worst criminals of all time. Robert Jackson Probably kept him from being named Chief Justice, when that job opened up in 1946
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Re: Game #115: False Starts
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? LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE? (Also perhaps LE CORBUSIER or EERO SAARINEN)
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.
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 or DAVID HUME
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?
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
someone who is not Walter Reed
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.
HERCULE POIROT
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.)
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?
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.
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
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
52. This Utah native …
BUTCH CASSIDY
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
THE SUNDANCE KID
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.
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.”
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.
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? Watch for GEORGE BELLOWS or ROBERT HENRI.
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.”
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?
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?
MICHAEL JACKSON?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
WOODROW WILSON
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? LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE? (Also perhaps LE CORBUSIER or EERO SAARINEN)
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.
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 or DAVID HUME
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?
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
someone who is not Walter Reed
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.
HERCULE POIROT
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.)
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?
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.
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
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
52. This Utah native …
BUTCH CASSIDY
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
THE SUNDANCE KID
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.
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.”
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.
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? Watch for GEORGE BELLOWS or ROBERT HENRI.
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.”
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?
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?
MICHAEL JACKSON?
80. In two consecutive elections, this President defeated two future Chief Justices.
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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.
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
Joe Montana
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
Walter Reed
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
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
Al Capone
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
Wolfe
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.
Samuel Alito
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.
Hercule Poirot
18. This popular writer’s best-known characters included a South Sea island prostitute and a club-footed doctor.
James Michener
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.
Woodward and Bernstein
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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.
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.
McDonnell
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.
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.
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.
John Jacob Astor
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
Rutherford
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
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.
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
Andrew Jackson
41. This educational reformer was also one of the architects of the philosophy of Pragmatism.
42. President of a major union for forty years, he founded an even larger labor organization in 1935
John L. Lewis
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
John 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.
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.
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
Kinsey
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.)
Cary Grant
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
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.
Livingston
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
Butch Cassidy
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
The Sundance Kid
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."
Elizabeth I
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.
Paul
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.
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.”
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?
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.
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.
Ziegfeld
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
John Reed
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.”
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.
67. This First Lady predeceased her husband by ten months to the day.
Bess Truman
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
Gus Grissom
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
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
Abraham Lincoln
2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
3. He was the first of three players, and two quarterbacks, from his team to be named MVP of the Super Bowl.
Joe Montana
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.
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.”
6. DJMQ
Among the many roles created by this prima ballerina was the eponymous water nymph in Frederick Ashton’s “Undine.”
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
Walter Reed
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
12. His businesslike approach to crime earned him a place on Time magazine’s list of Builders and Shapers of the twentieth century.
Al Capone
13. This general was mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham while attempting to defend Quebec against the British.
Wolfe
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.
Samuel Alito
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.
Hercule Poirot
18. This popular writer’s best-known characters included a South Sea island prostitute and a club-footed doctor.
James Michener
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.
Woodward and Bernstein
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.
22. This former dentist changed the world of medicine with his 1846 demonstration of a substance he called "letheon."
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
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.
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.
McDonnell
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.
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.
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.
John Jacob Astor
31. Covering all bases, this Anglican divine followed up his popular treatise on Holy Living with an even more popular guide to Holy Dying.
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.”
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
35. This Nobel-winning English physicist is best known for discovering the neutron.
Rutherford
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
37. This composer based one of his greatest piano sonatas on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Alcotts, and other New England sages.
38. “He kept a shop in London town/Of fancy clients and good renown.”
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.
40. This President won a plurality of the popular vote – but not of the electoral vote – in three consecutive elections.
Andrew Jackson
41. This educational reformer was also one of the architects of the philosophy of Pragmatism.
42. President of a major union for forty years, he founded an even larger labor organization in 1935
John L. Lewis
43. This general was the only graduate of the Virginia Military Institute to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
John 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.
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.
46. A specialist in reproductive biology, this physician launched the study for which he is best known at Washington University in 1954.
Kinsey
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.)
Cary Grant
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
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.
Livingston
51. This composer and bandleader – who always refused to pigeonhole himself as a “jazz” artist – adapted both Tchaikovsky and Grieg to the American idiom.
52. This Utah native …
Butch Cassidy
53. … and this Pennsylvanian perpetrated the longest series of successful bank robberies in the history of the Old West.
The Sundance Kid
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."
Elizabeth I
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.
Paul
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.
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.”
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?
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.
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.
Ziegfeld
63. An acknowledged influence on Tolstoy and Gandhi, this philosopher was also hailed by Emma Goldman as “the greatest American anarchist.”
John Reed
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.”
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.
67. This First Lady predeceased her husband by ten months to the day.
Bess Truman
68. This astronaut was the second American to orbit the Earth.
Gus Grissom
69. An early advocate of scientific experimentation, this medieval philosopher once startled a classroom by creating an artificial rainbow.
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.
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.
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
76. His real-life movie roles included an explorer, an athlete, a doctor, a western lawman, and a couple of soldiers.
77. Although he won his Nobel Prize for chemistry, he claimed that “in science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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.
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
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I think old Hercule would be terribly distressed at being called an "amateur detective"!Catfish wrote: 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.
Hercule Poirot? (sp?)
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Re: Game #115: False Starts
7. In 1881, this physician first proposed the theory that yellow fever was carried by a mosquito.
Carlos Finlay proposed it, Walter Reed confirmed it.
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?
I'll confirm that--she played Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Amelia Earhart.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
Marjory Douglas
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
DOMINIQUE WILKINS?
We can remove the "?"--he's right.
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.
let's try Brooks Stevens...
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?
Hmmm... right city, wrong bowler. Dick Weber won way more than 17 bowling titles. His son, Pete, has also won more than 17.
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?
MICHAEL JACKSON?
Paul McCartney makes sense. He had #1 hits with both Jacko and Stevie Wonder.
Carlos Finlay proposed it, Walter Reed confirmed it.
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?
I'll confirm that--she played Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Amelia Earhart.
28. When this feisty environmentalist died at the age of 108, her ashes were scattered over the Everglades.
Marjory Douglas
34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
DOMINIQUE WILKINS?
We can remove the "?"--he's right.
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.
let's try Brooks Stevens...
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?
Hmmm... right city, wrong bowler. Dick Weber won way more than 17 bowling titles. His son, Pete, has also won more than 17.
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?
MICHAEL JACKSON?
Paul McCartney makes sense. He had #1 hits with both Jacko and Stevie Wonder.
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Adding a couple to the list...
Definitely WALLACE HARRISONWeyoun wrote:2. Arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century, he headed the committee that designed the UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
WALLACE HARRISON? LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE? (Also perhaps LE CORBUSIER or EERO SAARINEN)
JEREMY TAYLORWeyoun 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.
Weyoun wrote: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
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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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 or DAVID HUME
Okay, I googled the quote - Frank wants GEORGE BERKELEY. Again, "empiricist" is not the best word for him.
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?
The more I think about it, the more this has to be MARGOT FONTEYN. Ashton and Fonteyn were both Brits working in the middle of the 20the century.
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.
Has to be JANE MARPLE, given the "amateur" status
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
Sounds like BUCKMINSTER FULLER
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
Who directed "The Whales of August"?
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?
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
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
ISHMAEL REED?
GEORGE BERKELEY or DAVID HUME
Okay, I googled the quote - Frank wants GEORGE BERKELEY. Again, "empiricist" is not the best word for him.
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?
The more I think about it, the more this has to be MARGOT FONTEYN. Ashton and Fonteyn were both Brits working in the middle of the 20the century.
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.
Has to be JANE MARPLE, given the "amateur" status
23. “A designer,” he said, “is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” (And he knew whereof he spoke.)
Sounds like BUCKMINSTER FULLER
36. In the 40th year of his movie career, he directed three actresses who were in the 56th, 60th, and 75th years of theirs.
Who directed "The Whales of August"?
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?
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
75. This controversial poet and novelist evolved an African American aesthetic which he provocatively dubbed “Neo Hoo-Doo.”
ISHMAEL REED?
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45. is DEFINTELY John Held, Jr.
Going though papers when we were cleaning out TLAF's house, I found an article from the Smithsonian Magazine on him.
The Maloof Cigarette poster in the drug store window in the Singing in the Rain number in Singing in the Rain is an homage to his style.
The more I think about The Whales of August, I am thinking the director is LINDSAY ANDERSON, who would fit the 40-year time frame, I think.
Fixing my spelling.
Going though papers when we were cleaning out TLAF's house, I found an article from the Smithsonian Magazine on him.
The Maloof Cigarette poster in the drug store window in the Singing in the Rain number in Singing in the Rain is an homage to his style.
The more I think about The Whales of August, I am thinking the director is LINDSAY ANDERSON, who would fit the 40-year time frame, I think.
Fixing my spelling.
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Hey, it's only a matter of time for Yakhouba Diawara. Ha!NellyLunatic1980 wrote:34. He is the only native-born Parisian in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
DOMINIQUE WILKINS?[/i]
We can remove the "?"--he's right.
St. Louis bowler has to be Don Carter, unless it's some newer guy I don't know about. In which case he wouldn't have been a pin boy. The bowling alley I used to go to (before they became "activity centers") had a huge picture of Don Carter painted on one wall. And no, it wasn't a Don Carter Lanes, so who knows why. I haven't been there since I had to stop bowling, but I heard they've put in scorers and taken out the Donkey Kong, so I bet they've painted over old Don as well. Why is that making me sad?NellyLunatic1980 wrote:]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?[/i]
Hmmm... right city, wrong bowler. Dick Weber won way more than 17 bowling titles. His son, Pete, has also won more than 17.
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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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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