Game #164: Out of Order!
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 8:57 am
Game #164: Out of Order!
Identify the 100 people in the clues below. Then, match two of the names with one of the Associated Words according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Forty of the names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Other people served longer terms as U.S. President, and other people served longer terms as governors of their states, but he amassed the longest combined tenure as governor and President.
2. “Hail, true body” is the English translation of the last motet written by this composer. (It has been one of my favorite pieces of music since we played it in All-County Orchestra in 1969.)
3. The title of this author’s 1848 “Novel Without a Hero” was taken from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.
4. A statue of this actor stands in front of the Port Authority terminal in Manhattan.
5. In 1984, this track star shared Sportsperson of the Year honors with a female gymnast.
6. One of the most prominent 20th century physicists to never win the Nobel Prize, he once told an interviewer, “"My name is not Strangelove. I don't know about Strangelove. I'm not interested in Strangelove.”
7. DJMQ: He may have been the first – and was certainly the most important – dancer to work with both Twyla Tharp and George Balanchine – in that order.
Another DJMQ appears at #70.
8. In a seminal 1762 book, this philosophe wrote, “The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”
9. A species of rabbit is named for this media mogul, who turned 90 in 2016.
10. This painter’s most famous work caused quite a ruckus at a seminal 1913 art exhibit, with one detractor comparing it to “an explosion in a shingle factory” and another dubbing it “Rush Hour in the Subway.”
11. Something of a dandy, this Confederate general was fatally wounded trying to rally his men at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.
12. The nationalist movement founded by this activist in 1831 inspired such later groups as Young Germany and the Young Turks; he himself lived to see its chief goal achieved, though not exactly in the way he wanted.
13. This leading figure of the Chicago jazz scene was a professional banjoist by the age of sixteen.
14. A 2001 survey of economists named him the second most popular economist of the 20th century – behind the man whose “naïve” theories he devoted his life to opposing – but he said his proudest achievement was his role in ending the U.S. military draft.
15. The heir of three leading European dynasties, he ruled two empires in the 16th century, but the pressure of constant warfare led him to abdicate and retire to a monastery.
16. The title characters of this dramatist’s most famous play are the Father, the Mother, the Stepdaughter, the Son, the Boy, and the Child.
17. This quarterback led his team to a 73-0 victory that has been called the most one-sided game in the history of professional football.
18. Following in the footsteps of Judith Anderson and Zoe Caldwell, this Dame became the third actress to win a Tony for playing the same role.
19. This English chemist shared the Nobel Prize with two Americans for their work in discovering fullerenes.
20. She got something she wanted on June 1, 1533; she lost something she needed on May 19, 1536.
21. He became a nationally known figure after the untimely passing of Mr. Kachellek, Mr. Heyer, Mr. Schwimmer, Mr. Weinshank, Mr. May, and the brothers Gusenberg.
22. The novelist who introduced this character in 1953 said that he deliberately given him “the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find” and that he originally conceived of him as “an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened.” (It hasn’t quite played out that way.)
23. An expert in Italian cuisine, this chef won James Beard awards for Best New Restaurant of 1998, Best Chef in New York City in 2002, and Best Restaurateur in 2008.
24. This author of the groundbreaking book Scientific Advertising is credited with popularizing tooth brushing as a result of his ad campaign for Pepsodent.
25. He is the only figure enshrined in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
26. He was General Secretary of his nation’s Communist party from 1953 to 1968. Then came the Spring.
27. One of the philosophical architects of German Romanticism, he was also he son-in-law of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
28. In addition to winning two Pulitzer Prizes, this distinguished American novelist co-founded an alternative news weekly that itself has won three Pulitzers.
29. This Dominican-born infielder has made the All Star team seven out of his twelve seasons in the majors, including five consecutive appearances.
30. One of the best Hollywood directors who never got an Oscar nomination for directing, he did receive three nominations as a screenwriter – winning for his witty, cynical tale about a crooked politician.
31. This Cuban epidemiologist is best remembered for being the first to postulate that a virulent disease was borne by the Aedes aegypti.
32. This peace activist drove an ambulance during the Spanish Civil War and was imprisoned for failing to show up for his draft physical during World War II, but he gained wider fame when he was arrested for his efforts to protest a later war.
33. She had the second-longest combined tenure as First Lady and Second Lady of the United States.
34. The same year he published The Rules of Sociological Method, he also set up the first department of sociology at any university in Europe.
35. This explorer and conquistador never found what he was looking for – largely because it didn’t exist – but he did find a very large hole in the ground.
36. Among the biggest stories covered and uncovered by this journalist and columnist were the CIA plot to assassinate Castro, the ITT scandal, the harassment of John Lennon by the Nixon administration, and the Iran-Contra affair.
37. He was the 12th person to hold a position first held by Omar Bradley and the 65th person to hold a position first held by Thomas Jefferson.
38. He was a freeloader, a would-be thief, a wife beater, an all-around loser – and the hero of one of the most beloved musicals of all time.
39. This German biologist and naturalist coined such terms as ecology, phylogeny, stem cell, and phylum.
40. This lyricist asserted that wise men never fall in love and warned us never to mess with Mr. In-Between.
41. This American character actress is best remembered for playing a flighty, much-married countess in the screen adaptation of a hit play and a flighty mother of five daughters in the screen adaptation of a classic novel.
42. This novelist’s 1925 masterpiece is generally considered to have the greatest closing line in the history of American fiction.
43. In August 2012, this athlete gave up his fight against what he still continued to call “an unconstitutional witch hunt.”
44. In an 1842 essay, this American thinker defined the philosophical movement of which he was the leading light as “the Saturnalia or excess of Faith; the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish.” Got that?
45. Shortly after buying the truck rental division of Hertz, this automotive entrepreneur replaced the Hertz name with his own.
46. His appointment was confirmed by the thinnest margin of any U.S. Supreme Court justice of the 20th century.
47. In 1935, this Akron physician had a fateful meeting with a failed Vermont businessman.
48. In a single year, this actor starred in three classic films – two directed by Howard Hawks and one directed by Frank Capra – and won his first Oscar for one of them.
49. In 1931, this Wallonian writer published the first of 76 novels featuring the same fictional detective.
50. Laws in spectroscopy, circuit theory, and thermochemistry are named for this 19th century Germany physicist, who also coined the term “black box radiation.”
51. This cartoonist once commented, “The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture."
52. His total of 38 Number One hits on the Billboard country music chart is exceeded only by George Strait and Conway Twitty.
53. In 1973, he was touted as America’s first soccer superstar, but he himself had a more realistic assessment of his abilities: “I could do a few things well. I’m not a Maradona-type guy. Don’t give me the ball 30 yards out and ask me to beat four players and do something magical.”
54. A colleague of Freud, he broke away from the Freudian school of psychoanalysis to form his own school of “individual psychology.” (Sigmund was pissed.)
55. The empress never really had that equine affair, but she did have quite a fling with this general, who fathered two of her children and helped her get rid of her husband.
56. It is probably a bittersweet memory for this current state governor that, in his senior year of high school, he won every track meet he entered.
57. This New Zealand supermodel appeared twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, twelve years apart.
58. In a 1974 article, this Nobel Prize-winning chemist first propounded the theory that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
59. This Hockey Hall of Famer was the first NHL player to play twenty seasons – all of them with the Boston Bruins.
60. This metaphysical poet saw Eternity the other night and didn’t even Tweet about it.
61. The official NASA mission log noted that “not since Adam has any human known such solitude” as this astronaut.
62. Among his honors were the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy, a doctorate in Sacred Theology, and two Emmy awards.
63. This American singer-songwriter hit #6 on the pop charts with his 1971 recording of a Christian hymn written in 1931.
64. He is the only person ever to have directed both Tallulah Bankhead and Doris Day.
65. A lot of people think a news broadcast on October 3, 1983, effectively ended this journalist’s career.
66. He starred in more films than any other cartoon character, including the first animated short to be selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
67. He is considered one of the most important links in the chain of events leading to the Civil War, but he didn’t live to see it: he died in 1858 shortly after his manumission.
68. The goal of the institution he founded in 1919 was, in his words, “to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and the crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture.”
69. He was imprisoned, not for the series of murders to which he confessed, but for a series of rapes; in either case, he died in prison in 1973.
70. DJMQ: He was the original choreographer of such classic ballets as La Esmerelda, Ondine, and, of course, Giselle.
71. This general served as Commander-in-Chief of the German army at the outset of World War II, but was forced into retirement after the failure of the Nazi assault on Moscow.
72. He was the last British Prime Minister to have previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
73. This chemist may be considered one of the architects of the modern world thanks to his invention of polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride in 1907.
74. This musician served as the drummer on such albums as Eliminator and Afterburner.
75. He was the playwright most closely associated with the likes of Morris Carnovsky, Luther and Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and a young John Garfield – all of whom appeared in his 1935 play about the Berger family of the Bronx.
76. Speaking of lopsided football games – as we were 59 questions ago – this Hall of Fame wide receiver coached the team that was on the losing end of what was up to that point the worst defeat in Super Bowl history.
77. The year 2017 will mark the 10th anniversary of this comedian’s gig on a popular game show.
78. This archaeologist is best known for unearthing a 9000 year-old Bronze Age palace on an island in the Mediterranean.
79. A student of Martin Luther, this theologian published the first translation of the Pentateuch into Danish.
80. The company he founded in 1906 – and which is still going strong today – was one of the first to include nutritional labels on its products and the very first to offer prizes for children inside its boxes.
81. This fashion designer – the son of a genuine Russian count and countess –joined the U.S. Coast Guard and became an American citizen shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
82. During her tenure as president of NOW, she engaged in more than 80 debates with Phyllis Schafly over the ERA, but earned the enmity of some members over her advocacy of equal custody rights for men in divorce cases.
83. Following what has become an annual tradition, Carnegie Hall will hold a concert this month honoring this mezzo-soprano on her 83rd birthday.
84. This two-time middleweight champ was scheduled to play himself in the movie Somebody Up There Likes Me, but he was replaced after he knocked out Paul Newman for real.
85. In 1905, this monarch led his nation into a humiliating defeat at the hands of Japan; things got even worse a decade later.
86. Joel Grey was to this actor as Edith Evans was to Albert Finney and David Johansen was to Bill Murray.
87. The heroine of this writer’s greatest novel was “Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent.”
88. A unit of electrical potential is named after this scientist who, in addition to his electrical experiments, also discovered methane.
89. He had the largest speaking role in three different plays by William Shakespeare.
90. Students trained by this German-born “Father of American Anthropology” included Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Ashley Montagu, and Zora Neale Hurston.
91. This guitarist, songwriter, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame probably never performed “Ole Man River,” “Look for the Silver Lining,” or “The Way You Look Tonight” – but he was named after the fellow who wrote them.
92. Among third basemen, only Brooks Robinson and George Brett appeared in more consecutive All-Star Games than this Omaha-born Hall of Famer.
93. During the American Revolution, he rose from private in militia to one of Washington’s most trusted generals, especially renowned for his successful management of the Southern campaign.
94. From 1939 to 1961, this mogul had a controlling interest in Trans World Airlines.
95. This actor’s performances in two installments of a blockbuster film series earned him two Razzy Awards for Worst Supporting Actor and one MTV Movie Award as Best Villain.
96. This philosopher’s magnum opus is divided into three parts – the first part dealing with the nature of God and of man; the second part dealing with morality; and the unfinished third part dealing with Christ and the end of the world.
97. We know that, in 1812, this poet woke up to find himself, but history is silent on whom he woke up next to. (It could have been ANYBODY.)
98. Perhaps his best-known painting depicts a group of his friends relaxing on the balcony of the Maison Fournaise, overlooking the Seine.
99. Speaking of waking up famous, this botanist noted, “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine.” (But he did.)
100. This President remains the only person ever selected Man of the Year by Time magazine two years in a row (the second time in conjunction with a future Secretary of State.)
WORD LIST
Rap
Ragtime
Car Wash
Grease
Dr. No
Persona
Demons
Phantom
Menace
Beast
Lizards
Deer
Horse
Orca
Great Dane
Lhasa
Paris
Calais
Lisbon
Austin
Salem
Harlem
Borneo
Spain
Denmark
China
Israeli
Roman
Lakers
Angel
Bruin
Ranger
Rebel
Dancer
Diver
Slugger
Oilman
Nurse
Herald
Yenta
Subteen
Virgin
Puritans
Old Men
Darlin’
O. Henry
Lavender
Citrus
Stew
Red Meats
Red Giant
Comet
Tundra
Vaginal
Renal
Clearly
Sobbing
Homeric
Ode
Romance
Wire
Cigar
Camera
Source
Yoga
Raffle
Salon
Not Me!
No More!
Hell, Yes!
Identify the 100 people in the clues below. Then, match two of the names with one of the Associated Words according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Forty of the names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Other people served longer terms as U.S. President, and other people served longer terms as governors of their states, but he amassed the longest combined tenure as governor and President.
2. “Hail, true body” is the English translation of the last motet written by this composer. (It has been one of my favorite pieces of music since we played it in All-County Orchestra in 1969.)
3. The title of this author’s 1848 “Novel Without a Hero” was taken from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.
4. A statue of this actor stands in front of the Port Authority terminal in Manhattan.
5. In 1984, this track star shared Sportsperson of the Year honors with a female gymnast.
6. One of the most prominent 20th century physicists to never win the Nobel Prize, he once told an interviewer, “"My name is not Strangelove. I don't know about Strangelove. I'm not interested in Strangelove.”
7. DJMQ: He may have been the first – and was certainly the most important – dancer to work with both Twyla Tharp and George Balanchine – in that order.
Another DJMQ appears at #70.
8. In a seminal 1762 book, this philosophe wrote, “The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”
9. A species of rabbit is named for this media mogul, who turned 90 in 2016.
10. This painter’s most famous work caused quite a ruckus at a seminal 1913 art exhibit, with one detractor comparing it to “an explosion in a shingle factory” and another dubbing it “Rush Hour in the Subway.”
11. Something of a dandy, this Confederate general was fatally wounded trying to rally his men at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.
12. The nationalist movement founded by this activist in 1831 inspired such later groups as Young Germany and the Young Turks; he himself lived to see its chief goal achieved, though not exactly in the way he wanted.
13. This leading figure of the Chicago jazz scene was a professional banjoist by the age of sixteen.
14. A 2001 survey of economists named him the second most popular economist of the 20th century – behind the man whose “naïve” theories he devoted his life to opposing – but he said his proudest achievement was his role in ending the U.S. military draft.
15. The heir of three leading European dynasties, he ruled two empires in the 16th century, but the pressure of constant warfare led him to abdicate and retire to a monastery.
16. The title characters of this dramatist’s most famous play are the Father, the Mother, the Stepdaughter, the Son, the Boy, and the Child.
17. This quarterback led his team to a 73-0 victory that has been called the most one-sided game in the history of professional football.
18. Following in the footsteps of Judith Anderson and Zoe Caldwell, this Dame became the third actress to win a Tony for playing the same role.
19. This English chemist shared the Nobel Prize with two Americans for their work in discovering fullerenes.
20. She got something she wanted on June 1, 1533; she lost something she needed on May 19, 1536.
21. He became a nationally known figure after the untimely passing of Mr. Kachellek, Mr. Heyer, Mr. Schwimmer, Mr. Weinshank, Mr. May, and the brothers Gusenberg.
22. The novelist who introduced this character in 1953 said that he deliberately given him “the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find” and that he originally conceived of him as “an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened.” (It hasn’t quite played out that way.)
23. An expert in Italian cuisine, this chef won James Beard awards for Best New Restaurant of 1998, Best Chef in New York City in 2002, and Best Restaurateur in 2008.
24. This author of the groundbreaking book Scientific Advertising is credited with popularizing tooth brushing as a result of his ad campaign for Pepsodent.
25. He is the only figure enshrined in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
26. He was General Secretary of his nation’s Communist party from 1953 to 1968. Then came the Spring.
27. One of the philosophical architects of German Romanticism, he was also he son-in-law of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
28. In addition to winning two Pulitzer Prizes, this distinguished American novelist co-founded an alternative news weekly that itself has won three Pulitzers.
29. This Dominican-born infielder has made the All Star team seven out of his twelve seasons in the majors, including five consecutive appearances.
30. One of the best Hollywood directors who never got an Oscar nomination for directing, he did receive three nominations as a screenwriter – winning for his witty, cynical tale about a crooked politician.
31. This Cuban epidemiologist is best remembered for being the first to postulate that a virulent disease was borne by the Aedes aegypti.
32. This peace activist drove an ambulance during the Spanish Civil War and was imprisoned for failing to show up for his draft physical during World War II, but he gained wider fame when he was arrested for his efforts to protest a later war.
33. She had the second-longest combined tenure as First Lady and Second Lady of the United States.
34. The same year he published The Rules of Sociological Method, he also set up the first department of sociology at any university in Europe.
35. This explorer and conquistador never found what he was looking for – largely because it didn’t exist – but he did find a very large hole in the ground.
36. Among the biggest stories covered and uncovered by this journalist and columnist were the CIA plot to assassinate Castro, the ITT scandal, the harassment of John Lennon by the Nixon administration, and the Iran-Contra affair.
37. He was the 12th person to hold a position first held by Omar Bradley and the 65th person to hold a position first held by Thomas Jefferson.
38. He was a freeloader, a would-be thief, a wife beater, an all-around loser – and the hero of one of the most beloved musicals of all time.
39. This German biologist and naturalist coined such terms as ecology, phylogeny, stem cell, and phylum.
40. This lyricist asserted that wise men never fall in love and warned us never to mess with Mr. In-Between.
41. This American character actress is best remembered for playing a flighty, much-married countess in the screen adaptation of a hit play and a flighty mother of five daughters in the screen adaptation of a classic novel.
42. This novelist’s 1925 masterpiece is generally considered to have the greatest closing line in the history of American fiction.
43. In August 2012, this athlete gave up his fight against what he still continued to call “an unconstitutional witch hunt.”
44. In an 1842 essay, this American thinker defined the philosophical movement of which he was the leading light as “the Saturnalia or excess of Faith; the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish.” Got that?
45. Shortly after buying the truck rental division of Hertz, this automotive entrepreneur replaced the Hertz name with his own.
46. His appointment was confirmed by the thinnest margin of any U.S. Supreme Court justice of the 20th century.
47. In 1935, this Akron physician had a fateful meeting with a failed Vermont businessman.
48. In a single year, this actor starred in three classic films – two directed by Howard Hawks and one directed by Frank Capra – and won his first Oscar for one of them.
49. In 1931, this Wallonian writer published the first of 76 novels featuring the same fictional detective.
50. Laws in spectroscopy, circuit theory, and thermochemistry are named for this 19th century Germany physicist, who also coined the term “black box radiation.”
51. This cartoonist once commented, “The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture."
52. His total of 38 Number One hits on the Billboard country music chart is exceeded only by George Strait and Conway Twitty.
53. In 1973, he was touted as America’s first soccer superstar, but he himself had a more realistic assessment of his abilities: “I could do a few things well. I’m not a Maradona-type guy. Don’t give me the ball 30 yards out and ask me to beat four players and do something magical.”
54. A colleague of Freud, he broke away from the Freudian school of psychoanalysis to form his own school of “individual psychology.” (Sigmund was pissed.)
55. The empress never really had that equine affair, but she did have quite a fling with this general, who fathered two of her children and helped her get rid of her husband.
56. It is probably a bittersweet memory for this current state governor that, in his senior year of high school, he won every track meet he entered.
57. This New Zealand supermodel appeared twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, twelve years apart.
58. In a 1974 article, this Nobel Prize-winning chemist first propounded the theory that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
59. This Hockey Hall of Famer was the first NHL player to play twenty seasons – all of them with the Boston Bruins.
60. This metaphysical poet saw Eternity the other night and didn’t even Tweet about it.
61. The official NASA mission log noted that “not since Adam has any human known such solitude” as this astronaut.
62. Among his honors were the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy, a doctorate in Sacred Theology, and two Emmy awards.
63. This American singer-songwriter hit #6 on the pop charts with his 1971 recording of a Christian hymn written in 1931.
64. He is the only person ever to have directed both Tallulah Bankhead and Doris Day.
65. A lot of people think a news broadcast on October 3, 1983, effectively ended this journalist’s career.
66. He starred in more films than any other cartoon character, including the first animated short to be selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
67. He is considered one of the most important links in the chain of events leading to the Civil War, but he didn’t live to see it: he died in 1858 shortly after his manumission.
68. The goal of the institution he founded in 1919 was, in his words, “to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and the crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture.”
69. He was imprisoned, not for the series of murders to which he confessed, but for a series of rapes; in either case, he died in prison in 1973.
70. DJMQ: He was the original choreographer of such classic ballets as La Esmerelda, Ondine, and, of course, Giselle.
71. This general served as Commander-in-Chief of the German army at the outset of World War II, but was forced into retirement after the failure of the Nazi assault on Moscow.
72. He was the last British Prime Minister to have previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
73. This chemist may be considered one of the architects of the modern world thanks to his invention of polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride in 1907.
74. This musician served as the drummer on such albums as Eliminator and Afterburner.
75. He was the playwright most closely associated with the likes of Morris Carnovsky, Luther and Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and a young John Garfield – all of whom appeared in his 1935 play about the Berger family of the Bronx.
76. Speaking of lopsided football games – as we were 59 questions ago – this Hall of Fame wide receiver coached the team that was on the losing end of what was up to that point the worst defeat in Super Bowl history.
77. The year 2017 will mark the 10th anniversary of this comedian’s gig on a popular game show.
78. This archaeologist is best known for unearthing a 9000 year-old Bronze Age palace on an island in the Mediterranean.
79. A student of Martin Luther, this theologian published the first translation of the Pentateuch into Danish.
80. The company he founded in 1906 – and which is still going strong today – was one of the first to include nutritional labels on its products and the very first to offer prizes for children inside its boxes.
81. This fashion designer – the son of a genuine Russian count and countess –joined the U.S. Coast Guard and became an American citizen shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
82. During her tenure as president of NOW, she engaged in more than 80 debates with Phyllis Schafly over the ERA, but earned the enmity of some members over her advocacy of equal custody rights for men in divorce cases.
83. Following what has become an annual tradition, Carnegie Hall will hold a concert this month honoring this mezzo-soprano on her 83rd birthday.
84. This two-time middleweight champ was scheduled to play himself in the movie Somebody Up There Likes Me, but he was replaced after he knocked out Paul Newman for real.
85. In 1905, this monarch led his nation into a humiliating defeat at the hands of Japan; things got even worse a decade later.
86. Joel Grey was to this actor as Edith Evans was to Albert Finney and David Johansen was to Bill Murray.
87. The heroine of this writer’s greatest novel was “Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent.”
88. A unit of electrical potential is named after this scientist who, in addition to his electrical experiments, also discovered methane.
89. He had the largest speaking role in three different plays by William Shakespeare.
90. Students trained by this German-born “Father of American Anthropology” included Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Ashley Montagu, and Zora Neale Hurston.
91. This guitarist, songwriter, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame probably never performed “Ole Man River,” “Look for the Silver Lining,” or “The Way You Look Tonight” – but he was named after the fellow who wrote them.
92. Among third basemen, only Brooks Robinson and George Brett appeared in more consecutive All-Star Games than this Omaha-born Hall of Famer.
93. During the American Revolution, he rose from private in militia to one of Washington’s most trusted generals, especially renowned for his successful management of the Southern campaign.
94. From 1939 to 1961, this mogul had a controlling interest in Trans World Airlines.
95. This actor’s performances in two installments of a blockbuster film series earned him two Razzy Awards for Worst Supporting Actor and one MTV Movie Award as Best Villain.
96. This philosopher’s magnum opus is divided into three parts – the first part dealing with the nature of God and of man; the second part dealing with morality; and the unfinished third part dealing with Christ and the end of the world.
97. We know that, in 1812, this poet woke up to find himself, but history is silent on whom he woke up next to. (It could have been ANYBODY.)
98. Perhaps his best-known painting depicts a group of his friends relaxing on the balcony of the Maison Fournaise, overlooking the Seine.
99. Speaking of waking up famous, this botanist noted, “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine.” (But he did.)
100. This President remains the only person ever selected Man of the Year by Time magazine two years in a row (the second time in conjunction with a future Secretary of State.)
WORD LIST
Rap
Ragtime
Car Wash
Grease
Dr. No
Persona
Demons
Phantom
Menace
Beast
Lizards
Deer
Horse
Orca
Great Dane
Lhasa
Paris
Calais
Lisbon
Austin
Salem
Harlem
Borneo
Spain
Denmark
China
Israeli
Roman
Lakers
Angel
Bruin
Ranger
Rebel
Dancer
Diver
Slugger
Oilman
Nurse
Herald
Yenta
Subteen
Virgin
Puritans
Old Men
Darlin’
O. Henry
Lavender
Citrus
Stew
Red Meats
Red Giant
Comet
Tundra
Vaginal
Renal
Clearly
Sobbing
Homeric
Ode
Romance
Wire
Cigar
Camera
Source
Yoga
Raffle
Salon
Not Me!
No More!
Hell, Yes!