Game #203: Tic-Tac-Toe
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:39 am
Game #203: Tic-Tac-Toe
Identify the 60 people in the clues below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with one of the Associated Words.
No names will be used twice. Every permutation of the Tangredi will be used only once. Alternate matches are possible, but only one solution will allow all the game to be completed.
1. My favorite lesser characters created by this novelist include the Fat Boy, the Aged P, and Mr. F’s Aunt.
2. The legend of this Anglo-Saxon king getting reamed by a peasant woman for ruining her dinner is probably apocryphal.
3. This physicist never liked his most famous nickname, arguing that the weapon he helped invent never sent him a Father’s Day card.
4. He won a Tony in the Featured or Supporting category and an Oscar in the Leading category – for the same role.
5. In his debut as a starting pitcher, he struck out a record 15 batters … then tied the MLB strikeout record for a single game … then went back home to finish his senior year of high school.
6. This commander’s greatest victory was celebrated in a hit song by my favorite 1970s singing group.
7. DJMQ: Three years after founding the company that still bears his name, this influential choreographer created his most famous work, based on a play by William Shakespeare.
8. This early classical composer, who helped revolutionize opera, arguably reached his peak with a work based on a play by Euripides.
9. In 1879, this pioneering German psychologist – in fact, the first person to call himself a psychologist – founded the first laboratory dedicated to psychological research.
10. His empire began when he inherited a small newspaper in Adelaide from his father.
11. This eponymous – and highly unreliable – narrator of an 1844 picaresque novel was based on an Irish fortune hunter named Andrew Stoney.
12. An important influence on the Impressionists, this French artist first shocked audiences with his painting of two fully-dressed men picknicking with a not-at-all dressed woman.
13. An early advocate of community nursing, she founded a settlement house that – 127 years later – is still providing social services for residents of New York’s Lower East Side.
14. The nature of English metaphysical verse is probably best exemplified by this poet’s extended simile involving the legs of a compass.
15. He is the most recent person to receive NBA Coach of the Year honors for the second time.
16. She is the most senior Republican woman in the U.S. Senate.
17. Feeling that his old studio had fallen away from the standards set by the Nine Old Men, he broke away to form his own company in 1979.
18. Starting as an assistant to Robert Boyle, this English scientist went on to build the first Gregorian telescope and to publish the first sketches of plant and animal life as seen through a microscope.
19. Between 1986 and 1995, this singer amassed 15 Number One hits on the Billboard Country chart – plus a sixteenth 7 years later.
20. The fashion house he founded still bears his name, his loyal membership in the Nazi party, for whom he designed some (presumably) very chic uniforms.
21. A leading proponent of logical positivism, this British philosopher also served as an M16 agent during World War II.
22. His claim to have been the first to reach the North Pole by air has been disputed, but nobody disputes his primacy on the other side of the globe.
23. After a hiatus of over a decade, this serial killer resumed his habit of sending letters boasting of his crimes – which led to his long-overdue arrest. Oops.
24. In 1910, this businessman – the son of a onetime Secretary of Agriculture – started an eponymous company that is still America’s leading producer of one of the world’s most ubiquitous commodities.
25. He was the last Roman Catholic to hold the position of Archbishop of Canterbury – a post he would certainly have lost if he hadn’t happened to die on the same day as Mary I.
26. More than 40 years after his debut film – in which he introduced an Oscar-winning song – he returned to the big screen as the Ghost of Christmas Past.
27. Retiring from the bench at age 90, he holds the record for the oldest justice to sit on the U. S. Supreme Court.
28. He was generally considered the greatest novelist in the English language whose native language was not English.
29. This influential Philadelphia-based architect was known for monumental designs, including the Salk Institute and the art gallery at Yale University.
30. This English actor, who died this year, is best remembered for his role as a real-life athlete.
31. A two-time WSOP champ, he was the first player to win over one million dollars in poker tournaments.
32. In 1948, this American mathematician published what is now considered the founding document of modern information theory.
33. She never wanted her husband elected President, and spent most of her sixteen months as First Lady secluded upstairs in the White House.
34. One of the founders of modern historiography, this German historian is credited with introducing the empirical use of primary sources.
35. She was the first woman assigned by a network as a full-time White House correspondent – a post she held through seven presidencies.
36. He set to music the words of such Broadway lyricists as E.Y. Harburg, Stephen Sondheim, and – most frequently – Comden and Green.
37. The year after he was deported from Mexico, this mobster was gunned down in a suburb of his native Chicago.
38. This environmental activist was the first Green Party candidate ever to receive an electoral vote.
39. He was the highest-ranking Patriot officer on the northwestern front during the American Revolution.
40. Without the company founded by this Michigan-born entrepreneur, I could not have written this clue about him.
41. Although he did not invent the sewing machine, the improvements he introduced allowed it to be adapted for home use.
42. The projects he supervised as Director-General included building the protective wall in lower Manhattan that would become – well, you know.
43. This poet received the Pulitzer Prize for an epic narrative about the U.S. Civil War.
44. In a 1975 title bout, this heavyweight spectacularly failed to “got the distance” – losing by a TKO with 12 seconds on the clock in the 15th round.
45. Although her role in the Canon has been grossly inflated, she remains one of the few antagonists to have completely bested a certain renowned sleuth.
46. She had 5 Top Twenty hits in the 1960s, in collaboration with a singer who had 20 other Top Twenty hits without her.
47. He was one of the great directors of Sweden’s Golden Age, but is even better remembered today for the legendary superstar he discovered.
48. This Lutheran minister was the driving force behind the Moral Re-Armament Movement.
49. Familiar to TV audiences for his bald pate and soul patch, this Iron Chef is credited with revitalizing the restaurant scene in Cleveland.
50. This onetime garment cutter cofounded both the CIO and the American Labor party.
51. Though most people know him best for his portraits – particularly one thought to be the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – this cofounder of the Royal Academy was even more influential as a landscape painter.
52. A veteran of more than 20 voyages across the Atlantic, this explorer was the first European to describe the Great Lakes.
53. One of the many Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany, this biochemist worked with an Australian colleague to refine a discovery made by a Scottish physician – which led to all three winning the Nobel Prize.
54. His record for most points scored in a single game has stood for 91 years. (No, I’m not going to tell you which sport.)
55. This prolific German writer penned historical dramas about a Spanish prince, a Scottish queen, a French military leader, and a legendary Swiss hero.
56. Her screen work has netted her two Oscars and five BAFTAs; her stage work has netted her a record six Evening Standard Awards.
57. The son of a Newark barber, this singer scored five Number One hits as the front man of a group and two more as a solo artist.
58. In 1817, this economist advanced the concept of comparative advantage to explain why two nations should engage in trade even if one country’s workers excelled the others’s in the production every single trade good.
59. This German philosopher opined that “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
60. This President completes a list that includes Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Donald Trump, and the husband of the First Lady in a previous clue.
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Fat
Short
Dirty
Awful
Boston
Wall Street
South Street
Gulf
Prairie
Judge
Outlaw
Monk
Teenager
G. I. Joe
Jo
Norm
Jerry
Ron
Crystal
Turner
Pierce
Foxes
Panthers
Expressionism
Impressionism
Intelligence
Birth
Kiss
Violin
Tonight
Identify the 60 people in the clues below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with one of the Associated Words.
No names will be used twice. Every permutation of the Tangredi will be used only once. Alternate matches are possible, but only one solution will allow all the game to be completed.
1. My favorite lesser characters created by this novelist include the Fat Boy, the Aged P, and Mr. F’s Aunt.
2. The legend of this Anglo-Saxon king getting reamed by a peasant woman for ruining her dinner is probably apocryphal.
3. This physicist never liked his most famous nickname, arguing that the weapon he helped invent never sent him a Father’s Day card.
4. He won a Tony in the Featured or Supporting category and an Oscar in the Leading category – for the same role.
5. In his debut as a starting pitcher, he struck out a record 15 batters … then tied the MLB strikeout record for a single game … then went back home to finish his senior year of high school.
6. This commander’s greatest victory was celebrated in a hit song by my favorite 1970s singing group.
7. DJMQ: Three years after founding the company that still bears his name, this influential choreographer created his most famous work, based on a play by William Shakespeare.
8. This early classical composer, who helped revolutionize opera, arguably reached his peak with a work based on a play by Euripides.
9. In 1879, this pioneering German psychologist – in fact, the first person to call himself a psychologist – founded the first laboratory dedicated to psychological research.
10. His empire began when he inherited a small newspaper in Adelaide from his father.
11. This eponymous – and highly unreliable – narrator of an 1844 picaresque novel was based on an Irish fortune hunter named Andrew Stoney.
12. An important influence on the Impressionists, this French artist first shocked audiences with his painting of two fully-dressed men picknicking with a not-at-all dressed woman.
13. An early advocate of community nursing, she founded a settlement house that – 127 years later – is still providing social services for residents of New York’s Lower East Side.
14. The nature of English metaphysical verse is probably best exemplified by this poet’s extended simile involving the legs of a compass.
15. He is the most recent person to receive NBA Coach of the Year honors for the second time.
16. She is the most senior Republican woman in the U.S. Senate.
17. Feeling that his old studio had fallen away from the standards set by the Nine Old Men, he broke away to form his own company in 1979.
18. Starting as an assistant to Robert Boyle, this English scientist went on to build the first Gregorian telescope and to publish the first sketches of plant and animal life as seen through a microscope.
19. Between 1986 and 1995, this singer amassed 15 Number One hits on the Billboard Country chart – plus a sixteenth 7 years later.
20. The fashion house he founded still bears his name, his loyal membership in the Nazi party, for whom he designed some (presumably) very chic uniforms.
21. A leading proponent of logical positivism, this British philosopher also served as an M16 agent during World War II.
22. His claim to have been the first to reach the North Pole by air has been disputed, but nobody disputes his primacy on the other side of the globe.
23. After a hiatus of over a decade, this serial killer resumed his habit of sending letters boasting of his crimes – which led to his long-overdue arrest. Oops.
24. In 1910, this businessman – the son of a onetime Secretary of Agriculture – started an eponymous company that is still America’s leading producer of one of the world’s most ubiquitous commodities.
25. He was the last Roman Catholic to hold the position of Archbishop of Canterbury – a post he would certainly have lost if he hadn’t happened to die on the same day as Mary I.
26. More than 40 years after his debut film – in which he introduced an Oscar-winning song – he returned to the big screen as the Ghost of Christmas Past.
27. Retiring from the bench at age 90, he holds the record for the oldest justice to sit on the U. S. Supreme Court.
28. He was generally considered the greatest novelist in the English language whose native language was not English.
29. This influential Philadelphia-based architect was known for monumental designs, including the Salk Institute and the art gallery at Yale University.
30. This English actor, who died this year, is best remembered for his role as a real-life athlete.
31. A two-time WSOP champ, he was the first player to win over one million dollars in poker tournaments.
32. In 1948, this American mathematician published what is now considered the founding document of modern information theory.
33. She never wanted her husband elected President, and spent most of her sixteen months as First Lady secluded upstairs in the White House.
34. One of the founders of modern historiography, this German historian is credited with introducing the empirical use of primary sources.
35. She was the first woman assigned by a network as a full-time White House correspondent – a post she held through seven presidencies.
36. He set to music the words of such Broadway lyricists as E.Y. Harburg, Stephen Sondheim, and – most frequently – Comden and Green.
37. The year after he was deported from Mexico, this mobster was gunned down in a suburb of his native Chicago.
38. This environmental activist was the first Green Party candidate ever to receive an electoral vote.
39. He was the highest-ranking Patriot officer on the northwestern front during the American Revolution.
40. Without the company founded by this Michigan-born entrepreneur, I could not have written this clue about him.
41. Although he did not invent the sewing machine, the improvements he introduced allowed it to be adapted for home use.
42. The projects he supervised as Director-General included building the protective wall in lower Manhattan that would become – well, you know.
43. This poet received the Pulitzer Prize for an epic narrative about the U.S. Civil War.
44. In a 1975 title bout, this heavyweight spectacularly failed to “got the distance” – losing by a TKO with 12 seconds on the clock in the 15th round.
45. Although her role in the Canon has been grossly inflated, she remains one of the few antagonists to have completely bested a certain renowned sleuth.
46. She had 5 Top Twenty hits in the 1960s, in collaboration with a singer who had 20 other Top Twenty hits without her.
47. He was one of the great directors of Sweden’s Golden Age, but is even better remembered today for the legendary superstar he discovered.
48. This Lutheran minister was the driving force behind the Moral Re-Armament Movement.
49. Familiar to TV audiences for his bald pate and soul patch, this Iron Chef is credited with revitalizing the restaurant scene in Cleveland.
50. This onetime garment cutter cofounded both the CIO and the American Labor party.
51. Though most people know him best for his portraits – particularly one thought to be the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – this cofounder of the Royal Academy was even more influential as a landscape painter.
52. A veteran of more than 20 voyages across the Atlantic, this explorer was the first European to describe the Great Lakes.
53. One of the many Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany, this biochemist worked with an Australian colleague to refine a discovery made by a Scottish physician – which led to all three winning the Nobel Prize.
54. His record for most points scored in a single game has stood for 91 years. (No, I’m not going to tell you which sport.)
55. This prolific German writer penned historical dramas about a Spanish prince, a Scottish queen, a French military leader, and a legendary Swiss hero.
56. Her screen work has netted her two Oscars and five BAFTAs; her stage work has netted her a record six Evening Standard Awards.
57. The son of a Newark barber, this singer scored five Number One hits as the front man of a group and two more as a solo artist.
58. In 1817, this economist advanced the concept of comparative advantage to explain why two nations should engage in trade even if one country’s workers excelled the others’s in the production every single trade good.
59. This German philosopher opined that “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
60. This President completes a list that includes Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Donald Trump, and the husband of the First Lady in a previous clue.
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Fat
Short
Dirty
Awful
Boston
Wall Street
South Street
Gulf
Prairie
Judge
Outlaw
Monk
Teenager
G. I. Joe
Jo
Norm
Jerry
Ron
Crystal
Turner
Pierce
Foxes
Panthers
Expressionism
Impressionism
Intelligence
Birth
Kiss
Violin
Tonight