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smilergrogan wrote: 64. This tyrant claimed to be what William II (or James VI, depending on how you define it) had been, not to mention "Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas"

smilergrogan wrote:Combine the answers to the following 78 questions to make 29 pairs and 8 trios, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover. Four answers will be used twice, each in two different capacities.

There will probably be some unanticipated alternate matches, but with any luck everything will clear itself up in the end.

1. Later this summer she may become the first 5-time Olympian (and first 40-year old) to compete in her sport

smilergrogan wrote:Combine the answers to the following 78 questions to make 29 pairs and 8 trios, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover. Four answers will be used twice, each in two different capacities.

There will probably be some unanticipated alternate matches, but with any luck everything will clear itself up in the end.


1. Later this summer she may become the first 5-time Olympian (and first 40-year old) to compete in her sport
2. This inventor's donation enabled MIT to move its campus from Boston to Cambridge in 1916; it is considered good luck for students to rub the inventor's nose on the large plaque commemorating the gift
3. The "Mumford Athletics" T-shirt worn by Eddie Murphy in "Beverly Hills Cop" referred to the Detroit alma mater of this producer
4. The winner of the 1998 British Book of the Year had its origin in this writer's column in The Independent
5. A 1999 survey of speech professors ranked two of this politician's addresses (delivered in 1974 and 1976) among the top 15 American speeches of the 20th century, and the only ones among the top 15 given by a woman

BARBARA JORDAN

6. His four Pulitzers include a play about Lincoln and a biography of FDR

ROBERT E. SHERWOOD

7. Along with Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins, this former Dodgers star signed with the Philadelphia A's prior to the 1927 season, giving the team seven future hall-of-famers
8. Nicknamed "Thunderfingers", Bill Wyman described this bassist as "the quietest man in private but the loudest on stage"
9. This singer/songwriter's first band was named for a 1954 horror movie about giant insects

VAN MORRISON?

10. The University of Kansas School of Journalism is named for this long-time newspaper editor
11. On a 2004 CBC series called "The Greatest Canadian", this broadcaster and former NHL coach placed seventh, three places ahead of Wayne Gretzky
12. On the same list, this man who died at the age of 22 placed second

TERRY FOX?


13. Used in a previous game as a "Crouching Tiger" (ah, memories), he set an all-time Big Ten conference batting mark of .585 for the University of Michigan in 1961, and served as manager of the Wolverines from 1989-95
14. Some of this astronomer's ashes are on board the New Horizons spacecraft, set to arrive at its main target in July 2015
15. He is the only American to score a goal in more than one men's World Cup
16. It didn't require a psychic network to predict the success of this talented singer, a long-time collaborator of Burt Bacharach

DIONNE WARWICK

17. Two of this actor's better-known roles translate from german as "lovechild" and "mankisser"

KENNETH MARS

18. This publisher founded a motorcycle club called the Capitalist Tools, the same name he gave to his private Boeing 727 jet
MALCOLM FORBES

19. In the early 1970s this comedian turned down a $500,000 offer to film commercials for AT&T, but in 2003 she participated in an ad campaign for the internet communications company WebEx

LILY TOMLIN

20. Considered by some to be the first American victim of the Cold War, this missionary to China helped the Dolittle raid air crews reach safety in 1942 and then served with the Flying Tigers as a spy before being killed by Chinese Communists while on a mission to reach Allied prisoners in a Japanese POW camp

JOHN BIRCH

21. The title of his first hit song was taken from a line spoken by John Wayne's character in "The Searchers"

BUDDY HOLLY

22. Named "Accessory Designer of the Year" for 1998 by the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America, of course), her signature product was often used by characters in her brother-in-law's TV show
23. He holds the NFL records for career receptions and touchdowns by a tight end
24. Miss Scandinavia of 1975, she appeared in several Bergman films before her international breakthrough in 1988
25. In his first senate campaign, he defeated an opponent who had earlier carried on an extramarital affair with his eventual predecessor for a different office
26. The answer to her most infamous question was "oak"

BARBARA WALTERS

27. About eight years before Smiler Grogan kicked the bucket, this singer who was a superstar on two continents suffered a heart attack while taping a dance number for the Jimmy Durante show and died the next morning
28. The only member of both the college football and college hockey halls of fame, this Princeton graduate joined the Lafayette Escadrille, flying a black and orange plane to honor his alma mater, received the Croix de Guerre, and was killed in a flying accident in France one month after the armistice
29. After serving as executive producer of "Bill Moyers' Journal" on PBS in the 1970s, he began appearing on camera himself, eventually getting his own show
30. In 1967, this outspoken lawyer became at age 28 the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard University
31. This long-time character actor in dramatic and later comedic Westerns lost the sight in his left eye at age 12 when a fellow boy scout threw a pencil at him

JACK ELAM?

32. The "dispersion force" given his name provides the intermolecular attraction that allows atomic and non-polar molecular gases to condense to liquids
33. Currently the 2nd longest serving member of the U.S. House, before his election to congress he served as an assistant to the current longest serving House member
34. Known as "Moon Man" during his playing days, this year fans of this announcer eagerly awaited his first attempt at pronouncing "Fukudome"
35. At age 8, she lost her friend Denise McNair in the infamous 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
36. He received over 14,000 votes in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, placing him 8th (right behind Larry Flynt), and 2nd among terrible actors in the race

GARY COLEMAN

37. The previous answer would have towered a full two inches over this English poet, who may have been tempted to include him in his "Dunciad"

ALEXANDER POPE

38. Katharine Hepburn said this performer "gave him (her famous partner) sex" (not literally)

GINGER ROGERS

39. For the teetotaller too embarrassed to order a Shirley Temple, the masculine version named for this actor substitutes lime juice for grenadine
40. His epitaph reads "Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice"

CHRISTOPHER WREN

41. Her professional experience observing the child-raising practices of other cultures may have influenced the views of her own pediatrician, Benjamin Spock

MARGARET MEAD?

42. The U.S. Census Bureau's 1890 declaration of the death of the American frontier prompted a seminal essay by this historian, first presented at the 1893 Columbian Exposition

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

43. In 2001 he founded a short-lived company called "Wheels of Zeus" (a reference to his nickname), which made GPS units to help people keep track of household items, pets, and children
44. This Arizona State star was the first player ever drafted in the Major League Baseball draft
45. She bought the small town of Braselton, Georgia for $20 million in 1989, but had to sell it four years later due to financial difficulties stemming from a breach of contract lawsuit
46. In 1943, he led Georgetown to its only NCAA basketball tournament final until the Patrick Ewing era, but he is better remembered for events which took place almost 56 years later
47. Rising through the ranks of the British East India Company under Robert Clive, he was appointed the first governor-general of India in 1773
48. Her 1987 hit song was about the same New York City restaurant later used for exterior shots of the diner frequented by the characters on "Seinfeld"

SUZANNE VEGA?

49. Eleven year old Karenna Gore's enthusiasm for this singer's music was the last straw for her mother
50. This Brazilian jazz fusion singer was an original member of Chick Corea's band Return to Forever, and has won Downbeat magazine's Female vocalist of the year award four times
51. Their liver can be seen on display at the Mutter museum of medical curiosities in Philadelphia

CHANG AND ENG BUNKER

52. His 1960 Senate campaign slogan was "double your pleasure, double your fun — vote against Johnson two times, not one" (he lost, but won a special election the next year)
53. In 1976, Billboard magazine named her "female entertainer of the century"
54. Despite his declared incompetence to stand trial for treason by reason of insanity, and his description of America as "a lunatic asylum", he was awarded the first Bollingen prize for American poetry in 1949

EZRA POUND

55. He was a genuine "Mississippi Man", even though his "Louisiana Woman" was from Kentucky
56. She, her future husband, and their future bandleader met in 1970 as freshmen at the Rhode Island School of Design

TINA WEYMOUTH

57. He once successfully sued a portable toilet manufacturer for appropriating his show's catchphrase (Stanley Kubrick evidently had better lawyers)

JACKIE GLEASON?

58. As a lawyer, he prosecuted (unsuccessfully) the perpetrator of the first known U.S. presidential assassination attempt, and defended (unsuccessfully) Sam Houston in his trial for assaulting an Ohio congressman with a cane; but he is not best remembered as a lawyer
59. In an all-time low even for Fox, her strategy of hiding behind the referee proved ineffective as she suffered a defeat by technical knockout to Tonya Harding on a 2002 episode of "Celebrity Boxing"
60. To the name on his gravestone is appended "Beren"
61. This busy conductor currently directs a major symphony orchestra and a major opera house, each in a different city
62. He is the most famous native of Hibbing, Minnesota not named Bob Dylan, Roger Maris, Vincent Bugliosi or Gary Puckett
63. This musician's death led to the formal disbanding of his iconic group four days before John Lennon's death in 1980
64. This tyrant claimed to be what William II (or James VI, depending on how you define it) had been, not to mention "Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas"
65. He was the 8th president of the National Rifle Association, serving until his death in 1885; one of his high ranking former employees was the first
66. After an influential career in the pulpit, this theologian helped found Princeton University (then College of New Jersey) and served as its president for one month in 1758 (replacing his son-in-law) before dying of smallpox
67. Known during and after his playing days as a hustler and gambler, he claimed to have won $105,000 in 1939 by betting on himself to win the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles championships at Wimbledon
68. She also swept all three titles at Wimbledon in 1939, and later served as a spy in World War II, getting shot in the back by a Nazi agent in 1945
69. On February 22 of this year, news organizations noted the second anniversary of the last time he had uttered a word in the publicly visible part of his high profile job
70. This composer's best-loved work is alluded to in the melody of "When You Wish Upon a Star"
71. On an 1805 expedition to find the source of the Mississippi, he negotiated the first U.S. treaty with the Sioux

ZEBULON PIKE

72. This actress received three Emmy nominations co-starring with an original Not Ready for Prime-Time Player, and met her husband while hosting Saturday Night Live herself

SUSAN ST. JAMES?

73. As Prime Minister, he was blamed for the humiliating events which were widely considered to mark the formal end of Britain's superpower status
74. This Pulitzer-winner's only novel became the next project for the director of The Greatest Film Comedy of All Time, who was by then a veteran of films about fools in a wide variety of conveyances

KATHARINE ANNE PORTER

75. This actress's breakout role occurred 21 years after her mother's (whose character had the same first name as the daughter), in a film directed by the mother's director's most notable stylistic imitator

MELANIE GRIFFITH

77. He and Harriet Miers are currently the subject of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. House to force them to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about the firings of U.S. attorneys
76. He was the leading representative of the post World War II genre known as "Trummerliteratur" ("rubble literature")
78. Contrary to a popular legend, this future secretary of state's last name was not Kennedy

franktangredi wrote:I find it interesting that there is no 'associated words' list with this one....


Combine the answers to the following 78 questions to make 29 pairs and 8 trios, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover. Four answers will be used twice, each in two different capacities.

There will probably be some unanticipated alternate matches, but with any luck everything will clear itself up in the end.

1. Later this summer she may become the first 5-time Olympian (and first 40-year old) to compete in her sport
DARA TORRES

2. This inventor's donation enabled MIT to move its campus from Boston to Cambridge in 1916; it is considered good luck for students to rub the inventor's nose on the large plaque commemorating the gift
GEORGE EASTMAN

3. The "Mumford Athletics" T-shirt worn by Eddie Murphy in "Beverly Hills Cop" referred to the Detroit alma mater of this producer
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER

4. The winner of the 1998 British Book of the Year had its origin in this writer's column in The Independent
HELEN FIELDING

5. A 1999 survey of speech professors ranked two of this politician's addresses (delivered in 1974 and 1976) among the top 15 American speeches of the 20th century, and the only ones among the top 15 given by a woman
BARBARA JORDAN

6. His four Pulitzers include a play about Lincoln and a biography of FDR
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD

7. Along with Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins, this former Dodgers star signed with the Philadelphia A's prior to the 1927 season, giving the team seven future hall-of-famers
ZACK WHEAT

8. Nicknamed "Thunderfingers", Bill Wyman described this bassist as "the quietest man in private but the loudest on stage"
JOHN ENTWISTLE

9. This singer/songwriter's first band was named for a 1954 horror movie about giant insects
VAN MORRISON

10. The University of Kansas School of Journalism is named for this long-time newspaper editor
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

11. On a 2004 CBC series called "The Greatest Canadian", this broadcaster and former NHL coach placed seventh, three places ahead of Wayne Gretzky
DON CHERRY

12. On the same list, this man who died at the age of 22 placed second
TERRY FOX

13. Used in a previous game as a "Crouching Tiger" (ah, memories), he set an all-time Big Ten conference batting mark of .585 for the University of Michigan in 1961, and served as manager of the Wolverines from 1989-95
14. Some of this astronomer's ashes are on board the New Horizons spacecraft, set to arrive at its main target in July 2015
CLYDE TOMBAUGH

15. He is the only American to score a goal in more than one men's World Cup
16. It didn't require a psychic network to predict the success of this talented singer, a long-time collaborator of Burt Bacharach
DIONNE WARWICK

17. Two of this actor's better-known roles translate from german as "lovechild" and "mankisser"
KENNETH MARS

18. This publisher founded a motorcycle club called the Capitalist Tools, the same name he gave to his private Boeing 727 jet
MALCOLM FORBES

19. In the early 1970s this comedian turned down a $500,000 offer to film commercials for AT&T, but in 2003 she participated in an ad campaign for the internet communications company WebEx
LILY TOMLIN

20. Considered by some to be the first American victim of the Cold War, this missionary to China helped the Dolittle raid air crews reach safety in 1942 and then served with the Flying Tigers as a spy before being killed by Chinese Communists while on a mission to reach Allied prisoners in a Japanese POW camp
JOHN BIRCH

21. The title of his first hit song was taken from a line spoken by John Wayne's character in "The Searchers"
BUDDY HOLLY

22. Named "Accessory Designer of the Year" for 1998 by the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America, of course), her signature product was often used by characters in her brother-in-law's TV show
KATE SPADE?

23. He holds the NFL records for career receptions and touchdowns by a tight end
TONY GONZALEZ

24. Miss Scandinavia of 1975, she appeared in several Bergman films before her international breakthrough in 1988
LENA OLIN

25. In his first senate campaign, he defeated an opponent who had earlier carried on an extramarital affair with his eventual predecessor for a different office
26. The answer to her most infamous question was "oak"
BARBARA WALTERS

27. About eight years before Smiler Grogan kicked the bucket, this singer who was a superstar on two continents suffered a heart attack while taping a dance number for the Jimmy Durante show and died the next morning

This can’t be Maurice Chevalier. Durante didn’t have a regular series in the 1970s. I think the clue refers to some time around 1955, eight years before IAMMMMW, when Durante did have a tv show.
28. The only member of both the college football and college hockey halls of fame, this Princeton graduate joined the Lafayette Escadrille, flying a black and orange plane to honor his alma mater, received the Croix de Guerre, and was killed in a flying accident in France one month after the armistice
HOBEY BAKER

29. After serving as executive producer of "Bill Moyers' Journal" on PBS in the 1970s, he began appearing on camera himself, eventually getting his own show
30. In 1967, this outspoken lawyer became at age 28 the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard University
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

31. This long-time character actor in dramatic and later comedic Westerns lost the sight in his left eye at age 12 when a fellow boy scout threw a pencil at him
JACK ELAM

32. The "dispersion force" given his name provides the intermolecular attraction that allows atomic and non-polar molecular gases to condense to liquids
VAN DER WAALS?

33. Currently the 2nd longest serving member of the U.S. House, before his election to congress he served as an assistant to the current longest serving House member
JOHN CONYERS

34. Known as "Moon Man" during his playing days, this year fans of this announcer eagerly awaited his first attempt at pronouncing "Fukudome"
STEVE LYONS? JAY JOHNSTONE?

35. At age 8, she lost her friend Denise McNair in the infamous 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
36. He received over 14,000 votes in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, placing him 8th (right behind Larry Flynt), and 2nd among terrible actors in the race
GARY COLEMAN

37. The previous answer would have towered a full two inches over this English poet, who may have been tempted to include him in his "Dunciad"
ALEXANDER POPE

38. Katharine Hepburn said this performer "gave him (her famous partner) sex" (not literally)
GINGER ROGERS

39. For the teetotaller too embarrassed to order a Shirley Temple, the masculine version named for this actor substitutes lime juice for grenadine
ROY ROGERS?

40. His epitaph reads "Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice"
CHRISTOPHER WREN

41. Her professional experience observing the child-raising practices of other cultures may have influenced the views of her own pediatrician, Benjamin Spock
42. The U.S. Census Bureau's 1890 declaration of the death of the American frontier prompted a seminal essay by this historian, first presented at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

43. In 2001 he founded a short-lived company called "Wheels of Zeus" (a reference to his nickname), which made GPS units to help people keep track of household items, pets, and children
STEVE WOZNIAK

44. This Arizona State star was the first player ever drafted in the Major League Baseball draft
RICK MONDAY

45. She bought the small town of Braselton, Georgia for $20 million in 1989, but had to sell it four years later due to financial difficulties stemming from a breach of contract lawsuit
KIM BASINGER

46. In 1943, he led Georgetown to its only NCAA basketball tournament final until the Patrick Ewing era, but he is better remembered for events which took place almost 56 years later
47. Rising through the ranks of the British East India Company under Robert Clive, he was appointed the first governor-general of India in 1773
48. Her 1987 hit song was about the same New York City restaurant later used for exterior shots of the diner frequented by the characters on "Seinfeld"
SUZANNE VEGA

49. Eleven year old Karenna Gore's enthusiasm for this singer's music was the last straw for her mother
50. This Brazilian jazz fusion singer was an original member of Chick Corea's band Return to Forever, and has won Downbeat magazine's Female vocalist of the year award four times
51. Their liver can be seen on display at the Mutter museum of medical curiosities in Philadelphia
CHANG AND ENG BUNKER

52. His 1960 Senate campaign slogan was "double your pleasure, double your fun — vote against Johnson two times, not one" (he lost, but won a special election the next year)
JOHN TOWER

53. In 1976, Billboard magazine named her "female entertainer of the century"
54. Despite his declared incompetence to stand trial for treason by reason of insanity, and his description of America as "a lunatic asylum", he was awarded the first Bollingen prize for American poetry in 1949
EZRA POUND

55. He was a genuine "Mississippi Man", even though his "Louisiana Woman" was from Kentucky
CONWAY TWITTY

56. She, her future husband, and their future bandleader met in 1970 as freshmen at the Rhode Island School of Design
TINA WEYMOUTH

57. He once successfully sued a portable toilet manufacturer for appropriating his show's catchphrase (Stanley Kubrick evidently had better lawyers)
JOHNNY CARSON

58. As a lawyer, he prosecuted (unsuccessfully) the perpetrator of the first known U.S. presidential assassination attempt, and defended (unsuccessfully) Sam Houston in his trial for assaulting an Ohio congressman with a cane; but he is not best remembered as a lawyer
59. In an all-time low even for Fox, her strategy of hiding behind the referee proved ineffective as she suffered a defeat by technical knockout to Tonya Harding on a 2002 episode of "Celebrity Boxing"
PAULA JONES

60. To the name on his gravestone is appended "Beren"
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

61. This busy conductor currently directs a major symphony orchestra and a major opera house, each in a different city
62. He is the most famous native of Hibbing, Minnesota not named Bob Dylan, Roger Maris, Vincent Bugliosi or Gary Puckett
KEVEN McHALE

63. This musician's death led to the formal disbanding of his iconic group four days before John Lennon's death in 1980
JOHN BONHAM

64. This tyrant claimed to be what William II (or James VI, depending on how you define it) had been, not to mention "Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas"
IDI AMIN

65. He was the 8th president of the National Rifle Association, serving until his death in 1885; one of his high ranking former employees was the first
ULYSSES S GRANT

66. After an influential career in the pulpit, this theologian helped found Princeton University (then College of New Jersey) and served as its president for one month in 1758 (replacing his son-in-law) before dying of smallpox
JONATHAN EDWARDS

67. Known during and after his playing days as a hustler and gambler, he claimed to have won $105,000 in 1939 by betting on himself to win the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles championships at Wimbledon
BOBBY RIGGS

68. She also swept all three titles at Wimbledon in 1939, and later served as a spy in World War II, getting shot in the back by a Nazi agent in 1945
ALICE MARBLE

69. On February 22 of this year, news organizations noted the second anniversary of the last time he had uttered a word in the publicly visible part of his high profile job
70. This composer's best-loved work is alluded to in the melody of "When You Wish Upon a Star"
71. On an 1805 expedition to find the source of the Mississippi, he negotiated the first U.S. treaty with the Sioux
ZEBULON PIKE

72. This actress received three Emmy nominations co-starring with an original Not Ready for Prime-Time Player, and met her husband while hosting Saturday Night Live herself
SUSAN ST. JAMES

73. As Prime Minister, he was blamed for the humiliating events which were widely considered to mark the formal end of Britain's superpower status
74. This Pulitzer-winner's only novel became the next project for the director of The Greatest Film Comedy of All Time, who was by then a veteran of films about fools in a wide variety of conveyances
KATHARINE ANNE PORTER

75. This actress's breakout role occurred 21 years after her mother's (whose character had the same first name as the daughter), in a film directed by the mother's director's most notable stylistic imitator
MELANIE GRIFFITH

77. He and Harriet Miers are currently the subject of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. House to force them to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about the firings of U.S. attorneys
ALBERTO GONZALEZ? JOSH BOLTON?

76. He was the leading representative of the post World War II genre known as "Trummerliteratur" ("rubble literature")
78. Contrary to a popular legend, this future secretary of state's last name was not Kennedy

50. This Brazilian jazz fusion singer was an original member of Chick Corea's band Return to Forever, and has won Downbeat magazine's Female vocalist of the year award four times

76. He was the leading representative of the post World War II genre known as "Trummerliteratur" ("rubble literature")

smilergrogan wrote:69. On February 22 of this year, news organizations noted the second anniversary of the last time he had uttered a word in the publicly visible part of his high profile job

franktangredi wrote:78. Contrary to a popular legend, this future secretary of state's last name was not Kennedy

JOHN HAY
(this was the famous Kennedy/Lincoln coincidence thing)

Appa23 wrote:

franktangredi wrote:78. Contrary to a popular legend, this future secretary of state's last name was not Kennedy

JOHN HAY
(this was the famous Kennedy/Lincoln coincidence thing)

But the "coincidence" legend dealt with the name of the personal secretary to the President, not the Secretary of State.

franktangredi wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

franktangredi wrote:78. Contrary to a popular legend, this future secretary of state's last name was not Kennedy

JOHN HAY
(this was the famous Kennedy/Lincoln coincidence thing)

But the "coincidence" legend dealt with the name of the personal secretary to the President, not the Secretary of State.

Yes, but Hay was Lincoln's secretary who later went on to become Secretary of State.

mellytu74 wrote:A couple more

35. At age 8, she lost her friend Denise McNair in the infamous 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

CONDOLEEZA RICE

46. In 1943, he led Georgetown to its only NCAA basketball tournament final until the Patrick Ewing era, but he is better remembered for events which took place almost 56 years later

I think we're lookign for ELMER RIPLEY here.


58. As a lawyer, he prosecuted (unsuccessfully) the perpetrator of the first known U.S. presidential assassination attempt, and defended (unsuccessfully) Sam Houston in his trial for assaulting an Ohio congressman with a cane; but he is not best remembered as a lawyer

This was nagging at me. It's FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.