Game #210: Last Man Standing
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:15 am
Game #210: Last Man Standing
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
Associated Words List:
#18
X
ABC
AIP
CIO
OMB
Afghanistan
New Hampshire
Oregon
Detroit
Nashville
Rochester
Granada
Sydney
Igor
Jeannie
Belinda
Stanley
Hans
Apollo
Popeye
Dolly
Aaron
Alan
Homer
Luke
Gregg
Dewey
McLaughlin
Conner
Biden
Cohn
Jones
Conway
Miller
Stenographer
Housewife
Gypsy
Mermaid
Cowboy
Grass
Poison
Meat
Lion
Bulldog
Bear
Cricket
Shark
Foxes
South
Alley
Patch
Watergate
Dartmouth
Juilliard
Intelligence
Behaviorism
Capitalism
Anarchy
Fast
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
Associated Words List:
#18
X
ABC
AIP
CIO
OMB
Afghanistan
New Hampshire
Oregon
Detroit
Nashville
Rochester
Granada
Sydney
Igor
Jeannie
Belinda
Stanley
Hans
Apollo
Popeye
Dolly
Aaron
Alan
Homer
Luke
Gregg
Dewey
McLaughlin
Conner
Biden
Cohn
Jones
Conway
Miller
Stenographer
Housewife
Gypsy
Mermaid
Cowboy
Grass
Poison
Meat
Lion
Bulldog
Bear
Cricket
Shark
Foxes
South
Alley
Patch
Watergate
Dartmouth
Juilliard
Intelligence
Behaviorism
Capitalism
Anarchy
Fast