Cute!Evil Squirrel wrote:This thread needs some more images in it......
For The Great One....
Now, if only I could get through one entire game without twisting myself up.
Cute!Evil Squirrel wrote:This thread needs some more images in it......
For The Great One....
In that case, the correct answer to #51 is MATT BIONDI.franktangredi wrote:Dammit. I made a mistake in Question #51, unconsciously inserting one word that made the question wrong. He was not the second swimmer to win seven gold medals in a single Olympiad. He was the second swimmer to win seven medals in a single Olympiad. Mea culpa.
I think this is a religious guy. My grandma had his picture hanging on her wall. Bishop Sheen? Cardinal Spellman?smilergrogan wrote: 27. His resume included a doctoral dissertation titled “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in Light of the Philosophy of St. Thomas”. . . and an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Television Personality.”
PHIL DONAHUE? ED SULLIVAN?
Definitely not Rocco, and highly likely Charlie44. And last year, this Chicago chef celebrated the twentieth anniversary of an eponymous restaurant that has consistently been ranked among the best in America.
CHARLIE TROTTER? ROCCO DISPIRITO?
YES!! This has to be Bishop FULTON SHEENCatfish wrote:I think this is a religious guy. My grandma had his picture hanging on her wall. Bishop Sheen? Cardinal Spellman?smilergrogan wrote: 27. His resume included a doctoral dissertation titled “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in Light of the Philosophy of St. Thomas”. . . and an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Television Personality.”
PHIL DONAHUE? ED SULLIVAN?
Oops, and I just noticed that #71 is not who I had in mind. I don't think Springsteen fits, since he was already very much on the national radar by 1975. If my clue was too ambiguous, I'll come up with a clarification, but it may work itself out.smilergrogan wrote:*1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
2. PAUL EHRLICH
3. ROBERT SCOTT
4. His skills as a preacher helped spark both the Methodist movement in England and the Great Awakening in the American colonies; he was also one of the first to preach to slaves.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD? Or a MATHER?
*5. JAKE GYLLENHAAL
6. By the time he was eighteen, this knighted entrepreneur had already started his first business, a magazine, as well as his first charity.
RICHARD BRANSON?
*7. MARIA MONTESSORI
*8. CYRUS
*9. GEORGE BALANCHINE
10. Jack Nicklaus rates this golfer the best “ball striker” of all time, while Tiger Woods considers him one of only two golfers to ever completely “own” his swing. (You gonna argue with the Bear and the Tiger?)
BEN HOGAN? BYRON NELSON?
11. His writings added the terms “comparative value” and “diminishing returns” to the lexicon of economics.
ALFRED MARSHALL? DAVID RICARDO? ADAM SMITH? THOMAS MALTHUS?
*12. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
13. SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
*14. JACK SHEPPARD
15. GEORG HEGEL
16. KINGSLEY AMIS
*17. HARRY REASONER
*18. WALLACE CAROTHERS
19. NORA BAYES
20. HENRY STIMSON
*21. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
22. SUSETTE TIBBLES
*23. TRIS SPEAKER
24. HERBERT, EARL KITCHENER
*25. FRANK BORMAN
26. RUTH BENEDICT
27. His resume included a doctoral dissertation titled “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in Light of the Philosophy of St. Thomas”. . . and an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Television Personality.”
PHIL DONAHUE? ED SULLIVAN?
28. This budding author’s grumblings about the holiday season kick off what is arguably the single most beloved American novel – at least among a segment of the population.
JD SALINGER?
*29. HELMUT LANG
30. JOHANN PACHELBEL
31. HIERONYMUS BOSCH
*32. WILLA CATHER
33. Royal surgeon to four French kings, he was a pioneer in the treatment of battlefield wounds and correctly theorized that phantom pains after amputation were all in the head.
*34. JANE PIERCE
35. RICHARD BARTHELMESS
36. An implacable foe of socialists and Wobblies, this influential labor leader insisted that the ultimate goal of his organization was “to improve the standard of life, to uproot ignorance and foster education, to instill character, manhood and independent spirit among our people; to bring about a recognition of the interdependence of man upon his fellow man.”
SAMUEL GOMPERS? ASA RANDOLPH? JOHN LEWIS?
*37. JOHNNY LONGDEN
38. This Spanish philosopher extended “Cogito ergo sum” to “Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia." (You gonna argue with him?)
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET?
39. One of the most important medieval historians, this Benedictine monk wrote a history of England as well as biographies of Becket and Edward the Confessor.
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH? (The) VENERABLE BEDE?
40. MATTHEW PERRY
41. CELINE DION
*42. JOE VALACHI
43. ANNA WINTOUR
44. And last year, this Chicago chef celebrated the twentieth anniversary of an eponymous restaurant that has consistently been ranked among the best in America.
CHARLIE TROTTER? ROCCO DISPIRITO?
45. AUBREY BEARDSLEY
*46. PRIMO LEVI
*47. WARREN BURGER
48. DAVID LIVINGSTONE, I presume
49. OTTO HAHN
50. MICHAEL
51. MATT BIONDI
*52. PERT KELTON
*53. MICHAEL DELL
54. This controversial activist has freely admitted that some of the exploits that brought him to the attention of New Yorkers back in the 1980s never happened.
LARRY KRAMER?
55. He was twenty when he entered medical school with the intention of devoting himself to the study of sex … and still a virgin twelve years later when he finally married – a lesbian.
KINSEY? (Don't think he was an MD).
*56. LORENZ HART
*57. LORD CORNWALLIS
58. GIDEON FELL
59. (Little Iodine comic)
JIMMY HATLO? HALTO?
*60. LORD CASTLEREAGH
61. EMILY DICKINSON
*62. NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
63. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
64. ROGER BANNISTER
65. One of the leading lights of a great postwar movement, this director first won fame with a stark drama about the anti-Nazi resistance in his nation’s capital.
ANDRZEJ WAJDA?
66. JEAN NIDETCH
*67. EDMUND HILLARY
68. After 148 years, doubts still remain as to whether – despite her guilty plea – she really did stab her three year-old half-brother to death.
*69. HERB CAEN
*70. RACHEL CARSON
71. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
72. JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
*73. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
74. JAMES G BLAINE
75. CHRISTOPHER LOWELL
76. LUIGI PIRANDELLO
77. ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
78. RAOUL WALLENBURG
79. This Texas cattleman first teamed up with his partner Charlie on a drive to Fort Sumter, New Mexico.
CHISHOLM?
80. ARA PARSEGHIAN
81. WILHELM ROENTGEN
82. The first scholar to systematically encode all Jewish law, this rabbi’s work influenced Thomas Aquinas
83. JEREMY IRONS
84. His experiments with the chromatic scale made him one of the most influential modern composers, but the Nazis were not impressed: they branded his music degenerate.
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG?
*85. WILLY LOMAN
86. YITZHAK RABIN
*87. ERICH FROMM
88. ALFRED von SCHLIEFFEN
89. EMILY BALCH
90. LEON HESS
91. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
92. FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
*93. ERNEST SHACKLETON
94. WILT CHAMBERLAIN
*95. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
*96. ZERO MOSTEL
97. WERNER HEISENBERG
98. This popular singer-songwriter was the only artist ever to receive the Kennedy Center Honors before the age of 50 – in fact, even nine years later, he’s still younger than any subsequent honoree.
PAUL SIMON? STEVIE WONDER?
*99. GROVER CLEVELAND
Associated Words
ORGASM
BOSOM
HANGING
HARDER
ICE
MONEY
DODGE
NUMBER ONE
SEVENTEEN
NANA
SUE
BOBBY
HUMPHREY
LAMONT
TARZAN
DANTON
ALIENS
MARYLAND
TEXAS
TREASON
TWILIGHT
JACKET
87. ERICH Fromm + 60. Lord CASTLEREAGH - 32. Willa CATHER = ERICH SEGAL, goes with LOVE STORY
14. JACK Sheppard + 73. William WESTMORELAND - 96. Zero MOSTEL = JACK WARDEN, goes with NUMBER SEVEN
67. EDMUND Hillary + 5. Jake GYLLENHAAL - 29. HELMUT LANG = EDMUND HALLEY, goes with COMET
34. JANE Pierce + 7. Maria MONTESSORI - 20. Henry STIMSON = JANE ROE, goes with NORMA (McCorvey)
9. GEORGE Balanchine + 57. Lord CORNWALLIS - 70. Rachel CARSON = GEORGE WILL, goes with BRINKLEY
37. JOHNNY LONGDEN + 93. Ernest SHACKLETON - 52. Pert KELTON = JOHNNY CASH, goes with SUE
8. CYRUS + 99. Grover CLEVELAND - 53. Michael DELL = CYRUS VANCE, goes with CARTER
17. HARRY Reasoner + 62. Niccolo MACHIAVELLI - 42. Joe VALACHI = HARRY LIME, goes with THIRD (Man)
25. FRANK Borman + 12. Robert RAUSCHENBERG - 47. Warren BURGER = FRANK CASHEN, goes with METS
69. HERB Caen + 18. Wallace CAROTHERS - 56. Lorenz HART = HERB SCORE, goes with CLEVELAND
85. WILLY Loman + 21. Cornelius VANDERBILT - 46. Primo LEVI = WILLY BRANDT, goes with BERLIN
95. ARTHUR Schopenhauer + 1. William SHAKESPEARE - 23. Tris SPEAKER = ARTHUR ASHE, goes with RACKET
? + 84. Arnold SCHOENBERG - 31. Hieronymous BOSCH = ? GREEN, goes with ?
? + 94. Wilt CHAMBERLAIN - 74. James BLAINE = ? MARCH, goes with ?
Oops, and I just noticed that #71 is not who I had in mind. I don't think Springsteen fits, since he was already very much on the national radar by 1975. If my clue was too ambiguous, I'll come up with a clarification, but it may work itself out.smilergrogan wrote:*1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
2. PAUL EHRLICH
3. ROBERT SCOTT
4. His skills as a preacher helped spark both the Methodist movement in England and the Great Awakening in the American colonies; he was also one of the first to preach to slaves.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD? Or a MATHER?
*5. JAKE GYLLENHAAL
6. By the time he was eighteen, this knighted entrepreneur had already started his first business, a magazine, as well as his first charity.
RICHARD BRANSON?
*7. MARIA MONTESSORI
*8. CYRUS
*9. GEORGE BALANCHINE
10. Jack Nicklaus rates this golfer the best “ball striker” of all time, while Tiger Woods considers him one of only two golfers to ever completely “own” his swing. (You gonna argue with the Bear and the Tiger?)
BEN HOGAN? BYRON NELSON?
11. His writings added the terms “comparative value” and “diminishing returns” to the lexicon of economics.
ALFRED MARSHALL? DAVID RICARDO? ADAM SMITH? THOMAS MALTHUS?
*12. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
13. SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
*14. JACK SHEPPARD
15. GEORG HEGEL
16. KINGSLEY AMIS
*17. HARRY REASONER
*18. WALLACE CAROTHERS
19. NORA BAYES
20. HENRY STIMSON
*21. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
22. SUSETTE TIBBLES
*23. TRIS SPEAKER
24. HERBERT, EARL KITCHENER
*25. FRANK BORMAN
26. RUTH BENEDICT
27. His resume included a doctoral dissertation titled “God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in Light of the Philosophy of St. Thomas”. . . and an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Television Personality.”
PHIL DONAHUE? ED SULLIVAN?
28. This budding author’s grumblings about the holiday season kick off what is arguably the single most beloved American novel – at least among a segment of the population.
JD SALINGER?
*29. HELMUT LANG
30. JOHANN PACHELBEL
31. HIERONYMUS BOSCH
*32. WILLA CATHER
33. Royal surgeon to four French kings, he was a pioneer in the treatment of battlefield wounds and correctly theorized that phantom pains after amputation were all in the head.
*34. JANE PIERCE
35. RICHARD BARTHELMESS
36. An implacable foe of socialists and Wobblies, this influential labor leader insisted that the ultimate goal of his organization was “to improve the standard of life, to uproot ignorance and foster education, to instill character, manhood and independent spirit among our people; to bring about a recognition of the interdependence of man upon his fellow man.”
SAMUEL GOMPERS? ASA RANDOLPH? JOHN LEWIS?
*37. JOHNNY LONGDEN
38. This Spanish philosopher extended “Cogito ergo sum” to “Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia." (You gonna argue with him?)
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET?
39. One of the most important medieval historians, this Benedictine monk wrote a history of England as well as biographies of Becket and Edward the Confessor.
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH? (The) VENERABLE BEDE?
40. MATTHEW PERRY
41. CELINE DION
*42. JOE VALACHI
43. ANNA WINTOUR
44. And last year, this Chicago chef celebrated the twentieth anniversary of an eponymous restaurant that has consistently been ranked among the best in America.
CHARLIE TROTTER? ROCCO DISPIRITO?
45. AUBREY BEARDSLEY
*46. PRIMO LEVI
*47. WARREN BURGER
48. DAVID LIVINGSTONE, I presume
49. OTTO HAHN
50. MICHAEL
51. MATT BIONDI
*52. PERT KELTON
*53. MICHAEL DELL
54. This controversial activist has freely admitted that some of the exploits that brought him to the attention of New Yorkers back in the 1980s never happened.
LARRY KRAMER?
55. He was twenty when he entered medical school with the intention of devoting himself to the study of sex … and still a virgin twelve years later when he finally married – a lesbian.
KINSEY? (Don't think he was an MD).
*56. LORENZ HART
*57. LORD CORNWALLIS
58. GIDEON FELL
59. (Little Iodine comic)
JIMMY HATLO? HALTO?
*60. LORD CASTLEREAGH
61. EMILY DICKINSON
*62. NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
63. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
64. ROGER BANNISTER
65. One of the leading lights of a great postwar movement, this director first won fame with a stark drama about the anti-Nazi resistance in his nation’s capital.
ANDRZEJ WAJDA?
66. JEAN NIDETCH
*67. EDMUND HILLARY
68. After 148 years, doubts still remain as to whether – despite her guilty plea – she really did stab her three year-old half-brother to death.
*69. HERB CAEN
*70. RACHEL CARSON
71. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
72. JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
*73. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
74. JAMES G BLAINE
75. CHRISTOPHER LOWELL
76. LUIGI PIRANDELLO
77. ALFRED EISENSTAEDT
78. RAOUL WALLENBURG
79. This Texas cattleman first teamed up with his partner Charlie on a drive to Fort Sumter, New Mexico.
CHISHOLM?
80. ARA PARSEGHIAN
81. WILHELM ROENTGEN
82. The first scholar to systematically encode all Jewish law, this rabbi’s work influenced Thomas Aquinas
83. JEREMY IRONS
84. His experiments with the chromatic scale made him one of the most influential modern composers, but the Nazis were not impressed: they branded his music degenerate.
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG?
*85. WILLY LOMAN
86. YITZHAK RABIN
*87. ERICH FROMM
88. ALFRED von SCHLIEFFEN
89. EMILY BALCH
90. LEON HESS
91. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
92. FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
*93. ERNEST SHACKLETON
94. WILT CHAMBERLAIN
*95. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
*96. ZERO MOSTEL
97. WERNER HEISENBERG
98. This popular singer-songwriter was the only artist ever to receive the Kennedy Center Honors before the age of 50 – in fact, even nine years later, he’s still younger than any subsequent honoree.
PAUL SIMON? STEVIE WONDER?
*99. GROVER CLEVELAND
Associated Words
ORGASM
BOSOM
HANGING
HARDER
ICE
MONEY
DODGE
NUMBER ONE
SEVENTEEN
NANA
SUE
BOBBY
HUMPHREY
LAMONT
TARZAN
DANTON
ALIENS
MARYLAND
TEXAS
TREASON
TWILIGHT
JACKET
87. ERICH Fromm + 60. Lord CASTLEREAGH - 32. Willa CATHER = ERICH SEGAL, goes with LOVE STORY
14. JACK Sheppard + 73. William WESTMORELAND - 96. Zero MOSTEL = JACK WARDEN, goes with NUMBER SEVEN
67. EDMUND Hillary + 5. Jake GYLLENHAAL - 29. HELMUT LANG = EDMUND HALLEY, goes with COMET
34. JANE Pierce + 7. Maria MONTESSORI - 20. Henry STIMSON = JANE ROE, goes with NORMA (McCorvey)
9. GEORGE Balanchine + 57. Lord CORNWALLIS - 70. Rachel CARSON = GEORGE WILL, goes with BRINKLEY
37. JOHNNY LONGDEN + 93. Ernest SHACKLETON - 52. Pert KELTON = JOHNNY CASH, goes with SUE
8. CYRUS + 99. Grover CLEVELAND - 53. Michael DELL = CYRUS VANCE, goes with CARTER
17. HARRY Reasoner + 62. Niccolo MACHIAVELLI - 42. Joe VALACHI = HARRY LIME, goes with THIRD (Man)
25. FRANK Borman + 12. Robert RAUSCHENBERG - 47. Warren BURGER = FRANK CASHEN, goes with METS
69. HERB Caen + 18. Wallace CAROTHERS - 56. Lorenz HART = HERB SCORE, goes with CLEVELAND
85. WILLY Loman + 21. Cornelius VANDERBILT - 46. Primo LEVI = WILLY BRANDT, goes with BERLIN
95. ARTHUR Schopenhauer + 1. William SHAKESPEARE - 23. Tris SPEAKER = ARTHUR ASHE, goes with RACKET
? + 84. Arnold SCHOENBERG - 31. Hieronymous BOSCH = ? GREEN, goes with ?
? + 94. Wilt CHAMBERLAIN - 74. James BLAINE = ? MARCH, goes with ?
Maimonides?82. The first scholar to systematically encode all Jewish law, this rabbi’s work influenced Thomas Aquinas
Perfect!Catfish wrote:Maimonides?82. The first scholar to systematically encode all Jewish law, this rabbi’s work influenced Thomas Aquinas
Pair it with CHRISTOPHER Lowell to get Christopher Lambert who playe TARZAN in the Greystoke movie (the one where someone -- Glenn Close, maybe -- had to dub all of Andie McDowell's dialogue).NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Richard BARTHELMESS and Leon HESS produce a possible surname of LAMBERT. Anybody know any famous Lamberts who fit one of those associated words?
Ok, I think the book must be Little Women, then, with the first line about Christmas not being Christmas, and the budding author is the character, JO MARCH, not the book's author.franktangredi wrote:Oh, and when did #28 become a definite answer? Granted, it's a little trickily worded, but the book -- and its opening line -- are very very famous. And there are a lot of people who consider it their favorite book of all time. I know my sister does.
Can we put that with DAVID Livingstone and make DAVID BLAINE, who was once frozen in ICE?smilergrogan wrote:Ok, I think the book must be Little Women, then, with the first line about Christmas not being Christmas, and the budding author is the character, JO MARCH, not the book's author.franktangredi wrote:Oh, and when did #28 become a definite answer? Granted, it's a little trickily worded, but the book -- and its opening line -- are very very famous. And there are a lot of people who consider it their favorite book of all time. I know my sister does.
Not that Jo March could ever take the place of Jane March, but she could go with CHAMBERLAIN, leaving another BLAINE, or LABINE or ALBIEN?
Well, then ... there are two possible answers to this. My apologies. The director I had in mind was involved in what has often been called the most significant postwar movement -- at least, that's what they said when I took film class. But I may be ethnically prejudiced here.NellyLunatic1980 wrote:#65 is correct with ANDRZEJ WAJDA. The film in question was "A Generation".
Well, so much for my Andrzej Wajda epiphany...franktangredi wrote:Well, then ... there are two possible answers to this. My apologies. The director I had in mind was involved in what has often been called the most significant postwar movement -- at least, that's what they said when I took film class. But I may be ethnically prejudiced here.NellyLunatic1980 wrote:#65 is correct with ANDRZEJ WAJDA. The film in question was "A Generation".