Below you will find 95 clues to famous people. First, you must identify the people from the clues, then you must combine them to form 46 pairs and one triple, based on a Tangredi, or principle which you must determine for yourself. Some of the pairings work somewhat differently from the others, although the general principle is the same. If you know me and the way I like to approach puzzles, you may have an advantage in figuring this one out.
1) For several years, he wrote weekly cantatas for the Boys Choir at the church where he taught for most of his adult life and was eventually buried.
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years).
3) Last year, his son was selected in the NFL draft 46 positions ahead of where he was drafted when he turned pro.
4) A housing project he designed in St. Louis was torn down less than twenty years after it was built, and an office building he also built in St. Louis burned down under suspicious circumstances shortly afterward, but this architect is best known today for the even more disastrous demise of his most famous design.
5) His future father-in-law conquered the town of Gezer, burned it to the ground, and gave it to him as a wedding present.
6) He served as a mathematics tutor of the future King Charles II and later needed the King’s help when Parliament threatened to take action against him for heresy.
7) His bestselling novel helped popularize the phrase “Bolivian marching powder.”
8( He abstained on the final vote on the Declaration of Independence, only signing it a month later, but he later signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
9) This actress’ performance in a cult horror film served as the inspiration for Drew Barrymore’s character in Scream.
10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
11) One of the highlights of his early acting career was playing Sir Walter Raleigh in a long running production of The Lost Colony staged near the location of the actual Lost Colony.
12) He was the first president of Antioch College from its founding until his death several years later.
13) This African dictator, originally a Gandhi disciple, ruled his country from its independence until plummeting copper prices led to the legalization of opposition parties and his eventual defeat in the country’s first contested presidential election in a quarter century in 1991.
14) Her appearance in a musical version of Streetcar Named Desire nearly led to the breakup of her marriage.
15) September 30, 1888, was probably the busiest night of his career.
16) After his army suffered a disastrous loss, the troops of this Confederate general “saluted” his gallantry in a song sung to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas.”
17) This actor’s career has spanned eight decades, but he is best known for a recurring comic role in which he developed a twitching eye whenever his subordinate would inevitably screw up.
18) This author wrote her most famous novel at age 16 and wrote several later novels under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin.
19) Four years after being fired from a guest star gig on Law & Order: Criminal Intent due to a disagreement with Vincent D’Onofrio, he finally made an appearance on the show, but on an episode starring Chris Noth.
20) Both Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner have been nominated for MTV Movie Awards for Best Screen Duo for appearances with this performer.
21) His upapologetic testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 led to the adoption of the Comics Code that same year.
22) Despite recent online rumors, this well known brother team has not become a brother-sister team.
23) In his first successful statewide election, this current U.S. Senator won his party’s nomination by 42 votes; he was re-elected with the highest percentage of the vote of any candidate in the nation for that post that year.
24) His doctoral dissertation was based in part on a study of Raymond Chandler, so it was no surprise that he later completed a manuscript for a Philip Marlowe novel that Chandler had left unfinished at the time of his death.
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
26) A conservation ship that had been named after the founder of Greenpeace was subsequently renamed for him after his death.
27) Talk about being typecast: over a seven-year period, he played a sleazy boyfriend opposite three actresses in their Oscar winning roles.
28) His first stint as a major league manager was marred by a controversial incident in which he slapped a harmonica out of the hands of a reserve infielder who was playing it too loudly on the team bus.
29) He’s the only Indianapolis 500 winner whose wife is better known to the general public than he is.
30) He was scheduled to fight John Wayne Bobbitt on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing, but when Bobbitt dropped out for legal reasons, he wound up fighting, and beating, female wrestler Chyna instead.
31) In a recent popular movie, this actor and his real life wife played a brother and sister whose relationship seemed a little bit too close.
32) He was arrested for helping to organize a baker’s union in Poland at age 16 and sentenced to Siberia; en route, he escaped and eventually made his way to New York City, where he found work as a garment cutter.
33) He originally recorded his best known, and most controversial, song with Brigitte Bardot, but when Bardot backed out because the material was too spicy, his new girlfriend wound up recording it with him.
34) This artist became a bitter rival of John La Farge when both were granted similar patents on the materials they used; ironically, both patents were often needed to create one of their works.
35) He is the only person to have held four different Cabinet positions.
36) In 1910, she dressed as a man in blackface, and, with a number of friends, posed as African diplomats and were taken on a guided tour of top secret areas on the British battleship Dreadnought.
37) The two roles that helped define his career had been played earlier by Richard Chamberlain and Dennis Hopper.
38) A few months after losing a major sporting event despite receiving a phone call of “encouragement” from Adolph Hitler, he was arrested and later convicted on charges of homosexuality.
39) This wrestler has been the headline performer at Madison Square Garden a record 211 times, 187 of which were sellouts.
40) He was a sergeant in the medical corps and chaplain during World War I and an ambassador to France during World War II.
41) He is second to Eric Karros in all-time home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger.
42) An inebriated Oliver Reed’s appearance on a live talk show ended rather abruptly when he grabbed and kissed this author, claiming “I’ve had more fights in pubs than you’ve had hot dinners.”
43) As a result of Watergate, he was named Time’s Man of the Year for 1973.
44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
47) He prosecuted Andrew Jackson’s assassin and defended Sam Houston.
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
49) This singer turned actress plans to do a remake of Bell, Book, and Candle with herself in the Kim Novak role.
50) In one version of her life story, she had forty dragons for companions.
51) He was kicked out of the Southwestern Assemblies of God University after performing a boogie-woogie version of “My God is Real” in church.
52) The first film he produced involved a lame race horse; the last had a lame plot involving a lava flow threatening a luxury hotel.
53) He was the oldest of the Chicago Seven.
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
55) His first novel may have been the first to deal with the subject of impotence, somewhat ironic since the author himself died of complications arising from syphilis.
56) He joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
57) One of his former patients put him in touch with Allen Dulles during World War II, and he met with Dulles frequently; later he became an O.S.S. agent who performed psychological assessments of key Nazi leaders, especially Hitler.
58) He was U.S. Chess Champion longer than anyone else.
59) As a result of losing a 1979 lawsuit, he was forced to appear in public wearing a pair of wraparound sunglasses rather than his far more familiar facial attire.
60) In one of the most elaborate April Fool’s jokes of all time, he “predicted” the death of astrologer John Partridge and then circulated a pamphlet proclaiming that the very much alive Partridge had indeed died on the predicted date.
61) She helped decide Roe v. Wade but is better known today for a purely ministerial task she performed that nonetheless got her picture on the front pages of every newspaper in the country.
62) He accidentally killed a male lover by hitting him with a thrown discus, while a female lover drowned in a spring after fleeing his advances.
63) This musician was often referred to as “The Sound” for his distinctive tone.
64) He graduated eighth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy in 1956, which didn’t prevent him from being elected to Congress a number of years later.
65) When he was hired by Newsweek as a columnist, Bill O’Reilly said it was comparable to hiring David Duke.
66) He visited Carl Sandburg at his home in 1964 but left after a few minutes when he realized Sandburg had never heard of him and didn’t take him seriously as a poet.
67) She beat out Traci Lords for a role that helped establish her career, but then lost out to Sharon Stone for a role that might have brought her career to a whole new level.
68) She attracted considerable attention when she directed a troupe of local actors in a production of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo in 1993 while the city was under siege.
69) This band made its first public appearance at a fundraising concert at Nipmuc High School in Massachusetts in November, 1970, for which they were paid $50; the school actually lost money on the concert.
70) She got her first big break in publishing when, as a junior editor at Doubleday, she was chosen to edit The Diary of Anne Frank and was able to persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to provide the introduction.
71) For a number of reasons, he probably regretted agreeing to make a speech at the Yale Club on June 6, 2006.
72) He was the first prominent entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in Korea, doing a tour in which he put on 42 shows in 16 days, which may have contributed to his death shortly after his return to the United States.
73) A botched handoff to him in the last minute of a 1978 game led to one of the most infamous finishes in NFL history.
74) Jesse Helms blocked this Republican’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, claiming he was too liberal on social issues.
75) Her trademark song was originally written and performed by a group called The Arrows.
76) In 1960, this director made one of his best movies in Spain at Franco’s request, but when Spanish authorities saw the finished film, they claimed it was blasphemous, tried to destroy all copies of it, and banned it for a number of years.
77) After his father committed suicide, he took over his family’s billboard business in 1963 and quickly turned it into one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the country.
78) The 123-room mansion that he ordered built is the largest single family dwelling in California.
79) He is the only golfer to have won the NCAA Individual Championship outright three different times.
80) His comments about “weapons of mass destruction” at Coretta Scott King’s funeral were quite controversial.
81) Many killers have had their crimes dramatized on Law & Order, but his case was the only time that the show’s narrator specifically acknowledged the show’s resemblance to real life events but then revealed that the real life trial had ended differently.
82) He was the most recent Chief Justice appointed by a Democratic President.
83) This future radio personality became probably the most famous survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona.
84) She was the most recent performer to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year before Kate Winslet.
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
86) This American record producer moved to England and 1962 and played a considerable part in the success of The Kinks and The Who among others.
87) She was the first female geology student at Stanford University, where she met her future husband in a geology lab.
88) He once wrote, “No man is useless while he has a friend.”
89) She was the first female host of Saturday Night Live.
90) He never learned to drive but became famous for bicycling around New York City wearing a three-piece suit.
91) This author was sued twice by former Congressman Gary Condit for defamation; the first resulted in an undisclosed settlement, while the second was thrown out of court.
92) He is the only player to have led the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.
93) This British group performed for only six years, disbanding in 1967 after eight flop singles in a row; ironically, their last single, from their last flop album, became their biggest hit two years later.
94) He was an attorney for Monsanto in the 1970s, a point often raised by critics of the company and the Bush Administration.
95) After failing in several attempts to become president of Harvard, he persuaded Elihu Yale to donate a substantial sum of money and other property to the school that would, as a result, be renamed after its benefactor.
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1) For several years, he wrote weekly cantatas for the Boys Choir at the church where he taught for most of his adult life and was eventually buried.
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years).
3) Last year, his son was selected in the NFL draft 46 positions ahead of where he was drafted when he turned pro.
4) A housing project he designed in St. Louis was torn down less than twenty years after it was built, and an office building he also built in St. Louis burned down under suspicious circumstances shortly afterward, but this architect is best known today for the even more disastrous demise of his most famous design.
5) His future father-in-law conquered the town of Gezer, burned it to the ground, and gave it to him as a wedding present.
This is in the Bible, so I should know this. Solomon?
6) He served as a mathematics tutor of the future King Charles II and later needed the King’s help when Parliament threatened to take action against him for heresy.
7) His bestselling novel helped popularize the phrase “Bolivian marching powder.”
Could this be "Bright Lights, Big City" by JAY MCINERNEY?
8( He abstained on the final vote on the Declaration of Independence, only signing it a month later, but he later signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
9) This actress’ performance in a cult horror film served as the inspiration for Drew Barrymore’s character in Scream.
10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
This is probably the Illinois Hairhelmet, Governor Blowjob, ROD BLAGOJEVICH.
11) One of the highlights of his early acting career was playing Sir Walter Raleigh in a long running production of The Lost Colony staged near the location of the actual Lost Colony.
12) He was the first president of Antioch College from its founding until his death several years later.
HORACE MANN
13) This African dictator, originally a Gandhi disciple, ruled his country from its independence until plummeting copper prices led to the legalization of opposition parties and his eventual defeat in the country’s first contested presidential election in a quarter century in 1991.
14) Her appearance in a musical version of Streetcar Named Desire nearly led to the breakup of her marriage.
15) September 30, 1888, was probably the busiest night of his career.
JACK THE RIPPER
16) After his army suffered a disastrous loss, the troops of this Confederate general “saluted” his gallantry in a song sung to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas.”
17) This actor’s career has spanned eight decades, but he is best known for a recurring comic role in which he developed a twitching eye whenever his subordinate would inevitably screw up.
18) This author wrote her most famous novel at age 16 and wrote several later novels under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin.
MILES FRANKLIN
19) Four years after being fired from a guest star gig on Law & Order: Criminal Intent due to a disagreement with Vincent D’Onofrio, he finally made an appearance on the show, but on an episode starring Chris Noth.
20) Both Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner have been nominated for MTV Movie Awards for Best Screen Duo for appearances with this performer.
21) His upapologetic testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 led to the adoption of the Comics Code that same year.
22) Despite recent online rumors, this well known brother team has not become a brother-sister team.
23) In his first successful statewide election, this current U.S. Senator won his party’s nomination by 42 votes; he was re-elected with the highest percentage of the vote of any candidate in the nation for that post that year.
24) His doctoral dissertation was based in part on a study of Raymond Chandler, so it was no surprise that he later completed a manuscript for a Philip Marlowe novel that Chandler had left unfinished at the time of his death.
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
26) A conservation ship that had been named after the founder of Greenpeace was subsequently renamed for him after his death.
27) Talk about being typecast: over a seven-year period, he played a sleazy boyfriend opposite three actresses in their Oscar winning roles.
28) His first stint as a major league manager was marred by a controversial incident in which he slapped a harmonica out of the hands of a reserve infielder who was playing it too loudly on the team bus.
29) He’s the only Indianapolis 500 winner whose wife is better known to the general public than he is.
30) He was scheduled to fight John Wayne Bobbitt on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing, but when Bobbitt dropped out for legal reasons, he wound up fighting, and beating, female wrestler Chyna instead.
JOEY BUTTAFUOCO
31) In a recent popular movie, this actor and his real life wife played a brother and sister whose relationship seemed a little bit too close.
32) He was arrested for helping to organize a baker’s union in Poland at age 16 and sentenced to Siberia; en route, he escaped and eventually made his way to New York City, where he found work as a garment cutter.
33) He originally recorded his best known, and most controversial, song with Brigitte Bardot, but when Bardot backed out because the material was too spicy, his new girlfriend wound up recording it with him.
34) This artist became a bitter rival of John La Farge when both were granted similar patents on the materials they used; ironically, both patents were often needed to create one of their works.
35) He is the only person to have held four different Cabinet positions.
36) In 1910, she dressed as a man in blackface, and, with a number of friends, posed as African diplomats and were taken on a guided tour of top secret areas on the British battleship Dreadnought.
37) The two roles that helped define his career had been played earlier by Richard Chamberlain and Dennis Hopper.
38) A few months after losing a major sporting event despite receiving a phone call of “encouragement” from Adolph Hitler, he was arrested and later convicted on charges of homosexuality.
39) This wrestler has been the headline performer at Madison Square Garden a record 211 times, 187 of which were sellouts.
40) He was a sergeant in the medical corps and chaplain during World War I and an ambassador to France during World War II.
41) He is second to Eric Karros in all-time home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger.
42) An inebriated Oliver Reed’s appearance on a live talk show ended rather abruptly when he grabbed and kissed this author, claiming “I’ve had more fights in pubs than you’ve had hot dinners.”
43) As a result of Watergate, he was named Time’s Man of the Year for 1973.
A fellow honoree, JOHN SIRICA.
44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
Otherwise known as the Unabomber Manifesto... written by TED KACZYNSKI.
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
47) He prosecuted Andrew Jackson’s assassin and defended Sam Houston.
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
I'm thinking that I've seen this question before... "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" by DR. HOOK AND THE MEDICINE SHOW.
49) This singer turned actress plans to do a remake of Bell, Book, and Candle with herself in the Kim Novak role.
50) In one version of her life story, she had forty dragons for companions.
51) He was kicked out of the Southwestern Assemblies of God University after performing a boogie-woogie version of “My God is Real” in church.
52) The first film he produced involved a lame race horse; the last had a lame plot involving a lava flow threatening a luxury hotel.
Not familiar with the first film, but I recognize the second film as "When Time Ran Out", produced by "The Master of Disaster", IRWIN ALLEN.
53) He was the oldest of the Chicago Seven.
DAVID DELLINGER
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
55) His first novel may have been the first to deal with the subject of impotence, somewhat ironic since the author himself died of complications arising from syphilis.
56) He joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
57) One of his former patients put him in touch with Allen Dulles during World War II, and he met with Dulles frequently; later he became an O.S.S. agent who performed psychological assessments of key Nazi leaders, especially Hitler.
58) He was U.S. Chess Champion longer than anyone else.
59) As a result of losing a 1979 lawsuit, he was forced to appear in public wearing a pair of wraparound sunglasses rather than his far more familiar facial attire.
60) In one of the most elaborate April Fool’s jokes of all time, he “predicted” the death of astrologer John Partridge and then circulated a pamphlet proclaiming that the very much alive Partridge had indeed died on the predicted date.
JONATHAN SWIFT, who wrote the false death notice under the name Isaac Bickerstaff.
61) She helped decide Roe v. Wade but is better known today for a purely ministerial task she performed that nonetheless got her picture on the front pages of every newspaper in the country.
62) He accidentally killed a male lover by hitting him with a thrown discus, while a female lover drowned in a spring after fleeing his advances.
63) This musician was often referred to as “The Sound” for his distinctive tone.
64) He graduated eighth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy in 1956, which didn’t prevent him from being elected to Congress a number of years later.
This was one of those 101 reasons not to vote for him that I posted on at least two forums--JOHN MCCAIN.
65) When he was hired by Newsweek as a columnist, Bill O’Reilly said it was comparable to hiring David Duke.
I read his blog at least twice a week--MARKOS MOULITSAS ZUNIGA.
66) He visited Carl Sandburg at his home in 1964 but left after a few minutes when he realized Sandburg had never heard of him and didn’t take him seriously as a poet.
67) She beat out Traci Lords for a role that helped establish her career, but then lost out to Sharon Stone for a role that might have brought her career to a whole new level.
68) She attracted considerable attention when she directed a troupe of local actors in a production of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo in 1993 while the city was under siege.
69) This band made its first public appearance at a fundraising concert at Nipmuc High School in Massachusetts in November, 1970, for which they were paid $50; the school actually lost money on the concert.
70) She got her first big break in publishing when, as a junior editor at Doubleday, she was chosen to edit The Diary of Anne Frank and was able to persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to provide the introduction.
71) For a number of reasons, he probably regretted agreeing to make a speech at the Yale Club on June 6, 2006.
ROBERT BORK
72) He was the first prominent entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in Korea, doing a tour in which he put on 42 shows in 16 days, which may have contributed to his death shortly after his return to the United States.
73) A botched handoff to him in the last minute of a 1978 game led to one of the most infamous finishes in NFL history.
74) Jesse Helms blocked this Republican’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, claiming he was too liberal on social issues.
75) Her trademark song was originally written and performed by a group called The Arrows.
76) In 1960, this director made one of his best movies in Spain at Franco’s request, but when Spanish authorities saw the finished film, they claimed it was blasphemous, tried to destroy all copies of it, and banned it for a number of years.
77) After his father committed suicide, he took over his family’s billboard business in 1963 and quickly turned it into one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the country.
78) The 123-room mansion that he ordered built is the largest single family dwelling in California.
William Randolph Hearst?
79) He is the only golfer to have won the NCAA Individual Championship outright three different times.
80) His comments about “weapons of mass destruction” at Coretta Scott King’s funeral were quite controversial.
DR. JOSEPH LOWERY
81) Many killers have had their crimes dramatized on Law & Order, but his case was the only time that the show’s narrator specifically acknowledged the show’s resemblance to real life events but then revealed that the real life trial had ended differently.
82) He was the most recent Chief Justice appointed by a Democratic President.
You'll have to go all the way back to FRED VINSON, appointed by Truman.
83) This future radio personality became probably the most famous survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona.
PAUL HARVEY
84) She was the most recent performer to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year before Kate Winslet.
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
BARON NEIL KINNOCK
86) This American record producer moved to England and 1962 and played a considerable part in the success of The Kinks and The Who among others.
87) She was the first female geology student at Stanford University, where she met her future husband in a geology lab.
88) He once wrote, “No man is useless while he has a friend.”
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
89) She was the first female host of Saturday Night Live.
CANDICE BERGEN
90) He never learned to drive but became famous for bicycling around New York City wearing a three-piece suit.
91) This author was sued twice by former Congressman Gary Condit for defamation; the first resulted in an undisclosed settlement, while the second was thrown out of court.
92) He is the only player to have led the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.
Could be Oscar Robertson. Could be Magic Johnson. Could be Michael Jordan. Could be anybody.
93) This British group performed for only six years, disbanding in 1967 after eight flop singles in a row; ironically, their last single, from their last flop album, became their biggest hit two years later.
94) He was an attorney for Monsanto in the 1970s, a point often raised by critics of the company and the Bush Administration.
95) After failing in several attempts to become president of Harvard, he persuaded Elihu Yale to donate a substantial sum of money and other property to the school that would, as a result, be renamed after its benefactor.
I might come up with more answers later.
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years).
3) Last year, his son was selected in the NFL draft 46 positions ahead of where he was drafted when he turned pro.
4) A housing project he designed in St. Louis was torn down less than twenty years after it was built, and an office building he also built in St. Louis burned down under suspicious circumstances shortly afterward, but this architect is best known today for the even more disastrous demise of his most famous design.
5) His future father-in-law conquered the town of Gezer, burned it to the ground, and gave it to him as a wedding present.
This is in the Bible, so I should know this. Solomon?
6) He served as a mathematics tutor of the future King Charles II and later needed the King’s help when Parliament threatened to take action against him for heresy.
7) His bestselling novel helped popularize the phrase “Bolivian marching powder.”
Could this be "Bright Lights, Big City" by JAY MCINERNEY?
8( He abstained on the final vote on the Declaration of Independence, only signing it a month later, but he later signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
9) This actress’ performance in a cult horror film served as the inspiration for Drew Barrymore’s character in Scream.
10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
This is probably the Illinois Hairhelmet, Governor Blowjob, ROD BLAGOJEVICH.
11) One of the highlights of his early acting career was playing Sir Walter Raleigh in a long running production of The Lost Colony staged near the location of the actual Lost Colony.
12) He was the first president of Antioch College from its founding until his death several years later.
HORACE MANN
13) This African dictator, originally a Gandhi disciple, ruled his country from its independence until plummeting copper prices led to the legalization of opposition parties and his eventual defeat in the country’s first contested presidential election in a quarter century in 1991.
14) Her appearance in a musical version of Streetcar Named Desire nearly led to the breakup of her marriage.
15) September 30, 1888, was probably the busiest night of his career.
JACK THE RIPPER
16) After his army suffered a disastrous loss, the troops of this Confederate general “saluted” his gallantry in a song sung to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas.”
17) This actor’s career has spanned eight decades, but he is best known for a recurring comic role in which he developed a twitching eye whenever his subordinate would inevitably screw up.
18) This author wrote her most famous novel at age 16 and wrote several later novels under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin.
MILES FRANKLIN
19) Four years after being fired from a guest star gig on Law & Order: Criminal Intent due to a disagreement with Vincent D’Onofrio, he finally made an appearance on the show, but on an episode starring Chris Noth.
20) Both Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner have been nominated for MTV Movie Awards for Best Screen Duo for appearances with this performer.
21) His upapologetic testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 led to the adoption of the Comics Code that same year.
22) Despite recent online rumors, this well known brother team has not become a brother-sister team.
23) In his first successful statewide election, this current U.S. Senator won his party’s nomination by 42 votes; he was re-elected with the highest percentage of the vote of any candidate in the nation for that post that year.
24) His doctoral dissertation was based in part on a study of Raymond Chandler, so it was no surprise that he later completed a manuscript for a Philip Marlowe novel that Chandler had left unfinished at the time of his death.
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
26) A conservation ship that had been named after the founder of Greenpeace was subsequently renamed for him after his death.
27) Talk about being typecast: over a seven-year period, he played a sleazy boyfriend opposite three actresses in their Oscar winning roles.
28) His first stint as a major league manager was marred by a controversial incident in which he slapped a harmonica out of the hands of a reserve infielder who was playing it too loudly on the team bus.
29) He’s the only Indianapolis 500 winner whose wife is better known to the general public than he is.
30) He was scheduled to fight John Wayne Bobbitt on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing, but when Bobbitt dropped out for legal reasons, he wound up fighting, and beating, female wrestler Chyna instead.
JOEY BUTTAFUOCO
31) In a recent popular movie, this actor and his real life wife played a brother and sister whose relationship seemed a little bit too close.
32) He was arrested for helping to organize a baker’s union in Poland at age 16 and sentenced to Siberia; en route, he escaped and eventually made his way to New York City, where he found work as a garment cutter.
33) He originally recorded his best known, and most controversial, song with Brigitte Bardot, but when Bardot backed out because the material was too spicy, his new girlfriend wound up recording it with him.
34) This artist became a bitter rival of John La Farge when both were granted similar patents on the materials they used; ironically, both patents were often needed to create one of their works.
35) He is the only person to have held four different Cabinet positions.
36) In 1910, she dressed as a man in blackface, and, with a number of friends, posed as African diplomats and were taken on a guided tour of top secret areas on the British battleship Dreadnought.
37) The two roles that helped define his career had been played earlier by Richard Chamberlain and Dennis Hopper.
38) A few months after losing a major sporting event despite receiving a phone call of “encouragement” from Adolph Hitler, he was arrested and later convicted on charges of homosexuality.
39) This wrestler has been the headline performer at Madison Square Garden a record 211 times, 187 of which were sellouts.
40) He was a sergeant in the medical corps and chaplain during World War I and an ambassador to France during World War II.
41) He is second to Eric Karros in all-time home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger.
42) An inebriated Oliver Reed’s appearance on a live talk show ended rather abruptly when he grabbed and kissed this author, claiming “I’ve had more fights in pubs than you’ve had hot dinners.”
43) As a result of Watergate, he was named Time’s Man of the Year for 1973.
A fellow honoree, JOHN SIRICA.
44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
Otherwise known as the Unabomber Manifesto... written by TED KACZYNSKI.
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
47) He prosecuted Andrew Jackson’s assassin and defended Sam Houston.
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
I'm thinking that I've seen this question before... "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" by DR. HOOK AND THE MEDICINE SHOW.
49) This singer turned actress plans to do a remake of Bell, Book, and Candle with herself in the Kim Novak role.
50) In one version of her life story, she had forty dragons for companions.
51) He was kicked out of the Southwestern Assemblies of God University after performing a boogie-woogie version of “My God is Real” in church.
52) The first film he produced involved a lame race horse; the last had a lame plot involving a lava flow threatening a luxury hotel.
Not familiar with the first film, but I recognize the second film as "When Time Ran Out", produced by "The Master of Disaster", IRWIN ALLEN.
53) He was the oldest of the Chicago Seven.
DAVID DELLINGER
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
55) His first novel may have been the first to deal with the subject of impotence, somewhat ironic since the author himself died of complications arising from syphilis.
56) He joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
57) One of his former patients put him in touch with Allen Dulles during World War II, and he met with Dulles frequently; later he became an O.S.S. agent who performed psychological assessments of key Nazi leaders, especially Hitler.
58) He was U.S. Chess Champion longer than anyone else.
59) As a result of losing a 1979 lawsuit, he was forced to appear in public wearing a pair of wraparound sunglasses rather than his far more familiar facial attire.
60) In one of the most elaborate April Fool’s jokes of all time, he “predicted” the death of astrologer John Partridge and then circulated a pamphlet proclaiming that the very much alive Partridge had indeed died on the predicted date.
JONATHAN SWIFT, who wrote the false death notice under the name Isaac Bickerstaff.
61) She helped decide Roe v. Wade but is better known today for a purely ministerial task she performed that nonetheless got her picture on the front pages of every newspaper in the country.
62) He accidentally killed a male lover by hitting him with a thrown discus, while a female lover drowned in a spring after fleeing his advances.
63) This musician was often referred to as “The Sound” for his distinctive tone.
64) He graduated eighth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy in 1956, which didn’t prevent him from being elected to Congress a number of years later.
This was one of those 101 reasons not to vote for him that I posted on at least two forums--JOHN MCCAIN.
65) When he was hired by Newsweek as a columnist, Bill O’Reilly said it was comparable to hiring David Duke.
I read his blog at least twice a week--MARKOS MOULITSAS ZUNIGA.
66) He visited Carl Sandburg at his home in 1964 but left after a few minutes when he realized Sandburg had never heard of him and didn’t take him seriously as a poet.
67) She beat out Traci Lords for a role that helped establish her career, but then lost out to Sharon Stone for a role that might have brought her career to a whole new level.
68) She attracted considerable attention when she directed a troupe of local actors in a production of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo in 1993 while the city was under siege.
69) This band made its first public appearance at a fundraising concert at Nipmuc High School in Massachusetts in November, 1970, for which they were paid $50; the school actually lost money on the concert.
70) She got her first big break in publishing when, as a junior editor at Doubleday, she was chosen to edit The Diary of Anne Frank and was able to persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to provide the introduction.
71) For a number of reasons, he probably regretted agreeing to make a speech at the Yale Club on June 6, 2006.
ROBERT BORK
72) He was the first prominent entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in Korea, doing a tour in which he put on 42 shows in 16 days, which may have contributed to his death shortly after his return to the United States.
73) A botched handoff to him in the last minute of a 1978 game led to one of the most infamous finishes in NFL history.
74) Jesse Helms blocked this Republican’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, claiming he was too liberal on social issues.
75) Her trademark song was originally written and performed by a group called The Arrows.
76) In 1960, this director made one of his best movies in Spain at Franco’s request, but when Spanish authorities saw the finished film, they claimed it was blasphemous, tried to destroy all copies of it, and banned it for a number of years.
77) After his father committed suicide, he took over his family’s billboard business in 1963 and quickly turned it into one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the country.
78) The 123-room mansion that he ordered built is the largest single family dwelling in California.
William Randolph Hearst?
79) He is the only golfer to have won the NCAA Individual Championship outright three different times.
80) His comments about “weapons of mass destruction” at Coretta Scott King’s funeral were quite controversial.
DR. JOSEPH LOWERY
81) Many killers have had their crimes dramatized on Law & Order, but his case was the only time that the show’s narrator specifically acknowledged the show’s resemblance to real life events but then revealed that the real life trial had ended differently.
82) He was the most recent Chief Justice appointed by a Democratic President.
You'll have to go all the way back to FRED VINSON, appointed by Truman.
83) This future radio personality became probably the most famous survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona.
PAUL HARVEY
84) She was the most recent performer to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year before Kate Winslet.
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
BARON NEIL KINNOCK
86) This American record producer moved to England and 1962 and played a considerable part in the success of The Kinks and The Who among others.
87) She was the first female geology student at Stanford University, where she met her future husband in a geology lab.
88) He once wrote, “No man is useless while he has a friend.”
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
89) She was the first female host of Saturday Night Live.
CANDICE BERGEN
90) He never learned to drive but became famous for bicycling around New York City wearing a three-piece suit.
91) This author was sued twice by former Congressman Gary Condit for defamation; the first resulted in an undisclosed settlement, while the second was thrown out of court.
92) He is the only player to have led the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.
Could be Oscar Robertson. Could be Magic Johnson. Could be Michael Jordan. Could be anybody.
93) This British group performed for only six years, disbanding in 1967 after eight flop singles in a row; ironically, their last single, from their last flop album, became their biggest hit two years later.
94) He was an attorney for Monsanto in the 1970s, a point often raised by critics of the company and the Bush Administration.
95) After failing in several attempts to become president of Harvard, he persuaded Elihu Yale to donate a substantial sum of money and other property to the school that would, as a result, be renamed after its benefactor.
I might come up with more answers later.
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I suppose some argument could be made for Newt Gingrich as Rotenkowski's fall was a big boost to the eventual success of the pachyderm party in the 90's and his rise to the speakers chair. Newt proved he benifited even more from Rostenkowski down the road when his own "ethical" conduct (OK it is hard to type that with a straight face when talking about politicians...) proved a near match for the lessons taught by dear old Dan.10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
But I suspect the answer is the current poster boy for political ethics, Rod Blagojevich, who was able to win Rostenkowski's House seat a couple of years later on his way to building on Danny boy's ethical legacy...
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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I'm sure #59 is Clayton Moore--The Lone Ranger
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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I'll only answer the ones I'm close to certain on, for now.
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years).
10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
24) His doctoral dissertation was based in part on a study of Raymond Chandler, so it was no surprise that he later completed a manuscript for a Philip Marlowe novel that Chandler had left unfinished at the time of his death.
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
59) As a result of losing a 1979 lawsuit, he was forced to appear in public wearing a pair of wraparound sunglasses rather than his far more familiar facial attire.
73) A botched handoff to him in the last minute of a 1978 game led to one of the most infamous finishes in NFL history.
74) Jesse Helms blocked this Republican’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, claiming he was too liberal on social issues.
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
92) He is the only player to have led the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years).
Spoiler
Zak and Steve DeOssie
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It's probably Rod Blagojevich, thoughI guess it could be Mike Flanagan
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Robert B Parker
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Ted Kaczynski (sp?)
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Dr Hook and the Medicine Show
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
Spoiler
Jason Biggs
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Clayton Moore
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Larry Csonka
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Bill Weld
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Neal Kinnock
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Wilt Chamberlain
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Spoiler
Looking at ToLive's answers, 92 is Nate "Tiny" Archibald.
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#92 is Nate Archibald
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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Finally one I am sure of.77) After his father committed suicide, he took over his family’s billboard business in 1963 and quickly turned it into one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the country.
Spoiler
TED TURNER
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
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~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
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#3 is
Spoiler
Howie Long
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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#17
Spoiler
Herbert Lom Peter Seller's boss in the Pink Panther?
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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(All kinda edykated guesses)
#28
#29
#42
#61
#79
#87
#28
Spoiler
Yogi Berra
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Dario Francitti (Ashley Judd)
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Cate Millett
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Judge Sarah Hughes
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Phil Mickelson
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Lou Hoover
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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#9
#14
#54 sounds like
#62
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Janet Leigh
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Marge Simpson
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Kyle McLachlan before Desperate Housewives
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Apollo
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1) For several years, he wrote weekly cantatas for the Boys Choir at the church where he taught for most of his adult life and was eventually buried. BACH, in Leipzig?
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years). the elder DEOSSIE (both Giants)
3) Last year, his son was selected in the NFL draft 46 positions ahead of where he was drafted when he turned pro.
HOWIE LONG
4) A housing project he designed in St. Louis was torn down less than twenty years after it was built, and an office building he also built in St. Louis burned down under suspicious circumstances shortly afterward, but this architect is best known today for the even more disastrous demise of his most famous design.
YAMASAKI, the guy who designed the WTC
5) His future father-in-law conquered the town of Gezer, burned it to the ground, and gave it to him as a wedding present.
Gezer is in the Bible...
6) He served as a mathematics tutor of the future King Charles II and later needed the King’s help when Parliament threatened to take action against him for heresy.
NEWTON?
7) His bestselling novel helped popularize the phrase “Bolivian marching powder.”
BRET EASTON ELLIS
8( He abstained on the final vote on the Declaration of Independence, only signing it a month later, but he later signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
9) This actress’ performance in a cult horror film served as the inspiration for Drew Barrymore’s character in Scream.
10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
BLAGO?
11) One of the highlights of his early acting career was playing Sir Walter Raleigh in a long running production of The Lost Colony staged near the location of the actual Lost Colony.
12) He was the first president of Antioch College from its founding until his death several years later.
HORACE MANN, as noted when the College closed
13) This African dictator, originally a Gandhi disciple, ruled his country from its independence until plummeting copper prices led to the legalization of opposition parties and his eventual defeat in the country’s first contested presidential election in a quarter century in 1991.
14) Her appearance in a musical version of Streetcar Named Desire nearly led to the breakup of her marriage.
15) September 30, 1888, was probably the busiest night of his career.
JACK THE RIPPER
16) After his army suffered a disastrous loss, the troops of this Confederate general “saluted” his gallantry in a song sung to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas.”
17) This actor’s career has spanned eight decades, but he is best known for a recurring comic role in which he developed a twitching eye whenever his subordinate would inevitably screw up.
18) This author wrote her most famous novel at age 16 and wrote several later novels under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin.
The person who wrote My Brilliant Career
19) Four years after being fired from a guest star gig on Law & Order: Criminal Intent due to a disagreement with Vincent D’Onofrio, he finally made an appearance on the show, but on an episode starring Chris Noth.
20) Both Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner have been nominated for MTV Movie Awards for Best Screen Duo for appearances with this performer.
21) His upapologetic testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 led to the adoption of the Comics Code that same year.
22) Despite recent online rumors, this well known brother team has not become a brother-sister team.
the WACHOWSKIS
23) In his first successful statewide election, this current U.S. Senator won his party’s nomination by 42 votes; he was re-elected with the highest percentage of the vote of any candidate in the nation for that post that year.
24) His doctoral dissertation was based in part on a study of Raymond Chandler, so it was no surprise that he later completed a manuscript for a Philip Marlowe novel that Chandler had left unfinished at the time of his death.
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
BILL LEE?
26) A conservation ship that had been named after the founder of Greenpeace was subsequently renamed for him after his death.
COUSTEAU?
27) Talk about being typecast: over a seven-year period, he played a sleazy boyfriend opposite three actresses in their Oscar winning roles.
28) His first stint as a major league manager was marred by a controversial incident in which he slapped a harmonica out of the hands of a reserve infielder who was playing it too loudly on the team bus.
29) He’s the only Indianapolis 500 winner whose wife is better known to the general public than he is.
DARIO FRANCHETTI
30) He was scheduled to fight John Wayne Bobbitt on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing, but when Bobbitt dropped out for legal reasons, he wound up fighting, and beating, female wrestler Chyna instead.
BUTTAFUOCO
31) In a recent popular movie, this actor and his real life wife played a brother and sister whose relationship seemed a little bit too close.
32) He was arrested for helping to organize a baker’s union in Poland at age 16 and sentenced to Siberia; en route, he escaped and eventually made his way to New York City, where he found work as a garment cutter.
33) He originally recorded his best known, and most controversial, song with Brigitte Bardot, but when Bardot backed out because the material was too spicy, his new girlfriend wound up recording it with him.
34) This artist became a bitter rival of John La Farge when both were granted similar patents on the materials they used; ironically, both patents were often needed to create one of their works.
35) He is the only person to have held four different Cabinet positions.
RICHARDSON
36) In 1910, she dressed as a man in blackface, and, with a number of friends, posed as African diplomats and were taken on a guided tour of top secret areas on the British battleship Dreadnought.
37) The two roles that helped define his career had been played earlier by Richard Chamberlain and Dennis Hopper.
38) A few months after losing a major sporting event despite receiving a phone call of “encouragement” from Adolph Hitler, he was arrested and later convicted on charges of homosexuality.
39) This wrestler has been the headline performer at Madison Square Garden a record 211 times, 187 of which were sellouts.
40) He was a sergeant in the medical corps and chaplain during World War I and an ambassador to France during World War II.
41) He is second to Eric Karros in all-time home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger.
RON CEY?
42) An inebriated Oliver Reed’s appearance on a live talk show ended rather abruptly when he grabbed and kissed this author, claiming “I’ve had more fights in pubs than you’ve had hot dinners.”
43) As a result of Watergate, he was named Time’s Man of the Year for 1973.
SIRICA
44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
the UNABOMBER
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
47) He prosecuted Andrew Jackson’s assassin and defended Sam Houston.
TANEY?
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
49) This singer turned actress plans to do a remake of Bell, Book, and Candle with herself in the Kim Novak role.
50) In one version of her life story, she had forty dragons for companions.
51) He was kicked out of the Southwestern Assemblies of God University after performing a boogie-woogie version of “My God is Real” in church.
52) The first film he produced involved a lame race horse; the last had a lame plot involving a lava flow threatening a luxury hotel.
53) He was the oldest of the Chicago Seven.
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
JASON BIGGS?
55) His first novel may have been the first to deal with the subject of impotence, somewhat ironic since the author himself died of complications arising from syphilis.
56) He joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
57) One of his former patients put him in touch with Allen Dulles during World War II, and he met with Dulles frequently; later he became an O.S.S. agent who performed psychological assessments of key Nazi leaders, especially Hitler.
JUNG
58) He was U.S. Chess Champion longer than anyone else.
59) As a result of losing a 1979 lawsuit, he was forced to appear in public wearing a pair of wraparound sunglasses rather than his far more familiar facial attire.
60) In one of the most elaborate April Fool’s jokes of all time, he “predicted” the death of astrologer John Partridge and then circulated a pamphlet proclaiming that the very much alive Partridge had indeed died on the predicted date.
61) She helped decide Roe v. Wade but is better known today for a purely ministerial task she performed that nonetheless got her picture on the front pages of every newspaper in the country.
the lady who swore in LBJ
62) He accidentally killed a male lover by hitting him with a thrown discus, while a female lover drowned in a spring after fleeing his advances.
APOLLO
63) This musician was often referred to as “The Sound” for his distinctive tone.
64) He graduated eighth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy in 1956, which didn’t prevent him from being elected to Congress a number of years later.
McCAIN
65) When he was hired by Newsweek as a columnist, Bill O’Reilly said it was comparable to hiring David Duke.
66) He visited Carl Sandburg at his home in 1964 but left after a few minutes when he realized Sandburg had never heard of him and didn’t take him seriously as a poet.
BOB DYLAN
67) She beat out Traci Lords for a role that helped establish her career, but then lost out to Sharon Stone for a role that might have brought her career to a whole new level.
68) She attracted considerable attention when she directed a troupe of local actors in a production of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo in 1993 while the city was under siege.
69) This band made its first public appearance at a fundraising concert at Nipmuc High School in Massachusetts in November, 1970, for which they were paid $50; the school actually lost money on the concert.
70) She got her first big break in publishing when, as a junior editor at Doubleday, she was chosen to edit The Diary of Anne Frank and was able to persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to provide the introduction.
JACKIE O
71) For a number of reasons, he probably regretted agreeing to make a speech at the Yale Club on June 6, 2006.
BORK
72) He was the first prominent entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in Korea, doing a tour in which he put on 42 shows in 16 days, which may have contributed to his death shortly after his return to the United States.
73) A botched handoff to him in the last minute of a 1978 game led to one of the most infamous finishes in NFL history.
BEDNARIK? Eagles beat the Giants, I know
74) Jesse Helms blocked this Republican’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, claiming he was too liberal on social issues.
WELD
75) Her trademark song was originally written and performed by a group called The Arrows.
76) In 1960, this director made one of his best movies in Spain at Franco’s request, but when Spanish authorities saw the finished film, they claimed it was blasphemous, tried to destroy all copies of it, and banned it for a number of years.
BUNUEL?
77) After his father committed suicide, he took over his family’s billboard business in 1963 and quickly turned it into one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the country.
78) The 123-room mansion that he ordered built is the largest single family dwelling in California.
79) He is the only golfer to have won the NCAA Individual Championship outright three different times.
MICKELSON
80) His comments about “weapons of mass destruction” at Coretta Scott King’s funeral were quite controversial.
81) Many killers have had their crimes dramatized on Law & Order, but his case was the only time that the show’s narrator specifically acknowledged the show’s resemblance to real life events but then revealed that the real life trial had ended differently.
82) He was the most recent Chief Justice appointed by a Democratic President.
FRED VINSON?
83) This future radio personality became probably the most famous survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona.
84) She was the most recent performer to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year before Kate Winslet.
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
NEIL KINNOCK
86) This American record producer moved to England and 1962 and played a considerable part in the success of The Kinks and The Who among others.
SHEL TALMY
87) She was the first female geology student at Stanford University, where she met her future husband in a geology lab.
LOU HOOVER?
88) He once wrote, “No man is useless while he has a friend.”
89) She was the first female host of Saturday Night Live.
90) He never learned to drive but became famous for bicycling around New York City wearing a three-piece suit.
91) This author was sued twice by former Congressman Gary Condit for defamation; the first resulted in an undisclosed settlement, while the second was thrown out of court.
DOMINC DUNNE
92) He is the only player to have led the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.
the BIG O
93) This British group performed for only six years, disbanding in 1967 after eight flop singles in a row; ironically, their last single, from their last flop album, became their biggest hit two years later.
94) He was an attorney for Monsanto in the 1970s, a point often raised by critics of the company and the Bush Administration.
CLARENCE THOMAS
95) After failing in several attempts to become president of Harvard, he persuaded Elihu Yale to donate a substantial sum of money and other property to the school that would, as a result, be renamed after its benefactor.
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years). the elder DEOSSIE (both Giants)
3) Last year, his son was selected in the NFL draft 46 positions ahead of where he was drafted when he turned pro.
HOWIE LONG
4) A housing project he designed in St. Louis was torn down less than twenty years after it was built, and an office building he also built in St. Louis burned down under suspicious circumstances shortly afterward, but this architect is best known today for the even more disastrous demise of his most famous design.
YAMASAKI, the guy who designed the WTC
5) His future father-in-law conquered the town of Gezer, burned it to the ground, and gave it to him as a wedding present.
Gezer is in the Bible...
6) He served as a mathematics tutor of the future King Charles II and later needed the King’s help when Parliament threatened to take action against him for heresy.
NEWTON?
7) His bestselling novel helped popularize the phrase “Bolivian marching powder.”
BRET EASTON ELLIS
8( He abstained on the final vote on the Declaration of Independence, only signing it a month later, but he later signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
9) This actress’ performance in a cult horror film served as the inspiration for Drew Barrymore’s character in Scream.
10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
BLAGO?
11) One of the highlights of his early acting career was playing Sir Walter Raleigh in a long running production of The Lost Colony staged near the location of the actual Lost Colony.
12) He was the first president of Antioch College from its founding until his death several years later.
HORACE MANN, as noted when the College closed
13) This African dictator, originally a Gandhi disciple, ruled his country from its independence until plummeting copper prices led to the legalization of opposition parties and his eventual defeat in the country’s first contested presidential election in a quarter century in 1991.
14) Her appearance in a musical version of Streetcar Named Desire nearly led to the breakup of her marriage.
15) September 30, 1888, was probably the busiest night of his career.
JACK THE RIPPER
16) After his army suffered a disastrous loss, the troops of this Confederate general “saluted” his gallantry in a song sung to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas.”
17) This actor’s career has spanned eight decades, but he is best known for a recurring comic role in which he developed a twitching eye whenever his subordinate would inevitably screw up.
18) This author wrote her most famous novel at age 16 and wrote several later novels under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin.
The person who wrote My Brilliant Career
19) Four years after being fired from a guest star gig on Law & Order: Criminal Intent due to a disagreement with Vincent D’Onofrio, he finally made an appearance on the show, but on an episode starring Chris Noth.
20) Both Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner have been nominated for MTV Movie Awards for Best Screen Duo for appearances with this performer.
21) His upapologetic testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 led to the adoption of the Comics Code that same year.
22) Despite recent online rumors, this well known brother team has not become a brother-sister team.
the WACHOWSKIS
23) In his first successful statewide election, this current U.S. Senator won his party’s nomination by 42 votes; he was re-elected with the highest percentage of the vote of any candidate in the nation for that post that year.
24) His doctoral dissertation was based in part on a study of Raymond Chandler, so it was no surprise that he later completed a manuscript for a Philip Marlowe novel that Chandler had left unfinished at the time of his death.
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
BILL LEE?
26) A conservation ship that had been named after the founder of Greenpeace was subsequently renamed for him after his death.
COUSTEAU?
27) Talk about being typecast: over a seven-year period, he played a sleazy boyfriend opposite three actresses in their Oscar winning roles.
28) His first stint as a major league manager was marred by a controversial incident in which he slapped a harmonica out of the hands of a reserve infielder who was playing it too loudly on the team bus.
29) He’s the only Indianapolis 500 winner whose wife is better known to the general public than he is.
DARIO FRANCHETTI
30) He was scheduled to fight John Wayne Bobbitt on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing, but when Bobbitt dropped out for legal reasons, he wound up fighting, and beating, female wrestler Chyna instead.
BUTTAFUOCO
31) In a recent popular movie, this actor and his real life wife played a brother and sister whose relationship seemed a little bit too close.
32) He was arrested for helping to organize a baker’s union in Poland at age 16 and sentenced to Siberia; en route, he escaped and eventually made his way to New York City, where he found work as a garment cutter.
33) He originally recorded his best known, and most controversial, song with Brigitte Bardot, but when Bardot backed out because the material was too spicy, his new girlfriend wound up recording it with him.
34) This artist became a bitter rival of John La Farge when both were granted similar patents on the materials they used; ironically, both patents were often needed to create one of their works.
35) He is the only person to have held four different Cabinet positions.
RICHARDSON
36) In 1910, she dressed as a man in blackface, and, with a number of friends, posed as African diplomats and were taken on a guided tour of top secret areas on the British battleship Dreadnought.
37) The two roles that helped define his career had been played earlier by Richard Chamberlain and Dennis Hopper.
38) A few months after losing a major sporting event despite receiving a phone call of “encouragement” from Adolph Hitler, he was arrested and later convicted on charges of homosexuality.
39) This wrestler has been the headline performer at Madison Square Garden a record 211 times, 187 of which were sellouts.
40) He was a sergeant in the medical corps and chaplain during World War I and an ambassador to France during World War II.
41) He is second to Eric Karros in all-time home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger.
RON CEY?
42) An inebriated Oliver Reed’s appearance on a live talk show ended rather abruptly when he grabbed and kissed this author, claiming “I’ve had more fights in pubs than you’ve had hot dinners.”
43) As a result of Watergate, he was named Time’s Man of the Year for 1973.
SIRICA
44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
the UNABOMBER
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
47) He prosecuted Andrew Jackson’s assassin and defended Sam Houston.
TANEY?
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
49) This singer turned actress plans to do a remake of Bell, Book, and Candle with herself in the Kim Novak role.
50) In one version of her life story, she had forty dragons for companions.
51) He was kicked out of the Southwestern Assemblies of God University after performing a boogie-woogie version of “My God is Real” in church.
52) The first film he produced involved a lame race horse; the last had a lame plot involving a lava flow threatening a luxury hotel.
53) He was the oldest of the Chicago Seven.
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
JASON BIGGS?
55) His first novel may have been the first to deal with the subject of impotence, somewhat ironic since the author himself died of complications arising from syphilis.
56) He joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
57) One of his former patients put him in touch with Allen Dulles during World War II, and he met with Dulles frequently; later he became an O.S.S. agent who performed psychological assessments of key Nazi leaders, especially Hitler.
JUNG
58) He was U.S. Chess Champion longer than anyone else.
59) As a result of losing a 1979 lawsuit, he was forced to appear in public wearing a pair of wraparound sunglasses rather than his far more familiar facial attire.
60) In one of the most elaborate April Fool’s jokes of all time, he “predicted” the death of astrologer John Partridge and then circulated a pamphlet proclaiming that the very much alive Partridge had indeed died on the predicted date.
61) She helped decide Roe v. Wade but is better known today for a purely ministerial task she performed that nonetheless got her picture on the front pages of every newspaper in the country.
the lady who swore in LBJ
62) He accidentally killed a male lover by hitting him with a thrown discus, while a female lover drowned in a spring after fleeing his advances.
APOLLO
63) This musician was often referred to as “The Sound” for his distinctive tone.
64) He graduated eighth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy in 1956, which didn’t prevent him from being elected to Congress a number of years later.
McCAIN
65) When he was hired by Newsweek as a columnist, Bill O’Reilly said it was comparable to hiring David Duke.
66) He visited Carl Sandburg at his home in 1964 but left after a few minutes when he realized Sandburg had never heard of him and didn’t take him seriously as a poet.
BOB DYLAN
67) She beat out Traci Lords for a role that helped establish her career, but then lost out to Sharon Stone for a role that might have brought her career to a whole new level.
68) She attracted considerable attention when she directed a troupe of local actors in a production of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo in 1993 while the city was under siege.
69) This band made its first public appearance at a fundraising concert at Nipmuc High School in Massachusetts in November, 1970, for which they were paid $50; the school actually lost money on the concert.
70) She got her first big break in publishing when, as a junior editor at Doubleday, she was chosen to edit The Diary of Anne Frank and was able to persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to provide the introduction.
JACKIE O
71) For a number of reasons, he probably regretted agreeing to make a speech at the Yale Club on June 6, 2006.
BORK
72) He was the first prominent entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in Korea, doing a tour in which he put on 42 shows in 16 days, which may have contributed to his death shortly after his return to the United States.
73) A botched handoff to him in the last minute of a 1978 game led to one of the most infamous finishes in NFL history.
BEDNARIK? Eagles beat the Giants, I know
74) Jesse Helms blocked this Republican’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, claiming he was too liberal on social issues.
WELD
75) Her trademark song was originally written and performed by a group called The Arrows.
76) In 1960, this director made one of his best movies in Spain at Franco’s request, but when Spanish authorities saw the finished film, they claimed it was blasphemous, tried to destroy all copies of it, and banned it for a number of years.
BUNUEL?
77) After his father committed suicide, he took over his family’s billboard business in 1963 and quickly turned it into one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the country.
78) The 123-room mansion that he ordered built is the largest single family dwelling in California.
79) He is the only golfer to have won the NCAA Individual Championship outright three different times.
MICKELSON
80) His comments about “weapons of mass destruction” at Coretta Scott King’s funeral were quite controversial.
81) Many killers have had their crimes dramatized on Law & Order, but his case was the only time that the show’s narrator specifically acknowledged the show’s resemblance to real life events but then revealed that the real life trial had ended differently.
82) He was the most recent Chief Justice appointed by a Democratic President.
FRED VINSON?
83) This future radio personality became probably the most famous survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona.
84) She was the most recent performer to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year before Kate Winslet.
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
NEIL KINNOCK
86) This American record producer moved to England and 1962 and played a considerable part in the success of The Kinks and The Who among others.
SHEL TALMY
87) She was the first female geology student at Stanford University, where she met her future husband in a geology lab.
LOU HOOVER?
88) He once wrote, “No man is useless while he has a friend.”
89) She was the first female host of Saturday Night Live.
90) He never learned to drive but became famous for bicycling around New York City wearing a three-piece suit.
91) This author was sued twice by former Congressman Gary Condit for defamation; the first resulted in an undisclosed settlement, while the second was thrown out of court.
DOMINC DUNNE
92) He is the only player to have led the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.
the BIG O
93) This British group performed for only six years, disbanding in 1967 after eight flop singles in a row; ironically, their last single, from their last flop album, became their biggest hit two years later.
94) He was an attorney for Monsanto in the 1970s, a point often raised by critics of the company and the Bush Administration.
CLARENCE THOMAS
95) After failing in several attempts to become president of Harvard, he persuaded Elihu Yale to donate a substantial sum of money and other property to the school that would, as a result, be renamed after its benefactor.
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In re-reading my clues, I realized that this one might be ambiguous. The director of the film in this clue and the TV funnyman are two different people.silverscreenselect wrote: 44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
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silverscreenselect wrote:In re-reading my clues, I realized that this one might be ambiguous. The director of the film in this clue and the TV funnyman are two different people.silverscreenselect wrote: 44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
The movie is The Runner Stumbles, but I don't know the director.
What?
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And I'm assuming you want the director, not the funnyman?silverscreenselect wrote:In re-reading my clues, I realized that this one might be ambiguous. The director of the film in this clue and the TV funnyman are two different people.silverscreenselect wrote: 44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
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The clue is looking for the director.Jeemie wrote:And I'm assuming you want the director, not the funnyman?silverscreenselect wrote:In re-reading my clues, I realized that this one might be ambiguous. The director of the film in this clue and the TV funnyman are two different people.silverscreenselect wrote: 44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
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Most of what I knew has already been cherry-picked, but here are a couple of which I am sure:
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
DARREN DAULTON
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
FREDERIK POHL
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
DARREN DAULTON
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
FREDERIK POHL
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I got here late. People probably got most of the answers already, but I won't look just yet.
silverscreenselect wrote:Below you will find 95 clues to famous people. First, you must identify the people from the clues, then you must combine them to form 46 pairs and one triple, based on a Tangredi, or principle which you must determine for yourself. Some of the pairings work somewhat differently from the others, although the general principle is the same. If you know me and the way I like to approach puzzles, you may have an advantage in figuring this one out.
1) For several years, he wrote weekly cantatas for the Boys Choir at the church where he taught for most of his adult life and was eventually buried.
ANTONIO VIVALDI
2) He and his son are the only father/son combination to have won Super Bowls playing for the same team (obviously in different years).
3) Last year, his son was selected in the NFL draft 46 positions ahead of where he was drafted when he turned pro.
4) A housing project he designed in St. Louis was torn down less than twenty years after it was built, and an office building he also built in St. Louis burned down under suspicious circumstances shortly afterward, but this architect is best known today for the even more disastrous demise of his most famous design.
5) His future father-in-law conquered the town of Gezer, burned it to the ground, and gave it to him as a wedding present.
6) He served as a mathematics tutor of the future King Charles II and later needed the King’s help when Parliament threatened to take action against him for heresy.
7) His bestselling novel helped popularize the phrase “Bolivian marching powder.”
8( He abstained on the final vote on the Declaration of Independence, only signing it a month later, but he later signed the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
ROBERT MORRIS?
9) This actress’ performance in a cult horror film served as the inspiration for Drew Barrymore’s character in Scream.
10) His big political break was Dan Rostenkowski being indicted in the House post office scandal.
11) One of the highlights of his early acting career was playing Sir Walter Raleigh in a long running production of The Lost Colony staged near the location of the actual Lost Colony.
I should know this, but the play's been running every year for 70 years.
12) He was the first president of Antioch College from its founding until his death several years later.
13) This African dictator, originally a Gandhi disciple, ruled his country from its independence until plummeting copper prices led to the legalization of opposition parties and his eventual defeat in the country’s first contested presidential election in a quarter century in 1991.
14) Her appearance in a musical version of Streetcar Named Desire nearly led to the breakup of her marriage.
MARGE SIMPSON
15) September 30, 1888, was probably the busiest night of his career.
JACK THE RIPPER?
16) After his army suffered a disastrous loss, the troops of this Confederate general “saluted” his gallantry in a song sung to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas.”
17) This actor’s career has spanned eight decades, but he is best known for a recurring comic role in which he developed a twitching eye whenever his subordinate would inevitably screw up.
HERBERT LOM
18) This author wrote her most famous novel at age 16 and wrote several later novels under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin.
19) Four years after being fired from a guest star gig on Law & Order: Criminal Intent due to a disagreement with Vincent D’Onofrio, he finally made an appearance on the show, but on an episode starring Chris Noth.
20) Both Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner have been nominated for MTV Movie Awards for Best Screen Duo for appearances with this performer.
21) His upapologetic testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 led to the adoption of the Comics Code that same year.
WILLIAM M. GAINES
22) Despite recent online rumors, this well known brother team has not become a brother-sister team.
23) In his first successful statewide election, this current U.S. Senator won his party’s nomination by 42 votes; he was re-elected with the highest percentage of the vote of any candidate in the nation for that post that year.
24) His doctoral dissertation was based in part on a study of Raymond Chandler, so it was no surprise that he later completed a manuscript for a Philip Marlowe novel that Chandler had left unfinished at the time of his death.
25) This former Major League baseball player says he had his first out-of-body experience during a game at Wrigley Field in his final season and predicts that on December 21, 2012, a lot of people may simply disappear from this “plane of existence.”
26) A conservation ship that had been named after the founder of Greenpeace was subsequently renamed for him after his death.
27) Talk about being typecast: over a seven-year period, he played a sleazy boyfriend opposite three actresses in their Oscar winning roles.
LAURENCE HARVEY
28) His first stint as a major league manager was marred by a controversial incident in which he slapped a harmonica out of the hands of a reserve infielder who was playing it too loudly on the team bus.
YOGI BERRA
29) He’s the only Indianapolis 500 winner whose wife is better known to the general public than he is.
30) He was scheduled to fight John Wayne Bobbitt on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing, but when Bobbitt dropped out for legal reasons, he wound up fighting, and beating, female wrestler Chyna instead.
31) In a recent popular movie, this actor and his real life wife played a brother and sister whose relationship seemed a little bit too close.
32) He was arrested for helping to organize a baker’s union in Poland at age 16 and sentenced to Siberia; en route, he escaped and eventually made his way to New York City, where he found work as a garment cutter.
33) He originally recorded his best known, and most controversial, song with Brigitte Bardot, but when Bardot backed out because the material was too spicy, his new girlfriend wound up recording it with him.
SERGE GAINSBOURG (I only came across this a few weeks ago)
34) This artist became a bitter rival of John La Farge when both were granted similar patents on the materials they used; ironically, both patents were often needed to create one of their works.
35) He is the only person to have held four different Cabinet positions.
36) In 1910, she dressed as a man in blackface, and, with a number of friends, posed as African diplomats and were taken on a guided tour of top secret areas on the British battleship Dreadnought.
37) The two roles that helped define his career had been played earlier by Richard Chamberlain and Dennis Hopper.
I can fit Matt Damon in with half of this, but not the other half.
38) A few months after losing a major sporting event despite receiving a phone call of “encouragement” from Adolph Hitler, he was arrested and later convicted on charges of homosexuality.
39) This wrestler has been the headline performer at Madison Square Garden a record 211 times, 187 of which were sellouts.
40) He was a sergeant in the medical corps and chaplain during World War I and an ambassador to France during World War II.
41) He is second to Eric Karros in all-time home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger.
42) An inebriated Oliver Reed’s appearance on a live talk show ended rather abruptly when he grabbed and kissed this author, claiming “I’ve had more fights in pubs than you’ve had hot dinners.”
43) As a result of Watergate, he was named Time’s Man of the Year for 1973.
JOHN SIRICA
44) In the last film he directed, a long time TV funnyman had a rare dramatic role as a priest accused of murdering a nun with whom he’d had an affair.
STANLEY KRAMER
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
47) He prosecuted Andrew Jackson’s assassin and defended Sam Houston.
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
DR. HOOK
49) This singer turned actress plans to do a remake of Bell, Book, and Candle with herself in the Kim Novak role.
50) In one version of her life story, she had forty dragons for companions.
51) He was kicked out of the Southwestern Assemblies of God University after performing a boogie-woogie version of “My God is Real” in church.
52) The first film he produced involved a lame race horse; the last had a lame plot involving a lava flow threatening a luxury hotel.
IRWIN ALLEN
53) He was the oldest of the Chicago Seven.
DAVID DELLINGER?
54) Many people associate this actor’s career with a cherry pie.
55) His first novel may have been the first to deal with the subject of impotence, somewhat ironic since the author himself died of complications arising from syphilis.
I don't think Laurence Sterne died of syphilis
56) He joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
57) One of his former patients put him in touch with Allen Dulles during World War II, and he met with Dulles frequently; later he became an O.S.S. agent who performed psychological assessments of key Nazi leaders, especially Hitler.
58) He was U.S. Chess Champion longer than anyone else.
59) As a result of losing a 1979 lawsuit, he was forced to appear in public wearing a pair of wraparound sunglasses rather than his far more familiar facial attire.
CLAYTON MOORE
60) In one of the most elaborate April Fool’s jokes of all time, he “predicted” the death of astrologer John Partridge and then circulated a pamphlet proclaiming that the very much alive Partridge had indeed died on the predicted date.
61) She helped decide Roe v. Wade but is better known today for a purely ministerial task she performed that nonetheless got her picture on the front pages of every newspaper in the country.
62) He accidentally killed a male lover by hitting him with a thrown discus, while a female lover drowned in a spring after fleeing his advances.
APOLLO
63) This musician was often referred to as “The Sound” for his distinctive tone.
64) He graduated eighth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy in 1956, which didn’t prevent him from being elected to Congress a number of years later.
65) When he was hired by Newsweek as a columnist, Bill O’Reilly said it was comparable to hiring David Duke.
66) He visited Carl Sandburg at his home in 1964 but left after a few minutes when he realized Sandburg had never heard of him and didn’t take him seriously as a poet.
BOB DYLAN?
67) She beat out Traci Lords for a role that helped establish her career, but then lost out to Sharon Stone for a role that might have brought her career to a whole new level.
68) She attracted considerable attention when she directed a troupe of local actors in a production of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo in 1993 while the city was under siege.
69) This band made its first public appearance at a fundraising concert at Nipmuc High School in Massachusetts in November, 1970, for which they were paid $50; the school actually lost money on the concert.
70) She got her first big break in publishing when, as a junior editor at Doubleday, she was chosen to edit The Diary of Anne Frank and was able to persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to provide the introduction.
71) For a number of reasons, he probably regretted agreeing to make a speech at the Yale Club on June 6, 2006.
72) He was the first prominent entertainer to perform for U.S. troops in Korea, doing a tour in which he put on 42 shows in 16 days, which may have contributed to his death shortly after his return to the United States.
73) A botched handoff to him in the last minute of a 1978 game led to one of the most infamous finishes in NFL history.
74) Jesse Helms blocked this Republican’s nomination as ambassador to Mexico, claiming he was too liberal on social issues.
WILLIAM WELD
75) Her trademark song was originally written and performed by a group called The Arrows.
76) In 1960, this director made one of his best movies in Spain at Franco’s request, but when Spanish authorities saw the finished film, they claimed it was blasphemous, tried to destroy all copies of it, and banned it for a number of years.
77) After his father committed suicide, he took over his family’s billboard business in 1963 and quickly turned it into one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the country.
78) The 123-room mansion that he ordered built is the largest single family dwelling in California.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST?
79) He is the only golfer to have won the NCAA Individual Championship outright three different times.
80) His comments about “weapons of mass destruction” at Coretta Scott King’s funeral were quite controversial.
81) Many killers have had their crimes dramatized on Law & Order, but his case was the only time that the show’s narrator specifically acknowledged the show’s resemblance to real life events but then revealed that the real life trial had ended differently.
JOEL STEINBERG
82) He was the most recent Chief Justice appointed by a Democratic President.
FRED VINSON
83) This future radio personality became probably the most famous survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona.
84) She was the most recent performer to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year before Kate Winslet.
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
NEIL KINNOCK
86) This American record producer moved to England and 1962 and played a considerable part in the success of The Kinks and The Who among others.
87) She was the first female geology student at Stanford University, where she met her future husband in a geology lab.
LOU HENRY HOOVER
88) He once wrote, “No man is useless while he has a friend.”
89) She was the first female host of Saturday Night Live.
LILY TOMLIN?
90) He never learned to drive but became famous for bicycling around New York City wearing a three-piece suit.
91) This author was sued twice by former Congressman Gary Condit for defamation; the first resulted in an undisclosed settlement, while the second was thrown out of court.
92) He is the only player to have led the NBA in both scoring and assists in the same season.
93) This British group performed for only six years, disbanding in 1967 after eight flop singles in a row; ironically, their last single, from their last flop album, became their biggest hit two years later.
94) He was an attorney for Monsanto in the 1970s, a point often raised by critics of the company and the Bush Administration.
95) After failing in several attempts to become president of Harvard, he persuaded Elihu Yale to donate a substantial sum of money and other property to the school that would, as a result, be renamed after its benefactor.
COTTON MATHER?
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I don't think Pohl ever won an editing Hugo. I'm pretty sure the correct answer is KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH. I'm virtually certain of her editing Hugo during her tenure at F&SF, and I'm pretty sure that she picked up a writing Hugo a few years back. --Bobmcd1400de wrote:46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
FREDERIK POHL
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Now I've checked. We're both right -- it's a bad question. The gender reference makes it clear that S-cubed has Pohl in mind, but Rusch also has both a writing and an editing Hugo. --BobBob78164 wrote:I don't think Pohl ever won an editing Hugo. I'm pretty sure the correct answer is KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH. I'm virtually certain of her editing Hugo during her tenure at F&SF, and I'm pretty sure that she picked up a writing Hugo a few years back. --Bobmcd1400de wrote:46) He is the only person to have won the Hugo Award both as a writer and as an editor.
FREDERIK POHL
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if the guy in Poland was sent to Siberia, it had to be prior to wwi. I think it is David Dubinsky.
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silverscreenselect wrote: 16) After his army suffered a disastrous loss, the troops of this Confederate general “saluted” his gallantry in a song sung to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas.”
JOHN BELL HOOD, I think
41) He is second to Eric Karros in all-time home runs by a Los Angeles Dodger.
FRANK HOWARD?
47) He prosecuted Andrew Jackson’s assassin and defended Sam Houston.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY -used this in a previous puzzle
56) He joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ?
61) She helped decide Roe v. Wade but is better known today for a purely ministerial task she performed that nonetheless got her picture on the front pages of every newspaper in the country.
Judge who administered oath of office to LBJ?