If I kept track correctly two of the ‘definite’ answers are still wrong.
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.
TRIPLE
3) Howie Long + 16) John Bell Hood + 88) Robert Louis Stevenson = Long John Silver
COMPLETED PAIRS
18) Miles Franklin + 89) Candice Bergen = Miles Silverberg
49) Alicia Keys + 69) Aerosmith = Alicia Silverstone
82) Fred Vinson + 78) Aaron Spelling = Fred Silverman
79) Phil Mickelson + 44) Stanley Kramer = Phil Silvers
60) Jonathan Swift + 19) Andrew Mccarthy = Jonathan Silverman
41) Ron Cey + 56) Alan Dershowitz = Ron Silver
71) Robert Bork + 46) Frederik Pohl = Robert Silverberg
43) John Sirica + 74) William Weld = John Silber
2) Steve Deossie + 47) Francis Scott Key = Steve Silver
75) Joan Jett + 9) Carol Kane = Joan Micklin Silver
7) Jay McInerney + 59) Clayton Moore = Jay Silverheels
92) Nate Archibald + 65) Markos Moulitsas Zuniga = Nate Silver
10) Rod Blagojevich + 93) The Zombies = Rod Argent
24) Robert B. Parker + 70) Barbara Zimmerman Epstein = Robert Silvers
PARTIALS
61) Sarah Hughes + ??) ? = Sarah Silverman
86) Shel Talmy + ??? = Shel Silverstein
29) Dario Franchetti + ????? = Dario Argento
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) STEVE DEOSSIE
*3) 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?
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.
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.
ISAAC NEWTON?
*7) JAY McINERNEY
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) CAROL KANE
*10) 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.
ANDY GRIFFITH?
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.
KENNETH KAUNDA
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) JOHN BELL HOOD
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) MILES FRANKLIN
*19) ANDREW MCCARTHY
20) Both Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner have been nominated for MTV Movie Awards for Best Screen Duo for appearances with this performer.
MORGAN FREEMAN
21) His unapologetic testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1954 led to the adoption of the Comics Code that same year.
WILLIAM GAINES
22) Despite recent online rumors, this well known brother team has not become a brother-sister team.
WACHOWSKI BROTHERS
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) ROBERT B. PARKER
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
26) A conservation ship that had been named after the founder of Greenpeace was subsequently renamed for him after his death.
JACQUES COUSTEAU?
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) 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.
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.
DAVID DUBINSKY
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
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.
LOUIS TIFFANY?
35) He is the only person to have held four different Cabinet positions.
ELLIOT 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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
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.
BRUNO SAMMARTINO?
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) 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.”
KATE MILLETT
*43) JOHN SIRICA
*44) STANLEY KRAMER
45) His best known work, Industrial Society and Its Future, appeared in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995.
TED KACZYNSKI
*46) FREDERIK POHL
*47) FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
48) On March 29, 1973, this band fulfilled the wish that they had musically expressed in their second hit single.
DR. HOOK AND THE MEDICINE SHOW
*49) ALICIA KEYS
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.
JERRY LEE LEWIS
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.
JASON BIGGS? KYLE MCLACHLAN?
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.
LAURENCE STERNE?
*56) ALAN DERSHOWITZ
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.
CARL JUNG
58) He was U.S. Chess Champion longer than anyone else.
FRANK MARSHALL
*59) CLAYTON MOORE
*60) JONATHAN SWIFT
*61) SARAH HUGHES
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.
CHARLIE WILSON
*65) 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.
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.
SUSAN SONTAG
*69) AEROSMITH
*70) BARBARA ZIMMERMAN EPSTEIN
*71) 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.
AL JOLSON?
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.
LARRY CSONKA
*74) WILLIAM WELD
*75) JOAN JETT
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.
LUIS 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.
TED TURNER
*78) AARON SPELLING
*79) PHIL MICKELSON
80) His comments about “weapons of mass destruction” at Coretta Scott King’s funeral were quite controversial.
JOSEPH LOWRY
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) FRED VINSON
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.
HELEN MIRREN
85) Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign was derailed when he plagiarized this politician’s speech.
NEIL KINNOCK
*86) 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) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
*89) CANDICE BERGEN
90) He never learned to drive but became famous for bicycling around New York City wearing a three-piece suit.
JAMES MURRAY KEMPTON
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.
DOMINIC DUNNE
*92) NATE ARCHIBALD
*93) THE ZOMBIES
*94) 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.
COTTON MATHER?
