Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
Identify the 100 people indicated in the clues below. Form three triples, 45 pairs, and one stand-alone according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each grouping with one of the Associated Words.
No names will be used twice, but there are two pairs of names which can be used interchangeably.
1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Farewell
Today
Saturday
Eight
Fifty-Five
CNN
MGM
OJ
Hoover
Ziegfeld
Frankenstein
Hayward
Trinian
Seneca
Hood
Lindsay
Larry
Georgia
Connecticut
Brooklyn
Denmark
Yankees
Vikings
Eagles
Playboy
Victim
Engine
Airplane
Trolley
Drive-In
Temple
Prison
Anarchy
Management
Design
Method
Substance
Iron
Gold
Green
Heart
Compass
Omen
Box Top
Notebook
Newspaper
Post
Life
Funk
Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
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I'll answer a couple that I know, maybe
#55....Father Damian
#74....Ed Ames?
#93....Edward Gainsborough
#94....Walter Alston
#55....Father Damian
#74....Ed Ames?
#93....Edward Gainsborough
#94....Walter Alston
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
CHERRY PICKING...
1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
MEL OTT
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
BOO RADLEY
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
ALAN PAGE
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
CLYDE TOMBAUGH
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
JOAN RIVERS
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
J P JONES
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
FANNY BLANKERS-COEN
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
BOXCAR WILLY???
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
SYLVIA EARLE???
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE???
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
SUSAN-LORI PARKS
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
STEPHEN F AUSTIN???
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
BOBBY RIGGS
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
ROONE ARLIDGE???
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
BAFFIN??
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
WALTER ALSTON?
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
I'll attack the dance Qs first:
This is JUDITH JAMISON, or as I like to call her, Zhoodeet Zhamision.10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
CAROL HANEY67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
I need to think about this one for a bit. I'm surprised if there is only one early Oklahoma cattleman/oilman who meets this description. Maybe the others weren't convicted.23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
Jane Austen, referring to Emma
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
Roger Williams
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
William Tecumseh Sherman?
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
It's either Carl Eller or Alan Page.
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
Probably Clyde Tombaugh, who found Pluto
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
Chelsea Handler
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
Fanny Blankers-Koen
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
Seems like this could be either John Ashcroft or Alberto Gonzales... but I could be wrong
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
Conrad Hilton
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
This has to be Kentucky native Suzan-Lori Parks, for "Topdog/Underdog"
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
Richard Egan, in "Love Me Tender"
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
Paul Castellano was murdered outside of the steakhouse, and I think that John Gotti ordered that hit
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
Sean Avery, maybe?
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
Debra Bolton?
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
Could be Ronald Dworkin...
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
Lucretia Garfield, who lived about 37 years after hubby James was assassinated
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
Shannon Lucid?
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
I used to watch those Friars Club Roasts on TV a lot... Freddie Roman
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
Brad Owen of Washington
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
Susan Herman of the ACLU
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
I know that Diana Rigg and Jane Seymour have received nominations for Actress in a Drama Series, but I think the only comedy Emmy nominee is Teri Hatcher
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
I know that David Burke has a restaurant at Foxwoods and several in the NYC area, but I don't know if he's the right answer.
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
Charles Leland?
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
Milton Friedman
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
It's one of the Canadian leaders... either Stephen Harper or Michaelle Jean
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish?
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
Michael Oxley, as in Sarbanes-Oxley
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
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Jane Austen, referring to Emma
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
Roger Williams
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
William Tecumseh Sherman?
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
It's either Carl Eller or Alan Page.
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
Probably Clyde Tombaugh, who found Pluto
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
Chelsea Handler
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
Fanny Blankers-Koen
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
Seems like this could be either John Ashcroft or Alberto Gonzales... but I could be wrong
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
Conrad Hilton
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
This has to be Kentucky native Suzan-Lori Parks, for "Topdog/Underdog"
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
Richard Egan, in "Love Me Tender"
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
Paul Castellano was murdered outside of the steakhouse, and I think that John Gotti ordered that hit
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
Sean Avery, maybe?
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
Debra Bolton?
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
Could be Ronald Dworkin...
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
Lucretia Garfield, who lived about 37 years after hubby James was assassinated
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
Shannon Lucid?
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
I used to watch those Friars Club Roasts on TV a lot... Freddie Roman
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
Brad Owen of Washington
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
Susan Herman of the ACLU
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
I know that Diana Rigg and Jane Seymour have received nominations for Actress in a Drama Series, but I think the only comedy Emmy nominee is Teri Hatcher
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
I know that David Burke has a restaurant at Foxwoods and several in the NYC area, but I don't know if he's the right answer.
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
Charles Leland?
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
Milton Friedman
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
It's one of the Canadian leaders... either Stephen Harper or Michaelle Jean
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish?
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
Michael Oxley, as in Sarbanes-Oxley
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
franktangredi wrote:Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
Identify the 100 people indicated in the clues below. Form three triples, 45 pairs, and one stand-alone according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each grouping with one of the Associated Words.
No names will be used twice, but there are two pairs of names which can be used interchangeably.
1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
WILLA CATHER?
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
ROGER WILLIAMS?
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
MEL OTT
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
GLENN SEABORG
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
MARTHA STEWART?
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
MAX WEBER
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
CARL ELLER? or ALAN PAGE?
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
CLYDE TOMBAUGH
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
JOHN PAUL JONES?
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
HELEN STEPHENS?
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
HORACE MANN?
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
JAMES BAKER?
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
JOHN BARDEEN
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
FRED LYNN
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
BOB WOODRUFF
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
B.F. SKINNER?
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
CANDACE LIGHTNER? (MADD)
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
JACQUELINE KENNEDY? (30 years hard to beat)
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
SALLY RIDE?
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
MIKE KRZYSZEWSKI?
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
ROBERT HOOKE?
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
WELLINGTON
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
ALDRICH AMES?
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
BARBAR TUCHMAN?
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
BOBBY RIGGS
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
NOW PRESIDENT? ELEANOR SMEAL?
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
ZACHARY TAYLOR?
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
EDWARD O. WILSON?
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
HENRY HUDSON
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
BIDDLE (NATHANIEL?)
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
WERNER HEISENBERG
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
JOHN STUART MILL'S FATHER (JAMES?)
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Farewell
Today
Saturday
Eight
Fifty-Five
CNN
MGM
OJ
Hoover
Ziegfeld
Frankenstein
Hayward
Trinian
Seneca
Hood
Lindsay
Larry
Georgia
Connecticut
Brooklyn
Denmark
Yankees
Vikings
Eagles
Playboy
Victim
Engine
Airplane
Trolley
Drive-In
Temple
Prison
Anarchy
Management
Design
Method
Substance
Iron
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
franktangredi wrote:4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
Sherman
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
Mel Ott
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
Nat Hentoff?
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jim Marshall
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
Johnny Cash
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
Sam Houston?
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
B. F. Skinner
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
Darren Arnofsky
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
Bobby Riggs
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
Tom Horn
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
The only Oscar winning film whose title character could arguably be called a "villain" would be The Godfather, and Brando is no European.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
Oxley
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
Oops, NIELS BOHRsmilergrogan wrote: 96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
WERNER HEISENBERG
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
Just a handful of quickies:
franktangredi wrote:
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
Roger Williams
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
William T. Sherman
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
Martha Stewart
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
Max Weber
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
Clyde Tombaugh
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
John Paul Jones
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
Peter 'Nutless' Abelard
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Lorraine Hansberry
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
John Gotti? Mark Dixon took us to Sparks once, pretty nice place
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
John Watson?
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
Father Damien de Veuster
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
George Blake? Assuming that the execution is of Oleg Penkovsky
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
Bobby Riggs
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
Ed Ames. Ouch!
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
Stephen Kearny
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
Leopold Auer?
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
Somebody Baffin
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
Nicholas Biddle
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
James Mill
Innocent, naive and whimsical. And somewhat footloose and fancy-free.
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
YES!
1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
Well, I don't know if "Emma" is her greatest... but JANE AUSTEN
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
ROGER WILLIAMS?
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
I'm refusing to answer this one!
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
MEL OTT?
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
GLENN SEABORG?
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
Um WARREN BEATTY?
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
CHARLES DEMUTH? ("I Saw the Figure Five in Gold")
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
I have an idea, but I will let silvercamero take it
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
STAFFORD CRIPPS
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
JOE HILL, despite his name
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
BOO RADLEY
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
MAX WEBER
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
CHRISTOPER ROUSH, or something like that
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
DONNA KARAN? I have heard this anecdote before
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Future judge CARL ELLER?
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
EDWIN HUBBLE?
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
This is the Black Mountain school. I'm guessing CHARLES OLSON.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
It's a Dutch woman. I don't know her name.
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
MARGARET BOURKE WHITE? I'm only guessing that based on the Candace Bergman role in the movie
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
PIERRE ABELARD?
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
HORACE MANN? Nah probably too early for him.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
TED OLSEN? He was Bush's solicitor general
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
CONRAD HILTON
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
UNCLE BEN???
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY?
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
This is STEVE ADLER of Guns 'n' Roses.
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
JOHN BARDEEN?
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
General HONORE
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
SAM HOUSTON?
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
SEAN AVERY?
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON? (Winesburg?)
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
BF SKINNER?
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
It's the Finian's Rainbow guy? BURTON LANE?
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
Um WILLIAM VAN ALEN?
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
Not MARK KLAAS... hmm
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
I'd guess that George guy from the Apprentice?
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
DARREN ARONOFSKY?
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
RONALD DWORKIN wrote "Law's Empire"
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
FATHER DAMIEN?
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
JACKIE KENNEDY?
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
Don't think it is Shannon Lucid then, who probably holds it now. EILEEN COLLINS?
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
I'd guess KRYZEWSKI but I can't spell it
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
I'd guess WILLIAM HARVEY but I'm afraid that's too obvious
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
ROBERT HANSSEN?
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
Yikes
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
BARBARA TUCHMAN, Guns of August
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
NADINE STROSSEN
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
ROBERT MOOG?
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
THURLOW WEED?
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
EMANUEL SWEDENBOURG?
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
STEPHEN KEARNY?
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
E.O. WILSON?
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
MILTON FRIEDMAN?
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
HUDSON? FROBISHER?
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
NICHOLAS BIDDLE?
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
TOMMY LASORDA?
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
DARIUS RUCKER
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
NIELS BOHR?
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
JAMES MILL?
1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
Well, I don't know if "Emma" is her greatest... but JANE AUSTEN
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
ROGER WILLIAMS?
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
I'm refusing to answer this one!
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
MEL OTT?
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
GLENN SEABORG?
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
Um WARREN BEATTY?
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
CHARLES DEMUTH? ("I Saw the Figure Five in Gold")
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
I have an idea, but I will let silvercamero take it
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
STAFFORD CRIPPS
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
JOE HILL, despite his name
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
BOO RADLEY
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
MAX WEBER
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
CHRISTOPER ROUSH, or something like that
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
DONNA KARAN? I have heard this anecdote before
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Future judge CARL ELLER?
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
EDWIN HUBBLE?
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
This is the Black Mountain school. I'm guessing CHARLES OLSON.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
It's a Dutch woman. I don't know her name.
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
MARGARET BOURKE WHITE? I'm only guessing that based on the Candace Bergman role in the movie
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
PIERRE ABELARD?
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
HORACE MANN? Nah probably too early for him.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
TED OLSEN? He was Bush's solicitor general
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
CONRAD HILTON
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
UNCLE BEN???
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY?
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
This is STEVE ADLER of Guns 'n' Roses.
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
JOHN BARDEEN?
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
General HONORE
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
SAM HOUSTON?
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
SEAN AVERY?
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON? (Winesburg?)
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
BF SKINNER?
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
It's the Finian's Rainbow guy? BURTON LANE?
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
Um WILLIAM VAN ALEN?
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
Not MARK KLAAS... hmm
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
I'd guess that George guy from the Apprentice?
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
DARREN ARONOFSKY?
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
RONALD DWORKIN wrote "Law's Empire"
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
FATHER DAMIEN?
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
JACKIE KENNEDY?
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
Don't think it is Shannon Lucid then, who probably holds it now. EILEEN COLLINS?
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
I'd guess KRYZEWSKI but I can't spell it
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
I'd guess WILLIAM HARVEY but I'm afraid that's too obvious
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
ROBERT HANSSEN?
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
Yikes
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
BARBARA TUCHMAN, Guns of August
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
NADINE STROSSEN
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
ROBERT MOOG?
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
THURLOW WEED?
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
EMANUEL SWEDENBOURG?
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
STEPHEN KEARNY?
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
E.O. WILSON?
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
MILTON FRIEDMAN?
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
HUDSON? FROBISHER?
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
NICHOLAS BIDDLE?
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
TOMMY LASORDA?
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
DARIUS RUCKER
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
NIELS BOHR?
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
JAMES MILL?
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I think this is Hawaii, not Texas. The Texans didn't bring down a monarchy.franktangredi wrote:44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
DOLE?
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Yikes, ALAN PAGE, not CARL ELLER.
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If there's somebody who fits this besides Carl Eller, I either made a mistake in reading the Hall of Fame website, or there's a mistake on the website.Weyoun wrote:Yikes, ALAN PAGE, not CARL ELLER.
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Aw, come on!Weyoun wrote:
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
I'm refusing to answer this one!
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I'll answer it.franktangredi wrote:Aw, come on!Weyoun wrote:
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
I'm refusing to answer this one!
Steve Perry of Journey
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I'm not looking at the answers other people have supplied. I assume most of what I get here will have already been gotten by other people. I'll make a lot of guesses. If I'm guessing I'll use a question mark. If I feel certain about any of these, I won't use one.
Spoiler
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
ROGER WILLIAMS?
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
JOE HILL
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
BOESKY OR MILKIN, I'D THINK. OR MAYBE MARTHA STEWART?
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
BOO RADLEY
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
PROBABLY MARSHALL OR PAGE?
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
CLYDE TOMBAUGH
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
NO IDEA, BUT THE IDEA OF A SCHOOL OF POETRY HAVING A CHIEF THEORETICIAN MAKES ME LAUGH.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
BOURKE-WHITE?
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
FRED LYNNE
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
SAMMY "THE BULL" GRAVANO?
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
SKINNER?
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
MEGAN KANKA'S MOM? OR POLLY KLAAS?
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
DARREN ARONOFSKY
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
HARVEY?
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
BOBBY RIGGS?
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
GARRY TRUDEAU?
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
DOLBY?
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
E.O. WILSON?
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
HENRY HUDSON?
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
TOMMY LASORDA?
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH?
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
BOHR?
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
OXLEY?
ROGER WILLIAMS?
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
JOE HILL
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
BOESKY OR MILKIN, I'D THINK. OR MAYBE MARTHA STEWART?
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
BOO RADLEY
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
PROBABLY MARSHALL OR PAGE?
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
CLYDE TOMBAUGH
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
NO IDEA, BUT THE IDEA OF A SCHOOL OF POETRY HAVING A CHIEF THEORETICIAN MAKES ME LAUGH.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
BOURKE-WHITE?
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
FRED LYNNE
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
SAMMY "THE BULL" GRAVANO?
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
SKINNER?
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
MEGAN KANKA'S MOM? OR POLLY KLAAS?
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
DARREN ARONOFSKY
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
HARVEY?
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
BOBBY RIGGS?
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
GARRY TRUDEAU?
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
DOLBY?
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
E.O. WILSON?
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
HENRY HUDSON?
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
TOMMY LASORDA?
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH?
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
BOHR?
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
OXLEY?
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
I read everyone else's answers first to avoid cluttering up the thread with ridiculous wrong guesses and duplicates of some of the easier ones.
Here are my contributions:
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
I can only think of one for Warren Beatty, so here's another one I can only think of one for: GARY OLDMAN, from Prick Up Your Ears. (Alfred Molina would also qualify.) It's probably a common movie plot, though.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
MATT GROENING
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
DOLBY
Here are my contributions:
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
I can only think of one for Warren Beatty, so here's another one I can only think of one for: GARY OLDMAN, from Prick Up Your Ears. (Alfred Molina would also qualify.) It's probably a common movie plot, though.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
MATT GROENING
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
DOLBY
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
Oldman has to be right. He played both Joe Orton and Sid Vicious in his first two significant film roles.plasticene wrote:I read everyone else's answers first to avoid cluttering up the thread with ridiculous wrong guesses and duplicates of some of the easier ones.
Here are my contributions:
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
I can only think of one for Warren Beatty, so here's another one I can only think of one for: GARY OLDMAN, from Prick Up Your Ears. (Alfred Molina would also qualify.) It's probably a common movie plot, though.
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
Dang, I even toyed with Oldman, but couldn't think of the other one. But yeah it has to be Oldman.silverscreenselect wrote:Oldman has to be right. He played both Joe Orton and Sid Vicious in his first two significant film roles.plasticene wrote:I read everyone else's answers first to avoid cluttering up the thread with ridiculous wrong guesses and duplicates of some of the easier ones.
Here are my contributions:
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
I can only think of one for Warren Beatty, so here's another one I can only think of one for: GARY OLDMAN, from Prick Up Your Ears. (Alfred Molina would also qualify.) It's probably a common movie plot, though.
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No, you are right, as was I the first go around. Eller is definitely in the Hall.franktangredi wrote:If there's somebody who fits this besides Carl Eller, I either made a mistake in reading the Hall of Fame website, or there's a mistake on the website.Weyoun wrote:Yikes, ALAN PAGE, not CARL ELLER.
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1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
WAG - D H Lawrence?
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
Roger Williams?
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
David Lee Roth?
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
William Sherman
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
Mel Ott
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
Gary Oldman?
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
Joe Hill
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
Martha Stewart?
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
One of either Jim Marshall, Carl Eller, or Alan Page
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
The guy who found Pluto. No clue on the name.
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
John Paul Jones
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
Candice Bergen played her in the movie. Don't remember the name.
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
August Wilson
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
Stephen Austin or Sam Houston
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
Erick Erickson
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
Quentin Tarantino?
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
Jackie Kennedy
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
Shannon Lucid
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
Mike Krzyzezski (or however you spell it)
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
Barbara Tuchman
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
Bobby Riggs
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
Matt Groening
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
Horace Greeley?
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
Winfield Scott
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
Henry Hudson
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
Thomas Gainsborough
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
Walter Alston
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
WAG - D H Lawrence?
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
Roger Williams?
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
David Lee Roth?
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
William Sherman
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
Mel Ott
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
Gary Oldman?
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
Joe Hill
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
Martha Stewart?
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
One of either Jim Marshall, Carl Eller, or Alan Page
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
The guy who found Pluto. No clue on the name.
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
John Paul Jones
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
Candice Bergen played her in the movie. Don't remember the name.
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
August Wilson
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
Stephen Austin or Sam Houston
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
Erick Erickson
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
Quentin Tarantino?
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
Jackie Kennedy
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
Shannon Lucid
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
Mike Krzyzezski (or however you spell it)
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
Barbara Tuchman
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
Bobby Riggs
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
Matt Groening
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
Horace Greeley?
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
Winfield Scott
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
Henry Hudson
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
Thomas Gainsborough
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
Walter Alston
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
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Checking the record, it appears Page and Eller both are in the Hall of Fame. Kind of surprising that Jim Marshall is not - probably his wrong-way touchdown/safety is responsible.Weyoun wrote:No, you are right, as was I the first go around. Eller is definitely in the Hall.franktangredi wrote:If there's somebody who fits this besides Carl Eller, I either made a mistake in reading the Hall of Fame website, or there's a mistake on the website.Weyoun wrote:Yikes, ALAN PAGE, not CARL ELLER.
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I went back and checked, and somehow I missed that Page was on both lists. This is what you get when somebody who doesn't know anything about football tries to write a decent clue. I definitely want CARL ELLER here.smilergrogan wrote:Checking the record, it appears Page and Eller both are in the Hall of Fame. Kind of surprising that Jim Marshall is not - probably his wrong-way touchdown/safety is responsible.Weyoun wrote:No, you are right, as was I the first go around. Eller is definitely in the Hall.franktangredi wrote: If there's somebody who fits this besides Carl Eller, I either made a mistake in reading the Hall of Fame website, or there's a mistake on the website.
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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
EDNA FERBER?
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
GEORGE ADE?
EDNA FERBER?
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
GEORGE ADE?
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First Pass -- haven't looked at anyone else's yet.
franktangredi wrote:Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff
Identify the 100 people indicated in the clues below. Form three triples, 45 pairs, and one stand-alone according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each grouping with one of the Associated Words.
No names will be used twice, but there are two pairs of names which can be used interchangeably.
1. This writer famously – and erroneously – referred to the title character of her greatest novel as “a heroine whom no one will like except myself.”
MARGARET MITCHELL?
2. This early American religious leader opined that “God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced in any civil state; which enforced uniformity … is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.” (No wonder he didn’t fit in.)
Don't know the quote, but it would fit either William Penn or Roger Williams
3. Lead singer on what some consider to be the greatest power ballad of the 1980s, his career was halted by physical problems – not with his pipes, but with his bones.
4. This general’s letter to the mayor of a city he was about to destroy does not contain the most famous quotation associated with him – but it might as well.
William T. Sherman?
5. This Hall of Famer was the first National League player to pass the 500 home run mark.
MEL OTT
6. The difficulties this chemist ran into trying to isolate americium and curium during the Manhattan Project led to the most significant revision in the periodic table since Mendeleev.
This came up in a video I just showed to my students: GLENN SEABORG
7. This actor rose to fame playing two highly contrasting real-life figures involved in self-destructive relationships that led to the untimely deaths of both themselves and their partners.
8. Arguably the most quotable of modern philosophers – especially by history teachers – his magnum opus examined a single principle through the lenses of Common Sense, Society, Religion, Art, and Science.
GEORGE SANTAYANA?
9. This American artist produced a large number of splendid watercolors of flowers and fruits, but his best known painting focused on a number, period.
10. DJMQ:
This statuesque dancer will forever be associated with her mentor, who created the fifteen-minute solo piece that became her signature, and handpicked her as his successor just before his death.
(Another DJMQ appears at #67 – and JM may also be able to offer some help with Question #23.)
11. As ambassador to the Soviet Union, this future Chancellor of the Exchequer helped forge the World War II alliance between Stalin and the West.
12. This Swedish-born “Wobbly” became a folk hero to the radical labor movement after his 1915 execution
JOE HILL
13. Only a week after getting out of prison, this mogul debuted on Forbes’s list of billionaires.
14. A little-seen but much-discussed character in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he was rumored to have stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors.
15. This journalist conducted the very first Playboy interview, the subject of which was a legendary jazz musician.
16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
17. This pioneering sociologist came to prominence with a 1902 book linking Protestant ethics to the rise of capitalism.
18. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, this composer has written concerti for violin, cello, flute, and clarinet.
19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
20. So far, he is the only defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
21. By painstakingly studying two photos of the night sky and comparing the placement of up to 500,000 stars, this astronomer finally found what he was looking for in 1930.
PERCIVAL LOWELL?
22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
23. This Oklahoma cattleman needed to take a course in business ethics: in 1929, he was convicted of ordering the murders of five members of his nephew’s family in order to gain their oil rights.
24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.
25. In between conducting raids on British commercial shipping, this American naval took time out to transport the new minister to France – a guy named John Adams – across the Atlantic.
26. He was the senior member and chief theoretician of an influential school of poetry that emerged at a small North Carolina college in the 1950s.
27. She was thirty years old, and the mother of two, when she won four Olympic gold medals in track – thereby earning the nickname “The Flying Housewife.”
28. This country singer got his soubriquet from a song he wrote inspired by a man he spotted going by at a railroad crossing.
29. An Explorer-in-Residence with National Geographic, this oceanographer led the first team of female aquanauts and holds the women’s depth record for a solo dive in a submersible craft.
30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
31. This photographer – one of the first four hired by “Life” magazine – took a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi just minutes before he was assassinated.
32. This medieval theologian and dialectician got into considerable trouble for a work demonstrating how the early Church Fathers often contradicted one another – but this was far from the most painful ordeal of his life.
33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
34. In November 2000, this lawyer was instrumental in securing an important job for an important client, and the important client showed his gratitude a few months later by offering an important job to him.
ALBERTO GONZALES? Someone Shrub-related.
35. This tycoon started building his empire in 1919 with the purchase of the Mobley in Cisco, Texas.
36. His wife became a corporate icon in the 1930s – especially after her promotional appearances at the New York World’s Fair – but he didn’t get his own product line until some time later.
37. This playwright is the only African American woman to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY?
38. In 1987, this drummer got drunk and broke his hand punching a streetlight – the first of several incidents that led to his departure from a popular rock band. (The fate of the streetlight is unknown.)
39. He is the only scientist to win two Nobel Prizes in the same category.
40. In 1975, this center fielder pulled off a double honor that had never been accomplished before, and was not duplicated for another 26 years.
FRED LYNN
41. He was top-billed in Elvis Presley’s first movie – the last time anyone ever got billed ahead of Elvis.
RICHARD EGAN
42. This Mafia underboss brought down one Don in front of a Manhattan steakhouse and another inside a Brooklyn courthouse.
43. In a rare word of commendation for federal relief efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin referred to this army general as a “John Wayne dude … that can get some stuff done.”
44. This American politician brought down a monarchy, served as president of a republic, and was appointed first governor of a territory – all in the course of a single decade.
Someone from texas way...
45. In a 2007 poll, his fellow hockey players overwhelmingly voted him the most hated player in the NHL. (And that was before he got really obnoxious….)
46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
The guy who got blown up in Iraq?
47. This American writer is best known for creating a rather dreary town inhabited by the likes of Doctor Reefy, Wash Williams, Enoch Robinson, and the Reverend Curtis Hartman.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
B. F> SKINNER?
49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
BURTON LANE?
50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.
53. This director – who turned forty only last week – is best known for what was perhaps the only movie ever to make drug addiction seem almost as bad as it actually is.
54. One of the most important legal and political philosophers of modern times, he has stated that “integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process”
55. Slated for canonization this year, this “martyr of charity” is already considered the spiritual patron of – among other things – AIDS patients, outcasts, and Hawaii.
56. She had the longest widowhood of any of the First Ladies whose husbands died in office.
57. This astronaut’s record for the most hours in space by a woman stood for more than ten years.
58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
59. His 1899 collection of slang fables helped earn this humorist the soubriquet “the Aesop of Indiana.”
GEORGE ADE
60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)
62. At a time when most available British troops were across the Atlantic fighting the Americans, this general won his great victory at the head of a combined Anglo-German-Dutch army.
63. One of the last of the great Borscht Belt comics, he currently serves as Dean of the New York Friars’ Club.
64. This spy’s activities resulted in the execution of the highest-ranking member of Soviet military intelligence who was giving information to the CIA.
65. This Western Democrat is currently the longest serving Lieutenant Governor in the United States. (I warned you that some of these folks were going to be obscure!)
66. This historian won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that opens with the funeral of King Edward VII and ends up with the deaths of a hell of a lot more people.
67. DJMQ:
Even before Gwen Verdon, this dancer was the first to demonstrate the full-blown “Fosse style" – complete with bowler hat, black suit, and knocked knees – on Broadway.
68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
69. Despite his success in other media, this cartoonist has vowed never to give up the comic strip – which he first sold to an underground newspaper in 1978 – that launched his career.
70. She is the current president of what Bill O’Reilly has called "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America.”
[fn: my mother is a member of the same organization.]
71. In 1908, this novelist launched what later became known as the “had-I-but-known” school of mystery fiction. (She also wrote one of the few murder mysteries in which the butler actually did do it.)
72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.
73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
DOLBY?
74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
75. This journalist founded the Albany Evening Journal as an anti-Masonic newspaper, and went on to exert considerable influence in Whig and Republican politics for thirty years.
76. This eighteenth century philosopher and mystic claimed to have received his insights about the nature of Heaven and the Trinity directly from the angels.
77. This actress is the only Bond Girl ever to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Wasn't TERI HATCHER a Bond Girl?
78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)
79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
80. Two of the “laws” promulgated by this prominent biologist are “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” and “Everything Must Go Somewhere.”
81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
82. Though most popular in his own day for humorous verse such as the “Breitmann Ballads,” this American writer is better known today for his work as a folklorist, especially of pagan ways.
83. This economist won the Nobel Prize for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy." (Whatever.)
84. In a laudable effort to expand our knowledge of political terminology, this foreign leader recently taught us all the meaning of the word “prorogation.”
85. This Hungarian violinist and teacher must have been pretty good: his pupils included Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Haifetz, and Nathan Milstein.
86. "Killing men is my specialty," boasted this Old West bounty hunter – who was eventually hanged for practicing his specialty on a 14 year-old boy.
87. This Yorkshire lass was almost forced into marriage with the son of her late mother’s one-time lover, but was saved from that fate by his death – but if you only saw the movie, you don’t know any of that.
88. While searching for a northwest passage in 1616, this British explorer discovered the bay that bears his name.
89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
90. This banker played a key role in both the presidential election of 1832 and the Panic of 1837.
91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.
92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”
93. This British painter’s most familiar work – a portrait of the son of a wealthy hardware merchant – now resides in a museum in California.
94. As a player, he appeared in only one major league baseball game – striking out in his only at-bat – but as a manager, he made it into the Hall of Fame and his number was retired by a grateful team.
95. On the strength of three Top Ten singles off their debut album, he and the band he fronts won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1996. (But, no, that is not his name!)
96. In 1943, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was smuggled to Sweden via fishing boat, then to England via bomber.
97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
98. Aside from the four films he made for his country’s greatest director, this dapper European actor is best known for playing the title villain in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Picture.
99. This Ohio Congressmen co-sponsored the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 – which most of us know by a different name.
100. This Victorian novelist entered into Dickens territory when she depicted the hardships of industrial life in Manchester, but she was far more at home writing gentle comedy about village life among “the Amazons.”
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Farewell
Today
Saturday
Eight
Fifty-Five
CNN
MGM
OJ
Hoover
Ziegfeld
Frankenstein
Hayward
Trinian
Seneca
Hood
Lindsay
Larry
Georgia
Connecticut
Brooklyn
Denmark
Yankees
Vikings
Eagles
Playboy
Victim
Engine
Airplane
Trolley
Drive-In
Temple
Prison
Anarchy
Management
Design
Method
Substance
Iron
Gold
Green
Heart
Compass
Omen
Box Top
Notebook
Newspaper
Post
Life
Funk
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman