Ready for another Tangredi?

[smilergrogan]

Pair the 54 answers to make 27 pairs, each of which belongs with a word from the word list at bottom, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself (unless somebody else discovers it first). Answers to quotations are the names of the fictional characters who delivered the quotes.

1. "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family."
2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy
3. Mostly remembered for a 1977 hit single, this singer claimed his stage name was taken from a heavyweight boxer who lost to Joe Louis in 1940, even though it seemed to be a play on a more successful singer's name
4. Nicknames bestowed on others by this actor's pop culture savvy character include "Stay Puft", "Dr. Doright", "Captain Falafel", "Chewie", "Mr. Clean", and "Short Round"
5. A good title for a war movie about one of this ancient leader's military victories would be "The Longest Day", if that title weren't already taken
6. A 2004 London Evening Standard article listed 37 different English spellings of this long-time world leader's name used by news organizations
7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers
8. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the fourth best British guitarist of all time, he only ranked third among members of his former band
9. "Pop, at your age, you don't have no wild oats. You got shredded wheat."
10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day
11. Before he became a star himself, this singer was part of the captive audience for several of Johnny Cash's performances at San Quentin
12. First to win a Nobel Prize for genetics research, he pioneered chromosome mapping through studies of fruit flies at Columbia University
13. He and one of his successors both used the same middle initial, which they both insisted didn't stand for anything
14. Son of a more famous father, as mayor he took the inaugural ride on the New York City subway system
15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals
16. An Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-time NBA champion as a player, and 2-time NBA champion as a general manager, his immediate predecessor was also an Olympic gold medalist and NBA Champion as both player and general manager
17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries
18. Considered one of the two 19th century founders of existentialism, he was the one who thought God was still alive
19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight
20. "Oh my God, they're turkeys!!"
21. According to Wikipedia, this man and his family accounted for half of worldwide Rolls Royce purchases during the 1990s.
22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born
23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class.
24. He gave the sportscar he won as 2006 World Series MVP to his brother because he doesn't know how to drive a stick shift
25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day
26. This skater won three consecutive Olympic gold medals and ten consecutive world championships, both records for singles skaters
27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history
28. In 2006 she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from her state, defeating the man who four years earlier had defeated the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state. (To borrow from Frank: Got that?)
29. Long before Rafael Palmeiro signed his first product endorsement contract, this player's "boner" cost the New York Giants a pennant
30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor
31. His title means "Ocean of Wisdom"
32. UNESCO has designated April 23 as World Book Day because this author and William Shakespeare both died on that date in 1616
33. A former #2 draft pick himself, he was later responsible for the best #3 draft pick in NBA history
34. "This is not a mine. This is a tomb."
35. "We are the ones we've been waiting for", the title of this Pulitzer Prize winner's most recent book, was shamelessly lifted by Barack Obama in his Super Tuesday post-election speech, at least in the view of the Clinton campaign
36. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"
37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms
38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader
39. She shares two distinctions with a better known governor - both were born outside the U.S. and both once appeared on "The Dating Game" (not together, I hope)
40. A 2004 Supreme Court case resulted in a new interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, leading to the return of four of this artist's paintings (which later sold for $192 million) to the family of the owner from whom the Nazis had stolen them
41. As a three year old, a serious accident involving one of his father's leather-working tools permanently changed his life - ironically, as a young man he used the same type of tool to create the invention which made him world-famous
42. Meant as a metaphor for Vietnam, a short film from this director's student days shows a man shaving himself with increasingly disastrous results
43. This actress has the unique distinction of playing James Bond's wife
44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film
45. The first National Book Award for non-fiction was won by an author who shared his first name with that year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and its subject was a second writer who also had the same first name. Three years later, the National Book Award for fiction was awarded to this third writer, whose namesake (both first and middle) was the second writer. Got THAT?
46. Some thought him ill-tempered and queer, but a few thought him pleasant enough (runcible, even)
47. The untimely warfare between this leader and his brother prior to a foreign invasion has been likened to the feud between Harold II and his brother prior to the Norman conquest
48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown
49. He received his four Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for 1) a film about a cross-country car chase, 2) a film involving the theft of a large sum of money, 3) a film featuring Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner, and 4) a film directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy. (Just imagine if he had been able to combine all those things in the same film!)
50. Even though he never sailed through the body of water that now bears his name, he is believed to have reached the southernmost latitudes until James Cook's 2nd voyage almost 200 years later
51. He is the only player ever to appear in his team's starting lineup in four consecutive NCAA basketball Final Fours
52. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) resulted from the work of a Senate committee chaired by this 1976 presidential candidate
53. The title character in one of his novels probably wouldn't have been too happy to see Tom Gordon pitch for the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championsip Series
54. This actress's 2007 wedding to a reality TV mogul, as well as her first wedding, were both officiated by Della Reese

2001
2000
666
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DEFENSE
GENTLEMEN
SEASONS
SUN
MOON
SHADOW
SAND
BEADS
ARROW
BENCH
SHOP
BOX
BALTIMORE
CHICAGO
SEATTLE
CONNECTICUT
GERMANY
PHYSICS
LANGUAGE
DEVIL
PRAYER
SPEED
RACER

[MarleysGh0st]

Spoiler

2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy
DANTE

7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers
GALILEO

17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE


19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight
DVORAK (The New World)

22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born
(The actress who played the princess in Braveheart.)

25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day
MOHAMMED

27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history
DELL

30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor
LIVIA

37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms
BERNOULI

[earendel]

Pair the 54 answers to make 27 pairs, each of which belongs with a word from the word list at bottom, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself (unless somebody else discovers it first). Answers to quotations are the names of the fictional characters who delivered the quotes.

1. "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family."

The Office (show) or Toby Flenderson (character)

2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy

The Thinker, by Rodin

6. A 2004 London Evening Standard article listed 37 different English spellings of this long-time world leader's name used by news organizations

Moammar Qadaffi (Quadafi, Quaddaffi, et. alia.)

7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers

Galileo

9. "Pop, at your age, you don't have no wild oats. You got shredded wheat."

From Sanford and Son, said by Lamont

13. He and one of his successors both used the same middle initial, which they both insisted didn't stand for anything

Grant and Truman

15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals

Anita Bryant

17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries

Napoleon bonaparte

18. Considered one of the two 19th century founders of existentialism, he was the one who thought God was still alive

Soren Kierkegaard

19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight

Dvorak's New World Symphony

20. "Oh my God, they're turkeys!!"

Said by Les Nessman on the Thanksgiving episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati" (possibly the funniest single episode of any sitcom ever).

25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day

Muhammad

30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor

Livia

31. His title means "Ocean of Wisdom"

The Dalai Lama

32. UNESCO has designated April 23 as World Book Day because this author and William Shakespeare both died on that date in 1616

Cervantes

33. A former #2 draft pick himself, he was later responsible for the best #3 draft pick in NBA history

Archie Manning

34. "This is not a mine. This is a tomb."

Said by Boromir, son of Denethor in "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring".

37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms

Bernoulli

38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader

Bautista of Cuba

41. As a three year old, a serious accident involving one of his father's leather-working tools permanently changed his life - ironically, as a young man he used the same type of tool to create the invention which made him world-famous

Braille

43. This actress has the unique distinction of playing James Bond's wife

Diana Rigg

46. Some thought him ill-tempered and queer, but a few thought him pleasant enough (runcible, even)

Lewis Carroll (AKA Charles Dodgson)

48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown

Zapruder

53. The title character in one of his novels probably wouldn't have been too happy to see Tom Gordon pitch for the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championsip Series

Stephen King

2001
2000
666
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DEFENSE
GENTLEMEN
SEASONS
SUN
MOON
SHADOW
SAND
BEADS
ARROW
BENCH
SHOP
BOX
BALTIMORE
CHICAGO
SEATTLE
CONNECTICUT
GERMANY
PHYSICS
LANGUAGE
DEVIL
PRAYER
SPEED
RACER

I'm not sure what to do next.

[mellytu74]

OOh, ooh, a Smiler Grogan puzzle!

I cannot consolidate this time around, so if someone could do that, it would be appreciated.

Pair the 54 answers to make 27 pairs, each of which belongs with a word from the word list at bottom, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself (unless somebody else discovers it first). Answers to quotations are the names of the fictional characters who delivered the quotes.

2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy

AUGUSTE RODIN

3. Mostly remembered for a 1977 hit single, this singer claimed his stage name was taken from a heavyweight boxer who lost to Joe Louis in 1940, even though it seemed to be a play on a more successful singer's name

JOHNNY PAYCHECK

7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers

GALILEO

9. "Pop, at your age, you don't have no wild oats. You got shredded wheat."

LAMONT SANFORD

10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day

CHANG AND ENG BUNKER

15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals

ANITA BRYANT??

16. An Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-time NBA champion as a player, and 2-time NBA champion as a general manager, his immediate predecessor was also an Olympic gold medalist and NBA Champion as both player and general manager

JOE DUMARS, maybe?

19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight

DVORAK

20. "Oh my God, they're turkeys!!"

LES NESSMAN

23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class.

GEORGE PATTON??

24. He gave the sportscar he won as 2006 World Series MVP to his brother because he doesn't know how to drive a stick shift

DAVID ECKSTEIN?

26. This skater won three consecutive Olympic gold medals and ten consecutive world championships, both records for singles skaters

SONJA HENIE

28. In 2006 she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from her state, defeating the man who four years earlier had defeated the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state. (To borrow from Frank: Got that?)

CLAIRE MCCASKILL of Missouri

29. Long before Rafael Palmeiro signed his first product endorsement contract, this player's "boner" cost the New York Giants a pennant

FRED MERKLE

35. "We are the ones we've been waiting for", the title of this Pulitzer Prize winner's most recent book, was shamelessly lifted by Barack Obama in his Super Tuesday post-election speech, at least in the view of the Clinton campaign

I think this is ALICE WALKER

44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film

WARREN BEATTY? Reds & ?? CLINT EASTWOOD?? Unforgiven and ??

48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown

ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

49. He received his four Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for 1) a film about a cross-country car chase, 2) a film involving the theft of a large sum of money, 3) a film featuring Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner, and 4) a film directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy. (Just imagine if he had been able to combine all those things in the same film!)

WILLIAM ROSE

51. He is the only player ever to appear in his team's starting lineup in four consecutive NCAA basketball Final Fours

CHRISTIAN LAETTNER?

52. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) resulted from the work of a Senate committee chaired by this 1976 presidential candidate

FRANK CHURCH

53. The title character in one of his novels probably wouldn't have been too happy to see Tom Gordon pitch for the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series

STEPHEN KING

54. This actress's 2007 wedding to a reality TV mogul, as well as her first wedding, were both officiated by Della Reese

ROMA DOWNEY?

[gsabc]

Spoiler

7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers
GALILEO GALILEI

10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day
CHANG AND ENG, THE ORIGINAL SIAMESE TWINS

11. Before he became a star himself, this singer was part of the captive audience for several of Johnny Cash's performances at San Quentin
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON??

17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

20. "Oh my God, they're turkeys!!"
LES NESSMAN

25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day
MOHAMMED??

27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history
MICHAEL DELL??

37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms
BERNOULLI

44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film
GEORGE CLOONEY??

48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown
ZAPRUDER??

54. This actress's 2007 wedding to a reality TV mogul, as well as her first wedding, were both officiated by Della Reese
ROMA DOWNEY

2001
2000
666
L
DEFENSE
GENTLEMEN
SEASONS
SUN
MOON
SHADOW
SAND
BEADS
ARROW
BENCH
SHOP
BOX
BALTIMORE
CHICAGO
SEATTLE
CONNECTICUT
GERMANY
PHYSICS
LANGUAGE
DEVIL
PRAYER
SPEED
RACER

[ne1410s]

Spoiler

1. "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family."
2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy

AUGUSTE RODIN

3. Mostly remembered for a 1977 hit single, this singer claimed his stage name was taken from a heavyweight boxer who lost to Joe Louis in 1940, even though it seemed to be a play on a more successful singer's name
4. Nicknames bestowed on others by this actor's pop culture savvy character include "Stay Puft", "Dr. Doright", "Captain Falafel", "Chewie", "Mr. Clean", and "Short Round"
5. A good title for a war movie about one of this ancient leader's military victories would be "The Longest Day", if that title weren't already taken
6. A 2004 London Evening Standard article listed 37 different English spellings of this long-time world leader's name used by news organizations
7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers

GALILEO

8. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the fourth best British guitarist of all time, he only ranked third among members of his former band
9. "Pop, at your age, you don't have no wild oats. You got shredded wheat."
10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day

CHAN AND ENG

11. Before he became a star himself, this singer was part of the captive audience for several of Johnny Cash's performances at San Quentin
12. First to win a Nobel Prize for genetics research, he pioneered chromosome mapping through studies of fruit flies at Columbia University
13. He and one of his successors both used the same middle initial, which they both insisted didn't stand for anything

ULYSSES S GRANT, HARRY S TRUMAN

14. Son of a more famous father, as mayor he took the inaugural ride on the New York City subway system
15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals

ANITA BRYANT?

16. An Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-time NBA champion as a player, and 2-time NBA champion as a general manager, his immediate predecessor was also an Olympic gold medalist and NBA Champion as both player and general manager
17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries

NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE

18. Considered one of the two 19th century founders of existentialism, he was the one who thought God was still alive
19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight
20. "Oh my God, they're turkeys!!"

LES NESSMAN (WKRP)

21. According to Wikipedia, this man and his family accounted for half of worldwide Rolls Royce purchases during the 1990s.

SULTAN OF BRUNEI?

22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born
23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

24. He gave the sportscar he won as 2006 World Series MVP to his brother because he doesn't know how to drive a stick shift

DAVID ECKSTEIN

25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day
26. This skater won three consecutive Olympic gold medals and ten consecutive world championships, both records for singles skaters
27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history

MICHAEL DELL

28. In 2006 she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from her state, defeating the man who four years earlier had defeated the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state. (To borrow from Frank: Got that?)

CLAIRE MCCASKILL

29. Long before Rafael Palmeiro signed his first product endorsement contract, this player's "boner" cost the New York Giants a pennant

MERKEL

30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor
31. His title means "Ocean of Wisdom"
32. UNESCO has designated April 23 as World Book Day because this author and William Shakespeare both died on that date in 1616
33. A former #2 draft pick himself, he was later responsible for the best #3 draft pick in NBA history

ROD THORNE

34. "This is not a mine. This is a tomb."
35. "We are the ones we've been waiting for", the title of this Pulitzer Prize winner's most recent book, was shamelessly lifted by Barack Obama in his Super Tuesday post-election speech, at least in the view of the Clinton campaign
36. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"
37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms

BERNOULI

38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader

SHAH OF IRAN'S FATHER

39. She shares two distinctions with a better known governor - both were born outside the U.S. and both once appeared on "The Dating Game" (not together, I hope)
40. A 2004 Supreme Court case resulted in a new interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, leading to the return of four of this artist's paintings (which later sold for $192 million) to the family of the owner from whom the Nazis had stolen them
41. As a three year old, a serious accident involving one of his father's leather-working tools permanently changed his life - ironically, as a young man he used the same type of tool to create the invention which made him world-famous

LOUIS BRAILLE

42. Meant as a metaphor for Vietnam, a short film from this director's student days shows a man shaving himself with increasingly disastrous results
43. This actress has the unique distinction of playing James Bond's wife
44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film

CLINT EASTWOOD

45. The first National Book Award for non-fiction was won by an author who shared his first name with that year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and its subject was a second writer who also had the same first name. Three years later, the National Book Award for fiction was awarded to this third writer, whose namesake (both first and middle) was the second writer. Got THAT?
46. Some thought him ill-tempered and queer, but a few thought him pleasant enough (runcible, even)

LEWIS CARROLL

47. The untimely warfare between this leader and his brother prior to a foreign invasion has been likened to the feud between Harold II and his brother prior to the Norman conquest
48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown

ZAPRUDER

49. He received his four Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for 1) a film about a cross-country car chase, 2) a film involving the theft of a large sum of money, 3) a film featuring Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner, and 4) a film directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy. (Just imagine if he had been able to combine all those things in the same film!)
50. Even though he never sailed through the body of water that now bears his name, he is believed to have reached the southernmost latitudes until James Cook's 2nd voyage almost 200 years later

MAGELLAN

51. He is the only player ever to appear in his team's starting lineup in four consecutive NCAA basketball Final Fours
52. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) resulted from the work of a Senate committee chaired by this 1976 presidential candidate

FRANK CHURCH?

53. The title character in one of his novels probably wouldn't have been too happy to see Tom Gordon pitch for the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championsip Series

STEPHEN KING

54. This actress's 2007 wedding to a reality TV mogul, as well as her first wedding, were both officiated by Della Reese

ROMA DOWNEY

[ToLiveIsToFly]

Where's the W?

Spoiler

Pair the 54 answers to make 27 pairs, each of which belongs with a word from the word list at bottom, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself (unless somebody else discovers it first). Answers to quotations are the names of the fictional characters who delivered the quotes.

1. "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family."
MICHAEL SCOTT
2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy
RODIN
3. Mostly remembered for a 1977 hit single, this singer claimed his stage name was taken from a heavyweight boxer who lost to Joe Louis in 1940, even though it seemed to be a play on a more successful singer's name
JOHNNY PAYCHECK?
4. Nicknames bestowed on others by this actor's pop culture savvy character include "Stay Puft", "Dr. Doright", "Captain Falafel", "Chewie", "Mr. Clean", and "Short Round"
NORM MCDONALD?
5. A good title for a war movie about one of this ancient leader's military victories would be "The Longest Day", if that title weren't already taken
6. A 2004 London Evening Standard article listed 37 different English spellings of this long-time world leader's name used by news organizations
QADAFFI(SP?)?
7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers
GALILEO
8. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the fourth best British guitarist of all time, he only ranked third among members of his former band
JEFF BECK?
9. "Pop, at your age, you don't have no wild oats. You got shredded wheat."
LAMONT SANFORD
10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day
CHANG & ENG BUNKER
11. Before he became a star himself, this singer was part of the captive audience for several of Johnny Cash's performances at San Quentin
EITHER MERLE HAGGARD OR WAYLON JENNINGS. I CAN NEVER REMEMBER, BUT I THINK IT'S MERLE
12. First to win a Nobel Prize for genetics research, he pioneered chromosome mapping through studies of fruit flies at Columbia University
13. He and one of his successors both used the same middle initial, which they both insisted didn't stand for anything
GRANT & TRUMAN
14. Son of a more famous father, as mayor he took the inaugural ride on the New York City subway system
15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals
ANITA BRYANT
16. An Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-time NBA champion as a player, and 2-time NBA champion as a general manager, his immediate predecessor was also an Olympic gold medalist and NBA Champion as both player and general manager
JERRY WEST?
17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries
NAPOLEON
18. Considered one of the two 19th century founders of existentialism, he was the one who thought God was still alive
KIERKEGAARD
19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight
DVORAK (NEW WORLD)
20. "Oh my God, they're turkeys!!"
LES NESSMAN ("AS GOD IS MY WITNESS I SWEAR I THOUGHT TURKEYS COULD FLY")
21. According to Wikipedia, this man and his family accounted for half of worldwide Rolls Royce purchases during the 1990s.
SULTAN OF BRUNEI?
22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born
23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class.
COLIN POWELL?
24. He gave the sportscar he won as 2006 World Series MVP to his brother because he doesn't know how to drive a stick shift
DAVID ECKSTEIN
25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day
MUHAMMED
26. This skater won three consecutive Olympic gold medals and ten consecutive world championships, both records for singles skaters
SONJA HENIE?
27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history
MICHAEL DELL
28. In 2006 she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from her state, defeating the man who four years earlier had defeated the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state. (To borrow from Frank: Got that?)
CLAIRE MCKASKILL
29. Long before Rafael Palmeiro signed his first product endorsement contract, this player's "boner" cost the New York Giants a pennant
FRED MERKLE
30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor
LIVIA
31. His title means "Ocean of Wisdom"
DALAI LAMA?
32. UNESCO has designated April 23 as World Book Day because this author and William Shakespeare both died on that date in 1616
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
33. A former #2 draft pick himself, he was later responsible for the best #3 draft pick in NBA history
ROD THORNE
34. "This is not a mine. This is a tomb."
BOROMIR
35. "We are the ones we've been waiting for", the title of this Pulitzer Prize winner's most recent book, was shamelessly lifted by Barack Obama in his Super Tuesday post-election speech, at least in the view of the Clinton campaign
36. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"
37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms
BERNOULLI
38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader
CHANG KAI-SHEK?
39. She shares two distinctions with a better known governor - both were born outside the U.S. and both once appeared on "The Dating Game" (not together, I hope)
40. A 2004 Supreme Court case resulted in a new interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, leading to the return of four of this artist's paintings (which later sold for $192 million) to the family of the owner from whom the Nazis had stolen them
41. As a three year old, a serious accident involving one of his father's leather-working tools permanently changed his life - ironically, as a young man he used the same type of tool to create the invention which made him world-famous
LOUIS BRAILLE?
42. Meant as a metaphor for Vietnam, a short film from this director's student days shows a man shaving himself with increasingly disastrous results
GEORGE LUCAS?
43. This actress has the unique distinction of playing James Bond's wife
44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film
45. The first National Book Award for non-fiction was won by an author who shared his first name with that year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and its subject was a second writer who also had the same first name. Three years later, the National Book Award for fiction was awarded to this third writer, whose namesake (both first and middle) was the second writer. Got THAT?
46. Some thought him ill-tempered and queer, but a few thought him pleasant enough (runcible, even)
EDWARD LEAR
47. The untimely warfare between this leader and his brother prior to a foreign invasion has been likened to the feud between Harold II and his brother prior to the Norman conquest
48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown
ZAPRUDER
49. He received his four Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for 1) a film about a cross-country car chase, 2) a film involving the theft of a large sum of money, 3) a film featuring Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner, and 4) a film directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy. (Just imagine if he had been able to combine all those things in the same film!)
50. Even though he never sailed through the body of water that now bears his name, he is believed to have reached the southernmost latitudes until James Cook's 2nd voyage almost 200 years later
ABEL TASMAN?
51. He is the only player ever to appear in his team's starting lineup in four consecutive NCAA basketball Final Fours
DANNY FERRY
52. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) resulted from the work of a Senate committee chaired by this 1976 presidential candidate
53. The title character in one of his novels probably wouldn't have been too happy to see Tom Gordon pitch for the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championsip Series
STEPHEN KING?
54. This actress's 2007 wedding to a reality TV mogul, as well as her first wedding, were both officiated by Della Reese

2001
2000
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DEFENSE
GENTLEMEN
SEASONS
SUN
MOON
SHADOW
SAND
BEADS
ARROW
BENCH
SHOP
BOX
BALTIMORE
CHICAGO
SEATTLE
CONNECTICUT
GERMANY
PHYSICS
LANGUAGE
DEVIL. I FIGURE TASMAN AND SOMEONE ELSE GO HERE.
PRAYER
SPEED
RACER

[Rexer25]

Where's the W?

Don't let this drive you Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad.

[wintergreen48]

Just a few I saw...

Spoiler

2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy Auguste Rodin

5. A good title for a war movie about one of this ancient leader's military victories would be "The Longest Day", if that title weren't already taken Joshua

6. A 2004 London Evening Standard article listed 37 different English spellings of this long-time world leader's name used by news organizations Muammar Khaddaffi (WAG: could also be Mao, but he was long dead by 2004)

7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers Galileo Galilei, and this ties in to #5-- Joshua-- because the Biblical 'proof' that the earth is stationary and that the sun moves around the earth is based upon the sun 'stopping' in the sky for Joshua's battle

10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day Chang and Eng, the original Siamese Twins

13. He and one of his successors both used the same middle initial, which they both insisted didn't stand for anything US Grant, whose original name was Hiram Ulysses and was reversed when he went to West Point, and then 'S' just got put in place of 'H'. I think. The other is Harry S Truman

15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals Phyllis Schlafly (sp?) or Anita Bryant... go with Phyllis

17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries Napoleon Bonaparte

18. Considered one of the two 19th century founders of existentialism, he was the one who thought God was still alive Soren Kirkegaard (tempted to say 'Either/Or' of Kirkegaard and Nietsche...)

19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight Must be Antonin Dvorak, but the numbering of the symphony is controversial. If it is what I am thinking of, though, it is not entirely aposite: I think that the full nickname is 'From the New World,' whereas Armstrong was going 'To' a new world

22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born Isabella, the She Wolf of France, the tart married to Edward II

23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class. Douglas MacArthur (something of a SWAG)

25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day Mohammad

27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history Michael Dell?

28. In 2006 she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from her state, defeating the man who four years earlier had defeated the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state. (To borrow from Frank: Got that?) Shoot... I think this is Missouri, the first woman being the widow of the governor whose corpse beat John Ashcroft, but I cannot for the life of me remember who this current one is...

30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor Livia Augusta

32. UNESCO has designated April 23 as World Book Day because this author and William Shakespeare both died on that date in 1616 Cervantes?


37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms Bernoulli

38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader The guy in Iran, Mossadegh or something like that?

41. As a three year old, a serious accident involving one of his father's leather-working tools permanently changed his life - ironically, as a young man he used the same type of tool to create the invention which made him world-famous Louis Braille

43. This actress has the unique distinction of playing James Bond's wife Diana Rigg?

48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown Zapruder?

[plasticene]

I'll consolidate. Since I'm including some of my own guesses, I tried to include attribution for all the answers and guesses. Apologies if I messed up any.

1. "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family."

MICHAEL SCOTT (TLITF)

2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy

AUGUSTE RODIN (Practically everybody)

3. Mostly remembered for a 1977 hit single, this singer claimed his stage name was taken from a heavyweight boxer who lost to Joe Louis in 1940, even though it seemed to be a play on a more successful singer's name

JOHNNY PAYCHECK (Melly and ToLiveIsToFly)

4. Nicknames bestowed on others by this actor's pop culture savvy character include "Stay Puft", "Dr. Doright", "Captain Falafel", "Chewie", "Mr. Clean", and "Short Round"

THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS SAWYER ON LOST (Me. I can't remember his name, but I know this is right: Stay Puft is Hurley, Dr. Doright is presumably Jack, Captain Falafel is presumably Sayeed, Mr. Clean is Locke, and Short Round might be Walt. Can't figure out who he called Chewie)

5. A good title for a war movie about one of this ancient leader's military victories would be "The Longest Day", if that title weren't already taken

JOSHUA? (Me--didn't the sun stand still for him?)

6. A 2004 London Evening Standard article listed 37 different English spellings of this long-time world leader's name used by news organizations

MOAMMAR QADAFFI, or whatever (TLITF, earendel, me)

7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers

GALILEO GALILEI (Practically everybody)

8. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the fourth best British guitarist of all time, he only ranked third among members of his former band

JEFF BECK? (TLITF)

9. "Pop, at your age, you don't have no wild oats. You got shredded wheat."

LAMONT SANFORD (earendel, melly, TLITF)

10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day

CHANG AND ENG BUNKER (melly, TLITF, me)

11. Before he became a star himself, this singer was part of the captive audience for several of Johnny Cash's performances at San Quentin

MERLE HAGGARD? (TLITF) or WAYLON JENNINGS? (TLITF) or KRIS KRISTOFFERSON? (gsabc)

12. First to win a Nobel Prize for genetics research, he pioneered chromosome mapping through studies of fruit flies at Columbia University

13. He and one of his successors both used the same middle initial, which they both insisted didn't stand for anything

ULYSSES S GRANT (earendel, ne1410s, TLITF)

14. Son of a more famous father, as mayor he took the inaugural ride on the New York City subway system

15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals

ANITA BRYANT (practically everybody)

16. An Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-time NBA champion as a player, and 2-time NBA champion as a general manager, his immediate predecessor was also an Olympic gold medalist and NBA Champion as both player and general manager

JOE DUMARS? (melly) JERRY WEST? (TLITF)

17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (practically everybody)

18. Considered one of the two 19th century founders of existentialism, he was the one who thought God was still alive

SØREN KIERKEGAARD (earendel and TLITF)

19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (practically everybody)

20. "Oh my God, they're turkeys!!"

Les Nessman (practically everybody)

21. According to Wikipedia, this man and his family accounted for half of worldwide Rolls Royce purchases during the 1990s.

SULTAN OF BRUNEI? (ne1410s, TLITF, me)

22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born

THAT ACTRESS FROM BRAVEHEART (marley)

23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (ne1410s) or GEORGE PATTON? (melly) or COLIN POWELL? (TLITF)

24. He gave the sportscar he won as 2006 World Series MVP to his brother because he doesn't know how to drive a stick shift

DAVID ECKSTEIN (melly, ne1410s, TLITF)

25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day

MOHAMMED (marley, gsabc, TLITF)

26. This skater won three consecutive Olympic gold medals and ten consecutive world championships, both records for singles skaters

SONJA HENIE (melly, TLITF)

27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history

MICHAEL DELL (practically everybody)

28. In 2006 she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from her state, defeating the man who four years earlier had defeated the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state. (To borrow from Frank: Got that?)

CLAIRE MCKASKILL (melly, ne1r10s, TLITF)

29. Long before Rafael Palmeiro signed his first product endorsement contract, this player's "boner" cost the New York Giants a pennant

FRED MERKLE (melly, ne1r10s, TLITF)

30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor

LIVIA (marley, earendel, TLITF)

31. His title means "Ocean of Wisdom"

DALAI LAMA (earendel, TLITF)

32. UNESCO has designated April 23 as World Book Day because this author and William Shakespeare both died on that date in 1616

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (earendel, TLITF)

33. A former #2 draft pick himself, he was later responsible for the best #3 draft pick in NBA history

ROD THORNE (TLITF, ne1410s) or ARCHIE MANNING (earendel)

34. "This is not a mine. This is a tomb."

BOROMIR (earendel, TLITF)

35. "We are the ones we've been waiting for", the title of this Pulitzer Prize winner's most recent book, was shamelessly lifted by Barack Obama in his Super Tuesday post-election speech, at least in the view of the Clinton campaign

ALICE WALKER (melly)

36. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"

No guesses yet

37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms

BERNOULLI (practically everybody, but nobody has ventured a first name)

38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader

BATTISTA (earendel) or SHAH OF IRAN'S FATHER (ne1410s) or CHANG KAI-SHEK? (TLITF)

39. She shares two distinctions with a better known governor - both were born outside the U.S. and both once appeared on "The Dating Game" (not together, I hope)

No guesses

40. A 2004 Supreme Court case resulted in a new interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, leading to the return of four of this artist's paintings (which later sold for $192 million) to the family of the owner from whom the Nazis had stolen them

GUSTAV KLIMT? (me)

41. As a three year old, a serious accident involving one of his father's leather-working tools permanently changed his life - ironically, as a young man he used the same type of tool to create the invention which made him world-famous

LOUIS BRAILLE (practically everybody)

42. Meant as a metaphor for Vietnam, a short film from this director's student days shows a man shaving himself with increasingly disastrous results

GEORGE LUCAS? (TLITF)

43. This actress has the unique distinction of playing James Bond's wife

DIANA RIGG (earendel)

44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film

CLINT EASTWOOD (melly, ne1410s) or WARREN BEATTY? (melly) or GEORGE CLOONEY? (gsabc) or LAURENCE OLIVIER? (me)

45. The first National Book Award for non-fiction was won by an author who shared his first name with that year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and its subject was a second writer who also had the same first name. Three years later, the National Book Award for fiction was awarded to this third writer, whose namesake (both first and middle) was the second writer. Got THAT?

No guesses

46. Some thought him ill-tempered and queer, but a few thought him pleasant enough (runcible, even)

LEWIS CARROLL (earendel, ne1410s) or EDWARD LEAR (TLITF)

47. The untimely warfare between this leader and his brother prior to a foreign invasion has been likened to the feud between Harold II and his brother prior to the Norman conquest

No guesses

48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown

ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER (practically everybody--thanks to melly for ABRAHAM!)

49. He received his four Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for 1) a film about a cross-country car chase, 2) a film involving the theft of a large sum of money, 3) a film featuring Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner, and 4) a film directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy. (Just imagine if he had been able to combine all those things in the same film!)

WILLIAM ROSE (melly)

50. Even though he never sailed through the body of water that now bears his name, he is believed to have reached the southernmost latitudes until James Cook's 2nd voyage almost 200 years later

FERDINAND MAGELLAN (ne1410s) or ABEL TASMAN? (TLITF)

51. He is the only player ever to appear in his team's starting lineup in four consecutive NCAA basketball Final Fours

CHRISTIAN LAETTNER (melly) or DANNY FERRY (TLITF)

52. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) resulted from the work of a Senate committee chaired by this 1976 presidential candidate

FRANK CHURCH (melly, ne1410s)

53. The title character in one of his novels probably wouldn't have been too happy to see Tom Gordon pitch for the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championsip Series

STEPHEN KING (practically everybody)

54. This actress's 2007 wedding to a reality TV mogul, as well as her first wedding, were both officiated by Della Reese

ROMA DOWNEY (melly, gsabc, ne1410s)

[plasticene]

Just a few I saw...

Spoiler

2. His most famous artwork was meant to represent Dante pondering his Divine Comedy Auguste Rodin

5. A good title for a war movie about one of this ancient leader's military victories would be "The Longest Day", if that title weren't already taken Joshua

6. A 2004 London Evening Standard article listed 37 different English spellings of this long-time world leader's name used by news organizations Muammar Khaddaffi (WAG: could also be Mao, but he was long dead by 2004)

7. Popular legend has him defiantly muttering "E pur si muove" to his accusers Galileo Galilei, and this ties in to #5-- Joshua-- because the Biblical 'proof' that the earth is stationary and that the sun moves around the earth is based upon the sun 'stopping' in the sky for Joshua's battle

10. More inseparable than the average pair of brothers, these two 19th century immigrants to the U.S. were born the same day, married the same day (to a pair of sisters), became fathers the same week, and died the same day Chang and Eng, the original Siamese Twins

13. He and one of his successors both used the same middle initial, which they both insisted didn't stand for anything US Grant, whose original name was Hiram Ulysses and was reversed when he went to West Point, and then 'S' just got put in place of 'H'. I think. The other is Harry S Truman

15. Partly due to her efforts in the 1970s, Florida is the only state which specifically bans child adoption by homosexuals Phyllis Schlafly (sp?) or Anita Bryant... go with Phyllis

17. Speculation that he may have died from either deliberate or indeliberate arsenic poisoning during his final years of imprisonment was discredited by a recent study of hair samples that showed he had high levels of arsenic throughout his life, as did several of his contemporaries Napoleon Bonaparte

18. Considered one of the two 19th century founders of existentialism, he was the one who thought God was still alive Soren Kirkegaard (tempted to say 'Either/Or' of Kirkegaard and Nietsche...)

19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight Must be Antonin Dvorak, but the numbering of the symphony is controversial. If it is what I am thinking of, though, it is not entirely aposite: I think that the full nickname is 'From the New World,' whereas Armstrong was going 'To' a new world

22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born Isabella, the She Wolf of France, the tart married to Edward II

23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class. Douglas MacArthur (something of a SWAG)

25. This leader's succession was disputed between his father-in-law and his son-in-law, causing a rift which exists to this day Mohammad

27. In 1992 he became the youngest CEO to run a Fortune 500 company - this was about 10 years before the company introduced the most annoying TV pitchdude in history Michael Dell?

28. In 2006 she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from her state, defeating the man who four years earlier had defeated the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state. (To borrow from Frank: Got that?) Shoot... I think this is Missouri, the first woman being the widow of the governor whose corpse beat John Ashcroft, but I cannot for the life of me remember who this current one is...

30. Portrayed in a 2oth century classic as a ruthless, conniving killer, she was the wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother of five successive emperors, none of whom was the biological son of his predecessor Livia Augusta

32. UNESCO has designated April 23 as World Book Day because this author and William Shakespeare both died on that date in 1616 Cervantes?


37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms Bernoulli

38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader The guy in Iran, Mossadegh or something like that?

41. As a three year old, a serious accident involving one of his father's leather-working tools permanently changed his life - ironically, as a young man he used the same type of tool to create the invention which made him world-famous Louis Braille

43. This actress has the unique distinction of playing James Bond's wife Diana Rigg?

48. He sold the film that made him famous for $150,000, with the condition that Frame 313 would never be shown Zapruder?

That confirms my guess for #5 and helps out on #38. On #22, it's possible that the question is asking for the character's name rather than the actress's name, but I think it would have read "this character" rather than "her character" in that case.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

There's a few where different people are saying different things where I'm pretty confident:

11. Before he became a star himself, this singer was part of the captive audience for several of Johnny Cash's performances at San Quentin

MERLE HAGGARD? (TLITF) or WAYLON JENNINGS? (TLITF) or KRIS KRISTOFFERSON? (gsabc)
I'm 100% confident it's either Haggard or Jennings, and 90%+ confident it's Haggard

33. A former #2 draft pick himself, he was later responsible for the best #3 draft pick in NBA history

ROD THORNE (TLITF, ne1410s) or ARCHIE MANNING (earendel)
Archie Manning is NFL, not NBA


46. Some thought him ill-tempered and queer, but a few thought him pleasant enough (runcible, even)

LEWIS CARROLL (earendel, ne1410s) or EDWARD LEAR (TLITF)
I guess I'm not certain of this one, but "runcible" is from "The Owl and the Pussycat", which is definitely Lear. It was just on "Selected Shorts" the other week.


50. Even though he never sailed through the body of water that now bears his name, he is believed to have reached the southernmost latitudes until James Cook's 2nd voyage almost 200 years later

FERDINAND MAGELLAN (ne1410s) or ABEL TASMAN? (TLITF)
I have to think Tasman is right, here, because I'm pretty sure Magellan DID go through his Strait - If I remember right, he died in the Philippines, which is further west (though maybe he went around Cape Horn?)

51. He is the only player ever to appear in his team's starting lineup in four consecutive NCAA basketball Final Fours

CHRISTIAN LAETTNER (melly) or DANNY FERRY (TLITF)
I'm not sure it's Ferry, but I'm pretty sure it was someone from those 80s Duke teams that made 4 straight FF's without winning a championship. Which would mean not Laettner

[ne1410s]

Howzabout Grant Hill for #51??

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

23. His mother accompanied him to West Point, where she rented a hotel room with a view of the dormitories so she could look into his room with a telescope and make sure he was studying. It worked - he graduated first in his class.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (ne1410s) or GEORGE PATTON? (melly) or COLIN POWELL? (TLITF)

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MacArthur is correct

[franktangredi]

Damn, I wish I'd seen this earlier! A few additions, below.

44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film

CLINT EASTWOOD (melly, ne1410s) or WARREN BEATTY? (melly) or GEORGE CLOONEY? (gsabc) or LAURENCE OLIVIER? (me)

Actually, this is true of both Eastwood and Beatty.

) 46. Some thought him ill-tempered and queer, but a few thought him pleasant enough (runcible, even)

LEWIS CARROLL (earendel, ne1410s) or EDWARD LEAR (TLITF)

Definitely LEAR

)47. The untimely warfare between this leader and his brother prior to a foreign invasion has been likened to the feud between Harold II and his brother prior to the Norman conquest

ATAHUALLPA, emperor of the Incas

[smilergrogan]

Oops - Eastwood was the intended answer for #44.

All definite answers (single answer, no question mark) on the consolidation are right.

[smilergrogan]

[quote="wintergreen48"]19. Neil Armstrong brought along a recording of this composer's appropriately subtitled 9th symphony to listen to during the Apollo 11 flight Must be Antonin Dvorak, but the numbering of the symphony is controversial. If it is what I am thinking of, though, it is not entirely aposite: I think that the full nickname is 'From the New World,' whereas Armstrong was going 'To' a new world


Maybe he only played it on the way back.

[wintergreen48]

That confirms my guess for #5 and helps out on #38. On #22, it's possible that the question is asking for the character's name rather than the actress's name, but I think it would have read "this character" rather than "her character" in that case.

I think you are right. The actress was Sophie Marceau. She's hot.

[Bob78164]

I'll consolidate. Since I'm including some of my own guesses, I tried to include attribution for all the answers and guesses. Apologies if I messed up any.

37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms

BERNOULLI (practically everybody, but nobody has ventured a first name)

I think it's Daniel. --Bob

[NellyLunatic1980]

11. Before he became a star himself, this singer was part of the captive audience for several of Johnny Cash's performances at San Quentin

MERLE HAGGARD? (TLITF) or WAYLON JENNINGS? (TLITF) or KRIS KRISTOFFERSON? (gsabc)
I'm 100% confident it's either Haggard or Jennings, and 90%+ confident it's Haggard

It is 100% Haggard. He was in San Quentin for robbery.

[earendel]

There's a few where different people are saying different things where I'm pretty confident:

33. A former #2 draft pick himself, he was later responsible for the best #3 draft pick in NBA history

ROD THORNE (TLITF, ne1410s) or ARCHIE MANNING (earendel)
Archie Manning is NFL, not NBA

D'oh! Where's that "head slap" smiley when you need it?

[ToLiveIsToFly]

Howzabout Grant Hill for #51??

Hill came out in the same class as Glenn "Big Dog" Robinson and Jason Kidd (he was co-ROY with Kidd). It was my first full summer in Chicago, which makes it 1994. That's a year or two after Laettner. So can't be him.

[mellytu74]

The more I think about it, the more I'm sure it's Laettner.

Actually, Laettner is responsible for one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time at a college basketball game.

[Note: in the 1992 NCAA tourney's East Regional Final, Duke beat Kentucky in overtime on Laettner's shot with a second or two left. Very dramatic.]

Former Kentucky star Travis Ford coaches UMass. Last year, when UMass played at Temple, during a timeout, when Ford stepped on the court, the Temple student section began chanting "Chris-tian Laet-tner, Chris-tian Laet-tner."

It was picked up and pretty soon everyone was chanting. Very funny.

It made ESPN's College Game Night that night.

[NellyLunatic1980]

4. Nicknames bestowed on others by this actor's pop culture savvy character include "Stay Puft", "Dr. Doright", "Captain Falafel", "Chewie", "Mr. Clean", and "Short Round"
Josh Holloway is his name

12. First to win a Nobel Prize for genetics research, he pioneered chromosome mapping through studies of fruit flies at Columbia University
Thomas Hunt Morgan, a fellow University of Kentucky alum

14. Son of a more famous father, as mayor he took the inaugural ride on the New York City subway system
George McClellan, Jr.

22. In an Oscar-winning film, her character is portrayed having an affair with the title character resulting in an illegitimate heir to the English throne, even though historically her character is not known to have ever met the title character, and anyway he died seven years before the child in question was born
Sophie Marceau--she played the wife of the very gay Edward, Prince of Wales (NTTAWWT®)

37. His principle keeps planes in the air and tears the roofs off buildings during windstorms
it is indeed Daniel Bernoulli

38. The term "blowback" was first used in a CIA document describing the 1953 overthrow of this leader
Mohammed Mossadegh

39. She shares two distinctions with a better known governor - both were born outside the U.S. and both once appeared on "The Dating Game" (not together, I hope)
Jennifer Granholm, Canadian-born governor of Michigan

44. He is the only person twice Oscar-nominated as both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film
Clint Eastwood ("Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby")

45. The first National Book Award for non-fiction was won by an author who shared his first name with that year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and its subject was a second writer who also had the same first name. Three years later, the National Book Award for fiction was awarded to this third writer, whose namesake (both first and middle) was the second writer. Got THAT?
Ralph Waldo Ellison (the namesakes were Ralph Rusk, Ralph Bunche, and Ralph Waldo Emerson)

[franktangredi]

Here's a fresh consolidation, with the clues removed where answers have been confirmed or seem certain, and the associated words list restored. I'm hoping if I stare at this long enough between meetings, the Tangredi will pop out at me....

Pair the 54 answers to make 27 pairs, each of which belongs with a word from the word list at bottom, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself (unless somebody else discovers it first). Answers to quotations are the names of the fictional characters who delivered the quotes.

1. MICHAEL SCOTT
2. AUGUSTE RODIN
3. JOHNNY PAYCHECK
4. JOSH HOLLOWAY
5. JOSHUA
6. MOAMMAR QADAFFI
7. GALILEO GALILEI
8. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the fourth best British guitarist of all time, he only ranked third among members of his former band
JEFF BECK?
9. LAMONT SANFORD
10. CHANG AND ENG BUNKER
11. MERLE HAGGARD
12. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN
13. ULYSSES S GRANT
14. GEORGE McLELLAN, JR.
15. ANITA BRYANT
16. An Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-time NBA champion as a player, and 2-time NBA champion as a general manager, his immediate predecessor was also an Olympic gold medalist and NBA Champion as both player and general manager
JOE DUMARS? (melly) JERRY WEST? (TLITF)
17. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
18. SØREN KIERKEGAARD
19. ANTONÍN DVO?ÁK
20. LES NESSMAN
21. According to Wikipedia, this man and his family accounted for half of worldwide Rolls Royce purchases during the 1990s.
SULTAN OF BRUNEI?
22. SOPHIE MARCEAU
23. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
24. DAVID ECKSTEIN
25. MOHAMMED
26. SONJA HENIE
27. MICHAEL DELL
28. CLAIRE MCKASKILL
29. FRED MERKLE
30. LIVIA
31. DALAI LAMA
32. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
33. ROD THORNE
34. BOROMIR
35. ALICE WALKER
36. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"
37. DANIEL BERNOULLI
38. MOHAMMED MOSSADEGH
39. JENNIFER GRANHOLM
40. A 2004 Supreme Court case resulted in a new interpretation of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, leading to the return of four of this artist's paintings (which later sold for $192 million) to the family of the owner from whom the Nazis had stolen them
GUSTAV KLIMT?
41. LOUIS BRAILLE
42. Meant as a metaphor for Vietnam, a short film from this director's student days shows a man shaving himself with increasingly disastrous results
GEORGE LUCAS?
43. DIANA RIGG
44. CLINT EASTWOOD
45. RALPH ELLISON
46. EDWARD LEAR
47. ATAHUALLPA
48. AABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
49. WILLIAM ROSE
50. Even though he never sailed through the body of water that now bears his name, he is believed to have reached the southernmost latitudes until James Cook's 2nd voyage almost 200 years later
FERDINAND MAGELLAN? ABEL TASMAN?
51. CHRISTIAN LAETTNER
52. FRANK CHURCH
53. STEPHEN KING
54. ROMA DOWNEY

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