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NellyLunatic1980 · #26 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:53 am

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

Touchstone, from Shakespeare's "As You Like It"

megaaddict · #27 Post by **megaaddict** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:53 am

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

I think it's safe to remove the ? from JEFF BECK, former Yardbird (as are higher rankers Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page).

ToLiveIsToFly · #28 Post by **ToLiveIsToFly** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:25 am

megaaddict wrote:
8. Ranked by Rolling Stone as the fourth best British guitarist of all time, he only ranked third among members of his former band
I think it's safe to remove the ? from JEFF BECK, former Yardbird (as are higher rankers Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page).

There's no doubt in my mind it's a Yardbird. But can you confirm that Clapton and Page are ranked ahead of Beck?

megaaddict · #29 Post by **megaaddict** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:57 am

ToLiveIsToFly wrote: There's no doubt in my mind it's a Yardbird. But can you confirm that Clapton and Page are ranked ahead of Beck?

Yes. Page and Clapton were both in the top 10 of ALL guitarists. Beck was not.

franktangredi · #30 Post by **franktangredi** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:14 pm

Still thinking!

tanstaafl2 · #31 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:26 pm

franktangredi wrote:
21. According to Wikipedia, this man and his family accounted for half of worldwide Rolls Royce purchases during the 1990s.
SULTAN OF BRUNEI?

Pretty sure that is correct but I don't know his name, if that is important.

Weyoun · #32 Post by **Weyoun** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:39 am

Mitch Kupchak is probably the basketball guy. He won a gold medal in 1976, played for the Lakers in the 80's, and has won two titles as GM for the Lakers. His predecessor was the aforementioned Jerry West.

Weyoun · #33 Post by **Weyoun** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:45 am

Oh, the shaving movie is definitely Scorsese. The painter is Klimt, since that was around the time the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was sold, and it was speculated that so many paintings by him hitting the market peaked interest and thus price.

The explorer is probably Francis Drake. Cook sailed around 1770s. Drake's circumnavigation was almost 200 years previous to that. No one else fits.

Weyoun · #34 Post by **Weyoun** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:06 am

Just got in - no progress?

Only thing I can think of:

DEVIL makes me think of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" - and we have a Daniel Bernoulli.

PHYSICS points toward a physicist, and outside of the two already there, I don't see much potential for one, except for Christian Doppler. And we have Christian Laettner....

So there could be something with using first names. We have Lamont Sanford, and Lamont Cranston is the SHADOW. Roma Downey and Roma Maffia, fromn CHICAGO Hope, could be linked. Francis Drake could somehow lead to Francis Baily, who discovered his namesake BEADS.

So perhaps a way to connect a first name to one on the list, with the last name (presumably by some kind of code) to another name on the list?

mrkelley23 · #35 Post by **mrkelley23** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:00 pm

Weyoun may have given it to me.

Francis Drake can be used with BEADS to give us Francis Baily, and Baily anagrams (now that we know who Smiler is) to Libya, home of Muammar Qaddafi.

Antonin Dvorak pairs with BENCH to suggest Antonin Scalia, which anagrams to Calais, associated with Livia, I guess?

I'm looking for more.

silverscreenselect · #36 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:26 pm

That's it.

Sonja Henie goes with OSLO, which anagrams to LOOS plus Anita Bryant = Anita Loos (Gentlemen)

Sultan of Brunei (Borneo) = Oberon + Merle Haggard = Merle Oberon (Sand).

silverscreenselect · #37 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:33 pm

One more, then I have to go back to work.

Boromir (Gondor) = Gordon + Jeff Beck = Jeff Gordon, which could go with either speed or racer.

silverscreenselect · #38 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:35 pm

One more.

Chang and Eng (Siam) = AMIS + Martin Scorsese = Martin Amis (Arrow).

mellytu74 · #39 Post by **mellytu74** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:27 pm

I normally don't do anagram puzzles well so I may be wrong on this BUT

If 1. Michael Scott is from The Office, that is set in SCRANTON, which becomes CRANSTON, which goes with Lamont to give us the SHADOW.

Actually -- I'll do the puzzles, I'm just not good at them

Weyoun · #40 Post by **Weyoun** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:44 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:Weyoun may have given it to me.

Francis Drake can be used with BEADS to give us Francis Baily, and Baily anagrams (now that we know who Smiler is) to Libya, home of Muammar Qaddafi.

Antonin Dvorak pairs with BENCH to suggest Antonin Scalia, which anagrams to Calais, associated with Livia, I guess?

I'm looking for more.

Nice shooting! Calais would tie to Rodin, who sculpted "The Burghers of Calais."

NellyLunatic1980 · #41 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:49 pm

Updated consolidation:

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. JEFF BECK
9. LAMONT SANFORD
10. CHANG AND ENG BUNKER
11. MERLE HAGGARD
12. THOMAS HUNT MORGAN
13. ULYSSES S GRANT
14. GEORGE McCLELLAN, JR.
15. ANITA BRYANT
16. ??? JOE DUMARS, JERRY WEST, or MITCH KUPCHAK ???
17. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
18. SØREN KIERKEGAARD
19. ANTONÍN DVO?ÁK
20. LES NESSMAN
21. SULTAN OF BRUNEI
22. SOPHIE MARCEAU
23. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
24. DAVID ECKSTEIN
25. MOHAMMED
26. SONJA HENIE
27. MICHAEL DELL
28. CLAIRE McCASKILL
29. FRED MERKLE
30. LIVIA
31. DALAI LAMA
32. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
33. ROD THORNE
34. BOROMIR
35. ALICE WALKER
36. TOUCHSTONE
37. DANIEL BERNOULLI
38. MOHAMMED MOSSADEGH
39. JENNIFER GRANHOLM
40. GUSTAV KLIMT
41. LOUIS BRAILLE
42. MARTIN SCORSESE
43. DIANA RIGG
44. CLINT EASTWOOD
45. RALPH ELLISON
46. EDWARD LEAR
47. ATAHUALPA
48. ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
49. WILLIAM ROSE
50. FRANCIS DRAKE
51. CHRISTIAN LAETTNER
52. FRANK CHURCH
53. STEPHEN KING
54. ROMA DOWNEY

2001
2000
666
L
DEFENSE
GENTLEMEN -- 15 & 26 (Anita Bryant, gentlemen, Anita Loos, Oslo, Sonia Henie)
SEASONS
SUN
MOON
SHADOW -- 1 & 9 (Lamont Sanford, shadow, Lamont Cranston, Scranton, Michael Scott)
SAND -- 11 & 21 (Merle Haggard, sand, Merle Oberon, Borneo, Sultan of Brunei)
BEADS -- 6 & 50 (Francis Drake, beads, Francis Baily, Libya, Moammar Qaddafi)
ARROW -- 10 & 42 (Martin Scorsese, arrow, Martin Amis, Siam, Chang and Eng Bunker)
BENCH -- 2 & 19 (Antonin Dvorak, bench, Antonin Scalia, Calais, Auguste Rodin)
SHOP
BOX
BALTIMORE
CHICAGO
SEATTLE
CONNECTICUT
GERMANY
PHYSICS
LANGUAGE
DEVIL -- 37? (Daniel Bernoulli, devil, Daniel Webster, ???, ???)
PRAYER
SPEED
RACER

Weyoun · #42 Post by **Weyoun** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:57 pm

Got one - LES NESSMAN leads to Les Aspin, who was DEFENSE Secretary. Aspin anagrams to Spain, giving us CERVANTES.

Also, pretty sure it is Mitch Kupchak. He's been GM for the two Kobe-Shaq titles, and it can't be Jerry West, as West only won one title as a player, believe it or not. And Dumars does not have an Olympic gold medal.

mrkelley23 · #43 Post by **mrkelley23** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:57 pm

The Touchstone quote is from "As You Like It," which is set in the forest of ARDEN, which anagrams to NADER, as in #45 RALPH. I assume it ties in with Unsafe at any SPEED. Which means that SSS's Gordon match must pair with RACER.

silverscreenselect · #44 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:07 pm

Kierkegaard (Denmark) = KRAMDEN + Ralph Ellison = Ralph Kramden (Moon)

NellyLunatic1980 · #45 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:11 pm

There might be a connection to Thomas Hunt Morgan and Soren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard was born in DENMARK, which is anagram of MANDRAKE. I'm thinking Thomas Mandrake, the comic book artist.

NellyLunatic1980 · #46 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:13 pm

SSS's Kierkegaard connection makes more sense.

<EmilyLitella> Never mind! </EL>

Weyoun · #47 Post by **Weyoun** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:17 pm

Can anyone connect Stephen King to Stephen Sondheim? I ask, because Sondheim anagrams to "Hedonism," which would fit nicely with Livia.

silverscreenselect · #48 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:22 pm

The puzzle is looking for place names to anagram.

Livia (Rome) = More + Thomas Morgan = Thomas More (Seasons)

Weyoun · #49 Post by **Weyoun** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:31 pm

Napoleon leads to Elba, which anagrams to Bale, who is connected to Christian Doppler by... hmm....

silverscreenselect · #50 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:33 pm

Weyoun wrote:Napoleon leads to Elba, which anagrams to Bale, who is connected to Christian Doppler by... hmm....

It connects to Christian Laettner, for Empire of the SUN.

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