Game #147: The Gospel Truth

[Vandal]

18. Hall of Fame Pitchers, Part One: Elected to the hall by the Negro Leagues Committee, he is today the oldest living member of a World Series championship team.

MONTE IRVIN

(I did my share of research into Negro Leagues for my last book)

I could have sworn Monte Irvin was an outfielder. Isn't this Satchel Paige? --Bob

Satchel died in 1982.

Irvin was an outfielder, but the second part is still true. He's 95 and played for the '54 Giants.

[franktangredi]

MONTE IRVIN

(I did my share of research into Negro Leagues for my last book)

I could have sworn Monte Irvin was an outfielder. Isn't this Satchel Paige? --Bob

Satchel died in 1982.

Irvin was an outfielder, but the second part is still true. He's 95 and played for the '54 Giants.

I heard you the first time! And you're right, that was a mistake on my part. Monte Irvin is who I wanted.

[Pastor Fireball]

I heard you the first time!

So it wasn't just me who saw the multiple posts. I thought that I was going mental, which is not surprising considering that it's only a few hours until Election Day. (Speaking of voting, I'm about to do something historic tomorrow. I might make a public announcement on that if I actually do what I plan to do.)

[ne1410s]

#40 is Stewart Cink

[Bob Juch]

1. This President swept into office with over 60% of the popular vote – still the biggest landslide since popular vote was recorded.

Lyndon B. Johnson

[Bob78164]

1. This President swept into office with over 60% of the popular vote – still the biggest landslide since popular vote was recorded.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I doubt that's right. That was LBJ's reelection. He was already in office -- the 1964 election didn't sweep him into office. (Notwithstanding the lack of clarity that preceded adoption of the 25th Amendment.) --Bob

[ne1410s]

# 82 is North West

[Bob Juch]

1. This President swept into office with over 60% of the popular vote – still the biggest landslide since popular vote was recorded.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I doubt that's right. That was LBJ's reelection. He was already in office -- the 1964 election didn't sweep him into office. (Notwithstanding the lack of clarity that preceded adoption of the 25th Amendment.) --Bob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... tion,_1964

[franktangredi]

1. This President swept into office with over 60% of the popular vote – still the biggest landslide since popular vote was recorded.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I doubt that's right. That was LBJ's reelection. He was already in office -- the 1964 election didn't sweep him into office. (Notwithstanding the lack of clarity that preceded adoption of the 25th Amendment.) --Bob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... tion,_1964

Sorry for the ambiguity in the wording. What made it the biggest 'landslide' was not just the percentage of popular vote, but the margin of victory.

[Bob Juch]

2. Though his oeuvre consists of only nine films, he was arguably the most influential film director after Griffith and, in 1925, put together what many (including me) consider to be the single greatest movie sequence of all time.

Sergei Eisenstein

6. His invention of a punch card tabulator, as well as his founding of one of the companies that eventually became IBM, combined to make him the father of modern data processing.

Herman Hollerith

9. The first president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, this onetime garment cutter went on to co-found both the CIO and the American Labor party.

George Meany

14. In 2002, the USMC granted this actor an honorary post-service promotion to a rank equal to that of his most famous character.

R. Lee Ermey

16. A state capital is named after this Revolutionary War officer, one of only ten Continental Army generals to die in battle.

Richard Montgomery (my wife's 6th great-grandfather)

17. This Ukrainian writer’s stories earned him the soubriquet “the Jewish Mark Twain.” (Reportedly, Twain was quite pleased with the comparison.)

Sholem Aleichem

20. This astronaut, who took the first photograph of an earthrise, later stated, "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”

William Anders

24. This Norwegian was succeeded in office by a Swede, a Burmese, an Austrian, a Peruvian, an Egyptian, a Ghanan, and a South Korean.

Trygve Lie

30. This sportswriter helped create a legend when he wrote, “In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.”

Grantland Rice

36. Despite intermittent bouts of senile dementia, this Supreme Court justice was determined to beat John Marshall’s longevity record and succeeded: his 34-year tenure is still the second-longest in the Court’s history.

John Paul Stevens

44. During his fifteen year tenure as co-anchor of an NBC news magazine, he interviewed figures ranging from Boris Yeltsin to Jeffrey Dahmer, and won an Emmy for his interview with NYC subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz.

Stone Phillips

49. She married for the first time five years after her tenure as U.S. First Lady ended.

Harriet Lane

58. Two years before taking on his defining television role, this actor starred in the only episode of The Twilight Zone that is still withdrawn from syndication in the United States.

George Takei

65. A major figure in the Norman conquest of Ireland, this nobleman was created first Earl of Ulster by King John.

Hugh de Lacy (He was the husband of my 22nd great grandmother.)

71. His most famous voyage began on April 28, 1947, and ended 101 days later.

Thor Heyerdahl

79. As commander of the Army of the James, this Union general led a march on Appomattox Courthouse that helped force Lee’s surrender.

? Ord

81. His Famous Last Words were, “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”

Romeo

84. Sometimes touted as France’s answer to Marilyn Monroe, this actress is best remembered for her eponymous role as the mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Lola Montez

85. This German scientist won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to inorganic chemistry, such as the synthesis of indigo, the discovery of pthalein dyes, and research into uric acid derivatives. (It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it.)

? von Baeyer

86. This American inventor and entrepreneur founded the Swiss American Aviation Corporation, one of the first companies to manufacture private luxury aircraft. (It was later renamed for him.)

? Lear

93. He was working in the fields one spring day when he "heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first." Three years later, he did something about it. It did not end well.

Nat Turner

100. His conquest of the Sumerian city-states made him the first true emperor in recorded history.

Sargon

[mellytu74]

Mea Maxima Culpa on the multiple posts.

I cannot delete them for some reason.

[mellytu74]

Sorry for the multiples

[mellytu74]

Sorry for the multiple posts

[mellytu74]

9. The first president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, this onetime garment cutter went on to co-found both the CIO and the American Labor party.

George Meany

No. It's SIDNEY HILLMAN.

Meany was a plumber, Lewis a miner and Gompers a cigar maker.

[mellytu74]

Finally, a real first pass

2. Though his oeuvre consists of only nine films, he was arguably the most influential film director after Griffith and, in 1925, put together what many (including me) consider to be the single greatest movie sequence of all time.

EISENSTEIN?

5. This nineteenth century German writer was known for his adventure tales for juveniles, including a series of novels set in the American west featuring the heroic Apache Winnetou.

KARL MAY

9. The first president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, this onetime garment cutter went on to co-found both the CIO and the American Labor party.

SIDNEY HILLMAN

11. During his tenure as president of General Motors, it became the first corporation to earn a billion dollars in a year, and he himself was named Man of the Year by Time.

HARLOW CURTICE

15. This soprano made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1935 in Die Walküre – and when the performance was broadcast over the radio, intermission host Geraldine Farrar threw away her prepared notes and announced that a star was born. (She was right.)

MARJORIE LAWRENCE??

21. Shortly after being appointed the creative director of Bottega Veneta, this German fashion designer presented his first collection, which consisted solely of accessories.

TOMAS MAIER

23. This Romanian-born actor is best remembered for his screen and television portrayals of an O. Henry character that had previously earned another actor an Oscar.

DUNCAN RENALDO

27. As lead singer of the Enchanters, this soul singer had his biggest chart success with the song “Cry Baby.”

GARNET MIMS

30. This sportswriter helped create a legend when he wrote, “In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.”

GRANTLAND RICE

33. In 1556, this Italian priest founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a brotherhood of secular clergy bound together by no formal vows.

ST. PHILLIP NERI

47. This Harlem Renaissance author only produced two novels, but has recently enjoyed a revival of interest thanks to the racial and gender themes in her 1929 novel about a mixed-race woman passing for white.

NELLA LARSEN

50. This singer’s career got an unexpected jump start when, at the age of 15, he was hastily recruited to fill in for Buddy Holly.

BOBBY VEE

52. Hall of Fame Pitchers, Part Two: As an Indian, he was part of one of the best rotations of the 1950s, but he won his only Cy Young Award during his shorter tenure with the White Sox.

EARLY WYNN

57. Now a canonized martyr saint, this Carmelite nun spent a good part of her time in the convent attempting to synthesize the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas and her onetime teacher Edmund Husserl.

EDITH STEIN

64. Son of Cole and Nana, he was for ten years the main character of a popular comic strip – that is, until 1929, when his younger sister’s new beau shanghaied the whole thing.

CASTOR OYL

66. This entrepreneur opened her first salon in New York City in 1915, launching a lifelong rivalry with another dame who was already working the same racket.

HELENA RUBINSTEIN

74. A leading exemplar of New Orleans jazz, this influential trombonist developed the “tailgate” style of improvisation in which the role of the trombone is to play a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets.

KID ORY

84. Sometimes touted as France’s answer to Marilyn Monroe, this actress is best remembered for her eponymous role as the mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria.

MARTINE CAROL?

96. One of a handful of actors to net three consecutive Oscar nominations, he is also the only actor to win an Oscar for playing a South American.

WILLIAM HURT?

97. Hall of Fame Pitchers, Part Three: He holds the record for victories after the age of 40, and was also the last MLB pitcher to both win and lose 20 games in the same season.

PHIL NEIKRO

98. Taking over the baton from Stokowski, this conductor spent a near-record 44 years leading the same orchestra.

EUGENE ORMANDY

[silvercamaro]

5. This nineteenth century German writer was known for his adventure tales for juveniles, including a series of novels set in the American west featuring the heroic Apache Winnetou.

KARL MAY

7. When Martha Graham and Baroness Rothschild founded a dance company in Tel Aviv in 1964, they selected this dancer as its prima ballerina and choreographer.

RENA SCHENFELD

8. Founder of the first uniquely American school of art, he gave us paintings such as this one:

THOMAS COLE

37. This playwright won both a Pulitzer and a Tony for his dark comedy about the dysfunctional Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

TRACY LETTS

53. After parting ways with the Denishawn School in 1928, she began to develop her own approach to modern dance based on a principle she called "fall and recovery."

DORIS HUMPHREYS

56. One of the leading Flemish mannerist of the 16th century, this painter founded the Guild of the Romanists, a society of Antwerp artists and nobles who had visited Rome.

MARTEN DE VOS

72. This playwright was the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

NILO CRUZ

[Weyoun]

I'M BACK!!!!

1. This President swept into office with over 60% of the popular vote – still the biggest landslide since popular vote was recorded.

FDR, 1936

2. Though his oeuvre consists of only nine films, he was arguably the most influential film director after Griffith and, in 1925, put together what many (including me) consider to be the single greatest movie sequence of all time.

Sergie EISENSTEIN prolly

3. He was the first singer born in the twentieth century to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame

no idea

4. The sixth and last quarterback selected in the first round of the historic 1983 NFL draft, he currently has the fifth highest number of career wins of any quarterback in NFL history.

Dan MARINO. Pitt baby

5. This nineteenth century German writer was known for his adventure tales for juveniles, including a series of novels set in the American west featuring the heroic Apache Winnetou.

Karl MAY

6. His invention of a punch card tabulator, as well as his founding of one of the companies that eventually became IBM, combined to make him the father of modern data processing.

Herman HOLLERITH

7. DJMQ:
When Martha Graham and Baroness Rothschild founded a dance company in Tel Aviv in 1964, they selected this dancer as its prima ballerina and choreographer.
Another DJMQ appears at #53.

I'll let Judy

8. Founder of the first uniquely American school of art, he gave us paintings such as this one:



Thomas COLE. Course of Empire, I think?

9. The first president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, this onetime garment cutter went on to co-found both the CIO and the American Labor party.

Sidney HILLMAN

10. Known for influential works on Gnosticism and bioethics, this German-born philosopher once received a standing ovation when he publicly repudiated his onetime teacher Martin Heidegger.

Hmm. Should know this.

11. During his tenure as president of General Motors, it became the first corporation to earn a billion dollars in a year, and he himself was named Man of the Year by Time.

SLOAN?

12. This American economist received the Nobel Prize “for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction” – including a controversial model of “rational addiction.”

Gary BECKER

13. At age 22, he took part in a botched attempt to assassinate his country’s Prime Minister; at age 42, he became that country’s President; at age 66, he was deposed; at age 69, he came to a rather nasty end.

Saddam HUSSEIN?

14. In 2002, the USMC granted this actor an honorary post-service promotion to a rank equal to that of his most famous character.

R. Lee ERMY?

15. This soprano made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1935 in Die Walküre – and when the performance was broadcast over the radio, intermission host Geraldine Farrar threw away her prepared notes and announced that a star was born. (She was right.)

dunno

16. A state capital is named after this Revolutionary War officer, one of only ten Continental Army generals to die in battle.

Francis NASH

17. This Ukrainian writer’s stories earned him the soubriquet “the Jewish Mark Twain.” (Reportedly, Twain was quite pleased with the comparison.)

Sholem ALEICHEM

18. Baseball Hall of Fame, Part One: Elected to the hall by the Negro Leagues Committee, he is today the oldest living member of a World Series championship team.

Monte IRVIN?

19. In 1871, this chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service personally prepared the very first official weather forecast.

Uh... the other famous fact about Robert FITZROY?

20. This astronaut, who took the first photograph of an earthrise, later stated, "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”

Willam ANDERS

[mrkelley23]

Game #147: The Gospel Truth


1. This President swept into office with over 60% of the popular vote – still the biggest landslide since popular vote was recorded.

Warren G. Harding? I know he had a huge pop vote and the turnout was low pre-depression.

2. Though his oeuvre consists of only nine films, he was arguably the most influential film director after Griffith and, in 1925, put together what many (including me) consider to be the single greatest movie sequence of all time.

S. Eisenstein?

3. He was the first singer born in the twentieth century to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame

I know Hank Williams died young, so maybe?

4. The sixth and last quarterback selected in the first round of the historic 1983 NFL draft, he currently has the fifth highest number of career wins of any quarterback in NFL history.

Dan Marino?



13. At age 22, he took part in a botched attempt to assassinate his country’s Prime Minister; at age 42, he became that country’s President; at age 66, he was deposed; at age 69, he came to a rather nasty end.

Saddam Hussein?


18. Baseball Hall of Fame, Part One: Elected to the hall by the Negro Leagues Committee, he is today the oldest living member of a World Series championship team.

Embarrassed that I don't know this one cold. Satchel is dead, so is Gibson and Bell. Can't even come up with another name right now.

19. In 1871, this chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service personally prepared the very first official weather forecast.

Too early for Lowell, I think , but that's my only guess.

20. This astronaut, who took the first photograph of an earthrise, later stated, "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”

Buzz Aldrin?


24. This Norwegian was succeeded in office by a Swede, a Burmese, an Austrian, a Peruvian, an Egyptian, a Ghanan, and a South Korean.

Dag Hammarskjold?


28. Once considered the world’s most dangerous terrorist, he died of a gunshot wound – possibly self-inflicted – in his Baghdad apartment in 2002. (By then, Americans weren’t paying much attention.)

Carlos the Jackal?

29. In 1995, this Brit finally proved a 358 year-old theorem concerning the following equation:



And there was much rejoicing in the land.

It's Fermat's Last Theorem, I"m pretty sure, but I have no idea who proved it.

30. This sportswriter helped create a legend when he wrote, “In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.”

Grantland Rice

45. One of the founding Yippies, he was proudly clubbed on the head during the 1968 DNC, but missed out on his chance to become one of the Chicago Seven. (He had to settle for ‘unindicted co-conspirator.’)

I guess Tom Hayden.



51. This physicist and his colleague Robert Wilson won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation, which played a major role in the formation of the Big Bang theory. (No, not the tv show.)

Last name is PENZIAS, they were first blaming it on pigeon poop.

52. HBaseball Hall of Fame, Part Two: As an Indian, he was part of one of the best pitching rotations of the 1950s, but he won his only Cy Young Award during his shorter tenure with the White Sox.

Don't know who left the Indians, don't think it was Bob Feller, but Bob Lemon and Early Wynn were both dominating in the 50s for them


63. This hip-hop artist has won three Grammy Awards, but that didn’t impress the Electoral Commission of his native country: they rejected his bid to run for president on the grounds that he no longer met residency requirements.

Wyclef Jean




69. This perpetual starlet did have a number of tv and film roles, but is far better known for her marriage to an infamous maker of sexploitation films and her showy appearances at the Academy Awards.

Edy Williams fits the clue, except I don't know about the Academy Awards part.


71. His most famous voyage began on April 28, 1947, and ended 101 days later.

Thor Heyerdahl?


76. Phineas T. Barnum’s offer to buy this political leader’s bath tub was rejected in favor of an offer from the Paris wax museum where it still resides today.

William Howard Taft?


81. His Famous Last Words were, “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”

Dang. Is it Romeo, or Pyramis? Don't judge.

82. She got by far the most public attention of any baby born June 15, 2013. Poor kid.

North West, I'd bet


86. This American inventor and entrepreneur founded the Swiss American Aviation Corporation, one of the first companies to manufacture private luxury aircraft. (It was later renamed for him.)

Guess that's Lear, huh?



93. He was working in the fields one spring day when he "heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first." Three years later, he did something about it. It did not end well.

Nat Turner?


95. In his magnum opus Ars generalis ultima, this 14th century Catalan mystic and philosopher formulated a system that could answer any argument or question through the use of charts and visual aids. (At least, that’s the nearest I can get to understanding what the hell he was doing.)

Ha! One of the audio books I downloaded to take to the hospital with me is James Gleick's The Information: A Theory, a History, a Flood. It's about the development of information theory and I highly recommend it if you're interested in information theory, or if you have insomnia. Those are the only two cases in which I recommend it, however. In any case, he mentions this dude pretty prominently in one of the chapters that I didn't sleep through. It sounds like Raymond Lull (I guess it could be Ramon, if he's a Catalan mystic).


97. Baseball Hall of Fame, Part Three: This pitcher holds the record for victories after the age of 40, and was also the last MLB pitcher to both win and lose 20 games in the same season.

Phil Niekro?

98. Taking over the baton from Stokowski, this conductor spent a near-record 44 years leading the same orchestra.

Eugene Ormandy






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[Weyoun]

21. Shortly after being appointed the creative director of Bottega Veneta, this German fashion designer presented his first collection, which consisted solely of accessories.

dunno

22. Created by Roy Crane in 1924, this bumbling storekeeper was the eponymous star of America’s first action/adventure comic strip with a continuing story line.

Dunno

23. This Romanian-born actor is best remembered for his screen and television portrayals of an O. Henry character that had previously earned another actor an Oscar.

Dunno

24. This Norwegian was succeeded in office by a Swede, a Burmese, an Austrian, a Peruvian, an Egyptian, a Ghanan, and a South Korean.

Trygve LIE

25. Now aged 90 and living in a Chicago retirement community, this German-born poet won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Alive Together: New & Selected Poems.

Lisl MUELLEr

26. A member of the NHL Hall of Fame, he coached the Boston Bruins to their first Stanley Cup win in 29 years.

Don't know

27. As lead singer of the Enchanters, this soul singer had his biggest chart success with the song “Cry Baby.”

Hmm. Dunno

28. Once considered the world’s most dangerous terrorist, he died of a gunshot wound – possibly self-inflicted – in his Baghdad apartment in 2002. (By then, Americans weren’t paying much attention.)

Abu NIDAL

29. In 1995, this Brit finally proved a 358 year-old theorem concerning the following equation:



And there was much rejoicing in the land.

Andrew WILES, Fermat's Last Theorem

30. This sportswriter helped create a legend when he wrote, “In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.”

Grantland RICE

31. This architect’s crowning achievement can be seen on the back of a $50 bill.

Capitol building, right? Latrobe, Thornton, Bullfinch?

32. Considered the world’s leading anti-pornography crusader, this British feminist considers porn a public health issue that needs to be contained by legal censorship.

Maybe Catherine Mackinnon but I thought she was Canadian.

33. In 1556, this Italian priest founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a brotherhood of secular clergy bound together by no formal vows.

Philip NERI

34. This real estate mogul is ranked #97 on the Forbes list of the richest – but he ultimately owes it all to birdseed, fish food, and hamster wheels.

dunno

35. He was the third actor to appear in the fourth slot in the opening credits of Law and Order.

So, the assistant DA? Linus ROACHE?

36. Despite intermittent bouts of senile dementia, this Supreme Court justice was determined to beat John Marshall’s longevity record and succeeded: his 34-year tenure is still the second-longest in the Court’s history.

Has to be Stephen FIELD since anyone post-Douglas would be aiming for his record

37. This playwright won both a Pulitzer and a Tony for his dark comedy about the dysfunctional Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma.

Tracy LETTS

38. Despite a short life – he died in 1916 at the age of 43 – this German composer produced an impressive volume of orchestral, organ, and vocal works, but is probably best known for his “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart.”

Max REGER

39. This Vermont native shared a Nobel Prize with two other chemists "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." (No, I don’t know what that means, so shut up.)

Huh. Would have to think about it.

40. This American golfer won his only major championship in 2009 after a four-hole playoff with Tom Watson.

Stewart CINK, Britsih Open that year

41. In 1971, a court martial acquitted this infantry captain of war crimes; the lieutenant under his command did not get off so easily.

MEDINA, don't know first name

42. The resume of this New York-based child psychologist includes hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, acting as a contributing editor to Family Circle,, and authoring such books as Not in Front of the Children.

dunno

43. In a major novel by Henry James, she tries to solve all her romantic and financial problems by arranging for the man she loves to become engaged to a terminally ill heiress. It does not end well.

Kate CROY, in Wings of the Dove?

44. During his fifteen year tenure as co-anchor of an NBC news magazine, he interviewed figures ranging from Boris Yeltsin to Jeffrey Dahmer, and won an Emmy for his interview with NYC subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz.

dunno

45. One of the founding Yippies, he was proudly clubbed on the head during the 1968 DNC, but missed out on his chance to become one of the Chicago Seven. (He had to settle for ‘unindicted co-conspirator.’)

Stuart ALPERT

46. Thanks to his talkative bride, you now know more about this actor’s impressive genitalia and sexual prowess than you ever knew you wanted.

Pass

47. This Harlem Renaissance author only produced two novels, but has recently enjoyed a revival of interest thanks to the racial and gender themes in her 1929 novel about a mixed-race woman passing for white.

Nella LARSEN. The novel is called... Passing, go figure.

48. He overthrew one of Africa’s longest-reigning dictators in 1997, was himself assassinated after three years as president, and was immediately succeeded by his son (who still holds the office today).

Laurent KABILA

49. She married for the first time five years after her tenure as U.S. First Lady ended.

Maybe HARRIET LANE

50. This singer’s career got an unexpected jump start when, at the age of 15, he was hastily recruited to fill in for Buddy Holly.

Bobby VEE

[Weyoun]

51. This physicist and his colleague Robert Wilson won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation, which played a major role in the formation of the Big Bang theory. (No, not the tv show.)

Arno PENZIAS

52. HBaseball Hall of Fame, Part Two: As an Indian, he was part of one of the best pitching rotations of the 1950s, but he won his only Cy Young Award during his shorter tenure with the White Sox.

dunno

53. DJMQ
After parting ways with the Denishawn School in 1928, she began to develop her own approach to modern dance based on a principle she called "fall and recovery."

Judy...

54. In the 1930s, he was the fourth and last outlaw to earn the title Public Enemy Number One, and the only one of the four to die in bed.

CAPONE?

55. When he was seventeen, he borrowed $1,000 from a friend to start a sandwich shop – which grew to become the #2 chain restaurant in America.

Subway guy, Fred DELUCA

56. One of the leading Flemish mannerist of the 16th century, this painter founded the Guild of the Romanists, a society of Antwerp artists and nobles who had visited Rome.

I could guess

57. Now a canonized martyr saint, this Carmelite nun spent a good part of her time in the convent attempting to synthesize the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas and her onetime teacher Edmund Husserl.

Edith STEIN

58. Two years before taking on his defining television role, this actor starred in the only episode of The Twilight Zone that is still withdrawn from syndication in the United States.

dunno

59. England’s fifth Astronomer Royal, he is best known for developing a method of measuring longitude by the position of the moon.

dunno

60. He was the first Prime Minister of Israel to be born in Israel.

Netanyahu

61. In addition to being one of the leading Elizabethan pamphleteers, he also wrote verse, drama, one of the first English picaresque novels – and some notable erotica, including these immortal lines written from a female viewpoint: “My little dildo shall suplye their kind/A knave that moves as light as leaves by winde/That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale/But stands a s stiff as he were made of steele/And plays at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe.”

Thomas NASHE

62. At the age of 64, this swimmer became the first person confirmed to have swum from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.

Diana NYAD

63. This hip-hop artist has won three Grammy Awards, but that didn’t impress the Electoral Commission of his native country: they rejected his bid to run for president on the grounds that he no longer met residency requirements.

Wyclef JEAN

64. Son of Cole and Nana, he was for ten years the main character of a popular comic strip – that is, until 1929, when his younger sister’s new beau shanghaied the whole thing.

no idea

65. A major figure in the Norman conquest of Ireland, this nobleman was created first Earl of Ulster by King John.

no idea

66. This entrepreneur opened her first salon in New York City in 1915, launching a lifelong rivalry with another dame who was already working the same racket.

Helena RUBINSTEIN?

67. In his first book, The Immense Journey, this American anthropologist wrote, "There is no logical reason for the existence of a snowflake any more than there is for evolution. It is an apparition from that mysterious shadow world beyond nature, that final world which contains—if anything contains—the explanation of men and catfish and green leaves." (No, I don’t know what that means, either.)

dunno

68. This 13th century Italian saint penned what is generally considered the first monastic rule written by a woman.

CLARE of Assisi?

69. This perpetual starlet did have a number of tv and film roles, but is far better known for her marriage to an infamous maker of sexploitation films and her showy appearances at the Academy Awards.

dunno

70. He is currently serving a life sentence in Rimonim Prison for killing someone who is the answer to one of the previous clues.

dunno

[frogman042]

76. Phineas T. Barnum’s offer to buy this political leader’s bath tub was rejected in favor of an offer from the Paris wax museum where it still resides today.

Just taking a stab at this one - Jean-Paul Marat - given the time frame and it ending up in the Paris Wax Museum

99. The hero of this writer’s most famous novel was accidentally circumcised by a falling sash while he was urinating out the window. (This was not even close to the weirdest moment in the novel.)

One of my favorite all-time works: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by
Laurence Sterne - how can you not love a book that starts with the 'Author's' unfortunate conception.

[smilergrogan]

54. In the 1930s, he was the fourth and last outlaw to earn the title Public Enemy Number One, and the only one of the four to die in bed.

CAPONE?

This is CREEPY KARPIS. He also held the record for longest time served at Alcatraz, but he doesn't live there anymore (if you know what I mean).

[Weyoun]

71. His most famous voyage began on April 28, 1947, and ended 101 days later.

Thor HEYERDAHL

72. This playwright was the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Nilo CRUZ for Anna in the Tropics

73. In a seminal 1942 book, this evolutionary biologist proposed a solution to Darwin’s “species problem” by defining a species as a group that can reproduce only among themselves. s

Ernst MAYR. Is he still alive?

74. A leading exemplar of New Orleans jazz, this influential trombonist developed the “tailgate” style of improvisation in which the role of the trombone is to play a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets.

Kid ORY?

75. This philanthropist – who supported such institutions as the New York Public Library, the Animal Medical Center, and the Lighthouse for the Blind – ended up becoming the unwitting poster child for a totally different social problem.

nope

76. Phineas T. Barnum’s offer to buy this political leader’s bath tub was rejected in favor of an offer from the Paris wax museum where it still resides today.

Jean Paul MARAT?

77. This shooting guard was a two-time All Star for the Chicago Bulls, but in his sixth season – after a new coach decided to bench him – he was traded to a team he himself would later coach.

Reggie THEUS?

78. Recipient of the Legion of Honor, this chef is best known for his 43-year tenure at a New York restaurant that was independently ranked the best in America by Julia Child, Playboy, and the Zagat survey.

nope

79. As commander of the Army of the James, this Union general led a march on Appomattox Courthouse that helped force Lee’s surrender.

Philip SHERIDAN?

80. This cadet was by far the most famous attendee of a left-wing youth conference held last year in Quito, Ecuador.

Elian GONZALEZ

81. His Famous Last Words were, “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”

Romeo MONTAGUE?

82. She got by far the most public attention of any baby born June 15, 2013. Poor kid.

North WEST

83. One of the original members of Group f.64, this American photographer was best known for her in-depth studies of plant life, but was also hired by Vanity Fair to shoot a series of portraits of movie stars without makeup.

no idea

84. Sometimes touted as France’s answer to Marilyn Monroe, this actress is best remembered for her eponymous role as the mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Martine CAROL in Lola Montes

85. This German scientist won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to inorganic chemistry, such as the synthesis of indigo, the discovery of pthalein dyes, and research into uric acid derivatives. (It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it.)

Adolf BAEYER

86. This American inventor and entrepreneur founded the Swiss American Aviation Corporation, one of the first companies to manufacture private luxury aircraft. (It was later renamed for him.)

could guess...

87. This pop composer and tv personality has received six Emmy awards for his sports themes, as well as three gold albums. (He’s also tall. Really tall.)

John TESH?

88. Less than a month ago, the Toronto Maple Leafs recalled this winger from the minors – no doubt hoping he’ll do better than last season, when he scored three goals, earned ten points, averaged less than nine minutes, and got into four fights.

yeah no

89. This 19th century German historian – whose works included studies of the popes, the Reformation, and the Ottoman empire – played a key role in developing an empirical approach to history based on the objective use of primary sources.

Jacob BURCKHARDT? no I think he's Swiss

90. A leading member of a group of fantasy writers who call their style the “New Weird,” this British writer won the Hugo award in 2010 for a police procedural novel set in two cities that actually occupy the same space, except that the citizens of one are not allowed (under threat of terrible punishment) to acknowledge the existence of the other. Got that?

nope

91. In a famous – or infamous – anti-immigration speech, this conservative British politician warned, “As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’ That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now.” (He did not, however, suggest building a fence.)

Enoch POWELL

92. This long-time cartoonist for Look and the New Yorker achieved his greatest popularity with his creation of the chubby, fun-loving monk shown here:


nope

93. He was working in the fields one spring day when he "heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first." Three years later, he did something about it. It did not end well.

Nat TURNER

94. Her work on the catalytic conversion of glycogen made her the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gerty CORI

95. In his magnum opus Ars generalis ultima, this 14th century Catalan mystic and philosopher formulated a system that could answer any argument or question through the use of charts and visual aids. (At least, that’s the nearest I can get to understanding what the hell he was doing.)

Ramon LLULL

96. One of a handful of actors to net three consecutive Oscar nominations, he is also the only actor to win an Oscar for playing a South American.

William HURT

97. Baseball Hall of Fame, Part Three: This pitcher holds the record for victories after the age of 40, and was also the last MLB pitcher to both win and lose 20 games in the same season.

Phil NIEKRO or Jamie MOYER? Probably NIEKRO

98. Taking over the baton from Stokowski, this conductor spent a near-record 44 years leading the same orchestra.

ORMANDY?

99. The hero of this writer’s most famous novel was accidentally circumcised by a falling sash while he was urinating out the window. (This was not even close to the weirdest moment in the novel.)

Laurence STERNE, Tristram Shandy

100. His conquest of the Sumerian city-states made him the first true emperor in recorded history.

SARGON

[macrae1234]

1. This President swept into office with over 60% of the popular vote – still the biggest landslide since popular vote was recorded.
LBJ over Goldwater

[mrkelley23]

Soon as I fix some formatting (like remembering to turn the caps lock back off)