Game #208: A Listless Game
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Game #208: A Listless Game
Anyone caught trying to inject political commentary into this game will be shot on sight.
Game #208: A Listless Game
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
Game #208: A Listless Game
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
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91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
Gladys Knight
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Just the ones I can do quickly, for now
franktangredi wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:22 amAnyone caught trying to inject political commentary into this game will be shot on sight.
Game #208: A Listless Game
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
Crispus Attucks?
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
Larry Bird?
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
Daniel Defoe???
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
I would be tempted to say Eric Clapton, but I'm pretty sure he released Tears in Heaven as a solo act.
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
WILLIAM HOWE
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
Hans Christian Anderson?
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
I think this must be someone named Cherry, as in Neneh and Eagle-Eye. But I don't know their dad's name.
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. Henry?
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
LAFFER
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
Donna Fargo? Jeannie C. Riley?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
DOWN
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
Dock Ellis?
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
Dorothy Fields? She did Sweet Charity with Coleman, don't know about the others.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
Gold?
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
The strip is Gasoline Alley. Don't remember the artist.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
Probably J. J. THOMSON
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
SUTTER
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
Vida Blue?
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
EDITH BUNKER
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
Edwin Land?
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
I think it's TEDDY ROOSEVELT
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1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
HERMAN MELVILLE
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
SIR PETER MANSFIELD
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
IRWIN ROSE
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
CASSIUS CLAY
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
THOMAS HILL GREEN
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
JOHN FOXE
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
SIR GAWAIN
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
SALLY RIDE
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS II
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
ARTHUR FRY
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
JOSEPH STORY
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
GEORGE FOX (QUAKERS)
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
HERMAN MELVILLE
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
SIR PETER MANSFIELD
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
IRWIN ROSE
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
CASSIUS CLAY
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
THOMAS HILL GREEN
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
JOHN FOXE
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
SIR GAWAIN
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
SALLY RIDE
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS II
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
ARTHUR FRY
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
JOSEPH STORY
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
GEORGE FOX (QUAKERS)
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O HENRY
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
JOHN DOWN
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
MASON WEEMS
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
LEADBELLY (I know this from a recent Bored RIP)
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
SPENCER SILVER (another Bored RIP)
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O HENRY
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
JOHN DOWN
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
MASON WEEMS
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
LEADBELLY (I know this from a recent Bored RIP)
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
SPENCER SILVER (another Bored RIP)
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
My head hurts. Must come backfranktangredi wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:22 amAnyone caught trying to inject political commentary into this game will be shot on sight.
Game #208: A Listless Game
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
Benjamin Franklin?
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African AmericanMartin Luther King
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
Daniel Defoe
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
Eric Clapton
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
Margot Fontaine
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
Marshall McLuhan
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
Hans Christian Andersen
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
Lenin
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O Henry
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
Milton Friedman
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
Betty Ford
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
Downs
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
Christopher Wren
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
Gloria Allred
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
Eddie Arcaro
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
Whitey Bulger
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
Gold
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
Gawain
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
Barbara Cartland
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
Chanel
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
Stanford Binet
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
Well, then
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
FIRST PASS - will come back in a while
Game #208: A Listless Game
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
CHAIRMAN MAO
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
LARRY BIRD
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
HAL PRINCE
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
HERMAN MELVILLE?
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
pretty sure this is ANDREW CARNEGIE
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN RUSH (off topic, Benjamin Rush HS in Philadelphia was just named a Blue Ribbon HS - TLAF and I lived down the street from it for many years.
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16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
EMMA BOVARY
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
JAMIE COURT
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
ALICE MARBLE
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
BARBARA BUSH
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY?
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
BOB MOOSE
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE??
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
DOROTHY FIELDS
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
GAWAIN?
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
JOHN ROCK
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
JANE ADDAMS?
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
COCO CHANEL
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
Whoever did Gasoline Alley
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
FREDRIC MARCH
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
ROBERT E LEE?
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE?
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
WILLIAM S. PALEY
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
JAMES WHALE
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND?
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Game #208: A Listless Game
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
CHAIRMAN MAO
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
LARRY BIRD
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
HAL PRINCE
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
HERMAN MELVILLE?
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
pretty sure this is ANDREW CARNEGIE
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN RUSH (off topic, Benjamin Rush HS in Philadelphia was just named a Blue Ribbon HS - TLAF and I lived down the street from it for many years.

16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
EMMA BOVARY
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
JAMIE COURT
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
ALICE MARBLE
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
BARBARA BUSH
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY?
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
BOB MOOSE
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE??
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
DOROTHY FIELDS
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
GAWAIN?
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
JOHN ROCK
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
JANE ADDAMS?
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
COCO CHANEL
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
Whoever did Gasoline Alley
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
FREDRIC MARCH
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
ROBERT E LEE?
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE?
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
WILLIAM S. PALEY
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
JAMES WHALE
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND?
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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franktangredi wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:22 am17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O HENRY
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
HUSBAND KIMMEL
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
ELLERY QUEEN
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
SUTTER
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE de ST. EXUPERY
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
BEA ARTHUR
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
Here's the first consolidation …
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
LARRY BIRD
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
HAL PRINCE
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”
HERMAN MELVILLE
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
ERIC CLAPTON
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
ANDREW CARNEGIE
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
TURNER?
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
MARGOT FONTAINE
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
WILLIAM HOWE
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
MARSHALL McLUHAN
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN RUSH
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
SIR PETER MANSFIELD
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
EMMA BOVARY
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
JAMIE COURT
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
IRWIN ROSE
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
FRANKIE VALLI?
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
ALICE MARBLE
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
BETTY FORD? BARBARA BUSH?
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
CASSIUS CLAY
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
DONNA FARGO? JEANNIE C. RILEY?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
JOHN LANGDON DOWN
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
BOB MOOSE
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE?
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
HUSBAND KIMMEL
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
THOMAS HILL GREEN
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
CHRISTOPHER WREN
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
GLORIA ALLRED
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
CHARLIE WILSON?
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE?
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
DOROTHY FIELDS
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
P.G. WODEHOUSE?
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
EDDIE ARCARO
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
WHITEY BULGER
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
MASON LOCKE WEEMS
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
JOE GOLD
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
SIR GAWAIN
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
BARBARA CARTLAND
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
ARTHUR ASHE?
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
JOHN ROCK
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
SALLY RIDE
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
JANE ADDAMS?
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
COCO CHANEL
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
ALVIN AILEY?
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
(The strip is Gasoline Alley.)
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
FREDRIC MARCH
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
LEADBELLY
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
ELLERY QUEEN
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
ROBERT E. LEE?
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
BOBBY ORR?
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE?
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS II
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
SPENCER SILVER
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
VIDA BLUE?
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
JOSEPH STORY
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
WILLIAM S. PALEY
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
EDITH BUNKER? BEA ARTHUR?
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
STANFORD BINET
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
JAMES WHALE
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
GEORGE FOX (Quakers)
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
LARRY BIRD
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
HAL PRINCE
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”
HERMAN MELVILLE
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
ERIC CLAPTON
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
ANDREW CARNEGIE
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
TURNER?
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
MARGOT FONTAINE
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
WILLIAM HOWE
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
MARSHALL McLUHAN
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN RUSH
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
SIR PETER MANSFIELD
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
EMMA BOVARY
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
JAMIE COURT
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
IRWIN ROSE
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
FRANKIE VALLI?
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
ALICE MARBLE
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
BETTY FORD? BARBARA BUSH?
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
CASSIUS CLAY
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
DONNA FARGO? JEANNIE C. RILEY?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
JOHN LANGDON DOWN
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
BOB MOOSE
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE?
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
HUSBAND KIMMEL
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
THOMAS HILL GREEN
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
CHRISTOPHER WREN
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
GLORIA ALLRED
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
CHARLIE WILSON?
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE?
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
DOROTHY FIELDS
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
P.G. WODEHOUSE?
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
EDDIE ARCARO
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
WHITEY BULGER
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
MASON LOCKE WEEMS
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
JOE GOLD
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
SIR GAWAIN
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
BARBARA CARTLAND
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
ARTHUR ASHE?
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
JOHN ROCK
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
SALLY RIDE
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
JANE ADDAMS?
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
COCO CHANEL
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
ALVIN AILEY?
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
(The strip is Gasoline Alley.)
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
FREDRIC MARCH
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
LEADBELLY
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
ELLERY QUEEN
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
ROBERT E. LEE?
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
BOBBY ORR?
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE?
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS II
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
SPENCER SILVER
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
VIDA BLUE?
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
JOSEPH STORY
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
WILLIAM S. PALEY
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
EDITH BUNKER? BEA ARTHUR?
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
STANFORD BINET
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
JAMES WHALE
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
GEORGE FOX (Quakers)
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
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6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
I believe this is All of My Love by Led Zeppelin, about ROBERT PLANT's son
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
MALCOLM X
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
BENJAMIN WEST - deaths of Wolfe and Nelson
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
McLUHAN is Canadian. I would toss out there ROBERT K MERTON or DANIEL BELL
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
Someone from way back, 60s or 70s
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
DON CHERRY - think of Eagle Eye and Nenah
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
The toad from Wind in the Willows?
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
LOUIS BORGEOIS
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
HUEY LONG?
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
DONNA FARGO? JEANNIE C. RILEY?
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
SATJIYAT RAY?
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
MUNGO PARK
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
Colonel HOUSE
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
CP SNOW
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
CARTLAND is dead. DANIELLE STEEL?
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
ROD LAVER?
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
ALVIN AILEY? Doesn't sound like him. I will throw out AUGUST BOURNONVILLE
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
DICK TRICKLE
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
BOBBY ORR? Way way too early for him
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE? I think so
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
EDITH BUNKER? BEA ARTHUR? I think this is the menopause episode
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
LOUISE NEVELSON?
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
JOHN STUART MILL
I believe this is All of My Love by Led Zeppelin, about ROBERT PLANT's son
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
MALCOLM X
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
BENJAMIN WEST - deaths of Wolfe and Nelson
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
McLUHAN is Canadian. I would toss out there ROBERT K MERTON or DANIEL BELL
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
Someone from way back, 60s or 70s
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
DON CHERRY - think of Eagle Eye and Nenah
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
The toad from Wind in the Willows?
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
LOUIS BORGEOIS
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
HUEY LONG?
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
DONNA FARGO? JEANNIE C. RILEY?
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
SATJIYAT RAY?
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
MUNGO PARK
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
Colonel HOUSE
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
CP SNOW
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
CARTLAND is dead. DANIELLE STEEL?
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
ROD LAVER?
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
ALVIN AILEY? Doesn't sound like him. I will throw out AUGUST BOURNONVILLE
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
DICK TRICKLE
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
BOBBY ORR? Way way too early for him
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE? I think so
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
EDITH BUNKER? BEA ARTHUR? I think this is the menopause episode
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
LOUISE NEVELSON?
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
JOHN STUART MILL
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
There are 10 wrong 'definite' answers on this ... or, at least, not the answer I was looking for.
Of those with question marks, 5 are right and 8 are wrong.
Of those with two alternates, 2 include the right answer and 1 does not.
Of those with question marks, 5 are right and 8 are wrong.
Of those with two alternates, 2 include the right answer and 1 does not.
jarnon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:26 pmHere's the first consolidation …
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
LARRY BIRD
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
HAL PRINCE
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”
HERMAN MELVILLE
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
ERIC CLAPTON
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
ANDREW CARNEGIE
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
TURNER?
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
MARGOT FONTAINE
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
WILLIAM HOWE
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
MARSHALL McLUHAN
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN RUSH
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
SIR PETER MANSFIELD
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
EMMA BOVARY
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
JAMIE COURT
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
IRWIN ROSE
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
FRANKIE VALLI?
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
ALICE MARBLE
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
BETTY FORD? BARBARA BUSH?
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
CASSIUS CLAY
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
DONNA FARGO? JEANNIE C. RILEY?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
JOHN LANGDON DOWN
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
BOB MOOSE
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE?
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
HUSBAND KIMMEL
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
THOMAS HILL GREEN
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
CHRISTOPHER WREN
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
GLORIA ALLRED
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
CHARLIE WILSON?
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE?
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
DOROTHY FIELDS
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
P.G. WODEHOUSE?
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
EDDIE ARCARO
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
WHITEY BULGER
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
MASON LOCKE WEEMS
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
JOE GOLD
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
SIR GAWAIN
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
BARBARA CARTLAND
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
ARTHUR ASHE?
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
JOHN ROCK
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
SALLY RIDE
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
JANE ADDAMS?
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
COCO CHANEL
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
ALVIN AILEY?
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
(The strip is Gasoline Alley.)
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
FREDRIC MARCH
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
LEADBELLY
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
ELLERY QUEEN
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
ROBERT E. LEE?
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
BOBBY ORR?
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE?
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS II
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
SPENCER SILVER
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
VIDA BLUE?
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
JOSEPH STORY
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
WILLIAM S. PALEY
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
EDITH BUNKER? BEA ARTHUR?
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
STANFORD BINET
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
JAMES WHALE
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
GEORGE FOX (Quakers)
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
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Game #208: A Listless Game
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
Benjamin Franklin?
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
Lenny Wilkens?
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
Robert Louis Stevenson?
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
Andrew Carnegie
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
Malcolm X
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
William Howe
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Rush
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
Terrell Davis
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
Hans Christian Andersen
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
Lady Chatterly?
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
John Stuart Mill
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. Henry
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
John Candy?
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
Nancy Reagan
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
Milton Bradley
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
Huey Long
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
Tammy Wynette?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
Downs
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
Steve Blass
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
Husband Kimmel
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
Gawain
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
Barbara Cartland?
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
Boris Becker
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
Sally Ride?
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
Sutter
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
Vida Blue
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
Maude Findley or Bea Arthur
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
Mennon
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
George Eastman
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
Theodore Roosevelt
Game #208: A Listless Game
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
Benjamin Franklin?
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
Lenny Wilkens?
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”.
Robert Louis Stevenson?
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
Andrew Carnegie
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
Malcolm X
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
William Howe
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Rush
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
Terrell Davis
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
Hans Christian Andersen
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
Lady Chatterly?
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
John Stuart Mill
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. Henry
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
John Candy?
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
Nancy Reagan
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
Milton Bradley
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
Huey Long
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
Tammy Wynette?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
Downs
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
Steve Blass
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
Husband Kimmel
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
Gawain
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
Barbara Cartland?
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
Boris Becker
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
Sally Ride?
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
Sutter
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
Vida Blue
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
Maude Findley or Bea Arthur
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
Mennon
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
George Eastman
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
Update with inputs from Weyoun and kroxquo …
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
LARRY BIRD
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
HAL PRINCE
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”
HERMAN MELVILLE
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
ROBERT PLANT
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
ANDREW CARNEGIE
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
MALCOLM X
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
BENJAMIN WEST
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
MARGOT FONTAINE
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
WILLIAM HOWE
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
ROBERT K. MERTON? DANIEL BELL?
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN RUSH
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
SIR PETER MANSFIELD
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
TERRELL DAVIS
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
DON CHERRY
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
EMMA BOVARY
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
JOHN STUART MILL
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
JAMIE COURT
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
IRWIN ROSE
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
FRANKIE VALLI?
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
ALICE MARBLE
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
JOHN CANDY?
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
MR. TOAD (Wind in the Willows)?
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
BETTY FORD? BARBARA BUSH?
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
CASSIUS CLAY
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
LOUISE BORGEOIS
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
HUEY LONG
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
TAMMY WYNETTE?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
JOHN LANGDON DOWN
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
SATJIYAT RAY?
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
BOB MOOSE? STEVE BLASS?
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
MUNGO PARK
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
HUSBAND KIMMEL
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
THOMAS HILL GREEN
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
CHRISTOPHER WREN
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
GLORIA ALLRED
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
EDWARD M. HOUSE
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE?
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
DOROTHY FIELDS
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
THOMAS EDISON
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
C.P. SNOW
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
EDDIE ARCARO
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
WHITEY BULGER
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
MASON LOCKE WEEMS
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
JOE GOLD
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
SIR GAWAIN
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
DANIELLE STEEL?
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
ARTHUR ASHE? ROD LAVER? BORIS BECKER?
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
JOHN ROCK
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
SALLY RIDE
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
JANE ADDAMS?
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
COCO CHANEL
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
ALVIN AILEY? AUGUST BOURNONVILLE?
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
(The strip is Gasoline Alley.)
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
FREDRIC MARCH
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
LEADBELLY
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
ELLERY QUEEN
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
DICK TRICKLE
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
ROBERT E. LEE?
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
BOBBY ORR?
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE?
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS II
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
SPENCER SILVER
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
VIDA BLUE
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
JOSEPH STORY
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
WILLIAM S. PALEY
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
BEA ARTHUR
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
LOUISE NEVELSON?
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
STANFORD BINET
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
JAMES WHALE
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
GEORGE FOX (Quakers)
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
JOHN STUART MILL
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I believe #33 & #90 are right and #38 is wrong.franktangredi wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:16 amThere are 10 wrong 'definite' answers on this ... or, at least, not the answer I was looking for.
Of those with question marks, 5 are right and 8 are wrong.
Of those with two alternates, 2 include the right answer and 1 does not.
Identify the 99 people in the clues below and match them into 33 trios according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. No names will be used twice.
Alternate solutions are likely, but only one combination will use all the names.
1. Though not generally known for his writings on social etiquette, he did offer this useful clarification: "A revolution is not a dinner party."
MAO ZEDONG
2. Even members of Congress from the segregated South voted in favor of funding a national monument to this man – the first such monument honoring an African American.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
3. He is the only player to be named both MVP and Coach of the Year by the NBA
LARRY BIRD
4. He won 21 Tony Awards for producing and/or directing works by Kern and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Adler and Ross, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
HAL PRINCE
5. After jumping ship in 1842, he lived for a time among the people of the Marquesas Islands – an adventure which provided the material for his first two books and gained him the reputation as the "man who lived among the cannibals.”
HERMAN MELVILLE
6. A highly uncharacteristic rock ballad on his group’s final album was written in memory of his five-year-old son, who had died the year before.
ROBERT PLANT
7. He admonished his fellow business leaders that “the man who dies leaving behind him many millions of available wealth which was his to administer during life will pass away ‘unwept, unhonored, and unsung,’ no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ‘The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’”
ANDREW CARNEGIE
8. This activist stirred considerable controversy when he commented that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” (But, then, almost everything he said stirred controversy.)
MALCOLM X
9. This artist is best known for two historical paintings depicting the deaths of British military heroes at the moment of their greatest triumphs.
BENJAMIN WEST
10. JMMQ (Judy Murphy Memorial Question): A Prima Ballerina during her 20 years with the Royal Ballet, she left them in 2001 to serve as a Creative Director for the Royal Opera House.
Another JMMQ appears at #69.
MARGOT FONTAINE
11. He took over Thomas Gage’s command in 1775; things didn’t go well after that.
WILLIAM HOWE
12. This influential American sociologist did not coin the term “post-industrial society,” but in a 1973 book he correctly forecast that such a society would be information-led and service-oriented.
ROBERT K. MERTON? DANIEL BELL?
13. This physician completes a list that also includes Robert Morris, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross … and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN RUSH
14. This English physicist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in developing magnetic resonance imaging.
SIR PETER MANSFIELD
15. In his nine seasons with the Denver Broncos, this Hall of Famer amassed a rushing total of 6,323 yards – at the time the 7th highest in the NFL.
TERRELL DAVIS
16. This beloved Danish writer was not so beloved by Charles Dickens, who reportedly modeled the character of Uriah Heep on him.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
17. This actor’s last two completed film roles were adaptations of works by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
TYRONE POWER
18. The career of this jazz trumpeter took off in the late 1950s when he began playing with Ornette Coleman; three decades later, his son and stepdaughter made their own appearances on the pop charts.
DON CHERRY
19. She is the linchpin of a romantic quadrangle formed by her husband Charles and her lovers Rodolphe and Léon.
EMMA BOVARY
20. In a 1900 obituary, the New York Times called this proponent of Reform Judaism “the foremost rabbi in America.”
ISAAC MAYER WISE
21. In addition to his influence on political thought, education, and the development of Romanticism, this philosopher was also an advocate of breastfeeding.
JOHN STUART MILL
22. Though she was hanged only for the poisoning of her stepson, she is believed to have murdered three of her four husbands and eleven of her thirteen children for their insurance. (She died of slow strangulation rather than a quick neck break, due to a ‘mistake’ on the part of the hangman.)
23. Longtime president of the organization Consumer Watchdog, this activist is also the author of such books as The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell.
JAMIE COURT
24. In 1918, he sent an infamous telegram in which he recommended the public hanging of “no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fat cats, and bloodsuckers.”
VLADIMIR LENIN
25. This American shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries regarding ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. (No, I haven’t any idea what that means.)
IRWIN ROSE
26. A classic Honeymooners episode about Ralph’s efforts to find the perfect gift for Alice was one of many works to borrow the basic premise of this author’s most famous work.
O. HENRY
27. In 1965, a radio station in New York aired a special version of the latest hit by a popular vocal group in which this lead singer held a single note for over a minute. (No, it wasn’t Ethel Merman.)
FRANKIE VALLI?
28. This American tennis player won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940.
ALICE MARBLE
29. This actor lost the role in Ghostbusters that eventually went to his colleague Rick Moranis, but at least he got to appear in the music video.
JOHN CANDY?
30. In a 1908 English novel, he became one of the earliest – and still one of the greatest – portraits of a car freak and reckless driver in literary history.
MR. TOAD (Wind in the Willows)?
31. This economist is best remembered for something he reportedly sketched on a cocktail napkin during a 1974 meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
ARTHUR LAFFER
32. In addition to launching the “It’s Get Better” campaign, this columnist and activist was responsible for Rick Santorum’s “Google problem.”
DAN SAVAGE
33. She was the first First Lady to visit Sesame Street.
BETTY FORD? BARBARA BUSH?
34. Son of a wealthy Kentucky slaveholding family, he converted to abolitionism while a student at Yale after hearing William Lloyd Garrison speak; he was later appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln and helped win the tsar’s support for the Union cause.
CASSIUS CLAY
35. This French-American artist gained renown for her installations and monumental sculptures, especially a 30-feet high spider made of steel, bronze and marble.
LOUISE BORGEOIS
36. After his lithography business failed in 1860, this businessman found a new way to succeed at the game of life.
MILTON BRADLEY
37. In 1934, this American politician proposed a radical economic plan, the provisions of which included a cap on inheritances, incomes, and private fortunes; free higher education for all; a four-day work week with four weeks of paid vacation a year; and free medical service to all citizens.
HUEY LONG
38. Though this singer charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country charts, her only crossover hit was a 1970 hit that went to #3 on the pop chart.
TAMMY WYNETTE?
39. In addition to describing the genetic condition that now bears his name, this British physician was a pioneer in improving the treatment of the mentally disabled.
JOHN LANGDON DOWN
40. Though some critics find his lyricism ‘slow’ and others accuse him of glorifying poverty, he is still considered his country’s greatest filmmaker – placed by no less than Martin Scorsese on a par with his contemporaries Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.
SATJIYAT RAY?
41. More than a century later, this poet and playwright remains the only Belgian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
42. The high point of this pitcher’s nine-year career with the Pirates was a no-hitter against the Mets in 1969; the low point was a wild pitch in 1972 that sent the Reds into the World Series.
BOB MOOSE? STEVE BLASS?
43. After a 1796 expedition down the Niger River, this explorer wrote a book theorizing that the Congo and the Niger eventually merged into a single river – a theory that was finally disproven until 1830.
MUNGO PARK
44. He was the officer in charge of the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (The Senate absolved him of all responsibility … more than 50 years later.)
HUSBAND KIMMEL
45. This English idealist philosopher’s two most important works, the Prolegomena to Ethics and the Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, were not published until after his death.
THOMAS HILL GREEN
46. The best-known designs of this English architect include Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
CHRISTOPHER WREN
47. The #MeToo movement brought renewed attention to this attorney and activist, who first emerged on the national stage more than two decades earlier.
GLORIA ALLRED
48. This Houston-born diplomat was one of the most trusted advisors to the President of the United States, but after clashes at the Paris Peace Conference, the two never spoke again.
EDWARD M. HOUSE
49. One of the great actor-managers of his day – and founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts – he was knighted in 1909 for his services to the British theatre.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE?
50. In a career spanning 48 years, this lyricist put words to the music of – among others – Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz, and Cy Coleman.
DOROTHY FIELDS
51. At various times, his employees included Henry Ford, African American inventor Lewis Latimer, and film director Edwin S. Porter.
THOMAS EDISON
52. This English novelist is best known for a series of eleven novels published over a 30-year span and covering 43 years in the life of a civil servant named Lewis Eliot.
C.P. SNOW
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
EDDIE ARCARO
54. His rise to power was cemented by the murder of Paul Castellano.
WHITEY BULGER
55. A biography written by this minister is arguably the foundational document of American hagiography.
MASON LOCKE WEEMS
56. This chef’s restaurant La Pyramide was considered the finest in France during his lifetime, but it eventually lost all three of its Michelin stars after his death.
57. The business he founded in Venice, California in 1965 came to be known as “the Mecca of bodybuilding.”
JOE GOLD
58. Along with Agravain, Gareth, and Gaheris, this knight of the Round Table was King Arthur’s nephew by his sister Morgause and King Lot.
SIR GAWAIN
59. This actor completes a list that also includes Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan, Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, and Peter Ustinov.
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
60. This former Atlanta mayor currently serves as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
62. Author of more than 140 novels since 1973, she is currently the world’s best-selling living writer.
DANIELLE STEEL?
63. During the Open Era, he was the youngest player to achieve a career Grand Slam and the first to achieve the Surface Slam.
ARTHUR ASHE? ROD LAVER? BORIS BECKER?
64. In 1931, this gynecologist was the only Roman Catholic doctor to sign a petition to legalize birth control; two decades later, he oversaw a critical milestone in its development.
JOHN ROCK
65. A year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to do something, this woman became the third.
SALLY RIDE
66. This social reformer was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
JANE ADDAMS?
67. This English antiquarian won renown for his 1674 history of Oxford University.
68. There is strong evidence that this fashion designer collaborated with – and may even have acted as an agent for – the Nazis, but was shielded from postwar prosecution by Winston Churchill himself.
COCO CHANEL
69. JMMQ: This choreographer’s best-known work, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, told the story of a young man driven to suicide by his unfaithful lover.
ALVIN AILEY? AUGUST BOURNONVILLE?
70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
(The strip is Gasoline Alley.)
71. He was the only actor to win both the Oscar and the Tony twice.
FREDRIC MARCH
72. In the 1930s, this blues musician was discovered by folklorist John Lomax in a Louisiana prison.
LEADBELLY
73. In January 2017, this prime minister became the first foreign leader to meet with newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
74. This physicist made his seminal discovery in 1895 while conducting experiments with cathode tubes.
WILHELM ROENTGEN
75. The first nine mystery novels published under this pseudonym each contained a national or geographic designation (Roman, Dutch, Chinese, etc.) in its title.
ELLERY QUEEN
76. After this driver’s 2013 suicide, the chairman of NASCAR released a statement eulogizing him as “a legend in the short track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin.”
DICK TRICKLE
77. In 1848, he suddenly found himself the most famous sawmill owner in America.
JOHN SUTTER
78. As proprietor of the Emporia Gazette, this journalist became a leading figure of the Progressive movement and spokesman for Middle America.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
79. As a master thief-taker, he was responsible for the arrest and hanging of highwayman Jack Sheppard; as a master criminal, he was eventually hanged himself.
80. In 2020, his statue in the U.S. Capitol was replaced by one of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns.
ROBERT E. LEE?
81. At the age of nine, he worked twelve hours a day as a crow scarer … later became a key figure in the unionization of British agricultural workers … and eventually wound up in Parliament.
82. The last active player from the NHL’s inaugural season, this Hall-of-Famer won three Stanley Cups with the Toronto St. Pat’s and the Montreal Maroons.
BOBBY ORR?
83. In 1896, this French filmmaker became the first woman to direct a movie.
ALICE GUY BLACHE?
84. Until the advent of Bruce Wayne, the most notable use of a particular costume was in this composer’s most popular operetta.
JOHANN STRAUSS II
85. This chemist for 3M is credited with inventing the adhesive that made Post-It Notes possible.
SPENCER SILVER
86. He was only 22 when he won both the American League MVP and the Cy Young Award.
VIDA BLUE
87. Many works of this French writer – who ultimately died in a wartime plane crash –were informed by his experiences as a pioneering aviator
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
88. Nominated by President James Madison at the age of 32, he remains the youngest Justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
JOSEPH STORY
89. Don Hewett wrote that this broadcasting pioneer “erected two towers of power: one for entertainment and one for news… [He] was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio.”
WILLIAM S. PALEY
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
BEA ARTHUR
91. This singer amassed an impressive series of hits along with her brother Bubba and her cousins William and Edward.
GLADYS KNIGHT
92. This Russian-American sculptor first gained widespread attention in the 1940s when she exhibited a found shoeshine box at the Museum of Modern Art.
LOUISE NEVELSON?
93. This American psychologist is known for his contributions to aptitude testing and his development of drive theory, an attempt to systematically analyze human drives.
STANFORD BINET
94. This novelist famously described her writing as a “little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush.”
95. Though his reputation rests primarily on horror, he directed films in many genres – including what many consider the definitive screen version of a great American musical.
JAMES WHALE
96. A magistrate who tried this religious leader for blasphemy in 1650 gave his followers what was intended to be a mocking soubriquet.
GEORGE FOX (Quakers)
97. In an 1869 essay, this philosopher stated that the “legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.”
JOHN STUART MILL
98. On a trip to Santa Fe in 1944, his daughter expressed impatience to see a picture he had just take of her; the rest is history.
EDWIN LAND
99. This President famously commented that he could run the country or he could control his daughter, but he couldn’t do both.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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70. This cartoonist created the first comic strip in which the characters aged with the years.
(The strip is Gasoline Alley.)
This was driving me nuts. THFD was quite the Gasoline Alley fan. Once described a guy I was dating as a Skeezix type. I had to look it up. So I looked this up.
FRANK KING.
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
This is possibly MARY GARDEN
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
BEA ARTHUR
This is definitely JEAN STAPLETON/EDITH BUNKER.
The Maude abortion episode, also 1972, was later in the year. We had to watch it for a class in crisis communications. It was a two-parter toward the end of the semester.
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
EDDIE ARCARO
Arcaro was retired by 1989.
(The strip is Gasoline Alley.)
This was driving me nuts. THFD was quite the Gasoline Alley fan. Once described a guy I was dating as a Skeezix type. I had to look it up. So I looked this up.
FRANK KING.
61. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
This is possibly MARY GARDEN
90. On January 8, 1972, her “Problem” broke a major television taboo.
BEA ARTHUR
This is definitely JEAN STAPLETON/EDITH BUNKER.
The Maude abortion episode, also 1972, was later in the year. We had to watch it for a class in crisis communications. It was a two-parter toward the end of the semester.
53. Winner of nine Triple Crown races, this jockey set a North American record in 1989 when he rode eight out of nine mounts to victory in a single day.
EDDIE ARCARO
Arcaro was retired by 1989.
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82 is not Bobby Orr. The NHL is a lot older than that, and I'm pretty sure he played his whole career with the Bruins. --Bob
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I'm wondering whether 21 is Thoreau. --Bob
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38. isn't Donna Fargo, or Jeannie C Reilly or Tammy Wynette or Tanya Tucker or Anne Murray or Jessi Colter or any of the other country crossovers of the 1970s.
It's LYNN ANDERSON, whose only pop hit came with (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden.
It's LYNN ANDERSON, whose only pop hit came with (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden.
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For #93, the standardized test is called Stanford-Binet, but the Stanford is not Binet's first name. It's ALFRED BINET.
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Ummmm.
This is a "listless" game, which I'm taking to mean no list of associated words.
Maybe the trios are associated words.
We have 38. Lynn Anderson, along with 25. Irwin ROSE and 61. Mary GARDEN.
84 Johann Strauss goes with 59. Christoph WALTZ and 70. Frank KING.
11. William Howe goes with 90. Edith BUNKER and 45. Thomas HILL Green
This is a "listless" game, which I'm taking to mean no list of associated words.
Maybe the trios are associated words.
We have 38. Lynn Anderson, along with 25. Irwin ROSE and 61. Mary GARDEN.
84 Johann Strauss goes with 59. Christoph WALTZ and 70. Frank KING.
11. William Howe goes with 90. Edith BUNKER and 45. Thomas HILL Green
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That's brilliant, mrkelley23!
74. WILHELM ROENTGEN = 8. Malcolm X + 40. Satjiyat RAY
1. MAO ZEDONG = 37. Huey LONG + 71. Fredric MARCH
5. HERMAN MELVILLE = 78. William Allen WHITE + 95. James WHALE
7. ANDREW CARNEGIE = 62. Danielle STEEL + 97. John Stuart MILL
74. WILHELM ROENTGEN = 8. Malcolm X + 40. Satjiyat RAY
1. MAO ZEDONG = 37. Huey LONG + 71. Fredric MARCH
5. HERMAN MELVILLE = 78. William Allen WHITE + 95. James WHALE
7. ANDREW CARNEGIE = 62. Danielle STEEL + 97. John Stuart MILL
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
74. Wilhelm Roentgen goes with 8. Malcolm X and 40. Satjiyat RAY
27. Is from Cara Mia by Jay and the Americans. Lead singer's name is JAY BLACK.
27. Is from Cara Mia by Jay and the Americans. Lead singer's name is JAY BLACK.
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- jarnon
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Re: Game #208: A Listless Game
Two of the missing answers are probably SWAN and GREEN.
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