Game #210: Last Man Standing
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Game #210: Last Man Standing
Game #210: Last Man Standing
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
Associated Words List:
#18
X
ABC
AIP
CIO
OMB
Afghanistan
New Hampshire
Oregon
Detroit
Nashville
Rochester
Granada
Sydney
Igor
Jeannie
Belinda
Stanley
Hans
Apollo
Popeye
Dolly
Aaron
Alan
Homer
Luke
Gregg
Dewey
McLaughlin
Conner
Biden
Cohn
Jones
Conway
Miller
Stenographer
Housewife
Gypsy
Mermaid
Cowboy
Grass
Poison
Meat
Lion
Bulldog
Bear
Cricket
Shark
Foxes
South
Alley
Patch
Watergate
Dartmouth
Juilliard
Intelligence
Behaviorism
Capitalism
Anarchy
Fast
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
Associated Words List:
#18
X
ABC
AIP
CIO
OMB
Afghanistan
New Hampshire
Oregon
Detroit
Nashville
Rochester
Granada
Sydney
Igor
Jeannie
Belinda
Stanley
Hans
Apollo
Popeye
Dolly
Aaron
Alan
Homer
Luke
Gregg
Dewey
McLaughlin
Conner
Biden
Cohn
Jones
Conway
Miller
Stenographer
Housewife
Gypsy
Mermaid
Cowboy
Grass
Poison
Meat
Lion
Bulldog
Bear
Cricket
Shark
Foxes
South
Alley
Patch
Watergate
Dartmouth
Juilliard
Intelligence
Behaviorism
Capitalism
Anarchy
Fast
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
having more length problems
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
And here's the Associated Word list
#18
X
ABC
AIP
CIO
OMB
Afghanistan
New Hampshire
Oregon
Detroit
Nashville
Rochester
Granada
Sydney
Igor
Jeannie
Belinda
Stanley
Hans
Apollo
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
And the rest of the Associated Word list
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
Greg LeMond?
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
Ron Santo
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
Mort Walker
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
Eli Whitney
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
Don Henley?
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
Jane Goodall
Greg LeMond?
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
Ron Santo
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
Mort Walker
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
Eli Whitney
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
Don Henley?
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
Jane Goodall
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Walt Disney
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
Milton Hershey?
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
Jim Bowie
Walt Disney
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
Milton Hershey?
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
Jim Bowie
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Walt Disney
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
Trudeau?
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
Probably a bicyclist
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
Abie Hoffman?
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
Marc Rothko
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
Margot Kidder
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
Ron Santo
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
Bob Fosse
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
Allan Pinkerton
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
Bill Barber
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
Francisco Pizzaro
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
Pat Nixon
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
Donald Trump
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
One of the Wyeths. Work is Christina's World
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
Joseph Heller
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
William Friedkin
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
Baby Huey?
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
Whoever did Beetle Bailey
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
Adlai Stevenson
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
Gene Pitney
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
Edmund Hilary
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
Eli Whitney
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
Steve Van Buren
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
Korematsu
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
Sartre
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
Milton Hersshey
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
Don Henley
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
Parkinson
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
Winfield Scott
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
Jim Henson?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
Caesar Rodney
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
John Dillinger
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
Sugar Ray Robinson
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
Les Paul
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
Robert Jackson
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
Guttenberg
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
Edward R. Murrow
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
Eric Heiden
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
Jesse Jackson
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
Mead
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
Donald O'Connor
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
James Buchanan
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
Isaac Newton
Walt Disney
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
Trudeau?
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
Probably a bicyclist
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
Abie Hoffman?
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
Marc Rothko
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
Margot Kidder
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
Ron Santo
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
Bob Fosse
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
Allan Pinkerton
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
Bill Barber
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
Francisco Pizzaro
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
Pat Nixon
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
Donald Trump
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
One of the Wyeths. Work is Christina's World
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
Joseph Heller
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
William Friedkin
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
Baby Huey?
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
Whoever did Beetle Bailey
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
Adlai Stevenson
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
Gene Pitney
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
Edmund Hilary
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
Eli Whitney
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
Steve Van Buren
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
Korematsu
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
Sartre
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
Milton Hersshey
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
Don Henley
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
Parkinson
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
Winfield Scott
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
Jim Henson?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
Caesar Rodney
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
John Dillinger
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
Sugar Ray Robinson
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
Les Paul
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
Robert Jackson
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
Guttenberg
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
Edward R. Murrow
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
Eric Heiden
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
Jesse Jackson
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
Mead
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
Donald O'Connor
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
James Buchanan
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
Isaac Newton
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
Hooray!
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICKOVER
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
ALLAN PINKERTON
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
PAT NIXON
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
EDMUND HILLARY
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
ELI WHITNEY
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
JAMES PARKINSON
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
EDWARD MURROW
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
ISAAC NEWTON
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICKOVER
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
ALLAN PINKERTON
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
PAT NIXON
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
EDMUND HILLARY
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
ELI WHITNEY
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
JAMES PARKINSON
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
EDWARD MURROW
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
ISAAC NEWTON
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
franktangredi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:15 amGame #210: Last Man Standing
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
Nikola Tesla?
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
Lance Armstrong?
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
RON SANTO?
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
BOB FOSSE?
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
Pinkerton?
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
Could be Angels in america, which would mean TONY KUSHNER
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
Amanda Freitag, probably. Alex G.'s in NYC, I think
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH?
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
Something makes me think this doesn't refer to Broadway.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
ETHEL ANDRUS
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
GENE PITNEY?
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
ELI WHITNEY?
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
JOHN MCCAIN?
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
DON HENLEY
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
HAROLD UREY
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
DR. HACKENBUSH??
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
EDWARD R. MURROW
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
JESSE JACKSON
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
MARGARET MEAD?
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
ISAAC NEWTON?
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
franktangredi wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:15 amGame #210: Last Man Standing
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery. Tolstoy
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walt Disney
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children. Tesla
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)OJ Simpson
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)Rene Fleming
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof. Whitney
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning. Abby Hoffman
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism. Klimt
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence. La Salle
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder. Margot Kidder
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.Alvin Ailey
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.” Jimmy Hoffa
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.Tammy Faye Baker
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)Dave Chappelle
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS. David Mamet
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady. Betty Ford
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder. Andrew Wyeth
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history. Andrew Lloyd Webber
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years. Charles 1
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”Joseph Heller
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.Alan Turing
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.William Friedkin
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.Charles Schultz
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.James Herriott
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.James Barrymore
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.John McCain
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.Sartre
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.Nestle
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo. Barbara Boxwood crappp!
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)Carolina Herrera
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.Freddy Fender
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
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6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.) Greg Lemond (with the second being Lance Armstrong)
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First consolidation …
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
TOLSTOY
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
NIKOLA TESLA
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
TRUDEAU?
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
GREG LeMOND
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
RENE FLEMING
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICKOVER
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
MARC ROTHKO
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
LA SALLE
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
RON SANTO
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
BOB FOSSE? ALVIN AILEY?
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
JIMMY HOFFA
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
ALLAN PINKERTON
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
DAVE CHAPPELLE
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
TONY KUSHNER? DAVID MAMET?
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
BILL BARBER
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
FRANCISCO PIZZARO
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
PAT NIXON
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
AMANDA FREITAG
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
DONALD TRUMP
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
CHARLES I
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
ALAN TURING
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
ETHEL ANDRUS
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
BABY HUEY?
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
ADLAI STEVENSON
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
GENE PITNEY
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
EDMUND HILLARY
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
JAMES HERRIOTT
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
ELI WHITNEY
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
STEVE VAN BUREN
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
JAMES BARRYMORE
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
JOHN McCAIN?
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
KOREMATSU
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
DON HENLEY
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
BARBARA BOXWOOD
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
JAMES PARKINSON
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
WINFIELD SCOTT
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
CAROLINA HERRERA
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
JIM HENSON?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
CAESAR RODNEY
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
HAROLD UREY
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
JIM BOWIE
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
DR. HACKENBUSH?
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
LES PAUL? FREDDY FENDER?
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
ROBERT JACKSON
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
GUTTENBERG
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
EDWARD R. MURROW
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
ERIC HEIDEN
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
JESSE JACKSON
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
JANE GOODALL
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
DONALD O'CONNOR
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
JAMES BUCHANAN
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
ISAAC NEWTON
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Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
TOLSTOY
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
NIKOLA TESLA
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
TRUDEAU?
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
GREG LeMOND
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
RENE FLEMING
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICKOVER
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
MARC ROTHKO
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
LA SALLE
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
RON SANTO
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
BOB FOSSE? ALVIN AILEY?
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
JIMMY HOFFA
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
ALLAN PINKERTON
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
DAVE CHAPPELLE
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
TONY KUSHNER? DAVID MAMET?
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
BILL BARBER
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
FRANCISCO PIZZARO
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
PAT NIXON
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
AMANDA FREITAG
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
DONALD TRUMP
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
CHARLES I
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
ALAN TURING
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
ETHEL ANDRUS
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
BABY HUEY?
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
ADLAI STEVENSON
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
GENE PITNEY
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
EDMUND HILLARY
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
JAMES HERRIOTT
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
ELI WHITNEY
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
STEVE VAN BUREN
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
JAMES BARRYMORE
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
JOHN McCAIN?
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
KOREMATSU
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
DON HENLEY
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
BARBARA BOXWOOD
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
JAMES PARKINSON
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
WINFIELD SCOTT
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
CAROLINA HERRERA
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
JIM HENSON?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
CAESAR RODNEY
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
HAROLD UREY
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
JIM BOWIE
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
DR. HACKENBUSH?
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
LES PAUL? FREDDY FENDER?
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
ROBERT JACKSON
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
GUTTENBERG
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
EDWARD R. MURROW
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
ERIC HEIDEN
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
JESSE JACKSON
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
JANE GOODALL
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
DONALD O'CONNOR
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
JAMES BUCHANAN
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
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Game #210: Last Man Standing
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
GREG LEMOND
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
MARILYN HORNE
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICHOVER
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
JERRY RUBIN?
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
GORKY
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
RON SANTO?
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
EMMA
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
BOB FOSSE
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
DAVID DUBINSKY
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
PINKERTON?
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
DAVE CHAPPELLE
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
PAUL RUDNICK? (play is Jeffrey)
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
MARTY ROBBINS
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
HARVEY SCHMIDT
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
Whoever founded AARP
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
JOHN ALTGELD
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
GENE PITNEY
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
TROY VINCENT
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
HILLSIDE STRANGLER?
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
LAURENCE LUCKINBILL
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
CASS?
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
TRACY AUSTIN
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
SIDNEY BECHET
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
ROBERT SHERWOOD
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
BURR TILLSTROM?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
CESAR RODNEY
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL????
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
DOCTOR HUGO HACKENBUSH
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
FRANK NORRIS? (McTeague)
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
MARVIN HAGLER
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
DUANE EDDY??
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith.
EDWARD R. MURROW
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
ERIC HEIDEN
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
CARL SANDBURG
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
JESSE JACKSON
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
CLINT EASTWOOD
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Game #210: Last Man Standing
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
GREG LEMOND
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
MARILYN HORNE
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICHOVER
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
JERRY RUBIN?
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
GORKY
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
RON SANTO?
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
EMMA
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
BOB FOSSE
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
DAVID DUBINSKY
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
PINKERTON?
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
DAVE CHAPPELLE
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
PAUL RUDNICK? (play is Jeffrey)
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
MARTY ROBBINS
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
HARVEY SCHMIDT
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
Whoever founded AARP
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
JOHN ALTGELD
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
GENE PITNEY
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
TROY VINCENT
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
HILLSIDE STRANGLER?
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
LAURENCE LUCKINBILL
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
CASS?
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
TRACY AUSTIN
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
SIDNEY BECHET
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
ROBERT SHERWOOD
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
BURR TILLSTROM?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
CESAR RODNEY
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL????
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
DOCTOR HUGO HACKENBUSH
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
FRANK NORRIS? (McTeague)
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
MARVIN HAGLER
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
DUANE EDDY??
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith.
EDWARD R. MURROW
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
ERIC HEIDEN
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
CARL SANDBURG
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
JESSE JACKSON
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
CLINT EASTWOOD
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
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24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER
Jim Bakker had already been sent to prison by this time, so I can't imagine this is Tammy Faye...
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Jim Bakker had already been sent to prison by this time, so I can't imagine this is Tammy Faye...
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I edited the word list into the original game post by adding italics tags in between the C and H of "Patch"...
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There are 25 definite answers that are wrong on this consolidation. Melly has subsequently corrected a bunch of them.
Of those with question marks, 2 are right and 4 are wrong.
Of those with multiple answers, one includes the right answer and one doesn't.
Of those with question marks, 2 are right and 4 are wrong.
Of those with multiple answers, one includes the right answer and one doesn't.
jarnon wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 10:10 pmFirst consolidation …
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
TOLSTOY
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
NIKOLA TESLA
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
TRUDEAU?
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
GREG LeMOND
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
RENE FLEMING
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICKOVER
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
MARC ROTHKO
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
LA SALLE
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
RON SANTO
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
BOB FOSSE? ALVIN AILEY?
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
JIMMY HOFFA
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
ALLAN PINKERTON
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
DAVE CHAPPELLE
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
TONY KUSHNER? DAVID MAMET?
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
BILL BARBER
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
FRANCISCO PIZZARO
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
PAT NIXON
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
AMANDA FREITAG
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
DONALD TRUMP
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
CHARLES I
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
ALAN TURING
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
ETHEL ANDRUS
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
BABY HUEY?
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
ADLAI STEVENSON
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
GENE PITNEY
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
EDMUND HILLARY
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
JAMES HERRIOTT
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
ELI WHITNEY
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
STEVE VAN BUREN
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
JAMES BARRYMORE
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
JOHN McCAIN?
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
KOREMATSU
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
DON HENLEY
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
BARBARA BOXWOOD
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
JAMES PARKINSON
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
WINFIELD SCOTT
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
CAROLINA HERRERA
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
JIM HENSON?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
CAESAR RODNEY
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
HAROLD UREY
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
JIM BOWIE
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
DR. HACKENBUSH?
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
LES PAUL? FREDDY FENDER?
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
ROBERT JACKSON
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
GUTTENBERG
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
EDWARD R. MURROW
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
ERIC HEIDEN
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
JESSE JACKSON
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
JANE GOODALL
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
DONALD O'CONNOR
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
JAMES BUCHANAN
100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
ISAAC NEWTON
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54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
JAMES BARRYMORE
How about MICHAEL REDGRAVE?
Mourning Becomes Electra and The Quiet American, definitely
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How about MICHAEL REDGRAVE?
Mourning Becomes Electra and The Quiet American, definitely
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98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
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I'm pretty sure 65. is SCOTTIE PIPPEN, and 99. is actually WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING
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This is JOYCE MEYER.littlebeast13 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:10 am24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER
Jim Bakker had already been sent to prison by this time, so I can't imagine this is Tammy Faye...
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Poison (Poisonwood Bible)-Barbara Kingsolver
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25 out of 58 wrong! I should have waited till mellytu74 had a chance to play before consolidating.franktangredi wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 8:05 amThere are 25 definite answers that are wrong on this consolidation. Melly has subsequently corrected a bunch of them.
Identify the 100 people in the clues below and match them into 60 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words. Twenty names will be used twice, each time in a different capacity.
1. Although Henry James described the works of this 19th century novelist as “large, loose, baggy monsters,” he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and the Nobel Peace Prize three times, and why he never won is still a mystery.
LEO TOLSTOY
2. American culture would be very different today if he had not lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
WALT DISNEY
3. A major contributor to the development of Alternating Current, this engineer suffered from a congenital curvature of the spine and did not marry for fear of passing it on to his children.
NIKOLA TESLA
4. On November 4, he will celebrate his 7th anniversary as his country’s prime minister.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU?
5. This philosopher famously stated, “The new electronic interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”
MARSHALL McLUHAN
6. He was the first of only two people in his field to be named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated (and SI probably wishes it could take back the second.)
GREG LeMOND
7. With her 1977 performance of the title role, this mezzo-soprano single-handedly brought Rossini’s Tancredi back into the operatic repertoire.
(There’s something about that title I rather like….)
MARILYN HORNE
8. In 1814, he established the first mill in the United States that brought all stages of cotton cloth production under the same roof.
9. This ‘Father of the Nuclear Navy’ is one of the few people to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal twice.
HYMAN RICKOVER
10. Called before a HUAC hearing, this quintessential 1960s radical showed up dressed in a Revolutionary War uniform and blew soap bubbles during his questioning.
JERRY RUBIN?
11. As a boy, this painter came to America to escape the Armenian Genocide – which was a fortunate thing for both him and the development of Abstract Expressionism.
ARSHILE GORKY
12. This explorer was the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
LA SALLE
13. This actress was best known for her role in a series of superhero films – and for a highly publicized manic episode due to bipolar disorder.
MARGOT KIDDER
14. A volume published in 1650 made this poet the first Puritan figure in American literature.
15. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
16. The mercantilist policies he instituted as Minister of State brought much gold into the Sun King’s coffers.
17. In 2007, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution urging his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame – a gesture than probably had nothing to do with his finally making it five years later.
RON SANTO
18. After this musician’s death, a note was found on his body saying, “We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby. Bury me in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
19. This literary heroine, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
EMMA WOODHOUSE
20. One of the founding figures of personality psychology, he developed a theory that organized human personality into a hierarchy of cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
21. JMMQ: His biographer argued that this choreographer put hats on his dancers because he was self-conscious about his own baldness; other signatures of his style included rolled shoulders, turned-in knees and – of course – jazz hands.
BOB FOSSE
22. This influential labor leader was the longest-serving president of the union that would later urge us to “Look for the Union Label.”
DAVID DUBINSKY
23. She co-founded what would become the first digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.
24. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the television ministry she founded with her husband in Chicago.
JOYCE MEYER
25. Speaking of Chicago, he was appointed the city’s first police detective in 1849, but soon entered the private sector.
ALLAN PINKERTON
26. At one taping of his popular TV series, this comedian told the studio audience, "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid." (Not surprisingly, he quit the show soon after.)
DAVE CHAPPELLE
27. A dedicated anti-interventionist in the years before World War II, this Senator served his first three terms as a member of the Minnesota Farm-Labor Party and – after that party dissolved – his last term as a Republican.
28. This playwright and screenwriter had his biggest stage success was a 1993 comedy that New York theatres were reluctant to produce because it found humor in AIDS.
PAUL RUDNICK?
29. This singer-songwriter hit #1 on the pop charts and won a Grammy for Best Country and Western Recording with a song in which the narrator describes his own violent death.
MARTY ROBBINS
30. He was the only agronomist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
31. On a night honoring this left wing, Philadelphia Flyers fans were given wigs resembling his signature bushy hair.
BILL BARBER
32. Ignoring a direct order from his superior, this military leader went on an insane mission to conquer a huge empire with a force of just 600 men – and succeeded.
FRANCISCO PIZZARO
33. She had the longest combined tenure as U.S. First Lady and Second Lady.
PAT NIXON
34. Known for her frequent appearances as a judge on Chopped, this chef currently operates a Dallas restaurant called Rise and Thyme.
AMANDA FREITAG
35. Soon after 9/11, this real estate developer announced his intention to rebuild the World Trade Center.
DONALD TRUMP
36. The subject of this painter’s best-known work was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson, who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder.
ANDREW WYETH
37. He composed the music for the longest running stage musical in history.
HARVEY SCHMIDT
38. A descendant of Charlemagne, he was elected to succeed the last Carolingian king; his own descendants would rule France for the better part of 800 years.
CHARLES I
39. This American writer is best known for a 1961 novel that is built around the question, “What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
JOSEPH HELLER
40. The machine that he began developing to help him with mathematical calculations was installed at Harvard in 1944 – and the rest is history.
ALAN TURING
41. He directed one of the greatest cop movies of all time and one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but his career in the half-century since has never reached the same heights.
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
43. The organization founded by this activist in 1958 now issues the two most widely circulated publications in the United States.
ETHEL ANDRUS
44. A standard work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his History of the United States posited four main themes of American history: providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.
45. He began appearing in an eponymous series of film shorts in 1945, an eponymous Harvey comic book in 1952, and an eponymous television show in 1963.
BABY HUEY?
46. This Puritan minister founded the first Baptist church in America and ultimately made possible the founding of the first synagogue in America.
47. Thanks to the Korean War, his comic strip about a lazy college student morphed into something quite different.
MORT WALKER
48. As governor, this Progressive pardoned three of the convicted Haymarket “rioters” and refused to use force to break up the Pullman strike.
JOHN ALTGELD
49. This singer made the Top Ten with the title song of a Kirk Douglas movie, as well as another song that shared a title with – but did not appear in – a John Wayne movie.
GENE PITNEY
50. After completing a long-desired mission, this New Zealander told a friend and colleague, “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off."
EDMUND HILLARY
51. A breeder of Rough Collies, he gained fame for the stories he wrote about his own collie, Lad.
JAMES HERRIOTT
52. He hoped his 1793 invention would eventually lead to the end of slavery in the United States, but it had exactly the opposite effect.
ELI WHITNEY
53. He, Tom Brookshier, and Eric Allen are the only three players at their position in the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame.
TROY VINCENT
54. This theatrical patriarch appeared in screen in adaptations of works by Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Graham Greene, and Alan Sillitoe.
MICHAEL REDGRAVE
55. The second most prolific serial killer in U.S. history in terms of confirmed murders, he got his nickname from the place where some of his first victims were found.
HILLSIDE STRANGLER?
56. While this officer was organizing resistance at the Hanoi Hilton, his wife was founding the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs.
JOHN McCAIN?
57. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
FRED KOREMATSU
58. This French philosopher’s 1945 book on the phenomenology of perception is considered one of the major documents of existentialism.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
59. This entrepreneur made a big success of the Lancaster Caramel Company – then sold it and used the profits to build an even more successful company.
MILTON HERSHEY
60. After the death of Glenn Frey, this musician commented, "I had always hoped somewhere along the line, he and I would have dinner together, talking about old times and letting it go with a handshake and a hug."
DON HENLEY
61. Her best-known novel tells the story of a missionary family that moves from Georgia to the Belgian Congo.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
62. This actor has had a distinguished stage career – including the original landmark production of The Boys in the Band and one-man shows about Hemingway, Teddy Roosevelt, and Clarence Darrow – but he will never be as famous (or as funny) as his beloved mother-in-law.
LAURENCE LUCKINBILL
63. This English surgeon is best remembered for his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
JAMES PARKINSON
64. In between stints as Secretary of War under Jackson and Secretary of State under Buchanan, he made his own bid for the Presidency, but lost to a man whose military record was more impressive than his own.
LEWIS CASS?
65. This small forward won two NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals, and has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice.
SCOTTIE PIPPEN
66. Secretary to a celebrated private detective, she was so efficient as to seem barely human and was far more interested in developing a new filing system than in any of the murders her employer was so brilliantly solving.
67. This British economist was award the Nobel Memorial Prize “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy."
68. In 1998, this Texas-born designer became the first American to unveil her spring collection ahead of Paris. (We wonder if her ultra-French mother approved.)
CAROLINA HERRERA
69. This photographer took what became a famous photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono just hours before his murder.
70. At age 29, this superstar became the youngest person inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
TRACY AUSTIN
71. He pioneered the swing style of jazz and the use of the soprano sax as a jazz instrument, and was an early collaborator of Louis Armstrong. (He was also, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to get along with.)
SIDNEY BECHET
72. In addition to his three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, he picked up a fourth Pulitzer for Biography.
ROBERT SHERWOOD
73. Though his hands were well hidden on his most popular television show, he won an Emmy for the “hand ballets” he performed on another television show.
BURR TILLSTROM?
74. The green scarf worn by this signer of the Declaration of Independence hid the ravages of the facial cancer that eventually took his life.
CAESAR RODNEY
75. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the isotope deuterium.
HAROLD UREY
76. JMMQ: He was the principle choreography at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet when it was officially chartered as the Royal Ballet, and served as its director from 1963 until his retirement in 1970.
77. In 1918, while serving as pastor of New York’s First Presbyterian Church, this minister delivered a widely published sermon titled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he espoused the Modernist view that the Bible was a record of the unfolding of God’s will and not the literal ‘Word of God.’
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
78. In 1847, the medical students at the Geneva College of Medicine were asked to vote on whether to accept this candidate for admission, on the understanding that one ‘nay’ vote would result in rejection. All 150 students voted ‘yea’ – and the rest is history.
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL?
79. He denied that he ever really said what most people think he said, but he did say, “I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”
WILLIE SUTTON
80. Contrary to popular belief, this military hero did not invent the weapon most closely associated with him, and he spent much of the battle for which he is best remembered confined to his cot.
JIM BOWIE
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
82. This physician – if he was a physician – belonged in the company of educator Quincy Adams Wagstaff, impresario Otis P. Driftwood, attorney J. Cheever Loophole, and statesman Rufus T. Firefly.
DOCTOR HUGO HACKENBUSH
83. His grim 1899 novel about an unlicensed dentist is perhaps the best example of naturalism in American fiction.
FRANK NORRIS?
84. At 78 percent, he has a higher knockout percentage than any other undisputed middleweight champion.
MARVIN HAGLER
85. In 1961, this guitarist – known for his twangy style – became the first rock-and-roller with a signature model guitar.
LES PAUL? FREDDY FENDER? DUANE EDDY?
86. Her performance of a terrified young girl hiding in a closet just before being beaten to death by her own father was so vivid, a visitor to the set reportedly threw up.
87. After little more than three years on the Supreme Court, he resigned to take a post at the United Nations – fully expecting to be offered the Chief Justiceship in the future. (He wasn’t.)
ROBERT JACKSON
88. In 1999, A&E ranked this inventor as the most influential person of the previous thousand years.
JOHANNES GUTENBERG
89. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
90. This astronaut was the oldest person to walk on the moon.
91. During the early days of World War II, his team of ‘Boys’ included William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, and Howard K. Smith
EDWARD R. MURROW
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
93. This athlete won more gold medals at a single Winter Olympics than any other person.
ERIC HEIDEN
94. He saw a city’s “painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.” (Presumably, the farm boys were more appreciative.)
CARL SANDBURG
95. After the death of Dr. Seuss, this civil rights leader made a memorable appearance on SNL reading Green Eggs and Ham.
JESSE JACKSON
96. This anthropologist was more amused than some of her colleagues by a Gary Larson cartoon in which she was referred to as a ‘tramp.’
JANE GOODALL
97. Nelson Mandela, Don Rickles, Akira Kurosawa, Lerner and Loewe, Charlie Parker, and Francis the Talking Mule all played a role in the career of this Hollywood icon.
CLINT EASTWOOD
98. Death came to this composer at the age of 31, but it came even earlier to the young virgin in one of his most famous lieder.
FRANZ SCHUBERT
99. In a moment of painful honesty, this President admitted, “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
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100. According to his epitaph, he “by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced…. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race!”
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- mrkelley23
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
My apologies for the wrong answer to #3. Tesla was an engineer and unmarried, but in his case, it was his inherent weirdness, I think. Although, if you asked him, he would have told you that he married that pigeon. No, literally a pigeon.
The correct answer, I found after presuming Tesla must be wrong, is CHARLES STEINMETZ.
The correct answer, I found after presuming Tesla must be wrong, is CHARLES STEINMETZ.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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Re: Game #210: Last Man Standing
42. He was the first man to drive a car 60 miles per hour on a circular track.
My gut feeling is BARNEY OLDFIELD - but that's because he's always the first person I think of with old racing.
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
HANS HOLBEIN (the younger)??
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
MARK ZUCKERBERG? Or is that too simple?
My gut feeling is BARNEY OLDFIELD - but that's because he's always the first person I think of with old racing.
81. Henry VIII thought Anne of Cleves in the flesh did not live up to this painter’s portrait of her.
HANS HOLBEIN (the younger)??
92. Charles Lindbergh, Queen Elizabeth II, Greta Thunberg, and this entrepreneur are the only individuals to be named Person of the Year by Time magazine before the age of thirty.
MARK ZUCKERBERG? Or is that too simple?