SSS Game

[earendel]

Counting Ear's contributions, there are now two definite wrong answers, two wrong answers with question marks, and one answer with multiple guesses that does not contain the correct answer.

That almost sounds like my 2 answers are incorrect.

[silverscreenselect]

Counting Ear's contributions, there are now two definite wrong answers, two wrong answers with question marks, and one answer with multiple guesses that does not contain the correct answer.

That almost sounds like my 2 answers are incorrect.

I can neither confirm nor deny. It was merely meant to indicate that I'd taken them into account in arriving at my totals.

But I might add that your answers might provide some insight into the Tangredi.

[franktangredi]

57. During his six months in the United States under contract with Paramount, he discussed projects based on Arms and the Man, War of the Worlds, and An American Tragedy, but eventually returned home without shooting a single foot of film.

SERGEI EISENSTEIN

[franktangredi]

45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT?

This one is definitely wrong. In confirming it was wrong, I accidentally found out the right answer: KING GEORGE V

[franktangredi]

I checked with my wife on this.

12. He appeared with Jesse Ventura as Men in Black on a classic X Files episode.
ALEX TREBEK

[plasticene]

59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
SNOW WHITE

I thought this was intriguing, so I googled it. What's on display at the museum is a mirror, so wouldn't this be the MAGIC MIRROR rather than SNOW WHITE?

[franktangredi]

I think this is the other one with a question mark that's wrong.

65. He entered the restaurant business to pay off the debts from his father’s failed cigar factory and later became the first successful U.S. restaurant franchisor.
HOWARD JOHNSON?

Maybe this is a reference to the Harvey chains?

[franktangredi]

104. In different films, he was managed by James Gammon and Meg Ryan.

OMAR EPPS

[mellytu74]

I think this is the other one with a question mark that's wrong.

65. He entered the restaurant business to pay off the debts from his father’s failed cigar factory and later became the first successful U.S. restaurant franchisor.
HOWARD JOHNSON?

Maybe this is a reference to the Harvey chains?

I think Howard Johnson is right.

From the Howard Johnson's website:

A World War I veteran with only a grammar-school education, Howard Dearing Johnson started out as a salesman for his father, a Boston cigar jobber. As smokers increasingly turned to cigarettes, however, the business fell into debt and, after his father died, Johnson closed it.

[franktangredi]

I'm confirming answers, and this one is definitely wrong.

38. He finally admitted his guilt in a 2008 interview in the New York Times, nearly 60 years after his arrest, 40 years after his release from prison, and 30 years after a Corporation for Public Broadcasting documentary proclaiming his innocence.
ALGER HISS

Hiss died in 1996, so unless the interview was being conducted by John Edward....

[franktangredi]

I don't think this is right.

40. He stars in a popular British TV series, currently in its third season, and also starred in a not-so-popular American version of that same series that aired during the British show’s hiatus.
DAVID TENNANT

[franktangredi]

69. Perhaps his most famous play was not approved for performance in his native country until 35 years after its publication and was finally performed in an uncensored version 140 years later at Princeton University.

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

[franktangredi]

UPDATED CONSOLIDATION

It's been a while, but I'm back with another SSS puzzle. First, you must identify the famous people described in the 104 clues below. Then, group them together to form 48 pairs, one single, one triple, and one quartet according to a Tangredi which you must figure out. Unlike some of my puzzles, there is no significance whatsoever to the number of clues, or pairings in the puzzle. However, one of the answers, if you look at it the right way, could give you a clue to the Tangredi. Once you figure out the Tangredi, you'll probably need to think outside the box to figure out some of the pairings (and this sentence isn't a clue either).

1. TONY ROBBINS
2. STEVE MARTIN
3. IRVING STONE

4. This German spent World War II in the Soviet Union and helped organize propaganda efforts on the Soviets’ behalf, including a massive rally in Stalingrad after the battle at which hundreds of German POW’s were forced to attend; KGB head Beria described him as the greatest idiot Beria had ever seen.

5. PATRICK SWAYZE
6. ERIC LINDROS
7. DAVID McCALLUM
8. SIMON BOLIVAR
9. TERESA BREWER
10. DONALD RUMSFELD
11. MARIA SHRIVER
12. ALEX TREBEK
13. MEIER KAHANE
14. NATALEE HOLLOWAY
15. BILLY ROSE

16. And, speaking of popular expressions, he claimed credit for coining the phrase, “shit hit the fan,” which he first used in a 1969 memoir about his diplomatic experiences.

17. Further, on the same subject, this writer coined the phrases “Bermuda Triangle” and “Abominable Snowman.”

18. ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL
19. PILTDOWN MAN
20. SIMON LeBON
21. This pioneering white Nashville disc jockey, who many listeners thought was black due to his manner of speech, helped popularize R&B music in the 1940s and 50s through his post-midnight broadcasts on the clear channel station and also helped launch the career of James Brown by giving “Please, Please, Please” extensive airplay on the station.
RICHBURG?
22. KELLY TRIPUCKA

23. This actor hid his multiple sclerosis for 15 years before going public in 1999 and later writing a book about his experiences.

24. MICHAEL POWELL
25. HENRY MORISON FLAGLER
26. ROBERT WAGNER
27. CALVIN KLEIN
28. JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER
29. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. HARRISON FORD
31. AARON BURR
32. PATRICK MCGOOHAN
33. ROBERT MOSES
34. FREDI GONZALEZ
35. JOAN RIVERS
36. THE DUKE OF WINDSOR
37. EDMOND O'BRIEN

38. He finally admitted his guilt in a 2008 interview in the New York Times, nearly 60 years after his arrest, 40 years after his release from prison, and 30 years after a Corporation for Public Broadcasting documentary proclaiming his innocence.

39. M’ONIQUE

40. He stars in a popular British TV series, currently in its third season, and also starred in a not-so-popular American version of that same series that aired during the British show’s hiatus.
DAVID TENNANT?

41. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was its first chairman.

42. DAVID BELASCO
43. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
44. ERNIE KOVACS
45. GEORGE V
46. REX HARRISON
47. MASTER P
48. HUGH HEFNER
49. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. MATTI NYKANEN

51. In 1994, he unsuccessfully ran for the Senate seat of his retiring father-in-law; his later attempt to get into cable television with Al Gore didn’t end well either.

52. AL CAPP
53. DANNY DeVITO
54. DAVID ORTIZ

55. He auditioned for John Wayne’s role in Stagecoach; although he didn’t get the part, he later became a regular co-star in Wayne’s films.
WARD BOND? HARRY CAREY, JR.? JOHN AGAR?

56. In 1831, he and his older brother went to Italy, to help foment resistance against the ruling Austrians, and, while there, both contracted measles; he survived but his brother died in his arms.

57. SERGEI EISENSTEIN
58. MISS JANE MARPLE
59. MAGIC MIRROR
60. JOHN HANNAH
61. TIGER WOODS
62. KATE SMITH
63. ROBIN TUNNEY
64. PETER LORRE
65. HOWARD JOHNSON
66. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
67. LYNDON JOHNSON
68. JOHN O'HURLEY
69. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
70. JACK DANIEL

71. For over 100 years, a popular tourist festival named after him has been held in a southern city not far from the location where he supposedly died in a battle against the U.S.S. Enterprise.

72. JIM EVERETT

73. He served as Director of Propaganda for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists before fleeing to Germany in 1939 to avoid arrest.

74. The Asiatic Hall of Fossils at the American Museum of Natural History is now named after this paleontologist, who has been called the greatest collector of fossil vertebrates who ever lived.

75. He made it into the Guinness Book of Records by recording songs in 20 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

76. CHARLES DICKENS

77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.

78. SOL HUROK
79. SADDAM HUSSEIN
80. SPIKE JONZE
81. ANTONIO MEUCCI

82. He has a 40-year-career as a TV producer and director, but most people know him as the executive producer of a popular reality show on which Kevin Hart and Nick Cannon are regulars.

83. THE KINGSTON TRIO
84. JAMES McDONNELL

85. He turned down Patrick Stewart’s part on Star Trek TNG before taking a major role on another popular TV science fiction series.

86. In her only elected position, she served two terms on the City Council of Lexington, MA, before resigning during the second term to run for Governor.

87. KEN OLSEN
88. T-BONE BURNETT
89. RUTH RENDELL
90. ANTONINO FERNANDEZ
91. JOE SOUTH
92. JOE E. BROWN

93. Some of the popular films he made during the 1960s and 70s were based on works by Bizet, Dumas, Pirandello, and Shaw, as well as the life of Eva Peron, although it’s doubtful that the original authors would have recognized them in the way they appeared onscreen.

94. AMBER HEARD
95. PHILIP ROTH
96. IVAN BOESKY
97. JACK WEBB
98. TOM HANKS

99. In the 2014 New Zealand general election, he made the largest political contribution of any single person in the country’s history, but the party that he sponsored lost the only seat it had previously held in the House of Representatives.
PETER JACKSON?

100. ANGELO DUNDEE
101. OLGA KORBUT
102. RALPH FIENNES
103. HO CHI MINH
104. OMAR EPPS

[silverscreenselect]

All of your definite answers are correct. One of the single question mark answers is incorrect. The clue with multiple guesses does not include the correct answer among the guesses.

I probably should add in question 23 that the actor in question had formerly been a co-star on a popular television series.

There are two or three matches that should really jump out at you by now, and from those, you may be able to deduce the Tangredi.

[Estonut]

UPDATED CONSOLIDATION

23. This actor hid his multiple sclerosis for 15 years before going public in 1999 and later writing a book about his experiences.

This is the non-blond guy of Lenny & Squiggy from "Laverne & Shirley." I can come up with Michael McKean, but not his partner's name...

[earendel]

17. Further, on the same subject, this writer coined the phrases “Bermuda Triangle” and “Abominable Snowman.”

This is VINCENT GADDIS

41. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was its first chairman.

MARION BARRY

85. He turned down Patrick Stewart’s part on Star Trek TNG before taking a major role on another popular TV science fiction series.

STEPHEN MACHT

[Pastor Fireball]

UPDATED CONSOLIDATION

23. This actor hid his multiple sclerosis for 15 years before going public in 1999 and later writing a book about his experiences.

This is the non-blond guy of Lenny & Squiggy from "Laverne & Shirley." I can come up with Michael McKean, but not his partner's name...

Yes, thank you, Squiggy. It's DAVID LANDER.

[mellytu74]

55. He auditioned for John Wayne’s role in Stagecoach; although he didn’t get the part, he later became a regular co-star in Wayne’s films.
WARD BOND? HARRY CAREY, JR.? JOHN AGAR?

could this be BRUCE CABOT? He is in a ton of later Wayne stuff -- McLintock, War Wagon, et al.

[silverscreenselect]

17. Further, on the same subject, this writer coined the phrases “Bermuda Triangle” and “Abominable Snowman.”

This is VINCENT GADDIS

Due to the collaborative nature of magazine publishing, multiple people have been credited with originating the phrase "Bermuda Triangle."

Gaddis is not the person we're looking for here.

[Pastor Fireball]

51. In 1994, he unsuccessfully ran for the Senate seat of his retiring father-in-law; his later attempt to get into cable television with Al Gore didn’t end well either.

I got thrown off by the Al Gore part of the question, thinking that this was about Tennessee's Senate seat. I thought it was Jim Sasser's son-in-law, but I found out that Sasser didn't retire. He outright lost re-election. I had to come back north to my own state of Ohio for Howard Metzenbaum's son-in-law, JOEL HYATT.

[franktangredi]

77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.

D'uh. This is LEA SALONGA, who voiced Jasmine and Mulan. (The 'official Princesses' should have been a tipoff that this was Disney.)

[franktangredi]

I don't think this is right.

40. He stars in a popular British TV series, currently in its third season, and also starred in a not-so-popular American version of that same series that aired during the British show’s hiatus.
DAVID TENNANT

Nope, I was wrong, it's right. My error was thinking only in terms of Dr. Who.


By elimination - and my being unable to confirm it - this is the one that's wrong.

99. In the 2014 New Zealand general election, he made the largest political contribution of any single person in the country’s history, but the party that he sponsored lost the only seat it had previously held in the House of Representatives.
PETER JACKSON?

[franktangredi]

UPDATED CONSOLIDATION

It's been a while, but I'm back with another SSS puzzle. First, you must identify the famous people described in the 104 clues below. Then, group them together to form 48 pairs, one single, one triple, and one quartet according to a Tangredi which you must figure out. Unlike some of my puzzles, there is no significance whatsoever to the number of clues, or pairings in the puzzle. However, one of the answers, if you look at it the right way, could give you a clue to the Tangredi. Once you figure out the Tangredi, you'll probably need to think outside the box to figure out some of the pairings (and this sentence isn't a clue either).

1. TONY ROBBINS
2. STEVE MARTIN
3. IRVING STONE

4. This German spent World War II in the Soviet Union and helped organize propaganda efforts on the Soviets’ behalf, including a massive rally in Stalingrad after the battle at which hundreds of German POW’s were forced to attend; KGB head Beria described him as the greatest idiot Beria had ever seen.

5. PATRICK SWAYZE
6. ERIC LINDROS
7. DAVID McCALLUM
8. SIMON BOLIVAR
9. TERESA BREWER
10. DONALD RUMSFELD
11. MARIA SHRIVER
12. ALEX TREBEK
13. MEIER KAHANE
14. NATALEE HOLLOWAY
15. BILLY ROSE

16. And, speaking of popular expressions, he claimed credit for coining the phrase, “shit hit the fan,” which he first used in a 1969 memoir about his diplomatic experiences.

17. Further, on the same subject, this writer coined the phrases “Bermuda Triangle” and “Abominable Snowman.”

18. ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL
19. PILTDOWN MAN
20. SIMON LeBON
21. JOHN R. (RICHBOURG)
22. KELLY TRIPUCKA
23. DAVID LANDER
24. MICHAEL POWELL
25. HENRY MORISON FLAGLER
26. ROBERT WAGNER
27. CALVIN KLEIN
28. JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER
29. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. HARRISON FORD
31. AARON BURR
32. PATRICK MCGOOHAN
33. ROBERT MOSES
34. FREDI GONZALEZ
35. JOAN RIVERS
36. THE DUKE OF WINDSOR
37. EDMOND O'BRIEN

38. He finally admitted his guilt in a 2008 interview in the New York Times, nearly 60 years after his arrest, 40 years after his release from prison, and 30 years after a Corporation for Public Broadcasting documentary proclaiming his innocence.

39. M’ONIQUE
40. DAVID TENNANT
41. MARION BARRY
42. DAVID BELASCO
43. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
44. ERNIE KOVACS
45. GEORGE V
46. REX HARRISON
47. MASTER P
48. HUGH HEFNER
49. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. MATTI NYKANEN
51. JOEL HYATT
52. AL CAPP
53. DANNY DeVITO
54. DAVID ORTIZ

55. He auditioned for John Wayne’s role in Stagecoach; although he didn’t get the part, he later became a regular co-star in Wayne’s films.
BRUCE CABOT?

56. In 1831, he and his older brother went to Italy, to help foment resistance against the ruling Austrians, and, while there, both contracted measles; he survived but his brother died in his arms.

57. SERGEI EISENSTEIN
58. MISS JANE MARPLE
59. MAGIC MIRROR
60. JOHN HANNAH
61. TIGER WOODS
62. KATE SMITH
63. ROBIN TUNNEY
64. PETER LORRE
65. HOWARD JOHNSON
66. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
67. LYNDON JOHNSON
68. JOHN O'HURLEY
69. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
70. JACK DANIEL

71. For over 100 years, a popular tourist festival named after him has been held in a southern city not far from the location where he supposedly died in a battle against the U.S.S. Enterprise.

72. JIM EVERETT

73. He served as Director of Propaganda for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists before fleeing to Germany in 1939 to avoid arrest.

74. The Asiatic Hall of Fossils at the American Museum of Natural History is now named after this paleontologist, who has been called the greatest collector of fossil vertebrates who ever lived.

75. He made it into the Guinness Book of Records by recording songs in 20 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

76. CHARLES DICKENS
77. LEA SALONGA
78. SOL HUROK
79. SADDAM HUSSEIN
80. SPIKE JONZE
81. ANTONIO MEUCCI

82. He has a 40-year-career as a TV producer and director, but most people know him as the executive producer of a popular reality show on which Kevin Hart and Nick Cannon are regulars.

83. THE KINGSTON TRIO
84. JAMES McDONNELL
85. STEPHEN MACHT

86. In her only elected position, she served two terms on the City Council of Lexington, MA, before resigning during the second term to run for Governor.

87. KEN OLSEN
88. T-BONE BURNETT
89. RUTH RENDELL
90. ANTONINO FERNANDEZ
91. JOE SOUTH
92. JOE E. BROWN

93. Some of the popular films he made during the 1960s and 70s were based on works by Bizet, Dumas, Pirandello, and Shaw, as well as the life of Eva Peron, although it’s doubtful that the original authors would have recognized them in the way they appeared onscreen.

94. AMBER HEARD
95. PHILIP ROTH
96. IVAN BOESKY
97. JACK WEBB
98. TOM HANKS

99. In the 2014 New Zealand general election, he made the largest political contribution of any single person in the country’s history, but the party that he sponsored lost the only seat it had previously held in the House of Representatives.

100. ANGELO DUNDEE
101. OLGA KORBUT
102. RALPH FIENNES
103. HO CHI MINH
104. OMAR EPPS

[mellytu74]

86. In her only elected position, she served two terms on the City Council of Lexington, MA, before resigning during the second term to run for Governor.

Oh, for heaven's sake!

This is JILL STEIN

[jarnon]

77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.

D'uh. This is LEA SALONGA, who voiced Jasmine and Mulan. (The 'official Princesses' should have been a tipoff that this was Disney.)

Mulan is from China, and Jasmine lives in the fictional Sultanate of Agrabah. Where could that be? One Thousand and One Nights says Aladdin is originally from China, and there are Muslim regions in northwestern China. I saw another TV adaptation of the Aladdin story that took place in Samarkand, which is in Uzbekistan today.