Game #124: One for the Books

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Game #124: One for the Books

Identify the 100 people indicated in the clues below. Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

1. He was the second Civil War general to serve as President, and the first to call out federal troops to use deadly force against striking workers.

2. This writer might have won fame for his adventure novel The Sea Cook – if a discerning editor hadn’t altered the title to the one we know today.

3. He made two distinct marks on the music world – as a singer of romantic ballads, and as the founder and leader of the first bop-oriented big band.

4. This Nobel Prize-winning physicist is best known for inventing a machine so efficient that the prototype cost only $25 and needed only 2,000 volts of electricity to get 80,000-volt protons spinning around.

5. This running back set an NFL record by leading his team in rushing for 80 consecutive games.

6. One of a handful of actors to win a Tony and an Oscar for the same role, he also played a role in a 1946 film that would later earn another actor both a Tony and an Oscar. Got that?

7. This attorney – who passed the bar at the age of 21 without every graduating from law school – is best remembered for a landmark case concerning an issue that is still generating controversy more than eight decades later.

8. His voyages ranged from the St. Lawrence Channel to the edges of Antarctica, but this explorer is also known for enforcing dietary and hygienic rules that effectively conquered scurvy.

9. DJMQ:
This choreographer – whom Martha Graham once called the "naughty boy" of dance – started his own company while he was still a soloist for Graham, and is still at it more than half a century later.

10. A leading candidate for the most beautiful private residence of the last century is the home this architect designed along Rural Route 1 of Stewart Township, Pennsylvania.

11. This Canadian-born entrepreneur opened the first of what became a chain of famous establishments on New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1907.

12. This 18th century Scottish philosopher taught that it was ultimately not possible to obtain objective verification of the truth of any idea. (For some reason, he was never able to prove this theory….)

13. This general is the subject of perhaps the most unusual of all American war memorials, which praises him as “the most brilliant soldier of the Continental army, who was desperately wounded on this spot, winning for his countrymen the decisive battle of the American Revolution” – but never mentions him by name.

14. Recently elected to her twelfth term in Congress, this representative from upstate New York currently chairs the House Rules Committee.

15. The first American writer to become a best-seller in Europe, he is directly responsible for the name of a professional sports team.

16. Generally considered one of the five or so most influential scientists of all time, he said of his own work, “I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.”

17. This singer met his supermodel wife while filming the video for one of his former band’s biggest hits. (We wonder if she agrees with the newspaper that ranked him one of the “100 Unsexiest Men in the World”….)

18. One of this actor’s two famous television characters might have arrested the guy he played in his most famous screen role; the other might have represented him.

19. A year before his untimely death, this journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for his articles about such men as Captain Henry T. Waskow.

20. Next month marks the 90th birthday of this sociologist, best known for arguing that the triumph of western democracy and capitalism have rendered history and ideology meaningless.

21. This basketball player’s single-season free throw percentage of 95.8% has never been bettered – and he ranks pretty high in the illegitimate child derby, too.

22. This ardent Patriot expressed her contempt for the British in satirical plays that were never produced but nevertheless rallied support for independence.

23. She is the most memorable character in a classic “Novel Without a Hero” – and, no matter what certain modern fans and critics and filmmakers think, she ain’t no heroine.

24. This music industry giant was the first co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to also be inducted into it.

25. Though the Abyssinian Church considers him a saint, the Catholic Encyclopedia describes this politico as “a type of the worldly man, knowing the right and anxious to do it so far as it can be done without personal sacrifice of any kind, but yielding easily to pressure from those whose interest it is that he should act otherwise.”

26. This British playwright was known for his experiments with stage time – such as a hit melodrama which shows how much tragedy could have been avoided if only the radio hadn’t conked out at a critical juncture in the evening.

27. The devices this engineer patented – and the company he founded in 1868 – revolutionized an entire industry. (If you regularly go to a gym, you may still be using his best-known invention.)

28. This country music legend became the first performer to have a recording altered posthumously by a record company.

29. This comedian created a number of memorable characters on a long-running television comedy series – one of whom was modeled after his own mother-in-law.

30. This tennis great was the mainspring of the only team to win the Davis Cup seven consecutive times.

31. The first American artist to win a reputation in Europe, he is best known for historical paintings such as the one depicting the death of a heroic British general during the French and Indian Wars.

32. The last survivor of the most successful outlaw gang of the Old West, he always insisted that he was a Confederate avenger rather than a robber.

33. He was the only Chief of Staff of the United States army to have graduated from Harvard Medical School.

34. Seventeenth-century poet Tom Brown did not like this influential Anglican bishop – but I don’t know the reason any more than he did.

35. A co-founder of the Wilderness Society, this Wisconsin environmentalist proposed that conservation should be governed by a “land ethic” rather than by utilitarian considerations.

36. A fiery advocate for states’ rights and slavery, he was also the first U.S. Vice President born after the American Revolution.

37. Henry James said of this Victorian novelist that his “great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation of the usual.” (That may be one of the reasons I like him so much.)

38. Olivier based his makeup for Richard III on this universally hated – but brilliant – Broadway director. (Larry also claimed that the same director was the inspiration for Disney’s Big Bad Wolf.)

39. This classical musician gave a brief, unannounced – and wholly appropriate – appearance at the Oscars in 1997.

40. Forever linked with two of his teammates, this Hall-of-Fame second baseman was one of the smallest men ever to play major league baseball, weighing less than 130 pounds.

41. As a scholar, he popularized the field of comparative mythology; as a philosopher, he was rather miffed by students who thought that all he was saying was, “If it feels good, do it.”

42. “Everything but the squeal” was the motto of this entrepreneur, whose efficient establishment inspired Henry Ford to develop his assembly line.

43. Author of the first published defense of Copernicus, this astronomer believed that the geometric structure of the Copernican universe mirrored the trinity.

44. Often considered the very model of a modern presidential press secretary, this journalist became close to his future boss while covering the Department of the Navy for the Associated Press.

45. When it came to crime, this lawman was a strong advocate of “nipping it in the bud” – but his efforts in that direction were sometimes hampered by the fact that he was only allowed to carry a single bullet in his shirt pocket.

46. Two years before his shocking death, this state senator was instrumental in having California’s sodomy laws repealed.

47. Remembered almost exclusively for a single role he played three times between 1918 and 1921, this actor was later reduced to playing uncredited bit parts in movies featuring other actors in that role.

48. This celebrity chef began broadcasting in New Zealand in 1959 and published his first cookbook four years later.

49. Among the useful lessons you can learn from reading this writer’s novels are how to disappear from a swimming pool in full view of three witnesses, how to shoot somebody with a crossbow from behind a locked door, and how to strangle somebody in the middle of a wet tennis court without leaving any footprints.

50. In 1924, this cartoonist proved that the funny papers don’t necessarily have to be funny when he created the first action/adventure comic strip.

51. In Lytton Strachey’s classic Eminent Victorians, the military is represented by this lionized veteran of China and North Africa…

52. ... and religion is represented by this prominent clergyman who helped shape Roman Catholic teachings about social justice and papal infallibility.

53. This songwriter produced most successful Broadway score 32 years after his first, and his last Broadway score 27 years before his death.

54. This member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame won more championships than any other coach in the brief history of the AFL.

55. Successor to Samuel Gompers, this labor leader expelled the CIO unions from the AFL.

56. She was the first First Lady ever to have outranked her husband in a professional capacity.

57. In 1915, this serial killer was finally caught when the father of his fifth victim read a newspaper account of the death of his seventh victim.

58. After reading this educator’s 1873 memoir, the King commented that she had “supplied by her invention that which is deficient in her memory.”

59. In 1858, this lecturer at St. George’s in London published the first edition of a classic textbook that is still in print today. (My sister has a copy.)

60. A Democrat appointed by a Republican, this Supreme Court justice proved especially difficult to replace.

61. This curmudgeony character actor, who described his specialty as “yelling at stars,” got his start in support of Fibber McGee.

62. This metaphysical poet rather casually claimed that he “saw Eternity the other night.”

63. This golfer, who won his only Masters 53 years ago, shares his permanent locker at the Augusta National Golf Club with Tiger Woods.

64. Although he planted an American flag where no flag had ever been planted before, he was still refused membership in the prestigious Explorer’s Club.

65. At the beginning of the classic novel bearing his name, he tells us that we can learn more about him in an earlier novel bearing the name of another character in the book – but that we can’t necessarily trust what the author said about him in that earlier book.

66. This British philosopher’s insistence that a non-analytical statement can only be meaningful if it is empirically verifiable caused quite a stir among the logical positivists of his day. (I’m getting kind of excited myself.)

67. Once the news director of the Princeton radio station, this current news anchor decided to go into journalism because his grades weren’t good enough to get into law school.

68. This great chemist knew a lot about the conservation of mass, but he was unable to conserve the particular mass at the top of his neck.

69. More than three decades after their first encounter – which was not notable for its cordiality – this civil rights activist was reunited with her state’s former governor at a ceremony in which she received an award named after his late wife. Got that?

70. A poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson is inscribed on the base of one of this sculptor’s best-known statues.

71. Wounded by friendly fire on May 3, 1863, this general died of pneumonia a week later.

72. This 19th century historian and cleric is considered the founder of the systematic study of medieval English constitutional history.

73. This congressman’s work on the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce made him an unlikely ‘star’ of early television.

74. This actor netted a Tony for playing a real-life composer, and an Oscar nomination for playing a real-life filmmaker.

75. He was the youngest player ever inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

76. The title character of one of this writer’s most popular novels is a scientist named Griffin who discovers how to alter his refractive index.

77. This Anglican divine may not specifically have written his most famous hymn to commemorate his own spiritual journey from the sea to the pulpit, but the lyrics certain seem to fit.

78. The first fashion designer to be given a solo exhibition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art while still alive, he once created a line of dresses inspired by the paintings of Piet Mondrian.

79. This botanist made his most notable contribution to scientific theory while studying the movement of pollen particles floating in water.

80. He was second in seniority of the three astronauts who died tragically on January 27, 1967.

81. This entrepreneur – whose assets include three professional sports teams – finished 31 places below his former business partner on the most recent Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world.

82. This Christian martyr was the eponymous hero of the best selling American novel of the nineteenth century.

83. Synchronized swimming had its origins in the water ballet that this swimmer performed in a glass tank at the Hippodrome in 1907.

84. It was during the administration of this Prime Minister that Great Britain finally joined the European Community and the modern day Troubles in Northern Ireland really began.

85. Although this influential clergyman’s early writings may have helped inspire the Salem with trials, he later expressed doubts as to the use of spectral evidence in court

86. His ability to see (in the words of T.S. Eliot) “the skull beneath the skin” made him the most macabre and pessimistic of all Jacobean dramatists – and that’s setting the bar pretty high.

87. This clue is dedicated to the spirit of the dramatist in the preceding clue.
One of the bullets that killed this mobster carried his eye across the room on its way out of his skull; one of the bullets that missed shattered a statue of Bacchus sitting atop a grand piano.

88. The last two actresses to receive Oscar nominations for leading and supporting roles in the same year each got one of their two nominations for a film helmed by this director.

89. This R&B artist sang bass for the same group for over half a century, as well as co-writing a protest song that Rolling Stone ranked as one of the top five songs of all time.

90. “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck,” wrote this abolitionist – who often spoke of his personal experiences on one end of that chain.

91. Years before his death at the Alamo, he had already achieved a measure of fame for his role at a violent free-for-all in which he disemboweled a Louisiana sheriff.

92. He was the only photographer ever to have a mountain peak named after him.

93. A former editor of the Wall Street Journal, this economist now claims to regret his role in as one of the architects of Reaganomics.

94. “Truth happens to an idea,” noted this influential American philosopher. “It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its verification. Its validity is the process of its validation.” (Well, hell, I knew that.)

95. This Nobel Prize-winning biochemist is credited with discovering what Casimir Funk later named.

96. He was the National League batting champion seven times – but only once in my lifetime.

97. In order to win Southern support for his plan for federal assumption of state debts, this cabinet official suggested moving the national capital to the south.

98. Only Shakespeare and Tennyson have more citations in The Oxford Dictionary and Quotationsthan this eighteenth century poet.

99. This actor received his only Oscar 45 years before his widow received her only Oscar nomination.

100. Although this Baroque composer greatly influenced Bach, much of his oeuvre remained unknown until scholars in the 1920s and 1920s began to unearth scores of unpublished manuscripts.

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9. DJMQ:
This choreographer – whom Martha Graham once called the "naughty boy" of dance – started his own company while he was still a soloist for Graham, and is still at it more than half a century later.

Paul Taylor

[TheCalvinator24]

18 Andy Griffith

[tlynn78]

10. Frank L Wright

[TheCalvinator24]

65 Huck Finn

[TheCalvinator24]

45 Barney Fife

[TheCalvinator24]

81 Paul Allen

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6. One of a handful of actors to win a Tony and an Oscar for the same role, he also played a role in a 1946 film that would later earn another actor both a Tony and an Oscar. Got that?

REX HARRISON

7. This attorney – who passed the bar at the age of 21 without every graduating from law school – is best remembered for a landmark case concerning an issue that is still generating controversy more than eight decades later.

CLARENCE DARROW

29. This comedian created a number of memorable characters on a long-running television comedy series – one of whom was modeled after his own mother-in-law.

MIKE MYERS

30. This tennis great was the mainspring of the only team to win the Davis Cup seven consecutive times.

Rod Laver?

40. Forever linked with two of his teammates, this Hall-of-Fame second baseman was one of the smallest men ever to play major league baseball, weighing less than 130 pounds.

JOHNNY EVERS

45. When it came to crime, this lawman was a strong advocate of “nipping it in the bud” – but his efforts in that direction were sometimes hampered by the fact that he was only allowed to carry a single bullet in his shirt pocket.

BARNEY FIFE

47. Remembered almost exclusively for a single role he played three times between 1918 and 1921, this actor was later reduced to playing uncredited bit parts in movies featuring other actors in that role.

ELMO LINCOLN

49. Among the useful lessons you can learn from reading this writer’s novels are how to disappear from a swimming pool in full view of three witnesses, how to shoot somebody with a crossbow from behind a locked door, and how to strangle somebody in the middle of a wet tennis court without leaving any footprints.

JOHN DICKSON CARR

60. A Democrat appointed by a Republican, this Supreme Court justice proved especially difficult to replace.

WILLIAM BRENNAN

71. Wounded by friendly fire on May 3, 1863, this general died of pneumonia a week later.

STONEWALL JACKSON

76. The title character of one of this writer’s most popular novels is a scientist named Griffin who discovers how to alter his refractive index.

H. G. WELLS

80. He was second in seniority of the three astronauts who died tragically on January 27, 1967.

ED WHITE

81. This entrepreneur – whose assets include three professional sports teams – finished 31 places below his former business partner on the most recent Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world.

PAUL ALLEN

91. Years before his death at the Alamo, he had already achieved a measure of fame for his role at a violent free-for-all in which he disemboweled a Louisiana sheriff.

JIM BOWIE

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94. William James

[TheCalvinator24]

30 Could be either Bill Johnston or Bill Tilden. I'd go with Tilden.

[tlynn78]

64. Either Aldrin or Armstrong

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80. Ed White?

[gsabc]

I'll give this my usual try.

2. This writer might have won fame for his adventure novel The Sea Cook – if a discerning editor hadn’t altered the title to the one we know today.
HERMAN MELVILLE?

4. This Nobel Prize-winning physicist is best known for inventing a machine so efficient that the prototype cost only $25 and needed only 2,000 volts of electricity to get 80,000-volt protons spinning around.
NIKOLA TESLA?

7. This attorney – who passed the bar at the age of 21 without every graduating from law school – is best remembered for a landmark case concerning an issue that is still generating controversy more than eight decades later.
CLARENCE DARROW

13. This general is the subject of perhaps the most unusual of all American war memorials, which praises him as “the most brilliant soldier of the Continental army, who was desperately wounded on this spot, winning for his countrymen the decisive battle of the American Revolution” – but never mentions him by name.
must be BENEDICT ARNOLD and his boot

28. This country music legend became the first performer to have a recording altered posthumously by a record company.
HANK WILLIAMS?

29. This comedian created a number of memorable characters on a long-running television comedy series – one of whom was modeled after his own mother-in-law.
RED SKELTON?

40. Forever linked with two of his teammates, this Hall-of-Fame second baseman was one of the smallest men ever to play major league baseball, weighing less than 130 pounds.
EVERS?

43. Author of the first published defense of Copernicus, this astronomer believed that the geometric structure of the Copernican universe mirrored the trinity.
TYCHO BRAHE?

45. When it came to crime, this lawman was a strong advocate of “nipping it in the bud” – but his efforts in that direction were sometimes hampered by the fact that he was only allowed to carry a single bullet in his shirt pocket.
BARNEY FIFE

54. This member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame won more championships than any other coach in the brief history of the AFL.
HANK STRAM?

64. Although he planted an American flag where no flag had ever been planted before, he was still refused membership in the prestigious Explorer’s Club.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

65. At the beginning of the classic novel bearing his name, he tells us that we can learn more about him in an earlier novel bearing the name of another character in the book – but that we can’t necessarily trust what the author said about him in that earlier book.
HUCKLEBERRY FINN

68. This great chemist knew a lot about the conservation of mass, but he was unable to conserve the particular mass at the top of his neck.
LAVOISIER?

75. He was the youngest player ever inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
BOBBY ORR?

76. The title character of one of this writer’s most popular novels is a scientist named Griffin who discovers how to alter his refractive index.
H.G. WELLS

80. He was second in seniority of the three astronauts who died tragically on January 27, 1967.
ED WHITE

81. This entrepreneur – whose assets include three professional sports teams – finished 31 places below his former business partner on the most recent Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world.
PAUL ALLEN

90. “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck,” wrote this abolitionist – who often spoke of his personal experiences on one end of that chain.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

91. Years before his death at the Alamo, he had already achieved a measure of fame for his role at a violent free-for-all in which he disemboweled a Louisiana sheriff.
BOWIE

99. This actor received his only Oscar 45 years before his widow received her only Oscar nomination.
HUMPRHREY BOGART?

[tlynn78]

2. Robert L. Stevenson (treasure Island)


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[Weyoun]

Just saw this, let me clear my schedule.

[MarleysGh0st]

So many seem to be answered already...


97. In order to win Southern support for his plan for federal assumption of state debts, this cabinet official suggested moving the national capital to the south.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

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29. This comedian created a number of memorable characters on a long-running television comedy series – one of whom was modeled after his own mother-in-law.
I said Red Skelton, but this may really be JACKIE GLEASON.

[MarleysGh0st]

36. A fiery advocate for states’ rights and slavery, he was also the first U.S. Vice President born after the American Revolution.

JOHN C. CALHOUN

[MarleysGh0st]

79. This botanist made his most notable contribution to scientific theory while studying the movement of pollen particles floating in water.

Brown? (for discovering Brownian Motion)

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41. As a scholar, he popularized the field of comparative mythology; as a philosopher, he was rather miffed by students who thought that all he was saying was, “If it feels good, do it.”

JOSEPH CAMPBELL ("Follow your bliss")

[MarleysGh0st]

92. He was the only photographer ever to have a mountain peak named after him.

Ansel Adams?

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1. He was the second Civil War general to serve as President, and the first to call out federal troops to use deadly force against striking workers.

Pretty sure that both Hayes and Garfield were major generals... but do they count as generals? I'll hope so and guess Hayes.

2. This writer might have won fame for his adventure novel The Sea Cook – if a discerning editor hadn’t altered the title to the one we know today.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (that was the original name of "Treasure Island")

3. He made two distinct marks on the music world – as a singer of romantic ballads, and as the founder and leader of the first bop-oriented big band.

4. This Nobel Prize-winning physicist is best known for inventing a machine so efficient that the prototype cost only $25 and needed only 2,000 volts of electricity to get 80,000-volt protons spinning around.

5. This running back set an NFL record by leading his team in rushing for 80 consecutive games.

6. One of a handful of actors to win a Tony and an Oscar for the same role, he also played a role in a 1946 film that would later earn another actor both a Tony and an Oscar. Got that?

7. This attorney – who passed the bar at the age of 21 without every graduating from law school – is best remembered for a landmark case concerning an issue that is still generating controversy more than eight decades later.

CLARENCE DARROW

8. His voyages ranged from the St. Lawrence Channel to the edges of Antarctica, but this explorer is also known for enforcing dietary and hygienic rules that effectively conquered scurvy.

9. DJMQ:
This choreographer – whom Martha Graham once called the "naughty boy" of dance – started his own company while he was still a soloist for Graham, and is still at it more than half a century later.

10. A leading candidate for the most beautiful private residence of the last century is the home this architect designed along Rural Route 1 of Stewart Township, Pennsylvania.

Probably Fallingwater by FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.

11. This Canadian-born entrepreneur opened the first of what became a chain of famous establishments on New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1907.

12. This 18th century Scottish philosopher taught that it was ultimately not possible to obtain objective verification of the truth of any idea. (For some reason, he was never able to prove this theory….)

13. This general is the subject of perhaps the most unusual of all American war memorials, which praises him as “the most brilliant soldier of the Continental army, who was desperately wounded on this spot, winning for his countrymen the decisive battle of the American Revolution” – but never mentions him by name.

14. Recently elected to her twelfth term in Congress, this representative from upstate New York currently chairs the House Rules Committee.

A good Kentucky girl--LOUISE SLAUGHTER

15. The first American writer to become a best-seller in Europe, he is directly responsible for the name of a professional sports team.

16. Generally considered one of the five or so most influential scientists of all time, he said of his own work, “I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.”

17. This singer met his supermodel wife while filming the video for one of his former band’s biggest hits. (We wonder if she agrees with the newspaper that ranked him one of the “100 Unsexiest Men in the World”….)

18. One of this actor’s two famous television characters might have arrested the guy he played in his most famous screen role; the other might have represented him.

19. A year before his untimely death, this journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for his articles about such men as Captain Henry T. Waskow.

ERNIE PYLE

20. Next month marks the 90th birthday of this sociologist, best known for arguing that the triumph of western democracy and capitalism have rendered history and ideology meaningless.

21. This basketball player’s single-season free throw percentage of 95.8% has never been bettered – and he ranks pretty high in the illegitimate child derby, too.

Sounds like SHAWN KEMP...

22. This ardent Patriot expressed her contempt for the British in satirical plays that were never produced but nevertheless rallied support for independence.

23. She is the most memorable character in a classic “Novel Without a Hero” – and, no matter what certain modern fans and critics and filmmakers think, she ain’t no heroine.

24. This music industry giant was the first co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to also be inducted into it.

25. Though the Abyssinian Church considers him a saint, the Catholic Encyclopedia describes this politico as “a type of the worldly man, knowing the right and anxious to do it so far as it can be done without personal sacrifice of any kind, but yielding easily to pressure from those whose interest it is that he should act otherwise.”

26. This British playwright was known for his experiments with stage time – such as a hit melodrama which shows how much tragedy could have been avoided if only the radio hadn’t conked out at a critical juncture in the evening.

27. The devices this engineer patented – and the company he founded in 1868 – revolutionized an entire industry. (If you regularly go to a gym, you may still be using his best-known invention.)

28. This country music legend became the first performer to have a recording altered posthumously by a record company.

29. This comedian created a number of memorable characters on a long-running television comedy series – one of whom was modeled after his own mother-in-law.

30. This tennis great was the mainspring of the only team to win the Davis Cup seven consecutive times.

31. The first American artist to win a reputation in Europe, he is best known for historical paintings such as the one depicting the death of a heroic British general during the French and Indian Wars.

32. The last survivor of the most successful outlaw gang of the Old West, he always insisted that he was a Confederate avenger rather than a robber.

33. He was the only Chief of Staff of the United States army to have graduated from Harvard Medical School.

34. Seventeenth-century poet Tom Brown did not like this influential Anglican bishop – but I don’t know the reason any more than he did.

35. A co-founder of the Wilderness Society, this Wisconsin environmentalist proposed that conservation should be governed by a “land ethic” rather than by utilitarian considerations.

ALDO LEOPOLD

36. A fiery advocate for states’ rights and slavery, he was also the first U.S. Vice President born after the American Revolution.

But did the American Revolution ever actually end? This has to be JOHN CALHOUN.

37. Henry James said of this Victorian novelist that his “great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation of the usual.” (That may be one of the reasons I like him so much.)

We can eliminate Norman Mailer...

38. Olivier based his makeup for Richard III on this universally hated – but brilliant – Broadway director. (Larry also claimed that the same director was the inspiration for Disney’s Big Bad Wolf.)

39. This classical musician gave a brief, unannounced – and wholly appropriate – appearance at the Oscars in 1997.

Could be DAVID HELFGOTT, since that was the year that Geoffrey Rush won the Oscar for playing him.

40. Forever linked with two of his teammates, this Hall-of-Fame second baseman was one of the smallest men ever to play major league baseball, weighing less than 130 pounds.

41. As a scholar, he popularized the field of comparative mythology; as a philosopher, he was rather miffed by students who thought that all he was saying was, “If it feels good, do it.”

42. “Everything but the squeal” was the motto of this entrepreneur, whose efficient establishment inspired Henry Ford to develop his assembly line.

43. Author of the first published defense of Copernicus, this astronomer believed that the geometric structure of the Copernican universe mirrored the trinity.

44. Often considered the very model of a modern presidential press secretary, this journalist became close to his future boss while covering the Department of the Navy for the Associated Press.

45. When it came to crime, this lawman was a strong advocate of “nipping it in the bud” – but his efforts in that direction were sometimes hampered by the fact that he was only allowed to carry a single bullet in his shirt pocket.

46. Two years before his shocking death, this state senator was instrumental in having California’s sodomy laws repealed.

47. Remembered almost exclusively for a single role he played three times between 1918 and 1921, this actor was later reduced to playing uncredited bit parts in movies featuring other actors in that role.

48. This celebrity chef began broadcasting in New Zealand in 1959 and published his first cookbook four years later.

Graham Kerr?

49. Among the useful lessons you can learn from reading this writer’s novels are how to disappear from a swimming pool in full view of three witnesses, how to shoot somebody with a crossbow from behind a locked door, and how to strangle somebody in the middle of a wet tennis court without leaving any footprints.

50. In 1924, this cartoonist proved that the funny papers don’t necessarily have to be funny when he created the first action/adventure comic strip.

51. In Lytton Strachey’s classic Eminent Victorians, the military is represented by this lionized veteran of China and North Africa…

52. ... and religion is represented by this prominent clergyman who helped shape Roman Catholic teachings about social justice and papal infallibility.

53. This songwriter produced most successful Broadway score 32 years after his first, and his last Broadway score 27 years before his death.

54. This member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame won more championships than any other coach in the brief history of the AFL.

55. Successor to Samuel Gompers, this labor leader expelled the CIO unions from the AFL.

56. She was the first First Lady ever to have outranked her husband in a professional capacity.

57. In 1915, this serial killer was finally caught when the father of his fifth victim read a newspaper account of the death of his seventh victim.

58. After reading this educator’s 1873 memoir, the King commented that she had “supplied by her invention that which is deficient in her memory.”

59. In 1858, this lecturer at St. George’s in London published the first edition of a classic textbook that is still in print today. (My sister has a copy.)

60. A Democrat appointed by a Republican, this Supreme Court justice proved especially difficult to replace.

61. This curmudgeony character actor, who described his specialty as “yelling at stars,” got his start in support of Fibber McGee.

62. This metaphysical poet rather casually claimed that he “saw Eternity the other night.”

63. This golfer, who won his only Masters 53 years ago, shares his permanent locker at the Augusta National Golf Club with Tiger Woods.

JACK BURKE

64. Although he planted an American flag where no flag had ever been planted before, he was still refused membership in the prestigious Explorer’s Club.

65. At the beginning of the classic novel bearing his name, he tells us that we can learn more about him in an earlier novel bearing the name of another character in the book – but that we can’t necessarily trust what the author said about him in that earlier book.

66. This British philosopher’s insistence that a non-analytical statement can only be meaningful if it is empirically verifiable caused quite a stir among the logical positivists of his day. (I’m getting kind of excited myself.)

67. Once the news director of the Princeton radio station, this current news anchor decided to go into journalism because his grades weren’t good enough to get into law school.

68. This great chemist knew a lot about the conservation of mass, but he was unable to conserve the particular mass at the top of his neck.

69. More than three decades after their first encounter – which was not notable for its cordiality – this civil rights activist was reunited with her state’s former governor at a ceremony in which she received an award named after his late wife. Got that?

70. A poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson is inscribed on the base of one of this sculptor’s best-known statues.

71. Wounded by friendly fire on May 3, 1863, this general died of pneumonia a week later.

72. This 19th century historian and cleric is considered the founder of the systematic study of medieval English constitutional history.

73. This congressman’s work on the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce made him an unlikely ‘star’ of early television.

ESTES KEFAUVER

74. This actor netted a Tony for playing a real-life composer, and an Oscar nomination for playing a real-life filmmaker.

75. He was the youngest player ever inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

76. The title character of one of this writer’s most popular novels is a scientist named Griffin who discovers how to alter his refractive index.

77. This Anglican divine may not specifically have written his most famous hymn to commemorate his own spiritual journey from the sea to the pulpit, but the lyrics certain seem to fit.

78. The first fashion designer to be given a solo exhibition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art while still alive, he once created a line of dresses inspired by the paintings of Piet Mondrian.

79. This botanist made his most notable contribution to scientific theory while studying the movement of pollen particles floating in water.

80. He was second in seniority of the three astronauts who died tragically on January 27, 1967.

ED WHITE, who was under Gus Grissom

81. This entrepreneur – whose assets include three professional sports teams – finished 31 places below his former business partner on the most recent Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world.

82. This Christian martyr was the eponymous hero of the best selling American novel of the nineteenth century.

83. Synchronized swimming had its origins in the water ballet that this swimmer performed in a glass tank at the Hippodrome in 1907.

84. It was during the administration of this Prime Minister that Great Britain finally joined the European Community and the modern day Troubles in Northern Ireland really began.

85. Although this influential clergyman’s early writings may have helped inspire the Salem with trials, he later expressed doubts as to the use of spectral evidence in court

86. His ability to see (in the words of T.S. Eliot) “the skull beneath the skin” made him the most macabre and pessimistic of all Jacobean dramatists – and that’s setting the bar pretty high.

87. This clue is dedicated to the spirit of the dramatist in the preceding clue.
One of the bullets that killed this mobster carried his eye across the room on its way out of his skull; one of the bullets that missed shattered a statue of Bacchus sitting atop a grand piano.

88. The last two actresses to receive Oscar nominations for leading and supporting roles in the same year each got one of their two nominations for a film helmed by this director.

Let's see... Cate Blanchett got two nods last year ("Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and "I'm Not There") and 5 years before her was Julianne Moore ("Far From Heaven" and "The Hours"). "I'm Not There" and "Far From Heaven" were both directed by TODD HAYNES.

89. This R&B artist sang bass for the same group for over half a century, as well as co-writing a protest song that Rolling Stone ranked as one of the top five songs of all time.

90. “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck,” wrote this abolitionist – who often spoke of his personal experiences on one end of that chain.

91. Years before his death at the Alamo, he had already achieved a measure of fame for his role at a violent free-for-all in which he disemboweled a Louisiana sheriff.

92. He was the only photographer ever to have a mountain peak named after him.

93. A former editor of the Wall Street Journal, this economist now claims to regret his role in as one of the architects of Reaganomics.

94. “Truth happens to an idea,” noted this influential American philosopher. “It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its verification. Its validity is the process of its validation.” (Well, hell, I knew that.)

95. This Nobel Prize-winning biochemist is credited with discovering what Casimir Funk later named.

96. He was the National League batting champion seven times – but only once in my lifetime.

97. In order to win Southern support for his plan for federal assumption of state debts, this cabinet official suggested moving the national capital to the south.

98. Only Shakespeare and Tennyson have more citations in The Oxford Dictionary and Quotationsthan this eighteenth century poet.

99. This actor received his only Oscar 45 years before his widow received her only Oscar nomination.

I bet this is HUMPHREY BOGART. He won in '51 for "The African Queen" and Bacall got her lone nomination in '96 for "The Mirror Has Two Faces".

100. Although this Baroque composer greatly influenced Bach, much of his oeuvre remained unknown until scholars in the 1920s and 1920s began to unearth scores of unpublished manuscripts.

[plasticene]

23. She is the most memorable character in a classic “Novel Without a Hero” – and, no matter what certain modern fans and critics and filmmakers think, she ain’t no heroine.

Becky Sharp?

77. This Anglican divine may not specifically have written his most famous hymn to commemorate his own spiritual journey from the sea to the pulpit, but the lyrics certain seem to fit.

John Newton (Amazing Grace)

81. This entrepreneur – whose assets include three professional sports teams – finished 31 places below his former business partner on the most recent Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world.

Paul Allen?

100. Although this Baroque composer greatly influenced Bach, much of his oeuvre remained unknown until scholars in the 1920s and 1920s began to unearth scores of unpublished manuscripts.

Buxtehude?

[NellyLunatic1980]

I just figured out #89. It's OBIE BENSON of the Four Tops. He co-wrote "What's Going On?"

[silvercamaro]

37. Henry James said of this Victorian novelist that his “great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation of the usual.” (That may be one of the reasons I like him so much.)

Anthony Trollope