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. In 1998, the author of a book entitled Wall Street Money Machine sued him for copyright infringement and won a $650k verdict when he used the phrases “meter drop” and “rolling stocks” in a manual he distributed at one of his seminars.
2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
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. This actor’s last name was sometimes used as a verb in hip hop lyrics meaning to leave or disappear.
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
8. In response to repeated requests by Hugo Chavez, his body was exhumed in 2010, but forensic experts failed to find any indication that he had been poisoned.
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
10. He preceded Dick Cheney as Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff; his later career would be intertwined with Cheney’s as well.
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
12. He appeared with Jesse Ventura as Men in Black on a classic X Files episode.
13. The Kach political party that he founded was banned from the 1984 Israeli Parliamentary elections for being racist, but after the ban was overturned by the nation’s Supreme Court, he was elected to the Knesset, before being banned again the next year.
14. Her high school graduation trip ended poorly following a visit to Carlos‘n Charlies.
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
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. He discovered that uranium naturally emitted radiation, although Marie Curie was the first to use the term “radioactivity” several years later.
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
20. His yacht capsized during a 1985 race and he was trapped inside the hull for nearly an hour before being saved by Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopters.
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.
22. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
23. This actor hid his multiple sclerosis for 15 years before going public in 1999 and later writing a book about his experiences.
24. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
27. In 1995, the Justice Department launched an investigation into possible child pornography in his company’s latest ad campaign; the campaign was pulled shortly afterwards.
28. She was married on December 22, 1968, in a small private ceremony officiated by Norman Vincent Peale at New York’s Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church.
29. The ship that was not named Boaty McBoatface has been named after him instead.
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
36. Perhaps the most significant occurrence during his term of office was the still unsolved murder of the richest man in his country; he turned the investigation over to two detectives from the United States who unsuccessfully attempted to frame the prime suspect, who was subsequently acquitted at trial.
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
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. She has written a cookbook entitled Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.
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.
41. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was its first chairman.
42. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
47. This rap artist received a $10,000 insurance settlement when his grandfather died and used it to buy a record store in Richmond, CA, that later became his music label of the same name; today, his net worth is estimated at $400 million.
48. In 1978, he hosted a fundraiser to restore the badly dilapidated “Hollywood” sign, and in 2010, he donated the final $900,000 to buy the land adjacent to the sign and thwart a planned housing development.
49. He is usually seen walking around his hometown since he’s never been able to pass the road test given at Mrs. Puff’s school.
50. He was the first ski jumper to win three gold medals in the same Olympics, although for many people, his accomplishment was overshadowed by the jumper who finished in last place.
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. This cartoonist claimed to have invented the miniskirt when he drew one on his best known female character in 1934.
53. He was considered for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in Kindergarten Cop before the producers decided to take the character in a different direction, but one of his most iconic roles was opposite Schwarzenegger in another film.
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
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.
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. 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.
58. She was probably the best known resident of the village of St. Mary Mead.
59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
60. He was the first career player with the New England Patriots to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
61. In the same calendar year, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year and Rookie of the Year in his own sport.
62. She popularized “Dream a Little Dream” nearly four decades before Mama Cass recorded her own version
63. This actress played the first patient cured by Dr. House on his TV show.
64. His most noteworthy TV appearance was on an episode of the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents, playing a man with an affinity for other people’s fingers.
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.
66. One of his greatest victories occurred at the Battle of Embabeh, which is better known today by the name of a nearby landmark.
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
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.
70. He never had any children, but his nephew Lem Motlow ran his eponymous business for nearly forty years after his death.
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. The lowlight of this quarterback’s NFL career was a play during a playoff game that John Madden referred to as the Phantom Sack.
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. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
79. After his participation in 1959 in a botched assassination attempt against the leader of his country, he went into exile in Egypt, where he studied at Cairo University Law School.
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
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. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
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. This U.S. computing pioneer infamously said in 1977, “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a quote he later said was taken out of context.
88. He and Elvis Costello have recorded songs under the name of “The Coward Brothers.”
89. This author said that her most popular character and hero of 24 of her books was based on herself as a big, ugly man, although the character’s name came from an Irish town in which the author vacationed shortly before writing the first book in which he appeared.
90. Contrary to a popular Internet rumor, this beer tycoon who died recently did not leave the bulk of his fortune to the residents of his birthplace in Spain.
91. Although he is better known as a writer than a singer, as an 18 year old, his first single, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor,” made the Billboard 100.
92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
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. Last year, she pled guilty to falsifying border protection documents and was fined $1,000 as a result of her attempt to smuggle two of her companions into Australia.
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
96. He amassed a good bit of his soon-to-be-short-lived fortune from his 1986 sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
97. His Claude Cooper’s clappers routine with Johnny Carson often shows up in Tonight Show retrospectives.
98. Among his less successful film efforts was a remake of an Alec Guinness role; among his more successful film efforts was a remake of a James Stewart role.
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. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
101. This multiple Olympic gold-medalist lived less than 200 miles from Chernobyl and emigrated to the U.S. as a result, but she found trouble here as well, most notably a 2002 arrest at an Atlanta-area Publix for shoplifting $20 worth of groceries.
102. In one of the Harry Potter films, his 11-year-old nephew played a younger version of his character.
103. This Asian immigrant claimed to have worked as a baker and chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston and the Drayton Court and Carlton Hotels in London towards the beginning of World War I, before achieving much greater renown in politics.
104. In different films, he was managed by James Gammon and Meg Ryan.
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First pass...
29. The ship that was not named Boaty McBoatface has been named after him instead.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
RICHARD DREYFUSS
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
JOHN O'HURLEY
76. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
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.
Whoever produces "Real Husbands of Hollywood".
29. The ship that was not named Boaty McBoatface has been named after him instead.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
RICHARD DREYFUSS
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
JOHN O'HURLEY
76. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
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.
Whoever produces "Real Husbands of Hollywood".
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"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
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6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS -- You're killing me, SSS
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS -- You're killing me, SSS
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2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. STEVE MARTIN?
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo. IRVING STONE?
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo. IRVING STONE?
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34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
FREDI GONZALEZ
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
LYNDON JOHNSON (After Nixon's second inauguration)
FREDI GONZALEZ
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
LYNDON JOHNSON (After Nixon's second inauguration)
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2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.silverscreenselect wrote: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).
STEVE MARTIN (why do I know this?)
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
IRVING STONE
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
TERESA BREWER
10. He preceded Dick Cheney as Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff; his later career would be intertwined with Cheney’s as well.
DONALD RUMSFELD
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
MARIA SHRIVER?
13. The Kach political party that he founded was banned from the 1984 Israeli Parliamentary elections for being racist, but after the ban was overturned by the nation’s Supreme Court, he was elected to the Knesset, before being banned again the next year.
MEIER KAHANE
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
BILLY ROSE ("Elephant? What elephant?")
18. He discovered that uranium naturally emitted radiation, although Marie Curie was the first to use the term “radioactivity” several years later.
ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
PILTDOWN MAN
22. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
BILL BRADLEY?
23. This actor hid his multiple sclerosis for 15 years before going public in 1999 and later writing a book about his experiences.
24. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
MICHAEL POWELL
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
HENRY MORISON FLAGLER?
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
ROBERT WAGNER
27. In 1995, the Justice Department launched an investigation into possible child pornography in his company’s latest ad campaign; the campaign was pulled shortly afterwards.
CALVIN KLEIN?
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
AARON BURR
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
ROBERT MOSES?
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
JOAN RIVERS
36. Perhaps the most significant occurrence during his term of office was the still unsolved murder of the richest man in his country; he turned the investigation over to two detectives from the United States who unsuccessfully attempted to frame the prime suspect, who was subsequently acquitted at trial.
THE DUKE OF WINDSOR
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
EDMOND O'BRIEN
42. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
DAVID BELASCO
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
The song/movie is Jeepers Creepers
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
DICK CLARK?
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT?
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
REX HARRISON
52. This cartoonist claimed to have invented the miniskirt when he drew one on his best known female character in 1934.
AL CAPP
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?
58. She was probably the best known resident of the village of St. Mary Mead.
JANE MARPLE ("probably?")
64. His most noteworthy TV appearance was on an episode of the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents, playing a man with an affinity for other people’s fingers.
PETER LORRE
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?
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
LYNDON JOHNSON
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
JOHN O'HURLEY
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.
I SHOULD KNOW THIS!
76. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
SOL HUROK
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
It must be a screenwriter, this doesn't work for direction. But I'm not sure who.
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
ELISHA GRAY
92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
JOE E. BROWN (more memorable than "Well, nobody's perfect?")
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.
I can't wait to find out! I suspect it's either a cartoon character or a porn star.
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
PHILIP ROTH?
98. Among his less successful film efforts was a remake of an Alec Guinness role; among his more successful film efforts was a remake of a James Stewart role.
TOM HANKS
100. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
ANGELO DUNDEE
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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).
2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
RICKY SKAGGS?
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
IRVING STONE
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
TERESA BREWER
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
MARIA SHRIVER
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
BILLY ROSE? (Jumbo)
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. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
DAJUAN WAGNER?
24. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
MICHAEL POWELL
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
FLAGLER?
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
ROBERT WAGNER?
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
HARRISON FORD
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
PATRICK MCGOOHAN?
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
ROBERT MOSES
34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
FREDI GONZALEZ
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
JOAN RIVERS?
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
EDMOND O’BRIEN
42. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
DAVID BELASCO?
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
ERNIE KOVACS
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
RICHARD BURTON OR REX HARRISON – HAVE TO FIGURE OUT TIMES EACH ONE WAS MARRIED
49. He is usually seen walking around his hometown since he’s never been able to pass the road test given at Mrs. Puff’s school.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. He was the first ski jumper to win three gold medals in the same Olympics, although for many people, his accomplishment was overshadowed by the jumper who finished in last place.
MATTI NYKKNEN (spelling is wrong but the guy is right)
62. She popularized “Dream a Little Dream” nearly four decades before Mama Cass recorded her own version
KATE SMITH
70. He never had any children, but his nephew Lem Motlow ran his eponymous business for nearly forty years after his death.
JACK DANIEL
72. The lowlight of this quarterback’s NFL career was a play during a playoff game that John Madden referred to as the Phantom Sack.
JIM EVERETT
76. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
I know ALBERT EINSTEIN helped her out but HAROLD ICKES staged the Lincoln Memorial performance.
EDITED -- I was thinking Ickes from the White House point of view - Eleanor Roosevelt, etc. But Frank's Sol Hurok make so much more sense, since he was Anderson's manager
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
91. Although he is better known as a writer than a singer, as an 18 year old, his first single, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor,” made the Billboard 100.
JOE SOUTH (I am SO ashamed)
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
PHILLIP ROTH
97. His Claude Cooper’s clappers routine with Johnny Carson often shows up in Tonight Show retrospectives.
JACK WEBB
100. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
ANGELO DUNDEE
101. This multiple Olympic gold-medalist lived less than 200 miles from Chernobyl and emigrated to the U.S. as a result, but she found trouble here as well, most notably a 2002 arrest at an Atlanta-area Publix for shoplifting $20 worth of groceries.
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2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
RICKY SKAGGS?
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
IRVING STONE
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
TERESA BREWER
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
MARIA SHRIVER
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
BILLY ROSE? (Jumbo)
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. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
DAJUAN WAGNER?
24. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
MICHAEL POWELL
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
FLAGLER?
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
ROBERT WAGNER?
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
HARRISON FORD
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
PATRICK MCGOOHAN?
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
ROBERT MOSES
34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
FREDI GONZALEZ
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
JOAN RIVERS?
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
EDMOND O’BRIEN
42. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
DAVID BELASCO?
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
ERNIE KOVACS
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
RICHARD BURTON OR REX HARRISON – HAVE TO FIGURE OUT TIMES EACH ONE WAS MARRIED
49. He is usually seen walking around his hometown since he’s never been able to pass the road test given at Mrs. Puff’s school.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. He was the first ski jumper to win three gold medals in the same Olympics, although for many people, his accomplishment was overshadowed by the jumper who finished in last place.
MATTI NYKKNEN (spelling is wrong but the guy is right)
62. She popularized “Dream a Little Dream” nearly four decades before Mama Cass recorded her own version
KATE SMITH
70. He never had any children, but his nephew Lem Motlow ran his eponymous business for nearly forty years after his death.
JACK DANIEL
72. The lowlight of this quarterback’s NFL career was a play during a playoff game that John Madden referred to as the Phantom Sack.
JIM EVERETT
76. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
I know ALBERT EINSTEIN helped her out but HAROLD ICKES staged the Lincoln Memorial performance.
EDITED -- I was thinking Ickes from the White House point of view - Eleanor Roosevelt, etc. But Frank's Sol Hurok make so much more sense, since he was Anderson's manager
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
91. Although he is better known as a writer than a singer, as an 18 year old, his first single, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor,” made the Billboard 100.
JOE SOUTH (I am SO ashamed)
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
PHILLIP ROTH
97. His Claude Cooper’s clappers routine with Johnny Carson often shows up in Tonight Show retrospectives.
JACK WEBB
100. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
ANGELO DUNDEE
101. This multiple Olympic gold-medalist lived less than 200 miles from Chernobyl and emigrated to the U.S. as a result, but she found trouble here as well, most notably a 2002 arrest at an Atlanta-area Publix for shoplifting $20 worth of groceries.
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2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
Lester Flatt?
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
Eric Lindros
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
Jane Pauley?
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
Piltdown Man?
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
Aaron Burr
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
Patrick MacNee?
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
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
Dick Clark?
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
Theodore Roosevelt?
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
Mel Ott
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.
John Agar?
60. He was the first career player with the New England Patriots to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
John Hannah?
76. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
Charles Dickens
83. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
Bill Halley & His Comets?
84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
Glenn Curtiss
89. This author said that her most popular character and hero of 24 of her books was based on herself as a big, ugly man, although the character’s name came from an Irish town in which the author vacationed shortly before writing the first book in which he appeared.
Ruth Rendell?
100. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
Vince Lombardi
Lester Flatt?
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
Eric Lindros
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
Jane Pauley?
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
Piltdown Man?
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
Aaron Burr
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
Patrick MacNee?
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
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
Dick Clark?
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
Theodore Roosevelt?
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
Mel Ott
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.
John Agar?
60. He was the first career player with the New England Patriots to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
John Hannah?
76. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
Charles Dickens
83. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
Bill Halley & His Comets?
84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
Glenn Curtiss
89. This author said that her most popular character and hero of 24 of her books was based on herself as a big, ugly man, although the character’s name came from an Irish town in which the author vacationed shortly before writing the first book in which he appeared.
Ruth Rendell?
100. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
Vince Lombardi
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This story I did remember. I didn't jump on it earlier because of the pronouns. I knew this happened to Johnny Depp, but I couldn't remember the name of his new wife. Her name is AMBER HEARD, and they have since divorced.silverscreenselect wrote:94. Last year, she pled guilty to falsifying border protection documents and was fined $1,000 as a result of her attempt to smuggle two of her companions into Australia.
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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. In 1998, the author of a book entitled Wall Street Money Machine sued him for copyright infringement and won a $650k verdict when he used the phrases “meter drop” and “rolling stocks” in a manual he distributed at one of his seminars.
2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
STEVE MARTIN
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
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. This actor’s last name was sometimes used as a verb in hip hop lyrics meaning to leave or disappear.
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS
7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
8. In response to repeated requests by Hugo Chavez, his body was exhumed in 2010, but forensic experts failed to find any indication that he had been poisoned.
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
TERESA BREWER
10. He preceded Dick Cheney as Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff; his later career would be intertwined with Cheney’s as well.
DONALD RUMSFELD
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
MARIA SHRIVER? JANE PAULEY?
12. He appeared with Jesse Ventura as Men in Black on a classic X Files episode.
13. The Kach political party that he founded was banned from the 1984 Israeli Parliamentary elections for being racist, but after the ban was overturned by the nation’s Supreme Court, he was elected to the Knesset, before being banned again the next year.
MEIER KAHANE
14. Her high school graduation trip ended poorly following a visit to Carlos‘n Charlies.
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
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. He discovered that uranium naturally emitted radiation, although Marie Curie was the first to use the term “radioactivity” several years later.
ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
PILTDOWN MAN
20. His yacht capsized during a 1985 race and he was trapped inside the hull for nearly an hour before being saved by Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopters.
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. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
BILL BRADLEY? DAJUAN WAGNER?
23. This actor hid his multiple sclerosis for 15 years before going public in 1999 and later writing a book about his experiences.
24. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
MICHAEL POWELL
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
HENRY MORISON FLAGLER?
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
ROBERT WAGNER
27. In 1995, the Justice Department launched an investigation into possible child pornography in his company’s latest ad campaign; the campaign was pulled shortly afterwards.
CALVIN KLEIN?
28. She was married on December 22, 1968, in a small private ceremony officiated by Norman Vincent Peale at New York’s Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church.
29. The ship that was not named Boaty McBoatface has been named after him instead.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
RICHARD DREYFUSS? HARRISON FORD?
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
AARON BURR
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
PATRICK MCGOOHAN? PATRICK MACNEE?
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
ROBERT MOSES?
34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
FREDI GONZALEZ
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
JOAN RIVERS
36. Perhaps the most significant occurrence during his term of office was the still unsolved murder of the richest man in his country; he turned the investigation over to two detectives from the United States who unsuccessfully attempted to frame the prime suspect, who was subsequently acquitted at trial.
THE DUKE OF WINDSOR
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
EDMON 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.
ALGER HISS
39. She has written a cookbook entitled Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.
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.
41. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was its first chairman.
42. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
DAVID BELASCO
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
ERNIE KOVACS
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT?
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
REX HARRISON
47. This rap artist received a $10,000 insurance settlement when his grandfather died and used it to buy a record store in Richmond, CA, that later became his music label of the same name; today, his net worth is estimated at $400 million.
48. In 1978, he hosted a fundraiser to restore the badly dilapidated “Hollywood” sign, and in 2010, he donated the final $900,000 to buy the land adjacent to the sign and thwart a planned housing development.
49. He is usually seen walking around his hometown since he’s never been able to pass the road test given at Mrs. Puff’s school.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. He was the first ski jumper to win three gold medals in the same Olympics, although for many people, his accomplishment was overshadowed by the jumper who finished in last place.
MATTI NYKKNEN (sp?)
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. This cartoonist claimed to have invented the miniskirt when he drew one on his best known female character in 1934.
AL CAPP
53. He was considered for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in Kindergarten Cop before the producers decided to take the character in a different direction, but one of his most iconic roles was opposite Schwarzenegger in another film.
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
MEL OTT
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. 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.
58. She was probably the best known resident of the village of St. Mary Mead.
MISS JANE MARPLE
59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
60. He was the first career player with the New England Patriots to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
JOHN HANNAH?
61. In the same calendar year, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year and Rookie of the Year in his own sport.
62. She popularized “Dream a Little Dream” nearly four decades before Mama Cass recorded her own version
KATE SMITH
63. This actress played the first patient cured by Dr. House on his TV show.
64. His most noteworthy TV appearance was on an episode of the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents, playing a man with an affinity for other people’s fingers.
PETER LORRE
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?
66. One of his greatest victories occurred at the Battle of Embabeh, which is better known today by the name of a nearby landmark.
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
LYNDON JOHNSON
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
JOHN O'HURLEY
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.
70. He never had any children, but his nephew Lem Motlow ran his eponymous business for nearly forty years after his death.
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. The lowlight of this quarterback’s NFL career was a play during a playoff game that John Madden referred to as the Phantom Sack.
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. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
SOL HUROK
79. After his participation in 1959 in a botched assassination attempt against the leader of his country, he went into exile in Egypt, where he studied at Cairo University Law School.
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
ANTONIO MEUCCI? ELISHA GRAY?
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. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS
84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
GLENN CURTISS
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. This U.S. computing pioneer infamously said in 1977, “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a quote he later said was taken out of context.
88. He and Elvis Costello have recorded songs under the name of “The Coward Brothers.”
89. This author said that her most popular character and hero of 24 of her books was based on herself as a big, ugly man, although the character’s name came from an Irish town in which the author vacationed shortly before writing the first book in which he appeared.
RUTH RENDELL?
90. Contrary to a popular Internet rumor, this beer tycoon who died recently did not leave the bulk of his fortune to the residents of his birthplace in Spain.
91. Although he is better known as a writer than a singer, as an 18 year old, his first single, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor,” made the Billboard 100.
JOE SOUTH
92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
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. Last year, she pled guilty to falsifying border protection documents and was fined $1,000 as a result of her attempt to smuggle two of her companions into Australia.
AMBER HEARD
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
PHILIP ROTH?
96. He amassed a good bit of his soon-to-be-short-lived fortune from his 1986 sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
97. His Claude Cooper’s clappers routine with Johnny Carson often shows up in Tonight Show retrospectives.
JACK WEBB
98. Among his less successful film efforts was a remake of an Alec Guinness role; among his more successful film efforts was a remake of a James Stewart role.
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. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
ANGELO DUNDEE? VINCE LOMBARDI?
101. This multiple Olympic gold-medalist lived less than 200 miles from Chernobyl and emigrated to the U.S. as a result, but she found trouble here as well, most notably a 2002 arrest at an Atlanta-area Publix for shoplifting $20 worth of groceries.
OLGA KORBUT
102. In one of the Harry Potter films, his 11-year-old nephew played a younger version of his character.
103. This Asian immigrant claimed to have worked as a baker and chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston and the Drayton Court and Carlton Hotels in London towards the beginning of World War I, before achieving much greater renown in politics.
104. In different films, he was managed by James Gammon and Meg Ryan.
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. In 1998, the author of a book entitled Wall Street Money Machine sued him for copyright infringement and won a $650k verdict when he used the phrases “meter drop” and “rolling stocks” in a manual he distributed at one of his seminars.
2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
STEVE MARTIN
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
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. This actor’s last name was sometimes used as a verb in hip hop lyrics meaning to leave or disappear.
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS
7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
8. In response to repeated requests by Hugo Chavez, his body was exhumed in 2010, but forensic experts failed to find any indication that he had been poisoned.
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
TERESA BREWER
10. He preceded Dick Cheney as Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff; his later career would be intertwined with Cheney’s as well.
DONALD RUMSFELD
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
MARIA SHRIVER? JANE PAULEY?
12. He appeared with Jesse Ventura as Men in Black on a classic X Files episode.
13. The Kach political party that he founded was banned from the 1984 Israeli Parliamentary elections for being racist, but after the ban was overturned by the nation’s Supreme Court, he was elected to the Knesset, before being banned again the next year.
MEIER KAHANE
14. Her high school graduation trip ended poorly following a visit to Carlos‘n Charlies.
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
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. He discovered that uranium naturally emitted radiation, although Marie Curie was the first to use the term “radioactivity” several years later.
ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
PILTDOWN MAN
20. His yacht capsized during a 1985 race and he was trapped inside the hull for nearly an hour before being saved by Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopters.
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. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
BILL BRADLEY? DAJUAN WAGNER?
23. This actor hid his multiple sclerosis for 15 years before going public in 1999 and later writing a book about his experiences.
24. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
MICHAEL POWELL
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
HENRY MORISON FLAGLER?
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
ROBERT WAGNER
27. In 1995, the Justice Department launched an investigation into possible child pornography in his company’s latest ad campaign; the campaign was pulled shortly afterwards.
CALVIN KLEIN?
28. She was married on December 22, 1968, in a small private ceremony officiated by Norman Vincent Peale at New York’s Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church.
29. The ship that was not named Boaty McBoatface has been named after him instead.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
RICHARD DREYFUSS? HARRISON FORD?
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
AARON BURR
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
PATRICK MCGOOHAN? PATRICK MACNEE?
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
ROBERT MOSES?
34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
FREDI GONZALEZ
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
JOAN RIVERS
36. Perhaps the most significant occurrence during his term of office was the still unsolved murder of the richest man in his country; he turned the investigation over to two detectives from the United States who unsuccessfully attempted to frame the prime suspect, who was subsequently acquitted at trial.
THE DUKE OF WINDSOR
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
EDMON 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.
ALGER HISS
39. She has written a cookbook entitled Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.
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.
41. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was its first chairman.
42. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
DAVID BELASCO
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
ERNIE KOVACS
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT?
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
REX HARRISON
47. This rap artist received a $10,000 insurance settlement when his grandfather died and used it to buy a record store in Richmond, CA, that later became his music label of the same name; today, his net worth is estimated at $400 million.
48. In 1978, he hosted a fundraiser to restore the badly dilapidated “Hollywood” sign, and in 2010, he donated the final $900,000 to buy the land adjacent to the sign and thwart a planned housing development.
49. He is usually seen walking around his hometown since he’s never been able to pass the road test given at Mrs. Puff’s school.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. He was the first ski jumper to win three gold medals in the same Olympics, although for many people, his accomplishment was overshadowed by the jumper who finished in last place.
MATTI NYKKNEN (sp?)
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. This cartoonist claimed to have invented the miniskirt when he drew one on his best known female character in 1934.
AL CAPP
53. He was considered for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in Kindergarten Cop before the producers decided to take the character in a different direction, but one of his most iconic roles was opposite Schwarzenegger in another film.
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
MEL OTT
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. 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.
58. She was probably the best known resident of the village of St. Mary Mead.
MISS JANE MARPLE
59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
60. He was the first career player with the New England Patriots to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
JOHN HANNAH?
61. In the same calendar year, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year and Rookie of the Year in his own sport.
62. She popularized “Dream a Little Dream” nearly four decades before Mama Cass recorded her own version
KATE SMITH
63. This actress played the first patient cured by Dr. House on his TV show.
64. His most noteworthy TV appearance was on an episode of the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents, playing a man with an affinity for other people’s fingers.
PETER LORRE
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?
66. One of his greatest victories occurred at the Battle of Embabeh, which is better known today by the name of a nearby landmark.
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
LYNDON JOHNSON
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
JOHN O'HURLEY
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.
70. He never had any children, but his nephew Lem Motlow ran his eponymous business for nearly forty years after his death.
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. The lowlight of this quarterback’s NFL career was a play during a playoff game that John Madden referred to as the Phantom Sack.
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. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
SOL HUROK
79. After his participation in 1959 in a botched assassination attempt against the leader of his country, he went into exile in Egypt, where he studied at Cairo University Law School.
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
ANTONIO MEUCCI? ELISHA GRAY?
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. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS
84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
GLENN CURTISS
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. This U.S. computing pioneer infamously said in 1977, “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a quote he later said was taken out of context.
88. He and Elvis Costello have recorded songs under the name of “The Coward Brothers.”
89. This author said that her most popular character and hero of 24 of her books was based on herself as a big, ugly man, although the character’s name came from an Irish town in which the author vacationed shortly before writing the first book in which he appeared.
RUTH RENDELL?
90. Contrary to a popular Internet rumor, this beer tycoon who died recently did not leave the bulk of his fortune to the residents of his birthplace in Spain.
91. Although he is better known as a writer than a singer, as an 18 year old, his first single, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor,” made the Billboard 100.
JOE SOUTH
92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
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. Last year, she pled guilty to falsifying border protection documents and was fined $1,000 as a result of her attempt to smuggle two of her companions into Australia.
AMBER HEARD
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
PHILIP ROTH?
96. He amassed a good bit of his soon-to-be-short-lived fortune from his 1986 sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
97. His Claude Cooper’s clappers routine with Johnny Carson often shows up in Tonight Show retrospectives.
JACK WEBB
98. Among his less successful film efforts was a remake of an Alec Guinness role; among his more successful film efforts was a remake of a James Stewart role.
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. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
ANGELO DUNDEE? VINCE LOMBARDI?
101. This multiple Olympic gold-medalist lived less than 200 miles from Chernobyl and emigrated to the U.S. as a result, but she found trouble here as well, most notably a 2002 arrest at an Atlanta-area Publix for shoplifting $20 worth of groceries.
OLGA KORBUT
102. In one of the Harry Potter films, his 11-year-old nephew played a younger version of his character.
103. This Asian immigrant claimed to have worked as a baker and chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston and the Drayton Court and Carlton Hotels in London towards the beginning of World War I, before achieving much greater renown in politics.
104. In different films, he was managed by James Gammon and Meg Ryan.
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Four of your definite answers are wrong. One of your answers with a question mark is wrong. Two of the questions with multiple responses do not contain the right answer as one of the guesses.Pastor Fireball wrote:FIRST CONSOLIDATION
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I'm going to say 84 is probably wrong,. I didn't read the date carefully. Glenn Curtiss was producing planes long before 1929. Is it maybe Howard Hughes?
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7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
As far as scripted series go, very few current shows have gotten to 200 episodes. The Big Band Theory is out, only because all of its stars are too young to be in Perry Mason. This narrowed it down to Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, and CSI:. Sure enough, DAVID MCCALLUM of NCIS was on Perry Mason.
47. This rap artist received a $10,000 insurance settlement when his grandfather died and used it to buy a record store in Richmond, CA, that later became his music label of the same name; today, his net worth is estimated at $400 million.
Very few rappers have been associated with Richmond, CA. Since I doubt that any of the others are worth $400 million right now, this has to be PERCY MILLER (MASTER P).
As far as scripted series go, very few current shows have gotten to 200 episodes. The Big Band Theory is out, only because all of its stars are too young to be in Perry Mason. This narrowed it down to Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, and CSI:. Sure enough, DAVID MCCALLUM of NCIS was on Perry Mason.
47. This rap artist received a $10,000 insurance settlement when his grandfather died and used it to buy a record store in Richmond, CA, that later became his music label of the same name; today, his net worth is estimated at $400 million.
Very few rappers have been associated with Richmond, CA. Since I doubt that any of the others are worth $400 million right now, this has to be PERCY MILLER (MASTER P).
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92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
JOE E. BROWN
Could this be one of the wrong ones?
I am pretty sure a film buff like sss would not refer to Brown's in IAMMMMMW role as "perhaps his best remembered," in light of his co-starring role in Some Like it Hot, where he dances with Jack Lemmon.
JOE E. BROWN
Could this be one of the wrong ones?
I am pretty sure a film buff like sss would not refer to Brown's in IAMMMMMW role as "perhaps his best remembered," in light of his co-starring role in Some Like it Hot, where he dances with Jack Lemmon.
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Considering how people on this Bored have memorized every millisecond of IAMMMMW, any actor's appearance in this movie almost of necessity would be his or her "best remembered" (and I did qualify that with "perhaps").mellytu74 wrote:92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
JOE E. BROWN
Could this be one of the wrong ones?
I am pretty sure a film buff like sss would not refer to Brown's in IAMMMMMW role as "perhaps his best remembered," in light of his co-starring role in Some Like it Hot, where he dances with Jack Lemmon.
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OK, then. Well, nobody's perfect.silverscreenselect wrote:Considering how people on this Bored have memorized every millisecond of IAMMMMW, any actor's appearance in this movie almost of necessity would be his or her "best remembered" (and I did qualify that with "perhaps").mellytu74 wrote:92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
JOE E. BROWN
Could this be one of the wrong ones?
I am pretty sure a film buff like sss would not refer to Brown's in IAMMMMMW role as "perhaps his best remembered," in light of his co-starring role in Some Like it Hot, where he dances with Jack Lemmon.
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1. In 1998, the author of a book entitled Wall Street Money Machine sued him for copyright infringement and won a $650k verdict when he used the phrases “meter drop” and “rolling stocks” in a manual he distributed at one of his seminars.
TONY ROBBINS
5. This actor’s last name was sometimes used as a verb in hip hop lyrics meaning to leave or disappear.
PATRICK SWAYZE
7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
8. In response to repeated requests by Hugo Chavez, his body was exhumed in 2010, but forensic experts failed to find any indication that he had been poisoned.
SIMON BOLIVAR
14. Her high school graduation trip ended poorly following a visit to Carlos‘n Charlies.
NATALEE HOLLOWAY
20. His yacht capsized during a 1985 race and he was trapped inside the hull for nearly an hour before being saved by Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopters.
SIMON LE BON
22. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
BILL BRADLEY? DAJUAN WAGNER?
KELLY TRIPUCKA
28. She was married on December 22, 1968, in a small private ceremony officiated by Norman Vincent Peale at New York’s Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church.
JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
RICHARD DREYFUSS? HARRISON FORD?
HARRISON FORD
39. She has written a cookbook entitled Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.
MO'NIQUE
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
48. In 1978, he hosted a fundraiser to restore the badly dilapidated “Hollywood” sign, and in 2010, he donated the final $900,000 to buy the land adjacent to the sign and thwart a planned housing development.
HUGH HEFNER
53. He was considered for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in Kindergarten Cop before the producers decided to take the character in a different direction, but one of his most iconic roles was opposite Schwarzenegger in another film.
DANNY DE VITO
59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
SNOW WHITE
61. In the same calendar year, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year and Rookie of the Year in his own sport.
TIGER WOODS
63. This actress played the first patient cured by Dr. House on his TV show.
ROBIN "TAPEWORM" TUNNEY
79. After his participation in 1959 in a botched assassination attempt against the leader of his country, he went into exile in Egypt, where he studied at Cairo University Law School.
SADDAM HUSSEIN
87. This U.S. computing pioneer infamously said in 1977, “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a quote he later said was taken out of context.
KEN OLSEN
88. He and Elvis Costello have recorded songs under the name of “The Coward Brothers.”
T-BONE BURNETT
90. Contrary to a popular Internet rumor, this beer tycoon who died recently did not leave the bulk of his fortune to the residents of his birthplace in Spain.
CORONA FOUNDER
96. He amassed a good bit of his soon-to-be-short-lived fortune from his 1986 sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
IVAN BOESKY
102. In one of the Harry Potter films, his 11-year-old nephew played a younger version of his character.
RALPH FIENNES
103. This Asian immigrant claimed to have worked as a baker and chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston and the Drayton Court and Carlton Hotels in London towards the beginning of World War I, before achieving much greater renown in politics.
HO CHO MINH
TONY ROBBINS
5. This actor’s last name was sometimes used as a verb in hip hop lyrics meaning to leave or disappear.
PATRICK SWAYZE
7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
Even more recently, NCIS broadcast its 300th episode.Nelly wrote:This narrowed it down to Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, and CSI:. Sure enough, DAVID MCCALLUM of NCIS was on Perry Mason.
8. In response to repeated requests by Hugo Chavez, his body was exhumed in 2010, but forensic experts failed to find any indication that he had been poisoned.
SIMON BOLIVAR
14. Her high school graduation trip ended poorly following a visit to Carlos‘n Charlies.
NATALEE HOLLOWAY
20. His yacht capsized during a 1985 race and he was trapped inside the hull for nearly an hour before being saved by Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopters.
SIMON LE BON
22. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
BILL BRADLEY? DAJUAN WAGNER?
KELLY TRIPUCKA
28. She was married on December 22, 1968, in a small private ceremony officiated by Norman Vincent Peale at New York’s Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church.
JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
RICHARD DREYFUSS? HARRISON FORD?
HARRISON FORD
39. She has written a cookbook entitled Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.
MO'NIQUE
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
48. In 1978, he hosted a fundraiser to restore the badly dilapidated “Hollywood” sign, and in 2010, he donated the final $900,000 to buy the land adjacent to the sign and thwart a planned housing development.
HUGH HEFNER
53. He was considered for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in Kindergarten Cop before the producers decided to take the character in a different direction, but one of his most iconic roles was opposite Schwarzenegger in another film.
DANNY DE VITO
59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
SNOW WHITE
61. In the same calendar year, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year and Rookie of the Year in his own sport.
TIGER WOODS
63. This actress played the first patient cured by Dr. House on his TV show.
ROBIN "TAPEWORM" TUNNEY
79. After his participation in 1959 in a botched assassination attempt against the leader of his country, he went into exile in Egypt, where he studied at Cairo University Law School.
SADDAM HUSSEIN
87. This U.S. computing pioneer infamously said in 1977, “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a quote he later said was taken out of context.
KEN OLSEN
88. He and Elvis Costello have recorded songs under the name of “The Coward Brothers.”
T-BONE BURNETT
90. Contrary to a popular Internet rumor, this beer tycoon who died recently did not leave the bulk of his fortune to the residents of his birthplace in Spain.
CORONA FOUNDER
96. He amassed a good bit of his soon-to-be-short-lived fortune from his 1986 sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
IVAN BOESKY
102. In one of the Harry Potter films, his 11-year-old nephew played a younger version of his character.
RALPH FIENNES
103. This Asian immigrant claimed to have worked as a baker and chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston and the Drayton Court and Carlton Hotels in London towards the beginning of World War I, before achieving much greater renown in politics.
HO CHO MINH
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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
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
I DON'T KNOW WHICH PART OF THE QUESTION MEL OTT MIGHT NOT SATISFY. BUT DAVID ORTIZ DEFINITELY FITS ALL THREE.
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?
DAVID TENNANT
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
I DON'T KNOW WHICH PART OF THE QUESTION MEL OTT MIGHT NOT SATISFY. BUT DAVID ORTIZ DEFINITELY FITS ALL THREE.
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?
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I can't believe I've created a puzzle that's driven Professor Tangredi into hiding. Not a bit of buzz about the Tangredi yet, although you've gotten most of the clues. Unfortunately, some of the ones you haven't gotten offer some of the best insight into the Tangredi. Figuring out a couple of the individual matches may be easier than spotting the pattern.
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Piltdown Man and SpongeBob Squarepants. Aside from the obvious that neither of these fictional celebrities have ever been in my kitchen, I'm lost on a connection that could involve either of them.silverscreenselect wrote:I can't believe I've created a puzzle that's driven Professor Tangredi into hiding. Not a bit of buzz about the Tangredi yet, although you've gotten most of the clues. Unfortunately, some of the ones you haven't gotten offer some of the best insight into the Tangredi. Figuring out a couple of the individual matches may be easier than spotting the pattern.
By the way:
This is one of the wrong answers. THE KINGSTON TRIO won this award for "Tom Dooley".83. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
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silverscreenselect wrote:I can't believe I've created a puzzle that's driven Professor Tangredi into hiding.
Frank may be busy helping transcribe all those Phyllis Diller jokes for posterity....
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Unfortunately, this is a huge crunch week at work, so I simply haven't been able to look at this. I will, I promise.littlebeast13 wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:I can't believe I've created a puzzle that's driven Professor Tangredi into hiding.
Frank may be busy helping transcribe all those Phyllis Diller jokes for posterity....
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I updated the consolidation. At least that's something.
Some of the answers are still wrong.
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. In 1998, the author of a book entitled Wall Street Money Machine sued him for copyright infringement and won a $650k verdict when he used the phrases “meter drop” and “rolling stocks” in a manual he distributed at one of his seminars.
TONY ROBBINS
2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
STEVE MARTIN
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
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. This actor’s last name was sometimes used as a verb in hip hop lyrics meaning to leave or disappear.
PATRICK SWAYZE
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS
7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
DAVID McCALLUM
8. In response to repeated requests by Hugo Chavez, his body was exhumed in 2010, but forensic experts failed to find any indication that he had been poisoned.
SIMON BOLIVAR
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
TERESA BREWER
10. He preceded Dick Cheney as Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff; his later career would be intertwined with Cheney’s as well.
DONALD RUMSFELD
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
MARIA SHRIVER? JANE PAULEY?
12. He appeared with Jesse Ventura as Men in Black on a classic X Files episode.
13. The Kach political party that he founded was banned from the 1984 Israeli Parliamentary elections for being racist, but after the ban was overturned by the nation’s Supreme Court, he was elected to the Knesset, before being banned again the next year.
MEIER KAHANE
14. Her high school graduation trip ended poorly following a visit to Carlos‘n Charlies.
NATALEE HOLLOWAY
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
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. He discovered that uranium naturally emitted radiation, although Marie Curie was the first to use the term “radioactivity” several years later.
ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
PILTDOWN MAN
20. His yacht capsized during a 1985 race and he was trapped inside the hull for nearly an hour before being saved by Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopters.
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. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
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. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
MICHAEL POWELL
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
HENRY MORISON FLAGLER?
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
ROBERT WAGNER
27. In 1995, the Justice Department launched an investigation into possible child pornography in his company’s latest ad campaign; the campaign was pulled shortly afterwards.
CALVIN KLEIN?
28. She was married on December 22, 1968, in a small private ceremony officiated by Norman Vincent Peale at New York’s Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church.
JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER
29. The ship that was not named Boaty McBoatface has been named after him instead.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
HARRISON FORD
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
AARON BURR
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
PATRICK MCGOOHAN? PATRICK MACNEE?
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
ROBERT MOSES?
34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
FREDI GONZALEZ
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
JOAN RIVERS
36. Perhaps the most significant occurrence during his term of office was the still unsolved murder of the richest man in his country; he turned the investigation over to two detectives from the United States who unsuccessfully attempted to frame the prime suspect, who was subsequently acquitted at trial.
THE DUKE OF WINDSOR
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
EDMON 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.
ALGER HISS
39. She has written a cookbook entitled Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.
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. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
DAVID BELASCO
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
ERNIE KOVACS
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT?
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
REX HARRISON
47. This rap artist received a $10,000 insurance settlement when his grandfather died and used it to buy a record store in Richmond, CA, that later became his music label of the same name; today, his net worth is estimated at $400 million.
PERCY MILLER (MASTER P)
48. In 1978, he hosted a fundraiser to restore the badly dilapidated “Hollywood” sign, and in 2010, he donated the final $900,000 to buy the land adjacent to the sign and thwart a planned housing development.
HUGH HEFNER
49. He is usually seen walking around his hometown since he’s never been able to pass the road test given at Mrs. Puff’s school.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. He was the first ski jumper to win three gold medals in the same Olympics, although for many people, his accomplishment was overshadowed by the jumper who finished in last place.
MATTI NYKKNEN (sp?)
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. This cartoonist claimed to have invented the miniskirt when he drew one on his best known female character in 1934.
AL CAPP
53. He was considered for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in Kindergarten Cop before the producers decided to take the character in a different direction, but one of his most iconic roles was opposite Schwarzenegger in another film.
DANNY DeVITO
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
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. 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.
58. She was probably the best known resident of the village of St. Mary Mead.
MISS JANE MARPLE
59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
SNOW WHITE
60. He was the first career player with the New England Patriots to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
JOHN HANNAH?
61. In the same calendar year, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year and Rookie of the Year in his own sport.
TIGER WOODS
62. She popularized “Dream a Little Dream” nearly four decades before Mama Cass recorded her own version
KATE SMITH
63. This actress played the first patient cured by Dr. House on his TV show.
ROBIN TUNNEY
64. His most noteworthy TV appearance was on an episode of the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents, playing a man with an affinity for other people’s fingers.
PETER LORRE
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?
66. One of his greatest victories occurred at the Battle of Embabeh, which is better known today by the name of a nearby landmark.
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
LYNDON JOHNSON
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
JOHN O'HURLEY
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.
70. He never had any children, but his nephew Lem Motlow ran his eponymous business for nearly forty years after his death.
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. The lowlight of this quarterback’s NFL career was a play during a playoff game that John Madden referred to as the Phantom Sack.
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. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
SOL HUROK
79. After his participation in 1959 in a botched assassination attempt against the leader of his country, he went into exile in Egypt, where he studied at Cairo University Law School.
SADDAM HUSSEIN
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
ANTONIO MEUCCI? ELISHA GRAY?
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. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
THE KINGSTON TRIO
84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
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. This U.S. computing pioneer infamously said in 1977, “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a quote he later said was taken out of context.
KEN OLSEN
88. He and Elvis Costello have recorded songs under the name of “The Coward Brothers.”
T-BONE BURNETT
89. This author said that her most popular character and hero of 24 of her books was based on herself as a big, ugly man, although the character’s name came from an Irish town in which the author vacationed shortly before writing the first book in which he appeared.
RUTH RENDELL?
90. Contrary to a popular Internet rumor, this beer tycoon who died recently did not leave the bulk of his fortune to the residents of his birthplace in Spain.
91. Although he is better known as a writer than a singer, as an 18 year old, his first single, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor,” made the Billboard 100.
JOE SOUTH
92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
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. Last year, she pled guilty to falsifying border protection documents and was fined $1,000 as a result of her attempt to smuggle two of her companions into Australia.
AMBER HEARD
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
PHILIP ROTH?
96. He amassed a good bit of his soon-to-be-short-lived fortune from his 1986 sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
IVAN BOESKY
97. His Claude Cooper’s clappers routine with Johnny Carson often shows up in Tonight Show retrospectives.
JACK WEBB
98. Among his less successful film efforts was a remake of an Alec Guinness role; among his more successful film efforts was a remake of a James Stewart role.
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. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
ANGELO DUNDEE? VINCE LOMBARDI?
101. This multiple Olympic gold-medalist lived less than 200 miles from Chernobyl and emigrated to the U.S. as a result, but she found trouble here as well, most notably a 2002 arrest at an Atlanta-area Publix for shoplifting $20 worth of groceries.
OLGA KORBUT
102. In one of the Harry Potter films, his 11-year-old nephew played a younger version of his character.
RALPH FIENNES
103. This Asian immigrant claimed to have worked as a baker and chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston and the Drayton Court and Carlton Hotels in London towards the beginning of World War I, before achieving much greater renown in politics.
HO CHI MINH
104. In different films, he was managed by James Gammon and Meg Ryan.
Some of the answers are still wrong.
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. In 1998, the author of a book entitled Wall Street Money Machine sued him for copyright infringement and won a $650k verdict when he used the phrases “meter drop” and “rolling stocks” in a manual he distributed at one of his seminars.
TONY ROBBINS
2. He won a Grammy with Earl Scruggs, with whom he toured, for Best Country Instrumental and, later, a solo Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
STEVE MARTIN
3. His two most popular novels were based on the lives of Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo.
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. This actor’s last name was sometimes used as a verb in hip hop lyrics meaning to leave or disappear.
PATRICK SWAYZE
6. Although sometimes dubbed “The Next One,” he never won a Stanley Cup, and his team only reached the finals once, where they were swept in four games.
ERIC LINDROS
7. He appeared as a guest star on the 200th episode of Perry Mason; more recently, his own TV series broadcast its 200th episode.
DAVID McCALLUM
8. In response to repeated requests by Hugo Chavez, his body was exhumed in 2010, but forensic experts failed to find any indication that he had been poisoned.
SIMON BOLIVAR
9. In 1956, she recorded a popular novelty record with Mickey Mantle in which she declared her love for the Mick.
TERESA BREWER
10. He preceded Dick Cheney as Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff; his later career would be intertwined with Cheney’s as well.
DONALD RUMSFELD
11. Tom Brokaw introduced her to her celebrity future husband at a 1977 charity tennis tournament sponsored by her mother.
MARIA SHRIVER? JANE PAULEY?
12. He appeared with Jesse Ventura as Men in Black on a classic X Files episode.
13. The Kach political party that he founded was banned from the 1984 Israeli Parliamentary elections for being racist, but after the ban was overturned by the nation’s Supreme Court, he was elected to the Knesset, before being banned again the next year.
MEIER KAHANE
14. Her high school graduation trip ended poorly following a visit to Carlos‘n Charlies.
NATALEE HOLLOWAY
15. The expression “elephant in the room” originated in a comedy routine from a Broadway show he produced.
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. He discovered that uranium naturally emitted radiation, although Marie Curie was the first to use the term “radioactivity” several years later.
ANTOINE-HENRI BECQUEREL
19. Four decades after this one-time celebrity’s first public appearance in England, and years after his apparent death, a 1953 article in Time magazine reported the findings of three scientists who conclusively proved that he was a fraud.
PILTDOWN MAN
20. His yacht capsized during a 1985 race and he was trapped inside the hull for nearly an hour before being saved by Royal Navy Search and Rescue helicopters.
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. In 2000, the Newark Star-Ledger named him the greatest New Jersey boy’s basketball player of the 20th century.
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. His career was essentially destroyed when he made a controversial 1960 thriller that was despised by audiences and critics at the time but which, according to Martin Scorsese, is one of two films that “say everything that can be said about filmmaking.”
MICHAEL POWELL
25. In 1896, the residents of what was soon to become the city of Miami offered to name their city after him, but he declined.
HENRY MORISON FLAGLER?
26. He played Spencer Tracy’s son in one movie; two years later, he played Tracy’s brother in another.
ROBERT WAGNER
27. In 1995, the Justice Department launched an investigation into possible child pornography in his company’s latest ad campaign; the campaign was pulled shortly afterwards.
CALVIN KLEIN?
28. She was married on December 22, 1968, in a small private ceremony officiated by Norman Vincent Peale at New York’s Marble Collegiate Presbyterian Church.
JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER
29. The ship that was not named Boaty McBoatface has been named after him instead.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
30. He turned down Rob Reiner’s role in All in the Family because he felt the character of Archie Bunker too offensive; his subsequent acting career was considerably more successful than Reiner’s.
HARRISON FORD
31. He presided over the impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice; later, the Chief Justice presided over his trial for treason.
AARON BURR
32. This actor, a devout Catholic, turned down the role of James Bond in Dr. No on moral grounds; ironically, the success of that movie led to the revival of his own cancelled TV series.
PATRICK MCGOOHAN? PATRICK MACNEE?
33. In 1957, he contributed to Walter O’Malley’s decision to relocate the Brooklyn Dodgers when he refused to help O’Malley secure some land for a new Ebbets Field on what is now the site of the Barclays Center because he planned to build a parking garage on the site.
ROBERT MOSES?
34. Last season, his team compiled a 9-28 record in its first 37 games; he wasn’t around for the 38th.
FREDI GONZALEZ
35. She appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s first episode as host of the Tonight Show, her first appearance on the show in nearly three decades.
JOAN RIVERS
36. Perhaps the most significant occurrence during his term of office was the still unsolved murder of the richest man in his country; he turned the investigation over to two detectives from the United States who unsuccessfully attempted to frame the prime suspect, who was subsequently acquitted at trial.
THE DUKE OF WINDSOR
37. This actor was plagued by health problems his entire career, including a heart attack he suffered on the set of Lawrence of Arabia that resulted in his being replaced by Arthur Kennedy; somewhat fittingly, in his most famous lead film role, he plays a dying man trying to get his affairs in order.
EDMON 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.
ALGER HISS
39. She has written a cookbook entitled Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.
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. He wrote play versions of Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West before they became operas, but he is better remembered today for discovering and promoting a number of well-known actresses.
DAVID BELASCO
43. This multiple Oscar winner is undoubtedly the best-known person associated with a horror franchise that derives its name from a Johnny Mercer song.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
44. He got started in television hosting three shows at once for a Philadelphia station: Pick Your Ideal, Deadline for Dinner, and Now You’re Cooking.
ERNIE KOVACS
45. On a 1911 ten-day safari to Nepal, he personally shot 21 tigers, eight rhinos, and a bear.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT?
46. Late in his career, this actor, who was married six times, appeared opposite another notorious womanizer, who wound up marrying five times, as an aging gay hairdresser couple; not surprisingly, the film did not do well, and he never had a good film role subsequently.
REX HARRISON
47. This rap artist received a $10,000 insurance settlement when his grandfather died and used it to buy a record store in Richmond, CA, that later became his music label of the same name; today, his net worth is estimated at $400 million.
PERCY MILLER (MASTER P)
48. In 1978, he hosted a fundraiser to restore the badly dilapidated “Hollywood” sign, and in 2010, he donated the final $900,000 to buy the land adjacent to the sign and thwart a planned housing development.
HUGH HEFNER
49. He is usually seen walking around his hometown since he’s never been able to pass the road test given at Mrs. Puff’s school.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
50. He was the first ski jumper to win three gold medals in the same Olympics, although for many people, his accomplishment was overshadowed by the jumper who finished in last place.
MATTI NYKKNEN (sp?)
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. This cartoonist claimed to have invented the miniskirt when he drew one on his best known female character in 1934.
AL CAPP
53. He was considered for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role in Kindergarten Cop before the producers decided to take the character in a different direction, but one of his most iconic roles was opposite Schwarzenegger in another film.
DANNY DeVITO
54. He is the only player with 500 home runs and three World Championships who did not play at least part of his career for the New York Yankees.
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. 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.
58. She was probably the best known resident of the village of St. Mary Mead.
MISS JANE MARPLE
59. The real life inspiration for this famous fictional character is on display at the Spessart Museum in Lohr Castle in Germany.
SNOW WHITE
60. He was the first career player with the New England Patriots to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
JOHN HANNAH?
61. In the same calendar year, he was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year and Rookie of the Year in his own sport.
TIGER WOODS
62. She popularized “Dream a Little Dream” nearly four decades before Mama Cass recorded her own version
KATE SMITH
63. This actress played the first patient cured by Dr. House on his TV show.
ROBIN TUNNEY
64. His most noteworthy TV appearance was on an episode of the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents, playing a man with an affinity for other people’s fingers.
PETER LORRE
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?
66. One of his greatest victories occurred at the Battle of Embabeh, which is better known today by the name of a nearby landmark.
67. His death, two days after the inauguration of his successor, left the U.S. without a living former president.
LYNDON JOHNSON
68. He immediately preceded Steve Harvey as host of Family Feud.
JOHN O'HURLEY
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.
70. He never had any children, but his nephew Lem Motlow ran his eponymous business for nearly forty years after his death.
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. The lowlight of this quarterback’s NFL career was a play during a playoff game that John Madden referred to as the Phantom Sack.
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. Some of this writer’s early work appeared under the pseudonym “Boz,” a family nickname.
CHARLES DICKENS
77. This Asian actress’ two best known film roles were as official Princesses from two other Asian countries.
78. He persuaded Marian Anderson to return to the United States in the mid-1930’s and staged her historic Easter Sunday 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial.
SOL HUROK
79. After his participation in 1959 in a botched assassination attempt against the leader of his country, he went into exile in Egypt, where he studied at Cairo University Law School.
SADDAM HUSSEIN
80. He beat out Woody Allen and David O. Russell, among others, to win his only Oscar.
SPIKE JONZE
81. In 1871, he submitted a patent application (which was never granted) for a “sound telegraph,” a device that some people think was actually the first working telephone.
ANTONIO MEUCCI? ELISHA GRAY?
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. This group won the first Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for what most people consider their best song; ironically, they were entered in the Country category because there was no Grammy at the time for their own style of music.
THE KINGSTON TRIO
84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
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. This U.S. computing pioneer infamously said in 1977, “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,” a quote he later said was taken out of context.
KEN OLSEN
88. He and Elvis Costello have recorded songs under the name of “The Coward Brothers.”
T-BONE BURNETT
89. This author said that her most popular character and hero of 24 of her books was based on herself as a big, ugly man, although the character’s name came from an Irish town in which the author vacationed shortly before writing the first book in which he appeared.
RUTH RENDELL?
90. Contrary to a popular Internet rumor, this beer tycoon who died recently did not leave the bulk of his fortune to the residents of his birthplace in Spain.
91. Although he is better known as a writer than a singer, as an 18 year old, his first single, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor,” made the Billboard 100.
JOE SOUTH
92. In perhaps his best remembered film role, his attempt to deliver a speech was rudely interrupted by the sight of a bunch of idiots stuck on a collapsing fire escape.
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. Last year, she pled guilty to falsifying border protection documents and was fined $1,000 as a result of her attempt to smuggle two of her companions into Australia.
AMBER HEARD
95. When this Pulitzer Prize winning author won another prestigious international literary award in 2011, one of the judges immediately withdrew from the panel, saying “I don’t rate him as a writer at all. In 20 years’ time will anyone read him?”
PHILIP ROTH?
96. He amassed a good bit of his soon-to-be-short-lived fortune from his 1986 sale of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
IVAN BOESKY
97. His Claude Cooper’s clappers routine with Johnny Carson often shows up in Tonight Show retrospectives.
JACK WEBB
98. Among his less successful film efforts was a remake of an Alec Guinness role; among his more successful film efforts was a remake of a James Stewart role.
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. Ernest Borgnine and Ron Silver played him in different movies.
ANGELO DUNDEE? VINCE LOMBARDI?
101. This multiple Olympic gold-medalist lived less than 200 miles from Chernobyl and emigrated to the U.S. as a result, but she found trouble here as well, most notably a 2002 arrest at an Atlanta-area Publix for shoplifting $20 worth of groceries.
OLGA KORBUT
102. In one of the Harry Potter films, his 11-year-old nephew played a younger version of his character.
RALPH FIENNES
103. This Asian immigrant claimed to have worked as a baker and chef at the Parker House Hotel in Boston and the Drayton Court and Carlton Hotels in London towards the beginning of World War I, before achieving much greater renown in politics.
HO CHI MINH
104. In different films, he was managed by James Gammon and Meg Ryan.
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The battle is the Battle of the Pyramids, so "he" would be NAPOLEON BONAPARTEfranktangredi wrote:66. One of his greatest victories occurred at the Battle of Embabeh, which is better known today by the name of a nearby landmark.
The founder of McDonnell Aircraft - JAMES MCDONNELLfranktangredi wrote:84. He was badly injured when the first aircraft his company designed, called the Doodlebug, crashed while competing in a 1929 international aircraft design competition.
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Re: SSS Game
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.
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