This one is my fault. In the Nobel citation, Cela was specifically nominated for his prose, so I didn't count him. (Besides, he won in 1989.)Pastor Fireball wrote: 105. In 1977, he became the second and last Spanish poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
CAMILO JOSE CELA
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50. was not Petain or Foch, but JOSEPH JOFFRE, according to Wikipedia.
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OK, I think I got it.
For the Tangredi, JAM up the letters in two names to make the name of a third person (somewhere in the middle of the mashup) who is associated with one of the words on the list. Examples:
104. Bernard kROGER + 48. MARISa Miller = Roger Maris (Homer)
31. Pearl lANG + 40. LEEza Gibbons = Ang Lee (Dragon)
38. Captain AmERICA + 103. JON Gosselin = Erica Jong (Flying)
For the Tangredi, JAM up the letters in two names to make the name of a third person (somewhere in the middle of the mashup) who is associated with one of the words on the list. Examples:
104. Bernard kROGER + 48. MARISa Miller = Roger Maris (Homer)
31. Pearl lANG + 40. LEEza Gibbons = Ang Lee (Dragon)
38. Captain AmERICA + 103. JON Gosselin = Erica Jong (Flying)
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New consolidation. By my count, we still have two definites wrong somewhere. And there may still be definites either misspelled or without enough name listed. Added two more pairs at the bottom, as well.
Game #174: Puzzle Jam
Identify the 125 people in the clues below. Match them into 65 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words.
Five of the names will be used twice, each time in a different way. Some alternate matches are possible, but only one solution will allow you to use all the names and Associated Words.
1. He was the first Republican to win a majority of the popular vote in two successive Presidential elections.
ULYSSES GRANT
2. This Talmudic scholar is credited with saying, ‘What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation.’
HILLEL
3. The role that won this actor his only Oscar nomination was actually a composite of several military leaders who played a role in a revolt against the ‘sick man of Europe.’
OMAR SHARIF
4. Perhaps second only to John Donne among metaphysical poets, he was also England’s leading practitioner of shaped poetry.
6. In one of the most controversial boxing matches of all time, this heavyweight was able to retain his title partly because his opponent failed to retire to a neutral corner at a critical moment.
GENE TUNNEY (Jack Dempsey is the fighter who didn’t go to the corner – this is The Long Count fight)
7. It’s not certain that this jazz great – renowned for his volatile temper – once got so angry with hecklers that he destroyed a $20,000 bass, but it’s apparently quite true that he once snapped at a noisy nightclub audience, ‘Isaac Stern doesn’t have to put up with this s**t.’
CHARLIE MINGUS
8. DJMQ: In 2013, this Romanian-born prima ballerina – accompanied by her dancer husband – left the Royal Ballet to become a principal dancer with the English National Ballet.
[Another DJMQ appears at #102. Someone may want to message JM to alert her that she’s on duty.)
ALINA COJOCARA
9. One of this painter’s most ambitious works was destroyed due to its portrayal of Lenin, but fortunately, he – the painter, not Lenin – was able to reproduce it later on.
DIEGO RIVERA
10. He has been played on screen by two different actors who each won two consecutive Oscars, one of whom won the first of his two consecutive Oscars for playing him. Got that?
BEN BRADLEE
11. This Black Panther went from convicted rapist, to Presidential candidate of the same left-wing party that later nominated Dr. Spock, to conservative Republican … and from Muslim to Christian to Moonie to Mormon.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
12. Eighteen years after this entrepreneur’s death, the company he founded was merged with four other companies to form the International Harvester Company.
CYRUS MCCORMICK
13. Only three current female Senators have served longer than this former chair of the Agriculture Committee
DEBBIE STABENOW
14. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
HENRI BERGSON
15. After receiving Oscar nominations for writing and directing his breakthrough film, he seemed to enter a steady decline, earning four Razzies for writing, directing, and acting. (He was also nominated for writing and directing a movie that has a special place in the Bored’s heart.)
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN
16. A speech he delivered at mass on September 16, 1810, turned this Roman Catholic priest into a revolutionary military leader.
17. Using Moliere as a model, this 18th century dramatist played a key role in the transition of Italian comedy from the conventions of commedia dell'arte to the representation of real life. (His most popular was recently adapted and updated into a West End and Broadway hit.)
18. In an influential 1942 book, this British-American anthropologist rejected the concept of race, calling it ‘man’s most dangerous myth.’
ASHLEY MONTAGU
19. The first misfortune of his life took place at the moment of his conception, when his mother asked his father if he had remembered to wind the clock; an even greater misfortune came a few years later, when a window sash fell just as he was urinating out a window.
TRISTRAM SHANDY
20. While testifying in the Senate against requiring parental warning labels on record albums, this heavy metal vocalist – who grew up only a few miles away from me – surprised both Tipper Gore and his fans by stating that he was raised a Christian and still adhered to Christian principles.
DEE SNIDER
21. This 17th century mathematician contributed to calculus, analytic geometry, and number theory, but he is perhaps best remembered for something he jotted down in the margins of an ancient Greek textbook.
PIERRE FERMAT
22. This infielder was the first Puerto Rican to be named Rookie of the Year by either league
ORLANDO CEPEDA
23. In December 2017, this winner of three James Beard awards became the most prominent celebrity chef taken down by the Weinstein Effect.
MARIO BATALI
24. He was the first Asian American in space.
ELLISON ONIZUKA
25. Despite his nickname of ‘Black Sam,’ he is generally considered one of the least ruthless of the great 18th century pirates; despite the fact that his career in piracy lasted little over the year, his capture of more than 50 ships made him probably the wealthiest pirate in history.
26. I can’t swear that he was the only sitting member of the U.S. Senate to win a Grammy and have a record on the Billboard Top Forty, but if you can think of another….
EVERETT DIRKSEN
27. In addition to introducing the techniques of Italian Renaissance architecture to England, he also designed scenery for the elaborate masques of Ben Jonson.
28. She founded the League of Women Voters and was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when the Nineteenth Amendment finally passed
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
29. The grocery store that he opened in the 1840s has since grown into a legendary retail establishment occupying five acres on Brompton Road.
CHARLES HENRY HARROD
30. His 35 year tenure was the longest of any principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
HERBERT VON KARAJAN
31. This poet did for Bill Clinton in 1993 what Robert Frost did for John F. Kennedy in 1961.
MAYA ANGELOU
32. In 1939, this American physicist won Thomas Watson’s approval to develop a device that would bring Charles Babbage’s ideas to fruition.
33. In 1956, this legendary performer won a Tony award for her role in a musical composed by her equally legendary husband.
LOTTE LENYA
34. As you may recall from my last general knowledge game, this evangelist is largely responsible for the fact that my former college roommate has been eagerly anticipating the end of the world for 48 years.
HAL LINDSEY
35. Since the introduction of the current ranking system in 1973, this tennis player achieved the highest ranking of any Frenchman.
YANNICK NOAH
36. For two decades, this officer’s Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States served as the official manual of the U.S. military.
37. During his long career at the University of Chicago, this archaeologist popularized the term ‘Fertile Crescent,’ helped Howard Carter decipher the seals found in King Tut’s tomb, and became the first American to hold a university chair in Egyptology and Oriental History.
*38. This superhero was introduced in 1941, discontinued in 1950, revived in 1964, and has not been out of print since.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
39. Around 1754 bc, this emperor had his most famous decree inscribed on a stele which is now housed in the Louvre.
HAMMURABI
*40. Her career began at a local station in her home state of South Carolina; by the 1990s, you could watch her at least twice every weekday, on a national show biz newsmagazine and her own syndicated talk show.
LEEZA GIBBONS
41. Her fossil finds at Lyme Regis won her renown and made her a key figure in the development of paleontology, but she was still barred from membership in the Geological Society of London.
42. This Nobel laureate first won recognition for his comic novels set in his native Trinidad.
V.S. NAIPAUL
43. In 1979, he became the first Canadian performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
HANK SNOW
44. And last year, he became the second Finnish player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
TEEMU SELANNE
45. The writing team consisting, alphabetically, of these two longtime collaborators –
LOWELL GANZ
46. – has penned more than twenty films and numerous television shows, but they received their only Oscar nomination for a hit comedy about a girl with gills.
BABALOO MANDEL
47. In 1920, this cartoonist launched one of the first comic strips to focus on the new breed of ‘working girl’ – specifically, a single woman who had to support her parents and later became a widowed mother and successful fashion designer.
MARTIN BRANNER
*48. In a little over a decade, this American supermodel has been a Victoria’s Secret Angel, appeared on the cover of the Swimsuit Issue, and served as a spokesmodel for both Harley Davidson and the NFL.
MARISA MILLER
49. There is some question as to whether she was really as wicked as her enemies and Robert Graves made her out to be, but there is no question that she was executed for allegedly conspiring against her own husband.
VALERIA MESSALINA
50. As Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front, this general was credited with the French victory – if you can call it that – at the Battle of the Marne.
JOSEPH JOFFRE
51. This prominent Swiss theologian was an active leader in the Confessing Church, which opposed Hitler’s attempts to unite all German Protestant denominations into a single, pro-Nazi body.
52. The decisions of this longtime district and appeals court judge have been cited more often by the Supreme Court than those of any other lower court jurist.
LEARNED HAND
53. He resigned his 14-year presidency of an Ivy League University – which he skillfully guided through the Vietnam years – in order to accept a post at the Court of St. James.
KINGMAN BREWSTER
54. This publisher staunchly opposed slavery in his newspaper, the National Era, but his greatest contribution to abolitionism was serializing a certain novel by a certain Mrs. Stowe.
GAMALIEL BAILEY
55. Despite his limited supply of cash, this rapper knows how to put together a f**king awesome wardrobe.
MACKLEMORE (real name: BEN HAGGERTY)
56. This American writer is best remembered – if at all – for his best-selling comic novel about a hick army recruit, which was turned into an more successful Broadway play by Ira Levin, and then into an even more successful movie.
MAC HYMAN
57. Not one to sit on his barony, this hereditary British nobleman earned a Nobel Prize for his discovery of argon.
JOHN PETER STRUTT, LORD RAYLEIGH
58. At the age of 21, this future PBA Hall of Famer became the youngest bowler ever to win the Tournament of Champions – a record that stood for forty years.
MARSHALL HOLMAN
59. This British actor won a Tony for his role in a Tom Stoppard play, an Oscar for his role as a real life accused murderer, one Emmy for his role as a real life Elizabethan nobleman, and two more Emmys for his skills as a narrator.
JEREMY IRONS
60. One of the first American women to earn a Ph.D. in engineering, she and her husband were pioneers in the field of industrial efficiency – a skill that also came in handy raising their twelve children.
LILLIAN GILBRETH
61. According to Milton, this demon was second in command to Satan.
BEELZEBUB
62. This French philosopher and political scientist turned Karl Marx on his ear with a book that called Marxism ‘the opium of the intellectuals.’
63. He was the first Brit to get one million subscribers on his YouTube channel, which is socoollike.
64. He was the second African American to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first to serve a full term; he also received eight votes for Vice President at the 1880 Republican National Convention.
65. There is some dispute over whether this young lady really was the first love of a future U.S. President, but there is no disputing the fact that she died of typhoid at the age of 22.
ANN RUTLEDGE
66. ’Personal — comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts in La Porte County, Indiana, desires to make the acquaintance of a gentleman equally well provided, with view of joining fortunes. No replies by letter considered unless sender is willing to follow answer with personal visit. Triflers need not apply.’ If you answered this ad, you were likely to become another victim of this statuesque serial killer, who may have offed between 25 and 40 people, including her own husbands and children. (A recent DNA test failed to settle the question of whether she faked her own death.)
67. This gestalt psychologist was best known for his conformity experiments, in which a subject asked to judge the relative lengths of lines was pressured into giving obviously wrong answers after a group of confederates all gave the same wrong answers.
68. Though he performed important research in aerodynamics, this French engineer will forever be associated with the iconic structure that bears his name. (And I do not use the word ‘iconic’ lightly.)
GUSTAVE EIFFEL
69. This skilled comic actor spent most of his Hollywood career relegated to the same types of roles as Stepin Fetchit – most popularly in support of a detective who perpetrated a whole ‘nother set of ethnic stereotypes.
MANTAN MORELAND
70. This Swiss playwright took Broadway by storm in 1958 with a savagely cynical tale of vengeance that also marked the last stage appearance of the Lunts.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT
71. His performance on Benny Goodman’s signature hit helped turn the drums into a major solo instrument.
GENE KRUPA
72. I may or may not be related to this military hero of the First Crusade, who was proclaimed Prince of Galilee after the capture of Jerusalem and later became the subject of an opera.
TANCREDI (OR TANCRED)
73. In 1981, a Sports Illustrated cover proclaimed him ‘The Best Defensive Lineman of All Time;’ eighteen years later Sporting News ranked him at #2.
JOHN HANNAH
74. Miss Jean Brodie’s favorite Italian artist, this late medieval painter was credited by Vasari with ‘introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years.’
75. This environmental activist was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
WANGARA MUTA MAATHAI
76. Though he was almost certainly not the villain and/or coward many popular accounts have made him out to be, this executive’s career never quite recovered from the criticism he received for not dying on April 15, 1912.
BRUCE ISMAY
77. His career as a journalist was relatively unremarkable until a 1965 article about the Hell’s Angels set him on a new path.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
78. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
WILHELM RÖENTGEN (ALSO SOMETIMES SPELLED RONTGEN)
79. This early Church Father, who served as archbishop of Constantinople at the turn of the 5th century, is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
80. Modeled after G.K. Chesterton, this amateur sleuth unlocked seemingly impossible mysteries in such novels as The Problem of the Wire Cage, The Three Coffins, and The Arabian Nights Murder.
DR. GIDEON FELL
81. No singer ever put more conviction or oomph into a lyric such as ‘Mercy mercy puddin’ pie’ than she did.
LAVERN BAKER
82. This American novelist is best remembered for his 1896 novel about the ‘Damnation’ of a young Methodist pastor.
83. Founder of the League for Physical Culture, he organized America’s first nudist outing on Labor Day 1929. (In case you were wondering, four men and three women stripped down for the event.)
84. Often considered America’s first scientific historian, he achieved renown with his 1843 history of the conquest of Mexico.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT
85. This silent screen beauty was nicknamed the ‘Orchid Lady.’
CORINNE GRIFFITH
86. Daley Thompson won and lost the world record in the decathlon four times, ultimately losing it for good to this American.
DAN O'BRIEN
87. Speaking of the ‘sick man of Europe’ – as we were 84 questions ago – it was this military leader who ultimately changed that status from ‘sick’ to ‘expired.’
KEMAL ATATURK
88. An important precursor to Copernicus, this medieval priest and philosopher is better remembered today for his indecisive ass.
JEAN BURIDAN
89. This activist nun served for two years as chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN
90. This Roman Catholic clergyman is the chief villain in what is BY FAR the most popular novel published in 1831.
CLAUDE FROLLO
91. He co-founded the company which produced the world’s first truly transistorized radio, and remained its chairman until suffering a stroke while playing tennis at the age of 72.
AKIO MORITA
92. He wrote the lyrics for my all-time favorite musical – look to the left and you’ll see me performing in it – but his biggest hit was the first Broadway musical to run more than 3000 performances.
SHELDON HARNICK
93. This German chemist’s theorem – which states that, as absolute zero is approached, the entropy change ΔS for a chemical or physical transformation approaches 0 – was an important step in establishing the Third Law of Thermodynamics.
WALTHER NERNST
94. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this admiral was removed from command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and busted from four to two stars.
HUSBAND KIMMEL
95. A classic 1908 novel by this Scottish author features what is almost certainly the most likable rat in all of children’s literature.
KENNETH GRAHAME
96. In 1986, he became the first Latin American filmmaker to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Director.
HECTOR BABENCO (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
97. Major Enlightenment figures who sat for this neoclassical sculptor included Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Ben Franklin.
98. This journalist – who will celebrate his 96th birthday next month – served at various times as a correspondent for CBS, NBC, and the New York Times, but his tenure as spokesman for the U.S. State Department ended when he resigned in protest over the Reagan administration’s disinformation campaign against Muammar Gaddafi.
BERNARD KALB
99. This philosopher’s most iconic statement – and, as we know, I do not use the word ‘iconic’ lightly – is found in a treatise the full title of which is A Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.
RENE DESCARTES
100. This scientist and politician – no, they are not mutually exclusive – went from chairing the Atomic Energy Commission to governing a state.
DIXY LEE RAY
101. A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he played more than 16,000 games in a professional career that spanned five decades – and not one of those games was played in the NBA.
MEADOWLARK LEMON
*102. DJMQ: This dancer and choreographer enjoyed a 60+ year career interpreting and teaching the works and techniques of Martha Graham – and a 40+ marriage to Dr. No.
PEARL LANG
*103. He became nationally known as the father of Cara, Madelyn, Aaden, Collin, Joel, Alexis, Hannah, and Leah.
JON GOSSELIN
*104. Speaking of grocery stores – as we were 75 questions ago – the grocery store that he opened in 1883 has since grown into America’s largest supermarket chain by revenue.
BERNARD KROGER
105. In 1977, he became the second and last Spanish poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
107. This American physicist and his older Italian collaborator received the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the antiproton.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN
108. In an epic 1983 movie, this actor played a real-life hero who really, really, really did not want the press to use his first name.
FRED WARD
109. Born into slavery in New York, this reformer delivered a memorable speech at an 1851 women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio. (The answer to the rhetorical question posed in that speech was ‘Yes.’)
SOJOURNER TRUTH
110. After fifteen years of refusing, for legal reasons, to perform any of his old songs, this rocker finally relented at a concert in 1987 because, as he said, ‘Bob Dylan asked me.’
JOHN FOGERTY
111. Though a strong supporter of the Salem Witch Trials, this minister wrote to one of the judges warning him not to ‘lay more stress on pure spectral evidence than it will bear.’
COTTON MATHER
112. In 1952, this Australian tennis player won the first of her two Women’s Singles titles, the second of her four Mixed Doubles titles, and the tenth of her twelve Women’s Doubles titles at the Australian Open.
THELMA COYNE LONG
113. The last president of France’s Third Republic, he said that he never resigned his position after the Nazi takeover because – with the National Assembly disbanded – there was no one to tender his resignation to.
ALBERT LEBRUN
114. This military commander attained the peerage as a result, not of his most famous victory, but of his leadership in the earlier Peninsular War.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON
115. This American impressionist is best known for a series of paintings with the Stars and Stripes as their central motif.
JASPER JOHNS
116. She is the head designer for the luxury goods company founded by her grandfather in 1913.
MIUCCIA PRADA
117. This puritanical steward becomes the victim of a cruel hoax and eventually stalks off stage swearing, ‘I’ll be reveng’d on the whole pack of you.’ (Regrettably, his creator never got around to writing Part Two: The Revenge.)
MALVOLIO
118. This explorer got his name on two bodies of water thanks to the expeditions he undertook at the behest of Peter the Great.
VITUS BERING
119. Regarding his influential 1905 novel, this writer commented, ‘I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.’
UPTON SINCLAIR
120. She is the Oscar-winning daughter of a Tony-winning and Emmy-winning mother – and yes, that is the exact obverse of a clue in my last movie game.
GWYNETH PALTROW
121. The name of this British biologist will forever be linked with that of the younger American with whom he made a very important discovery in 1953
FRANCIS CRICK
122. Talk about your power couples: he won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to money theory, while his wife won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts on behalf of disarmament.
123. Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, and Cy Young were the only pitchers to beat this one into the Hall of Fame.
GROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER
124. When this composer published his most popular work in 1725, each sonata was accompanied by a sonnet, one of which reads in part, ‘On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy branches/Rustling overhead, the goat-herd sleeps/His faithful dog beside him.’
ANTONIO VIVALDI
125. He completes the following list: Theodore Roosevelt; Jimmy Carter; Barack Obama.
WOODROW WILSON
ASSOCIATED WORD LIST
Genesis
Five
*24
40
Bohemia
Weimar
Wyoming
Hawaii
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Long Island
Houston
*Philadelphia
DC
*Dragon
Owl
Falcon
Duck
Buck
Bunny
Cub
Giant
Pirate
Hitman
Sniper
Counterfeiter
Amateur
Communist
Commissioner
Dean
*Homer
Vince
Charles
Shelley
Joy
Boone
Brown
Nixon
Psychology
Biochemistry
Rolling
*Flying
Hanging
Kiss
Touch
Stroke
Velvet
Gown
Shoes
Ice Cream
Milk Shake
Chips
Borscht
Wall
Balcony
Radio
Tool
Instrument
Follies
Cabaret
Psycho
King of Kings
*Speed
Race
Cruel
104. Bernard kROGER + 48. MARISa Miller = Roger Maris (Homer)
102. Pearl lANG + 40. LEEza Gibbons = Ang Lee (Dragon)
38. Captain AmERICA + 103. JON Gosselin = Erica Jong (Flying)
79. John ChrysosTOM + 43. HANK Snow = Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
93. Walther nERNST + 56. MAC Hyman = Ernst Mach (Speed)
113. Albert LeBRUN + 3. OMAR Sharif = Bruno Mars (24)
Game #174: Puzzle Jam
Identify the 125 people in the clues below. Match them into 65 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then, match each pair with one of the Associated Words.
Five of the names will be used twice, each time in a different way. Some alternate matches are possible, but only one solution will allow you to use all the names and Associated Words.
1. He was the first Republican to win a majority of the popular vote in two successive Presidential elections.
ULYSSES GRANT
2. This Talmudic scholar is credited with saying, ‘What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation.’
HILLEL
3. The role that won this actor his only Oscar nomination was actually a composite of several military leaders who played a role in a revolt against the ‘sick man of Europe.’
OMAR SHARIF
4. Perhaps second only to John Donne among metaphysical poets, he was also England’s leading practitioner of shaped poetry.
6. In one of the most controversial boxing matches of all time, this heavyweight was able to retain his title partly because his opponent failed to retire to a neutral corner at a critical moment.
GENE TUNNEY (Jack Dempsey is the fighter who didn’t go to the corner – this is The Long Count fight)
7. It’s not certain that this jazz great – renowned for his volatile temper – once got so angry with hecklers that he destroyed a $20,000 bass, but it’s apparently quite true that he once snapped at a noisy nightclub audience, ‘Isaac Stern doesn’t have to put up with this s**t.’
CHARLIE MINGUS
8. DJMQ: In 2013, this Romanian-born prima ballerina – accompanied by her dancer husband – left the Royal Ballet to become a principal dancer with the English National Ballet.
[Another DJMQ appears at #102. Someone may want to message JM to alert her that she’s on duty.)
ALINA COJOCARA
9. One of this painter’s most ambitious works was destroyed due to its portrayal of Lenin, but fortunately, he – the painter, not Lenin – was able to reproduce it later on.
DIEGO RIVERA
10. He has been played on screen by two different actors who each won two consecutive Oscars, one of whom won the first of his two consecutive Oscars for playing him. Got that?
BEN BRADLEE
11. This Black Panther went from convicted rapist, to Presidential candidate of the same left-wing party that later nominated Dr. Spock, to conservative Republican … and from Muslim to Christian to Moonie to Mormon.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
12. Eighteen years after this entrepreneur’s death, the company he founded was merged with four other companies to form the International Harvester Company.
CYRUS MCCORMICK
13. Only three current female Senators have served longer than this former chair of the Agriculture Committee
DEBBIE STABENOW
14. This French philosopher and Nobel laureate developed his theory of ‘duration’ and his defense of free will partly as a response to the ideas of Kant.
HENRI BERGSON
15. After receiving Oscar nominations for writing and directing his breakthrough film, he seemed to enter a steady decline, earning four Razzies for writing, directing, and acting. (He was also nominated for writing and directing a movie that has a special place in the Bored’s heart.)
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN
16. A speech he delivered at mass on September 16, 1810, turned this Roman Catholic priest into a revolutionary military leader.
17. Using Moliere as a model, this 18th century dramatist played a key role in the transition of Italian comedy from the conventions of commedia dell'arte to the representation of real life. (His most popular was recently adapted and updated into a West End and Broadway hit.)
18. In an influential 1942 book, this British-American anthropologist rejected the concept of race, calling it ‘man’s most dangerous myth.’
ASHLEY MONTAGU
19. The first misfortune of his life took place at the moment of his conception, when his mother asked his father if he had remembered to wind the clock; an even greater misfortune came a few years later, when a window sash fell just as he was urinating out a window.
TRISTRAM SHANDY
20. While testifying in the Senate against requiring parental warning labels on record albums, this heavy metal vocalist – who grew up only a few miles away from me – surprised both Tipper Gore and his fans by stating that he was raised a Christian and still adhered to Christian principles.
DEE SNIDER
21. This 17th century mathematician contributed to calculus, analytic geometry, and number theory, but he is perhaps best remembered for something he jotted down in the margins of an ancient Greek textbook.
PIERRE FERMAT
22. This infielder was the first Puerto Rican to be named Rookie of the Year by either league
ORLANDO CEPEDA
23. In December 2017, this winner of three James Beard awards became the most prominent celebrity chef taken down by the Weinstein Effect.
MARIO BATALI
24. He was the first Asian American in space.
ELLISON ONIZUKA
25. Despite his nickname of ‘Black Sam,’ he is generally considered one of the least ruthless of the great 18th century pirates; despite the fact that his career in piracy lasted little over the year, his capture of more than 50 ships made him probably the wealthiest pirate in history.
26. I can’t swear that he was the only sitting member of the U.S. Senate to win a Grammy and have a record on the Billboard Top Forty, but if you can think of another….
EVERETT DIRKSEN
27. In addition to introducing the techniques of Italian Renaissance architecture to England, he also designed scenery for the elaborate masques of Ben Jonson.
28. She founded the League of Women Voters and was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when the Nineteenth Amendment finally passed
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
29. The grocery store that he opened in the 1840s has since grown into a legendary retail establishment occupying five acres on Brompton Road.
CHARLES HENRY HARROD
30. His 35 year tenure was the longest of any principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
HERBERT VON KARAJAN
31. This poet did for Bill Clinton in 1993 what Robert Frost did for John F. Kennedy in 1961.
MAYA ANGELOU
32. In 1939, this American physicist won Thomas Watson’s approval to develop a device that would bring Charles Babbage’s ideas to fruition.
33. In 1956, this legendary performer won a Tony award for her role in a musical composed by her equally legendary husband.
LOTTE LENYA
34. As you may recall from my last general knowledge game, this evangelist is largely responsible for the fact that my former college roommate has been eagerly anticipating the end of the world for 48 years.
HAL LINDSEY
35. Since the introduction of the current ranking system in 1973, this tennis player achieved the highest ranking of any Frenchman.
YANNICK NOAH
36. For two decades, this officer’s Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States served as the official manual of the U.S. military.
37. During his long career at the University of Chicago, this archaeologist popularized the term ‘Fertile Crescent,’ helped Howard Carter decipher the seals found in King Tut’s tomb, and became the first American to hold a university chair in Egyptology and Oriental History.
*38. This superhero was introduced in 1941, discontinued in 1950, revived in 1964, and has not been out of print since.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
39. Around 1754 bc, this emperor had his most famous decree inscribed on a stele which is now housed in the Louvre.
HAMMURABI
*40. Her career began at a local station in her home state of South Carolina; by the 1990s, you could watch her at least twice every weekday, on a national show biz newsmagazine and her own syndicated talk show.
LEEZA GIBBONS
41. Her fossil finds at Lyme Regis won her renown and made her a key figure in the development of paleontology, but she was still barred from membership in the Geological Society of London.
42. This Nobel laureate first won recognition for his comic novels set in his native Trinidad.
V.S. NAIPAUL
43. In 1979, he became the first Canadian performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
HANK SNOW
44. And last year, he became the second Finnish player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
TEEMU SELANNE
45. The writing team consisting, alphabetically, of these two longtime collaborators –
LOWELL GANZ
46. – has penned more than twenty films and numerous television shows, but they received their only Oscar nomination for a hit comedy about a girl with gills.
BABALOO MANDEL
47. In 1920, this cartoonist launched one of the first comic strips to focus on the new breed of ‘working girl’ – specifically, a single woman who had to support her parents and later became a widowed mother and successful fashion designer.
MARTIN BRANNER
*48. In a little over a decade, this American supermodel has been a Victoria’s Secret Angel, appeared on the cover of the Swimsuit Issue, and served as a spokesmodel for both Harley Davidson and the NFL.
MARISA MILLER
49. There is some question as to whether she was really as wicked as her enemies and Robert Graves made her out to be, but there is no question that she was executed for allegedly conspiring against her own husband.
VALERIA MESSALINA
50. As Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front, this general was credited with the French victory – if you can call it that – at the Battle of the Marne.
JOSEPH JOFFRE
51. This prominent Swiss theologian was an active leader in the Confessing Church, which opposed Hitler’s attempts to unite all German Protestant denominations into a single, pro-Nazi body.
52. The decisions of this longtime district and appeals court judge have been cited more often by the Supreme Court than those of any other lower court jurist.
LEARNED HAND
53. He resigned his 14-year presidency of an Ivy League University – which he skillfully guided through the Vietnam years – in order to accept a post at the Court of St. James.
KINGMAN BREWSTER
54. This publisher staunchly opposed slavery in his newspaper, the National Era, but his greatest contribution to abolitionism was serializing a certain novel by a certain Mrs. Stowe.
GAMALIEL BAILEY
55. Despite his limited supply of cash, this rapper knows how to put together a f**king awesome wardrobe.
MACKLEMORE (real name: BEN HAGGERTY)
56. This American writer is best remembered – if at all – for his best-selling comic novel about a hick army recruit, which was turned into an more successful Broadway play by Ira Levin, and then into an even more successful movie.
MAC HYMAN
57. Not one to sit on his barony, this hereditary British nobleman earned a Nobel Prize for his discovery of argon.
JOHN PETER STRUTT, LORD RAYLEIGH
58. At the age of 21, this future PBA Hall of Famer became the youngest bowler ever to win the Tournament of Champions – a record that stood for forty years.
MARSHALL HOLMAN
59. This British actor won a Tony for his role in a Tom Stoppard play, an Oscar for his role as a real life accused murderer, one Emmy for his role as a real life Elizabethan nobleman, and two more Emmys for his skills as a narrator.
JEREMY IRONS
60. One of the first American women to earn a Ph.D. in engineering, she and her husband were pioneers in the field of industrial efficiency – a skill that also came in handy raising their twelve children.
LILLIAN GILBRETH
61. According to Milton, this demon was second in command to Satan.
BEELZEBUB
62. This French philosopher and political scientist turned Karl Marx on his ear with a book that called Marxism ‘the opium of the intellectuals.’
63. He was the first Brit to get one million subscribers on his YouTube channel, which is socoollike.
64. He was the second African American to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first to serve a full term; he also received eight votes for Vice President at the 1880 Republican National Convention.
65. There is some dispute over whether this young lady really was the first love of a future U.S. President, but there is no disputing the fact that she died of typhoid at the age of 22.
ANN RUTLEDGE
66. ’Personal — comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts in La Porte County, Indiana, desires to make the acquaintance of a gentleman equally well provided, with view of joining fortunes. No replies by letter considered unless sender is willing to follow answer with personal visit. Triflers need not apply.’ If you answered this ad, you were likely to become another victim of this statuesque serial killer, who may have offed between 25 and 40 people, including her own husbands and children. (A recent DNA test failed to settle the question of whether she faked her own death.)
67. This gestalt psychologist was best known for his conformity experiments, in which a subject asked to judge the relative lengths of lines was pressured into giving obviously wrong answers after a group of confederates all gave the same wrong answers.
68. Though he performed important research in aerodynamics, this French engineer will forever be associated with the iconic structure that bears his name. (And I do not use the word ‘iconic’ lightly.)
GUSTAVE EIFFEL
69. This skilled comic actor spent most of his Hollywood career relegated to the same types of roles as Stepin Fetchit – most popularly in support of a detective who perpetrated a whole ‘nother set of ethnic stereotypes.
MANTAN MORELAND
70. This Swiss playwright took Broadway by storm in 1958 with a savagely cynical tale of vengeance that also marked the last stage appearance of the Lunts.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT
71. His performance on Benny Goodman’s signature hit helped turn the drums into a major solo instrument.
GENE KRUPA
72. I may or may not be related to this military hero of the First Crusade, who was proclaimed Prince of Galilee after the capture of Jerusalem and later became the subject of an opera.
TANCREDI (OR TANCRED)
73. In 1981, a Sports Illustrated cover proclaimed him ‘The Best Defensive Lineman of All Time;’ eighteen years later Sporting News ranked him at #2.
JOHN HANNAH
74. Miss Jean Brodie’s favorite Italian artist, this late medieval painter was credited by Vasari with ‘introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years.’
75. This environmental activist was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
WANGARA MUTA MAATHAI
76. Though he was almost certainly not the villain and/or coward many popular accounts have made him out to be, this executive’s career never quite recovered from the criticism he received for not dying on April 15, 1912.
BRUCE ISMAY
77. His career as a journalist was relatively unremarkable until a 1965 article about the Hell’s Angels set him on a new path.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
78. This physicist received the Nobel Prize for inventing a technique for photographically recording a light field – which you may know better by another term.
WILHELM RÖENTGEN (ALSO SOMETIMES SPELLED RONTGEN)
79. This early Church Father, who served as archbishop of Constantinople at the turn of the 5th century, is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
80. Modeled after G.K. Chesterton, this amateur sleuth unlocked seemingly impossible mysteries in such novels as The Problem of the Wire Cage, The Three Coffins, and The Arabian Nights Murder.
DR. GIDEON FELL
81. No singer ever put more conviction or oomph into a lyric such as ‘Mercy mercy puddin’ pie’ than she did.
LAVERN BAKER
82. This American novelist is best remembered for his 1896 novel about the ‘Damnation’ of a young Methodist pastor.
83. Founder of the League for Physical Culture, he organized America’s first nudist outing on Labor Day 1929. (In case you were wondering, four men and three women stripped down for the event.)
84. Often considered America’s first scientific historian, he achieved renown with his 1843 history of the conquest of Mexico.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT
85. This silent screen beauty was nicknamed the ‘Orchid Lady.’
CORINNE GRIFFITH
86. Daley Thompson won and lost the world record in the decathlon four times, ultimately losing it for good to this American.
DAN O'BRIEN
87. Speaking of the ‘sick man of Europe’ – as we were 84 questions ago – it was this military leader who ultimately changed that status from ‘sick’ to ‘expired.’
KEMAL ATATURK
88. An important precursor to Copernicus, this medieval priest and philosopher is better remembered today for his indecisive ass.
JEAN BURIDAN
89. This activist nun served for two years as chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN
90. This Roman Catholic clergyman is the chief villain in what is BY FAR the most popular novel published in 1831.
CLAUDE FROLLO
91. He co-founded the company which produced the world’s first truly transistorized radio, and remained its chairman until suffering a stroke while playing tennis at the age of 72.
AKIO MORITA
92. He wrote the lyrics for my all-time favorite musical – look to the left and you’ll see me performing in it – but his biggest hit was the first Broadway musical to run more than 3000 performances.
SHELDON HARNICK
93. This German chemist’s theorem – which states that, as absolute zero is approached, the entropy change ΔS for a chemical or physical transformation approaches 0 – was an important step in establishing the Third Law of Thermodynamics.
WALTHER NERNST
94. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this admiral was removed from command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and busted from four to two stars.
HUSBAND KIMMEL
95. A classic 1908 novel by this Scottish author features what is almost certainly the most likable rat in all of children’s literature.
KENNETH GRAHAME
96. In 1986, he became the first Latin American filmmaker to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Director.
HECTOR BABENCO (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
97. Major Enlightenment figures who sat for this neoclassical sculptor included Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Ben Franklin.
98. This journalist – who will celebrate his 96th birthday next month – served at various times as a correspondent for CBS, NBC, and the New York Times, but his tenure as spokesman for the U.S. State Department ended when he resigned in protest over the Reagan administration’s disinformation campaign against Muammar Gaddafi.
BERNARD KALB
99. This philosopher’s most iconic statement – and, as we know, I do not use the word ‘iconic’ lightly – is found in a treatise the full title of which is A Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.
RENE DESCARTES
100. This scientist and politician – no, they are not mutually exclusive – went from chairing the Atomic Energy Commission to governing a state.
DIXY LEE RAY
101. A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he played more than 16,000 games in a professional career that spanned five decades – and not one of those games was played in the NBA.
MEADOWLARK LEMON
*102. DJMQ: This dancer and choreographer enjoyed a 60+ year career interpreting and teaching the works and techniques of Martha Graham – and a 40+ marriage to Dr. No.
PEARL LANG
*103. He became nationally known as the father of Cara, Madelyn, Aaden, Collin, Joel, Alexis, Hannah, and Leah.
JON GOSSELIN
*104. Speaking of grocery stores – as we were 75 questions ago – the grocery store that he opened in 1883 has since grown into America’s largest supermarket chain by revenue.
BERNARD KROGER
105. In 1977, he became the second and last Spanish poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
107. This American physicist and his older Italian collaborator received the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the antiproton.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN
108. In an epic 1983 movie, this actor played a real-life hero who really, really, really did not want the press to use his first name.
FRED WARD
109. Born into slavery in New York, this reformer delivered a memorable speech at an 1851 women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio. (The answer to the rhetorical question posed in that speech was ‘Yes.’)
SOJOURNER TRUTH
110. After fifteen years of refusing, for legal reasons, to perform any of his old songs, this rocker finally relented at a concert in 1987 because, as he said, ‘Bob Dylan asked me.’
JOHN FOGERTY
111. Though a strong supporter of the Salem Witch Trials, this minister wrote to one of the judges warning him not to ‘lay more stress on pure spectral evidence than it will bear.’
COTTON MATHER
112. In 1952, this Australian tennis player won the first of her two Women’s Singles titles, the second of her four Mixed Doubles titles, and the tenth of her twelve Women’s Doubles titles at the Australian Open.
THELMA COYNE LONG
113. The last president of France’s Third Republic, he said that he never resigned his position after the Nazi takeover because – with the National Assembly disbanded – there was no one to tender his resignation to.
ALBERT LEBRUN
114. This military commander attained the peerage as a result, not of his most famous victory, but of his leadership in the earlier Peninsular War.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON
115. This American impressionist is best known for a series of paintings with the Stars and Stripes as their central motif.
JASPER JOHNS
116. She is the head designer for the luxury goods company founded by her grandfather in 1913.
MIUCCIA PRADA
117. This puritanical steward becomes the victim of a cruel hoax and eventually stalks off stage swearing, ‘I’ll be reveng’d on the whole pack of you.’ (Regrettably, his creator never got around to writing Part Two: The Revenge.)
MALVOLIO
118. This explorer got his name on two bodies of water thanks to the expeditions he undertook at the behest of Peter the Great.
VITUS BERING
119. Regarding his influential 1905 novel, this writer commented, ‘I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.’
UPTON SINCLAIR
120. She is the Oscar-winning daughter of a Tony-winning and Emmy-winning mother – and yes, that is the exact obverse of a clue in my last movie game.
GWYNETH PALTROW
121. The name of this British biologist will forever be linked with that of the younger American with whom he made a very important discovery in 1953
FRANCIS CRICK
122. Talk about your power couples: he won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to money theory, while his wife won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts on behalf of disarmament.
123. Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, and Cy Young were the only pitchers to beat this one into the Hall of Fame.
GROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER
124. When this composer published his most popular work in 1725, each sonata was accompanied by a sonnet, one of which reads in part, ‘On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy branches/Rustling overhead, the goat-herd sleeps/His faithful dog beside him.’
ANTONIO VIVALDI
125. He completes the following list: Theodore Roosevelt; Jimmy Carter; Barack Obama.
WOODROW WILSON
ASSOCIATED WORD LIST
Genesis
Five
*24
40
Bohemia
Weimar
Wyoming
Hawaii
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Long Island
Houston
*Philadelphia
DC
*Dragon
Owl
Falcon
Duck
Buck
Bunny
Cub
Giant
Pirate
Hitman
Sniper
Counterfeiter
Amateur
Communist
Commissioner
Dean
*Homer
Vince
Charles
Shelley
Joy
Boone
Brown
Nixon
Psychology
Biochemistry
Rolling
*Flying
Hanging
Kiss
Touch
Stroke
Velvet
Gown
Shoes
Ice Cream
Milk Shake
Chips
Borscht
Wall
Balcony
Radio
Tool
Instrument
Follies
Cabaret
Psycho
King of Kings
*Speed
Race
Cruel
104. Bernard kROGER + 48. MARISa Miller = Roger Maris (Homer)
102. Pearl lANG + 40. LEEza Gibbons = Ang Lee (Dragon)
38. Captain AmERICA + 103. JON Gosselin = Erica Jong (Flying)
79. John ChrysosTOM + 43. HANK Snow = Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
93. Walther nERNST + 56. MAC Hyman = Ernst Mach (Speed)
113. Albert LeBRUN + 3. OMAR Sharif = Bruno Mars (24)
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Never mind .... thanks Mr. K ... work took over in the middle of consolidating Nobel laureates
79. John ChrysosTOM + 43. HANK Snow = Tom Hanks (Counterfeiter)
True, he caught Young Frank the Counterfeiter ....
But wouldn't PHILADELPHIA be a better match?
79. John ChrysosTOM + 43. HANK Snow = Tom Hanks (Counterfeiter)
True, he caught Young Frank the Counterfeiter ....
But wouldn't PHILADELPHIA be a better match?
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Not sure about this one, but Gene kRUPA + ULysses Grant = Rupaul (Race)
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Absolutely! Thank you.mellytu74 wrote:Never mind .... thanks Mr. K ... work took over in the middle of consolidating Nobel laureates
79. John ChrysosTOM + 43. HANK Snow = Tom Hanks (Counterfeiter)
True, he caught Young Frank the Counterfeiter ....
But wouldn't PHILADELPHIA be a better match?
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silverscreenselect wrote:Not sure about this one, but Gene kRUPA + ULysses Grant = Rupaul (Race)
If it's not in this puzzle, it should be.
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110. John FoGERTY + 85. CORInne griffith = Gerty Cori. Would probably go with Biochemistry but I am not sure.
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Oh, it's in the puzzle. It's one of the ones I got most excited about finding.mellytu74 wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:Not sure about this one, but Gene kRUPA + ULysses Grant = Rupaul (Race)
If it's not in this puzzle, it should be.
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AND a tip of the cap to sss, who pointed out originally the last names/first names thing.franktangredi wrote:Oh, it's in the puzzle. It's one of the ones I got most excited about finding.mellytu74 wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:Not sure about this one, but Gene kRUPA + ULysses Grant = Rupaul (Race)
If it's not in this puzzle, it should be.
In addition to Mr. K who started the jamming
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89. Sister Helen PreJEAN + 6. GENE Tunney = Jean Genet (Balcony)
121. Francis cRICK + 20. DEE Snider = Rick Dees (Duck)
121. Francis cRICK + 20. DEE Snider = Rick Dees (Duck)
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1. (ULYSSES) GRANT + 2. HILL(EL) + GRANT HILL (?)
7. (CHARLIE MIN)GUS + 34. HAL L(INDSEY) = GUS HALL (Communist)
47. (MARTIN BR)ANNER + 26. EVERE(TT DIRKSEN) = ANNE REVERE (Velvet)
7. (CHARLIE MIN)GUS + 34. HAL L(INDSEY) = GUS HALL (Communist)
47. (MARTIN BR)ANNER + 26. EVERE(TT DIRKSEN) = ANNE REVERE (Velvet)
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10. Ben BradLEE + 117. MALVOlio = Lee Malvo (Sniper)
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64. He was the second African American to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first to serve a full term; he also received eight votes for Vice President at the 1880 Republican National Convention.
Blanche Kelso Bruce
Which gave me what I was looking for to complete this.
94. Husband KimMEL + 64. BLANChe Kelso Bruce = MEL BLANC (Bunny)
9. 9. Diego RiVERA + 75. WANGara Muta Maathai = VERA WANG (Gown)
Blanche Kelso Bruce
Which gave me what I was looking for to complete this.
94. Husband KimMEL + 64. BLANChe Kelso Bruce = MEL BLANC (Bunny)
9. 9. Diego RiVERA + 75. WANGara Muta Maathai = VERA WANG (Gown)
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90. Claude FROLLO+ 31. MAYa Angelou = ROLLO MAY (Psychology)
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I had the right King of Kings but the wrong actor.
Akio moRITA + GAMaliel Bailey = Rita Gam who was also in the movie.
Akio moRITA + GAMaliel Bailey = Rita Gam who was also in the movie.
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A cheat here. I knew there had to be an Andre somewhere, and here it is. This is Vicente AleixANDRE who goes with Gideon Fell for Andre Gide (Counterfeiter).mrkelley23 wrote:
105. In 1977, he became the second and last Spanish poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Since this is technically within the rules, I should clarify that the full last name of someone will never be the full first name of the hidden person, nor will the full first name ever be the full last name. What fun would that be?jarnon wrote:1. (ULYSSES) GRANT + 2. HILL(EL) + GRANT HILL (?)
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And while we're on the subject of Nobelists, this clue got lost after the first consolidation:
5. This Austrian-born physicist won the Nobel Prize largely for his articulation of the principle that two or more identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.
This is the definition of the Pauli exclusion principle, named for WOLFGANG PAULI. There's a WOLF to work with.
5. This Austrian-born physicist won the Nobel Prize largely for his articulation of the principle that two or more identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.
This is the definition of the Pauli exclusion principle, named for WOLFGANG PAULI. There's a WOLF to work with.
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Or, given Frank's last post, a PAUL I.Pastor Fireball wrote:And while we're on the subject of Nobelists, this clue got lost after the first consolidation:
5. This Austrian-born physicist won the Nobel Prize largely for his articulation of the principle that two or more identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.
This is the definition of the Pauli exclusion principle, named for WOLFGANG PAULI. There's a WOLF to work with.
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Mario BatALI + BABAloo Mandel = Ali Baba (40)
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How about this?mrkelley23 wrote:Or, given Frank's last post, a PAUL I.Pastor Fireball wrote:And while we're on the subject of Nobelists, this clue got lost after the first consolidation:
5. This Austrian-born physicist won the Nobel Prize largely for his articulation of the principle that two or more identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.
This is the definition of the Pauli exclusion principle, named for WOLFGANG PAULI. There's a WOLF to work with.
84. William PreSCOTT + 5. WOLFgang Pauli = SCOTT WOLF (Five)
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Bernard kALB + ORLANDo Cepeda = Al Borland (Tool)
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Harold Frederic, which means there's probably an Eric somewhere.mrkelley23 wrote:
82. This American novelist is best remembered for his 1896 novel about the ‘Damnation’ of a young Methodist pastor.
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