SSS Puzzle

[mellytu74]

I am wondering if Frank's Rubin Carter for NJ was right and Bill Bradley is wrong.

BECAUSE .... Bill Murray could give us out Pennsylvania. For Punxatawney and Groundhog Day.

And Rubin with an i is tough to match

[littlebeast13]

69. JANE + 35. SEYMOUR could be a reference to Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, which )I had to look up) was set in Colorado, which is still unmatched...

lb13

[franktangredi]

I'm wondering if this could be one of the wrong ones.

1. 1. If I had posted this game a month or so earlier, I’d have provoked the Curse of the Tangredi by including this 1960’s and 70’s character actor.
BRADFORD DILLMAN


I was a little doubtful about calling Dillman a character actor, since he was only in his 30s in the 60s. But I'm not sure who else it could be.

[franktangredi]

Aha, this one is wrong.

64. This politician coined the phrase “Tory democracy,” of which he was a leading proponent.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Happily, this phrase was actually coined by RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, which completes our Jennings Randolph match.

[franktangredi]

I am wondering if Frank's Rubin Carter for NJ was right and Bill Bradley is wrong.

BECAUSE .... Bill Murray could give us out Pennsylvania. For Punxatawney and Groundhog Day.

And Rubin with an i is tough to match

We get another famous Pennsylvanian by combining Maurice Richard and Allen Drury to get Richard Allen, founder and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

[silverscreenselect]

When you correctly identify the remaining incorrect answer, several of your question marks will fall into place. I've done some more research and the current answer is correct but the one I'm looking for is also correct and, more important, will allow you to finish the puzzle. I hadn't realized there was more than one possible correct answer.

[franktangredi]

When you correctly identify the remaining incorrect answer, several of your question marks will fall into place. I've done some more research and the current answer is correct but the one I'm looking for is also correct and, more important, will allow you to finish the puzzle. I hadn't realized there was more than one possible correct answer.

I've restored the questions to all the unmatched answers. Since all of the answers are correct, we're looking for a second person who fulfills the requirements. I'm thinking #67 is the most likely candidate.

CURRENTLY UNUSED

1. 1. If I had posted this game a month or so earlier, I’d have provoked the Curse of the Tangredi by including this 1960’s and 70’s character actor.
BRADFORD DILLMAN

9. Although this author claimed that the characters in his best-selling first novel were completely fictional, many people felt that significant events in the book were based on the suicide of Senator Lester Hunt.
ALLEN DRURY

13. His most famous painting was never finished and was in his possession at his death, but he and his daughters used it as a model to paint dozens of reproductions that they later sold.
GILBERT STUART

17. n one of his more acclaimed films, this Danish director’s wife played the mother of a better known Swedish director.
BILLE AUGUST

18. He was the first actor to play a supernatural character on an episode of the original Twilight Zone.
MURRAY HAMILTON

23. Speaking of affairs, at the time of her death, she was living with Dick Van Dyke, with whom she had a lengthy affair, but she is far better known for another actor she lived with and whose last name she took.
MICHELLE TRIOLA MARVIN

26. This politician’s assassination, two days before the end of the World’s Columbian Exposition, led to the cancellation of the planned closing ceremonies, which were replaced by a memorial service for him.
CARTER HARRISON

36. This scientist, who described himself as “100% Democrat,” is perhaps the most prominent scientific opponent of the Paris Climate Accords and has stated that the environmental movement had been “hijacked by a bunch of climate fanatics.”
FREEMAN DYSON

39. This actor has a knack for survival in monster movies; he was still alive at the end of both The Thing and Pitch Black.
KEITH DAVID
I don't think SSS would overlook an alternative answer for this one.

52. He composed perhaps his most famous song with Donald “Duck” Cropper at the Lorraine Motel, about three years before Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated there.
EDDIE FLOYD

53. Before becoming an actor, he was the lead guitarist for the Blinking Underdogs, which experience may have been helpful for his role in a Coen Brothers film
OSCAR ISAAC

60. This white Pittsburgh businessman is best remembered today for a historically black university in Charlotte, NC, that bears his name.
JOHNSON C. SMITH

65. On St. Patrick’s Day, 1955, hometown fans of this hockey player started a major riot in a shopping district near the arena, resulting in three dozen injuries and over 60 arrests, following the announcement of his suspension for the remainder of the season as a result of a fight in an earlier game.
MAURICE RICHARD

67. In the 1960’s, he attracted attention by dropping dollar bills on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as a protest; by the 1980’s, he had joined a Wall Street brokerage firm.
JERRY RUBIN
There were several Yippies involved in the dollar bill incident. Maybe Jerry Rubin wasn't the only one who became a broker.

73. His books were subsequently made into movies starring Glenn Ford, Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Roy Scheider, and Randolph Scott.
ELMORE LEONARD

74. This 19th century artist was renowned for her popular paintings of flowers, which illustrated books of poetry, the best known of which was commonly called The Wild Flowers of America.
CLARISSA MUNGER BADGER

78. One of his best-known roles was played earlier by Dennis Farina and later by Harvey Keitel.
SCOTT GLENN

84. Although not generally thought of as a dancer, one of this actor’s best film scenes was his spirited routine performed to “31 Flavors” by the Shirelles.
DICK SHAWN

88. Four months after his arrest in Minnesota that effectively ended his political career, he was inducted into his home state’s Hall of Fame; ironically, one of his fellow inductees that year wound up succeeding him in office
LARRY CRAIG

94. This British scientist is best remembered for a spherical bomb/torpedo he developed in World War II, the successful use of which against a seemingly indestructible German target was dramatized in a 1955 movie in which he was portrayed by Michael Redgrave.
BARNES WALLIS

98. In 1998, only a few months before his death, he and his law partner agreed to forfeit $5 million in company stock to settle charges stemming from their involvement in the B.C.C.I. scandal.
CLARK CLIFFORD

100. Her appearances in 32 independent films in the 1990’s earned her the nickname, “Queen of the Indies.”
PARKER POSEY

[littlebeast13]

Nevermind

[silverscreenselect]

I'll add that when you think about the correct answer, you'll realize it immediately.

[franktangredi]

New Mexico: 65 + 1 = Richard Bradford

Richard Bradford wrote Red Sky at Morning, set in New Mexico, where he lived.

[franktangredi]

52. He composed perhaps his most famous song with Donald “Duck” Cropper at the Lorraine Motel, about three years before Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated there.
EDDIE FLOYD

Steve Cropper co-wrote 'Knock on Wood' at the Lorraine Motel, but he also co-wrote 'In the Midnight Hour' there. So this has to be WILSON PICKETT, who I've been looking for since yesterday.

Pennsylvania: 17 + 52 = August Wilson

[franktangredi]

Updated consolidation. All the answers should now be correct, but not necessarily all of the matches.

CURRENTLY UNUSED

9. ALLEN DRURY
13. GILBERT STUART
18. MURRAY HAMILTON
23. MICHELLE TRIOLA MARVIN
26. CARTER HARRISON
36. FREEMAN DYSON
39. KEITH DAVID
53. OSCAR ISAAC
60. JOHNSON C. SMITH
67. JERRY RUBIN
73. ELMORE LEONARD
74. CLARISSA MUNGER BADGER [WTF? Maybe a Wisconsin reference here?]
78. SCOTT GLENN
84. DICK SHAWN
88. LARRY CRAIG
94. BARNES WALLIS
98. CLARK CLIFFORD
100. PARKER POSEY

MATCHES (there is some question about the NC and NJ matches)
Alabama: 99 + 38 = Harper Lee
Alaska: 43 + 2 = Jack London
Arizona: 19 + 58 = Carson Palmer
Arkansas:
California: 56 + 27 = Raymond Chandler
Colorado: 69 + 35 = Jane Seymour
Connecticut:
Delaware: 68 + 42 = Caesar Rodney
Florida: 71 + 34 = Luther Campbell
Georgia: 81 + 55 = Maynard Jackson
Hawaii:
Idaho: 82 + 31 = Moses Alexander
Illinois: 72 + 85 = Paul Simon
Indiana: 30 + 90 = Brian Kelly
Iowa: 24 + 63 = Grant Wood
Kansas: 21 + 86 = Charles Curtis
Kentucky: 45 + 8 = Henry Clay
Louisiana: 15 + 62 = Aaron Neville
Maine: 41 + 97 = Stephen King
Maryland:
Massachusetts: 79 + 16 = Ralph (Waldo) Emerson
Michigan: 87 + 49 = Lem Barney
Minnesota: 54 + 91 = Sinclair Lewis
Mississippi: 6 + 57 = Jefferson Davis
Missouri: 83 + 14 = Harry Truman
Montana: 66 + 28 = Gary Cooper
Nebraska: 20 + 50 = William (Jennings) Bryan
Nevada: 12 + 76 = Wayne Newton
New Hampshire: 5 + 47 = Judd Gregg
New Jersey: 46 + 61 = Bill Bradley [alternate answer, Rubin Carter]
New Mexico: 65 + 1 = Richard Bradford
New York: 70 + 96 = Thomas Dewey
North Carolina: 51 + 80 = Wallace Wade [alternate answer, Harrison Barnes]
North Dakota: 95 + 25 = Kent Conrad
Ohio: 22 + 75 = Sherwood Anderson
Oklahoma: 32 + 92 = Will Rogers
Oregon: 37 + 3 = Terry Baker
Pennsylvania: 17 + 52 = August Wilson
Rhode Island:
South Carolina: 33 + 89 = Lindsey Graham
South Dakota:
Tennessee: 59 + 93 = Nathan (Bedford) Forrest
Texas: 4 + 48 = Nolan Ryan
Utah:
Vermont: 77 + 7 = Howard Dean
Virginia: 40 + 11 = James Madison
Washington:
West Virginia: 29 + 64 = Jennings Randolph
Wisconsin: 44 + 10 = Penny Marshall
Wyoming:

USED
*1. BRADFORD DILLMAN
*2. LONDON FLETCHER
*3. BAKER MAYFIELD
*4. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
*5. ASHLEY JUDD
*6. BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON
*7. DEAN ACHESON
*8. CLAY CARROLL
*10. MARSHALL APPLEWHITE
*11. MADISON KEYS
*12. RONALD WAYNE
*14. TRUMAN CAPOTE
*15. HANK AARON
*16. EMERSON FITTIPALDI
*17. BILLE AUGUST
*19. RACHEL CARSON
* 20. WARREN WILLIAM
*21. RAY CHARLES
*22. SHERWOOD
*24. KIRBY GRANT
*25. CONRAD HILTON
*27. CHANDLER RIGGS
*28. COOPER MANNING
*29. WAYLON JENNINGS
*30. MARY BRIAN
*31. ALEXANDER POPE
*32. GEORGE WILL
*33. HAL LINDSEY
*34. CAMPBELL BROWN
*35. SEYMOUR CRAY
*37. ELLEN TERRY
*38. LEE HARVEY OSWALD
*40. DENNIS JAMES
*41. LESLIE STEPHEN
*42. RODNEY DANGERFIELD
*43. JARRETT JACK
*44. JOE PENNY
*45. JOSEPH HENRY
*46. TONY BILL
*47. GREGG ALLMAN
*48. RYAN REYNOLDS
*49. BARNEY FRANK
*50. BRYAN SINGER
*51. DeWITT WALLACE
*52. WILSON PICKETT
*54. MADGE SINCLAIR
*55. JACKSON BROWNE
*56. USHER RAYMOND
*57. DAVIS LOVE
*58. PALMER HAYDEN
*59. MAUDE NATHAN
*61. BRADLEY WHITFORD
*62. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
*63. WOOD HARRIS
*64. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
*65. MAURICE RICHARD
*66. ROMAIN GARY
*68. JULIUS CAESAR
*69. JESSE JANE
*70. LOWELL THOMAS
*71. MARTIN LUTHER
*72. RAND PAUL
*75. ANDERSON SILVA
*76. NEWTON MINOW
*77. DWIGHT HOWARD
*79. SHERYL LEE RALPH
*80. WADE HAMPTON
*81. JOYCE MAYNARD
*82. EDWIN MOSES
*83. DEBBIE HARRY
*85. SIMON WARD
*86. CURTIS LeMAY
*87. STANISLAW LEM
*89. GRAHAM NASH
*90. KELLY PRESTON
*91. LEWIS POWELL
*92. ROGERS MORTON
*93. FORREST TUCKER
*95. JEFF KENT
*96. DEWEY BALFA
*97. KING DONOVAN
*99. JESSICA HARPER

[franktangredi]

Okay, this was driving me nuts, so I checked the first name Badger against every possible last name and this is what I came up with:

Robert Norman "Badger Bob" Johnson (March 4, 1931 – November 26, 1991) was an American college, international, and professional ice hockey coach. He coached the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team from 1966 to 1982

That has to be right for Wisconsin, which puts Penny and Marshall back into the mix. Penny Marshall was from New York, though, so I'm not sure if or where she fits.

[mellytu74]

I am wondering if Frank's Rubin Carter for NJ was right and Bill Bradley is wrong.

BECAUSE .... Bill Murray could give us out Pennsylvania. For Punxatawney and Groundhog Day.

And Rubin with an i is tough to match

We get another famous Pennsylvanian by combining Maurice Richard and Allen Drury to get Richard Allen, founder and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

YES!! Excellent choice

Except August Wilson is better.

[mellytu74]

52. He composed perhaps his most famous song with Donald “Duck” Cropper at the Lorraine Motel, about three years before Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated there.
EDDIE FLOYD

Steve Cropper co-wrote 'Knock on Wood' at the Lorraine Motel, but he also co-wrote 'In the Midnight Hour' there. So this has to be WILSON PICKETT, who I've been looking for since yesterday.

Pennsylvania: 17 + 52 = August Wilson

I never knew this. Knock on Wood was the only song I knew that was written at the Lorraine! A great trivia question.

[mellytu74]

It's a shame we don't have a "Simpson" first name to give us the Belle of Baltimore, Wallis Simpson and her empire-wrecking ways.

[mellytu74]

OH for heaven's sake!!!

23. + 94. = Marvin "Bad News" Barnes = Rhode Island. The pride of Providence, who in addition to playing for hometown Providence College, also spent a little time as a guest of the state.

AND, we have a basketball player named Bradley but it's not Bill.

84. + 61 = SHAWN BRADLEY. The 7-6 hoops prodigy from UTAH.

Both Bradley and Barnes spent time with the Philadelphia 76ers, who have been on my mind lately.

SO, NJ = Frank's original match of Rubin + Carter

[jarnon]

Shawn Carter (better known as Jay-Z), is a native New Yorker, but we already have Thomas Dewey.

[franktangredi]

OH for heaven's sake!!!

23. + 94. = Marvin "Bad News" Barnes = Rhode Island. The pride of Providence, who in addition to playing for hometown Providence College, also spent a little time as a guest of the state.

AND, we have a basketball player named Bradley but it's not Bill.

84. + 61 = SHAWN BRADLEY. The 7-6 hoops prodigy from UTAH.

Both Bradley and Barnes spent time with the Philadelphia 76ers, who have been on my mind lately.

SO, NJ = Frank's original match of Rubin + Carter

Putting the first name BILL back in the mix.

[mellytu74]

OH for heaven's sake!!!

23. + 94. = Marvin "Bad News" Barnes = Rhode Island. The pride of Providence, who in addition to playing for hometown Providence College, also spent a little time as a guest of the state.

AND, we have a basketball player named Bradley but it's not Bill.

84. + 61 = SHAWN BRADLEY. The 7-6 hoops prodigy from UTAH.

Both Bradley and Barnes spent time with the Philadelphia 76ers, who have been on my mind lately.

SO, NJ = Frank's original match of Rubin + Carter

Putting the first name BILL back in the mix.

Not for long ....

I didn't put it together it earlier but I'd just seen something about Boeing on the Smithsonian Channel:

46 + 9. = Bill Allen, one of the driving forces behind the some of the most successful Boeing planes. Which were made in WASHINGTON

[mrkelley23]

73. + 36. Leonard Freeman created Hawaii Five-O

[franktangredi]

Updated consolidation before I go out.

CURRENTLY UNUSED

10. MARSHALL APPLEWHITE
13. GILBERT STUART
18. MURRAY HAMILTON
39. KEITH DAVID
44. JOE PENNY
53. OSCAR ISAAC
78. SCOTT GLENN
88. LARRY CRAIG
98. CLARK CLIFFORD
100. PARKER POSEY

MATCHES
Alabama: 99 + 38 = Harper Lee
Alaska: 43 + 2 = Jack London
Arizona: 19 + 58 = Carson Palmer
Arkansas:
California: 56 + 27 = Raymond Chandler
Colorado: 69 + 35 = Jane Seymour
Connecticut:
Delaware: 68 + 42 = Caesar Rodney
Florida: 71 + 34 = Luther Campbell
Georgia: 81 + 55 = Maynard Jackson
Hawaii: 73 + 36 = Leonard Freeman
Idaho: 82 + 31 = Moses Alexander
Illinois: 72 + 85 = Paul Simon
Indiana: 30 + 90 = Brian Kelly
Iowa: 24 + 63 = Grant Wood
Kansas: 21 + 86 = Charles Curtis
Kentucky: 45 + 8 = Henry Clay
Louisiana: 15 + 62 = Aaron Neville
Maine: 41 + 97 = Stephen King
Maryland:
Massachusetts: 79 + 16 = Ralph (Waldo) Emerson
Michigan: 87 + 49 = Lem Barney
Minnesota: 54 + 91 = Sinclair Lewis
Mississippi: 6 + 57 = Jefferson Davis
Missouri: 83 + 14 = Harry Truman
Montana: 66 + 28 = Gary Cooper
Nebraska: 20 + 50 = William (Jennings) Bryan
Nevada: 12 + 76 = Wayne Newton
New Hampshire: 5 + 47 = Judd Gregg
New Jersey: 87 + 26 - Rubin Carter
New Mexico: 65 + 1 = Richard Bradford
New York: 70 + 96 = Thomas Dewey
North Carolina: 51 + 80 = Wallace Wade
North Dakota: 95 + 25 = Kent Conrad
Ohio: 22 + 75 = Sherwood Anderson
Oklahoma: 32 + 92 = Will Rogers
Oregon: 37 + 3 = Terry Baker
Pennsylvania: 17 + 52 = August Wilson
Rhode Island: 23 + 94 = Marvin Barnes
South Carolina: 33 + 89 = Lindsey Graham
South Dakota:
Tennessee: 59 + 93 = Nathan (Bedford) Forrest
Texas: 4 + 48 = Nolan Ryan
Utah: 84 + 61 = Shawn Bradley
Vermont: 77 + 7 = Howard Dean
Virginia: 40 + 11 = James Madison
Washington: 46 + 9 = Bill Allen
West Virginia: 29 + 64 = Jennings Randolph
Wisconsin: 74 + 60 = Badger (Bob) Johnson
Wyoming:

USED
*1. BRADFORD DILLMAN
*2. LONDON FLETCHER
*3. BAKER MAYFIELD
*4. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
*5. ASHLEY JUDD
*6. BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON
*7. DEAN ACHESON
*8. CLAY CARROLL
*9. ALLEN DRURY
*11. MADISON KEYS
*12. RONALD WAYNE
*14. TRUMAN CAPOTE
*15. HANK AARON
*16. EMERSON FITTIPALDI
*17. BILLE AUGUST
*19. RACHEL CARSON
* 20. WARREN WILLIAM
*21. RAY CHARLES
*22. SHERWOOD
*23. MICHELLE TRIOLA MARVIN
*24. KIRBY GRANT
*25. CONRAD HILTON
*26. CARTER HARRISON
*27. CHANDLER RIGGS
*28. COOPER MANNING
*29. WAYLON JENNINGS
*30. MARY BRIAN
*31. ALEXANDER POPE
*32. GEORGE WILL
*33. HAL LINDSEY
*34. CAMPBELL BROWN
*35. SEYMOUR CRAY
*36. FREEMAN DYSON
*37. ELLEN TERRY
*38. LEE HARVEY OSWALD
*40. DENNIS JAMES
*41. LESLIE STEPHEN
*42. RODNEY DANGERFIELD
*43. JARRETT JACK
*45. JOSEPH HENRY
*46. TONY BILL
*47. GREGG ALLMAN
*48. RYAN REYNOLDS
*49. BARNEY FRANK
*50. BRYAN SINGER
*51. DeWITT WALLACE
*52. WILSON PICKETT
*54. MADGE SINCLAIR
*55. JACKSON BROWNE
*56. USHER RAYMOND
*57. DAVIS LOVE
*58. PALMER HAYDEN
*59. MAUDE NATHAN
*60. JOHNSON C. SMITH
*61. BRADLEY WHITFORD
*62. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
*63. WOOD HARRIS
*64. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
*65. MAURICE RICHARD
*66. ROMAIN GARY
*67. JERRY RUBIN
*68. JULIUS CAESAR
*69. JESSE JANE
*70. LOWELL THOMAS
*71. MARTIN LUTHER
*72. RAND PAUL
*73. ELMORE LEONARD
*74. CLARISSA MUNGER BADGER
*75. ANDERSON SILVA
*76. NEWTON MINOW
*77. DWIGHT HOWARD
*79. SHERYL LEE RALPH
*80. WADE HAMPTON
*81. JOYCE MAYNARD
*82. EDWIN MOSES
*83. DEBBIE HARRY
*84. DICK SHAWN
*85. SIMON WARD
*86. CURTIS LeMAY
*87. STANISLAW LEM
*89. GRAHAM NASH
*90. KELLY PRESTON
*91. LEWIS POWELL
*92. ROGERS MORTON
*93. FORREST TUCKER
*94. BARNES WALLIS
*95. JEFF KENT
*96. DEWEY BALFA
*97. KING DONOVAN
*99. JESSICA HARPER

[Pastor Fireball]

How about Isaac Parker, the "Hanging Judge" from Arkansas?

[mrkelley23]

I kind of hate to do this, but can you believe there is another person in history who was referred to by the name "Badger?" In this case, it was his actual middle name, not a nickname, and he was the poet laureate of South Dakota. (Charles) Badger Clark. Sarah Palin was a big fan, if that tells you anything. That would allow us to put Penny Marshall back in for Wisconsin, and the surname Johnson would come back in play, as well.

[franktangredi]

I kind of hate to do this, but can you believe there is another person in history who was referred to by the name "Badger?" In this case, it was his actual middle name, not a nickname, and he was the poet laureate of South Dakota. (Charles) Badger Clark. Sarah Palin was a big fan, if that tells you anything. That would allow us to put Penny Marshall back in for Wisconsin, and the surname Johnson would come back in play, as well.

I like it.

So unless there are some other wrong matches in there - which is always possible - here's what's left:

13. GILBERT STUART
18. MURRAY HAMILTON
39. KEITH DAVID
60. JOHNSON C. SMITH
78. SCOTT GLENN
88. LARRY CRAIG

And the states unaccounted for are Connecticut, Maryland, and Wyoming.