SSS Puzzle

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With Emerson Fittipaldi on here, if there's someone whose last name is Ralph, we can have Ralph (Waldo) Emerson as our representative from Massachusetts instead of William Bradford.

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[quote="mellytu74"]

51. “And Sudden Death,” an article he published in his magazine in 1935, was one of the first to describe the aftermath of auto accidents in (for the time) rather graphic fashion and is credited with first raising public consciousness about auto safety issues.

This was published in Reader's Digest. So DeWITT WALLACE/quote]

Is it possible that there's someone on here who's first name is Stevens? Seems unlikely, but Wallace Stevens would be a good representative of Connecticut.

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With Emerson Fittipaldi on here, if there's someone whose last name is Ralph, we can have Ralph (Waldo) Emerson as our representative from Massachusetts instead of William Bradford.

The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that it's true, because I think we need William for this match:

Nebraska: 20 + 50 = William (Jennings) Bryan

[mellytu74]

72. On the subject of dropouts, he dropped out of Baylor, where he was a member of a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood, but was then admitted to Duke Medical School where he graduated and was subsequently licensed to practice medicine.

This is RAND PAUL

49. Although a non-gambler himself, this former Representative was probably the leading Congressional proponent of legalizing online gambling while he was in office; in fact, a number of the country’s most prominent poker players held fundraisers for him.

I think THIS is BARNEY FRANK and not Ron Paul.

So, we still have Paul Simon, just a different Paul.

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49. Although a non-gambler himself, this former Representative was probably the leading Congressional proponent of legalizing online gambling while he was in office; in fact, a number of the country’s most prominent poker players held fundraisers for him.

I think THIS is BARNEY FRANK and not Ron Paul.

So, we still have Paul Simon, just a different Paul.

What state is associated with Lem Barney? Because I had a hunch on this that turned out to be right:

87. In 1974, Philip K. Dick sent a letter to the FBI claiming that this foreign science fiction writer was actually a Communist committee created to foment Communist propaganda in the guise of science fiction; ironically, although this writer had previously been publicly critical of American science fiction in general, he specifically exempted Dick’s work from criticism, hailing Dick as a visionary.
STANISLAW LEM

Also, I think this completes our Jefferson Davis match:

57. He was the oldest player to win a PGA tournament since the advent of the Senior PGA Tour (now PGA Champions Tour).
DAVIS LOVE

[mellytu74]

49. Although a non-gambler himself, this former Representative was probably the leading Congressional proponent of legalizing online gambling while he was in office; in fact, a number of the country’s most prominent poker players held fundraisers for him.

I think THIS is BARNEY FRANK and not Ron Paul.

So, we still have Paul Simon, just a different Paul.

What state is associated with Lem Barney? Because I had a hunch on this that turned out to be right:

87. In 1974, Philip K. Dick sent a letter to the FBI claiming that this foreign science fiction writer was actually a Communist committee created to foment Communist propaganda in the guise of science fiction; ironically, although this writer had previously been publicly critical of American science fiction in general, he specifically exempted Dick’s work from criticism, hailing Dick as a visionary.
STANISLAW LEM

Also, I think this completes our Jefferson Davis match:

57. He was the oldest player to win a PGA tournament since the advent of the Senior PGA Tour (now PGA Champions Tour).
DAVIS LOVE

Lem Barney would replacement the incorrect Preston Tucker match for MICHIGAN -- longtime Detroit Lion and Michigan hall of Fame member.

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Updated consolidation.

Alabama: 99 + 38 = Harper Lee
Alaska: 43 + 2 = Jack London
Arizona:
Arkansas:
California: 56 + 27 = Raymond Chandler
Colorado:
Connecticut:
Delaware: 68 + 42 = Caesar Rodney
Florida:
Georgia: 81 + 55 = Maynard Jackson
Hawaii:
Idaho:
Illinois: 72 + 85 = Paul Simon
Indiana:
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: ??? + 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
New Mexico:
New York: 70 + 96 = Thomas Dewey
North Carolina:
North Dakota: 95 + 25 = Kent Conrad
Ohio: 22 + 75 = Sherwood Anderson
Oklahoma: 32 + 92 = Will Rogers
Oregon: 37 + 3 = Terry Baker
Pennsylvania:
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 + ??? = Jennings Randolph
Wisconsin: 44 + 10 = Penny Marshall
Wyoming:

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
*10. MARSHALL APPLEWHITE
*11. MADISON KEYS
*12. RONALD WAYNE
13. GILBERT STUART
*14. TRUMAN CAPOTE
*15. HANK AARON
*16. EMERSON FITTIPALDI

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

18. MURRAY HAMILTON
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. 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.”

*37. ELLEN TERRY
*38. LEE HARVEY OSWALD
39. KEITH DAVID
*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. 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.

*54. MADGE SINCLAIR
*55. JACKSON BROWNE
*56. USHER RAYMOND
*57. DAVIS LOVE

58. This painter, who was loosely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is best known for a series of twelve paintings commemorating the exploits of John Henry, which are on permanent display at the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles.

*59. MAUDE NATHAN

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

*61. BRADLEY WHITFORD
*62. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
*63. WOOD HARRIS
64. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
65. MAURICE RICHARD
*66. ROMAIN GARY
67. JERRY RUBIN
*68. JULIUS CAESAR

69. This member of the Adult Video News Hall of Fame made news of a different sort in 2015 when TMZ aired film of her passed out on the sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip; she later claimed she had been roofied.

*70. LOWELL THOMAS
71. MARTIN LUTHER
*72. RAND PAUL
73. 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.

*75. ANDERSON SILVA
*76. NEWTON MINOW
*77. DWIGHT HOWARD
78. SCOTT GLENN

79. This actress is best known for her role as the stepmother and high school principal of the title character on a popular sitcom and later appeared as the mother of the title character on another sitcom and the mistress of the title character’s father on a show that was far from a sitcom. Got that?

80. One of the minor characters in Gone with the Wind is named after this real life Confederate general who became a significant political figure after the Civil War.
WADE HAMPTON?

*81. JOYCE MAYNARD
82. EDWIN MOSES
*83. DEBBIE HARRY
84. DICK SHAWN
*85. SIMON WARD
*86. CURTIS LeMAY

*87. STANISLAW LEM
88. LARRY CRAIG
*89. GRAHAM NASH
90. KELLY PRESTON
*91. LEWIS POWELL
*92. ROGERS MORTON
*93. FORREST TUCKER

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.

*95. JEFF KENT
*96. DEWEY BALFA
*97. KING DONOVAN
98. CLARK CLIFFORD
*99. JESSICA HARPER
100. PARKER POSEY

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Cheat here.

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

BILLE AUGUST

If someone has the first name WILSON, this could become August Wilson, best know for his cycle of plays set in Pittsburgh.

[mellytu74]

30. MARY BRIAN + 90. KELLY PRESTON = Brian Kelly, Coach of Notre Dame football, which is in INDIANA

[franktangredi]

Is it too soon to do blind research on the unanswered questions?

[jarnon]

Wallace Wade was the football coach at Duke (N.C.).

Moses Alexander was governor of Idaho.

[mellytu74]

58. This painter, who was loosely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, is best known for a series of twelve paintings commemorating the exploits of John Henry, which are on permanent display at the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles.

PALMER HAYDEN

Goes with 19. RACHEL CARSON to give us Carson Palmer, QB of the ARIZONA Cardinals

[franktangredi]

A few blatant lookups, because I don't think anyone is showing signs of getting them.

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

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

69. This member of the Adult Video News Hall of Fame made news of a different sort in 2015 when TMZ aired film of her passed out on the sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip; she later claimed she had been roofied.
JESSE JANE

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

79. This actress is best known for her role as the stepmother and high school principal of the title character on a popular sitcom and later appeared as the mother of the title character on another sitcom and the mistress of the title character’s father on a show that was far from a sitcom. Got that?
SHERYL LEE RALPH (which completes our Emerson match)

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

[franktangredi]

Either this is wrong -

West Virginia: 29 + ??? = Jennings Randolph

- or one of the wrong answers we have is actually a Randolph.

[franktangredi]

Evening consolidation. I've put the unused names up front. That could change if some of our current matches are wrong.

CURRENTLY UNUSED
1. BRADFORD DILLMAN
9. ALLEN DRURY
13. GILBERT STUART
17. BILLE AUGUST
18. MURRAY HAMILTON
23. MICHELLE TRIOLA MARVIN
26. CARTER HARRISON
34. CAMPBELL BROWN
35. SEYMOUR CRAY
36. FREEMAN DYSON
39. KEITH DAVID
52. EDDIE FLOYD
53. OSCAR ISAAC
60. JOHNSON C. SMITH
64. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
65. MAURICE RICHARD
67. JERRY RUBIN
69. JESSE JANE
71. MARTIN LUTHER
73. ELMORE LEONARD
74. CLARISSA MUNGER BADGER
78. SCOTT GLENN
84. DICK SHAWN
88. LARRY CRAIG
94. BARNES WALLIS
98. CLARK CLIFFORD
100. PARKER POSEY


Alabama: 99 + 38 = Harper Lee
Alaska: 43 + 2 = Jack London
Arizona: 19 + 58 = Carson Palmer
Arkansas:
California: 56 + 27 = Raymond Chandler
Colorado:
Connecticut:
Delaware: 68 + 42 = Caesar Rodney
Florida:
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
New Mexico:
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:
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 + ??? = Jennings Randolph
Wisconsin: 44 + 10 = Penny Marshall
Wyoming:

USED
*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
*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
*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
*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
*66. ROMAIN GARY
*68. JULIUS CAESAR
*70. LOWELL THOMAS
*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]

Arkansas: 78 + 34 = Glen Campbell

[silverscreenselect]

Two of your answers are incorrect.

[mellytu74]

71. + 34. = Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, known for his association with the University of Miami (FLORIDA)

[franktangredi]

71. + 34. = Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, known for his association with the University of Miami (FLORIDA)

We can't have both Glen Campbell and Luther Campbell, so one of these must be wrong. That probably won't be clear for a while.

[franktangredi]

Two of your answers are incorrect.

Are any of the incorrect answers already matched with something?

[franktangredi]

71. + 34. = Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, known for his association with the University of Miami (FLORIDA)

We can't have both Glen Campbell and Luther Campbell, so one of these must be wrong. Which one probably won't be clear for a while.

[mrkelley23]

71. + 34. = Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, known for his association with the University of Miami (FLORIDA)

We can't have both Glen Campbell and Luther Campbell, so one of these must be wrong. That probably won't be clear for a while.

Glen Campbell is properly spelled with one n, while 78. Scott Glenn has two. I think the Luther Campbell match is probably the right one.

[franktangredi]

71. + 34. = Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew, known for his association with the University of Miami (FLORIDA)

We can't have both Glen Campbell and Luther Campbell, so one of these must be wrong. That probably won't be clear for a while.

Glen Campbell is properly spelled with one n, while 78. Scott Glenn has two. I think the Luther Campbell match is probably the right one.

How embarrassing!

[mrkelley23]

Harrison Barnes is a relatively famous basketball player, and came out of the University of North Carolina. How sure are we that Wallace Wade is right? Looking up his career, he actually had more success at Alabama than he did at Duke.

[silverscreenselect]

Two of your answers are incorrect.

Are any of the incorrect answers already matched with something?

The incorrect answers are not matched with anything currently, but some of your current matches won't allow you to finish the puzzle.