silverscreenselect wrote: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.
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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