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#1 Post by franktangredi » Mon May 06, 2019 8:17 am

Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

Identify the 100 people in the clues below. Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

There should be no alternate matches.

1. The earliest words attributed to him are “How is it that you sought me?”

2. This scientist discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, as well as the element radon.

3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

4. Almost forty years after his conviction, this influential entertainer became the first person to receive a posthumous pardon from the governor of New York.

5. In 1521, his staunch defense of papal supremacy and the seven sacraments earned him the title “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Leo X.

6. Describing himself in an 1871 poem, he wrote, “His mind is concrete and fastidious/His nose is remarkably big/His visage is more or less hideous/His beard it resembles a wig.”

7. DJMQ: The company he founded arose out of short-lived artists’ colony whose residents also included fellow dancer Paul Taylor and artist Robert Rauschenberg.
Alas, there are no more DJMQs in this quiz.

8. This pioneer of television journalism– who, barring the Tangredi curse, will turn ninety this fall – was ranked #34 on a TV Guide list of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

9. The completion of the Great Northern Railway helped earn this Canadian-born magnate the title “Empire Builder.”

10. His list of accolades includes 13 Grammy awards, 10 CMA awards, 7 American Music awards, the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

11. Before launching his successful NFL career, he was the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy,

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.

13. She did not receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame until 2018 – ninety years after her film debut and forty years after her longtime leading man received his.

14. In 2014, an untitled painting by this abstract expressionist sold for $11.9 million – the highest price ever paid up to that time for a work by a female artist.

15. His first successful play was inspired by a news story about a conspiracy between an aeronautical company and several U.S. Army inspectors.

16. The final album of this singer was released on his 69th birthday – two days before his death – and is generally regarded as a conscious farewell to his fans.

17. A longtime contributor to Natural History magazine, this biologist is best known for propounding the theory that evolution consists of long periods of stability punctuated by swift periods of change.

18. In 1933, this actress essayed a role that would later be played by Margaret O’Brien and Claire Danes.

19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.

21. This former Congressman died during a battle fought on March 6, 1836.

22. In 1827, this English physician was the first to describe the symptoms of the kidney disease that now bears his name.

23. This television producer is best known for creating a late-night live musical program that ran on NBC from 1973-1981.

24. This blues singer and guitarist was working as a janitor in a steel mill when he scored his first major hit in 1948; more than half a century later, he received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement.

25. He was the first aviator to fly solo around the world.

26. In addition to his banking career with Kuhn, Loeb, and Co., this philanthropist also served as co- chair of the Metropolitan Opera and helped finance the restoration of the Parthenon.

27. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, for his novels George Mills and Mrs. Ted Bliss.

28. He is the only person to have served as director of both the FBI and the CIA.

29. This hockey great played on four of the Original Six teams and remains the winningest goal tender of any player from that era.

30. His memorial plaque is located on the grounds of the Flamingo in Las Vegas, between the pool and the wedding chapel.

31. This mathematician is best known for developing a graphic way to represent all possible relations between a finite collection of sets.

32. This merchant is credited with introducing the printing press to England.

33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.

34. This soul singer’s only Top Forty hit was a 1977 lament about the problems of having a wife at home and a woman on the side.

35. With an amateur record of 85-0 and a professional record of 128-1-2, it is no surprise that, in 2002, Ring magazine ranked him the greatest boxer of the previous eighty years.

36. This French fashion designer – who spent 30 years with the House of Dior – designed the wedding dresses of Queen Silvia of Sweden and Princess Caroline of Monaco.

37. In a 1927 comedy, he starred opposite – and fell in love with – an actress whom he would marry ten years later, after she divorced her film star husband.

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.

39. This author is best known for a five-book trilogy that began as a BBC radio series.

40. This British military officer was dubbed “The Butcher” for his role in a 1919 incident that resulted in the deaths of 379 people.

41. He became one of the key figures of the Industrial Revolution when he patented a device that sped up the weaving process by allowing the weft to pass through the warp threads faster and over a greater width of cloth.

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)

43. He is one of the busiest and most popular men on television, but Ariana Guttierez’s memories of him are probably not the happiest.

44. Though he preferred writing poetry, this author’s greatest success came from his 24 novellas, including an epic 1979 trilogy set in Montana.

45. This Atlanta-born singer hit Number One twice during the Sixties – first with a song the one-word title of which was the name of a girl, and then with a song the one-word title of which described how a girl made him feel. Got that?

46. He wrote a nationally syndicated column from 1942 to 1983, and – unlike some other Broadway gossip columnists (*cough* walter winchell *cough*) – he had a reputation for scrupulous fairness and fact-checking.

47. Heir apparent to an empire, he never succeeded to the throne due to his participation in a suicide pact.

48. Nominated 17 times for the Nobel Prize (in Literature and Peace), his philosophy was centered on the distinction between the ‘I-Thou’ relationship and the ‘I-It’ relationship.

49. This bowler experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the same moment – winning the 1970 Tournament of Champions, but falling to the floor when he left one pin standing for a final game score of 299.

50. Attendees at a 1975 comic book convention cheered when Stan Lee announced that this artist – creator of many enduring characters – was returning to the company after a five year absence. (The reconciliation lasted only two years.)

51. This longtime guard for the Chicago Bears is credited with being the first professional football player to incorporate weight training into his regimen.

52. This artist painted more than 600 portraits of Native Americans which, in the words of Baudelaire, captured “the proud and free characters of these chiefs, both their nobility and manliness."

53. This two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry could trace his ancestry back to the Mayflower. Easily.

54. This virologist shared a Nobel Prize with John Enders and Frederick Robbins for their work in cultivating polio viruses.

55. This actor, who made his Broadway debut at age seven playing the son of FDR, says that he was once turned down for a television commercial because of the nevus on his left cheek.

56. He had the shortest reign of any emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

57. The denomination founded in 1794 by this bishop now has more than 2.5 million members, mostly in the Americas and Africa.

58. According to this British philosopher, “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.”

59. The plot of one of this Italian composer’s operas is set in motion when a bird filches a silver spoon.

60. This educator completes a list that also includes Florence Nightingale, General George Gordon, and Edward, Cardinal Manning.

61. He was the first U.S. Chief Justice to have previously served as U.S. Attorney General.

62. In an age when there was no clear line between science and mysticism, he served as court astrologer to Elizabeth I, but was also a respected authority on mathematics, astronomy, and navigation.

63. This Norwegian is the only alpine skier to win eight Olympic medals – half of them gold – as well as five world championships.

64. In 1790, this merchant captain completed the first American circumnavigation of the world.

65. He published only one novel in his lifetime, but it won the National Book Award and was later ranked by Modern Library as the 19th best English language novel of the 20th century.

66. He made four films opposite the most popular singing star at 20th Century Fox, but most of us remember him best for defending a beloved icon.

67. This British clergyman’s essay “An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens” led to the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society.

68. One of the last of the bushrangers, he was hanged in 1880 at the age of 25.

69. This British author wrote a number of successful stage comedies as well as a classic detective novel – and was not pleased to be remembered primarily for his children’s books.

70. He was one of the first American singers to perform reggae in Jamaica, so it seems fitting that his biggest U.S. hit was later covered by Jimmy Cliff.

71. He was born in 1978 in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni’s Italian restaurant – an experience that had a lifelong impact on his dietary preferences.

72. The Gestapo reportedly considered her the most dangerous of all American spies during World War II.

73. The model of operations he implemented as White House Chief of Staff is still followed today – but that’s not what people most remember him for.

74. In a 1961 movie, this actor played a person in one of the preceding clues.

75. The 1981 British Open was this American golfer’s only Majors win.

76. He was the only Austrian architect to win the Pritzker Prize.

77. He and his cousin Manny published their first novel under their celebrated pseudonym in 1929, but he was sole founding editor of the influential magazine that bore their name.

78. This lyricist gave us such memorable rhymes as “chat so/palazzo,” “Astaire/Camembert,” and (my personal favorite) “heinous/Coriolanus.”

79. A co-founder of Fairchild Seminconductor, this physicist designed the first integrated circuit made of silicon.

80. He was the first bridegroom to say “I do” in the Rose Garden of the White House.

81. This actor’s daughter won an Oscar three years after he received his only Oscar nomination.

82. In his ship Dainty, this English seaman and privateer carries out raids on Spanish overseas possessions, most notably Valparaiso.

83. She was the named plaintiff in a celebrated court case in which the named defendant was the District Attorney of Dallas County.

84. Seventh on MLB’s all-time strikeout list, this pitcher did not get into the Hall of Fame until his fifth year of eligibility.

85. In 2012, the Culinary Institute of America renamed its Escoffier Restaurant to honor this French master of nouvelle cuisine.

86. This American made minor news when he defected to the Soviet Union – and much bigger news four years later. (He should have stayed in Russia.)

87. This Welsh musician was a founding member of the American band whose 1967 debut album has been acclaimed by Rolling Stone as "the most prophetic rock album ever made."

88. In his rookie year, he was a teammate of Bill Russell; in his final year, he was a teammate of Larry Bird – making him the only person to have played with both.

89. This Midwesterner was the first openly gay person elected to the United States Senate.

90. This Japanese engineer shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in developing a method of mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules. (And no, I don’t have any clue what that means.)

91. A friend of Chaucer, this English poet is best remembered for a collection of short narrative poems the title of which translates into English as ‘A Lover’s Confession.’

92. He has said of a former bandmate that “for those who believe that Brian walks on water, I will always be the Antichrist.”

93. This Canadian-born broadcast journalist won Emmy awards for his coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Romanian revolution, but got saddled with his nickname for his coverage of a later conflict.

94. As president of the Western Federation of Miners, he led his union through the Colorado Labor Wars and survived a bullet in the back.

95. When this entrepreneur was named Person of the Year by Time magazine, the runners up included Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai, and the Tea Party.

96. Although he did not originate the doctrine of “sola fide,” he did the most to articulate and spread it.

97. This scientist’s first table of relative atomic weights consisted of only six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur and phosphorus.

98. As a member of Congress, he proposed what became the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

99. She starred in film adaptation of works by – among others – Lillian Hellman, Agatha Christie, Kaufman and Hart, Edith Wharton, and W. Somerset Maugham.

100. Alfred North Whitehead famously stated that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to” this thinker.

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#2 Post by kroxquo » Mon May 06, 2019 9:13 am

2. This scientist discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, as well as the element radon.

Karl Roentgen

3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

Wade Boggs

4. Almost forty years after his conviction, this influential entertainer became the first person to receive a posthumous pardon from the governor of New York.

Frank Sinatra?

5. In 1521, his staunch defense of papal supremacy and the seven sacraments earned him the title “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Leo X.

Henry VIII

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.

Lloyd Bentsen

13. She did not receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame until 2018 – ninety years after her film debut and forty years after her longtime leading man received his.

Myrna Loy?

16. The final album of this singer was released on his 69th birthday – two days before his death – and is generally regarded as a conscious farewell to his fans.

Glen Campbell?

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.

Barbara Bush

21. This former Congressman died during a battle fought on March 6, 1836.

David Crockett

23. This television producer is best known for creating a late-night live musical program that ran on NBC from 1973-1981.

Don Kirshner

25. He was the first aviator to fly solo around the world.

Wiley Post?

33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.

Jude the Obscure?

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.

The Lady in Kentucky who wouldn't issue a marriage license to a same sex couple

39. This author is best known for a five-book trilogy that began as a BBC radio series.

Douglas Adams

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)

Gary Hart?

45. This Atlanta-born singer hit Number One twice during the Sixties – first with a song the one-word title of which was the name of a girl, and then with a song the one-word title of which described how a girl made him feel. Got that?

Tommy Roe

49. This bowler experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the same moment – winning the 1970 Tournament of Champions, but falling to the floor when he left one pin standing for a final game score of 299.

Earl Anthony?

61. He was the first U.S. Chief Justice to have previously served as U.S. Attorney General.

John Marshall?

65. He published only one novel in his lifetime, but it won the National Book Award and was later ranked by Modern Library as the 19th best English language novel of the 20th century.

Thornton Wilder

69. This British author wrote a number of successful stage comedies as well as a classic detective novel – and was not pleased to be remembered primarily for his children’s books.

A.A. Milne?

76. He was the only Austrian architect to win the Pritzker Prize.

Walter Gropius?

78. This lyricist gave us such memorable rhymes as “chat so/palazzo,” “Astaire/Camembert,” and (my personal favorite) “heinous/Coriolanus.”

Cole Porter

80. He was the first bridegroom to say “I do” in the Rose Garden of the White House.

David Eisenhower

82. In his ship Dainty, this English seaman and privateer carries out raids on Spanish overseas possessions, most notably Valparaiso.

Captain Blood?

83. She was the named plaintiff in a celebrated court case in which the named defendant was the District Attorney of Dallas County.

Jane Roe

84. Seventh on MLB’s all-time strikeout list, this pitcher did not get into the Hall of Fame until his fifth year of eligibility.

Bert Blyleven

86. This American made minor news when he defected to the Soviet Union – and much bigger news four years later. (He should have stayed in Russia.)

Lee Harvey Oswald

88. In his rookie year, he was a teammate of Bill Russell; in his final year, he was a teammate of Larry Bird – making him the only person to have played with both.

Dave Cowens?

95. When this entrepreneur was named Person of the Year by Time magazine, the runners up included Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai, and the Tea Party.

Mark Zuckerberg

98. As a member of Congress, he proposed what became the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

James Madison
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#3 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon May 06, 2019 9:49 am

franktangredi wrote:Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

Identify the 100 people in the clues below. Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

There should be no alternate matches.


2. This scientist discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, as well as the element radon.

I always get these confused. Becquerel, Rutherford, Roentgen. I'm pretty sure it's not any of the Curies. I'm about 75% sure it's ERNEST RUTHERFORD.

3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

These kinds of questions always trap me. I want to say WADE BOGGS, but I don't know how many games he played at other positions. GTMH, I'd go with Boggs, though.


6. Describing himself in an 1871 poem, he wrote, “His mind is concrete and fastidious/His nose is remarkably big/His visage is more or less hideous/His beard it resembles a wig.”

Isn't this a Cyrano de Bergerac thing?


8. This pioneer of television journalism– who, barring the Tangredi curse, will turn ninety this fall – was ranked #34 on a TV Guide list of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

BARBARA WALTERS


10. His list of accolades includes 13 Grammy awards, 10 CMA awards, 7 American Music awards, the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

GEORGE STRAIT?

11. Before launching his successful NFL career, he was the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy,

JOHNNY RODGERS?

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.

LLOYD BENTSEN


16. The final album of this singer was released on his 69th birthday – two days before his death – and is generally regarded as a conscious farewell to his fans.

Was DAVID BOWIE that young? I remember him being in his mid-70s, for some reason, but this sounds like him.

17. A longtime contributor to Natural History magazine, this biologist is best known for propounding the theory that evolution consists of long periods of stability punctuated by swift periods of change.

The concept is punctuated equilibrium, and the author is one of those three-name scientists who sound like serial killers.Stephen something something.

18. In 1933, this actress essayed a role that would later be played by Margaret O’Brien and Claire Danes.

Clare Danes played Juliet, Beth in Little Women, and Julia in The Hours that I can recall, and that might have 1933 versions of the character.

19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.

JONATHAN OR DREW SCOTT

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.

BARBARA BUSH?

30. His memorial plaque is located on the grounds of the Flamingo in Las Vegas, between the pool and the wedding chapel.

ELVIS PRESLEY??

31. This mathematician is best known for developing a graphic way to represent all possible relations between a finite collection of sets.

VENN


33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.

QUASIMODO?

34. This soul singer’s only Top Forty hit was a 1977 lament about the problems of having a wife at home and a woman on the side.

BILLY PAUL

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.

KIM DAVIS, or something forgettable like that. Kentucky county clerk who wouldn't issue the marriage license for the same sex couple.

39. This author is best known for a five-book trilogy that began as a BBC radio series.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

41. He became one of the key figures of the Industrial Revolution when he patented a device that sped up the weaving process by allowing the weft to pass through the warp threads faster and over a greater width of cloth.

CYRUS MACCORMACK is stuck in my head, but that may be laughably wrong

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)

GARY HART


45. This Atlanta-born singer hit Number One twice during the Sixties – first with a song the one-word title of which was the name of a girl, and then with a song the one-word title of which described how a girl made him feel. Got that?

TOMMY ROE (Sheila and Dizzy)

46. He wrote a nationally syndicated column from 1942 to 1983, and – unlike some other Broadway gossip columnists (*cough* walter winchell *cough*) – he had a reputation for scrupulous fairness and fact-checking.

ARMY ARCHERD?

50. Attendees at a 1975 comic book convention cheered when Stan Lee announced that this artist – creator of many enduring characters – was returning to the company after a five year absence. (The reconciliation lasted only two years.)

JACK KIRBY??


57. The denomination founded in 1794 by this bishop now has more than 2.5 million members, mostly in the Americas and Africa.

WESLEY?

68. One of the last of the bushrangers, he was hanged in 1880 at the age of 25.

NED KELLY????? for no real good reason


70. He was one of the first American singers to perform reggae in Jamaica, so it seems fitting that his biggest U.S. hit was later covered by Jimmy Cliff.

JOHNNY NASH?

81. This actor’s daughter won an Oscar three years after he received his only Oscar nomination.

RYAN O'NEAL?

84. Seventh on MLB’s all-time strikeout list, this pitcher did not get into the Hall of Fame until his fifth year of eligibility.

NOT Bert Blyleven, although the story sounds similar.

88. In his rookie year, he was a teammate of Bill Russell; in his final year, he was a teammate of Larry Bird – making him the only person to have played with both.

I think I saw this factoid in JOHN HAVLICEK's obit notices.

89. This Midwesterner was the first openly gay person elected to the United States Senate.

TAMMY BALDWIN?


93. This Canadian-born broadcast journalist won Emmy awards for his coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Romanian revolution, but got saddled with his nickname for his coverage of a later conflict.

BRIAN WILLIAMS?

96. Although he did not originate the doctrine of “sola fide,” he did the most to articulate and spread it.

CALVIN?

97. This scientist’s first table of relative atomic weights consisted of only six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur and phosphorus.

MENDELEEV?
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#4 Post by jarnon » Mon May 06, 2019 11:27 am

1. The earliest words attributed to him are “How is it that you sought me?”
JESUS H. CHRIST

5. In 1521, his staunch defense of papal supremacy and the seven sacraments earned him the title “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Leo X.
KING HENRY VIII

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.
LLOYD BENTSEN

19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.
JONATHAN SCOTT

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.
BARBARA BUSH

21. This former Congressman died during a battle fought on March 6, 1836.
DAVY, DAVY CROCKETT

31. This mathematician is best known for developing a graphic way to represent all possible relations between a finite collection of sets.
JOHN VENN

33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.
QUASIMODO

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.
KIM DAVIS

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)
GARY HART

48. Nominated 17 times for the Nobel Prize (in Literature and Peace), his philosophy was centered on the distinction between the ‘I-Thou’ relationship and the ‘I-It’ relationship.
MARTIN BUBER

73. The model of operations he implemented as White House Chief of Staff is still followed today – but that’s not what people most remember him for.
ALEXANDER HAIG

80. He was the first bridegroom to say “I do” in the Rose Garden of the White House.
EDWARD COX

86. This American made minor news when he defected to the Soviet Union – and much bigger news four years later. (He should have stayed in Russia.)
LEE HARVEY OSWALD

98. As a member of Congress, he proposed what became the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
JAMES MADISON

(A few in my wheelhouse: a guy named Jon, a mathematician, a guy from my hometown, a Princeton man, and my phone-a-friend.)
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#5 Post by mrkelley23 » Mon May 06, 2019 1:36 pm

jarnon wrote:1. The earliest words attributed to him are “How is it that you sought me?”
JESUS H. CHRIST

5. In 1521, his staunch defense of papal supremacy and the seven sacraments earned him the title “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Leo X.
KING HENRY VIII

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.
LLOYD BENTSEN

19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.
JONATHAN SCOTT

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.
BARBARA BUSH

21. This former Congressman died during a battle fought on March 6, 1836.
DAVY, DAVY CROCKETT

31. This mathematician is best known for developing a graphic way to represent all possible relations between a finite collection of sets.
JOHN VENN

33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.
QUASIMODO

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.
KIM DAVIS

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)
GARY HART

48. Nominated 17 times for the Nobel Prize (in Literature and Peace), his philosophy was centered on the distinction between the ‘I-Thou’ relationship and the ‘I-It’ relationship.
MARTIN BUBER

73. The model of operations he implemented as White House Chief of Staff is still followed today – but that’s not what people most remember him for.
ALEXANDER HAIG

80. He was the first bridegroom to say “I do” in the Rose Garden of the White House.
EDWARD COX

86. This American made minor news when he defected to the Soviet Union – and much bigger news four years later. (He should have stayed in Russia.)
LEE HARVEY OSWALD

98. As a member of Congress, he proposed what became the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
JAMES MADISON

(A few in my wheelhouse: a guy named Jon, a guy from my hometown, a Princeton man, and my phone-a-friend.)
Kim Davis was your phone-a-friend???!!!!?????
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#6 Post by Bob78164 » Mon May 06, 2019 6:40 pm

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#7 Post by A Non E. Muss » Tue May 07, 2019 1:08 am

11. Before launching his successful NFL career, he was the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy,

My guess is TIM BROWN.

16. The final album of this singer was released on his 69th birthday – two days before his death – and is generally regarded as a conscious farewell to his fans.

DAVID BOWIE (Blackstar was the album)

23. This television producer is best known for creating a late-night live musical program that ran on NBC from 1973-1981.

the creator of "The Midnight Special"

43. He is one of the busiest and most popular men on television, but Ariana Guttierez’s memories of him are probably not the happiest.

CHRIS HARDWICK?

49. This bowler experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the same moment – winning the 1970 Tournament of Champions, but falling to the floor when he left one pin standing for a final game score of 299.

DON JOHNSON

70. He was one of the first American singers to perform reggae in Jamaica, so it seems fitting that his biggest U.S. hit was later covered by Jimmy Cliff.

JOHNNY NASH ("I Can See Clearly Now")

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Re: Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

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3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

I believe this is ADRIAN BELTRE. Boggs retired not long after he had 3,000 hits and Beltre played a few more years. I'd imagine both of their DH totals come out in the wash....
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Re: Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

#9 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue May 07, 2019 7:37 am

mrkelley23 wrote:
jarnon wrote:1. The earliest words attributed to him are “How is it that you sought me?”
JESUS H. CHRIST

5. In 1521, his staunch defense of papal supremacy and the seven sacraments earned him the title “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Leo X.
KING HENRY VIII

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.
LLOYD BENTSEN

19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.
JONATHAN SCOTT

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.
BARBARA BUSH

21. This former Congressman died during a battle fought on March 6, 1836.
DAVY, DAVY CROCKETT

31. This mathematician is best known for developing a graphic way to represent all possible relations between a finite collection of sets.
JOHN VENN

33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.
QUASIMODO

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.
KIM DAVIS

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)
GARY HART

48. Nominated 17 times for the Nobel Prize (in Literature and Peace), his philosophy was centered on the distinction between the ‘I-Thou’ relationship and the ‘I-It’ relationship.
MARTIN BUBER

73. The model of operations he implemented as White House Chief of Staff is still followed today – but that’s not what people most remember him for.
ALEXANDER HAIG

80. He was the first bridegroom to say “I do” in the Rose Garden of the White House.
EDWARD COX

86. This American made minor news when he defected to the Soviet Union – and much bigger news four years later. (He should have stayed in Russia.)
LEE HARVEY OSWALD

98. As a member of Congress, he proposed what became the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
JAMES MADISON

(A few in my wheelhouse: a guy named Jon, a guy from my hometown, a Princeton man, and my phone-a-friend.)
Kim Davis was your phone-a-friend???!!!!?????

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#10 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue May 07, 2019 7:43 am

71. He was born in 1978 in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni’s Italian restaurant – an experience that had a lifelong impact on his dietary preferences.

I believe this is GARFIELD, the cat! The date and preference (for lasagna) fit...
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#11 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue May 07, 2019 9:53 am

Lotta Question marks. Whole lotta question marks.

Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

Identify the 100 people in the clues below. Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

There should be no alternate matches.

1. The earliest words attributed to him are “How is it that you sought me?”

JESUS (of Nazareth)

2. This scientist discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, as well as the element radon.

ERNEST RUTHERFORD? KARL ROENTGEN?

3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

WADE BOGGS? ADRIAN BELTRE?

4. Almost forty years after his conviction, this influential entertainer became the first person to receive a posthumous pardon from the governor of New York.

FRANK SINATRA?

5. In 1521, his staunch defense of papal supremacy and the seven sacraments earned him the title “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Leo X.

HENRY VIII

6. Describing himself in an 1871 poem, he wrote, “His mind is concrete and fastidious/His nose is remarkably big/His visage is more or less hideous/His beard it resembles a wig.”

EDMUND ROSTAND? CYRANO DE BERGERAC? (since there are already some fictional characters in this one)

7. DJMQ: The company he founded arose out of short-lived artists’ colony whose residents also included fellow dancer Paul Taylor and artist Robert Rauschenberg.
Alas, there are no more DJMQs in this quiz.

8. This pioneer of television journalism– who, barring the Tangredi curse, will turn ninety this fall – was ranked #34 on a TV Guide list of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

BARBARA WALTERS

9. The completion of the Great Northern Railway helped earn this Canadian-born magnate the title “Empire Builder.”

10. His list of accolades includes 13 Grammy awards, 10 CMA awards, 7 American Music aw
ards, the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

GEORGE STRAIT?

11. Before launching his successful NFL career, he was the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy,

JOHNNY RODGERS? TIM BROWN?

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.

LLOYD BENTSEN

13. She did not receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame until 2018 – ninety years after her film debut and forty years after her longtime leading man received his.

MYRNA LOY?

14. In 2014, an untitled painting by this abstract expressionist sold for $11.9 million – the highest price ever paid up to that time for a work by a female artist.

15. His first successful play was inspired by a news story about a conspiracy between an aeronautical company and several U.S. Army inspectors.

16. The final album of this singer was released on his 69th birthday – two days before his death – and is generally regarded as a conscious farewell to his fans.

DAVID BOWIE? GLEN CAMPBELL?

17. A longtime contributor to Natural History magazine, this biologist is best known for propounding the theory that evolution consists of long periods of stability punctuated by swift periods of change.

STEPHEN JAY GOULD

18. In 1933, this actress essayed a role that would later be played by Margaret O’Brien and Claire Danes.

A Beth March, Juliet, or Julia Vaughan portrayer

19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.

JONATHAN SCOTT

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.

BARBARA BUSH

21. This former Congressman died during a battle fought on March 6, 1836.

DAVY CROCKETT

22. In 1827, this English physician was the first to describe the symptoms of the kidney disease that now bears his name.

23. This television producer is best known for creating a late-night live musical program that ran on NBC from 1973-1981.

DON KIRSHNER

24. This blues singer and guitarist was working as a janitor in a steel mill when he scored his first major hit in 1948; more than half a century later, he received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement.

25. He was the first aviator to fly solo around the world.

WILEY POST

26. In addition to his banking career with Kuhn, Loeb, and Co., this philanthropist also served as co- chair of the Metropolitan Opera and helped finance the restoration of the Parthenon.

27. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, for his novels George Mills and Mrs. Ted Bliss.

28. He is the only person to have served as director of both the FBI and the CIA.

29. This hockey great played on four of the Original Six teams and remains the winningest goal tender of any player from that era.

30. His memorial plaque is located on the grounds of the Flamingo in Las Vegas, between the pool and the wedding chapel.

ELVIS PRESLEY

31. This mathematician is best known for developing a graphic way to represent all possible relations between a finite collection of sets.

JOHN VENN

32. This merchant is credited with introducing the printing press to England.

33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.

QUASIMODO? JUDE THE OBSCURE?

34. This soul singer’s only Top Forty hit was a 1977 lament about the problems of having a wife at home and a woman on the side.

BILLY PAUL

35. With an amateur record of 85-0 and a professional record of 128-1-2, it is no surprise that, in 2002, Ring magazine ranked him the greatest boxer of the previous eighty years.

36. This French fashion designer – who spent 30 years with the House of Dior – designed the wedding dresses of Queen Silvia of Sweden and Princess Caroline of Monaco.

37. In a 1927 comedy, he starred opposite – and fell in love with – an actress whom he would marry ten years later, after she divorced her film star husband.

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.

KIM DAVIS

39. This author is best known for a five-book trilogy that began as a BBC radio series.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

40. This British military officer was dubbed “The Butcher” for his role in a 1919 incident that resulted in the deaths of 379 people.

41. He became one of the key figures of the Industrial Revolution when he patented a device that sped up the weaving process by allowing the weft to pass through the warp threads faster and over a greater width of cloth.

Cyrus MacCormack is wrong, but I don’t have a replacement answer.

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)

GARY HART

43. He is one of the busiest and most popular men on television, but Ariana Guttierez’s memories of him are probably not the happiest.

CHRIS HARDWICK?

44. Though he preferred writing poetry, this author’s greatest success came from his 24 novellas, including an epic 1979 trilogy set in Montana.

45. This Atlanta-born singer hit Number One twice during the Sixties – first with a song the one-word title of which was the name of a girl, and then with a song the one-word title of which described how a girl made him feel. Got that?

TOMMY ROE

46. He wrote a nationally syndicated column from 1942 to 1983, and – unlike some other Broadway gossip columnists (*cough* walter winchell *cough*) – he had a reputation for scrupulous fairness and fact-checking.

ARMY ARCHERD?

47. Heir apparent to an empire, he never succeeded to the throne due to his participation in a suicide pact.

48. Nominated 17 times for the Nobel Prize (in Literature and Peace), his philosophy was centered on the distinction between the ‘I-Thou’ relationship and the ‘I-It’ relationship.

MARTIN BUBER

49. This bowler experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the same moment – winning the 1970 Tournament of Champions, but falling to the floor when he left one pin standing for a final game score of 299.

EARL ANTHONY? DON JOHNSON?

50. Attendees at a 1975 comic book convention cheered when Stan Lee announced that this artist – creator of many enduring characters – was returning to the company after a five year absence. (The reconciliation lasted only two years.)

JACK KIRBY

51. This longtime guard for the Chicago Bears is credited with being the first professional football player to incorporate weight training into his regimen.

52. This artist painted more than 600 portraits of Native Americans which, in the words of Baudelaire, captured “the proud and free characters of these chiefs, both their nobility and manliness."

53. This two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry could trace his ancestry back to the Mayflower. Easily.

54. This virologist shared a Nobel Prize with John Enders and Frederick Robbins for their work in cultivating polio viruses.

55. This actor, who made his Broadway debut at age seven playing the son of FDR, says that he was once turned down for a television commercial because of the nevus on his left cheek.

56. He had the shortest reign of any emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

57. The denomination founded in 1794 by this bishop now has more than 2.5 million members, mostly in the Americas and Africa.

WESLEY?

58. According to this British philosopher, “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.”

59. The plot of one of this Italian composer’s operas is set in motion when a bird filches a silver spoon.

60. This educator completes a list that also includes Florence Nightingale, General George Gordon, and Edward, Cardinal Manning.

61. He was the first U.S. Chief Justice to have previously served as U.S. Attorney General.

JOHN MARSHALL?

62. In an age when there was no clear line between science and mysticism, he served as court astrologer to Elizabeth I, but was also a respected authority on mathematics, astronomy, and navigation.

63. This Norwegian is the only alpine skier to win eight Olympic medals – half of them gold – as well as five world championships.

INGEMAR STENMARK?

64. In 1790, this merchant captain completed the first American circumnavigation of the world.

65. He published only one novel in his lifetime, but it won the National Book Award and was later ranked by Modern Library as the 19th best English language novel of the 20th century.

THORNTON WILDER

66. He made four films opposite the most popular singing star at 20th Century Fox, but most of us remember him best for defending a beloved icon.

67. This British clergyman’s essay “An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens” led to the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society.

68. One of the last of the bushrangers, he was hanged in 1880 at the age of 25.

NED KELLY?

69. This British author wrote a number of successful stage comedies as well as a classic detective novel – and was not pleased to be remembered primarily for his children’s books.

A. A. MILNE

70. He was one of the first American singers to perform reggae in Jamaica, so it seems fitting that his biggest U.S. hit was later covered by Jimmy Cliff.

JOHNNY NASH

71. He was born in 1978 in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni’s Italian restaurant – an experience that had a lifelong impact on his dietary preferences.

GARFIELD

72. The Gestapo reportedly considered her the most dangerous of all American spies during World War II.

73. The model of operations he implemented as White House Chief of Staff is still followed today – but that’s not what people most remember him for.

ALEXANDER HAIG

74. In a 1961 movie, this actor played a person in one of the preceding clues.

75. The 1981 British Open was this American golfer’s only Majors win.

76. He was the only Austrian architect to win the Pritzker Prize.

WALTER GROPIUS

77. He and his cousin Manny published their first novel under their celebrated pseudonym in 1929, but he was sole founding editor of the influential magazine that bore their name.

78. This lyricist gave us such memorable rhymes as “chat so/palazzo,” “Astaire/Camembert,” and (my personal favorite) “heinous/Coriolanus.”

COLE PORTER

79. A co-founder of Fairchild Seminconductor, this physicist designed the first integrated circuit made of silicon.

80. He was the first bridegroom to say “I do” in the Rose Garden of the White House.

EDWARD COX? DAVID EISENHOWER?

81. This actor’s daughter won an Oscar three years after he received his only Oscar nomination.

RYAN O’NEAL?

82. In his ship Dainty, this English seaman and privateer carries out raids on Spanish overseas possessions, most notably Valparaiso.

CAPTAIN BLOOD?

83. She was the named plaintiff in a celebrated court case in which the named defendant was the District Attorney of Dallas County.

JANE ROE

84. Seventh on MLB’s all-time strikeout list, this pitcher did not get into the Hall of Fame until his fifth year of eligibility.

?? (Blyleven is 5th on the all-time list; didn’t get in until 15 years after he retired)

85. In 2012, the Culinary Institute of America renamed its Escoffier Restaurant to honor this French master of nouvelle cuisine.

86. This American made minor news when he defected to the Soviet Union – and much bigger news four years later. (He should have stayed in Russia.)

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

87. This Welsh musician was a founding member of the American band whose 1967 debut album has been acclaimed by Rolling Stone as "the most prophetic rock album ever made."

88. In his rookie year, he was a teammate of Bill Russell; in his final year, he was a teammate of Larry Bird – making him the only person to have played with both.

JOHN HAVLICEK? DAVE COWENS?

89. This Midwesterner was the first openly gay person elected to the United States Senate.

TAMMY BALDWIN

90. This Japanese engineer shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in developing a method of mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules. (And no, I don’t have any clue what that means.)

91. A friend of Chaucer, this English poet is best remembered for a collection of short narrative poems the title of which translates into English as ‘A Lover’s Confession.’

92. He has said of a former bandmate that “for those who believe that Brian walks on water, I will always be the Antichrist.”

93. This Canadian-born broadcast journalist won Emmy awards for his coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Romanian revolution, but got saddled with his nickname for his coverage of a later conflict.

BRIAN WILLIAMS

94. As president of the Western Federation of Miners, he led his union through the Colorado Labor Wars and survived a bullet in the back.

95. When this entrepreneur was named Person of the Year by Time magazine, the runners up included Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai, and the Tea Party.

MARK ZUCKERBERG

96. Although he did not originate the doctrine of “sola fide,” he did the most to articulate and spread it.

JOHN CALVIN?

97. This scientist’s first table of relative atomic weights consisted of only six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur and phosphorus.

DMITRI MENDELEEV?

98. As a member of Congress, he proposed what became the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

JAMES MADISON?

99. She starred in film adaptation of works by – among others – Lillian Hellman, Agatha Christie, Kaufman and Hart, Edith Wharton, and W. Somerset Maugham.

100. Alfred North Whitehead famously stated that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to” this thinker.
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Re: Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

#12 Post by franktangredi » Tue May 07, 2019 10:09 am

3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

WADE BOGGS? ADRIAN BELTRE?
Apparently, the source I used for this was at least a year old. Beltre just beat out the guy I'm looking for by a mere 12 hits.

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Re: Game #190: First Consolidation

#13 Post by franktangredi » Tue May 07, 2019 10:15 am

There are 8 'definite' answers here that are wrong.

Of those with a single answer with a question mark, 3 are right and 10 are wrong.

Of those with alternate answers, 7 include the right answer and 2 (including the one where I made the mistake) do not.

mrkelley23 wrote:Lotta Question marks. Whole lotta question marks.

Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

Identify the 100 people in the clues below. Then, match them into 50 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

There should be no alternate matches.

1. The earliest words attributed to him are “How is it that you sought me?”

JESUS (of Nazareth)

2. This scientist discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, as well as the element radon.

ERNEST RUTHERFORD? KARL ROENTGEN?

3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

WADE BOGGS? ADRIAN BELTRE?

4. Almost forty years after his conviction, this influential entertainer became the first person to receive a posthumous pardon from the governor of New York.

FRANK SINATRA?

5. In 1521, his staunch defense of papal supremacy and the seven sacraments earned him the title “Defender of the Faith” by Pope Leo X.

HENRY VIII

6. Describing himself in an 1871 poem, he wrote, “His mind is concrete and fastidious/His nose is remarkably big/His visage is more or less hideous/His beard it resembles a wig.”

EDMUND ROSTAND? CYRANO DE BERGERAC? (since there are already some fictional characters in this one)

7. DJMQ: The company he founded arose out of short-lived artists’ colony whose residents also included fellow dancer Paul Taylor and artist Robert Rauschenberg.
Alas, there are no more DJMQs in this quiz.

8. This pioneer of television journalism– who, barring the Tangredi curse, will turn ninety this fall – was ranked #34 on a TV Guide list of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

BARBARA WALTERS

9. The completion of the Great Northern Railway helped earn this Canadian-born magnate the title “Empire Builder.”

10. His list of accolades includes 13 Grammy awards, 10 CMA awards, 7 American Music aw
ards, the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

GEORGE STRAIT?

11. Before launching his successful NFL career, he was the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy,

JOHNNY RODGERS? TIM BROWN?

12. His famous retort in a 1988 debate was not an ad lib: he was fully prepared for his opponent to open the door for him.

LLOYD BENTSEN

13. She did not receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame until 2018 – ninety years after her film debut and forty years after her longtime leading man received his.

MYRNA LOY?

14. In 2014, an untitled painting by this abstract expressionist sold for $11.9 million – the highest price ever paid up to that time for a work by a female artist.

15. His first successful play was inspired by a news story about a conspiracy between an aeronautical company and several U.S. Army inspectors.

16. The final album of this singer was released on his 69th birthday – two days before his death – and is generally regarded as a conscious farewell to his fans.

DAVID BOWIE? GLEN CAMPBELL?

17. A longtime contributor to Natural History magazine, this biologist is best known for propounding the theory that evolution consists of long periods of stability punctuated by swift periods of change.

STEPHEN JAY GOULD

18. In 1933, this actress essayed a role that would later be played by Margaret O’Brien and Claire Danes.

A Beth March, Juliet, or Julia Vaughan portrayer

19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.

JONATHAN SCOTT

20. This First Lady died 25 years after leaving the White House, but she had good reason to make frequent visits in the interim.

BARBARA BUSH

21. This former Congressman died during a battle fought on March 6, 1836.

DAVY CROCKETT

22. In 1827, this English physician was the first to describe the symptoms of the kidney disease that now bears his name.

23. This television producer is best known for creating a late-night live musical program that ran on NBC from 1973-1981.

DON KIRSHNER

24. This blues singer and guitarist was working as a janitor in a steel mill when he scored his first major hit in 1948; more than half a century later, he received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement.

25. He was the first aviator to fly solo around the world.

WILEY POST

26. In addition to his banking career with Kuhn, Loeb, and Co., this philanthropist also served as co- chair of the Metropolitan Opera and helped finance the restoration of the Parthenon.

27. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, for his novels George Mills and Mrs. Ted Bliss.

28. He is the only person to have served as director of both the FBI and the CIA.

29. This hockey great played on four of the Original Six teams and remains the winningest goal tender of any player from that era.

30. His memorial plaque is located on the grounds of the Flamingo in Las Vegas, between the pool and the wedding chapel.

ELVIS PRESLEY

31. This mathematician is best known for developing a graphic way to represent all possible relations between a finite collection of sets.

JOHN VENN

32. This merchant is credited with introducing the printing press to England.

33. This fictional character may have been inspired by a real life stone cutter who worked at a celebrated house of worship.

QUASIMODO? JUDE THE OBSCURE?

34. This soul singer’s only Top Forty hit was a 1977 lament about the problems of having a wife at home and a woman on the side.

BILLY PAUL

35. With an amateur record of 85-0 and a professional record of 128-1-2, it is no surprise that, in 2002, Ring magazine ranked him the greatest boxer of the previous eighty years.

36. This French fashion designer – who spent 30 years with the House of Dior – designed the wedding dresses of Queen Silvia of Sweden and Princess Caroline of Monaco.

37. In a 1927 comedy, he starred opposite – and fell in love with – an actress whom he would marry ten years later, after she divorced her film star husband.

38. A villain in the eyes of some, a martyr in the eyes of others, this minor official achieved national notoriety in 2015 by refusing to comply with the law.

KIM DAVIS

39. This author is best known for a five-book trilogy that began as a BBC radio series.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

40. This British military officer was dubbed “The Butcher” for his role in a 1919 incident that resulted in the deaths of 379 people.

41. He became one of the key figures of the Industrial Revolution when he patented a device that sped up the weaving process by allowing the weft to pass through the warp threads faster and over a greater width of cloth.

Cyrus MacCormack is wrong, but I don’t have a replacement answer.

42. “If anybody wants to put a tail on me,” he said in 1988, “go ahead. They'll be very bored." (They did and they weren’t.)

GARY HART

43. He is one of the busiest and most popular men on television, but Ariana Guttierez’s memories of him are probably not the happiest.

CHRIS HARDWICK?

44. Though he preferred writing poetry, this author’s greatest success came from his 24 novellas, including an epic 1979 trilogy set in Montana.

45. This Atlanta-born singer hit Number One twice during the Sixties – first with a song the one-word title of which was the name of a girl, and then with a song the one-word title of which described how a girl made him feel. Got that?

TOMMY ROE

46. He wrote a nationally syndicated column from 1942 to 1983, and – unlike some other Broadway gossip columnists (*cough* walter winchell *cough*) – he had a reputation for scrupulous fairness and fact-checking.

ARMY ARCHERD?

47. Heir apparent to an empire, he never succeeded to the throne due to his participation in a suicide pact.

48. Nominated 17 times for the Nobel Prize (in Literature and Peace), his philosophy was centered on the distinction between the ‘I-Thou’ relationship and the ‘I-It’ relationship.

MARTIN BUBER

49. This bowler experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat at the same moment – winning the 1970 Tournament of Champions, but falling to the floor when he left one pin standing for a final game score of 299.

EARL ANTHONY? DON JOHNSON?

50. Attendees at a 1975 comic book convention cheered when Stan Lee announced that this artist – creator of many enduring characters – was returning to the company after a five year absence. (The reconciliation lasted only two years.)

JACK KIRBY

51. This longtime guard for the Chicago Bears is credited with being the first professional football player to incorporate weight training into his regimen.

52. This artist painted more than 600 portraits of Native Americans which, in the words of Baudelaire, captured “the proud and free characters of these chiefs, both their nobility and manliness."

53. This two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry could trace his ancestry back to the Mayflower. Easily.

54. This virologist shared a Nobel Prize with John Enders and Frederick Robbins for their work in cultivating polio viruses.

55. This actor, who made his Broadway debut at age seven playing the son of FDR, says that he was once turned down for a television commercial because of the nevus on his left cheek.

56. He had the shortest reign of any emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

57. The denomination founded in 1794 by this bishop now has more than 2.5 million members, mostly in the Americas and Africa.

WESLEY?

58. According to this British philosopher, “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.”

59. The plot of one of this Italian composer’s operas is set in motion when a bird filches a silver spoon.

60. This educator completes a list that also includes Florence Nightingale, General George Gordon, and Edward, Cardinal Manning.

61. He was the first U.S. Chief Justice to have previously served as U.S. Attorney General.

JOHN MARSHALL?

62. In an age when there was no clear line between science and mysticism, he served as court astrologer to Elizabeth I, but was also a respected authority on mathematics, astronomy, and navigation.

63. This Norwegian is the only alpine skier to win eight Olympic medals – half of them gold – as well as five world championships.

INGEMAR STENMARK?

64. In 1790, this merchant captain completed the first American circumnavigation of the world.

65. He published only one novel in his lifetime, but it won the National Book Award and was later ranked by Modern Library as the 19th best English language novel of the 20th century.

THORNTON WILDER

66. He made four films opposite the most popular singing star at 20th Century Fox, but most of us remember him best for defending a beloved icon.

67. This British clergyman’s essay “An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens” led to the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society.

68. One of the last of the bushrangers, he was hanged in 1880 at the age of 25.

NED KELLY?

69. This British author wrote a number of successful stage comedies as well as a classic detective novel – and was not pleased to be remembered primarily for his children’s books.

A. A. MILNE

70. He was one of the first American singers to perform reggae in Jamaica, so it seems fitting that his biggest U.S. hit was later covered by Jimmy Cliff.

JOHNNY NASH

71. He was born in 1978 in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni’s Italian restaurant – an experience that had a lifelong impact on his dietary preferences.

GARFIELD

72. The Gestapo reportedly considered her the most dangerous of all American spies during World War II.

73. The model of operations he implemented as White House Chief of Staff is still followed today – but that’s not what people most remember him for.

ALEXANDER HAIG

74. In a 1961 movie, this actor played a person in one of the preceding clues.

75. The 1981 British Open was this American golfer’s only Majors win.

76. He was the only Austrian architect to win the Pritzker Prize.

WALTER GROPIUS

77. He and his cousin Manny published their first novel under their celebrated pseudonym in 1929, but he was sole founding editor of the influential magazine that bore their name.

78. This lyricist gave us such memorable rhymes as “chat so/palazzo,” “Astaire/Camembert,” and (my personal favorite) “heinous/Coriolanus.”

COLE PORTER

79. A co-founder of Fairchild Seminconductor, this physicist designed the first integrated circuit made of silicon.

80. He was the first bridegroom to say “I do” in the Rose Garden of the White House.

EDWARD COX? DAVID EISENHOWER?

81. This actor’s daughter won an Oscar three years after he received his only Oscar nomination.

RYAN O’NEAL?

82. In his ship Dainty, this English seaman and privateer carries out raids on Spanish overseas possessions, most notably Valparaiso.

CAPTAIN BLOOD?

83. She was the named plaintiff in a celebrated court case in which the named defendant was the District Attorney of Dallas County.

JANE ROE

84. Seventh on MLB’s all-time strikeout list, this pitcher did not get into the Hall of Fame until his fifth year of eligibility.

?? (Blyleven is 5th on the all-time list; didn’t get in until 15 years after he retired)

85. In 2012, the Culinary Institute of America renamed its Escoffier Restaurant to honor this French master of nouvelle cuisine.

86. This American made minor news when he defected to the Soviet Union – and much bigger news four years later. (He should have stayed in Russia.)

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

87. This Welsh musician was a founding member of the American band whose 1967 debut album has been acclaimed by Rolling Stone as "the most prophetic rock album ever made."

88. In his rookie year, he was a teammate of Bill Russell; in his final year, he was a teammate of Larry Bird – making him the only person to have played with both.

JOHN HAVLICEK? DAVE COWENS?

89. This Midwesterner was the first openly gay person elected to the United States Senate.

TAMMY BALDWIN

90. This Japanese engineer shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in developing a method of mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules. (And no, I don’t have any clue what that means.)

91. A friend of Chaucer, this English poet is best remembered for a collection of short narrative poems the title of which translates into English as ‘A Lover’s Confession.’

92. He has said of a former bandmate that “for those who believe that Brian walks on water, I will always be the Antichrist.”

93. This Canadian-born broadcast journalist won Emmy awards for his coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Romanian revolution, but got saddled with his nickname for his coverage of a later conflict.

BRIAN WILLIAMS

94. As president of the Western Federation of Miners, he led his union through the Colorado Labor Wars and survived a bullet in the back.

95. When this entrepreneur was named Person of the Year by Time magazine, the runners up included Julian Assange, Hamid Karzai, and the Tea Party.

MARK ZUCKERBERG

96. Although he did not originate the doctrine of “sola fide,” he did the most to articulate and spread it.

JOHN CALVIN?

97. This scientist’s first table of relative atomic weights consisted of only six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur and phosphorus.

DMITRI MENDELEEV?

98. As a member of Congress, he proposed what became the most recent amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

JAMES MADISON?

99. She starred in film adaptation of works by – among others – Lillian Hellman, Agatha Christie, Kaufman and Hart, Edith Wharton, and W. Somerset Maugham.

100. Alfred North Whitehead famously stated that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to” this thinker.

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#14 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue May 07, 2019 11:17 am

93. This Canadian-born broadcast journalist won Emmy awards for his coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Romanian revolution, but got saddled with his nickname for his coverage of a later conflict.

BRIAN WILLIAMS

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16. The final album of this singer was released on his 69th birthday – two days before his death – and is generally regarded as a conscious farewell to his fans.

DAVID BOWIE? GLEN CAMPBELL?

Just to add another name to this list, when I first read through these questions, the name that popped into my head was Warren Zevon. Someone needs to page TBone to this game...
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#16 Post by kroxquo » Tue May 07, 2019 11:29 am

franktangredi wrote:
3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

WADE BOGGS? ADRIAN BELTRE?
Apparently, the source I used for this was at least a year old. Beltre just beat out the guy I'm looking for by a mere 12 hits.
Then how about George Brett?
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#17 Post by littlebeast13 » Tue May 07, 2019 11:32 am

franktangredi wrote:
3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

WADE BOGGS? ADRIAN BELTRE?
Apparently, the source I used for this was at least a year old. Beltre just beat out the guy I'm looking for by a mere 12 hits.

Because of the confusion over this question, I went ahead and checked out the all time hit list. GEORGE BRETT sits 12 hits under Beltre on the list... so the question was intended as "third baseman in general" rather than hits while playing third. I'd dismissed Brett because I know he spent a lot of time at first base and DH towards the end of his career...

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Re: Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

#18 Post by franktangredi » Tue May 07, 2019 12:19 pm

littlebeast13 wrote:
franktangredi wrote:
3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.

WADE BOGGS? ADRIAN BELTRE?
Apparently, the source I used for this was at least a year old. Beltre just beat out the guy I'm looking for by a mere 12 hits.

Because of the confusion over this question, I went ahead and checked out the all time hit list. GEORGE BRETT sits 12 hits under Beltre on the list... so the question was intended as "third baseman in general" rather than hits while playing third. I'd dismissed Brett because I know he spent a lot of time at first base and DH towards the end of his career...

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Yes, Brett is who I meant. Sorry for the confusion.

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#19 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue May 07, 2019 12:42 pm

franktangredi wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
franktangredi wrote:
Apparently, the source I used for this was at least a year old. Beltre just beat out the guy I'm looking for by a mere 12 hits.

Because of the confusion over this question, I went ahead and checked out the all time hit list. GEORGE BRETT sits 12 hits under Beltre on the list... so the question was intended as "third baseman in general" rather than hits while playing third. I'd dismissed Brett because I know he spent a lot of time at first base and DH towards the end of his career...

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Yes, Brett is who I meant. Sorry for the confusion.
No harm, no foul. Glad we got it sorted. You can see why I roll my eyes when these kinds of questions come up now, though. Give me the good old days when a guy only played one position for his whole career....
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Re: Game #190: A Very Simple Name Game

#20 Post by franktangredi » Tue May 07, 2019 12:44 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:
No harm, no foul. Glad we got it sorted. You can see why I roll my eyes when these kinds of questions come up now, though. Give me the good old days when a guy only played one position for his whole career....
You mean like Babe Ruth and Ernie Banks?

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#21 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue May 07, 2019 12:44 pm

19. should be DREW SCOTT instead of his brother.

30. should have had a question mark (or five) because it was a wild-ass guess on my part, with no confirmation, so it probably ought to just be removed. I'm pretty confident it's not right.
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#22 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue May 07, 2019 1:05 pm

franktangredi wrote:

74. In a 1961 movie, this actor played a person in one of the preceding clues..
JEFFREY HUNTER, who played Jesus in King of Kings
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#23 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue May 07, 2019 1:07 pm

franktangredi wrote: 55. This actor, who made his Broadway debut at age seven playing the son of FDR, says that he was once turned down for a television commercial because of the nevus on his left cheek.
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#24 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue May 07, 2019 1:13 pm

franktangredi wrote: 66. He made four films opposite the most popular singing star at 20th Century Fox, but most of us remember him best for defending a beloved icon.
JOHN PAYNE
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#25 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue May 07, 2019 1:15 pm

franktangredi wrote: 77. He and his cousin Manny published their first novel under their celebrated pseudonym in 1929, but he was sole founding editor of the influential magazine that bore their name.
FREDERIC DANNAY, one half of Ellery Queen
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