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by mrkelley23 » Tue May 21, 2019 8:56 am
Newest consolidation. I found two definites that were wrong, plus Burt Sugarman for Don Kirshner. That means there’s still one definite that is wrong, but I must be overlooking it, unless it’s the fact that Caligula’s name can also be Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus. Harlan Fiske Stone did fit the clue, but he wasn’t the first; that was Roger Taney. And while John Calvin did contribute to the spread of sola fide, there is no doubt that Martin Luther fits the clue much better. I did fix a lot of the other mistakes. In clue 97, I deduced that Mendeleev was wrong, but there’s a lot of confusion about the early history of the periodic table, so I’m leaving William Prout with a question mark for now. I hope everything else is correct.
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
3. He holds the record for the most hits by any third baseman in MLB history.
GEORGE BRETT
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.
LENNY BRUCE
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.”
EDWARD LEAR
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.
WILLIE NELSON
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
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.
MINNIE MOUSE
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.
ARTHUR MILLER
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
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.
JEAN PARKER
19. He’s the realtor; his twin brother is the contractor.
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
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.
BURT SUGARMAN
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.
JOHN LEE HOOKER
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.
OTTO KAHN
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.
WILLIAM WEBSTER
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.
BENJAMIN “BUGSY” SIEGEL
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.
JUDE FAWLEY (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.
WILLIAM BELL
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.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON
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.
MARC BOHAN
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.
BUDDY ROGERS
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.
REGINALD DYER
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.
JOHN KAY
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.
STEVE HARVEY
44. Though he preferred writing poetry, this author’s greatest success came from his 24 novellas, including an epic 1979 trilogy set in Montana.
JIM HARRISON
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.
EARL WILSON
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.
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.
ROBERT LOWELL
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.
RICHARD THOMAS
56. He had the shortest reign of any emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
CALIGULA (GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR GERMANICUS)
57. The denomination founded in 1794 by this bishop now has more than 2.5 million members, mostly in the Americas and Africa.
RICHARD ALLEN
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.”
JEREMY BENTHAM
59. The plot of one of this Italian composer’s operas is set in motion when a bird filches a silver spoon.
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
60. This educator completes a list that also includes Florence Nightingale, General George Gordon, and Edward, Cardinal Manning.
THOMAS ARNOLD
61. He was the first U.S. Chief Justice to have previously served as U.S. Attorney General.
ROGER TANEY
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.
KJETIL ANDRE AAMODT
64. In 1790, this merchant captain completed the first American circumnavigation of the world.
ROBERT GRAY
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.
RALPH ELLISON
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
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.
HARRY ROBBINS “BOB” HALDEMAN
74. In a 1961 movie, this actor played a person in one of the preceding clues.
JEFFREY HUNTER
75. The 1981 British Open was this American golfer’s only Majors win.
BILL ROGERS
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.
FREDERIC DANNAY
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
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.
RICHARD HAWKINS
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.
DON SUTTON
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."
JOHN CALE
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
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.”
MIKE LOVE
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.
ARTHUR KENT
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.
CHARLES MOYER
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.
MARTIN LUTHER
97. This scientist’s first table of relative atomic weights consisted of only six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur and phosphorus.
WILLIAM PROUT?
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 (Death on the Nile), Kaufman and Hart (The Man who Came to Dinner), Edith Wharton (The Old Maid), and W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage).
BETTE DAVIS
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.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
