Game #173: Game of Terror
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Game #173: Game of Terror
Game #173: Game of Terror
Identify each of the 60 people below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with a word from the Associated Words list.
Alternate matches are probable, but only one combination will allow you to complete the game. While some of the clues may be hard, the Tangredi should not be that hard to spot.
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
4. Fearing that labor activists or disgruntled former employees might try to steal this industrialist’s body, his family had him buried in the middle of the night eight feet underground in a lead-lined mahogany coffin sealed inside a block of concrete covered with railroad ties. (Someone commented that his heirs just wanted to make sure the son-of-a-bitch couldn’t come back.)
5. Now considered one of America’s most influential modernist poets, he committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off a steamship into the Gulf of Mexico.
6. This American philosopher famously said that “the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success … is our national disease.” (His brother was no doubt shocked.)
7. DJMQ: Knighted in 1981, this British choreographer first danced with Alicia Markova at the Royal Ballet in the 1930s and went on to found a company with her.
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
9. “March 15, 2015. My whole world stops and crashes down into tiny little pieces.” This tweet, and hundreds more like it, was prompted by a monumental career decision made by this pop star.
10. As you may recall from my last game, Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly half a century later, this actress became the second.
11. One of the victorious commanders at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later replaced William Howe as Commander in Chief.
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
14. He holds the Number 5 position on the NHL all-time penalty list with 3300 minutes, as well as Red Wings records for most penalty minutes, both overall and in a single season.
15. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, the State of California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
16. Her most recent reelection bid earned her the highest popular vote total of any candidate in U.S. Senate history.
17. The Impressionist movement began to take shape with the meeting of Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and this Anglo-French painter whose most notable work was a series of landscapes of the River Thames.
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
19. This American is best remembered as co-inventor of the gyrocompass.
20. “Hope for the best,” counseled Mel Brooks, “Expect the worst/You could be Tolstoy/Or” this once-insanely-popular-but-now-out-of-print American novelist.
21. A major sex symbol of the 1960s, he first gained widespread notice in a small role in a film adaptation of a novel by the writer in the preceding clue – a shocking scene in which he beat up one of the film’s main actresses.
22. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
25. Yves Saint-Laurent once described this model as his “dream woman,” but she became equally well-known for her philanthropic work and her marriage.
26. Aristophanes and Thucydides didn’t have much good to say about this Athenian political leader who rose to power after the death of his rival Pericles.
27. This astronaut served as Command Module Pilot during the first joint U.S.-Soviet space venture and subsequently commanded three Space Shuttle missions.
28. This powerful sorceress was the leading ally and protector of Princess Ozma, but was also extremely protective of her bunny and paper doll subjects.
29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
30. This string theorist is the senior of the three Americans who were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. (No, I don’t know what that means.)
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
32. As a college player, this linebacker won the first two Buck Buchanan Awards and later became Appalachian State University’s first inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. (He also appeared in three NFL Pro Bowls.)
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
34. In 1988, he became the first Asian American playwright to win a Tony Award.
35. Before taking on her current gig, she served as America’s first female Solicitor General.
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
37. He gained prominence as the first professor of psychology in the United States and the publisher of Science magazine, but his dismissal from Columbia – prompted by his public opposition to the World War II draft – led many universities to adopt the tenure system.
38. Another veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later led a protest against debt collection that turned into an armed uprising.
39. As far as I can tell, she is the only popular cookbook author and cooking show host to have once worked at the OMB. (She is also no relation to Ava Gardner.)
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
41. As Commissioner of the Sick and Wounded, this Scottish doctor was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to adopt citrus juice as a means of preventing scurvy.
42. In 1950, this Polish Jewish immigrant and his younger brother founded a record company that would soon become instrumental in the development of soul music and rock and roll.
43. This Elizabethan was a poet, a dramatist, and a member of Parliament, but is best remembered as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney.
44. This onetime Big Band singer had her biggest success in 1954 with her chart-topping rendition of “Little Things Mean a Lot.”
45. This Anglican clergyman and early abolitionist founded both the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
46. This Canadian director and screenwriter received two Oscar nominations for his 1997 film about the impact of a tragic accident on a small town.
47. In the space of eleven years, he served as presidents of Luxembourg, the UN General Assembly, and the European Commission.
48. This golfer – who first gained international attention by finishing second in the British Open at the age of nineteen – went on to win five Majors championships and a record 50 European Tour titles
49. Known as the “Bentham of Hallamshire,” this British philosopher is best known for his 1821 “Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions.” (Read it lately? It's a real page-turner.)
50. He was a victorious U.S. general during the Mexican War, but as a Confederate general he suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Westport; after the war, he took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender.
51. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his classic 1944 novel Journey in the Dark. (Yeah, I don’t remember it, either.)
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
53. Describing the work of this German contemporary – who has variously been associated with expressionism, surrealism, cubism, futurism, and abstract art – Marchel Duchamp observed that “most of his compositions show at the first glance a plain, naive expression, found in children's drawings.”
54. This serial killer – whose complete body count may never be known – called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet" and one of his own defense attorneys described him as “the very definition of heartless evil.”
55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
57. In his breakout film role, he played a character loosely inspired by a real ruler of the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt. (Verrrrrrrrrrry loosely.)
58. Early in his career, this great jazz trumpeter had a notorious fight with Cab Calloway that ended with him stabbing Calloway in the leg with a knife. (Unsurprisingly, Calloway then fired him.)
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Planet
Guyana
China
Oregon
Texas
Montreal
Buffalo
Tiger
Vampire
Conservative
Featherweight
Brothers
Enemies
Abby
Alfred
Cathy
Alice
Elizabeth
Moe
Connie
Dada
Oil
Itch
Kick
Dance
Flute
Trumpet
Shotgun
Tomahawk
Computer
Identify each of the 60 people below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with a word from the Associated Words list.
Alternate matches are probable, but only one combination will allow you to complete the game. While some of the clues may be hard, the Tangredi should not be that hard to spot.
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
4. Fearing that labor activists or disgruntled former employees might try to steal this industrialist’s body, his family had him buried in the middle of the night eight feet underground in a lead-lined mahogany coffin sealed inside a block of concrete covered with railroad ties. (Someone commented that his heirs just wanted to make sure the son-of-a-bitch couldn’t come back.)
5. Now considered one of America’s most influential modernist poets, he committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off a steamship into the Gulf of Mexico.
6. This American philosopher famously said that “the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success … is our national disease.” (His brother was no doubt shocked.)
7. DJMQ: Knighted in 1981, this British choreographer first danced with Alicia Markova at the Royal Ballet in the 1930s and went on to found a company with her.
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
9. “March 15, 2015. My whole world stops and crashes down into tiny little pieces.” This tweet, and hundreds more like it, was prompted by a monumental career decision made by this pop star.
10. As you may recall from my last game, Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly half a century later, this actress became the second.
11. One of the victorious commanders at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later replaced William Howe as Commander in Chief.
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
14. He holds the Number 5 position on the NHL all-time penalty list with 3300 minutes, as well as Red Wings records for most penalty minutes, both overall and in a single season.
15. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, the State of California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
16. Her most recent reelection bid earned her the highest popular vote total of any candidate in U.S. Senate history.
17. The Impressionist movement began to take shape with the meeting of Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and this Anglo-French painter whose most notable work was a series of landscapes of the River Thames.
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
19. This American is best remembered as co-inventor of the gyrocompass.
20. “Hope for the best,” counseled Mel Brooks, “Expect the worst/You could be Tolstoy/Or” this once-insanely-popular-but-now-out-of-print American novelist.
21. A major sex symbol of the 1960s, he first gained widespread notice in a small role in a film adaptation of a novel by the writer in the preceding clue – a shocking scene in which he beat up one of the film’s main actresses.
22. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
25. Yves Saint-Laurent once described this model as his “dream woman,” but she became equally well-known for her philanthropic work and her marriage.
26. Aristophanes and Thucydides didn’t have much good to say about this Athenian political leader who rose to power after the death of his rival Pericles.
27. This astronaut served as Command Module Pilot during the first joint U.S.-Soviet space venture and subsequently commanded three Space Shuttle missions.
28. This powerful sorceress was the leading ally and protector of Princess Ozma, but was also extremely protective of her bunny and paper doll subjects.
29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
30. This string theorist is the senior of the three Americans who were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. (No, I don’t know what that means.)
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
32. As a college player, this linebacker won the first two Buck Buchanan Awards and later became Appalachian State University’s first inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. (He also appeared in three NFL Pro Bowls.)
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
34. In 1988, he became the first Asian American playwright to win a Tony Award.
35. Before taking on her current gig, she served as America’s first female Solicitor General.
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
37. He gained prominence as the first professor of psychology in the United States and the publisher of Science magazine, but his dismissal from Columbia – prompted by his public opposition to the World War II draft – led many universities to adopt the tenure system.
38. Another veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later led a protest against debt collection that turned into an armed uprising.
39. As far as I can tell, she is the only popular cookbook author and cooking show host to have once worked at the OMB. (She is also no relation to Ava Gardner.)
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
41. As Commissioner of the Sick and Wounded, this Scottish doctor was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to adopt citrus juice as a means of preventing scurvy.
42. In 1950, this Polish Jewish immigrant and his younger brother founded a record company that would soon become instrumental in the development of soul music and rock and roll.
43. This Elizabethan was a poet, a dramatist, and a member of Parliament, but is best remembered as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney.
44. This onetime Big Band singer had her biggest success in 1954 with her chart-topping rendition of “Little Things Mean a Lot.”
45. This Anglican clergyman and early abolitionist founded both the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
46. This Canadian director and screenwriter received two Oscar nominations for his 1997 film about the impact of a tragic accident on a small town.
47. In the space of eleven years, he served as presidents of Luxembourg, the UN General Assembly, and the European Commission.
48. This golfer – who first gained international attention by finishing second in the British Open at the age of nineteen – went on to win five Majors championships and a record 50 European Tour titles
49. Known as the “Bentham of Hallamshire,” this British philosopher is best known for his 1821 “Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions.” (Read it lately? It's a real page-turner.)
50. He was a victorious U.S. general during the Mexican War, but as a Confederate general he suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Westport; after the war, he took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender.
51. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his classic 1944 novel Journey in the Dark. (Yeah, I don’t remember it, either.)
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
53. Describing the work of this German contemporary – who has variously been associated with expressionism, surrealism, cubism, futurism, and abstract art – Marchel Duchamp observed that “most of his compositions show at the first glance a plain, naive expression, found in children's drawings.”
54. This serial killer – whose complete body count may never be known – called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet" and one of his own defense attorneys described him as “the very definition of heartless evil.”
55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
57. In his breakout film role, he played a character loosely inspired by a real ruler of the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt. (Verrrrrrrrrrry loosely.)
58. Early in his career, this great jazz trumpeter had a notorious fight with Cab Calloway that ended with him stabbing Calloway in the leg with a knife. (Unsurprisingly, Calloway then fired him.)
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Planet
Guyana
China
Oregon
Texas
Montreal
Buffalo
Tiger
Vampire
Conservative
Featherweight
Brothers
Enemies
Abby
Alfred
Cathy
Alice
Elizabeth
Moe
Connie
Dada
Oil
Itch
Kick
Dance
Flute
Trumpet
Shotgun
Tomahawk
Computer
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
59 is William Jennings Bryan. --Bob
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
First pass...
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
10. As you may recall from my last game, Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly half a century later, this actress became the second.
SALMA HAYEK
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
CANDY CROWLEY
16. Her most recent reelection bid earned her the highest popular vote total of any candidate in U.S. Senate history.
It has to be a California senator, so this is probably DIANNE FEINSTEIN.
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
MISS CLEO?
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE TAUPIN?
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
WILLIAM SANDERSON ("Hi. I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl. This is my other brother Darryl.")
39. As far as I can tell, she is the only popular cookbook author and cooking show host to have once worked at the OMB. (She is also no relation to Ava Gardner.)
INA GARTEN, the Barefoot Contessa
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGAR EVERS?
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
10. As you may recall from my last game, Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly half a century later, this actress became the second.
SALMA HAYEK
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
CANDY CROWLEY
16. Her most recent reelection bid earned her the highest popular vote total of any candidate in U.S. Senate history.
It has to be a California senator, so this is probably DIANNE FEINSTEIN.
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
MISS CLEO?
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE TAUPIN?
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
WILLIAM SANDERSON ("Hi. I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl. This is my other brother Darryl.")
39. As far as I can tell, she is the only popular cookbook author and cooking show host to have once worked at the OMB. (She is also no relation to Ava Gardner.)
INA GARTEN, the Barefoot Contessa
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGAR EVERS?
"[Drumpf's] name alone creates division and anger, whose words inspire dissension and hatred, and can't possibly 'Make America Great Again.'" --Kobe Bryant (1978-2020)
"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
franktangredi wrote:Game #173: Game of Terror
Identify each of the 60 people below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with a word from the Associated Words list.
Alternate matches are probable, but only one combination will allow you to complete the game. While some of the clues may be hard, the Tangredi should not be that hard to spot.
CALVIN COOLEDGEfranktangredi wrote:1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
ALZHEIMERfranktangredi wrote:8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
JANE GOODALL(?)franktangredi wrote:13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
FANNIE FOXXfranktangredi wrote:23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
HAL LINDSEYfranktangredi wrote:24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
CLEONfranktangredi wrote:26. Aristophanes and Thucydides didn’t have much good to say about this Athenian political leader who rose to power after the death of his rival Pericles.
UTNE(?)franktangredi wrote:29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
WILLIAM SANDERSONfranktangredi wrote:36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
MEDGAR EVARSfranktangredi wrote:52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
FREDERIC JULIOT AND IRENE JOLIOT-CURIEfranktangredi wrote:55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
JAN HUSfranktangredi wrote:56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANfranktangredi wrote:59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
franktangredi wrote:Game #173: Game of Terror
Identify each of the 60 people below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with a word from the Associated Words list.
Alternate matches are probable, but only one combination will allow you to complete the game. While some of the clues may be hard, the Tangredi should not be that hard to spot.
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July. Thomas Jefferson or John Adams. I can never remember which one. They both died on July 4, 1826, and for one of them, it was his birthday.
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
Bet it's one of the old-timers, like Sugar Ray Robinson, or Marciano, or Joe Louis.
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
Dr. Alzheimer
9. “March 15, 2015. My whole world stops and crashes down into tiny little pieces.” This tweet, and hundreds more like it, was prompted by a monumental career decision made by this pop star.
10. As you may recall from my last game, Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly half a century later, this actress became the second.
Salma Hayek?
13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
Jane Goodall?
16. Her most recent reelection bid earned her the highest popular vote total of any candidate in U.S. Senate history.
Dianne Feinstein??
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
The Psychic Network lady.
19. This American is best remembered as co-inventor of the gyrocompass.
Elmer Sperry (Thank you, crossword puzzles)
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
Fanne Foxe
24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
Was Alvin Toffler a dispensationalist?
28. This powerful sorceress was the leading ally and protector of Princess Ozma, but was also extremely protective of her bunny and paper doll subjects.
Is this Galinda/Glinda?
29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Jann Wenner?
30. This string theorist is the senior of the three Americans who were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. (No, I don’t know what that means.)
Oh, crap. This is one of those discoveries that resolved one of Feynman's paradoxes about quantum chromodynamics, but I can't remember any of the blokes' names. I vaguely remember something about Yang-Mills theory, so maybe something like that?
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
Probably Richard Jewell
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bernie Taupin
38. Another veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later led a protest against debt collection that turned into an armed uprising.
Daniel Shays?
42. In 1950, this Polish Jewish immigrant and his younger brother founded a record company that would soon become instrumental in the development of soul music and rock and roll.
It's Chess Records, but I don't remember either brother's first name
44. This onetime Big Band singer had her biggest success in 1954 with her chart-topping rendition of “Little Things Mean a Lot.”
Kitty Kallen -- I can still see the sheet music in my head.
48. This golfer – who first gained international attention by finishing second in the British Open at the age of nineteen – went on to win five Majors championships and a record 50 European Tour titles
Seve Ballesteros. Don't know if Seve is short for anything
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
Medgar Evers
55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
Marie Curie
56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
Deosn't really sound right for Giordano Bruno
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
William Jennings Bryan?
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Jesse Owens???
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Okay, so maybe it won't take all that long to get the Tangredi.
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
Yeah, considering that there are only 60 clues and 30 pairs. I don't recall seeing a Tangredi game with so few clues. I know that the shortest one I ever composed had only 77 clues--both "Switcheroo" and "Mixed Media" fit that bill.mrkelley23 wrote:Okay, so maybe it won't take all that long to get the Tangredi.
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Very quick pass .... won't be back until tonight, I am thinking.
Game #173: Game of Terror
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
COOLIDGE
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
MUHAMMAD ALI
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
MOLL FLANDERS
5. Now considered one of America’s most influential modernist poets, he committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off a steamship into the Gulf of Mexico.
HART CRANE?
6. This American philosopher famously said that “the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success … is our national disease.” (His brother was no doubt shocked.)
WILLIAM JAMES?
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
ALZHEIMER?
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
CANDY CROWLEY
20. “Hope for the best,” counseled Mel Brooks, “Expect the worst/You could be Tolstoy/Or” this once-insanely-popular-but-now-out-of-print American novelist.
FANNIE HURST
21. A major sex symbol of the 1960s, he first gained widespread notice in a small role in a film adaptation of a novel by the writer in the preceding clue – a shocking scene in which he beat up one of the film’s main actresses.
TROY DONAHUE. The film is Imitation of Life and he beats up Susan Kohner.
22. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
MARY GARDEN?
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
25. Yves Saint-Laurent once described this model as his “dream woman,” but she became equally well-known for her philanthropic work and her marriage.
IMAN
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
32. As a college player, this linebacker won the first two Buck Buchanan Awards and later became Appalachian State University’s first inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. (He also appeared in three NFL Pro Bowls.)
DEXTER COAKLEY?
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE TAUPIN?
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
BRICK (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
42. In 1950, this Polish Jewish immigrant and his younger brother founded a record company that would soon become instrumental in the development of soul music and rock and roll.
LEONARD CHESS?
44. This onetime Big Band singer had her biggest success in 1954 with her chart-topping rendition of “Little Things Mean a Lot.”
KITTY KALLEN
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGER EVERS?
54. This serial killer – whose complete body count may never be known – called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet" and one of his own defense attorneys described him as “the very definition of heartless evil.”
TED BUNDY
56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
HUS?
58. Early in his career, this great jazz trumpeter had a notorious fight with Cab Calloway that ended with him stabbing Calloway in the leg with a knife. (Unsurprisingly, Calloway then fired him.)
DIZZY GILLESPIE
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
This is WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN's cross of gold speech.
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
LOU GEHRIG... med note: jUST REALIZED THIS IS PROBABLY BABE RUTH and not Gehrig.
Game #173: Game of Terror
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
COOLIDGE
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
MUHAMMAD ALI
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
MOLL FLANDERS
5. Now considered one of America’s most influential modernist poets, he committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off a steamship into the Gulf of Mexico.
HART CRANE?
6. This American philosopher famously said that “the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success … is our national disease.” (His brother was no doubt shocked.)
WILLIAM JAMES?
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
ALZHEIMER?
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
CANDY CROWLEY
20. “Hope for the best,” counseled Mel Brooks, “Expect the worst/You could be Tolstoy/Or” this once-insanely-popular-but-now-out-of-print American novelist.
FANNIE HURST
21. A major sex symbol of the 1960s, he first gained widespread notice in a small role in a film adaptation of a novel by the writer in the preceding clue – a shocking scene in which he beat up one of the film’s main actresses.
TROY DONAHUE. The film is Imitation of Life and he beats up Susan Kohner.
22. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
MARY GARDEN?
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
25. Yves Saint-Laurent once described this model as his “dream woman,” but she became equally well-known for her philanthropic work and her marriage.
IMAN
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
32. As a college player, this linebacker won the first two Buck Buchanan Awards and later became Appalachian State University’s first inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. (He also appeared in three NFL Pro Bowls.)
DEXTER COAKLEY?
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE TAUPIN?
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
BRICK (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
42. In 1950, this Polish Jewish immigrant and his younger brother founded a record company that would soon become instrumental in the development of soul music and rock and roll.
LEONARD CHESS?
44. This onetime Big Band singer had her biggest success in 1954 with her chart-topping rendition of “Little Things Mean a Lot.”
KITTY KALLEN
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGER EVERS?
54. This serial killer – whose complete body count may never be known – called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet" and one of his own defense attorneys described him as “the very definition of heartless evil.”
TED BUNDY
56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
HUS?
58. Early in his career, this great jazz trumpeter had a notorious fight with Cab Calloway that ended with him stabbing Calloway in the leg with a knife. (Unsurprisingly, Calloway then fired him.)
DIZZY GILLESPIE
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
This is WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN's cross of gold speech.
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
LOU GEHRIG... med note: jUST REALIZED THIS IS PROBABLY BABE RUTH and not Gehrig.
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18. Miss cLEO + 59. William Jennings bRYAN = LEO RYAN (Guyana)
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
You had it figured out four hours ago, didn't you?mrkelley23 wrote:18. Miss cLEO + 59. William Jennings bRYAN = LEO RYAN (Guyana)
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
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Yep. But I only had one example. My rule of thumb is not to go public unless I've got at least three solid matches. Melly's pass gave me the other two.franktangredi wrote:You had it figured out four hours ago, didn't you?mrkelley23 wrote:18. Miss cLEO + 59. William Jennings bRYAN = LEO RYAN (Guyana)
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
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48. sEVE Ballesteros + 22. Mary gARDEN = EVE ARDEN (Connie, as in Miss Brooks)
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8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
DR. LOUIS GEHRIG
9. “March 15, 2015. My whole world stops and crashes down into tiny little pieces.” This tweet, and hundreds more like it, was prompted by a monumental career decision made by this pop star.
ZAYN MALIK (the best response was by Stephen Hawking)
13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
JANE GOODALL
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
35. Before taking on her current gig, she served as America’s first female Solicitor General.
ELENA KAGAN
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
BRICK POLLITT
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGAR EVERS
55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
MARIE CURIE
57. In his breakout film role, he played a character loosely inspired by a real ruler of the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt. (Verrrrrrrrrrry loosely.)
THE ROCK
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
JESSE OWENS
DR. LOUIS GEHRIG
9. “March 15, 2015. My whole world stops and crashes down into tiny little pieces.” This tweet, and hundreds more like it, was prompted by a monumental career decision made by this pop star.
ZAYN MALIK (the best response was by Stephen Hawking)
13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
JANE GOODALL
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
35. Before taking on her current gig, she served as America’s first female Solicitor General.
ELENA KAGAN
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
BRICK POLLITT
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGAR EVERS
55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
MARIE CURIE
57. In his breakout film role, he played a character loosely inspired by a real ruler of the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt. (Verrrrrrrrrrry loosely.)
THE ROCK
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
JESSE OWENS
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
This is being solved so quickly, it’s already time for the first consolidation!
Game #173: Game of Terror
Identify each of the 60 people below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with a word from the Associated Words list.
Alternate matches are probable, but only one combination will allow you to complete the game. While some of the clues may be hard, the Tangredi should not be that hard to spot.
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
MUHAMMAD ALI
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
MOLL FLANDERS
4. Fearing that labor activists or disgruntled former employees might try to steal this industrialist’s body, his family had him buried in the middle of the night eight feet underground in a lead-lined mahogany coffin sealed inside a block of concrete covered with railroad ties. (Someone commented that his heirs just wanted to make sure the son-of-a-bitch couldn’t come back.)
5. Now considered one of America’s most influential modernist poets, he committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off a steamship into the Gulf of Mexico.
HART CRANE?
6. This American philosopher famously said that “the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success … is our national disease.” (His brother was no doubt shocked.)
WILLIAM JAMES
7. DJMQ: Knighted in 1981, this British choreographer first danced with Alicia Markova at the Royal Ballet in the 1930s and went on to found a company with her.
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
ALOIS ALZHEIMER
9. “March 15, 2015. My whole world stops and crashes down into tiny little pieces.” This tweet, and hundreds more like it, was prompted by a monumental career decision made by this pop star.
ZAYN MALIK
10. As you may recall from my last game, Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly half a century later, this actress became the second.
SALMA HAYEK
11. One of the victorious commanders at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later replaced William Howe as Commander in Chief.
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
CANDY CROWLEY
13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
JANE GOODALL
14. He holds the Number 5 position on the NHL all-time penalty list with 3300 minutes, as well as Red Wings records for most penalty minutes, both overall and in a single season.
15. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, the State of California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
16. Her most recent reelection bid earned her the highest popular vote total of any candidate in U.S. Senate history.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
17. The Impressionist movement began to take shape with the meeting of Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and this Anglo-French painter whose most notable work was a series of landscapes of the River Thames.
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
MISS CLEO
19. This American is best remembered as co-inventor of the gyrocompass.
ELMER SPERRY
20. “Hope for the best,” counseled Mel Brooks, “Expect the worst/You could be Tolstoy/Or” this once-insanely-popular-but-now-out-of-print American novelist.
FANNIE HURST
21. A major sex symbol of the 1960s, he first gained widespread notice in a small role in a film adaptation of a novel by the writer in the preceding clue – a shocking scene in which he beat up one of the film’s main actresses.
TROY DONAHUE
22. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
MARY GARDEN
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
HAL LINDSEY
25. Yves Saint-Laurent once described this model as his “dream woman,” but she became equally well-known for her philanthropic work and her marriage.
IMAN
26. Aristophanes and Thucydides didn’t have much good to say about this Athenian political leader who rose to power after the death of his rival Pericles.
CLEON
27. This astronaut served as Command Module Pilot during the first joint U.S.-Soviet space venture and subsequently commanded three Space Shuttle missions.
28. This powerful sorceress was the leading ally and protector of Princess Ozma, but was also extremely protective of her bunny and paper doll subjects.
GLINDA?
29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
JANN WENNER?
30. This string theorist is the senior of the three Americans who were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. (No, I don’t know what that means.)
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
32. As a college player, this linebacker won the first two Buck Buchanan Awards and later became Appalachian State University’s first inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. (He also appeared in three NFL Pro Bowls.)
DEXTER COAKLEY
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE TAUPIN
34. In 1988, he became the first Asian American playwright to win a Tony Award.
35. Before taking on her current gig, she served as America’s first female Solicitor General.
ELENA KAGAN
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
WILLIAM SANDERSON
37. He gained prominence as the first professor of psychology in the United States and the publisher of Science magazine, but his dismissal from Columbia – prompted by his public opposition to the World War II draft – led many universities to adopt the tenure system.
38. Another veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later led a protest against debt collection that turned into an armed uprising.
DANIEL SHAYS?
39. As far as I can tell, she is the only popular cookbook author and cooking show host to have once worked at the OMB. (She is also no relation to Ava Gardner.)
INA GARTEN
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
BRICK POLLITT
41. As Commissioner of the Sick and Wounded, this Scottish doctor was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to adopt citrus juice as a means of preventing scurvy.
42. In 1950, this Polish Jewish immigrant and his younger brother founded a record company that would soon become instrumental in the development of soul music and rock and roll.
LEONARD CHESS?
43. This Elizabethan was a poet, a dramatist, and a member of Parliament, but is best remembered as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney.
44. This onetime Big Band singer had her biggest success in 1954 with her chart-topping rendition of “Little Things Mean a Lot.”
KITTY KALLEN
45. This Anglican clergyman and early abolitionist founded both the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
46. This Canadian director and screenwriter received two Oscar nominations for his 1997 film about the impact of a tragic accident on a small town.
47. In the space of eleven years, he served as presidents of Luxembourg, the UN General Assembly, and the European Commission.
48. This golfer – who first gained international attention by finishing second in the British Open at the age of nineteen – went on to win five Majors championships and a record 50 European Tour titles
SEVE BALLESTEROS
49. Known as the “Bentham of Hallamshire,” this British philosopher is best known for his 1821 “Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions.” (Read it lately? It's a real page-turner.)
50. He was a victorious U.S. general during the Mexican War, but as a Confederate general he suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Westport; after the war, he took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender.
51. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his classic 1944 novel Journey in the Dark. (Yeah, I don’t remember it, either.)
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGAR EVERS
53. Describing the work of this German contemporary – who has variously been associated with expressionism, surrealism, cubism, futurism, and abstract art – Marchel Duchamp observed that “most of his compositions show at the first glance a plain, naive expression, found in children's drawings.”
54. This serial killer – whose complete body count may never be known – called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet" and one of his own defense attorneys described him as “the very definition of heartless evil.”
TED BUNDY
55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE? MARIE CURIE?
56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
JAN HUS
57. In his breakout film role, he played a character loosely inspired by a real ruler of the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt. (Verrrrrrrrrrry loosely.)
DWAYNE JOHNSON
58. Early in his career, this great jazz trumpeter had a notorious fight with Cab Calloway that ended with him stabbing Calloway in the leg with a knife. (Unsurprisingly, Calloway then fired him.)
DIZZY GILLESPIE
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
JESSE OWENS? BABE RUTH?
TANGREDI
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
MATCHES
18. Miss cLEO + 59. William Jennings bRYAN = LEO RYAN (Guyana)
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
48. sEVE Ballesteros + 22. Mary gARDEN = EVE ARDEN (Connie)
UNUSED WORDS
Planet
China
Oregon
Texas
Montreal
Buffalo
Tiger
Vampire
Conservative
Featherweight
Brothers
Enemies
Abby
Alfred
Cathy
Alice
Elizabeth
Moe
Dada
Oil
Itch
Kick
Dance
Flute
Trumpet
Computer
Game #173: Game of Terror
Identify each of the 60 people below. Match them into 30 pairs according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. Then match each pair with a word from the Associated Words list.
Alternate matches are probable, but only one combination will allow you to complete the game. While some of the clues may be hard, the Tangredi should not be that hard to spot.
1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
MUHAMMAD ALI
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
MOLL FLANDERS
4. Fearing that labor activists or disgruntled former employees might try to steal this industrialist’s body, his family had him buried in the middle of the night eight feet underground in a lead-lined mahogany coffin sealed inside a block of concrete covered with railroad ties. (Someone commented that his heirs just wanted to make sure the son-of-a-bitch couldn’t come back.)
5. Now considered one of America’s most influential modernist poets, he committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off a steamship into the Gulf of Mexico.
HART CRANE?
6. This American philosopher famously said that “the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success … is our national disease.” (His brother was no doubt shocked.)
WILLIAM JAMES
7. DJMQ: Knighted in 1981, this British choreographer first danced with Alicia Markova at the Royal Ballet in the 1930s and went on to found a company with her.
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
ALOIS ALZHEIMER
9. “March 15, 2015. My whole world stops and crashes down into tiny little pieces.” This tweet, and hundreds more like it, was prompted by a monumental career decision made by this pop star.
ZAYN MALIK
10. As you may recall from my last game, Katy Jurado was the first Mexican actress nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly half a century later, this actress became the second.
SALMA HAYEK
11. One of the victorious commanders at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later replaced William Howe as Commander in Chief.
12. After 27 years with CNN, this correspondent made her final broadcast on December 21, 2014.
CANDY CROWLEY
13. This primatologist took on her most important assignment at the personal behest of Louis Leakey.
JANE GOODALL
14. He holds the Number 5 position on the NHL all-time penalty list with 3300 minutes, as well as Red Wings records for most penalty minutes, both overall and in a single season.
15. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, the State of California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
16. Her most recent reelection bid earned her the highest popular vote total of any candidate in U.S. Senate history.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
17. The Impressionist movement began to take shape with the meeting of Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and this Anglo-French painter whose most notable work was a series of landscapes of the River Thames.
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
MISS CLEO
19. This American is best remembered as co-inventor of the gyrocompass.
ELMER SPERRY
20. “Hope for the best,” counseled Mel Brooks, “Expect the worst/You could be Tolstoy/Or” this once-insanely-popular-but-now-out-of-print American novelist.
FANNIE HURST
21. A major sex symbol of the 1960s, he first gained widespread notice in a small role in a film adaptation of a novel by the writer in the preceding clue – a shocking scene in which he beat up one of the film’s main actresses.
TROY DONAHUE
22. This Scottish-born singer became the leading soprano at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she originated roles in works by Debussy and Massenet.
MARY GARDEN
23. This stripper’s dalliance with a powerful Arkansas congressman earned her a spot on a list of Top Ten U.S. Sex Scandals.
FANNE FOXE
24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
HAL LINDSEY
25. Yves Saint-Laurent once described this model as his “dream woman,” but she became equally well-known for her philanthropic work and her marriage.
IMAN
26. Aristophanes and Thucydides didn’t have much good to say about this Athenian political leader who rose to power after the death of his rival Pericles.
CLEON
27. This astronaut served as Command Module Pilot during the first joint U.S.-Soviet space venture and subsequently commanded three Space Shuttle missions.
28. This powerful sorceress was the leading ally and protector of Princess Ozma, but was also extremely protective of her bunny and paper doll subjects.
GLINDA?
29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
JANN WENNER?
30. This string theorist is the senior of the three Americans who were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. (No, I don’t know what that means.)
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
RICHARD JEWELL
32. As a college player, this linebacker won the first two Buck Buchanan Awards and later became Appalachian State University’s first inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame. (He also appeared in three NFL Pro Bowls.)
DEXTER COAKLEY
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BERNIE TAUPIN
34. In 1988, he became the first Asian American playwright to win a Tony Award.
35. Before taking on her current gig, she served as America’s first female Solicitor General.
ELENA KAGAN
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
WILLIAM SANDERSON
37. He gained prominence as the first professor of psychology in the United States and the publisher of Science magazine, but his dismissal from Columbia – prompted by his public opposition to the World War II draft – led many universities to adopt the tenure system.
38. Another veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later led a protest against debt collection that turned into an armed uprising.
DANIEL SHAYS?
39. As far as I can tell, she is the only popular cookbook author and cooking show host to have once worked at the OMB. (She is also no relation to Ava Gardner.)
INA GARTEN
40. His refusal to have sex with his wife is a major plot point in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 1950s.
BRICK POLLITT
41. As Commissioner of the Sick and Wounded, this Scottish doctor was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to adopt citrus juice as a means of preventing scurvy.
42. In 1950, this Polish Jewish immigrant and his younger brother founded a record company that would soon become instrumental in the development of soul music and rock and roll.
LEONARD CHESS?
43. This Elizabethan was a poet, a dramatist, and a member of Parliament, but is best remembered as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney.
44. This onetime Big Band singer had her biggest success in 1954 with her chart-topping rendition of “Little Things Mean a Lot.”
KITTY KALLEN
45. This Anglican clergyman and early abolitionist founded both the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
46. This Canadian director and screenwriter received two Oscar nominations for his 1997 film about the impact of a tragic accident on a small town.
47. In the space of eleven years, he served as presidents of Luxembourg, the UN General Assembly, and the European Commission.
48. This golfer – who first gained international attention by finishing second in the British Open at the age of nineteen – went on to win five Majors championships and a record 50 European Tour titles
SEVE BALLESTEROS
49. Known as the “Bentham of Hallamshire,” this British philosopher is best known for his 1821 “Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions.” (Read it lately? It's a real page-turner.)
50. He was a victorious U.S. general during the Mexican War, but as a Confederate general he suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Westport; after the war, he took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender.
51. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his classic 1944 novel Journey in the Dark. (Yeah, I don’t remember it, either.)
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
MEDGAR EVERS
53. Describing the work of this German contemporary – who has variously been associated with expressionism, surrealism, cubism, futurism, and abstract art – Marchel Duchamp observed that “most of his compositions show at the first glance a plain, naive expression, found in children's drawings.”
54. This serial killer – whose complete body count may never be known – called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet" and one of his own defense attorneys described him as “the very definition of heartless evil.”
TED BUNDY
55. She and her husband were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE? MARIE CURIE?
56. Burning this reformer at the stake for heresy did not have quite the effect the Church hoped: his Bohemian followers rebelled and defeated three Crusades against them.
JAN HUS
57. In his breakout film role, he played a character loosely inspired by a real ruler of the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt. (Verrrrrrrrrrry loosely.)
DWAYNE JOHNSON
58. Early in his career, this great jazz trumpeter had a notorious fight with Cab Calloway that ended with him stabbing Calloway in the leg with a knife. (Unsurprisingly, Calloway then fired him.)
DIZZY GILLESPIE
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
60. This superstar athlete’s last visit to the scene of his greatest triumphs became the subject of an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize.
JESSE OWENS? BABE RUTH?
TANGREDI
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
MATCHES
18. Miss cLEO + 59. William Jennings bRYAN = LEO RYAN (Guyana)
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
48. sEVE Ballesteros + 22. Mary gARDEN = EVE ARDEN (Connie)
UNUSED WORDS
Planet
China
Oregon
Texas
Montreal
Buffalo
Tiger
Vampire
Conservative
Featherweight
Brothers
Enemies
Abby
Alfred
Cathy
Alice
Elizabeth
Moe
Dada
Oil
Itch
Kick
Dance
Flute
Trumpet
Computer
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Partial: 9. zAYN + ???? = Ayn Rand (conservative). --Bob
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson
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29. jANN + 3. fLANDERS = Ann Landers (Abby). --Bob
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Glad I could help!mrkelley23 wrote:Yep. But I only had one example. My rule of thumb is not to go public unless I've got at least three solid matches. Melly's pass gave me the other two.franktangredi wrote:You had it figured out four hours ago, didn't you?mrkelley23 wrote:18. Miss cLEO + 59. William Jennings bRYAN = LEO RYAN (Guyana)
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
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46. This Canadian director and screenwriter received two Oscar nominations for his 1997 film about the impact of a tragic accident on a small town.
I just realized that it's probably
ATOM EGOYAN for Sweet Hereafter.
Gives us
46. aTOM + 31. jEWELL (Itch)
I just realized that it's probably
ATOM EGOYAN for Sweet Hereafter.
Gives us
46. aTOM + 31. jEWELL (Itch)
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1. He was the only U.S. President born on the Fourth of July.
Calvin Coolidge
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
Sugar Ray Leonard?
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
Moll Flanders
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
Alzheimer?
11. One of the victorious commanders at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later replaced William Howe as Commander in Chief.
Henry Clinton
15. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, the State of California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
Cesar Chavez?
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
Dionne Warwick?
24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
Hal Lindsey
29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Jann Wenner
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
Richard Jewell
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bernie Taupin
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
The guy who played Larry on Newhart whose name escapes me
38. Another veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later led a protest against debt collection that turned into an armed uprising.
Daniel Shays
48. This golfer – who first gained international attention by finishing second in the British Open at the age of nineteen – went on to win five Majors championships and a record 50 European Tour titles
Seve Ballesteros?
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
Medger Evers
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
William Jennings Bryan
Calvin Coolidge
2. One of only three boxers ever named ‘Sportsman of the Year’ by Sports Illustrated, he was also named ‘Fighter of the Year’ a record six times by The Ring magazine.
Sugar Ray Leonard?
3. She “was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent.” (And what have you been doing with your life?)
Moll Flanders
8. In 1901, this German neuropathologist began studying a 51 year-old woman who exhibited odd behavioral symptoms and short-term memory loss and arranged to take possession of her brain after she died. It took a while for the medical community to take note of his discoveries.
Alzheimer?
11. One of the victorious commanders at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later replaced William Howe as Commander in Chief.
Henry Clinton
15. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, the State of California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
Cesar Chavez?
18. Though she herself was not indicted, her promoters were charged by the FTC in 2002 with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices. (She should have seen that coming.)
Dionne Warwick?
24. My college roommate was one of the many people who saw this dispensationalist’s 1970 best-seller as a road map to the end of the world.
Hal Lindsey
29. Earlier this month, the iconic cultural magazine that he co-founded and continues to publish celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Jann Wenner
31. Of the five libel suits filed by this former security guard, the only one that did not end in a settlement was the one against the Atlanta Constitution – which, he said, “pretty much started the whirlwind.”
Richard Jewell
33. This lyricist met his longtime songwriting partner in 1967 when they both answered an advertisement in a British music industry paper; to date, however, only one of them has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bernie Taupin
36. This actor had his most notable film role in a 1982 science fiction classic, but he became even better known on television for introducing himself and his siblings.
The guy who played Larry on Newhart whose name escapes me
38. Another veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, he later led a protest against debt collection that turned into an armed uprising.
Daniel Shays
48. This golfer – who first gained international attention by finishing second in the British Open at the age of nineteen – went on to win five Majors championships and a record 50 European Tour titles
Seve Ballesteros?
52. The murder of this civil rights leader led to the conviction of his white supremacist killer – more than 30 years later.
Medger Evers
59. In the speech that helped secure him the Presidential nomination, this candidate warned the delegates, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns….”
William Jennings Bryan
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Re: Game #173: Game of Terror
No, this was a Japanese-American guy whose name escapes me. Executive Order 9066 ordered the internment of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor.kroxquo wrote:15. Almost seven decades after the Supreme Court squashed his attempt to overturn Executive Order 9066, the State of California declared an annual “Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” in his honor.
Cesar Chavez?
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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4. Fearing that labor activists or disgruntled former employees might try to steal this industrialist’s body, his family had him buried in the middle of the night eight feet underground in a lead-lined mahogany coffin sealed inside a block of concrete covered with railroad ties. (Someone commented that his heirs just wanted to make sure the son-of-a-bitch couldn’t come back.)
I don't recall all the specifics of the burial, but George Pullman had something very similar (or exactly like this). Is there a keyword that belongs to Liv Ullman?
I don't recall all the specifics of the burial, but George Pullman had something very similar (or exactly like this). Is there a keyword that belongs to Liv Ullman?
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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To tie it in with the title... beheadings!mrkelley23 wrote:18. Miss cLEO + 59. William Jennings bRYAN = LEO RYAN (Guyana)
20. fANNIE Hurst + 32. Dexter cOAKLEY = ANNIE OAKLEY (Shotgun)
54. tED Bundy + 6. William jAMES = ED AMES (Tomahawk)
Remove the first letter of one first name plus the first letter of a last name to form the name of another famous person.
"[Drumpf's] name alone creates division and anger, whose words inspire dissension and hatred, and can't possibly 'Make America Great Again.'" --Kobe Bryant (1978-2020)
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"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
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40. bRICK Pollitt + Elmer sPERRY = RICK PERRY (Texas)
26. cLEON + 42. Leonard cHESS = LEON HESS (Oil)
26. cLEON + 42. Leonard cHESS = LEON HESS (Oil)
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14. He holds the Number 5 position on the NHL all-time penalty list with 3300 minutes, as well as Red Wings records for most penalty minutes, both overall and in a single season.
Gotta be BOB PROBERT, which would yield a Robert.
Sorry I'm a bit late to this one. A lot late from the looks of it.....
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Gotta be BOB PROBERT, which would yield a Robert.
Sorry I'm a bit late to this one. A lot late from the looks of it.....
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Robert isn't exactly a common surname without the S at the end, which is why I am sure about this match:littlebeast13 wrote:14. He holds the Number 5 position on the NHL all-time penalty list with 3300 minutes, as well as Red Wings records for most penalty minutes, both overall and in a single season.
Gotta be BOB PROBERT, which would yield a Robert.
55. I(RENE) JOLIOT-CURIE + 14. BOB P(ROBERT) = RENE ROBERT, onetime star of the BUFFALO Sabres
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"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges. The foolish build barriers." --Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)