Marvelous Monograms

[twickster]

My puzzle-a-day calendar had a good one yesterday:

Many famous people's initials lend themselves to self-descriptive phrases. For example, "Wrote Sonnets" works well for "William Shakespeare." See if you can identify these famous folks from the clues.

1. Famous Nurse
2. Noteworthy Astronaut
3. Mayor Billionaire
4. Played Bond
5. Resigned Notoriously
6. Generated Ballets
7. Fettered Cuba?
8. Created Drood

These are actually not all that easy to come up with -- I've only found one worth posting so far, and it's kind of a fudge:

9. Jerkish Late-nighter

Surely some of the wordplay regulars can do better .... Sternvogel, I'm lookin' at you.

[Ulf the Unwashed]

10. Wrote Music

Yours sounds like Jay Leno.

[ivan astikov]

Molested Juniors

[Ulf the Unwashed]

11. Assassinated Liberator
12. Suffrage Advocate

[Rafe Hollister]

6. Generated Ballets

8. Created Drood

These are the ones I don't know.

Is #10 Wolfgang Mozart?

[Ulf the Unwashed]

13. Painted Pictures
14. Just Died. Sorry!

Rafe -- you got it...

[faithfool]

15. Antichrist Crooner

[Leaffan]

13. Painted Pictures
14. Just Died. Sorry!

Rafe -- you got it...

Pablo Picasso
JD Salinger

[twickster]

6. Generated Ballets

8. Created Drood

These are the ones I don't know.


George Ballanchine; Charles Dickens

[Leaffan]

15. Antichrist Crooner

Alice Cooper?

Jeez, these are hard to create.

[Hoopy Frood]

Alice Cooper?

Jeez, these are hard to create.

Yeah, but Alice Cooper is a self described born again Christian whose father was a minister, so I don't really understand the Antichrist part. (Or, for that matter, the crooner, though, the nature of these things must allow for some leeway in meaning.)

[freckafree]

Molested Juniors

Michael Jackson?

[Roland Orzabal]

16. Ravens' Runner

17. Atreyu Vocalist

18. Born Overseas? (:D)

[otternell]

18. is clearly Barack Obama

I should know 17, but don't off the top o' my head.

ETA: very challenging coming up with them

[Rafe Hollister]

18. Born overseas? (:d)

bwaaaahahhahaahahahahhaha!!!!

19. Sleuth Dog

[yevgeny]

11. Assassinated Liberator
12. Suffrage Advocate

Abraham Lincoln
Susan Anthony

19. Memorable Mime
20. Wrote Surreal Books
21. Absurdism Champion
22. White House Tubby
23. Darth Portrayer

[otternell]

24. Dude Likes Rock
25. Also Eccentric
26. Wildly Zany
27. Dreadful Toupee

[otternell]

Abraham Lincoln
Susan Anthony

19. Memorable Mime


Marcel Marceau (spelling is probably way off)

I almost have a headache from thinking so hard! ;)

[Tom Scud]

28. Logical Nonhuman

[Roland Orzabal]

19. Marcel Marceau
20. William Seward Burroughs
21. ?
22. William Howard Taft
23. Couldn't remember this without looking it up, so I'll let someone else have it. I'm getting my geek cards revoked all over the place today...


29. Beefy Batter

30. Monkees Drummer

31. Played Scrooge

[Ulf the Unwashed]

Born Overseas is my favorite so far. I also like White House Tubby :)

28. Cinematic Comedian
29. Black Hawk
30. Leia's Sibling (I think I've got this one right)

I should get Dreadful Toupee, but there are so many to choose from...

[otternell]

23. Darth Portrayer

That can't be Donald Pleasance can it? :confused:

[otternell]

28. Logical Nonhuman

Leonard Nimoy

[Shark]

24. David Lee Roth
25. Albert Einstien?
26. Warren Zevon?
27. Donald Trump


32. Arayan Hierarchist
33. Rock Pipes
34. United States General

[otternell]

24. Dude Likes Rock David Lee Roth
25. Also Eccentric Albert Einstien?
26. Wildly Zany Warren Zevon?
27. Dreadful Toupee Donald Trump
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32. Arayan Hierarchist
33. Rock Pipes
34. United States General

You got 'em all Shark.
32. Adolf Hitler
33.?
34. Ulysses S Grant

[faithfool]

Yeah, but Alice Cooper is a self described born again Christian whose father was a minister, so I don't really understand the Antichrist part. (Or, for that matter, the crooner, though, the nature of these things must allow for some leeway in meaning.)

I was going for what people called him originally (and what they thought he stood for), not for his real life persona.

28. Charlie Chaplin



35. Surrealist Doodler

[otternell]

35. Surrealist Doodler

Salvador Dali

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

29. Beefy Batter
30. Monkees Drummer
31. Played Scrooge

Barry Bonds
Mickey Dolenz
Patrick Stewart

33. Rock Pipes


Robert Plant

[astorian]

35. Dedicated Conjurer
36. Homer Ace
37. Very Successful Novelist
38. Jolly Operettas
39. Religion Debunker
40. Theologically Astute
41. Shot Senator

[yevgeny]

That can't be Donald Pleasance can it? :confused:

No, it's much easier than that. Also I don't know who that is. :)

[astorian]

23 = David Prowse (the bodybuilder under the blackrobes)

[yevgeny]

35. Dedicated Conjurer
36. Homer Ace
39. Religion Debunker
40. Theologically Astute

35. David Copperfield
36. Hank Aaron
39. Richard Dawkins
40. Thomas Aquinas

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

42. Odious Bombers' Leader
43. Creationists Disagree

41. Shot Senator

Sirhan Sirhan

[faithfool]

44. Fundamentalist Phoney

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

45. Junkie Guitarist
46. editor eschewed capitals
47. Authored Cunning Detective
48. Austrian Strongman

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

37. Very Successful Novelist
38. Jolly Operettas


V.S. Naipaul
Jacques Offenbach

[twickster]

49. Singers' Critic
50. Pneumatic Actress

[yevgeny]

49. Singers' Critic
50. Pneumatic Actress

Simon Cowell
Pam Anderson?

[twickster]

Simon Cowell
Pam Anderson?

Yup and yup.

[faithfool]

45. Junkie Guitarist
46. editor eschewed capitals
47. Authored Cunning Detective
48. Austrian Strongman

46. ee cummings
47. Arthur Conan Doyle
48. Arnold Schwarzenegger

[yevgeny]

45. Junkie Guitarist

ohhh it's Jerry Garcia isn't it. This one took me forever.

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

ohhh it's Jerry Garcia isn't it. This one took me forever.

Yep. Hated to dismiss Jerry as a junkie, but it was the only "J" word I could think of that would be a decent clue.

[astorian]

35. David Copperfield
36. Hank Aaron
39. Richard Dawkins
40. Thomas Aquinas

All correct.

[astorian]

49. Pigskin Manipulator
50. Paparazzi's Honey
51. Bloodsucking Legend

[faithfool]

49. Peyton Manning
50. Paris Hilton
51. Bela Lugosi

[ivan astikov]

Michael Jackson?

< nods head > Too easy.

Battle Hardened Orator

[jjimm]

Clever Answers

[twickster]

Nerds' Pinup

[faithfool]

Clever Answers

Cecil Adams

[faithfool]

Didn't beat the edit.


Jingoistic Western-er

[ivan astikov]

42. Osama Bin Laden
43. Charles Darwin
44. Fred Phelps(?)

[twickster]

Jingoistic Western-er
John Wayne?

[otternell]

Nerds' Pinup

Natalie Portman?

[faithfool]

44. Fred Phelps(?)

John Wayne?

Yep.

[notfrommensa]

Tantalizes Whores (oops)
Regal Republican

[twickster]

Natalie Portman?
Yes.

[faithfool]

Tantalizes Whores (oops)
Regal Republican

Tiger Woods
Ronald Reagan

[notfrommensa]

Tiger Woods
Ronald Reagan

Very good!!

[Sternvogel]

Prematurely Mourned

Totally Advanced Electricity

Fourteenth President

Created Snoopy

[twickster]

Prematurely Mourned


But Abe Vigoda is A.V. :confused:


;)

[faithfool]

Prematurely Mourned

Totally Advanced Electricity

Fourteenth President

Created Snoopy


Paul McCartney
Thomas Alva Edison
Franklin Pierce
Charles Schulz