Correct.
Serious answer:
Belas – banjoist Bela Fleck, bloodsucker Bela Lugosi, composer Béla Bartók. You could add “balance beam” for gymnastics coach Béla Károlyi.
Eddie Arcaro
Cessna aircraft
Edsel automobile
I don’t have an answer for one but here is a new one.
Gerald Ford
Andy Warhol
Martin Luther King Jr.
Woodrow got his in 1919, King in 1964, Tutu 84. Maybe I misread something?
According to the OP we can list three things. I’ll try one without names of men.
So what do these foods have in common?
Sandwhich
Stroganoff
Salisbury steak
According to the OP we can list three things. I’ll try one without names of men.
So what do these foods have in common?
Sandwhich
Stroganoff
Salisbury steak
All three of them got shot at, though at three different degrees of seriousness (Ford not hit; Warhol hit but not killed; King killed), so I’m not sure that’s it.
All named for noblemen.
Julius Caesar
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hugo Weaving
I’m still trying to see if I can get anywhere with this one without googling.
:smack: I could’ve sworn Wilson didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize. Well, you’re correct, then, but that wasn’t the commonality I had in mind: each was a commencement speaker at Oberlin College.
Try these three, then:
C.S. Lewis
John F. Kennedy
Aldous Huxley
Quaker school. Coincidence? I think not!
I was going to guess that they were all earls.
Lyle Lovett
Jenny McCarthy
Larry Flynt
…and me!
…
They all died on November 22, 1963.
Sigmund Freud
Edgar Allan Poe
Sonny Liston
If it was Lenin instead of King, I’d say the connection was that all three survived being shot at by a woman. And Ford’s name originally was King. But I can’t get what connects all three.
Yeah, I was looking at Ford and Warhol both having changed their names, but MLK doesn’t work for that, him being a “jr” and all.
Putatively Presbyterian at its founding in 1833, but long since secular.
astorian is right about Nov. 22, 1963.
How about:
Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Isaac Newton
Pope John Paul I
Huh. My bad. Due to their long association with progressive causes (dating back to when they were a hotbed of Abolitionist activity) and their early lead in admitting blacks and women, I always thought they were Quaker. Thanks for fighting my ignorance.
twicks, a birthright Quaker
They were multilingual?
The father was originally Michael King, and the son thus Michael King Jr. “Senior” changed the names to honor Martin Luther after the family toured Gerrmany in 1934.