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#	Answer	Appearances	Sample Clue
1	Jacob	5	It was the middle name of John Astor the hotel builder and his great-grandfather the fur trader
2	=	5	=
3	John	4	International variations include Ian, Ivan, Sean, & Giovanni
4	Francis	4	The "F" in JFK stood for Fitzgerald, while the "F" in RFK stood for this
5	William	3	Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's
6	Susan B. Anthony	3	This famous feminist's middle initial stood for Brownell
7	Louis	3	Joe Barrow dropped his last name & used this, his middle name, when boxing
8	Waldo	2	Named for the poet & essayist, author Ralph Ellison had this middle name
9	Veronica	2	For men, Ronnie is short for Ronald; for women, it's a derivative of this
10	Valentine	2	It was novelist Henry Miller's middle name, though he wasn't born on Feb. 14 & he was certainly no saint
11	Tecumseh	2	Civil War general William Sherman's
12	Spencer	2	It was middle name for Chaplin & Churchill & a maiden name for Princess Di
13	Rudolph	2	It comes between Gerald & Ford, & in front of Santa's sleigh team
14	Ross	2	America's 2nd-wealthiest man, Henry Perot
15	Richard	2	This name means "a strong ruler", like the Lion-Hearted
16	Patrick	2	Senator Moynihan's middle name
17	Orson	2	Actor-director Welles might have been able to tell you that this name means "little bear"
18	Nicholas	2	This name borne by the patron saint of children is from the Greek for "victorious people"
19	Michael	2	TV cop, actor Philip Thomas
20	Marshall	2	Middle name of Canadian educator Herbert McLuhan
21	Louis Mayer	2	Late, great MGM executive whose middle initial, B., stood for Burt
22	Linus Pauling	2	This Nobel prize-winning chemist's middle initial, C., stands for Carl, not for his favorite vitamin
23	Linus	2	Name of the pope who succeeded St. Peter, its also the name of a blanket-toting "Peanuts" character
24	Lee	2	Jackie Onassis' middle name, it's also her sister's first name
25	king	2	"Rex" & "Roy" both mean this, Your Majesty
26	Jonah	2	Hebrew for "dove", he thought traveling by whale was strictly for the birds
27	Jean	2	It was Marilyn Monroe's original middle name
28	Jason	2	This first name, like that of the guy who married Medea, is from a Greek word for "healer"
29	Jane	2	Miss O'Connor might tell Miss Fonda that Sinead is the Irish form of this name
30	James	2	As any little bird could tell you, it was Audubon's middle name
31	Ilyich	2	If those swans in "Swan Lake" could talk, they'd tell you this was Tchaikovsky's middle name
32	Henry	2	This, the name of 8 English kings, means "ruler of the home"
33	Glasgow	2	Admiral Farragut's middle name, or Scotland's largest city
34	Foster	2	The middle name of the man for whom Washington, D.C.'s international airport is named
35	Elizabeth	2	Isabel is a Spanish form of this name
36	Edward	2	Even Yankees should know this was Robert E. Lee's middle name
37	Chester	2	It was the middle name of Daniel French, who took more than a minute to sculpt "The Minute Man"
38	Carlos	2	Poet William Williams'
39	Bysshe	2	It was the middle name of poet Percy Shelley
40	Bonnie	2	To the Scots it's both a girl's name & an adjective, but its origin is a Latin & French word for "good"
41	Barbara	2	This pretty-sounding girl's name is from same Greek root as "barbarian"
42	Amadeus	2	The Tony Award-winning "Best Play" of 1981, the title is its central character's middle name
43	Abraham	2	Bram, as in Bram Stoker, is short for this name
44	(James K.) Polk	2	This president's middle name, Knox, was his mothers maiden name
45	Booker Taliaferro Washington	2	This educator's middle initial stood for Taliaferro
46	John Paul	2	It was the first new papal name since Lando in 913

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