Three famous people

There are some pairs of people who are so indelibly tied together that if I name one, you’ll probably think of the other. We could even make a game of it. For example, if I say “Spencer Tracy” — assuming you know who Spencer Tracy was — you would immediately say “Katherine Hepburn”.

But some very famous people are not clearly tied to just one person. For example, if I say “John Lennon”, do you say “Paul McCartney” or “Yoko Ono”?

So it might be interesting to make the following variant of this game: I name two famous people, and you need to figure out what famous third person is associated with both of them.

Let’s give some examples. In each case, you need to name a third famous person that both have in common:

(1) Bill Clinton and Tommy Lee Jones
(2) Peter Bogdanovich and Bruce Willis
(3) Heath Ledger and Taylor Swift

I’m guessing that many people will be solve one or another of the above, but most people won’t be able to solve all three. ^†

I suspect that if you design this game properly, you can learn quite a lot about a person by which answers they get right and which they don’t.

Can you come up with interesting examples for the “Three famous people” game?

† To clarify, by “solve” I mean that you don’t need to check your answer with a search engine, because you know for sure. 🙂