One Letter Different
A long journey & a person staying at a hotel
Quest & Guest
This type of disease gets its name from the ancient Greek scholar Hippocrates, who noted that the swollen, hard veins surrounding the affected area looked like the legs of a crab.
Cancer
This acting president of the University of Michigan has served as chancellor of UMich- Dearborn since 2018 and graduated from Michigan with a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 1987.
Domenico Grasso
This author of “The Old Man and the Sea” received the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for the work and ultimately was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 7 years before his death.
Ernest Hemingway
Robyn Fenty
Rihanna
A warm bed covering & something sturdy or muscular
Quilt & Built
The neurodegenerative condition ALS is also commonly referred to by a name honoring this legendary Yankee’s baseball player who was forced to retire early due to ALS complications.
Lou Gehrig
The Center for Connected Computing, the first new college at Vanderbilt University in over 40 years, was launched under this former chancellor of academic affairs and current president-elect of the University of Michigan.
C. Cybele Raver
The prospect of adapting his most popular book into a movie is “odious” to this author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” who has repeatedly refused offers to do so.
JD Salinger
Farrokh Bulsara
Freddy Mercury
Something you might get for Christmas if you were naughty & to persuade someone into an action
Coal & Coax
The etymology of this mosquito-transmitted disease traces back to a combination of Italian words meaning “bad air,” as it was originally believed that breathing in swampy air caused the illness.
Malaria
This former chancellor of Syracuse was announced as president-elect for the role of Michigan’s 16th president, but stepped down shortly after the announcement due to a cancer diagnosis.
Kent Syverud
“All the President’s Men” is a 1974 book by these two authors whose investigative reporting for the Washington Post broke the Watergate scandal.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
Alicia Augello-Cook
Alicia Keys
To obey or comply & a dwelling
Abide & Abode
This curable disease of the lungs was historically called “consumption,” as those afflicted by the ailment appeared as if their bodies were consuming themselves.
Tuberculosis (TB)
This former UMich president was removed from his role after an independent investigation found that he had an affair with a university employee as president, which led to his leaked university email transcripts – including a message reading “lonely m” – going viral.
Mark Schlissel
This author of the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” series began writing the books with a feline co-protagonist after years of selling drawings of cats to their owners at pet shows.
Matt Dinniman
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Lady Gaga
A violent flow of rain & to inflict with grievous pain
Historical names for this STI varied by country and were almost always an insult to an adversarial nation, with the French calling it the “Neapolitan disease,” the Italians calling it the “French Disease,” the English calling it the “Spanish disease,” and so on.
Syphilis
The first woman to serve as head of the University of Michigan was this 13th president, who was listed as one of Time Magazine’s “Top 10 University Presidents” during her tenure.
Mary Sue Coleman
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” is this author’s most notable work, cementing her legacy as an anthropologist with a knack for capturing the essence of 20th-century rural Black culture.
Zora Neale Hurston
Neta-Lee Hershlag
Natalie Portman