Who can come up with the best name string, a chain of names in which each person's surname is the next...

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Problem

Who can come up with the best name string, a chain of names in which
each person's surname is the next person's first name?

[ Editor: problem statement reconstructed from the reply; the original
question, by blask@gpx01.d39.lilly.com under the subject "Name
Strings", is quoted only in its last line: "anyway, who can come up
with the best name string?" ]

Show solution

I guess one needs to define "best".  I'll define it as "the longest
documented list of actresses".  Here's my entry:

Lydia Nicole            Indecent Proposal  [Citizenship Student]
Nicole Shelby           Terror in the Wax Museum
Shelby Lynne            Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (TV)
Lynne Carol             Yanks  [Annie]
Carol Tracy             Jaws 3-D (aka Jaws III)  [Tourist Mom]
Tracy Lindsey           Beverly Hills Cop III  [Ticket Booth Girl]
Lindsey Michelle        Switched at Birth (TV)  [Irisa Twigg, Age 10-12]
Michelle Blair          3 Men and a Baby  [Mary]
Blair Shannon           City of Hope  [Security Guard]
Shannon Lee             Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story  [Party Singer]
Lee Meredith            Mike Hammer: More Than Murder (TV)  [Marty]
Meredith Scott Lynn     Girl in the Watermelon, The  [Samantha Mayerofsky]
Lynn Rose               Pass the Ammo  [Operator]
Rose Alba               Mary Had a Little  [Duchess of Addlecombe]
Alba Francesca          Bad Dreams  [Reporter #3]
Francesca Leslie        Eve and the Handyman
Leslie Hope             Ask Me Again (TV)
Hope Lange              500 Pound Jerk, The (TV)

I suspect the list would be quite long in a sufficiently large pool.

-- Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>