Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (107 page)

2.
Maude Findlay

3.
The Sopranos

4.
Hopalong Cassidy

5.
American Idol

JUNE 3

WHO’S ON THIRD?

1.
Capital of the Confederacy

2.
Bob Lanier

3.
Boyz II Men

4.
China (if you include two areas also claimed by India)

5.
Jennifer Hudson

6.
Jerusalem

7.
David Beckham

8.
Robin

9.
Atlanta’s

10.
Angela Merkel

(AIN’T GONNA PLAY) SUNG CITY

Easy

1.
On the Town

2.
Fiddler on the Roof

3.
Oklahoma!

4.
Evita

Harder

1.
Hair

2.
Rent

3.
Annie

4.
The Music Man

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Bells Are Ringing

2.
Paint Your Wagon

3.
Seussical

4.
Pal Joey

SIN-EMATIC

Easy

1.
2001: A Space Odyssey

2.
Psycho

3.
Mommie Dearest

4.
The Usual Suspects

5.
Taxi Driver

Harder

1.
Schindler’s List

2.
Misery

3.
Chinatown

4.
Rebecca

5.
It’s a Wonderful Life

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Marathon Man

2.
The Night of the Hunter

3.
Die Hard

4.
Training Day

5.
The Little Foxes

JUNE 4

HERE BE DRAGONS

1.
Honah Lee

2.
Jackie Chan

3.
He created Dungeons & Dragons

4.
Nathan Bedford Forrest

5.
Indonesia

6.
Siegfried

7.
Barcelona

8.
Adventure, for the Atari 2600

9.
Wales

10.
Oolong

BONDS…COMMON BONDS

1.
Winds

2.
Computer languages

3.
Apples

4.
Card games

5.
Knots

6.
Muscles

7.
Fonts

8.
Dog breeds

9.
Stringed instruments

10.
Figure-skating maneuvers

11.
Pasta

12.
Antelopes

13.
Spells in
Harry Potter

14.
Musical notes

15.
Crosses

16.
Sails

17.
Swords

18.
Currencies

19.
Fabrics

20.
Girl Scout cookies

JUNE 5

THE NAME OF THE BRO’S

1.
Chico (although an older brother, Manfred, died in infancy)

2.
Jacuzzi

3.
Rick Barry

4.
At the movies

5.
James and John

6.
Dayton, Ohio

7.
Plumbers

8.
Andy Gibb

9.
The Hardy Boys

10.
The DiMaggios

ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN

1.
The first Five-Year Plan

2.
Plan 9 from Outer Space

3.
The Schlieffen Plan

4.
A Simple Plan

5.
The Anaconda Plan

JUNE 6

ON-SCREEN SEX(TETS)

1.
Photographer protagonists

2.
Memorable scenes involving Ping-Pong

3.
Adapted from comics

4.
Feature rabbits

5.
Last line is the movie’s title

6.
Titles have exclamation marks

7.
Set at Christmastime

8.
Two codirectors

9.
Shot while the lead actress was pregnant

10.
Title character never appears

11.
Main character shares name with a state (Virginia Woolf, Minnesota Fats, Michigan J. Frog, Indiana Jones, Tony Montana, Norman Maine)

12.
Partially set in Venice

13.
Great director plays a villain (Richard Attenborough, John Huston, Sydney Pollack, Otto Preminger, Erich von Stroheim, Orson Welles)

14.
Star named Moore (Dudley, Demi, Julianne, Roger, Mary Tyler, Mandy)

15.
Stars were married

16.
No opening title card

17.
Part color, part black and white

18.
Feature the Statue of Liberty

19.
Play out in real time

20.
British lead actor plays American

JUNE 7

MASTER BUILDERS

1.
The Bauhaus

2.
Lincoln Logs

3.
“Less is more”

4.
A crow

5.
666

6.
Louis Kahn

7.
Frank Gehry

8.
Finland

9.
The rebuilt World Trade Center site

10.
I. M. Pei

LET A SMILE BE YOUR UMBRELLA

1.
A parrot

2.
Christo

3.
Rome’s (
The Pines of Rome
)

4.
Puff Daddy’s

5.
For Robinson Crusoe (who proudly carried a homemade goatskin umbrella around his island)

THE ATHLETES FORMERLY KNOWN AS

Easy

1.
Washington Nationals

2.
Tennessee Titans

3.
Colorado Avalanche

4.
Washington Wizards

5.
Baltimore Ravens

Harder

1.
Phoenix Coyotes

2.
Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers

3.
Dallas Stars

4.
Carolina Hurricanes

5.
New York Yankees

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Milwaukee Brewers

2.
Philadelphia 76ers

3.
Chicago Bears

4.
Detroit Lions

5.
Sacramento Kings

JUNE 8

STRING THEORY

1.
Airwolf

2.
Rickenbacker

3.
Mozzarella

4.
Joe Montana and Steve Young

5.
Thunderbirds

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

Easy

1.
James Dean

2.
John Wayne

3.
Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe

4.
Spencer Tracy

5.
Henry Fonda

Harder

1.
Humphrey Bogart

2.
Grace Kelly

3.
Audrey Hepburn

4.
Cary Grant

5.
Marlon Brando

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Vivien Leigh

2.
Tyrone Power

3.
Ingrid Bergman

4.
River Phoenix

5.
Carole Lombard

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP

1.
Smoke detectors

2.
“Death from above”

3.
The Van Allen belt

4.
The cardinal

5.
Tennessee’s

6.
Broke the sound barrier for the first time (Chuck Yeager’s plane)

7.
Freedom

8.
Isaac Stern

9.
An elephant

10.
Harvest moon

JUNE 9

ASHES TO ASHES

1.
Mount Pinatubo’s

2.
Lent

3.
Cricket’s

4.
Keith Richards

5.
Limerick

DUST TO DUST

1.
Callahan

2.
Frak

3.
Argentina

4.
Patrick Swayze

5.
Chicken liver or giblets

FOUR-LETTER NAMES

Easy

1.
Cage

2.
Rice

3.
Gore

4.
Ford

5.
Duke

Harder

1.
Root

2.
Buck

3.
Hart

4.
Card

5.
King

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Case

2.
Land

3.
Camp

4.
Hall

5.
Thaw

JUNE 10

A CIVIL TONGUE

1.
Hungary

2.
English

3.
Arabic

4.
Korean

5.
Jenga

6.
Ireland (Gaelic)

7.
The avocado’s

8.
Chinese (China and Singapore)

9.
Sauna

10.
A Clockwork Orange

12-
STEP PROGRAM

1.
Venice

2.
The Ramones

3.
Vinegar

4.
Yannick Noah

5.
Italy’s

6.
Maine

7.
Water

8.
Iraq

9.
Tryptophan

10.
The San Francisco Giants

11.
Al Franken

12.
The Departed

JUNE 11

BACK TO BACK

1.
Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now” and Billy Idol’s “Mony Mony”

2.
Scorpio and Sagittarius

3.
A black cat passes him

4.
2 and 3

5.
Florida

6.
Stevie Wonder

7.
S. E. Hinton (
The Outsiders
and
Rumble Fish
)

8.
Harry Truman (who was already in office)

9.
Sneezing

10.
The Orange Bowl

SUPER TROUPERS

1.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2.
Bad Company

3.
Journey

4.
The Traveling Wilburys

5.
Blind Faith

6.
Velvet Revolver

7.
Audioslave

8.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

9.
Electronic

10.
Asia

JUNE 12

RANDOM HOUSE

1.
Portland, Oregon (nearly named Boston)

2.
Patrick Ewing

3.
The Bay City Rollers

4.
“Yes”

5.
Seven

KIDS IN THE HALL

1.
H

2.
J

3.
A

4.
I

5.
G

6.
B

7.
C

8.
F

9.
E

10.
D

IT’S A GIFT

1.
David Letterman

2.
Steve Irwin

3.
Clifford the Big Red Dog

4.
Andy

5.
The Mousetrap

JUNE 13

VANITY PAIR

1.
E,
Dancing with the Stars

2.
B,
Crossfire

3.
H,
Hee Haw

4.
J,
Entertainment Tonight

5.
A, NBC’s nightly news,
The Huntley-Brinkley Report

6.
C,
The Man Show

7.
I,
Solid Gold

8.
D,
Monday Night Football

9.
G,
MythBusters

10.
F,
Lingo

UNLUCKY STRIKES

1.
A gallows

2.
Dan Marino

3.
The measles

4.
Nineteen Eighty-four

5.
Rio Bravo

6.
Fifteen

7.
Four

8.
Missouri and Kentucky

9.
A snake

10.
The Cuban Missile Crisis

11.
12

12.
Rugby

13.
Lemony Snicket’s

JUNE 14

FLAG DAY

1.
Six

2.
A baseball cap

3.
Hemp

4.
At the United Nations

5.
Larry Flynt

THE SOME OF ITS PARTS

1.
A castle

2.
A cell

3.
A horse (or other equine)

4.
A sailboat

5.
A staircase

6.
A fencing blade

7.
A letter

8.
A column

9.
A wave

10.
A flower

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