Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (146 page)

9.
Origami

10.
Suntory

11.
The chrysanthemum

12.
The ghosts in Pac-Man

13.
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”

14.
Fugu

15.
Competitive eating

X MARKS THE SPOT

1.
Captain Kangaroo

2.
The Lost Dutchman mine

3.
The Declaration of Independence

4.
A leprechaun

5.
John Huston

6.
William

7.
The Rhine (“Das Rheingold”)

8.
Pelé

9.
The Goonies

10.
Madrid

AUGUST 16

SPORTS, ILLUSTRATED

1.
Shuffleboard

2.
Ice hockey

3.
Squash

4.
Lacrosse

5.
Soccer

6.
Curling

7.
Cricket

8.
Basketball

9.
Badminton

10.
Sumo

VIRGIN RECORDS

1.
Samuel Tilden

2.
A. C. Green

3.
William Pitt (the Younger)

4.
Isaac Newton

5.
Florence Nightingale

TALL IN THE FAMILY

1.
C

2.
A

3.
B

4.
E

5.
D

AUGUST 17

RE-PERCUSSIONS

1.
Roger Taylor

2.
“More cowbell!”

3.
Walt Whitman

4.
The celesta

5.
The Gong Show

6.
David Bowie

7.
Trinidad and Tobago

8.
The Killers

9.
Buddy Rich

10.
William Shatner

FLIGHT CLUB

Easy

1.
Liverpool

2.
Paris

3.
New Orleans

4.
Washington, D.C.

5.
Teheran

Harder

1.
Rome

2.
Warsaw

3.
Nairobi

4.
Venice

5.
Mexico City

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Toronto

2.
Port-au-Prince

3.
Anchorage

4.
Pisa

5.
Gdansk

AFFAIRS OF STATE

1.
C

2.
F

3.
D

4.
J

5.
A

6.
I

7.
G

8.
B

9.
E

10.
H

AUGUST 18

JEWELRY BOX

1.
Ed Bradley

2.
The Pink Panther

3.
“The Necklace”

4.
Blue

5.
Chris Evert

6.
Around the World in Eighty Days

7.
Oedipus

8.
A sun

9.
Jan Vermeer

10.
The pope

ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON

Easy

1.
Nobelium

2.
Thorium

3.
Californium

4.
Curium

5.
Uranium

Harder

1.
Selenium

2.
Helium

3.
Fermium

4.
Promethium

5.
Mendelevium

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Lutetium

2.
Lawrencium

3.
Tantalum

4.
Rutherfordium

5.
Strontium

BIRD IS THE WORD

Easy

1.
(Atticus) Finch

2.
(Mrs.) Peacock

3.
(Clarice) Starling

Harder

1.
(Alan) Swann

2.
(Marion) Crane

3.
(Jack) Robin

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
(Gary) Dove

2.
(Baby Face) Martin

3.
(Philip) Raven

AUGUST 19

IN CAMERA

1.
The Sierra Nevada

2.
Mathew Brady

3.
Richard Avedon

4.
Does a horse ever have all four hooves off the ground at once as it gallops?

5.
Annie Leibovitz

THE HOLE TRUTH

1.
Courtney Love

2.
Her cat

3.
Kim Jong-Il

4.
A black hole

5.
Bag End

6.
Paul Newman (for Butch Cassidy’s Hole in the Wall Gang)

7.
Two

8.
The Brandenburg Gate

9.
Sausage

10.
Thomas

11.
Yellow Submarine

12.
Montreal

13.
The Snake River

14.
Rita Hayworth

15.
In the skull

AUGUST 20

TEXTONYMS

1.
“Hurt” / Guru (4878)

2.
Poisoned / Smirnoff (76476633)

3.
Autumn / Button (288866)

4.
PepsiCo / Persian (7377426)

5.
Korean / Jordan (567326)

6.
Drama / Franc (37262)

7.
Avalon / Cuckoo (282566)

8.
Fatigues / Daughter (32844837)

9.
Material /
Maverick
(62837425)

10.
September / Sequences (737836237)

WORLD WIDE WEBS

1.
The tarantella

2.
Richmond

3.
It was used to make gun sights

4.
Fred Astaire

5.
The Daily Bugle

6.
Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gale

7.
James Dean

8.
The brown recluse

9.
Saddam Hussein

10.
System of a Down

AUGUST 20

WALL OF SOUND BITES

1.
Lloyd Bentsen

2.
Ronald Reagan

3.
Michael Dukakis

4.
Gerald Ford

5.
James Stockdale

THE HOT SPOT

Easy

1.
Italy

2.
The United States

3.
Indonesia

4.
Japan

Harder

1.
Martinique

2.
Greece

3.
Mexico

4.
No country—Antarctica

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Colombia

2.
Papua New Guinea

3.
The Congo

4.
The Philippines

CENTURY CITY

1.
Abraham Lincoln’s birth

2.
Colorado

3.
SpaceShipOne

4.
The Montreal Canadiens

5.
Bob Hope

AUGUST 22

PARTS UNKNOWN

1.
World War I

2.
A paper bag (over his head)

3.
“Here be dragons”

4.
Green slime

5.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

LITTLE BRITAIN

1.
The Avengers

2.
Yes, Minister
(or
Yes, Prime Minister
)

3.
Fawlty Towers

4.
Absolutely Fabulous

5.
Cracker

6.
Teletubbies

7.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus

8.
Red Dwarf

9.
The Office

10.
Thunderbirds

PATER PATRIAE

Easy

1.
Taiwan

2.
Russia

3.
Italy

4.
India

5.
Germany

Harder

1.
Pakistan

2.
Argentina

3.
Turkey

4.
Ireland

5.
Cuba

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Chile

2.
Bulgaria

3.
Congo

4.
Portugal

5.
Nigeria

AUGUST 23

CANAL ZONE

1.
Tootsie

2.
The dentin

3.
China

4.
Mars

5.
The Hudson River

6.
The semicircular canals

7.
John McCain

8.
Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square)

9.
The Aswan Dam

10.
France’s version of
The Office

DAS KAPITAL

1.
The Godfather

2.
“Tokyo Rose”

3.
Athens, Georgia

4.
New Madrid

5.
Pekingese

6.
Damask (from Damascus)

7.
Dubliners

8.
The Duke of Wellington

9.
Manila envelopes

10.
Paris Hilton

AUGUST 24

DOWN BY LAVA

1.
The hula

2.
Harry Truman

3.
The Scream

4.
Crater Lake

5.
Mauna Kea

CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK

1.
Black and red, respectively

2.
Intel (Microsoft is the other)

3.
Blackjack

4.
Robert Donat

5.
Sun Chips

6.
Frank

7.
The V-chip

8.
“Angel of the Morning”

9.
Shaquille O’Neal and Anfernee Hardaway

10.
Stanley Livingston

SOUL PROPRIETORS

1.
Mephistopheles

2.
Vanessa A. Williams and Vanessa L. Williams

3.
Ken

4.
Aretha Franklin

5.
Nirvana

AUGUST 25

SATELLITE ENTERTAINMENT

Easy

1.
Mars

2.
Jupiter

3.
Earth

Harder

1.
Uranus

2.
Saturn

3.
Pluto

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Saturn

2.
Jupiter

3.
Neptune

LONE RANGERS

Easy

1.
Mammoth Cave

2.
Crater Lake

3.
Great Smoky Mountains

4.
Carlsbad Caverns

Harder

1.
Yellowstone

2.
Hot Springs

3.
Shenandoah

4.
Isle Royale

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Theodore Roosevelt

2.
Congaree

3.
Acadia

4.
Great Basin

TOP FIVE

1.
AC/DC and Metallica

2.
The
Cutty Sark

3.
Seinfeld
’s

4.
Michael Vick

5.
Henley(-on-Thames)

AUGUST 26

NOW AND THIN

1.
Fogle

2.
Stomach stapling

3.
Robert Atkins

4.
Donnie Wahlberg

5.
Miami Beach

SHRINK RAP

1.
Denial

2.
The president’s

3.
Synchronicity

4.
Peter Bogdanovich

5.
The Elektra complex

IN A WORLD…!

1.
O

2.
I

3.
L

4.
M

5.
F

6.
H

7.
K

8.
G

9.
A

10.
C

11.
D

12.
J

13.
N

14.
E

15.
B

AUGUST 27

SUMMIT MEETING

Easy

1.
Olympus

2.
Everest

3.
McKinley (Denali)

4.
Blanc

5.
Fuji

Harder

1.
Kosciusko

2.
Kilimanjaro

3.
Elbrus

4.
Logan

5.
Aconcagua

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
K2

2.
Chimborazo

3.
Ben Nevis

4.
Ararat

5.
Titano

WEEK-MINDED

1.
Richard Rodgers’s (Mary Rodgers)

2.
Sunday

3.
Friday

4.
Drew Barrymore

5.
Tuesday