Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (146 page)
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Authors: Ken Jennings
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