Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (200 page)

7.
Ray Bradbury (
Dandelion Wine
)

8.
Kris Kristofferson

9.
Anna Karenina’s

10.
Lee Van Cleef

POWERS OF TEN

1.
Mackenzie Phillips

2.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

3.
Napoleon

4.
Anne Boleyn

5.
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DOMINO EFFECT

1.
The Noid

2.
Chubby Checker

3.
Southeast Asia

4.
Twelve

5.
Laurence Harvey

NOVEMBER 15

THE MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS

1.
Corsica

2.
Hokkaido

3.
Tasmania

4.
Manhattan

5.
Taiwan

6.
Ireland

7.
Oahu

8.
Trinidad

9.
North Island (of New Zealand)

10.
Borneo

11.
Madagascar

12.
Iceland

MEAN STREAK

1.
Tim Meadows

2.
Iceland and Portugal

3.
Encyclopedia Brown

4.
[.Phi] (phi)

5.
Polythene Pam

TRANSMETROPOLITAN

1.
I

2.
B

3.
E

4.
G

5.
F

6.
H

7.
C

8.
J

9.
D

10.
A

NOVEMBER 16

OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD

1.
The Mad Hatter’s

2.
The Cobb salad

3.
Minneapolis (the statue depicts
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
’s Mary Richards)

4.
Foolscap

5.
Morocco

6.
Seven

7.
The Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins

8.
A Catholic cardinal

9.
Cricket

10.
A raspberry beret

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE

1.
Solsbury Hill

2.
Hamburger Hill

3.
Montserrat

4.
The Ravens

5.
The battle of Bunker Hill

VERY SPECIAL EPISODES

Easy

1.
Mork

2.
Niles Crane (
Frasier
)

3.
Monica Geller (
Friends
)

4.
Maxwell Smart

5.
Latka Gravas

Harder

1.
Rhoda Morgenstern

2.
Dr. Michaela Quinn

3.
Mike Brady

4.
Abby Lockhart (
ER
)

5.
Nate Fisher (
Six Feet Under
)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Miranda Hobbes (
Sex and the City
)

2.
Andy Sipowicz (
NYPD Blue
)

3.
Darnell Turner (
My Name is Earl
)

4.
(
The Scarecrow and
) Mrs. King

5.
(Lieutenant Charles)
Hennesey

NOVEMBER 17

A GOOD CAST IS WORTH REPEATING

1.
Frederick Forrest, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford

2.
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone

3.
Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman

4.
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito

5.
Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell

6.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates

7.
Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet

8.
Tom Hanks, Bill Pullman, Rosie O’Donnell

9.
Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy

10.
Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall

THE PICTURES GOT SMALL!

Easy

1.
Gary Burghoff

2.
John Houseman

3.
Richard Roundtree

Harder

1.
Dean Jones

2.
Michael Gross

3.
Vic Tayback

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ossie Davis

2.
Kevin Peter Hall

3.
Michael Winslow

C
HUNT

1.
Perry Como

2.
Linus Pauling

3.
Combat

4.
A cedilla (or
cedille
)

5.
“Gonna Make You Sweat”

NOVEMBER 18

WELCOME TO THE CLUB

1.
The Sierra Club

2.
Studio 54

3.
Costco

4.
Playboy Clubs

5.
Seven hundred (hence,
The 700 Club
)

6.
Sophie Tucker

7.
Albert Einstein or George Bernard Shaw

8.
“You do not talk about Fight Club”

9.
Club Med

10.
Sheryl Crow

BED-AZZLED

1.
It flips up into a cabinet when not in use

2.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono

3.
Way Beyond

4.
Robert Heinlein

5.
His previous TV wife, Suzanne Pleshette

REVIVAL MEETING

1.
Grave robbing (stealing corpses)

2.
The Family Guy

3.
Khan Noonian Singh (
Star Trek II
)

4.
A Beatles reunion

5.
Tab

NOVEMBER 19

BULLY PULPITS

Easy

1.
John Kennedy

2.
Abraham Lincoln

3.
Bill Clinton

Harder

1.
Richard Nixon

2.
Ronald Reagan

3.
Jimmy Carter

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Dwight Eisenhower

2.
Franklin Roosevelt

3.
Theodore Roosevelt

I CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU

1.
Venice’s

2.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
’s

3.
The flute

4.
Obsidian

5.
I. M. Pei

6.
Die Hard

7.
An Etch-a-Sketch

8.
The Grand Canyon

9.
Darryl Dawkins

10.
A unicorn

LIP SINK

1.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2.
Vaseline

3.
Leo Durocher

4.
Sink ships

5.
Vermilion

NOVEMBER 20

THE ACCIDENTAL TORUS

1.
Canada

2.
Homer Simpson

3.
“Munchkins”

4.
The beignet and the Boston cream

5.
Krispy Kreme

THE PLAY-BY-PLAY’S THE THING

1.
H, c

2.
A, h

3.
G, j

4.
D, i

5.
E, g

6.
C, a

7.
B, b

8.
F, d

9.
J, f

10.
I, e

BREAK A LEGUME

1.
George Washington Carver

2.
Peppermint Patty’s

3.
Beanie Baby

4.
Annette Funicello

5.
“Goober”

NOVEMBER 21

A LITTLE OFF THE TOP

1.
Delilah

2.
The Marriage of Figaro

3.
Spike and Ang Lee

4.
Charles Schulz

5.
Pavement

WHICH CRAFT?

1.
Jason

2.
Portugal

3.
A Venetian gondolier

4.
The Raft of the Medusa

5.
The
Mayflower

6.
He captained the
Exxon Valdez
into its famous oil spill

7.
Christopher Walken

8.
The Flying Dutchman

9.
Jacques Cousteau’s
Calypso

10.
“The Heart of the Ocean”

AND I AM TELLING YOU I’M NOT GOING

1.
Tic Tac Dough

2.
Flagpole sitting

3.
John Marshall’s

4.
Boo Radley

5.
Jericho

NOVEMBER 22

A GROOM OF ONE’S OWN

1.
The Jungle

2.
Saint Paul’s Cathedral (rather than Westminster Abbey)

3.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

4.
“Tying the knot”

5.
Jason Alexander

6.
Samson

7.
Mamma Mia!

8.
“True”

9.
The rehearsal dinner

10.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono

SUITE IN LOW

1.
Nine

2.
Vertebrae

3.
As joking reference to Bowie’s album
Low

4.
Salman Rushdie

5.
Israel and Jordan (the Dead Sea)

METALHEADS

Easy

1.
Battlestar Galactica

2.
Star Trek: The Next Generation

3.
The Jetsons

Harder

1.
Mystery Science Theater 3000

2.
Transformers

3.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Venture Bros.

2.
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

3.
Get Smart

NOVEMBER 23

CORKS CREW

1.
Fall Out Boy’s

2.
Life Goes On

3.
Sammy Sosa

4.
Michael Collins

5.
Dom Pérignon

IT’S ALL CREEK TO ME

1.
Kellogg’s and Post

2.
“I Don’t Want to Wait”

3.
Manhattan

4.
The birth of sextuplets

5.
Shanghai

TAXICAB CONFESSIONS

1.
Vincent Price

2.
Bert and Ernie

3.
Crown Victoria

4.
Tony Danza

5.
James Agee

NOVEMBER 24

PRESENTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL

1.
It’s a cookbook—the aliens eat people!

2.
His glasses break!

3.
She’s beautiful…but all the disappointed doctors are hideously ugly!

4.
We learn it’s a U.S. Air Force spaceship—the woman is a giant!

5.
He falls onto a snowy sidewalk—they are all dolls in a charity drive barrel!

ALL I GOTTA DO IS ACT NATURALLY

Easy

1.
Talking Heads

2.
The Rolling Stones

3.
The Beatles

4.
Led Zeppelin

5.
The Who

Harder

1.
Bob Dylan

2.
Metallica

3.
The Dixie Chicks

4.
Sex Pistols

5.
Neil Young

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Wilco

2.
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band

3.
They Might Be Giants

4.
Oasis

5.
Sting

BIG BIRDS

1.
The ostrich

2.
The rhea

3.
The whooping crane

4.
The emu

5.
The emperor penguin

NOVEMBER 25

JOB DESCRIPTION

1.
Barrels

2.
Wagons

3.
Candles

4.
Arrows

5.
Cloth

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY

1.
Ulysses Grant

2.
Soccer

3.
“Never My Love”

4.
Tuberculosis

5.
Tailhook Association

6.
George Mikan

7.
The NAACP

8.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

9.
Sigmund Freud

10.
Alabama

FLIGHT TESTING

Easy

1.
Australia

2.
The Netherlands

3.
Russia (formerly the USSR)

4.
Germany

5.
Israel

Harder

1.
Ireland

2.
Brazil

3.
Japan

4.
Belgium

5.
Kazakhstan

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
South Korea

2.
Panama

3.
Colombia

4.
Indonesia