Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (35 page)

5.
Atlanta

Harder

1.
Memphis

2.
St. Petersburg

3.
London

4.
Miami

5.
Chicago

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Barcelona

2.
Hong Kong

3.
Toronto

4.
Mexico City

5.
Hamburg

THEY’VE GOT A LOT OF BALLS

1.
Ole Evinrude

2.
Chuck Taylor

3.
Albert Spalding

4.
John Brunswick

5.
Phil Knight

FEBRUARY 4

HOUR TOWNS

Easy

1.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2.
The Flintstones

3.
Murder, She Wrote

4.
Northern Exposure

5.
The Jetsons

Harder

1.
Friday Night Lights

2.
The Family Guy

3.
Dawson’s Creek

4.
Newhart

5.
The Munsters

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ed

2.
Picket Fences

3.
SCTV

4.
Mama’s Family

5.
Dark Shadows

CHEAP NOVEL TEASE

1.
Debbie Reynolds

2.
Bill Clinton

3.
Truman Capote

4.
Allan Bloom

5.
William Jennings Bryan

I’M WITH THE BANNED

1.
Foie gras

2.
Spartacus

3.
Andy Kaufman

4.
Singapore

5.
DDT

6.
Ricky Williams

7.
The text of the First Amendment

8.
The Lorax

9.
The Insider

10.
Tobacco

FEBRUARY 5

KISS MY AUROUS

1.
Ghana

2.
“I Got a Woman”

3.
William Jennings Bryan

4.
Hollywood and Redwood (City)

5.
Carl Lewis

6.
Benson
and
Growing Pains

7.
Two of the “Seven Cities of Gold”

8.
Mr. T

9.
Tom Sawyer

10.
Supernovas

GOING IN CIRCLES

1.
Washington, D.C.

2.
Columbus Circle

3.
Mexico

4.
Piccadilly Circus

5.
The Arc de Triomphe

UNITED ARTISTS

1.
A

2.
D

3.
B

4.
E

5.
C

FEBRUARY 6

I GOT HUE, BABE

1.
Orange

2.
Frank Gifford

3.
George Stephanopoulos

4.
Newborns

5.
Yellow

6.
Henri Matisse’s

7.
Oscar the Grouch

8.
Green

9.
Wisteria

10.
Pittsburgh (black and gold)

THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG

1.
The merry-go-round

2.
The Buffalo Sabres (“Sabre Dance”)

3.
“Moonlight Serenade”

4.
Topping the Billboard Hot 100 with a TV theme song

5.
“I’m the only one”

6.
The wolf (French horns)

7.
“Enter Sandman”

8.
“The Final Countdown”

9.
Rocky

10.
John Tesh

FEBRUARY 7

TRAIL TO THE CHIEF

1.
John F. Kennedy

2.
Franklin Pierce

3.
Andrew Jackson

4.
Ronald Reagan

5.
Theodore Roosevelt

6.
George H. W. Bush

7.
Ulysses Grant

8.
Jimmy Carter

9.
Thomas Jefferson (also John Adams)

10.
Bill Clinton

ARMY OF DORKNESS

1.
The Salvation Army

2.
Arnold Palmer (“Arnie’s Army”)

3.
Terra-cotta

4.
Björk’s

5.
Swiss Army knives

CUT LOOSE

1.
Lee Iacocca

2.
Dinosaur Jr.

3.
She was pregnant

4.
George McClellan

5.
Mike Ditka

FEBRUARY 8

THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS

1.
Fiddle playing

2.
The Colorado Rockies

3.
Anne Rice’s

4.
Printers

5.
Dalmatian

6.
Turning stones into bread

7.
John Milton

8.
French Guiana

9.
Pumpernickel

10.
Hobart (Tasmania)

ADAPTIVE PARENTS

Easy

1.
Dracula

2.
Red Dragon

3.
Flowers for Algernon

4.
Rum Punch

5.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Harder

1.
Washington Square

2.
An American Tragedy

3.
The Turn of the Screw

4.
The Killer Angels

5.
Skipping Christmas

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
A Widow for One Year

2.
Traumnovelle

3.
The Secret Agent

4.
The Postman Always Rings Twice

5.
58 Minutes

DIFF’RENT STROKES

1.
Butterfly

2.
Gertrude Ederle

3.
Duke Kahanamoku

4.
Ian Thorpe

5.
Flash Gordon

FEBRUARY 9

WALTZ TIME

1.
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald

2.
A migrant worker’s bundle or bedroll

3.
The “Minute Waltz” (or Waltz in D-flat Major)

4.
Ron Wood and Ringo Starr

5.
It’s the Nokia ring tone

ATHLEXICON

Easy

1.
Golf

2.
Football

3.
Rugby

4.
Cycling

5.
Baseball

Harder

1.
Jai alai

2.
Soccer

3.
Auto racing

4.
Cricket

5.
Skiing

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Darts

2.
Skateboarding

3.
Curling

4.
Fencing

5.
Archery

ONE-HIT WONDERS

1.
The Notorious B.I.G.

2.
Harper Lee (
To Kill a Mockingbird
)

3.
Marlon Brando

4.
Fidelio

5.
Archibald “Moonlight” Graham

FEBRUARY 10

TOMMY, CAN YOU HEAR ME?

Easy

1.
John Steinbeck (
The Grapes of Wrath
)

2.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
)

3.
Mark Twain

4.
J. K. Rowling (
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
)

5.
Harper Lee (
To Kill a Mockingbird
)

Harder

1.
J. R. R. Tolkien (
The Fellowship of the Ring
)

2.
Victor Appleton (Edward Strate-meyer)

3.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (
The Great Gatsby
)

4.
Henry Fielding

5.
Mario Puzo (
The Godfather
)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Thomas Hughes (
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
)

2.
George Eliot (
The Mill on the Floss
)

3.
Tennessee Williams (
The Glass Menagerie
)

4.
Charles Dickens (
Hard Times
)

5.
William Shakespeare (
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
)

SINGIN’ THE BLUES

1.
The sky

2.
Smurfette

3.
Mount Mitchell

4.
On Sundays

5.
Boise State

6.
“Detroit in ’68”

7.
Dennis Franz

8.
The president of South Korea

9.
Prussian blue

10.
The Blue Man Group

11.
UFOs

12.
Blue Crush

13.
Brett Hull

14.
Khartoum, Sudan

15.
The Navy

FEBRUARY 11

PUP QUIZ

Easy

1.
Beagle

2.
(Rough) collie

3.
German shepherd

4.
Bloodhound

5.
(Alaskan) husky

Harder

1.
Greyhound

2.
Cairn terrier (Boston terrier in later
Oz
books)

3.
Cocker spaniel

4.
Jack Russell terrier

5.
Bull terrier

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Labrador retriever

2.
Scottish terrier

3.
Saint Bernard

4.
Skye terrier

5.
Fox terrier (or Schnauzer, in the book)

HALF BAKED

1.
The Dutch oven

2.
A lightbulb

3.
Vinnie Johnson

4.
The tandoor

5.
Hänsel and Gretel

THE LOVE OF FLAVOR

1.
Kool-Aid

2.
Rice-a-Roni

3.
Bubble Yum

4.
Campbell’s (Condensed) Soup

5.
Mountain Dew

6.
Pringles

7.
Jelly Belly

8.
A1

9.
Ben & Jerry’s

10.
Jolly Ranchers

FEBRUARY 12

HAIR FORCE ONE

1.
B

2.
H

3.
F

4.
C

5.
G

6.
E

7.
D

8.
A

HOW THE BISCUIT CRUMBLES

Easy

1.
Truck

2.
Elevator

3.
Diaper

4.
Crosswalk

5.
Stroller

Harder

1.
Undershirt

2.
Checkers

3.
Busy signal

4.
Advice columnist

5.
Suspenders

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Wrench

2.
Correction fluid (White-Out or Liquid Paper)

3.
Bobby pin

4.
Napkin

5.
Rutabaga

POWER OF TEN

1.
Temperature

2.
Luminous intensity

3.
Frequency

4.
Pressure

5.
Power

6.
Viscosity

7.
Electric current

8.
Work

9.
Force

10.
Radioactivity

FEBRUARY 13

ISLE BE THERE

1.
Iwo Jima

2.
Eunice

3.
Sri Lanka

4.
Great Britain

5.
Tasmania

6.
Honshu and Hokkaido (Nagano and Sapporo)

7.
Alcatraz

8.
Thomas the Tank Engine’s

9.
Corsica

10.
Madagascar

THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM

1.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

2.
Ralph Nader

3.
Pinko

4.
Black and Tans

5.
The Blue Dogs

A FLOCK OF SYNONYMS

1.
Adam and the Ants

2.
The dBs (decibels)

3.
Modern English

4.
The Cure

5.
Duran Duran (Roberto Durán)

6.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

7.
The B-52s

8.
Tears for Fears

9.
Alphaville

10.
Eurythmics

FEBRUARY 14

HEARTBEEPS

1.
Cameron Crowe

2.
Four

3.
George Washington

4.
Thomas Hardy

5.
Hefty Smurf

SILLY LOVE SONGS

Easy

1.
The Supremes