Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (36 page)

2.
Steve Winwood

3.
The Captain & Tennille

4.
Elvis Presley

5.
Lionel Richie and Diana Ross

Harder

1.
Tupac Shakur

2.
Golden Earring

3.
Sade

4.
Soft Cell

5.
Bob Marley

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Crystal Waters

2.
George Michael

3.
Pablo Cruise

4.
Next

5.
David Bowie

HEY, GOOD-LOOKIN’

1.
Butt

2.
John F. Kennedy, Jr.

3.
Pittsburgh

4.
Linda Perry (of 4 Non Blondes)

5.
Leonhard Euler

FEBRUARY 15

CINEMASHUPS

1.
It’s a Wonderful Lifeboat

2.
Children of Men in Black

3.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich

4.
Regarding Henry V

5.
The Man Who Would Be King Kong

6.
In the Heat of the Night of the Living Dead

7.
Catch Me If You Can Count on Me

8.
The Sixth Sense and Sensibility

9.
The Empire Strikes Back to School

10.
The Color Purple Rain

11.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Dachshund

12.
A Time to Kill Bill

13.
Charlie
(or
Willy Wonka
)
and the Chocolate Factory Girl

14.
The Remains of the Day of the Jackal

15.
Miami Vice Versa

16.
There’s Something about Mary Poppins

17.
Saving Private Ryan’s Daughter

18.
Oh, Godzilla!

19.
Batman and Robin and Marian

20.
How Green Was My Valley of the Dolls

FEBRUARY 16

THE EXECUTION OF ALL THINGS

1.
Mata Hari

2.
Sir Thomas More

3.
Ivan the Terrible

4.
Raleigh and St. Paul

5.
Nicolae Ceausescu

6.
Gary Gilmore

7.
Kidnapping (and killing) the Lindbergh baby

8.
Vidkun Quisling

9.
Mary, Queen of Scots’

10.
Socrates’

LIVING LODGE

1.
E

2.
I

3.
D

4.
A

5.
C

6.
G

7.
B

8.
H

9.
J

10.
F

PLAZA-BLE ANSWERS

1.
Truman Capote

2.
Dealey Plaza

3.
Madrid

4.
Heroes

5.
Atlantic City

FEBRUARY 17

THE TIES THAT BIND

1.
Fifty (by each side)

2.
Adam Vinateri

3.
Dan Quayle

4.
The West Wing

5.
Six

THE BLOND LEADING THE BLOND

1.
The Eagles’

2.
Williams

3.
Dwight Gooden

4.
Arf

5.
Mead

ADD IT UP

1.
UB40 ÷ 4 Non Blondes = Mack 10

2.
(Level 42 × 9 Inch Nails)-Eiffel 65-2 Pac = 311

3.
Andre 3000 + (7 Mary Three × Maroon 5 × Matchbox 20 × 10cc) = 10,000 Maniacs

4.
(50 Cent + Sum 41) × U2 = Blink-182

5.
Plus-44 + Boys 2 Men + B-52s = 98 Degrees

FEBRUARY 18

I, GLASSES

1.
A crucifix

2.
The Leyden jar

3.
“A dirty glass”

4.
Ella Fitzgerald’s

5.
The old-fashioned

AGAINST MY BUTTER JUDGMENT

1.
Ghee

2.
Fabio

3.
Dr. Seuss

4.
The monarch butterfly

5.
Last Tango in Paris

6.
Alfredo

7.
The Princess Bride

8.
“Popcorn”

9.
Papillon

10.
Dale Evans’s

JUICY THAT?

Easy

1.
Lime

2.
Pineapple

3.
Tomato

Harder

1.
Grapefruit

2.
Lemon

3.
Orange

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Apple

2.
Grape

3.
Cranberry

FEBRUARY 19

THE PRIZE IS RIGHT

Easy

1.
James Watson and Francis Crick (with Maurice Wilkins)

2.
Marie Curie

3.
James Chadwick

4.
Alexander Fleming (with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain)

Harder

1.
Frederick Banting (with John Macleod)

2.
William Ramsay

3.
Max Planck

4.
Robert Koch

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Stanley Prusiner

2.
Wolfgang Pauli

3.
Hans Krebs

4.
Otto Hahn

BIRDS OF PREY

1.
The peregrine falcon

2.
Spenser for Hire
and
Twin Peaks

3.
The
Millennium Falcon

4.
An owl (“howlet’s wing”)

5.
The harrier

BEAUTIES AND BEASTS

1.
Paulina Porizkova

2.
Carmen Electra

3.
Eva Herzegova

4.
Donna D’Errico

5.
Heidi Klum

6.
Christie Brinkley

7.
Jerry Hall (though the marriage was never official under English law)

8.
Shanna Moakler

9.
Dita Von Teese

10.
Pamela Anderson

FEBRUARY 20

LA TRIVIATA

1.
The Anvil Chorus, or “Coro di zingari”

2.
Madame Butterfly

3.
Pagliacci (Clowns)

4.
Arturo Toscanini

5.
The biblical Magi, or “three wise men”

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Easy

1.
(New) Delhi

2.
St. Petersburg

3.
Kyoto

Harder

1.
Islamabad

2.
Valletta

3.
Belmopan

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Naypyidaw

2.
Melekeok

3.
Abuja

FRIENDSHIP 7

1.
Amistad

2.
“Poprocks & Coke”

3.
Warsaw (the Warsaw Pact)

4.
Oprah Winfrey

5.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

6.
Texas

7.
Tim Zagat

FEBRUARY 21

RING THINGS

1.
Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana

2.
Saturn’s rings

3.
“An angel gets its wings”

4.
The Pacific Ocean

5.
Ring tones

6.
Heat it in a fire

7.
They’re among the images on the haunted videotape in
The Ring

8.
Carbon

9.
Josten

10.
Cockney

11.
The Nibelung

12.
The
Challenger
disaster

13.
A sumo ring

14.
Mushrooms

15.
A turnbuckle

BABY’S IN BLACK

1.
Rudolph Valentino’s

2.
Nevada (“I shot a man in Reno…”)

3.
The Empire Strikes Back

4.
Richard the Lion-hearted

5.
The Tuxedo Club

6.
Italy

7.
Michael Jackson

8.
The Oakland Raiders’

9.
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

10.
Fox

FEBRUARY 22

ROCK SOLID

1.
Sulfur

2.
World Trade Center

3.
Granite

4.
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (who sang “The Cover of
Rolling Stone
”)

5.
Billy the Kid’s

6.
April’s (the diamond)

7.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles

8.
Austin 3:16

9.
An emerald

10.
Egypt

THE FRENCH CONNECTION

1.
French fries

2.
French-kiss

3.
French door (or French window)

4.
French horn

5.
French cuff

EYE TUNES

1.
Jean Harlow and Greta Garbo

2.
“Cotton Eye Joe”

3.
Judy Collins

4.
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”

5.
Crystal Gayle’s (of “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” fame)

6.
“In Your Eyes” (in
Say Anything
)

7.
Sheena Easton

8.
“Eye of the Tiger”

9.
“Making love in the green grass”

10.
“Keep Your Eyes on the Prize”

FEBRUARY 23

SIT ON IT

1.
Rear Window

2.
Room 101

3.
The president of the United States

4.
The United Kingdom

5.
Archie Bunker

6.
Ethel Rosenberg

7.
The Round Table

8.
Iron Chef

9.
Barcelona

10.
Tears for Fears

TEN GALLANT HATS

1.
F

2.
I

3.
J

4.
C

5.
B

6.
D

7.
E

8.
G

9.
H

10.
A

FEBRUARY 24

DOWN FOR THE COUNT

1.
Inigo Montoya (
The Princess Bride
)

2.
Fruit Brute

3.
Anna Karenina’s

4.
Piano (also jazz organ)

5.
Count di Cagliostro

6.
Anakin Skywalker

7.
Spain’s

8.
Alexandre Dumas

9.
The English Patient

10.
Von Count

HE SAID, SHE SAID

1.
Zane Grey

2.
Michael Learned

3.
Joyce Kilmer

4.
Glenn Close (
The West Wing
and
Air Force One
)

5.
Maury Povich

6.
Daryl Hannah (
Splash
)

7.
Jean Shepherd

8.
Gene Tierney

9.
Evelyn Waugh

10.
Stevie Nicks (“Landslide”)

FEBRUARY 25

ON THE DOLE

1.
“Escape”

2.
On a Jell-O box

3.
Bikini Bottom

4.
A hand grenade

5.
Manuel Noriega

PUBLIC SERVICE RENOUNCEMENT

1.
“The Man Without a Country”

2.
Forty (not counting Sundays)

3.
John Lennon

4.
Galileo

5.
Cambodia

CENSUS WORKING OVERTIME

1.
Los Angeles County

2.
Germany

3.
Murmansk, Russia

4.
Long Island

5.
Indonesia

6.
Austin

7.
Monaco

8.
Mexico

9.
New York City

10.
Africa

FEBRUARY 26

TCBY

1.
The Schwartz

2.
Rudolph Giuliani

3.
Dannon

4.
Cucumber

5.
Suleiman the Magnificent

THE GREATEST SHOWS ON EARTH

Easy

1.
The Day the Earth Stood Still

2.
The Man Who Fell to Earth

3.
Battlefield Earth

Harder

1.
Down to Earth

2.
Night on Earth

3.
Earth Girls Are Easy

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Journey to the Center of the Earth

2.
Here on Earth

3.
Heaven and Earth

VERSED-CASE SCENARIO

1.
Daniel Day-Lewis