Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (89 page)

13.
Mount Washington

14.
Jake Gyllenhaal (Maggie) and Randy Quaid (Dennis)

15.
The Andes

MAY 4

SQUARE DANCE

1.
Pop-Tarts

2.
Xanadu

3.
Green

4.
Sarah Jessica Parker

5.
Italy (Switzerland and the Vatican)

6.
A geneticist

7.
Freemasonry

8.
The Phantom Zone

9.
Prague’s

10.
Theodore Roosevelt

CODE TALKERS

1.
Louisiana’s

2.
“What hath God wrought?”

3.
The Babylonians

4.
The Louvre Museum

5.
Will Hays

CATCH A WAVE

1.
Tsunami

2.
Raytheon

3.
François Truffaut

4.
Holland-Dozier-Holland

5.
His ten toes

MAY 5

HISPANIC ROOM

1.
California

2.
Grapes

3.
Cisneros

4.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

5.
Venezuela

6.
David Farragut

7.
“Yo quiero
Taco Bell
”

8.
Roberto Clemente

9.
Santana

10.
José Castro (for whom the Castro district was named)

SAY HEY

1.
“Rock and Roll (Part Two)”

2.
The Larry Sanders Show’s

3.
Kowalski

4.
Jim Varney’s

5.
“Hey Bulldog”

THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD

1.
The Justice League of America

2.
The X-Men

3.
The Avengers

4.
The Teen Titans

5.
The Legion of Super-Heroes

MAY 6

LEFTOVERS

1.
The Big Bang

2.
The Professor and Mary Ann

3.
Vegemite

4.
Jack (Warden and Klugman)

5.
The Mall of America

ATHLETIC SUPPORTERS

1.
Bill Russell

2.
Pete Rose

3.
Arthur Ashe

4.
Ingemar Johansson

5.
Billie Jean King

6.
Pete Rozelle

7.
Lance Armstrong

8.
Jackie Stewart

9.
Bonnie Blair

10.
Bobby Orr

THEM’S FIGHTIN’ WORDS

Easy

1.
Trojan War

2.
U.S. Civil War

3.
World War II

4.
Korean War

Harder

1.
World War I

2.
Spanish Civil War

3.
Napoleonic Wars

4.
French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Thirty Years’ War

2.
Vietnam War

3.
Wars of the Roses

4.
American Revolution

MAY 7

AN ARROW ESCAPE

1.
The Boy Scouts of America

2.
Steve Martin

3.
Bolts

4.
FedEx

5.
The nock

6.
Zenith

7.
Ain’t It Cool News

8.
Saint Sebastian

9.
The Kansas City Chiefs

10.
Scorpio

A BARREL OF MONKEYS

1.
Curious George

2.
The Anaheim Angels’

3.
Gibraltar

4.
The Scarecrow

5.
Peeing on Johnny Carson

6.
Gary Hart and Donna Rice

7.
The mandrill

8.
It grants three wishes

9.
The capuchin

10.
Typewriters

MAY 8

UNLEASHED

1.
Dogs barking

2.
Magilla Gorilla

3.
The budgerigar

4.
The San Diego Padres

5.
The guppy

6.
Retriever (Labrador and golden)

7.
Betty Currie

8.
Catnip

9.
A snorkasaurus

10.
Pet Rocks

11.
Best in Show

12.
Paris

13.
Tinkerbell

14.
Vietnam

15.
Heterochromia—two different-colored eyes

MEN OF LETTERS

1.
A. A. Milne

2.
B. B. King

3.
L. L. Bean

4.
E. E. Cummings

5.
J. J. Evans (
Good Times
)

MAY 9

RECTANGLE TANGLE

1.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2.
A trapezoid

3.
Saskatchewan

4.
A Möbius strip

5.
Mark Rothko’s

STAGE MOTHERS

Easy

1.
Judy Garland

2.
Goldie Hawn

3.
Debbie Reynolds

4.
Mary Martin

5.
Janet Leigh

Harder

1.
Blythe Danner

2.
Anne Meara

3.
Tippi Hedren

4.
Patty Duke

5.
Talia Shire

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Rosemary Clooney

2.
Vanessa Redgrave

3.
Maureen O’Sullivan

4.
Peggy Lipton

5.
Colleen Dewhurst

SUPER SECRETS

Easy

1.
Spider-Man

2.
Superman

3.
The Hulk

4.
Daredevil

5.
Captain Marvel

MAY 10

(SPRING) FIELD GUIDE

FIRST NAMES

Easy

1.
Abraham

2.
(W.) Seymour (really Armin)

3.
C(harles) Montgomery

4.
Waylon

Harder

1.
Clancy

2.
Joe

3.
Timothy

4.
Edna

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
John

2.
Elizabeth

3.
Julius

4.
Gary

LAST NAMES

Easy

1.
Gumbel

2.
Krustofski

3.
Riviera

4.
Jones

Harder

1.
Nahasapeemapetilon

2.
McCallister

3.
Muntz

4.
Prince

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Leonard and Carlson

2.
Mann

3.
Spuckler

4.
D’Amico

FRONT OFFICE SPACE

Easy

1.
New York Yankees

2.
Pittsburgh Penguins

3.
Dallas Mavericks

4.
Oakland Raiders

5.
Dallas Cowboys

Harder

1.
Pittsburgh Steelers

2.
Phoenix Coyotes

3.
Los Angeles Lakers

4.
Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers

5.
Milwaukee Bucks

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Denver Broncos

2.
Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers

3.
Charlotte Bobcats

4.
New York Giants

5.
Baltimore Orioles

MAY 11

ALL-TIME HYBRID

Easy

1.
Woman and fish

2.
Human and horse

3.
Human and goat

4.
Human and bull

Harder

1.
Woman and lion

2.
Woman and bird

3.
Eagle and lion

4.
Rooster and serpent

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Horse and fish

2.
Woman and serpent

3.
Lion, goat, and serpent

4.
Human, lion, and dragon or scorpion

AL FRESCO

1.
Tintoretto

2.
A seashell

3.
The Sistine Chapel

4.
His navel

5.
The
Pietá

TH-TH-TH-THAT’S ALL, FOLKS!

1.
The Dodo (from “Do-Do-Dodgson”)

2.
“You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”

3.
Michael Palin (who stuttered in
A Fish Called Wanda
)

4.
John Glenn

5.
Mystikal

MAY 12

CHRONIC ROOMMATE-ISM

1.
David Lynch

2.
Neil Young

3.
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore

4.
Marlon Brando

5.
Tom Izzo

6.
Robin Williams

7.
James Buchanan

8.
Ving Rhames

9.
Joe Montana

10.
Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman

HOSTS WITH THE MOST

1.
The Detroit Lions

2.
Peter Marshall

3.
Ten Little Indians
or
And Then There Were None

4.
The crocodile (whose teeth it picks)

5.
The March Hare

6.
Wheat flour and water

7.
A frankfurter (Frank N. Furter)

8.
Athens 2004 (since Greece always enters
first
)

9.
Alec Baldwin

10.
Yalta

MAY 13

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY

1.
Larry Hagman (Mary Martin’s son)

2.
Paul McCartney

3.
James I (the “King James Version”)

4.
Robert Lincoln

5.
Richard Leakey

I’VE GOTTA SECRETE

1.
Plasma

2.
Q*Bert

3.
Bilirubin

4.
Lazarus

5.
Colostrum

6.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

7.
Australia

8.
Bile (yellow bile and black bile)

9.
Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor

Beans

10.
Phosphorous

SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE

Easy

1.
Debby Boone

2.
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes

3.
The Beatles

Harder

1.
K-Ci and JoJo

2.
Queen

3.
Indeep

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Social Distortion

2.
The Animals

3.
Simple Plan

MAY 14

MOM’S THE WORD

1.
Stacy’s

2.
Estelle Getty

3.
Cindy Sheehan’s

4.
Futurama

5.
Jennifer Coolidge

A SORT OF HOMECOMING

1.
The mayor of New York

2.
An eagle (or other large raptor)

3.
Baba Yaga

4.
Charles Foster Kane (
Citizen Kane
)

5.
SpongeBob SquarePants

6.
Bees

7.
Eloise

8.
Otters

9.
Navajos

10.
The Jeffersons

SWITCHING CHANNELS

Easy

1.
Catwoman

2.
Darrin Stephens

3.
Jan Brady

4.
Lois Lane

5.
John-Boy Walton

Harder

1.
“Miss Ellie” Ewing

2.
Becky Conner (
Roseanne
)

3.
Lionel Jefferson

4.
Doctor Who

5.
Morty Seinfeld

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Aunt Vivian Banks (
Fresh Prince
)

2.
Fallon Carrington Colby (
Dynasty
)

3.
Maggie McKinney (
Diff’rent Strokes
)

4.
Marilyn Munster

5.
Laurie Forman (
That ’70s Show
)

MAY 15

MORTAR, SHE WROTE

1.
Heroin

2.
Adobe

3.
His girlfriend’s abortion

4.
Lego

5.
Maggie the Cat (
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
)

6.
Its acronym is “Boycott Petco,” the park’s sponsor

7.
Newark, New Jersey

8.
The Commodores (“Brick House”)