Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (108 page)

1.
The Khmer Rouge

2.
Kim Basinger

3.
Walt Whitman

4.
Darfur

5.
Muhammad Ali

JUNE 15

IN A LIGHTER VEIN

1.
Coagulation

2.
Sierra Leone’s

3.
Rasputin

4.
The Game

5.
“Arse”

6.
Kosher

7.
Count Dracula

8.
The aorta

9.
Pig’s blood

10.
BALCO

11.
The Wild Bunch

12.
“Helter Skelter” (by the Manson Family)

13.
A cake

14.
Systolic and diastolic

15.
Kansas

RUN FOR THE BORDER

Easy

1.
Ireland

2.
The Dominican Republic

3.
Italy

4.
Spain

Harder

1.
Germany

2.
Saudi Arabia

3.
France

4.
Italy

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Indonesia

2.
Senegal

3.
Malaysia

4.
South Africa

JUNE 16

LIKE THE WEATHER

1.
The “perfect storm”

2.
The Toronto Blue Jays

3.
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

4.
Seeding clouds (rainmaking)

5.
Australia

6.
David Letterman

7.
The Santa Ana winds

8.
Typhoons

9.
Humidity

10.
They have temperature scales named for them (Fahrenheit, Celsius, Lord Kelvin)

FATHER OF THE BRIDE

1.
A

2.
C

3.
E

4.
M

5.
I

6.
F

7.
D

8.
G

9.
K

10.
N

11.
L

12.
O

13.
J

14.
B

15.
H

JUNE 17

“
WHERE” HOUSE

1.
Wally

2.
Homer’s
Odyssey

3.
Walter Mondale

4.
Rockapella

5.
Dollar bills (and other paper currency)

6.
Casey Kasem

7.
Extraterrestrials

8.
Renault

9.
Paul Gauguin

10.
Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SAILOR…

1.
The Chicago Cubs

2.
Duran Duran

3.
Westminster Abbey

4.
Basra

5.
Howard Hughes (in
Melvin and Howard
and
The Aviator
)

6.
Fakir

7.
Odysseus

8.
Orchids

9.
Julius Petri (the Petri dish)

10.
Francis Scott Key

11.
Crazy Horse

JUNE 18

FROM A TO Z

1.
Dirty

2.
“Ahoy”

3.
Bijou

4.
Gnu

5.
Biopsy

6.
Ghost

7.
CHiPs

8.
Aegis

9.
Forty

10.
Chinos

YE OLDE TRIVIA

1.
The War of 1812

2.
Joe DiMaggio

3.
Taylor Hicks

4.
Whiskey

5.
All lived to be over 100 years old

6.
Kevin Spacey

7.
Queen Victoria

8.
A wolf’s

9.
Alois Alzheimer

10.
Snoop Dogg

11.
Deuteronomy

12.
Bob Vila

13.
Abraham Lincoln

14.
Nolan Ryan

15.
Modern Maturity

JUNE 19

DAD TO THE BONE

1.
I

2.
A

3.
G

4.
F

5.
C

6.
J

7.
H

8.
D

9.
E

10.
B

BLEND AMBITION

1.
Texarkana (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana)

2.
Blaxploitation

3.
The Chunnel

4.
Emoticons

5.
Jazzercise

6.
Stagflation

7.
Spanglish
’s

8.
Californication

9.
Ebonics

10.
“Bootylicious”

STRICTLY STOCK

1.
Share price and earnings

2.
World War I

3.
Eisenhower (1954)

4.
Anheuser-Busch

5.
Nikkei (the Nikkei 225 index)

JUNE 20

I KNOW THERE’S AN ANSWER

1.
“The Warmth of the Sun”

2.
“Wendy”

3.
“All Summer Long”

4.
“409”

5.
“Kokomo”

6.
“Friends”

7.
“Surf’s Up”

8.
“Wild Honey”

9.
“Good Vibrations”

10.
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”

HOT STUFF

1.
The Simple Life

2.
Death Valley

3.
Part Deux

4.
Bill Clinton

5.
Mattel

6.
Louis Armstrong

7.
Chili peppers

8.
Phil Hartman

9.
The View

10.
Lightning

SHARK WEEK

1.
Mork and Mindy

2.
Chicago

3.
Michael Dukakis

4.
Cat Stevens

5.
Richard Gere

6.
The Sopranos

7.
The Buffalo Bills

8.
Francis Ford Coppola

9.
Al Sharpton

10.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

JUNE 21

NON-FAMILY TIES

1.
Were born a twin

2.
Appear on the cover of
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

3.
Killed another driver in a car accident

4.
Appeared on the first cover of a magazine (
TV Guide, Time, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy
)

5.
Changed their name because another celebrity was already using their real name (Davy Jones, Albert Einstein, Sugar Ray Robinson, James Stewart, Michael Douglas)

6.
Are very tall (6 feet, 7 inches or taller)

7.
Were born in the West Indies

8.
Had a leg amputated

9.
Have a U.S. state capital named for them

10.
Married a photographer

ACE IN THE HOLE

1.
Eights

2.
George Clooney

3.
Batman

4.
Five

5.
Backgammon

6.
A dolphin’s

7.
Whitey Ford

8.
Another baby

9.
Clubs

10.
John Lennon’s

JUNE 22

RAMPANT INFLATION

1.
The Wizard of Oz’s

2.
Richard Branson

3.
Felix the Cat

4.
Red

5.
Sally Rand

THE AGONY OF DE FEET

1.
Plantar warts

2.
Steve Irwin

3.
Water polo and beach volleyball

4.
The Styx

5.
The pedals on a piano

COLLECTED CONUNDRA

1.
Coin collector

2.
Cuckoo clocks

3.
Calvin Coolidge

4.
Carson City

5.
California condor

6.
Charlotte Church

7.
Cat’s Cradle

8.
Clam chowder

9.
Coonskin cap

10.
Corpus callosum

JUNE 23

I’M IN CHARGE HERE!

Easy

1.
Prime minister of Israel

2.
Tonight Show
host

3.
Dallas Cowboys coach

4.
Emperor of Rome

5.
Vice president

Harder

1.
Baseball commissioner

2.
U.N. secretary-general

3.
Secretary of defense

4.
British poet laureate

5.
Prime minister of Canada

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Governor of New York

2.
President of the Motion Picture Academy

3.
President of Egypt

4.
Miss America

5.
New York Times
crossword editor

PITCHER PERFECT

1.
Don Drysdale

2.
Tommy John

3.
Rolaids

4.
Lefty Grove

5.
Grover Cleveland Alexander (played by Ronald Reagan)

INCONCEIVABLE

1.
Margaret Sanger

2.
The Today sponge

3.
Condom

4.
Safe sex on the beach

5.
Onan

JUNE 24

TYPE “OH”

1.
Neil Sedaka’s

2.
Kate Walsh

3.
Alabama

4.
Dr. Seuss’s

5.
Hit a home run

BOTTLED UP

1.
I Dream of Jeannie

2.
Felix Klein

3.
A hundred billion

4.
Coca-Cola

5.
Punt

6.
Krypton

7.
Finland

8.
Jack Daniel’s

9.
Windchill factor

10.
Tennessee Williams

A DESCENT PLACE TO LIVE

1.
C

2.
A

3.
D

4.
B

5.
E

JUNE 25

ZAPPED!

1.
Donner and Blitzen

2.
Cars

3.
Benjamin Franklin

4.
The Passion of the Christ

5.
The San Diego Chargers

6.
Metallica’s

7.
The Cyclops

8.
He turned into the Flash

9.
Wonderboy

10.
A Jacob’s ladder

WEIGHTY MATTERS

1.
Nazareth

2.
Evangelista Torricelli (inventor of the barometer)

3.
“Float On”

4.
Uranium

5.
Christian Bale (
Batman Begins
)

6.
Avoirdupois

7.
Lynn Redgrave

8.
The liver

9.
The Crucible

10.
It’s the official prototype kilogram

11.
The carob tree’s (hence, carats)

12.
William “Refrigerator” Perry (350 pounds)

13.
“Born to Be Wild”

14.
Bantamweight and flyweight

15.
The Jerk

JUNE 26

THE RAT PATROL

1.
Dr. Gregory House

2.
Saccharin

3.
Peter Lawford

4.
The kangaroo rat

5.
Linguini

6.
“Round and Round”

7.
Bubonic plague

8.
Willard

9.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’

10.
Midnight Cowboy

JUICY FRUITS

1.
Pomegranate

2.
Cranberry and lime

3.
A dream deferred

4.
Cherry red

5.
Apricots

6.
Grapes

7.
Andy Warhol’s

8.
Oranges

9.
Fruit of the Loom

10.
Grape

11.
Honduras

12.
The tangelo

13.
Dwight Gooden

14.
The Empire State Building

15.
Meat tenderizer

16.
Atalanta’s

17.
Oranges (
The Love for Three Oranges
)

18.
It gave people typhus (she was “Typhoid Mary”)

19.
A kiwifruit

20.
Huckleberry Pie

JUNE 27

MATCHING FUNDS

1.
B, $100

2.
D, $50

3.
C, $10

4.
E, $20

5.
A, $2

SO I CAN, SO I CAN

1.
Vogue

2.
Roy Orbison (“Oh, Pretty Woman”)