Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (126 page)

5.
Catherine of Aragon

6.
Catherine of Aragon

7.
Catherine Howard

8.
Anne of Cleves

9.
Catherine Parr

10.
Anne Boleyn

BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO

1.
Grindhouse

2.
The Mensheviks

3.
Maine or Nebraska

4.
Plutonium

5.
The 7 and 10

6.
An elephant

7.
Pangaea

8.
Anne Heche (Steve Martin and Ellen DeGeneres)

9.
Berkshire Hathaway

10.
Blink-182

JULY 15

HIT THE SHOWERS

1.
Stephanie Seymour

2.
Qantas

3.
“Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain”

4.
The Atacama

5.
The Houston Astros

6.
Rainn Wilson

7.
Monsoon

8.
Prince’s (he ended with “Purple Rain”)

9.
A Clockwork Orange

10.
“It was a dark and stormy night”

UNDA THE ROTUNDA

Easy

1.
Virginia

2.
Texas

3.
Hawaii

4.
Utah

Harder

1.
Oklahoma

2.
Mississippi

3.
New Hampshire

4.
Tennessee

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Indiana

2.
Pennsylvania

3.
Nevada

4.
Montana

GREED, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, IS GOOD

1.
The wolverine

2.
A mint

3.
John Madden

4.
Alka-Seltzer

5.
Nathan’s Famous

JULY 16

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES

Easy

1.
Agatha Christie

2.
Erle Stanley Gardner

3.
Mickey Spillane

4.
Arthur Conan Doyle

5.
Raymond Chandler

Harder

1.
Rex Stout

2.
G. K. Chesterton

3.
Patricia Cornwell

4.
John D. MacDonald

5.
Dashiell Hammett

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Lilian Jackson Braun

2.
Ngaio Marsh

3.
P. D. James

4.
Dorothy Sayers

5.
John Dickson Carr

AVENUE CUBE

1.
Björk

2.
Rubik’s Revenge

3.
Skateboarding

4.
64 (4
³
and 8
²
)

5.
The Wii

NO MORE PENCILS, NO MORE BOOKS

1.
Dmitri Mendeleev

2.
A cocker spaniel

3.
Erwin Rommel’s (“Rommel, you magnificent bastard—I read your book!”)

4.
Grey’s Anatomy

5.
Kansas’s

JULY 17

FANTASY LANDS

Easy

1.
L. Frank Baum

2.
C. S. Lewis

3.
J. R. R. Tolkien

4.
Lewis Carroll

5.
Jonathan Swift

Harder

1.
J. M. Barrie

2.
Mervyn Peake

3.
Ursula K. Le Guin

4.
Thomas More

5.
Lloyd Alexander

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Edgar Rice Burroughs

2.
James Branch Cabell

3.
Christopher Paolini

4.
Michael Ende

5.
Terry Pratchett

TRANSATLANTICISM

1.
Hawaii

2.
“You’re Beautiful” (James Blunt)

3.
Chariots of Fire

4.
“Iron Curtain”

5.
“All My Loving”

6.
Terry Gilliam

7.
New York

8.
All in the Family

9.
Alumin(i)um

10.
King Edward VIII

11.
The Los Angeles Galaxy

12.
Julie Andrews

13.
The Battle of New Orleans

14.
Norfolk, Virginia

15.
P. G. Wodehouse

JULY 18

WHEEL PEOPLE

Easy

1.
KITT

2.
The Mach Five

3.
The General Lee

Harder

1.
The Mystery Machine

2.
Christine

3.
Black Beauty

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Herbie, the Love Bug

2.
Melmoth

3.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

SEND BACKUP!

Easy

1.
The Miracles

2.
The Blackhearts

3.
The Heartbreakers

4.
The Pips

5.
The Crickets

Harder

1.
The Funky Bunch

2.
The Modern Lovers

3.
The Destroyers

4.
The New Bohemians

5.
The Range

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Crypt-Kickers

2.
The Heywoods

3.
The Egyptians

4.
The Dakotas

5.
The Thrillers

PERFECTIONISM

1.
Mypos

2.
Wang Chung

3.
Randy Johnson (40)

4.
Dial M for Murder

5.
Cigars (figurados)

JULY 19

NOD AT FIRST

Easy

1.
Julie Andrews

2.
Marlee Matlin

3.
Jennifer Hudson

4.
Anna Paquin

5.
Barbra Streisand

Harder

1.
Catalina Sandino Moreno

2.
Eva Marie Saint

3.
Emily Watson

4.
Greer Garson

5.
Cathy Moriarty

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Angela Lansbury

2.
Sondra Locke

3.
Leslie Browne

4.
Vivien Merchant

5.
Miyoshi Umeki

DOME SWEET DOME

1.
Buckminster Fuller

2.
Devo

3.
Lassen Peak

4.
The North Carolina Tar Heels (formerly coached by Dean Smith)

5.
Christopher Wren

IT’S A MAN’S WORLD

1.
E (Georgia)

2.
B (Seattle)

3.
C (secretary of labor)

4.
D (Montana)

5.
A (Wyoming)

JULY 20

IDLE CHEDDAR

1.
Salvador Dalí (
The Persistence of Memory
)

2.
Wallace (of “and Gromit” fame)

3.
Ricotta

4.
John Cleese

5.
Swiss cheese

6.
Green Bay Packers “cheese-head” hat

7.
Fondue

8.
A mouse

9.
“Farmer in the Dell” (“the cheese stands alone”)

10.
The Netherlands

“
MASTERS” OF THE UNIVERSE

1.
(First) violin

2.
Rick Moranis

3.
Pearl Jam

4.
Benjamin Franklin

5.
El Greco

6.
Elizabeth I’s

7.
Albus Dumbledore (
Harry Potter
)

8.
Ringling Brothers

9.
The Furious Five

10.
Garry Kasparov

JULY 21

BATTLEFIELD MIRTH

Easy

1.
Napoleon Bonaparte

2.
Norman Schwarzkopf

3.
Ulysses S. Grant

4.
George Patton

5.
Manfred von Richtofen

Harder

1.
Frances Marion

2.
William Tecumseh Sherman

3.
Anthony Wayne

4.
Omar Bradley

5.
Erwin Rommel

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Winfield Scott

2.
Robert E. Lee

3.
Henry Lee

4.
Smedley Butler

5.
John Burgoyne

FOUR-LETTER WORDS

1.
“Land”

2.
Gigi

3.
Blue, gray, gold, plum

4.
Amen

5.
-stan

6.
Blog

7.
Lost

8.
Laos and Chad

9.
love and hate

10.
Waco

11.
Time

12.
“Babe” by Styx

13.
They’re surnames of U.S. secretaries of state

13.
Rome and Oslo

14.
Milt

JULY 22

TRIVIA BOREALIS

1.
Helsinki beats Stockholm by a nose

2.
Fawn Hall

3.
Nunavut

4.
Kim Il-Sung

5.
North by Northwest
’s

6.
Tunisia

7.
The New York Cosmos

8.
A dentist

9.
Dennis the Menace

10.
Zambia

DRESS ME UP, TAKE YOUR TIME, I’M YOUR DOLLIE

1.
Bennie (“and the Jets”)

2.
Eleanor Rigby

3.
You (“You’re So Vain”)

4.
Sk8er Boi

5.
Ziggy Stardust

6.
Iron Man

7.
Sweet Jane

8.
Mack the Knife

9.
Slim Shady (“My Name Is”)

10.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

JULY 23

GATED COMMUNITY

1.
E

2.
A

3.
B

4.
D

5.
C

TRAFFIC CETACEANS

1.
The sperm whale

2.
Gordie Howe

3.
Baleen

4.
The Faroe Islands

5.
Moby

SPORTMANTEAU

1.
Marcus Allen Iverson

2.
Dizzy Dean Smith

3.
Edwin Moses Malone

4.
Mitch Gaylord Perry

5.
Julio Franco Harris

6.
Byron Scott Hamilton

7.
Branch Rickey Henderson

8.
Herb Brooks Robinson

9.
Rick Barry Bonds

10.
Eddie George Brett Hull

JULY 24

WHERE THERE’S A QUILL

1.
“Macaroni”

2.
Badminton birdies (shuttlecocks)

3.
Lola (“Copacabana”)

4.
Swordfish

5.
Archaeopteryx

6.
Hope

7.
A penguin (disguised as a chicken)

8.
The Aztecs

9.
A duck

10.
Forrest Gump

CON TRACTS

Easy

1.
Adolf Hitler

2.
John Bunyan

3.
The Marquis de Sade

Harder

1.
Ezra Pound

2.
Oscar Wilde

3.
Thomas Malory

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Jean Genet

2.
Marco Polo

3.
Boethius

HEAVY MEDAL

Easy

1.
Los Angeles

2.
Berlin

3.
Munich

4.
Montreal

5.
Athens

Harder

1.
Mexico City

2.
Stockholm

3.
Paris

4.
Los Angeles

5.
Sydney

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Atlanta

2.
Seoul

3.
Melbourne

4.
Barcelona

5.
Tokyo

JULY 25

AGRICULTURE CLUB

1.
Animal Farm

2.
Nitrogen

3.
Cincinnati (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus)

4.
William Tecumseh Sherman

5.
Green

6.
John Fogerty

7.
An ant farm

8.
The Shield

9.
Health (Head, Heart, and Hands are the other three)

10.
Marijuana

SCHTICKING UP FOR EACH OTHER

Easy

1.
Dick Martin

2.
Teller

3.
Gracie Allen

4.
Elaine May

5.
Oliver Hardy

Harder