Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (127 page)

1.
Frank Shuster

2.
Anne Meara

3.
Ray Goulding

4.
David Cross

5.
Avery Schreiber

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Chic Johnson

2.
Ronnie Corbett

3.
Robert Woolsey

4.
Steve Rossi

5.
Ron Landry

SLAMMIN’

1.
Lisa Leslie

2.
“Thunder Road” (Bruce Springsteen)

3.
Lou Gehrig

4.
“The Burn Book”

5.
George Tenet

JULY 26

ADD AGENCY

Easy

1.
Health and Human Services

2.
Transportation

3.
Interior

4.
Justice

5.
The Treasury

Harder

1.
Homeland Security

2.
Interior

3.
Labor

4.
Health and Human Services

5.
Housing and Urban Development

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Commerce

2.
Agriculture

3.
Energy

4.
Commerce

5.
Education

MISS CONGENITALITY

1.
A

2.
C

3.
D

4.
B

5.
E

SOL MUSIC

1.
The Baltimore
Sun

2.
The corona

3.
The Fiesta Bowl

4.
The Dark Side of the Moon

5.
Ra

6.
The Sundance Kid

7.
Louis XIV

8.
The Dallas Mavericks

9.
He’s impotent from a war wound

10.
Ben Stiller

JULY 27

EAGLE-EYED

1.
Gerald Ford

2.
An “albatross”

3.
Adolf Hitler

4.
“E Pluribus Unum”

5.
John Madden

6.
Montenegro

7.
“Colitas”

8.
Ski jumping

9.
The golden eagle

10.
The Hobbit

SINGLED OUT

1.
Sudoku

2.
“Candle in the Wind 1997”

3.
Edward Heath

4.
Nissan

5.
Ivan Lendl

FIELD TESTING

Easy

1.
Yankee Stadium

2.
Lambeau Field

3.
Indianapolis Speedway

4.
Dodger Stadium

5.
Ohio Stadium

Harder

1.
Mellon Arena

2.
Cleveland Browns Stadium

3.
The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

4.
Minute Maid Park

5.
Michigan Stadium

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
University Arena (New Mexico)

2.
HP Pavilion

3.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

4.
Darlington Raceway

5.
LP Field

JULY 28

THE WAY WE WIRE

1.
World War I

2.
The Stranger

3.
“Old Cary Grant fine. How you?”

4.
William Tecumseh Sherman

5.
Mickey Rooney

DASH BOARD

1.
David Hyde-Pierce

2.
Constantin Costa-Gavras

3.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4.
Margaret Bourke-White

5.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith-Joyner

6.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

7.
Claude Lévi-Strauss

8.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

9.
Catherine Zeta-Jones

10.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

NOT STIRRED

1.
Hakeem Olajuwon

2.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force

3.
Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat

4.
KC and the Sunshine Band (“Shake Your Booty”)

5.
The Russian Revolution

JULY 29

GET WITH THE PROGRAM!

1.
Java

2.
Python

3.
BASIC

4.
C

5.
Pascal

RHYME AND REASON

1.
Jack Black (of Tenacious D)

2.
Harry Caray

3.
The White Knight

4.
Fay Wray

5.
A zoot suit

6.
Pall Mall

7.
The Mod Squad

8.
Quiet Riot

9.
Wavy Gravy

10.
Tora Bora

11.
Beaver Cleaver

12.
“Helter Skelter”

13.
Kill Bill

14.
“Pee-Wee”

15.
Lexis Nexis

JULY 30

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

Easy

1.
Japan

2.
The United Kingdom

3.
Israel

4.
Germany

5.
Russia

Harder

1.
The Netherlands

2.
Iceland

3.
Ireland

4.
India

5.
Sweden

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Finland

2.
Mongolia

3.
Albania

4.
Norway

5.
Bangladesh

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

1.
Put your hands on your hips with your elbows out

2.
The
Aeneid

3.
Unsportsmanlike conduct

4.
Ten

5.
199 (Daniel Inouye lost an arm in Italy during World War II)

TINT POLE MOVIES

Easy

1.
Purple

2.
White

3.
Pink

Harder

1.
Silver

2.
Black

3.
Blue

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Green

2.
Red

3.
Yellow

JULY 31

THE LIGHT STUFF

1.
(Stained) glass

2.
China

3.
A halogen lamp

4.
Emma Lazarus’s (“The New Colossus”)

5.
The harp

6.
Boston’s Old North Church (for Paul Revere)

7.
Florence Nightingale

8.
Yellow

9.
Pixar’s

10.
An honest man

“
D” COMPOSITION

1.
Marv Albert’s

2.
Denver

3.
Operation Overlord

4.
Professor Griff

5.
Hydrogen

SAY MY NAME

1.
Scary and Sporty (Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm)

2.
John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun

3.
Apple Computer

4.
Terry (Jones and Gilliam)

5.
Hawaii (Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka)

AUGUST 1

1825
A
RMY SURGEON
W
ILLIAM
B
EAUMONT
begins his experiments with fur trader Alexis St. Martin, who has a hole in his abdomen from an oddly healed 1822 musket wound. By dipping food on strings directly into St. Martin’s stomach, Beaumont uncovers the secrets of digestion, becoming known as the “Father of Gastric Physiology.”

BELLY WILDER

Can you stomach this quiz?

1.
What slang term for the stomach is the highest-scoring ailment in Operation?

2.
Rennet, an enzyme-filled juice from animal stomachs, is used in the making of what?

3.
In his Snake Plissken movies, what kind of snake is Kurt Russell’s stomach tattoo?

4.
Chemically, what kind of acid is stomach acid?

5.
What comedy show parodied soap operas with
As the Stomach Turns
?

1978
N
EW
Y
ORK
C
ITY PASSES
Section 161. 03 of its health code, the famous “poop scoop” law, and pet owners reluctantly begin cleaning up after their dogs—at least when cops are watching.

THE SCOOP-Y GANG

1.
What scoop out cirques, coombs, and corries?

2.
What magazine scooped
The Washington Post
to the 2005 revelation that Mark Felt was “Deep Throat”?

3.
If you’re scooping up spicy doro wat with big hunks of injera, what country’s cuisine are you enjoying?

4.
What 1969 bestseller begins with a satellite called SCOOP crashing in Arizona?

5.
What two former Seahawks QBs are the NFL’s career leaders in fumble recoveries, scooping up 56 and 47 respectively?

1981
MTV
LAUNCHES,
playing “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by the Buggles, its first video ever. Twenty minutes later, MTV plays “Rockin’ the Paradise” by Styx, which turns out to be its last video ever, as the channel then launches into a twenty-four-hour
Road Rules
marathon.

STRAIGHT TO VIDEOS

1.
California’s Venice High School, which became Rydell High in the film
Grease,
was also the setting for what career-making 1998 video?

2.
What legendary director shot the Michael Jackson video “Bad”?

3.
What video made stars of the overall-clad “Sal” and “Harv”?

4.
What musician, killed on February 3, 1959, is believed to have coined the term “music video” when he made short films for three of his songs in 1958?

5.
Who are Nathan Wind, Vic Colfari, and Sir Stewart Wallace?

6.
What Oscar winner also won an MTV Video Music Award in 2001 for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” video?

7.
In what 1992 video do words like “numb,” “problem,” and “harmless” flash on the screen, in chalk, mirroring the lyric “Try to erase this from the blackboard”?

8.
What smash video features a vintage performance by the fictional band The Love Below?

9.
Aardman Animations, of
Wallace and Gromit
fame, is also responsible for what most-played video in MTV history?

10.
What video’s literary images include the martyred Saint Sebastian and Gabriel García Márquez’s “Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”?