Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (163 page)

10.
Arizona and Hawaii

11.
Hegira

12.
Father’s Day

13.
Inauguration Day

14.
Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve

15.
Saturday

JUST DESERTS

1.
Antarctica (low precipitation, no vegetation)

2.
Dune

3.
Philip Roth

4.
The Takla Makan

5.
King Hussein of Jordan

6.
Dromedary (or Arabian; number of humps on a camel)

7.
Australia

8.
Death Valley

9.
The Kalahari

10.
Salt Lake City

SEPTEMBER 3

ACCESS OF EVIL

1.
Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s assassination

2.
Sigmund Freud

3.
Oklahoma

4.
Anteaters

5.
Augustus Gloop

6.
Michelangelo

7.
Ivan Boesky

CLUBLAND

Easy

1.
Chicago Bears

2.
University of Houston

3.
Pittsburgh Steelers

4.
New York Yankees

5.
Los Angeles Lakers

Harder

1.
Golden State Warriors

2.
Denver Broncos

3.
Miami Dolphins

4.
Philadelphia Flyers

5.
University of Michigan

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Buffalo Bills

2.
Milwaukee Brewers

3.
Chicago White Sox

4.
Washington Redskins

5.
Buffalo Sabres

NINE OF SEVEN

1.
Abbie Hoffman

2.
Mickey Mantle

3.
Piss

4.
Three

5.
Lance Armstrong (winning the Tour de France)

6.
Samson

7.
Sherlock Holmes

8.
Isaac Newton

9.
Whitney Houston

SEPTEMBER 4

REVERSE ENGINEERING

1.
Fantasia
(“Yen Sid” is “Disney” spelled backward)

2.
Dick Fosbury

3.
Polish

4.
Daddy Mac and Mac Daddy

5.
R

SO UNPRETTY

1.
The Eiffel Tower

2.
Britney Spears

3.
A grapefruit

4.
Tony Blair

5.
Abraham Lincoln

6.
The Troll doll

7.
Salma Hayek

8.
The Elephant Man

9.
Anne of Cleves

10.
A swan

“
PRIME” DIRECTIVE

1.
Jane Tennison

2.
Jimmy Carter

3.
Megatron

4.
The Supremes

5.
France and Spain

6.
23

7.
Aristotle

8.
Maggie Smith

9.
Choice

10.
They aired twice a week

SEPTEMBER 5

ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS

1.
Much Ado about Nothing
’s (Benedick and Beatrice)

2.
Puck

3.
Antonio (
The Merchant of Venice
)

4.
The Tempest

5.
Iago

SIZE MATTERS

1.
Olives

2.
Grand pianos

3.
Champagne bottles

4.
Hailstones

5.
Starbucks cups

FUTURE SHOCK

1.
Easter

2.
The New York World’s Fair

3.
2016

4.
Orion

5.
6009

6.
Brave New World

7.
The Age of Aquarius

8.
Ayers Rock

9.
London

10.
Buck Rogers

SEPTEMBER 6

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Easy

1.
Michael J. Fox

2.
Evangeline Lilly

3.
Jim Carrey

4.
Raymond Burr

5.
Martin Short

Harder

1.
Victor Garber

2.
Kim Cattrall

3.
Lorne Greene

4.
Jill Hennessy

5.
Sandra Oh

Yeah, Good Luck (two answers each)

1.
Dave Foley, Phil Hartman

2.
Neve Campbell, Paula Devicq

3.
William Shatner, James Doohan

4.
Howie Mandel, Bruce Greenwood

5.
Jason Priestley, Kathleen Robertson

SOMETHING’S FISHY

1.
Bass

2.
Marlin Perkins

3.
Laura Harring

4.
Salmon P. Chase

5.
Tintin

6.
Kurt Vonnegut’s

7.
Zebulon Pike (Pikes Peak)

8.
A “vast wasteland”

9.
EVOO (for extra-virgin olive oil)

10.
Jackson Pollock’s

ISTANBUL, NOT CONSTANTINOPLE

Easy

1.
Ho Chi Minh City

2.
New York

3.
Tokyo

4.
Mumbai

5.
Beijing

Harder

1.
Jakarta

2.
Gdansk

3.
Toronto

4.
Kinshasa

5.
Oslo

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Harare (Zimbabwe)

2.
Sleepy Hollow

3.
Nizhny Novgorod

4.
Maputo (Lesotho)

5.
Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)

SEPTEMBER 7

TURTLE POWER

1.
Michelangelo and Donatello

2.
Pecans

3.
Dieter (
Sprockets
)

4.
Elenore

5.
A calf’s (mock turtle soup is made from veal)

6.
Entourage

7.
The Galápagos Islands

8.
Rocky Balboa’s

9.
Logo

10.
Turtle Wax

11.
Break dancing

12.
Dr. Seuss

13.
In Super Mario video games

14.
Maryland

15.
A (turtle) dove

GRANDCHILDREN OF MEN

1.
Sue Grafton (for Kinsey Mill-hone)

2.
Adlai Stevenson

3.
They’re seventh sons of seventh sons

4.
Max Born

5.
Orville Redenbacher

SEPTEMBER 8

B.F.F.!!!

1.
“The court”

2.
Wrigley Field

3.
Pennsylvania

4.
Commodore

5.
Gumby

6.
Chancellorsville

7.
His mother

8.
14

9.
Two Gentlemen of Verona

10.
“The One…”

SIBLING RIVALRY

1.
Farmer and shepherd

2.
Oasis

3.
Suspicion

4.
Attila the Hun

5.
Dear Abby and Ann Landers

6.
Lake Tahoe

7.
The Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants (Peyton and Eli Manning)

8.
The Doobie Brothers

9.
Jan Brady

10.
Sense and Sensibility

SEPTEMBER 9

PRE-OCCUPATIONS

Easy

1.
Woodrow Wilson

2.
George W. Bush

3.
Jimmy Carter

4.
Thomas Jefferson

5.
Ronald Reagan

Harder

1.
Harry Truman

2.
Theodore Roosevelt

3.
Herbert Hoover

4.
Dwight Eisenhower

5.
Grover Cleveland

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
James Garfield

2.
Gerald Ford

3.
Andrew Johnson

4.
William Taft

5.
Warren Harding

BUGGY RIDE

1.
The boll weevil

2.
Dragonflies

3.
“Grasshopper”

4.
The speed at which crickets chirp

5.
The New Orleans Hornets (the Columbus Blue Jackets are now branded with Civil War–, not insect-related, imagery)

6.
Egypt

7.
Ants

8.
Breathing

9.
The honeybee

10.
A mosquito

BORN TO RUNNER-UP

1.
Haiti

2.
Oxygen

3.
Ted Kennedy

4.
The Kansas City Chiefs

5.
The Yukon

SEPTEMBER 10

OLD SITCOMS NEVER DIE

Easy

1.
Bonanza

2.
Lassie

3.
The Andy Griffith Show

4.
The Phil Silvers Show

5.
Marcus Welby, M.D.

Harder

1.
The Bob Cummings Show

2.
Too Close for Comfort

3.
Dragnet

4.
Wagon Train

5.
Ironside

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Treasury Men in Action

2.
Fury

3.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective

4.
The Lineup

5.
Captain Midnight

DEAD HEADS

1.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

2.
Cool Hand Luke (Jackson)

3.
The Queen of Hearts

4.
The
v

5.
Two

6.
They were already dead

7.
Geek

8.
John the Baptist

9.
“In topless bar”

10.
Ichabod Crane

GEORGE AND MARTHA

1.
None

2.
Dennis the Menace

3.
Hippos

4.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
?

5.
Little Lulu

SEPTEMBER 11

ONE BRIEF ENSHRINING MOMENT

Easy

1.
Rock and Roll

2.
Baseball

3.
Country Music

4.
Swimming

5.
Space

Harder

1.
Clown

2.
Chess

3.
Basketball

4.
Television

5.
Bowling

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Stuntmen’s

2.
Nursing

3.
Tennis

4.
Professional Wrestling

5.
Pro Football

SPY VS. SPY

1.
East Germany

2.
Israel

3.
Iran

4.
Great Britain

5.
The Soviet Union

MAYBE I’M A MAZE

1.
The cherry

2.
The ear

3.
The Spanish Civil War

4.
The Shining

5.
Daedalus

SEPTEMBER 12

ANY WAY YOU SAY IT

1.
“Freebird”

2.
Pierre, South Dakota (“peer”)

3.
Joe Theismann (previously “theez-man”)

4.
“Either”

5.
Arkansas

ME, A PHARAOH?

1.
Nefertiti

2.
Ptolemy

3.
The death of all firstborn males

4.
Anwar Sadat

5.
An asp

DIRECT ORDERS

Easy

1.
Monkeys and apes

2.
Rabbits

3.
Whales and dolphins

4.
Elephants

Harder

1.
Bats

2.
Manatees and dugongs

3.
Butterflies and moths

4.
Tortoises

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Cockroaches

2.
Parrots

3.
Aardvarks

4.
Frogs and toads

SEPTEMBER 13

TIMES NEW ROMAN

1.
Don Novello (as Father Guido Sarducci)

2.
El Salvador (“the Savior”)

3.
Ben-Hur
or
A Man for All Seasons

4.
Baptism

5.
Alfred Smith

THE CRATER GOOD

1.
Mare or maria

2.
A rabbit

3.
United Press International (UPI)

4.
Chappaquiddick

5.
It’s the tiny crescent at the base of each nail