Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (18 page)

2.
India

3.
Germany

4.
Argentina

Harder

1.
Nicaragua

2.
Turkey

3.
Canada

4.
Pakistan

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Chile

2.
Ukraine

3.
Sri Lanka

4.
Jamaica

JANUARY 4

TRUNK CALLS

1.
Tarzan

2.
The bishop

3.
Pearl Harbor

4.
Hannibal

5.
Ganesh

6.
The giraffe

7.
“Tusk,” by Fleetwood Mac

8.
Mel Brooks

9.
“Seven Nation Army” (for the Salvation Army)

10.
Babar

11.
Dentin

12.
Pachyderm

13.
The Alabama Crimson Tide

14.
Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush

15.
Thailand

THAT’S THE SPIRIT!

Easy

1.
The Sixth Sense

2.
Beetle Juice

3.
The Others

4.
Topper

5.
Field of Dreams

Harder

1.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

2.
Truly, Madly, Deeply

3.
Scrooged

4.
The Ring

5.
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Frighteners

2.
The Canterville Ghost

3.
Hamlet

4.
Ghost

5.
Scoop

JANUARY 5

COMMON SCENTS

1.
Ozone

2.
Spinal Tap’s

3.
Hong Kong’s

4.
Phoebe Buffay’s (
Friends
)

5.
Coffee

6.
Farting

7.
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, a libido

8.
Lazarus

9.
The (sperm) whale’s

10.
Bouquet

11.
Walter Winchell

12.
Almonds

13.
“The Gingerbread Man”

14.
Odor Eaters

15.
Victory

FIRST-NAME BASIS

Easy

1.
Romeo and Juliet

2.
Will & Grace

3.
Laverne & Shirley

4.
Bonnie and Clyde

Harder

1.
Amos ’n’ Andy

2.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

3.
Thelma and Louise

4.
Dharma & Greg

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Hope & Faith

2.
Oscar and Lucinda

3.
Harold and Maude

4.
Kate & Allie

JANUARY 6

MISPELLINGS

1.
Marven (Marvin) Gardens

2.
Pennsylvania

3.
Manhunter

4.
Beck (
Odelay
)

5.
Naomi

6.
E (“potatoe”)

7.
The Stanley Cup

8.
Sweden

9.
Antawn Jamison

10.
Happiness (
The Pursuit of Happyness
)

SCREEN DEBUTS

1.
M

2.
C

3.
K

4.
D

5.
S

6.
H

7.
T

8.
R

9.
Q

10.
F

11.
B

12.
J

13.
E

14.
O

15.
I

16.
N

17.
A

18.
G

19.
P

20.
L

JANUARY 7

THE ITALIAN JOB

1.
Capri pants

2.
Antonio Stradivarius

3.
A Fistful of Dollars

4.
Antonin Scalia

5.
Christopher Columbus

UNDERDOG DAYS

1.
Buster Douglas

2.
Earl Morrall

3.
Ben Hogan

4.
Finland

5.
The New York Mets

6.
Upset

7.
Chaminade

8.
Uruguay

9.
Jim Valvano

10.
Rulon Gardner

GOOD DAY FOR BLACK ROCK

1.
Mecca

2.
Basalt

3.
“Everybody Hates…”

4.
Nevada

5.
Coal

JANUARY 8

BABY GENIUSES

1.
Little Stevie Wonder’s

2.
H. P. Lovecraft

3.
Salzburg

4.
Gene Roddenberry’s

5.
Murray Gell-Mann

6.
Jeremy Bentham

7.
Pablo Picasso

8.
Geoffrey Rush (
Shine
)

9.
Douglas

10.
Michelle Wie

THE NUMBER YOU HAVE DIALED

1.
(PE) 6-5000

2.
112

3.
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)

4.
It was Morgan Freeman’s number in
Bruce Almighty

5.
Jenny

SEX CELS

Easy

1.
Aladdin

2.
Pocahontas

3.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Harder

1.
The Little Mermaid

2.
Mulan

3.
The Lion King

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Hercules

2.
Bambi

3.
Sleeping Beauty

JANUARY 9

IT TAKES A STEADY HAND TO PLAY OPERATION!

1.
A

2.
D

3.
E

4.
C

5.
B

EYES CAPADES

1.
Color blindness

2.
Brent Spiner (
Star Trek
’s “Data”)

3.
Sirius Satellite Radio’s

4.
The Internet Movie Database, IMDb.com

5.
Sugar Ray Leonard’s

6.
“The Tell-tale Heart”

7.
Bunker Hill

8.
The cornea

9.
Ian Fleming’s

10.
Five

THE “DEAR” HUNTER

1.
About Schmidt

2.
North Korea

3.
Beverly Cleary

4.
Mia Farrow

5.
Jack the Ripper

JANUARY 10

A LITTLE TOWN IN THE MOUTH

1.
Buffalo

2.
Baltimore

3.
Little Rock

4.
Venice

5.
Jerusalem

LOVE LACE?

1.
Aglet

2.
Teddy Roosevelt

3.
Chantilly

4.
Queen Anne(’s lace)

5.
Mickey Finn

ORIGINAL SYNERGY

1.
E

2.
A

3.
H

4.
I

5.
D

6.
C

7.
J

8.
B

9.
F

10.
G

JANUARY 11

TRIVIA TRIVIA

1.
Murmur

2.
Couscous

3.
Tsetse flies

4.
Can-Can

5.
Humbert Humbert (
Lolita
)

6.
“Louie Louie”

7.
The Mau Mau uprising

8.
Rochelle, Rochelle

9.
Mahimahi

10.
Bamm-Bamm

11.
Pago Pago, American Samoa

12.
The dodo

13.
Duran Duran (“A View to a Kill”)

14.
Sirhan Sirhan

15.
New York, New York

16.
A yo-yo

17.
Liar Liar

18.
Baden-Baden

19.
Lulu

20.
“Bling bling”

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

1.
The Delmarva Peninsula

2.
The Kamchatka Peninsula

3.
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

4.
The Yucatán Peninsula

5.
The Crimea

JANUARY 12

JUST FOLK

1.
The Jordan River

2.
Pete Seeger

3.
Chelsea Clinton (“Chelsea Morning”)

4.
“Come by here”

5.
Ione Skye

MANY ARE COLD, BUT FEW ARE FROZEN

1.
-40°

2.
Scrat

3.
Fish

4.
Frank Zamboni

5.
Body Count

6.
Geyser

7.
Thanksgiving

8.
Carbon dioxide

9.
Brian Boitano

10.
Stalingrad

THEY SPY

1.
B (
24
)

2.
D (
Alias
)

3.
C (
Mission: Impossible
)

4.
A (
Get Smart
)

5.
E (
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
)

JANUARY 13

ACTUALLY, IT
IS
ROCKET SCIENCE

1.
Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen

2.
The Atlas

3.
Roswell, New Mexico

4.
V-2s

5.
Thrust

COVER TO COVER

1.
“Venus”

2.
“The Loco-Motion”

3.
“I’ll Be There”

4.
“Lean on Me”

5.
“Go Away Little Girl”

6.
“Lady Marmalade”

7.
“When a Man Loves a Woman”

8.
“Please Mr. Postman”

9.
“You Keep Me Hangin’ On”

10.
Gerry Goffin and Carole King (“Go Away Little Girl” and “The Loco-Motion”)

WE ARE NOT A MUSE

Easy

1.
James Cameron

2.
Steven Spielberg

3.
Kenneth Branagh

4.
Vincente Minnelli

5.
Paul Newman

Harder

1.
Joel Coen

2.
Roberto Rossellini

3.
Roger Vadim

4.
Guy Ritchie

5.
Renny Harlin

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Federico Fellini

2.
Atom Egoyan

3.
Jean-Luc Godard

4.
John Cassavetes

5.
Brian De Palma

JANUARY 14

SURELY TEMPLES

1.
Kali

2.
Angkor Wat

3.
Temple prostitute

4.
STP Motor Oil

5.
Jim Jones

6.
The Temple to Artemis (or Diana) at Ephesus

7.
Coruscant

8.
Salt Lake City

9.
You Bet Your Life
(starring Temple grad Bill Cosby)

10.
The Dome of the Rock

CREATURE FEATURES

Easy

1.
Pig

2.
Horse

3.
Clownfish

4.
Ape or gorilla

Harder

1.
Leopard

2.
Deer

3.
Oliver was a cat

4.
Rat

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Parrot (played by a conure)

2.
Orangutan

3.
Seal (played by a sea lion)

4.
Ants

ALL STARSTRUCK

1.
Gordie Howe

2.
The Cincinnati Reds

3.
Larry Nance

4.
The Hula Bowl

5.
LeBron James

JANUARY 15

COVERING YOUR ASS

1.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2.
Shrek 2

3.
Palm Sunday

4.
A jenny

5.
Kornfield Kounty

SUGAR SUGAR

1.
Condoleezza (
con dolcezza
) Rice

2.
Bucket

3.
The Louisiana Superdome

4.
Milk Duds

5.
Altamont

6.
Banana

7.
The pancreas

8.
Boxing

9.
Ernie

10.
“A Spoonful of Sugar”