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Authors: Ken Jennings
5.
Tony Snow
CAN YOU BE MORE PACIFIC?
1.
Papua New Guinea
2.
Guadalcanal
3.
Taro
4.
Pitcairn Island
5.
Paul Gauguin
6.
The Maori
7.
Scotland
8.
Mosi Tatupu
9.
Easter Island
10.
James Michener
DIE ANOTHER WAY
Easy
1.
Exposure (
not
drowning)
2.
Crucifixion
3.
Melted by water
4.
Cancer
5.
Atomic explosion
Harder
1.
Poisoning (iocane powder)
2.
Ax wounds
3.
Eaten by mutant shark
4.
Chased off cliff by topless women
5.
Suffocated with pillow
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
Gas chamber
2.
Beheaded
3.
Inflated and exploded using compressed air
4.
Heart attack (from shock)
5.
Buried alive
OCTOBER 4
EXPRESS YOURSELF
1.
Steven Spielberg’s
2.
Buffalo Bill Cody
3.
Roller skates
4.
“Do you know me?”
5.
Turkey
6.
San Antonio’s
7.
Nolan Ryan (
Von Ryan’s Express
)
8.
William Burroughs’s
9.
A sleigh bell
10.
Steve Young
POP GOES THE EASEL
Easy
1.
Roy Lichtenstein
2.
Andy Warhol
3.
David Hockney
Harder
1.
Jasper Johns
2.
Robert Indiana
3.
Claes Oldenburg
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
Keith Haring
2.
Wayne Thiebaud
3.
Robert Rauschenberg
WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?
1.
Every ten years
2.
Every other day
3.
Every other year
4.
Weekly
5.
Every seven years
6.
Every ninety minutes
7.
Twice a day
8.
Every six years
9.
Five times a day
10.
Twice a year
OCTOBER 5
EYE OF THE TAIGA
1.
The Gulag Archipelago
2.
Lake Baikal
3.
A giant explosion, probably a meteor strike
4.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
’s
5.
A woolly mammoth
FAKE BOOKS
1.
The Shop Around the Corner
2.
Harry Potter
3.
Roberto Benigni (
Life Is Beautiful
)
4.
Ellen DeGeneres
5.
A travel bookshop
GENTLEMAN COLLARS
1.
George Washington
2.
Jawaharlal Nehru
3.
Wisk
4.
Larry the Cable Guy
5.
Seiji Ozawa
OCTOBER 6
K MART
1.
Ketamine
2.
James K. Polk
3.
Black
4.
Ice Cube
5.
Roger Clemens’s sons (the initial
K
s represent strikeouts)
6.
Mozart’s
7.
Franz Kafka
8.
Kodak
9.
Henry Godwin-Austen
10.
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
ACID TEST
1.
Aspirin
2.
Hydrochloric acid and nitric acid
3.
Folic acid
4.
Red
5.
Sulfuric acid
TAKE TWO
Easy
1.
La Cage aux Folles
2.
The Bishop’s Wife
3.
Love Affair
4.
The Absent-Minded Professor
5.
Infernal Affairs
Harder
1.
La Femme Nikita
2.
Charade
3.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
4.
The Return of Martin Guerre
5.
Death Takes a Holiday
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
The Virgin Spring
2.
All That Heaven Allows
3.
Lady for a Day
4.
Boudu Saved from Drowning
5.
The More the Merrier
OCTOBER 7
CUP WITH PEOPLE
1.
Roberto Clemente
2.
Vince Lombardi
3.
James Norris
4.
Edgar Martinez
5.
Arthur Ashe
6.
Harley J. Earl
7.
Eclipse
8.
Jack Nicklaus
9.
Walter Payton
10.
Oscar Robertson
PUMPED UP
1.
Biting or chewing (it’s the masseter muscle of the jaw)
2.
Popeye’s
3.
The heart
4.
Charley horse
5.
The Cremaster Cycle
6.
BMI (body mass index)
7.
A Pontiac GTO
8.
Lactic acid
9.
The deltoid
10.
Michael Jackson
OCTOBER 8
CONSTITUTION HALL
1.
Delaware
2.
“Defence”
3.
Cruel and unusual
4.
John Dickinson
5.
Seven
6.
The “full faith and credit” clause
7.
Prohibition was repealed
8.
35
9.
Religion
10.
Rhode Island
PRICKLY PAIRS
Easy
1.
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
2.
Martin Landau and Barbara Bain
3.
Michael Tucker and Jill Eiken-berry
4.
Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush
5.
Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold
Harder
1.
Sarah Clarke and Xander Berkeley
2.
Alex Karras and Susan Clark
3.
Alexander Siddig and Nana Visitor
4.
William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett
5.
Rob Estes and Josie Bissett
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss
2.
Casper Van Dien and Catherine Oxenberg
3.
Meredith Baxter and David Birney
4.
Sam Jaffe and Bettye Ackerman
5.
David James Elliott and Nanci Chambers
FORT KNOCKS
1.
Woody Woodpecker
2.
E!
3.
Annie
4.
The Tommyknockers
5.
The solar plexus
OCTOBER 9
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
Easy
1.
Hank Aaron
2.
Joe DiMaggio
3.
Roger Maris
4.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Harder
1.
Bob Gibson (ERA)
2.
Cy Young (wins)
3.
Pete Rose (hits)
4.
Nolan Ryan (strikeouts)
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
Rogers Hornsby
2.
Rickey Henderson (steals)
3.
Ichiro Suzuki (hits)
4.
Hank Aaron (RBIs)
I HAVE A LITTLE LIST
1.
Paul Newman
2.
Top Ten List, on
Late Night with David Letterman
3.
Kathy Griffin
4.
At the State Department
5.
Unsolved math problems
TITLE INSURANCE
1.
D,
The Freshman
2.
A,
Monkey Business
3.
I,
Shall We Dance?
4.
B,
Heaven Can Wait
5.
C,
No Way Out
6.
G,
Moulin Rouge
7.
E,
The Rainmaker
8.
F,
Traffic
9.
H,
Hero
10.
J,
Crash
OCTOBER 10
WHO ARE YOU? I REALLY WANNA KNOW
1.
Louisiana
2.
“Mr. Jones” (Counting Crows)
3.
Jane
4.
Seventeen
5.
“Billie Jean”
6.
Scaramouche
7.
Layla
8.
Wendy
9.
Stan
10.
Each mentions a Rolling Stone: “like Bill Wyman,” “like Charlie Watts,” and “like Mick Jagger,” respectively
EXPANSION DRAFT
1.
The Suns and SuperSonics
2.
The Reds and Red Sox
3.
The Blues and Blue Jackets
4.
The Nets and Nuggets
INTERNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Easy
1.
(West) Germany
2.
China
3.
Argentina
4.
Nigeria
Harder
1.
South Africa
2.
Jamaica
3.
Spain
4.
The Netherlands
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
Sudan
2.
Lithuania (then part of the USSR)
3.
Ukraine (then part of the USSR)
4.
Nigeria
OCTOBER 11
SIBYL RITES
1.
The flight of birds
2.
Delphi
3.
Cassandra
4.
The
Argo
5.
He was transformed into a woman
JOCK OF ALL TRADES
1.
Dave Winfield
2.
Jim Thorpe
3.
Jim Brown
4.
Jackie Robinson
5.
“Babe” Didrikson Zaharias
6.
Bo Jackson
7.
Ed Jones
8.
Tom Glavine
9.
Marion Jones
10.
Charlie Ward
STORMY WEATHER
1.
The United Kingdom
2.
Ronee Blakley
3.
The ibis
4.
Passion fruit
5.
Mike Myers
OCTOBER 12
EGGS MARKS THE SPOT
1.
The Colbert Report
2.
A wasps’ nest
3.
Robert “Chief” Parish
4.
The stork
5.
Hazzard County (
The Dukes of Hazzard
)
LIFE IN THE FEST LANE
1.
Ramadan
2.
Jai alai
3.
Bethel
4.
Pamplona’s
5.
The Palme d’Or
A RAW DEAL
1.
Squash
2.
Spin it—a boiled egg spins faster and longer
3.
Muesli
4.
R
5.
Steak tartare
OCTOBER 13
WHO’S AFRAID OF…
Easy
1.
Acrophobia
2.
Claustrophobia
3.
Arachnophobia
4.
Xenophobia
5.
Agoraphobia
Harder
1.
Heliophobia
2.
Necrophobia
3.
Hemophobia
4.
Pyrophobia
5.
Glossophobia
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
Ailurophobia
2.
Gymnophobia
3.
Algophobia
4.
Coulrophobia
5.
Tokophobia
EAT ME!
1.
New Guinea
2.
Jonathan Swift
3.
The Sierra Nevada
4.
A census taker
5.
The Caribbean Sea
6.
Fleet Street
7.
Alferd Packer
8.
Titus Andronicus
9.
Soylent Green
10.
Saturn
MULTIPLEXITY
Easy
1.
Antz
2.
Wyatt Earp
3.
Armageddon
4.
Volcano
Harder
1.
The Wild
2.
The Illusionist
3.
EdTV
4.
Red Planet
Yeah, Good Luck
1.
Without Limits
2.
Valmont
3.
Chasing Liberty
4.
Fail-Safe