Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (19 page)

SCRAMBLED TV

Easy

1.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

2.
Little House on the Prairie

3.
Felicity

4.
Just Shoot Me

5.
Monday Night Football

Harder

1.
Sex and the City

2.
American Idol

3.
Desperate Housewives

4.
Touched by an Angel

5.
America’s Next Top Model

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Grey’s Anatomy

2.
The Apprentice

3.
Three’s Company

4.
The Prisoner

5.
Charlie’s Angels

JANUARY 16

ON HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE

1.
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)

2.
Madame (Marie) Tussaud

3.
North America

4.
Ellery Queen

5.
Royal jelly

6.
Queen’s Freddie Mercury

7.
Jamaica Bay

8.
Ali MacGraw

9.
Prince Valiant

10.
The pope

NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT

Easy

1.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

2.
The Rolling Stones

3.
Christina Aguilera

4.
Miles Davis

5.
Prince

Harder

1.
Nine Inch Nails

2.
Cream

3.
Bob Dylan

4.
The Foo Fighters

5.
Genesis

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Wilco

2.
Sonic Youth

3.
XTC

4.
Frank Zappa

5.
Yes

A SHOT IN THE ARM(ENIAN)

1.
Jack Kevorkian

2.
Garo Yepremian’s

3.
Ken Davitian

4.
Eric Bogosian

5.
George Deukmejian

JANUARY 17

SONGS OF THE SOUTH

1.
Aurora australis

2.
Eric

3.
Colombia

4.
Peach (though it also contains orange)

5.
Windsor, Ontario

6.
The Ewings (
Dallas
)

7.
The Indianapolis Colts

8.
Crunk

9.
The Republican Party

10.
São Paulo

DOC HOLLYWOOD

1.
Hoop Dreams

2.
Martin Scorsese

3.
Seven

4.
Spellbound

5.
Apocalypse Now
’s

HEIST HEIST BABY

1.
England’s Great Train Robbery

2.
The
Mona Lisa

3.
The trophy for soccer’s World Cup

4.
Intercourse, Pennsylvania

5.
The Artful Dodger’s

JANUARY 18

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

1.
Mashed potatoes

2.
She shot J.R. (
Dallas
)

3.
Alsatians

4.
Jessica Lange

5.
The valley of the shadow of death

6.
Martha Stewart

7.
Sir Walter Raleigh

8.
Jim Lovell

9.
Robert De Niro

10.
Planetary rings

THE GREATEST THING SINCE…

1.
Ralph Hinkley’s name was changed when John Hinckley, Jr., shot Ronald Reagan

2.
Louisville, Kentucky (the “Louisville Lip”)

3.
Limp Bizkit

4.
Bond foe Ernst Stavro Blofeld

5.
The Fantastic Four

TRIO BRAVO

Easy

1.
Palmer

2.
Aramis

3.
Judicial

4.
Ollie

5.
Theodore

Harder

1.
Shiva

2.
Fraternité

3.
Yellow

4.
Nod

5.
Belthasar

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Atropos (the Fates)

2.
José Carreras

3.
Country (the West Point motto)

4.
Cretaceous

5.
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

JANUARY 19

A BRIEF QUIZ

1.
“Old Time Rock & Roll”

2.
Curly Howard

3.
“Mostly briefs”

4.
Underoos

5.
Times Square

PETAL PUSHERS

1.
Jeff Daniels (star of
The Purple Rose of Cairo
)

2.
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)

3.
Chinese Democracy

4.
Jorge Luis Borges

5.
The Plantagenets

6.
The hips

7.
Trista Rehn

8.
American Beauty

9.
“Norma Jean”

10.
The winner of the Kentucky Derby

SNOW WONDER

1.
Six

2.
He tested positive for marijuana

3.
The evacuation of Saigon

4.
Dairy Queen

5.
Donner Pass

JANUARY 20

MURDER MOST FOUL

Easy

1.
Hamlet

2.
Severus Snape

3.
Moby-Dick

4.
Beowulf

5.
The White Witch (Jadis)

Harder

1.
The Sparrow

2.
Humbert Humbert (
Lolita
)

3.
Simon Legree (and his overseers)

4.
Oedipus

5.
Richard Cory (himself)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
George Wilson

2.
Smerdyakov

3.
George Milton (
Of Mice and Men
)

4.
Frankenstein’s monster

5.
Eugene Onegin

WATER COLORS

1.
C

2.
B

3.
E

4.
A

5.
G

6.
F

7.
D

DO THE BATUSI

1.
The
Weekly World News

2.
Romania

3.
Its tongue

4.
Louisville (at the Louisville Slugger headquarters)

5.
The Buffalo Sabres

JANUARY 21

IN THE BEGINNING

Easy

1.
The Three Musketeers

2.
Jurassic Park

3.
A Christmas Carol

4.
The Maltese Falcon

5.
Lord of the Flies

Harder

1.
Flowers for Algernon

2.
The Bonfire of the Vanities

3.
Dracula

4.
The House of Seven Gables

5.
Bridget Jones’s Diary

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
A Room with a View

2.
The Poisonwood Bible

3.
In Cold Blood

4.
Waiting to Exhale

5.
The Name of the Rose

YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY!

1.
Tammy Faye Bakker

2.
Lillian Hellman

3.
Night Court

4.
Gypsy Rose Lee’s

5.
Nancy Marchand (
The Sopranos
)

A COLONEL OF TRUTH

1.
Robert Gould Shaw

2.
Randy Quaid

3.
Muammar Qaddafi

4.
“Padre”

5.
The Bridge on the River Kwai

JANUARY 22

ARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIR?

1.
V8 juice

2.
H. L. Mencken

3.
George Clooney

4.
Gerald Ford

ACTS TO GRIND

1.
D

2.
E

3.
B

4.
J

5.
C

6.
A

7.
I

8.
H

9.
F

10.
G

FILL ’ER UP

1.
Pegasus

2.
Colonel Harland Sanders

3.
Benito Mussolini

4.
The St. Louis Cardinals

5.
Howard Hughes’s

6.
Charles Starkweather’s

7.
Gomer Pyle

8.
Oregon or New Jersey

9.
“By choice, man!”

10.
Hugo Chávez

JANUARY 23

WRIST-Y BUSINESS

1.
Roger Bannister

2.
Her hair

3.
Omega

4.
Silicon and oxygen

5.
Somewhere in Time

AN OUTSIDE CHANCE

1.
The ear

2.
Theodore Roosevelt

3.
Solipsism

4.
The Chrysler Building’s

5.
The crust and the mantle

6.
Black

7.
A clergyman

8.
Fig Newtons

9.
Cape Hatteras

10.
A turtle or tortoise

STAIR MASTERY

1.
Rome

2.
Montgomery, Alabama’s

3.
Rocky Balboa

4.
Utah

5.
The food pyramid

JANUARY 24

A SCOUT IS…

1.
Muhammad

2.
Tupac Shakur’s

3.
Heloise

4.
Wendy

5.
Portland, Oregon

6.
Mashed potatoes

7.
Give electric shocks to another “subject”

8.
“Desiderata”

9.
Dollar Rent A Car

10.
Eddie Mathews

11.
John F. Kennedy

12.
Ambrose Bierce (
The Devil’s Dictionary
)

CORE SAMPLES

Easy

1.
Pears

2.
Cherries

3.
Oranges

4.
Tomatoes

Harder

1.
Grapes

2.
Limes

3.
Avocadoes

4.
Plums

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Lemons

2.
Strawberries

3.
Peaches

4.
Watermelon

ANY MORE LIKE YOU AT HOME? WILL THEY STAY THERE?

1.
Aliana

2.
Nicky

3.
Jamie Lynn

4.
Ashlee

5.
Dannii

JANUARY 25

COLD SHOULDERS

1.
Betty Rubble (bumped in favor of
the car
!)

2.
Rebecca

3.
Eris

4.
Roger Maris

5.
The Age of Innocence
’s

CARAT CAKE

1.
Oahu

2.
Ski slopes

3.
De Beers

4.
Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling

5.
“I’m a Believer”

6.
Arkansas

7.
The jack of diamonds

8.
The Ritz (Hotel)

9.
Blue

10.
Fontanelles

RREPEATED LLETTERS

1.
Eeyore

2.
Llama

3.
“MMMBop”

4.
The Oort Cloud

5.
Aaron Copland

JANUARY 26

PUTTING DOWN THE MAN

1.
Ernesto

2.
Parking meters

3.
Gave a “Black Power” salute on the Olympic medal stand

4.
The World Trade Organization

5.
Nuclear disarmament

6.
Steven Biko

7.
Judy Garland’s

8.
Czechoslovakia

9.
Do the Right Thing
’s

10.
Tiananmen Square’s “Tank Man” or “Unknown Rebel”

GOING DOWN

1.
Seven

2.
Your Girlfriend

3.
Teapot Dome

4.
The Descent

5.
Paradise Lost

6.
A minor (
Songs in A Minor
)

7.
Victoria Falls

8.
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”

9.
Terminal velocity

10.
London Bridge

11.
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard

12.
The Satanic Verses