Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (199 page)

5.
Jay-Z

NOVEMBER 4

THESE DREAMS

1.
Siamese

2.
Hoop

3.
A Midsummer Night’s

4.
Tangerine

5.
American

CUE-BALL LIBRE

1.
Cheryl

2.
Rudolph Giuliani

3.
The Charlotte Bobcats

4.
Yul Brynner

5.
Harold Macmillan

6.
South Africa

7.
Theo

8.
The Blue Period

9.
Barbra Streisand

10.
Jay

THE BOOKS STOP HERE

Easy

1.
Jimmy Carter

2.
Bill Clinton

3.
Richard Nixon

4.
Abraham Lincoln

5.
Franklin Roosevelt

Harder

1.
Dwight Eisenhower

2.
Herbert Hoover

3.
Lyndon Johnson

4.
Gerald Ford

5.
George H. W. Bush

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
William McKinley

2.
Jefferson Davis

3.
Rutherford Hayes

4.
Calvin Coolidge

5.
Woodrow Wilson

NOVEMBER 5

MAIL BONDING

1.
H0H 0H0

2.
The Corinthians and the Thessalonians

3.
Media Mail

4.
The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski

5.
St. Joseph

6.
Wormwood

7.
McFeely

8.
Queen Victoria

9.
The Discovery Channel

10.
Pablo Neruda

COMMUNITY CHEST

1.
I

2.
E

3.
C (an Indy 500 car)

4.
D

5.
H

6.
A

7.
F

8.
B (the Cubs and White Sox)

9.
J (until West Virginia was created)

10.
G

NOVEMBER 6

JUST FOR KICKS

1.
10 yards

2.
“Chew bubble gum”

3.
Tae kwon do

4.
Kid-tested, mom-approved

5.
Champagne and cocaine

TOWN AND COUNTY

Easy

1.
Chicago

2.
Miami (now renamed Miami–Dade County)

3.
Cleveland

4.
Atlanta

5.
Detroit

Harder

1.
Houston

2.
Seattle

3.
Phoenix

4.
Pittsburgh

5.
Fort Lauderdale

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
San Antonio

2.
Las Vegas

3.
Minneapolis

4.
Portland, Oregon

5.
Indianapolis

NUMB3RS

Easy

1.
12

2.
90210

3.
66

4.
911!

5.
5

Harder

1.
222

2.
2525

3.
7

4.
3000

5.
2021
(or
2020
)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
2.0

2.
9

3.
3

4.
96

5.
15
(later
16
)

NOVEMBER 7

SOFA SO GOOD

1.
The War of the Worlds

2.
Sigmund Freud’s

3.
A sailboat

4.
Davenport, Iowa

5.
“Surrender”

YOU AND WHAT ARMY?

1.
Iceland

2.
Bolivia

3.
Vatican City

4.
Grenada’s

5.
Japan

BLACK AND WHITE AND WED ALL OVER

Easy

1.
Michael Jackson

2.
David Bowie

3.
Maury Povich

4.
Pocahontas

5.
Seal

Harder

1.
Laura Dern

2.
Taye Diggs

3.
Julie Chen

4.
Tommy Mottola

5.
Carmen Electra

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Quincy Jones

2.
Tyne Daly

3.
Diahann Carroll

4.
Tiger Woods

5.
Sandra Oh

NOVEMBER 8

HOW LONG? HOW LONG MUST WE SING THIS SONG?

Easy

1.
The Doors

2.
Pink Floyd

3.
The Sugarhill Gang

4.
Meat Loaf

5.
Iron Butterfly

Harder

1.
Television

2.
The Velvet Underground

3.
Jane’s Addiction

4.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

5.
Rush

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Dire Straits

2.
Yo La Tengo

3.
Bob Dylan

4.
Sonic Youth

5.
Tool

VARSITY BLUES

1.
Basketball

2.
Diving

3.
Football

4.
Hockey

5.
Track

SKIT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER

Easy

1.
Wayne Campbell

2.
Mary Katherine Gallagher

3.
Fernando

4.
The Church Lady

5.
Hans and Franz

Harder

1.
Emily Litella

2.
The two a-holes

3.
Fericito

4.
Dieter

5.
The Pathological Liar, Tommy Flanagan

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Festrunk Brothers

2.
Ed Grimley

3.
Mr. Bill

4.
Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker

5.
Simon

NOVEMBER 9

(LIKE A) ROLLING STONE

Easy

1.
“Satisfaction”

2.
“Da Doo Ron Ron”

3.
“The Reaper”

4.
“Money”

5.
“Sweet Dreams”

Harder

1.
“Voodoo Child”

2.
“Remember”

3.
“Norwegian Wood”

4.
“Peace, Love, and Understanding”

5.
“Thank You”

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
“Rock Around the Clock”

2.
“I’ve Been Loving You Too Long”

3.
“I Never Loved a Man”

4.
“Higher and Higher”

5.
“Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine”

RIGHT ON Q

1.
Gary Coleman

2.
Jesus’

3.
Coily

4.
The company is in bankruptcy.

5.
Quetzalcoatl

6.
The two of hearts

7.
The Cleveland Cavaliers

8.
Q-tips

9.
Dumbo

10.
Equatorial Guinea and Mozambique

HARD PALETTE

Easy

1.
Red

2.
Blue

3.
Violet

4.
Blue

5.
Yellow

Harder

1.
Violet

2.
Green

3.
Violet

4.
Blue

5.
(Yellow-) green

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Blue

2.
Red

3.
Green

4.
Violet

5.
Orange

NOVEMBER 10

COME-ON PILGRIM

1.
“Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?”

2.
“How
you
doin’?”

3.
Mae West

4.
The Raspberries

5.
Sylvia Plath

LOOK WHO’S TALKING NOW

Easy

1.
“You talkin’ to me?” (
Taxi Driver
)

2.
“E.T. phone home.” (
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
)

3.
“You can’t handle the truth!” (
A Few Good Men
)

4.
“I coulda been a contender.” (
On the Waterfront
)

5.
“Houston, we have a problem.” (
Apollo 13
)

Harder

1.
“Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?” (
Dirty Harry
)

2.
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” (
Network
)

3.
“No wire hangers, ever!” (
Mommie Dearest
)

4.
“Build it, and he will come.” (
Field of Dreams
)

5.
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” (
Gone With the Wind
)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
“I see dead people.” (
The Sixth Sense
)

2.
“I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.” (
Sunset Boulevard
)

3.
“Round up the usual suspects.” (
Casablanca
)

4.
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” (
Apocalypse Now
)

5.
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” (
The Godfather
)

NOVEMBER 11

COUNT AND RECOUNT

1.
A (40)

2.
H (14)

3.
I (3)

4.
D (99)

5.
B (5)

6.
J (52)

7.
F (64)

8.
E (21)

9.
C (8)

10.
G (30)

GONE WITH THE WIN

1.
Mechanical bull riding

2.
A dance marathon

3.
Pie eating

4.
A beauty pageant

5.
Slogan writing

“
BOX” OFFICE

1.
Mary Lou Retton

2.
“The Way You Move”

3.
Orange

4.
Halo

5.
Epimetheus

6.
December 26

7.
Roseanne Conner

8.
Clint Eastwood

9.
A lab rat

10.
Rudolph Wurlitzer

NOVEMBER 12

WEE THE PEOPLE

1.
Extras

2.
Bonsai trees

3.
The Lollipop Guild

4.
A Little Night Music (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)

5.
Manhattan

6.
The thimble

7.
Ganymede and Titan

8.
The Little League

9.
The paramecium

10.
Bow Wow

TELLING TIME

1.
Big Ben is technically the bell, not the clock

2.
The Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks

3.
World War I ended

4.
Christiaan Huygens

5.
2
A.M.

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BEACH

1.
Diamond Head

2.
“Tubular”

3.
(“The Girl from”) Ipanema and Copacabana

4.
Thailand

5.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

6.
Five

7.
Frankie Avalon

8.
A cocker spaniel

9.
Al Jardine

10.
Omaha Beach

NOVEMBER 13

LIGHTBULBS

1.
The CBS eye

2.
“Yellow”

3.
Post-its

4.
Taxi

5.
The pendulum

6.
Knute Rockne

7.
The Popsicle

8.
The Shining

9.
“A Day in the Life”

10.
Velcro

CABLE GUYS

1.
Hits

2.
Chuck Roberts

3.
Monday Night Football

4.
Marilyn Manson and Charles Manson

5.
“Fair and Balanced”

6.
Gays and lesbians

7.
Sex and the City
and
The Sopranos

8.
The Weather Channel

9.
Softball

10.
Spike Lee (“Spike”)

NOVEMBER 14

NAME DISE
NTANGLEMENT

1.
Uma Thurman

2.
Fred Friendly

3.
Al Michaels

4.
Mary McCarthy

5.
Ron Brown

6.
Pete Postlethwaite