Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (201 page)

5.
Bhutan

NOVEMBER 26

SECOND TIME AROUND

1.
The Communist bloc

2.
Jehovah’s Witnesses

3.
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd

4.
Jeff Kent

5.
Rebecca

NUN OF THE ABOVE

Easy

1.
The Bells of St. Mary’s

2.
The Singing Nun

3.
Sister Act
(
1
and
2
)

4.
Nuns on the Run

5.
Dead Man Walking

Harder

1.
The Nun’s Story

2.
Agnes of God

3.
Black Narcissus
or
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

4.
Sister Kenny
or
The Trouble with Angels

5.
Two Mules for Sister Sara

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Come to the Stable

2.
Dogma

3.
The Song of Bernadette

4.
The Blues Brothers

5.
A Change of Habit

BEAT THE CLOCK

1.
A Rush of Blood to the Head

2.
Sixteen seconds (forty versus twenty-four)

3.
IIII (not IV)

4.
Cesium

5.
Happy Days

6.
4, 5, and 6

7.
“I Got You Babe” (Sonny and Cher)

8.
“Counterclockwise”

9.
Harold Lloyd

10.
Nancy Drew’s

NOVEMBER 27

GENTLEMEN PREFER BRONZE

1.
Rodin’s
The Thinker

2.
Mobiles

3.
Throwing a discus

4.
Pygmalion

5.
Rio de Janeiro

WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE

Easy

1.
Russia

2.
Serbia

3.
Mexico

4.
China

5.
Sudan

Harder

1.
Nigeria

2.
Sri Lanka

3.
Pakistan

4.
Indonesia

5.
Tanzania

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Angola

2.
Bangladesh

3.
Azerbaijan

4.
Spain (the Basques)

5.
Namibia

MARTIAN CHRONICLES

1.
Neptune

2.
3 Musketeers

3.
Fashion photographer

4.
John Gray

5.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’

NOVEMBER 28

THEORY OF FORMS

1.
Office Space

2.
UB40

3.
Green

4.
W

5.
Jedi

THUMB WAR

1.
D

2.
A

3.
B

4.
E

5.
C

JOCK HITCH

Easy

1.
Mia Hamm

2.
Pete Sampras

3.
Steffi Graf

4.
David Beckham

5.
David Justice

Harder

1.
Mark Gastineau

2.
Wayne Gretzky

3.
Chris Evert

4.
Dario Franchitti

5.
Rick Fox

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Nancy Lopez

2.
Bob Waterfield

3.
JoJo Starbuck

4.
Ernie Vandeweghe

5.
Ron Greschner

NOVEMBER 29

COT BEHIND ENEMY LINES

1.
Malaria

2.
Archie Bell (“Tighten Up”)

3.
Superglue (cyanoacrylate)

4.
Lenny Bruce

5.
They drove ambulances during World War I

TITLE CARDS

Answers run from left to right, top to bottom.

Big Trouble in Little China

A River Runs Through It

Monsters Inc.

Miller’s Crossing

Bringing Up Baby

Ocean’s Eleven

Batman Begins

The Spanish Prisoner

Black Hawk Down

The Shop Around the Corner

Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

Missing in Action

The Upside of Anger

Letters from Iwo Jima

All About Eve

West Side Story

INITIAL CONTACT

Easy

1.
H

2.
M

3.
F

4.
L

5.
J

Harder

1.
S

2.
L

3.
R

4.
M

5.
C

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
A

2.
H

3.
F

4.
I

5.
E

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!

1.
Mars

2.
Five

3.
Houston

4.
The Spiders from Mars

5.
Kevin McCarthy

MISSING LINKS

1.
Zelda

2.
Jay-Z

3.
Pebble Beach

4.
Anne Robinson

5.
A

DECEMBER 1

1885
A
T
M
ORRISON’S
O
LD
C
ORNER
D
RUG
S
TORE
in Waco, Texas, the first Dr Pepper is served.

BAD MEDICINE

Match these luminaries to their doctorate programs.

1927
N
ORWAY ANNEXES
B
OUVET
I
SLAND,
a tiny volcanic dot in the South Atlantic. Bouvet, later seen as the setting for 2004 ’s
Alien vs. Predator,
is the most remote island in the world, since the nearest inhabited land is Antarctica, a thousand miles south.

FAR AND AWAY

Answer these questions about remote destinations.

1.
What U.S. territory is the closest island to the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the oceans?

2.
What is NASA’s
New Horizons
probe scheduled to take the first fly-by photos of in July 2015?

3.
What was the first city outside the U.S. to host a season of MTV’s
The Real World
?

4.
The point in the South Pacific farther from land than any other point on Earth is named for what Chappelle head after abruptly shutting down production of
Chappelle’s Show
in 2005?

5.
What two better-known names accompanied Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo, and Egigingwah in April 1909?

6.
On TV’s
Lost,
Oceanic Airlines 815 crashed while flying between what two cities?

7.
Aboard what ship did Columbus first sight America (well, the Bahamas) in 1492?

8.
To what country did Dave

9.
What capital of Western Australia is the most isolated city on Earth, more than 1,300 miles from its closest neighbor, Adelaide?

10.
Where do Wallace and Gromit go on their day trip in their very first appearance,
A Grand Day Out
?