Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (218 page)

3.
India

4.
South Africa

5.
Israel

Harder

1.
Ecuador

2.
Burma

3.
Norway

4.
Indonesia

5.
Kenya

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Algeria

2.
Croatia

3.
Bulgaria

4.
Bolivia

5.
Uzbekistan

TAG! YOU’RE IT

1.
Monsters, Inc.

2.
The Graduate

3.
Bride of Frankenstein

4.
This Is Spinal Tap

5.
Repo Man

6.
Pinocchio

7.
The Ring

8.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

9.
Jurassic Park

10.
The Blues Brothers

11.
Ninotchka

12.
Deliverance

13.
American Graffiti

14.
Cat People

15.
Psycho

16.
Jaws 2

17.
Rebel Without a Cause

18.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

19.
Chicken Run

20.
Bonnie and Clyde

21.
A Clockwork Orange

22.
The Usual Suspects

23.
Sabrina

24.
The Birth of a Nation

25.
American Beauty

DECEMBER 17

I HEAR A SYMPHONY

1.
Gustav Mahler

2.
Ludwig van Beethoven

3.
Joseph Haydn

4.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

5.
Felix Mendelssohn

CHIC-ER BY THE DOZEN

1.
A

2.
H

3.
C

4.
D

5.
I

6.
J

7.
B

8.
G

9.
E

10.
F

FLUTE-Y FLAKES

1.
Jethro Tull

2.
Francis Ford Coppola’s

3.
The Queen of the Night

4.
Ron Burgundy

5.
Pan (the panpipes)

DECEMBER 18

UNEARTHED

1.
Apatosaurus

2.
The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington

3.
Troy

4.
Four palm trees

5.
Zachary Taylor

NO REST FOR THE QUERY

1.
The two types of chili sauce

2.
Guess?

3.
Joseph McCarthy

4.
“What would Jesus do?”

5.
During the Passover seder

6.
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?”

7.
Cary Grant

8.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

9.
“What, me worry?”

10.
The Scarlet Pimpernel

TALKING HEADS

1.
Eleanor Clift (married to Montgomery Clift’s brother)

2.
James Carville

3.
Ann Coulter

4.
Al Franken

5.
Tucker Carlson

DECEMBER 19

I AM NOT A NUMBER!

1.
Jean Valjean

2.
Nelson Mandela

3.
The Beagle Boys

4.
The Count of Monte Cristo
’s

5.
Number Six

6.
Rudolf Hess

7.
(
One Day in the Life of
) Ivan Denisovich

8.
A Clockwork Orange

9.
Harold Perrineau

10.
Trading Places
or
The Couch Trip

A QUIZ ABOUT NOTHING

1.
“Freedom”

2.
Albert Michelson and Edward Morley

3.
Millard Fillmore

4.
Two

5.
Jean-Paul Sartre

6.
Zero Mostel’s

7.
Sting

8.
Fudge (Hatcher)

9.
A shut-out

10.
“Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving

11.
Die Hard

12.
“Nirvana”

13.
Prince

14.
ø

15.
J. P. Morgan

DECEMBER 20

GIVE THAT MAN A CIGAR

1.
Nighthawks
(Edward Hopper)

2.
Bill Cosby

3.
Citation

4.
Marcel Proust

5.
Montecristo

A FACE FOR RADIO

1.
The “Fifth Beatle”

2.
Howard Stern

3.
Above average

4.
New Jersey

5.
Rutgers

6.
American Graffiti

7.
Jim Everett (Chris Evert)

8.
Rush Limbaugh’s

9.
Walter Winchell

10.
Philip Glass (Ira Glass’s cousin)

THE CAPITAL GANG

Easy

1.
Honolulu

2.
Denver

3.
Boston

Harder

1.
Phoenix

2.
Atlanta

3.
Columbus

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Hartford

2.
Indianapolis

3.
Sacramento

DECEMBER 21

THE BEAST IN ME

Easy

1.
Pig

2.
Dog

3.
Dragon

4.
Rabbit

Harder

1.
Dragon

2.
Monkey

3.
Horse

4.
Monkey

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Tiger (Detroit Tigers)

2.
Rat (
King Rat
)

3.
Dog (
My Life as a Dog
)

4.
Tiger (Tony the Tiger)

THE GRAND “FINALLY”

1.
The Cherry Orchard

2.
Twenty yards

3.
Neil Young

4.
A Treaty of Paris

5.
2001: A Space Odyssey

6.
William Howard Taft

7.
L.B. (“Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs”)

8.
Jesus Christ Superstar
’s

9.
Cornwall

10.
Final Fantasy

11.
A neuron (or nerve cell)

12.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

13.
The Fugitive
’s

14.
Chicago and Los Angeles

15.
Ted Williams

DECEMBER 22

IN DA CLUB

1.
Fight Club

2.
The Cotton Club

3.
The Joy Luck Club

4.
The Mickey Mouse Club

5.
Culture Club

6.
The 700 Club

7.
The Buena Vista Social Club

8.
The Baby-Sitters Club

9.
The 500 Home Run Club

10.
The Breakfast Club

SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER(DALE)?

1.
Carroll O’Connor

2.
Richard Mulligan

3.
America Ferrera

4.
Kirstie Alley

GRIDIRONY

Easy

1.
Miami Dolphins

2.
New York Giants and Jets

3.
Washington Redskins

4.
San Francisco 49ers

5.
Baltimore Ravens

Harder

1.
Seattle Seahawks

2.
Tennessee Titans

3.
St. Louis Rams

4.
New Orleans Saints

5.
Houston Texans

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Minnesota Vikings

2.
Indianapolis Colts

3.
Arizona Cardinals

4.
New England Patriots

5.
Pittsburgh Steelers

DECEMBER 23

SANTA BABY

1.
Roses

2.
A cherry

3.
A bow

4.
The snow

5.
A wreath

6.
A bowlful of jelly

BEARD = WEIRD

1.
Bobby Fischer

2.
Montana

3.
Rasputin

4.
Ice Station Zebra

5.
Apocalypto

6.
(Mad King) Ludwig II

7.
Alfred Jarry

8.
James Garfield

9.
Erik Satie

10.
Emperor of the United States

A GAME OF INCHES

1.
Three Mile Island

2.
Nine Inch Nails

3.
Fahrenheit 451

4.
“A Bushel and a Peck” (
Guys and Dolls
)

5.
Ten-gallon hat

6.
The whole nine yards

7.
A Thousand Acres

8.
Just one calorie!

9.
“Sixteen Tons”

10.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

DECEMBER 24

ISLAND-HOPPING

Easy

1.
The Caribbean Sea

2.
The Pacific Ocean

3.
The Mediterranean Sea

4.
The English Channel

5.
The Persian Gulf

Harder

1.
Lake Superior

2.
The Indian Ocean

3.
The Aegean Sea

4.
The Atlantic Ocean

5.
The Irish Sea

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Lake Victoria

2.
The Baltic Sea

3.
Crater Lake

4.
The Sunda Strait

5.
The Susquehanna River

SHHHH!

1.
The piano

2.
World War I

3.
Omertà

4.
James Cameron

5.
The Quakers’

6.
“Silencio”

7.
The Algonquin Round Table

8.
Letterman

9.
The library at Alexandria’s

10.
The Day the Earth Stood Still

MY HEARTH WILL GO ON

1.
A steam locomotive

2.
Benjamin Franklin

3.
FDR’s “Fireside Chats”

4.
One Life to Live

5.
Ryan O’Neal

DECEMBER 25

ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE

Easy

1.
José Feliciano

2.
Nat King Cole

3.
Adam Sandler

4.
Band Aid

5.
Mariah Carey

Harder

1.
Eartha Kitt

2.
Judy Garland

3.
Gene Autry

4.
Harry Belafonte

5.
Bing Crosby

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Quinto Sisters

2.
The Carpenters

3.
Darlene Love

4.
Bobby Helms

5.
Andy Williams

GIRL, YULE BE A WOMAN SOON

1.
“Not more than two”

2.
Eight maids a-milking

3.
Elizabeth

4.
Virginia (“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”)

5.
Little Orphan Annie’s

PEACE ON EARTH

1.
It’s a Wonderful Life

2.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

3.
A Christmas Carol

4.
A Charlie Brown Christmas

5.
“The Gift of the Magi”

DECEMBER 26

AVERAGE JOE

1.
A macchiato

2.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

3.
McDonald’s

4.
Central Perk

5.
Kona

6.
Twin Peaks

7.
Arabica

8.
“Folgers in your cup”

9.
Cigarettes

10.
Moby-Dick

CHEST THE FACTS

1.
Clark Gable’s

2.
Where’s Waldo?

3.
“Soy Bomb”

4.
Juan Perón

5.
Brandi Chastain’s

ROUTE OF AFRICA

1.
The African National Congress

2.
Dan Aykroyd

3.
Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

4.
Honeybees

5.
Shaft in Africa
’s

6.
Mount Kenya

7.
Mali

8.
A gazelle