Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (53 page)

1.
D, f

2.
B, b

3.
G, g

4.
E, h

5.
F, e

6.
A, c

7.
I, d

8.
C, i

9.
J, a

10.
H, j

MARCH 4

DEAR MR. RESIDENT

Easy

1.
Thomas Jefferson

2.
George W. Bush

3.
George Washington

4.
Andrew Jackson

5.
Richard Nixon

Harder

1.
Theodore Roosevelt

2.
Ronald Reagan

3.
George H. W. Bush

4.
Franklin Roosevelt

5.
James Madison

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Woodrow Wilson

2.
John Adams

3.
Grover Cleveland

4.
Calvin Coolidge

5.
James Monroe

DOUBLE-DOUBLES

1.
Condoleezza Rice

2.
“Rocky Raccoon”

3.
Tallahassee

4.
Georgia O’Keeffe

5.
Kaallalit Nunaat

LYRICIST WANTED

1.
H

2.
D

3.
E

4.
F

5.
G

6.
C

7.
B

8.
J

9.
I

10.
A

MARCH 5

RISE OF THE MACHINES

1.
The PCjr

2.
Chuck E. Cheese’s

3.
RadioShack

4.
Adam

5.
The Commodore 64

SUB(PAR) TITLES

1.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2.
Groundhog Day

3.
You Only Live Twice

4.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5.
Fargo

6.
Some Like It Hot

7.
Alien

8.
The Full Monty

9.
The Big Chill

10.
Home Alone

DO-IT-YOURSELFERS

1.
Bill Russell

2.
Virginia Woolf

3.
Green

4.
Napoleon

5.
They don’t exist; they’re just pseudonyms for the director

MARCH 6

FIVE MORE THINGS THAT ARE SHAKESPEARE’S FAULT

1.
The Globe Theatre

2.
Richard III

3.
Endless Love

4.
Bed

5.
Hot-blooded

IN PLAIN BLACK AND WHITE

1.
Pepe Le Pew

2.
Sepia

3.
The quagga

4.
Schindler’s List

5.
The Jolly Roger (Teach was Blackbeard)

6.
Croatia

7.
F. W. de Klerk

8.
Fifteen

9.
Saint Augustine

10.
A soccer ball

11.
March of the Penguins

12.
Slash

13.
A safety

14.
Desdemona (in
Othello
)

15.
Castling (kingside)

MARCH 7

WE ARE THE HOLLOW MEN

1.
Sleepy Hollow

2.
Mink Hollow

3.
Stars Hollow

4.
Butcher Hollow

5.
Godric’s Hollow

SWORD PLAY

1.
The Cleveland Cavaliers

2.
The Garden of Eden

3.
Kill Bill

4.
The foil

5.
The Oscar

6.
El Cid

7.
The scimitar

8.
Wart

9.
Orion’s

10.
The Jabberwock

AND NOTHING BUT THE SPOOF

Easy

1.
Madonna

2.
Queen

3.
Green Day

4.
James Brown

5.
Puff Daddy

Harder

1.
Ritchie Valens

2.
Presidents of the United States of America

3.
Eminem

4.
The Knack

5.
Taylor Hicks

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Backstreet Boys

2.
Crash Test Dummies

3.
The Kinks

4.
U2

5.
Men Without Hats

MARCH 8

TALK ABOUT THE FASHION

1.
C

2.
B

3.
H

4.
G

5.
D

6.
I

7.
A

8.
F

9.
E

10.
J

HUH HUH—YOU SAID
…

1.
William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope

2.
Germany

3.
Chilly Willy

4.
Horatio Alger

5.
Java

6.
Balaam

7.
The New York Giants

8.
A lizard

9.
The Prisoner

10.
The Galápagos Islands

MARCH 9

MY COUNTRY, ’TIS OF THEE

1.
Jacob

2.
The Solomon Islands

3.
São Tomé and Príncipe (for Saint Thomas)

4.
India

5.
The Dominican Republic (but not Dominica)

6.
The Philippines (for Philip II)

7.
Colombia

8.
Kiribati

9.
Bolivia (Simón Bolívar, 1783-1830)

10.
The Marianas (Marie-Anne of Austria)

WITCH HUNT

Easy

1.
The Wizard of Oz

2.
The Witches of Eastwick

3.
The Craft

4.
Practical Magic, Bewitched

Harder

1.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

2.
Sleepy Hollow

3.
Hocus Pocus

4.
Four Rooms

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
I Married a Witch

2.
Bell, Book and Candle

3.
Conan the Barbarian

4.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks

SIX QUESTIONS OVER TEXAS

1.
Lonesome Dove

2.
Sammy Sosa

3.
Sam Houston

4.
Five

5.
Red River

6.
The Speak & Spell

MARCH 10

SECOND BANANA-RAMA

Easy

1.
Dr. Evil

2.
Don Quixote

3.
Sheriff Andy Taylor

4.
Paul Simon

5.
David Letterman

Harder

1.
Quick Draw McGraw

2.
Phileas Fogg

3.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

4.
Napoleon Dynamite

5.
Wayne Campbell

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Nero Wolfe

2.
Groucho Marx

3.
Edmund Blackadder

4.
Modesty Blaise

5.
Plastic Man

BOOKS OF THE MONTH

Easy

1.
October

2.
June

3.
May

4.
July

Harder

1.
April

2.
August

3.
August

4.
March

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
December

2.
January

3.
July

4.
March

NATIONAL SHAME

1.
Canada

2.
Belarus

3.
The Netherlands

4.
Brazil

5.
North Korea

MARCH 11

YOU’LL NEVER WOK (A LOAN)

Easy

1.
Swedish

2.
Yiddish

3.
Japanese

4.
Spanish

5.
Hawaiian

Harder

1.
Hindi

2.
Russian

3.
Arabic

4.
German

5.
Malay

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Cantonese

2.
Dutch

3.
Romany

4.
Tamil

5.
Afrikaans

MACARTHUR 2: THE RETURN!

Easy

1.
Speed

2.
Bridget Jones’s Diary

3.
xXx

4.
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

5.
Mad Max

Harder

1.
Highlander

2.
Airplane!

3.
Mannequin

4.
Arthur

5.
Poltergeist

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Homeward Bound

2.
Candyman

3.
Delta Force

4.
Free Willy

5.
Piranha

THE UNMITIGATED GAUL

1.
A typewriter or computer keyboard

2.
Gabon (Libreville) and Sierra Leone (Freetown)

3.
Alexandre Dumas

4.
Michelin

5.
Grand Marnier

6.
The bidet

7.
Joan of Arc’s

8.
Uranus and Neptune

9.
Austerlitz

10.
Coco Chanel

MARCH 12

STAGE, LEFT

1.
Jessica Tandy

2.
Christopher Walken

3.
Barry Bostwick

4.
Ian McKellen

5.
Tony Randall

A FEW GOOD MENACE

1.
(John) Kander and (Fred) Ebb

2.
Keira Knightley

3.
Scarface

4.
J. Jonah Jameson

5.
Jada Pinkett

MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES

Easy

1.
Madonna

2.
Cher

3.
Jewel

4.
Björk

5.
Brandy

Harder

1.
Aaliyah

2.
Selena

3.
Ashanti

4.
Dido

5.
Fabian

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Donovan

2.
Melanie

3.
Taco

4.
Tiffany

5.
Dion

MARCH 13

WHEN IN ROME
…

Easy

1.
Mars

2.
Jupiter (or Jove)

3.
Diana

4.
Mercury

5.
Venus

Harder

1.
Vulcan

2.
Juno

3.
Cupid

4.
Saturn

5.
Minerva

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Vesta

2.
Somnus

3.
Discordia

4.
Proserpine

5.
Faunus

THE NAME OF THE GAME

Easy

1.
Pool

2.
Golf

3.
(Stock) car racing

4.
Soccer

5.
Horse racing (steeplechase)

Harder

1.
Bicycle racing

2.
Arm wrestling

3.
Basketball

4.
(Four-man) bobsled

5.
Skateboarding

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Baseball

2.
Cricket

3.
Football

4.
Ice hockey

5.
Boxing

TRACE ELEMENTS

1.
Tin

2.
Iron

3.
Astatine

4.
Arsenic

5.
Carbon

MARCH 14

LICKER CABINET

1.
The Chow Chow

2.
Titus Andronicus

3.
A Christmas Story

4.
Bloom County

5.
To smell

6.
His sixth sheep’s sick

7.
Pentecost (or Whitsunday)

8.
Papillae

9.
Gene Simmons

10.
Three

PUNCH LINES

1.
“Careless Whisper”

2.
A question mark and an exclamation point