Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (54 page)

3.
Terrell Owens

4.
The guppy

5.
Mach 1

6.
Los Angeles

7.
“Keep on truckin’”

8.
Tannen

9.
Iran

10.
The Hanoi Hilton

MARCH 15

SISTERS ARE DOIN’ IT FOR THEMSELVES

1.
Macbeth

2.
Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Cheryl Ladd

3.
Magda

4.
Radcliffe (now part of Harvard)

5.
Althea Gibson

6.
Emily Brontë (
Wuthering Heights
)

7.
Toledo

8.
The Muses

9.
Ace of Base

10.
Cleopatra

I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR

1.
Extraterrestrial intelligence (aliens)

2.
AltaVista

3.
Jennifer Aniston’s

4.
Faye Vincent (as baseball commisioner)

5.
The Northwest Passage

6.
Natalie Wood

7.
Tim McGraw

8.
Remembrance of Things Past

9.
Dr. David Banner (
The Incredible Hulk
)

10.
Sonny Bono

MARCH 16

LIKE A SURGEON

1.
It was transatlantic: the surgeons were in New York, operating a robot on the patient in France

2.
John Carter

3.
The Loch Ness Monster

4.
Christine Jorgensen

5.
A cesarean section

SECRET BALLAD

Easy

1.
The Beatles

2.
Barry Sadler

3.
Oscar Wilde

4.
Flatt and Scruggs

Harder

1.
Sam Peckinpah

2.
Elton John

3.
Billy Joel

4.
Robert Mitchum

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Leonard Nimoy

2.
Carson McCullers

3.
Bob Dylan

4.
XTC

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST

1.
Galahad

2.
Tim Matheson

3.
The Roots

4.
Joseph Campbell

5.
The Golden Fleece

MARCH 17

GREEN PIECE

1.
Edward G. Robinson

2.
Vermont

3.
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”

4.
The Washington Redskins

5.
Oscar Wilde

6.
Little Green Sprout

7.
Eric the Red

8.
Petticoat Junction

9.
Sunrise or sunset

10.
Absinthe

BETTER LATEX THAN NEVER

1.
The University of Akron Zips

2.
Sulfur

3.
An eraser

4.
The Super Bowl was named after Superballs

5.
“Nowhere Man”

PARKLIFE

Easy

1.
San Francisco

2.
New York City

3.
London

4.
Los Angeles

5.
Moscow

Harder

1.
Atlanta

2.
Copenhagen

3.
Chicago

4.
Paris

5.
Boston

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Vancouver

2.
Berlin

3.
San Diego

4.
Washington, D.C.

5.
Florence

MARCH 18

FAITH NO MORE!

1.
The Cure

2.
George Michael

3.
Faith Evans

4.
Faith Hill

DAUGHTERS OF THE COVENANT

1.
Esther

2.
Neil Diamond (“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”)

3.
California

4.
The Yom Kippur War

5.
Darren Aronofsky

6.
Bess Myerson

7.
Sarah Hughes

8.
Deborah

9.
(Adolf) Eichmann

10.
Meitnerium (for Lise Meitner)

HOLLYWOOD BUZZ

Easy

1.
Demi Moore

2.
Natalie Portman

3.
Sigourney Weaver

4.
Samantha Morton

5.
Bai Ling

Harder

1.
Cate Blanchett

2.
Robin Tunney

3.
Alison Lohman

4.
Lori Petty

5.
Persis Khambatta

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Renée Maria Falconetti

2.
Constance Towers

3.
Eleanor Parker

4.
Natalie Darryl

5.
Maggie McOmie

MARCH 19

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

1.
Talleyrand

2.
Thomas Jefferson’s

3.
The African National Congress’s

4.
Philadelphia

5.
India

NEGATIVLAND

1.
The electron

2.
“Hell to the no!”

3.
Spiro Agnew

4.
Julius

5.
Bartleby the Scrivener

6.
Barry Goldwater’s

7.
Wyclef Jean

8.
i

9.
“We don’t need no education”

10.
Rhesus antigens (Rh or RhD)

THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY

1.
Purple

2.
Orange juice

3.
Canadian bacon

4.
Holly Golightly (
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
)

5.
Lou Gehrig

6.
Judd Nelson’s

7.
French toast

8.
Post Toasties

9.
Brazil

10.
C-3PO

MARCH 20

STOCK ANSWERS

1.
General Electric

2.
Blue chips

3.
They’re fictional stocks in Oliver Stone’s
Wall Street

4.
Omaha

5.
Quotations

HAIRY REASONERS

1.
Chimpanzees

2.
Samsonite

3.
Skull Island

4.
The orangutan’s

5.
Clint Eastwood (“Clint Eastwood” and “Dirty Harry”)

6.
Dian Fossey’s

7.
Pauline

8.
Silverback

9.
Rod Serling

10.
Jane Goodall

SHOES YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

1.
The rhebok

2.
Al Bundy (
Married…with Children
)

3.
Some Like It Hot

4.
Manolo Blahnik

5.
“Under the Boardwalk”

MARCH 21

AU FRANÇAIS

1.
Pawns, in chess

2.
Miss Piggy

3.
The Nutcracker

4.
The Russian Revolution

5.
St. Louis

6.
“Our House”

7.
“Boz”

8.
Labor Day

9.
Touch of Evil

10.
C.V. (curriculum vitae)

GOING DOWNHILL

1.
“The Beat Goes On”

2.
Jean-Claude Killy

3.
Nordic

4.
Utah

5.
Dr. (Klaus) Martens

ABC-TV

Easy

1.
Mario Lopez

2.
William Shatner

3.
Jimmie Walker

4.
Allison Janney

5.
Mike Farrell

Harder

1.
Greg Evigan

2.
Robert Iler

3.
Candace Cameron

4.
Pamela Anderson

5.
Burt Reynolds

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Judith Ivey

2.
Michael Fishman

3.
David Spade

4.
Dale Robertson

5.
Ben Vereen

MARCH 22

TRASH TALKING

1.
Do the Right Thing’s

2.
Art Spiegelman

3.
Rio de Janeiro’s

4.
Butch Vig

5.
Kermit the Frog

6.
A residential hotel (the Sanford Arms)

7.
Michigan’s

8.
“Alice’s Restaurant (Massacree)”

9.
Staten Island

10.
James Thurber

I’M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIP

1.
J

2.
M

3.
C

4.
A

5.
K

6.
E

7.
I (
Gilligan’s Island
’s “Skipper”)

8.
H

9.
G

10.
F

11.
L

12.
O

13.
D

14.
N

15.
B

MARCH 23

THUMB THING TO TALK ABOUT

1.
It sits beside the Finger Lakes

2.
The koala

3.
Saturday Night Fever

4.
Arthur Conan Doyle

5.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE

Easy

1.
Georgia

2.
Florida

3.
Oregon

4.
Alabama

5.
Kansas

Harder

1.
Connecticut

2.
Idaho

3.
Maryland

4.
Virginia

5.
Oklahoma

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Maine

2.
New Hampshire

3.
South Dakota

4.
Rhode Island

5.
South Carolina and Missouri

A SEASON ON THE RINK

1.
Jaromir Jagr

2.
An octopus

3.
Icing

4.
Mario Lemieux and Patrick Roy

5.
The Boston Bruins

MARCH 24

THIS INSPIRING, WIT-TICKLING QUIZ

1.
Bananarama

2.
Ellen DeGeneres

3.
Fighting Irish

4.
Song of Solomon

5.
Mus musculus

6.
Syzygy

TITLE ROLE CALL

Easy

1.
Dudley Moore

2.
Cliff Robertson

3.
Jamie Foxx

4.
Michael Caine

5.
Colin Farrell

Harder

1.
Mark Lester

2.
John Travolta

3.
Robin Williams

4.
Sean Astin

5.
Kevin Kline

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
William H. Macy

2.
James Wilby

3.
Corey Haim

4.
John Cusack

5.
Matt Dillon

BREAKFAST CLUB

Easy

1.
(Sugar or Honey) Smacks

2.
(Sugar) Frosted Flakes

3.
Rice Krispies

4.
Honey Nut Cheerios

5.
Fruity (or Cocoa) Pebbles

Harder

1.
Super Sugar Crisp (or Golden Crisp)

2.
Honeycomb

3.
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

4.
Cocoa Puffs

5.
Kellogg’s Raisin Bran

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch

2.
Cookie Crisp

3.
Kix

4.
King Vitaman

5.
Apple Jacks

MARCH 25

THE MANE ATTRACTION

1.
The Lhasa apso

2.
Strange Brew

3.
“Wimoweh” (“The Lion Sleeps Tonight”)

4.
Sri Lanka

5.
Haile Selassie’s

6.
Coming to America

7.
India

8.
Mount Nittany (hence, the Penn State Nittany Lions)

9.
Voltron

10.
Hercules

TUNNEL VISION

1.
The Great Escape

2.
The Lincoln Tunnel

3.
Japan (the 33-mile tunnel between Honshu and Hokkaido)

4.
The Battle of the Crater

5.
Prairie dogs

ALL TOGETHER NOW

1.
Janet Jackson

2.
Coca-Cola

3.
(
The Emancipation of
) Mimi

4.
“Let’s spend some time together”

5.
Pulp Fiction

MARCH 26

IF YOU’RE FEELING SINISTER