Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (71 page)

2.
Bee purple

3.
Jerry Seinfield (promoting
Bee Movie
)

4.
Drones

5.
Luge

6.
Frances Bavier

7.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s

8.
Jeff Bagwell

9.
To Have and Have Not

10.
Robin Gibb

MAPS AND LEGENDS

1.
H, b

2.
J, e

3.
I, f

4.
G, g

5.
B, d

6.
A, i

7.
E, c

8.
D, h

9.
C, a

10.
F, j

APRIL 5

GOD’S BODY

1.
Diego Maradona

2.
“Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm”

3.
His right index finger

4.
Mexico

5.
“High Flight”

PLAYING HOOKY

1.
Velcro (
vel
ours
and
cro
chet
)

2.
Vanilla Ice

3.
A pair of jacks

4.
In a bowling ball return

5.
Sparky Anderson

6.
Martin Van Buren

7.
New Order

8.
1-800-ABC-DEFG

9.
Apu’s

10.
Christopher Wren

MR. NATURAL(IZED)

1.
The Marquis de Lafayette

2.
Winston Churchill

3.
Mother Teresa

4.
Casimir Pulaski

5.
William and Hannah Penn

6.
Raoul Wallenberg

APRIL 6

POLE POSITION

1.
Carlton Fisk

2.
A magnet

3.
Denmark (it’s Greenland)

4.
Bamboo

5.
Festivus (
Seinfeld
)

6.
A barber pole

7.
Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari (
Bosom Buddies
)

8.
Roald Amundsen

9.
Flagpoles (for school prayer)

10.
Rick Mears

HEY HEY, MY MY

Easy

1.
“Sugar, Sugar”

2.
“Mony Mony”

3.
“Rush Rush”

4.
“Monday, Monday”

5.
“Baby Baby”

Harder

1.
“Doctor! Doctor!”

2.
“Cherry, Cherry”

3.
“Maria Maria”

4.
“Radio Radio”

5.
“Rebel Rebel”

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
“Liar Liar”

2.
“Promises, Promises”

3.
“Green, Green”

4.
“Mary, Mary”

5.
“Laugh Laugh”

FERRY TALES

1.
Charon

2.
West Virginia

3.
Orange

4.
Roxy Music

5.
River Phoenix

APRIL 7

MATCH POINT

1.
Hello, Dolly!

2.
Mr. T and Hulk Hogan

3.
Richard Dawson

4.
The Presidents Cup

5.
Steve Forbes

I SHOT THE SHERIFF

Easy

1.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

2.
William McKinley

3.
Jean-Paul Marat

4.
Archduke Ferdinand

Harder

1.
Harvey Milk and George Moscone

2.
Leon Trotsky

3.
Mahatma Gandhi

4.
Huey Long

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Yitzhak Rabin

2.
Malcolm X

3.
Anton Cermak

4.
Anwar Sadat

CLUB SCENE

Easy

1.
Philadelphia Phillies

2.
Pittsburgh Pirates

3.
Kansas City Royals

Harder

1.
Seattle Mariners

2.
New York Yankees

3.
Milwaukee Brewers

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Baltimore Orioles

2.
New York Mets

3.
Atlanta Braves (a tomahawk)

APRIL 8

A CITY ON A HILL

1.
Portobello Road

2.
Capitol Hill

3.
Manhattan

4.
Telegraph Hill

5.
Rome

PUTTING THE “MORTAL” BACK IN “IMMORTAL
”

1.
Osiris

2.
Ragnarok

3.
Skull

4.
Adonis (“Adonais”)

5.
George Burns

TWIN PEEKS

1.
Ray Romano

2.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

3.
Kirby Puckett

4.
Fraternal twins

5.
A wolf

6.
The Adventures of Tintin

7.
The Guinness Book of World Records

8.
Kuala Lumpur

9.
Heather Graham

10.
Poland

APRIL 9

ORAL FIXATION

Easy

1.
China

2.
Brazil

3.
Russia

4.
Egypt

5.
Vietnam

Harder

1.
Mexico

2.
Australia

3.
Bangladesh

4.
The United States

5.
The Netherlands

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ukraine

2.
Myanmar

3.
Venezuela

4.
Mozambique

5.
Ghana

SEE MONKEYS

1.
B

2.
C

3.
F

4.
A

5.
E

6.
D

THE JOY OF SOCKS

1.
Buddy

2.
Shirley Temple

3.
Lamb Chop’s

4.
Curt Schilling

5.
Abbey Road

6.
Richard Nixon

7.
Dances with Wolves
’s

8.
Blue and red

9.
Buck Weaver

10.
Argyle

APRIL 10

IN A MANNER OF SHRIEKING

1.
Scary Movie

2.
Howard Dean’s

3.
Edvard Munch

4.
Eagles

5.
“I Put a Spell on You”

MY BIG FAT GREEK ALPHABET

1.
Charlton Heston

2.
Revenge of the Nerds

3.
A tiger

4.
The Black Sea

5.
Space: 1999

THEY WERE ALL YELLOW

1.
The Blue Meanies

2.
China’s

3.
To put up a parking lot

4.
The Wiggles

5.
Steamboat Geyser

6.
Two

7.
Sulfur

8.
Joseph Pulitzer’s

9.
Sweden

10.
Pikachu

APRIL 11

SAFETY DANCE

1.
Red or green

2.
Air bags

3.
Gary Busey

4.
Mae West

5.
Fred Dryer (
Hunter
)

JERSEY CITY

1.
E, 2

2.
A, 3

3.
C, 4

4.
D, 9

5.
I, 10

6.
G, 13

7.
B, 17

8.
F, 32

9.
H, 34

10.
J, 44

FOREVER AND A DAY

1.
Val Kilmer

2.
Duke Nukem

3.
Dominic Monaghan

4.
De Beers

5.
Judy Blume’s

APRIL 12

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN THEATER

1.
Elliot Richardson (Commerce; Attorney General; Defense; and Health, Education, and Welfare)

2.
A Streetcar Named Desire

3.
Larry Brown

4.
Spy Kids

5.
Dick Clark (
American Bandstand, The $25,000 Pyramid, TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes
)

I’D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY

1.
E

2.
A

3.
I

4.
L

5.
G

6.
K

7.
O

8.
D

9.
F

10.
M

11.
B

12.
N

13.
C

14.
H

15.
J

APRIL 13

“
CELL”ING OUT

1.
Oscar Wilde’s

2.
An ostrich egg yolk

3.
The White Stripes (
White Blood Cells
)

4.
“Tainted Love”

5.
Nokia

THAI ME UP, THAI ME DOWN

1.
Phuket

2.
Papaya

3.
The King and I
and
Chess

4.
The Siamese fighting fish

5.
Kickboxing

CAST AWAY

Easy

1.
Jon Lovitz

2.
Don Knotts

3.
Charlie Sheen

4.
Sandy Duncan

5.
Woody Harrelson

Harder

1.
Diane Ladd

2.
Cloris Leachman

3.
William Demarest

4.
Paul Sorvino

5.
Joshua Malina

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Gabriel Melgar

2.
Paul Provenza

3.
Tom Reilly

4.
Nicole de Boer

5.
Nancy Travis

APRIL 14

CRIME SCENES

Easy

1.
Sarajevo

2.
Deadwood

3.
Memphis

4.
New Delhi

5.
Las Vegas

Harder

1.
Tombstone

2.
St. Petersburg

3.
Buffalo

4.
Boulder, Colorado

5.
Santo Domingo

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Scottsdale, Arizona

2.
Dublin

3.
Jackson, Mississippi

4.
Los Angeles (the “Black Dahlia”)

5.
Miami

WHAT LIES BENEATH

1.
Toto

2.
An apple

3.
Odysseus

4.
The Fat Lady

5.
Pumpkin

GENE-HACK MEN

1.
Twenty-three

2.
The fruit fly

3.
Douglas (Noel) Adams

4.
Gregor Mendel

5.
Thymine

APRIL 15

TAXING TRIVIA

1.
Salt

2.
Harold Wilson and Edward Heath

3.
Matthew

4.
Alcatraz

5.
They were signed to I.R.S. records

6.
Bush’s “Read my lips: no new taxes”

7.
The Mexican-American War

8.
Willie Nelson’s

9.
A barrel

10.
401(k)

MEAT ON PARADE

1.
Corned beef

2.
A Big Mac

3.
Chuck steak

4.
Bacon

5.
Voicing the “Beef: it’s what’s for dinner” ads

6.
“Spiced”

7.
Roast beef

8.
Buffalo wings

9.
Bologna

10.
Kobe beef

APRIL 16

WAX ON, WAX OFF

1.
Vincent Price

2.
The lava lamp

3.
Icarus’s

4.
A surfboard

5.
Batik

A BREAD IN THE HAND

1.
Louisiana

2.
Captain Cook

3.
The Importance of Being Earnest

4.
A harmonica

5.
Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen)

A SENSE OF WONDER

Easy

1.
“Walk on the Wild Side”

2.
“Whip It”

3.
“Me and Bobby McGee”

4.
“Blue Suede Shoes”

5.
“Creep”

Harder

1.
“All Along the Watchtower”

2.
“Short People”

3.
“Touch of Grey”

4.
“Valley Girl”

5.
“Bang a Gong (Get It On)”

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
“Candy”

2.
“New World Man”