Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (91 page)

BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PANEL

Easy

1.
The Family Circus

2.
Blondie

3.
For Better or For Worse

4.
FoxTrot

5.
Hagar the Horrible

Harder

1.
Prince Valiant

2.
Baby Blues

3.
The Boondocks

4.
Hi and Lois

5.
The Katzenjammer Kids

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Adam

2.
Gasoline Alley

3.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

4.
Drabble

5.
Zits

Bonus Question:
Tater and Jughaid are cousins, not brothers.

BLOC PARTY

1.
The Equator passes through them

2.
They’re home to the highest peaks on their respective continents

3.
Their flags are only blue and white

4.
Home countries of U.N. secretaries-general

5.
They’ve hosted Winter Olympics

6.
They form a common word if you remove their first letter

7.
All have unusual time zones (offset by 15, 30, or 45 minutes, not an even number of hours)

8.
They have more than one capital city

9.
Their currency is the pound

10.
They’ve won World Cups

MAY 27

SPARE ANY CHANGE?

1.
Minnie Pearl’s

2.
The USFL

3.
“The Gift of the Magi”

4.
Arthur Bremer

5.
A disco record (the infamous “Disco Demolition Night”)

I ME MINE

1.
Canaries

2.
Aluminum

3.
Van Lear, Kentucky (
Van Lear Rose
)

4.
Silver

5.
Matewan

STACKED

1.
The Ba’ath Party

2.
George Orwell

3.
Portland, Oregon

4.
Christopher Robin Milne

5.
“Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room”

6.
City Lights Bookstore

7.
Percy and Mary Shelley

8.
Cadabra.com

9.
Benjamin Franklin

10.
Alexander Pope

MAY 28

FRUIT COCKTAIL

1.
Olives

2.
Cherries

3.
Limes

4.
Avocadoes

5.
Apples

THE III DEGREE

1.
Laurence Fishburne III

2.
Isiah Thomas III

3.
William Gates III

4.
Howard Dean III

5.
Rick Dees III

6.
John McCain III

7.
George Steinbrenner III

8.
50 Cent (Curtis Johnson III)

9.
Alec Baldwin III

10.
Edward Albee III

SPICEWORLD

1.
Eleven

2.
Sri Lanka

3.
Basil

4.
Nutmeg

5.
A crocus

MAY 29

RESTORED EDITIONS

1.
Notre Dame de Paris

2.
Mercury

3.
Napoleon

4.
Japan

5.
The Last Supper

SHORT AND SWEET

1.
James A. Garfield

2.
KFC

3.
Lemony Snicket’s

4.
On Christ’s crucifix

5.
The FDIC is a “corporation”

6.
Chrysler

7.
Iowa (IA)

8.
They now officially stand for nothing

9.
I code is “SUX”

10.
Turnover and time out

LET’S EUONYM FIGHT

1.
Albumen

2.
Kamikaze

3.
Transept

4.
Dulcimer

5.
Antediluvian

MAY 30

100%
ALL NATURAL

1.
Earthquakes

2.
e

3.
Quentin Tarantino

4.
The Field Museum

5.
Chuck Woolery

6.
R. Crumb

7.
Dr. Fernand Lamaze

8.
Arkansas

9.
Methane

10.
Thomas Hobbes

MINOR FAME

Easy

1.
Christina Ricci

2.
Elizabeth Taylor

3.
Drew Barrymore

4.
Ron Howard

5.
Jodie Foster

Harder

1.
Mischa Barton

2.
Leonardo DiCaprio

3.
Roddy McDowall

4.
Natalie Portman

5.
Jake Gyllenhaal

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Seth Green

2.
Jason Bateman

3.
Scarlett Johansson

4.
Robert Blake

5.
Diane Lane

ORBITERS OF TASTE

1.
Discovery

2.
Challenger

3.
Endeavour

4.
Columbia

5.
Atlantis

MAY 31

WE BUILT THIS CITY

Easy

1.
Thames

2.
Potomac

3.
Danube

4.
Nile

5.
Tiber

Harder

1.
Charles

2.
Tigris

3.
Neva

4.
Cuyahoga

5.
Arno

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Han

2.
Liffey

3.
Amstel

4.
Yarra

5.
Río de la Plata

THE ORGAN TRAIL

1.
The kidneys

2.
The pancreas

3.
The brain

4.
The eye

5.
The testes

6.
The liver

7.
The ear

8.
The lungs

9.
The uterus

10.
The stomach

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE

1.
T

2.
James Brown’s

3.
Pat Schroeder

4.
Smallpox

5.
Sammy “the Bull” Gravano

JUNE 1

1896
A
MERICAN MOTORCYCLE RACING
is born when 73-year-old Sylvester Roper brings a steam-powered two-wheeler he has invented to a Boston bicycle race. The cyclists jeer the old man, until they discover his machine can run circles around them. Tragically, Roper then tries to set some speed records and is killed in the resulting crash.

SEASON CYCLE

1.
What 1971 novel arose from the author’s
Sports Illustrated
assignment to cover the Mint 400 desert motocross?

2.
What make of motorcycle, once America’s largest, did New Zealander Burt Munro use to set land-speed records, in life as in the Anthony Hopkins film?

3.
What off-road endurance race is named after the African capital where it usually ends?

4.
The first Harley-Davidson appeared at a 1904 race in what city, still home to Harley headquarters?

5.
The Grand Prix in what city, the first European colony in Asia, is the only street-circuit road race in which both car and motorcycle events are held?

2001
F
AUX-METAL BAND
Spinal Tap begins its “Back from the Dead” tour at Hollywood’s Greek Theater. Some fans won’t catch on until the 2003 release of
A Mighty Wind
that Tap’s opening act, a clean-cut trio called the Folksmen, is in fact composed of Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer—the same musicians who play Spinal Tap, only in different wigs.

COME TOGETHER

What do these sets of bands have in common?

1.
The Bee Gees, the Breeders, Nelson, the Proclaimers

2.
Alphaville, Bad Company, Fine Young Cannibals, 10,000 Maniacs

3.
a-ha, Duran Duran, Garbage, Paul McCartney and Wings

4.
Badfinger, the Band, Joy Division, Nirvana

5.
Blind Faith, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, the Yardbirds

6.
The Carpenters, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Genesis, Rare Earth

7.
Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, Simple Minds, Travis

8.
Bad Company, Iron Maiden, Kool and the Gang, New Kids on the Block, Train

9.
The Charlatans, Dinosaur Jr., Green Jelly, Suede

10.
Air Supply, Steely Dan, T-Rex, the White Stripes

11.
The Byrds, Destiny’s Child, ’N Sync, the Ohio Express

12.
Death Cab for Cutie, Judas Priest, Radiohead, Shakespear’s Sister

13.
Five for Fighting, the Flaming Lips, the Kinks, R.E.M.

14.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, It’s a Beautiful Day, They Might Be Giants, Yo La Tengo

15.
INXS, Jethro Tull, Magnetic Fields, My Morning Jacket