Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (182 page)

OCTOBER 14

WAR BONDS

1.
F, a

2.
H, h

3.
D, i

4.
C, f

5.
A, c

6.
E, j

7.
B, e

8.
J, g

9.
G, d

10.
I, b

THE SUITES HEREAFTER

1.
Earth (though Pluto, then not yet discovered and now no longer a planet, isn’t included either)

2.
The Grand Canyon

3.
Henrik Ibsen

4.
The Nutcracker

5.
Appalachian Spring

DOG PATCH

Easy

1.
Little Orphan Annie

2.
Dennis the Menace

3.
Peanuts

4.
Garfield

5.
Dilbert

Harder

1.
Blondie

2.
Mutts

3.
For Better or For Worse

4.
The Family Circus

5.
Beetle Bailey

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Hagar the Horrible

2.
Pickles

3.
Luann

4.
Ziggy

5.
Overboard

OCTOBER 15

COUNTRY MUSIC

Easy

1.
Vatican City

2.
Egypt

3.
Cambodia

4.
Canada

5.
China

Harder

1.
San Marino

2.
Bhutan

3.
Lebanon

4.
Mozambique

5.
The Netherlands

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ecuador

2.
Honduras

3.
Andorra

4.
The United States

5.
Zimbabwe

LITERARY LEGS

1.
Hagrid’s (
Harry Potter
)

2.
Chita Rivera

3.
Anansi

4.
Alex Cross

5.
Arachne

OCTOBER 16

BREWTOPIA

1.
A harp

2.
Munich

3.
Billy Carter

4.
The microphone

5.
Dos Equis (“Two
X
s,” or Roman numeral XX)

6.
Bud Light

7.
Barley

8.
Adolf Hitler

9.
Milwaukee

10.
Samuel Adams

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

1.
Bret Hart(e)

2.
C(h)ris Carter

3.
John Reed/Reid

4.
James Stuart/Stewart

5.
Maud(e) Adams

6.
Spike Jones/Jonze

7.
Ben Jo(h)nson

8.
Mark/Marc Price

9.
Jim Bak(k)er

10.
Jo(h)n Stewart

OCTOBER 17

ACHTUNG BABY

1.
Stool

2.
A $1 bill

3.
Limbo

4.
She was the model for the Gerber baby

5.
Maggie Simpson (according to the grocery checkout scan)

6.
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt

7.
“Isn’t She Lovely”

8.
Emily

9.
M

10.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU

1.
A sundial

2.
Wilkerson

3.
David Robinson and Tim Duncan

4.
Sleeping Beauty’s

5.
Protons and neutrons

6.
Missouri

7.
Caramel

8.
A singularity

9.
Niagara Falls

10.
Judas Iscariot

OCTOBER 18

DIGITAL DOMAIN

1.
Dr. Seuss’s

2.
Marvin Gaye

3.
A
yakuza

4.
Okra

5.
A

6.
Hoyt Wilhelm

7.
Four (well, three and a thumb)

8.
The Rolling Stones’ lips and tongue

9.
Brazil

10.
Dane Cook

“
SUPER” FRIENDS

1.
The Dallas Cowboys

2.
He throws up

3.
The eyebrows

4.
The Super Soaker

5.
Albert Brooks

6.
Very low temperatures

7.
Giant

8.
McLovin

9.
Karen Carpenter’s

10.
The Crab Nebula

11.
Krypto

12.
Wade Boggs

13.
“U Can’t Touch This”

14.
Gilmore Girls
and
Smallville

15.
Tuesday

OCTOBER 19

MONARCHY IN THE U.K.

1.
William (IV)

2.
Welsh corgi

3.
“Longshanks”

4.
Henry VIII (Charles Laughton, Richard Burton, and Robert Shaw)

5.
John Brown

6.
The Tudors

7.
King John

8.
Henry VIII

9.
Saint James

10.
Richard (II and III)

CEILING WHACKS

1.
Katharine Graham (
The Washington Post
)

2.
Fidelity Investments

3.
Ash

4.
Hewlett-Packard

5.
Oprah Winfrey

FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS

Easy

1.
Saint Francis of Assisi

2.
Saint Andrew

3.
Saint Jude

4.
Saint Valentine

Harder

1.
Saint Nicholas

2.
Edward the Confessor

3.
Saint Frances Xavier

4.
Saint Vitus

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Saint Agatha

2.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

3.
Saint Dominic

4.
Saint Florian

OCTOBER 20

FACE OFF

Easy

1.
Knight Rider

2.
How I Met Your Mother

3.
Charlie’s Angels

4.
Magnum, P.I.

5.
The Wonder Years

Harder

1.
Rhoda

2.
Felicity

3.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective

4.
The Drew Carey Show

5.
My Mother the Car

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Mork & Mindy

2.
Mission: Impossible

3.
The Outer Limits

4.
Out of This World

5.
The Millionaire

PAMPAS AND CIRCUMSTANCE

1.
“¡GOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL!”

2.
Gauchos

3.
Eva Perón (then Duarte)

4.
The Falklands

5.
Gilda

G WHIZ

1.
Gypsy Rose Lee

2.
Russia

3.
Margarine

4.
The Incredibles

5.
Gillette

OCTOBER 21

NUCLEAR FAMILY

1.
Pennsylvania

2.
Trinity

3.
Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush

4.
“Joshua”

5.
Turkey

FOR YOUR ISLES ONLY

1.
D

2.
A

3.
B

4.
E

5.
C

HELLO, DOLLY

1.
Cabbage Patch Kids

2.
Kachina dolls

3.
Buster Poindexter

4.
Ed Wood

5.
Raggedy Ann and Andy

6.
Craps

7.
Norway

8.
Himself

9.
Nest inside one another (they’re Russian stacking dolls)

10.
Roger Ebert

OCTOBER 22

GET USED TO DISAPPOINTMENT

1.
Sam Bowie

2.
The Mackenzie

3.
The Gungans

4.
Charles Guiteau (James Garfield’s assassin)

5.
Apple computer

SUCKER!

1.
Kojak

2.
W. C. Fields’s

3.
The chupacabra

4.
The Wayans

5.
The remora

RED SCARE

Easy

1.
Red Skelton

2.
Red Buttons

3.
Red Auerbach

Harder

1.
Red Grange

2.
Red Cloud

3.
Red Forman (
That ’70s Show
)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Red Sovine

2.
Red Green

3.
Red Deutsch

OCTOBER 23

NOT AT ALL ABOUT EVE

1.
Jimmy Carter (Eleanor Rosalynn Carter; Eleanor Roosevelt’s first name was Anna)

2.
William Holden

3.
Lady Bird Johnson

4.
Central Park

5.
Edith

6.
Living History

7.
John Quincy Adams

8.
The Betty Ford Center

9.
Dolley Madison

10.
Bess Truman

WHOLE LOTTA LOBE

1.
Clark Gable

2.
The stirrup

3.
The Netherlands

4.
Tinnitus

5.
Friends, Romans, countrymen

BRANDED!

Easy

1.
Microsoft

2.
Mattel

3.
Sony

4.
Hormel

5.
Toyota

Harder

1.
Research in Motion

2.
PepsiCo

3.
RCA Victor

4.
Pfizer (originally Upjohn)

5.
Wham-O

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Sears

2.
Kimberly-Clark

3.
Wyeth

4.
Oscar Mayer (Kraft)

5.
Trek

OCTOBER 24

THE ELEMENTS OF TILE

1.
Touchdown Jesus

2.
The Hagia Sophia

3.
Tobacco

4.
Netscape

5.
Barcelona

CASK ME ANOTHER

1.
A bung

2.
Diogenes

3.
William Proxmire

4.
“Beer Barrel Polka”

5.
.44 inch (a .44 Magnum)

POP QUIZZLE

1.
The mizzenmast

2.
Rizzo

3.
The Grizzlies (of the NBA)

4.
“Pizzicato”

5.
Eddie Izzard

6.
Drizzle

7.
“Whizzer”

8.
Lizzie

9.
Twizzlers

10.
The swizzle stick

OCTOBER 25

I. P. FREELY

Easy

1.
Johnson & Johnson

2.
AT&T

3.
The U.S. Postal Service

4.
Bayer

5.
Pillsbury

Harder

1.
Wham-O

2.
Ocean Spray

3.
Sony

4.
Parker Brothers (Hasbro)

5.
Kawasaki

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Westinghouse

2.
Rival

3.
Dow Chemical

4.
Gerber

5.
Marvel and DC Comics (Time Warner), jointly owned

CHEERS, NOT JEERS

Easy

1.
Happy Days

2.
WKRP in Cincinnati

3.
The Simpsons

4.
Friends

5.
Taxi

Harder

1.
Fawlty Towers

2.
The Monkees

3.
ER

4.
The Odd Couple

5.
M*A*S*H

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Dick Van Dyke Show

2.
China Beach

3.
Lost in Space

4.
Ellen

5.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

PENNANT RACE

1.
G

2.
B (Angkor Wat)

3.
D

4.
F