Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (164 page)

6.
Idaho

7.
The Blue Moon Detective Agency

8.
Around Pluto

9.
Cats

10.
Ohio (Neil Armstrong)

11.
J. C. Watts

12.
Jupiter and Mars

13.
Moonstruck

14.
Cold Mountain

15.
“Contact”

SEPTEMBER 14

PAST BIBLE HEROES

Easy

1.
Moses

2.
Daniel

3.
Jesus

4.
Joshua

Harder

1.
Samson

2.
Joseph

3.
Elijah

4.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Elisha

2.
Peter

3.
Gideon

4.
Paul

TALES FROM THE CRYPT

1.
Mary Alice Young

2.
The Lovely Bones

3.
Facedown in a swimming pool

4.
Edgar Allan Poe

5.
American Beauty

BREAST IN SHOW

1.
Jean-Paul Gaultier

2.
Pink

3.
Manatee

4.
Liberty

5.
Thelma and Louise

SEPTEMBER 15

CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC

1.
Ukulele

2.
Twelfth Night

3.
The guitar

4.
Louisiana and Tennessee

5.
“Chopsticks” and “Heart and Soul”

6.
The iPod

7.
An electric organ

8.
The violin

9.
Rachel Griffiths

10.
The harmonica

TWO-TIMERS

1.
Grover Cleveland (once for each term)

2.
New York City

3.
The Booker Prize

4.
Adlai Stevenson

5.
Jack Nicklaus (who has three)

6.
Richard Gere

7.
A. J. Foyt

8.
Che Guevara

9.
Andrés Galarraga

10.
“Blue Suede Shoes,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and “Walk This Way”

SEPTEMBER 16

AUTO MOTIVE

1.
Hertz

2.
Alamo

3.
Dollar

4.
Advantage

5.
Enterprise

GREECE IS THE WORD

1.
Hiccups

2.
Hemlock

3.
Christopher Plummer

4.
Motion

5.
Pythagoras

I WANNA BE FREE

Easy

1.
Portugal

2.
Italy

3.
Japan

4.
The United States

5.
Great Britain

Harder

1.
Russia

2.
Denmark

3.
Great Britain

4.
Pakistan

5.
Indonesia

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Haiti

2.
France

3.
Belgium

4.
The Netherlands

5.
Ethiopia

SEPTEMBER 17

ALLITERATURE

1.
The Scarlet Letter

2.
The Prince and the Pauper

3.
Pride and Prejudice

4.
The Plague

5.
Gulliver’s Travels

6.
Hamlet

7.
The Sun Also Rises

8.
Catch-22

9.
To Kill a Mockingbird

10.
Lord of the Flies

11.
Nineteen Eighty-Four

12.
David Copperfield

13.
Ethan Frome

14.
The Glass Menagerie

15.
Tender Is the Night

16.
Pinocchio

17.
Fahrenheit 451

18.
Far from the Madding Crowd

19.
Heart of Darkness

20.
Great Expectations

SEPTEMBER 18

HANDS ACROSS AMERICA

1.
The Odd Couple

2.
Binion’s Horseshoe

3.
A full house

4.
To die in your sleep

5.
Travis McGee

ORAL EXAM

1.
Shakespeare in Love

2.
“Eskimo kissing”

3.
Gustav Klimt

4.
Kirk and Uhura (it was TV’s first dramatic kiss to “cross the color line”)

5.
To the right

6.
Ace Frehley

7.
Dante’s
Inferno

8.
She’s the nurse kissing an unknown sailor in the famous photo of Times Square on V-J Day

9.
Dynasty

10.
The bonobo

11.
Isaac and Jacob

12.
Cinema Paradiso

13.
Mistletoe

14.
The “gift of gab”

15.
Conrad Birdie (
Bye Bye Birdie
)

SEPTEMBER 19

TURN TURN TURN

1.
The
Andrea Doria

2.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

3.
Uranus

4.
Crab

5.
A urinal

THE LATE SHOW

Easy

1.
James Dean

2.
Brandon Lee

3.
John Candy

4.
Bruce Lee

Harder

1.
Aaliyah

2.
John Ritter

3.
Bela Lugosi

4.
Vic Morrow

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Natalie Wood

2.
Jim Varney

3.
Chris Farley

4.
Trinidad Silva

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

1.
Hispaniola

2.
Stephen Decatur

3.
Mexico and Luxembourg

4.
Julius Caesar

5.
February 29

6.
Fifteen

7.
Sparrows (Jack) and swans (Elizabeth)

8.
Honus Wagner

9.
Shakespeare in Love

10.
“Professor Booty”

SEPTEMBER 20

PLAY-GIARISM

1.
F

2.
I

3.
E

4.
B

5.
J

6.
A

7.
H

8.
C

9.
D

10.
G

SIX IS COMPANY

1.
An oft-mentioned character is never seen

2.
Spin-offs of spin-offs

3.
Set in Chicago

4.
Aired in both black and white and color

5.
Cast member(s) sing the theme song

6.
Actor Ted McGinley

7.
Switched networks in midrun

8.
A character has twin children

9.
Feature a psychiatrist

10.
Based on a British series

SEPTEMBER 21

QUIZ-LING

1.
Guy Fawkes

2.
Gavrilo Princip (who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand)

3.
Imre Nagy

4.
John Brown

5.
Marie Antoinette

HALO, I LOVE YOU

1.
Jaclyn Smith

2.
Malachi

3.
Gene Autry

4.
The Phantom of the Opera

5.
Abraham Lincoln

AX NICELY

Easy

#
1:
Jimmy Page

#
5:
Jimi Hendrix

#
6:
Slash

#
10:
Eric Clapton

#
12:
Chuck Berry

Harder

#
20:
Brian May

#
24:
Kirk Hammet

#
29:
Steve Vai

#
44:
Mike McCready

#
45:
Robby Krieger

Yeah, Good Luck

#
57:
Dimebag Darrel

#
73:
Trey Anastasio

#
83:
Stevie Ray Vaughan

#
87:
Vernon Reid

#
98:
John Petrucci

SEPTEMBER 22

PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM

1.
Edd “Kookie” Byrnes

2.
123 Sesame Street

3.
Mrs. Hudson

4.
Wrigley Field

5.
Doctor Dolittle’s

6.
The Treasury

7.
Dom DeLuise

8.
The Pittsburgh Steelers

9.
1313

10.
Jim Morrison’s

BAD CALLS

1.
The Colorado Buffaloes

2.
He miscalled the coin toss

3.
Basketball (the Soviet win in 1972)

4.
England

5.
Yankee Stadium

TV NATION

Easy

1.
North Carolina

2.
Washington

3.
Colorado

4.
Colorado

Harder

1.
Georgia

2.
North Carolina

3.
Indiana

4.
Kansas

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ohio

2.
Oregon

3.
New York

4.
Nevada

SEPTEMBER 23

THE RULING CLASS

1.
The Cider House Rules

2.
Robert’s Rules of Order

3.
The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right

4.
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter

5.
Marquess of Queensberry rules (for boxing)

VEEP VEEP

Easy

1.
Abraham Lincoln

2.
Richard Nixon

3.
Franklin Roosevelt

Harder

1.
Thomas Jefferson

2.
William McKinley

3.
Andrew Jackson

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ulysses Grant

2.
James Madison

3.
Grover Cleveland

BUSINESS SCENTS

1.
G

2.
H

3.
J

4.
B

5.
I

6.
D

7.
A

8.
E

9.
C

10.
F

SEPTEMBER 24

PUNK-TUATION

1.
Blue Öyster Cult

2.
Hüsker Dü

3.
Mötley Crüe

4.
Motörhead

5.
Queensrÿche

6.
Spïnal Tap

MONUMENT VALLEY

1.
Most of Ellis Island

2.
George Armstrong Custer

3.
Fort Sumter

4.
George Washington and George Washington Carver

5.
White Sands

6.
Battery Park

7.
Rainbow Bridge

8.
Fort McHenry

9.
The sequoia

10.
The Virgin Islands

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

1.
Byron De La Beckwith

2.
Japan

3.
Brian Wilson

4.
He spoke no English

5.
Six (Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Gertrude, and Laertes)

SEPTEMBER 25

CONCRETE GALOSHES

1.
Sonja Henie

2.
Harold Lloyd

3.
Whoopi Goldberg

4.
Betty Grable

5.
R2-D2

6.
Joe E. Brown

7.
John Wayne

8.
Al Jolson

9.
Groucho Marx and George Burns

10.
Tony, Champion, and Trigger

PITCHY KEEN

1.
Blake Lewis

2.
Clay Aiken

3.
Carrie Underwood

4.
Taylor Hicks

5.
Jordin Sparks

6.
Katharine McPhee

RELATIVELY RELATED

1.
Sandy Koufax

2.
Joshua Malina and Timothy Busfield

3.
Mike Myers

4.
Custis

5.
Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane

SEPTEMBER 26

TRADE COMMISSION

1.
Francis Gary Powers

2.
They were managers

3.
ImClone Systems

4.
Dr. J

5.
Trading Spouses

WHALE KNOWN FACTS