Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (181 page)

5.
Tony Snow

CAN YOU BE MORE PACIFIC?

1.
Papua New Guinea

2.
Guadalcanal

3.
Taro

4.
Pitcairn Island

5.
Paul Gauguin

6.
The Maori

7.
Scotland

8.
Mosi Tatupu

9.
Easter Island

10.
James Michener

DIE ANOTHER WAY

Easy

1.
Exposure (
not
drowning)

2.
Crucifixion

3.
Melted by water

4.
Cancer

5.
Atomic explosion

Harder

1.
Poisoning (iocane powder)

2.
Ax wounds

3.
Eaten by mutant shark

4.
Chased off cliff by topless women

5.
Suffocated with pillow

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Gas chamber

2.
Beheaded

3.
Inflated and exploded using compressed air

4.
Heart attack (from shock)

5.
Buried alive

OCTOBER 4

EXPRESS YOURSELF

1.
Steven Spielberg’s

2.
Buffalo Bill Cody

3.
Roller skates

4.
“Do you know me?”

5.
Turkey

6.
San Antonio’s

7.
Nolan Ryan (
Von Ryan’s Express
)

8.
William Burroughs’s

9.
A sleigh bell

10.
Steve Young

POP GOES THE EASEL

Easy

1.
Roy Lichtenstein

2.
Andy Warhol

3.
David Hockney

Harder

1.
Jasper Johns

2.
Robert Indiana

3.
Claes Oldenburg

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Keith Haring

2.
Wayne Thiebaud

3.
Robert Rauschenberg

WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?

1.
Every ten years

2.
Every other day

3.
Every other year

4.
Weekly

5.
Every seven years

6.
Every ninety minutes

7.
Twice a day

8.
Every six years

9.
Five times a day

10.
Twice a year

OCTOBER 5

EYE OF THE TAIGA

1.
The Gulag Archipelago

2.
Lake Baikal

3.
A giant explosion, probably a meteor strike

4.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
’s

5.
A woolly mammoth

FAKE BOOKS

1.
The Shop Around the Corner

2.
Harry Potter

3.
Roberto Benigni (
Life Is Beautiful
)

4.
Ellen DeGeneres

5.
A travel bookshop

GENTLEMAN COLLARS

1.
George Washington

2.
Jawaharlal Nehru

3.
Wisk

4.
Larry the Cable Guy

5.
Seiji Ozawa

OCTOBER 6

K MART

1.
Ketamine

2.
James K. Polk

3.
Black

4.
Ice Cube

5.
Roger Clemens’s sons (the initial
K
s represent strikeouts)

6.
Mozart’s

7.
Franz Kafka

8.
Kodak

9.
Henry Godwin-Austen

10.
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

ACID TEST

1.
Aspirin

2.
Hydrochloric acid and nitric acid

3.
Folic acid

4.
Red

5.
Sulfuric acid

TAKE TWO

Easy

1.
La Cage aux Folles

2.
The Bishop’s Wife

3.
Love Affair

4.
The Absent-Minded Professor

5.
Infernal Affairs

Harder

1.
La Femme Nikita

2.
Charade

3.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan

4.
The Return of Martin Guerre

5.
Death Takes a Holiday

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Virgin Spring

2.
All That Heaven Allows

3.
Lady for a Day

4.
Boudu Saved from Drowning

5.
The More the Merrier

OCTOBER 7

CUP WITH PEOPLE

1.
Roberto Clemente

2.
Vince Lombardi

3.
James Norris

4.
Edgar Martinez

5.
Arthur Ashe

6.
Harley J. Earl

7.
Eclipse

8.
Jack Nicklaus

9.
Walter Payton

10.
Oscar Robertson

PUMPED UP

1.
Biting or chewing (it’s the masseter muscle of the jaw)

2.
Popeye’s

3.
The heart

4.
Charley horse

5.
The Cremaster Cycle

6.
BMI (body mass index)

7.
A Pontiac GTO

8.
Lactic acid

9.
The deltoid

10.
Michael Jackson

OCTOBER 8

CONSTITUTION HALL

1.
Delaware

2.
“Defence”

3.
Cruel and unusual

4.
John Dickinson

5.
Seven

6.
The “full faith and credit” clause

7.
Prohibition was repealed

8.
35

9.
Religion

10.
Rhode Island

PRICKLY PAIRS

Easy

1.
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen

2.
Martin Landau and Barbara Bain

3.
Michael Tucker and Jill Eiken-berry

4.
Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush

5.
Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold

Harder

1.
Sarah Clarke and Xander Berkeley

2.
Alex Karras and Susan Clark

3.
Alexander Siddig and Nana Visitor

4.
William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett

5.
Rob Estes and Josie Bissett

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss

2.
Casper Van Dien and Catherine Oxenberg

3.
Meredith Baxter and David Birney

4.
Sam Jaffe and Bettye Ackerman

5.
David James Elliott and Nanci Chambers

FORT KNOCKS

1.
Woody Woodpecker

2.
E!

3.
Annie

4.
The Tommyknockers

5.
The solar plexus

OCTOBER 9

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

Easy

1.
Hank Aaron

2.
Joe DiMaggio

3.
Roger Maris

4.
Cal Ripken, Jr.

Harder

1.
Bob Gibson (ERA)

2.
Cy Young (wins)

3.
Pete Rose (hits)

4.
Nolan Ryan (strikeouts)

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Rogers Hornsby

2.
Rickey Henderson (steals)

3.
Ichiro Suzuki (hits)

4.
Hank Aaron (RBIs)

I HAVE A LITTLE LIST

1.
Paul Newman

2.
Top Ten List, on
Late Night with David Letterman

3.
Kathy Griffin

4.
At the State Department

5.
Unsolved math problems

TITLE INSURANCE

1.
D,
The Freshman

2.
A,
Monkey Business

3.
I,
Shall We Dance?

4.
B,
Heaven Can Wait

5.
C,
No Way Out

6.
G,
Moulin Rouge

7.
E,
The Rainmaker

8.
F,
Traffic

9.
H,
Hero

10.
J,
Crash

OCTOBER 10

WHO ARE YOU? I REALLY WANNA KNOW

1.
Louisiana

2.
“Mr. Jones” (Counting Crows)

3.
Jane

4.
Seventeen

5.
“Billie Jean”

6.
Scaramouche

7.
Layla

8.
Wendy

9.
Stan

10.
Each mentions a Rolling Stone: “like Bill Wyman,” “like Charlie Watts,” and “like Mick Jagger,” respectively

EXPANSION DRAFT

1.
The Suns and SuperSonics

2.
The Reds and Red Sox

3.
The Blues and Blue Jackets

4.
The Nets and Nuggets

INTERNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Easy

1.
(West) Germany

2.
China

3.
Argentina

4.
Nigeria

Harder

1.
South Africa

2.
Jamaica

3.
Spain

4.
The Netherlands

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Sudan

2.
Lithuania (then part of the USSR)

3.
Ukraine (then part of the USSR)

4.
Nigeria

OCTOBER 11

SIBYL RITES

1.
The flight of birds

2.
Delphi

3.
Cassandra

4.
The
Argo

5.
He was transformed into a woman

JOCK OF ALL TRADES

1.
Dave Winfield

2.
Jim Thorpe

3.
Jim Brown

4.
Jackie Robinson

5.
“Babe” Didrikson Zaharias

6.
Bo Jackson

7.
Ed Jones

8.
Tom Glavine

9.
Marion Jones

10.
Charlie Ward

STORMY WEATHER

1.
The United Kingdom

2.
Ronee Blakley

3.
The ibis

4.
Passion fruit

5.
Mike Myers

OCTOBER 12

EGGS MARKS THE SPOT

1.
The Colbert Report

2.
A wasps’ nest

3.
Robert “Chief” Parish

4.
The stork

5.
Hazzard County (
The Dukes of Hazzard
)

LIFE IN THE FEST LANE

1.
Ramadan

2.
Jai alai

3.
Bethel

4.
Pamplona’s

5.
The Palme d’Or

A RAW DEAL

1.
Squash

2.
Spin it—a boiled egg spins faster and longer

3.
Muesli

4.
R

5.
Steak tartare

OCTOBER 13

WHO’S AFRAID OF…

Easy

1.
Acrophobia

2.
Claustrophobia

3.
Arachnophobia

4.
Xenophobia

5.
Agoraphobia

Harder

1.
Heliophobia

2.
Necrophobia

3.
Hemophobia

4.
Pyrophobia

5.
Glossophobia

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ailurophobia

2.
Gymnophobia

3.
Algophobia

4.
Coulrophobia

5.
Tokophobia

EAT ME!

1.
New Guinea

2.
Jonathan Swift

3.
The Sierra Nevada

4.
A census taker

5.
The Caribbean Sea

6.
Fleet Street

7.
Alferd Packer

8.
Titus Andronicus

9.
Soylent Green

10.
Saturn

MULTIPLEXITY

Easy

1.
Antz

2.
Wyatt Earp

3.
Armageddon

4.
Volcano

Harder

1.
The Wild

2.
The Illusionist

3.
EdTV

4.
Red Planet

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Without Limits

2.
Valmont

3.
Chasing Liberty

4.
Fail-Safe