Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (145 page)

1.
Minnesota

2.
New Jersey

3.
California

4.
Virginia

5.
New York

Harder

1.
Maine

2.
Georgia

3.
Arkansas

4.
Ohio

5.
Texas

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Tennessee

2.
Wisconsin

3.
Arizona

4.
Massachusetts

5.
Pennsylvania

TONY DANZA SYNDROME

Easy

1.
Jack Nicholson/Torrence

2.
John Hurt/Merrick

3.
Jeff Bridges/Lebowski

4.
Jerry Lewis/Langford

Harder

1.
Emily Blunt/Charlton

2.
Peter Gallagher/Callaghan

3.
Gene Hackman/Garrison

4.
John Wayne/Books

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
James Mason/Leamington

2.
Paul Sorvino/Cicero

3.
Anne Francis/Dadier

4.
Jack Buchanan/Brewster

IT’S A GAS

1.
Noble (or inert) gases

2.
Trees

3.
Helium or selenium

4.
Nitrous oxide

5.
Carbon dioxide

AUGUST 4

REMEMBER VENN

1.
Jim Bunning

2.
Gold

3.
Wheel of Fortune

4.
Nigeria

5.
Johnny Cash (Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well, though not as performers)

6.
Daniel (Elton John)

7.
Atlanta

8.
The Godfather Part II

9.
Bill Clinton

10.
The Walt Disney Company

FINGER-LICKIN’ GOOD

1.
F

2.
J

3.
A

4.
I

5.
E

6.
H

7.
C

8.
D

9.
B

10.
G

AUGUST 5

DRAWN TO SCALES

1.
H

2.
E

3.
I

4.
C

5.
J

6.
F

7.
B

8.
D

9.
G

10.
A

LAWN TERM MEMORY

1.
Wimbledon

2.
Bamboo

3.
Monica Lewinsky

4.
Chinatown

5.
Bermuda grass

6.
Édouard Manet

7.
Peter Ustinov

8.
Lost

9.
Over the septic tank

10.
Warren Beatty

AUGUST 6

VANISHING ACTS

1.
The Teamsters

2.
Jean Lafitte

3.
Trombone

4.
Aruba

5.
Ambrose Bierce

6.
“D. B.” (Dan) Cooper

7.
Bolivia

8.
Roald Amundsen

9.
The Pacific

10.
Raoul Wallenberg

TREE-VENGE!

1.
E

2.
C

3.
D

4.
B

5.
A

THANK YOU, GODFATHER

1.
Grunge

2.
Soul

3.
Hip-hop

4.
Punk

5.
Goth

AUGUST 7

FAVORITE SUN

1.
H

2.
A

3.
C

4.
E

5.
F

6.
I

7.
D

8.
G

9.
B

BRUSHES WITH GREATNESS

1.
Miles Davis

2.
An artificial heart

3.
Gave the Beatles LSD

4.
Turkmenistan

5.
Anne Frank

PERFECT PITCH

Easy

#1:
Volkswagen

#2:
Coca-Cola

#5:
McDonald’s

#10:
Avis

#15:
Maxwell House

Harder

#35:
Morton Salt

#38:
Crest

#40:
Timex

#44:
Winston

#48:
Listerine

Yeah, Good Luck

#49:
Cadillac

#56:
Polaroid

#69:
Springmaid

#71:
Steinway & Sons

#87:
Xerox

AUGUST 8

ON THE ROPES

1.
Million Dollar Baby

2.
Will Rogers

3.
The knot

4.
Rappeling

5.
(“An Occurrence at”) Owl Creek Bridge

6.
Between the World Trade Center towers

7.
The Leopold and Loeb killings

8.
Janet Jackson

9.
George Foreman

10.
Alexander the Great

SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS

1.
The piccolo

2.
Kansas

3.
Sergei Bubka

4.
New Zealand

5.
A harp

6.
Cirrus

7.
Nehi (“knee-high”)

8.
The Chrysler Building

9.
Barry Bonds

10.
420

AUGUST 9

A CHILD’S GARDEN OF URSUS

Easy

1.
A. A. Milne

2.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

3.
Jim Henson (voice by Frank Oz)

4.
Rudyard Kipling

Harder

1.
Michael Bond

2.
Dan Freeman

3.
Joel Chandler Harris

4.
Stan and Jan Berenstain

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Mary Tourtel

2.
William Faulkner

3.
Walt Morey

4.
Walt Kelly

IT’S RAINING MEH

1.
Michael Jordan

2.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter (The “Peter Principle”)

3.
Pretty Good Privacy

4.
Antonio Salieri

5.
100

MPROBABLE SPELLINGS

1.
Sbarro

2.
The ptarmigan’s

3.
Rwanda

4.
Ngaio Marsh

5.
Dvorák

6.
T’Pau

7.
Sfumato

8.
Mr. Mxyzptlk

9.
Hmong

10.
Tsunami (due to the catastrophic tsunami in South Asia)

AUGUST 10

EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

1.
A (
The Simpsons
)

2.
J (
Lost
)

3.
G

4.
E (
Full House
)

5.
D

6.
C

7.
F (
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
)

8.
H

9.
B

10.
I

SPIN CITY

Easy

1.
M*A*S*H

2.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

3.
Grey’s Anatomy

4.
The Cosby Show

5.
Cheers

Harder

1.
Happy Days

2.
Diff’rent Strokes

3.
Beverly Hills 90210

4.
Perfect Strangers

5.
The Danny Thomas Show

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Jake and the Fatman

2.
The Golden Girls

3.
Dawson’s Creek

4.
Married…with Children

5.
Murder, She Wrote

HEAVY HITTERS

1.
Derek Jeter

2.
Lou Gehrig and Hank Aaron

3.
Mickey Mantle

4.
66

5.
Tony Lazzeri

AUGUST 11

NAVAL-GAZING

1.
U.S. presidents

2.
Fred T. Jane (
Jane’s
)

3.
Jutland

4.
Virginia (Norfolk)

5.
Miguel de Cervantes

6.
“Sink the
Bismarck
”

7.
Patrol Torpedo

8.
Benjamin Franklin’s (“Poor Richard”)

9.
Trafalgar Square

10.
Fleet Admiral

THE SQUARED CIRCLE

1.
King Kong Bundy

2.
“Pomp and Circumstance”

3.
Andre the Giant

4.
Miami

5.
The World Wildlife Fund

“
CLEAN” LIVING

1.
Weightlifting

2.
William McKinley

3.
Pontius Pilate

4.
Art Carney

5.
Dow bathroom cleaner

AUGUST 12

CHOCOLATE THUNDER

1.
Pan’s Labyrinth

2.
Cows (for the catapulted ones in
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
)

3.
Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game

4.
Snickers

5.
Theobromine

JAZZ HANDS

1.
Thelonious Monk

2.
Sun Ra

3.
“Take Five”

4.
The vibraphone

5.
Kind of Blue
(Miles Davis)

NORTH AMERICAN IDOL

1.
The Mamas and the Papas

2.
Dream Theater

3.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young or Buffalo Springfield

4.
Hole or Smashing Pumpkins

5.
The Lovin’ Spoonful

AUGUST 13

INN-TERNATIONAL

1.
Sachertorte (the Hotel Sacher)

2.
Berlin’s

3.
Coco Chanel

4.
“Hotel Rwanda”

5.
Statler and Waldorf

6.
Dubai

7.
The
Harry Potter
series was completed

8.
Pyongyang, North Korea

9.
The Chelsea Hotel

10.
Potsdam

DANZA IN THE DARK

1.
A

2.
C

3.
E

4.
D

5.
B

Bonus Danza!
Crash

SMASHED HITS

1.
Red
+
Heat

2.
Bugsy
+
Malone

3.
Ghost
+
Dad

4.
Collateral
+
Damage

5.
Once Upon a Time
+
In America

6.
The Rose
+
Tattoo

7.
Mona Lisa
+
Smile

8.
Napoleon
+
Dynamite

9.
Monster
+
House

10.
M
+
Alice

AUGUST 14

BARELY THERE

1.
Vanity Fair

2.
Eight million

3.
In outer space, on a plaque on the
Pioneer 10
and
11
spacecraft

4.
John Ashcroft

5.
David Niven

WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Easy

1.
Salma Hayek

2.
Shirley Temple

3.
Audrey Tautou

4.
Rita Hayworth

5.
Jodie Foster

Harder

1.
Vanessa Redgrave

2.
Nastassja Kinski

3.
Tippi Hedren

4.
Gene Tierney

5.
Whoopi Goldberg

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Gena Rowlands

2.
Geena Davis

3.
Sue Lyon

4.
Aileen Quinn

5.
Leslie Caron

TONGUE TWISTERS

1.
Joseph’s “coat of many colors”

2.
Tanzania

3.
Jimmy Carter

4.
Boogie Nights

5.
E pluribus unum

AUGUST 15

TURNING JAPANESE

1.
Seventeen

2.
The Seven Samurai

3.
Hokkaido

4.
Harajuku

5.
The USS
Missouri

6.
Godzilla (
gorira
+
kujira
= Gojira)

7.
Salt

8.
Manga