Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (165 page)

1.
Moby Grape

2.
Krill

3.
Humpback whales

4.
The Maori

5.
Hippos

STREET BALL

Easy

1.
Atlanta

2.
Miami

3.
Salt Lake City

4.
Berlin

Harder

1.
St. Louis

2.
Knoxville

3.
Pittsburgh

4.
Arlington, Texas

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Ottawa

2.
Daytona Beach

3.
Green Bay

5.
Sydney

SEPTEMBER 27

MATCH BOOKS

1.
G

2.
F

3.
A

4.
H

5.
B

6.
C

7.
E

8.
I

9.
D

10.
J

ACTING ALONE

Easy

1.
Hal Holbrook

2.
Sarah Silverman

3.
Spalding Gray

4.
Lily Tomlin

Harder

1.
Billy Crystal

2.
Margaret Cho

3.
Julia Sweeney

4.
Ian McKellen

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Eric Bogosian

2.
Robert Morse

3.
Victor Borge

4.
James Whitmore

X TERMINATIONS

1.
Macintosh computers

2.
Speed Racer’s

3.
Lynn Swann

4.
Jean Grey (Marvel Girl)

5.
John Singer Sargent

6.
Clyde Tombaugh

7.
Little

8.
Douglas Copland

9.
Joan of Arc

10.
Edward Norton

SEPTEMBER 28

WISE CRACKS

1.
Who’s the Boss?

2.
Family Ties

3.
Punky Brewster

4.
The Facts of Life

5.
Growing Pains

6.
Silver Spoons

7.
Good Times

8.
Mr. Belvedere

9.
Perfect Strangers

10.
Full House

POOR BABY

Easy

1.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

2.
Julia Roberts

3.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

4.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

5.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

Harder

1.
Nicolas Cage

2.
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

3.
Sylvester Stallone

4.
David Bowie

5.
Jermaine Jackson

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Toni Braxton

2.
Jayson Williams

3.
John Mellencamp

4.
Jason Lee

5.
Penn Jillette

SEPTEMBER 29

LOST IN SPACE

Easy

1.
Mork

2.
Superman

3.
Spock (or Tuvok)

Harder

1.
Dr. Who

2.
ALF

3.
The Coneheads

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
(
The Powers of
) Matthew Star

2.
Gazoo (
The Flintstones
)

3.
Dr. Zoidberg (
Futurama
)

SHUT UP AND SING

1.
“Barbara Ann” (The Beach Boys)

2.
“All I Wanna Do” (Sheryl Crow)

3.
“Diamond Dogs” (David Bowie)

4.
“Stop!” (Jane’s Addiction)

5.
“Helter Skelter” (The Beatles)

6.
“Chantilly Lace” (The Big Bopper)

7.
“Revolution Rock” (The Clash)

8.
“Express Yourself” (Madonna)

9.
“Money” (Pink Floyd)

10.
“Juicy” (The Notorious B.I.G.)

TIDY SUMS

1.
Pretty Woman

2.
Stone Cold Steve Austin

3.
Press Your Luck

4.
Scrooge McDuck

5.
Kevin Brown

SEPTEMBER 30

CRASH COURSE

1.
Pierre Curie

2.
Princess Diana

3.
George Patton

4.
Tom Mix

5.
Karen Silkwood

6.
Isadora Duncan (killed by one such scarf )

7.
Seymour Cray

8.
Mel Ott

9.
Grace Kelly

10.
T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

MALE CALL

1.
“If”

2.
Bambi

3.
A tail

4.
Wallis Simpson

5.
Jack Albertson

TEST PILOT

Easy

1.
The Beverly Hillbillies

2.
Bewitched

3.
All in the Family

4.
24

5.
The Jetsons

Harder

1.
Gilligan’s Island

2.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

3.
CSI: NY

4.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

5.
Perry Mason

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Batman

2.
Curb Your Enthusiasm

3.
Petticoat Junction

4.
Lost in Space

5.
Gunsmoke

OCTOBER 1

1788
D
EACON
W
ILLIAM
B
RODIE,
an Edinburgh cabinetmaker and city councillor, is hanged on the gallows he himself designed and funded. Brodie, a respectable businessman by day, was an archcriminal by night, a dichotomy that helped inspire Robert Louis Stevenson’s
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

IDENTITY CRISIS

Can you match these actors to their on-screen multiple-personality alter egos? Name the film or TV show for extra credit.

1978
T
HE ISLAND NATION
of Tuvalu gains independence, making it the world’s second-least-populated country, after the Vatican. Tuvalu’s capital is the atoll of Funafuti, so Freetown, Sierra Leone, is no longer the only world capital that begins with the letter
F
…

A CAPITAL QUIZ

…but what’s the only country whose capital begins with these letters?

1.
Q

2.
U

3.
I

4.
Z

1979
A
TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD WATERBURY,
Connecticut, traffic reporter named Chris Berman joins fledgling cable network ESPN, hosting the 3
A.M.
edition of
SportsCenter.
He will remain one of the network’s most visible anchors for decades.

YOU’RE WITH ME, LEATHER

Using his trademark “Bermanisms,” what baseball player has Chris Berman nicknamed…

Easy

1.
“Corn on the”

2.
“Fields forever”

3.
“Say it ain’t”

4.
“Eat drink and be”

5.
“Remember the”

Harder

1.
“Can you see?”

2.
“Supercalifragilisticexpiali”

3.
“Have gun will”

4.
“Supreme Court”

5.
“Taco”

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
“You sank my”

2.
“Nova”

3.
“Abraxas”

4.
“Buy a vowel”

5.
“Be home”