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Authors: Ken Jennings
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
