Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (72 page)

3.
“Say Man”

4.
“I Loves You Porgy”

5.
“Werewolves of London”

APRIL 17

THE MUSICAL FRUIT

1.
Mung beans

2.
Just once

3.
Gilbert Van Camp

4.
Chianti

5.
Lens (for lentils)

PRAY IT FORWARD

1.
Albrecht Dürer

2.
Hail Mary

3.
Randy Jackson

4.
Yom Kippur

5.
(Warren) Spahn and (Johnny) Sain

PIG LATIN

1.
Earth Day (dearth)

2.
Alice Faye (phallus)

3.
East Bay (Beast)

4.
X-ray (Rex)

5.
Amway (Wham!)

APRIL 18

TRUE GRID

1.
G

2.
J

3.
C

4.
D

5.
B

6.
H

7.
E

8.
I

9.
A

10.
F

FOR THOSE WHO DIDN’T DO THE ASSIGNED READING

Easy

1.
Alice in Wonderland

2.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

3.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

4.
The Jungle Book

Harder

1.
Heidi

2.
A Wrinkle in Time

3.
Treasure Island

4.
Anne of Green Gables

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Call of the Wild

2.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

3.
Stuart Little

4.
The Wind in the Willows

MASS A-PEEL

1.
Fiona Apple’s

2.
Andrew Mellon

3.
Marc Cherry

4.
Meadowlark Lemon

5.
William of Orange

APRIL 19

EASY AS ABC

1.
C

2.
W

3.
M

4.
F

5.
J

6.
O

7.
R

8.
D

9.
B

10.
A

11.
N

12.
K

13.
G

14.
L

15.
Y

16.
P (in “P. Diddy”)

17.
H

18.
S

19.
V

20.
E

21.
X

22.
T

23.
Q

24.
U

25.
i

26.
Z
(This spells out a passable twenty-six-letter “pangram” sentence: “Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz.”)

APRIL 20

DEAR DAIRY

1.
Sheep’s milk

2.
Seersucker

3.
A Clockwork Orange

4.
The Andromeda Galaxy

5.
Aaron Burr

6.
Fiddler on the Roof

7.
Gail Borden, Jr.

8.
The Grapes of Wrath

9.
Andy Kaufman

10.
3
¹
/
₄
%

READ NY LIKS!

1.
E

2.
D

3.
A

4.
B

5.
C

YOU CAN HAVE IT-OLOGY

1.
China

2.
The Church of Scientology

3.
Phrenology

4.
Eschatology

5.
Your handwriting

APRIL 21

NOT JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT

1.
Liberace

2.
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”

3.
South Africa

4.
A flat earth

5.
Alfred Lunt

ANGLER OF REPOSE

1.
Elián González

2.
The Perfect Storm

3.
Pope

4.
“Phyllis…it sure isn’t you!” (from the theme song to TV’s
Phyllis
)

5.
Trout

6.
Fishing nets

7.
The Andy Griffith Show

8.
Abercrombie and Fitch

9.
Montana

10.
A rabbit

TWIST AND SNOUT

1.
Petunia

2.
Carbon

3.
St. Paul, Minnesota

4.
“Some pig”

5.
The intestines

APRIL 22

A MAD SCRAMBLE

1.
Lilliput

2.
Jonathan Winters

3.
The echidna

4.
Hollandaise sauce

5.
Russia

6.
Hard-Boiled

7.
“I am the walrus”

8.
The Great Gatsby

9.
Frittata

10.
Ma and Pa Kettle

11.
Green Eggs and Ham

12.
“The Humpty Hump”

13.
Gabriele Falloppio (or Fallopius)

14.
Eggplant

15.
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?

WILD AND CRAZY GUYS

1.
Buck

2.
St. Elsewhere

3.
Sasquatch

4.
A brick

5.
Calamity Jane

6.
A Coke bottle

7.
Max

8.
A (Russian) submarine

9.
The Florida Marlins

10.
Beverly Hills Cop

APRIL 23

BOTTLED UP

1.
Sherry

2.
A sommelier

3.
Neil Diamond’s

4.
Ohio

5.
Merlot

6.
Noah

7.
Zinfandel

8.
Chardonnay

9.
Bacchus

10.
Burgundy

GOING LONG

1.
Strom Thurmond

2.
A (Galápagos giant) tortoise

3.
Dark Side of the Moon

4.
Adam

5.
The Holocaust

6.
The Tonight Show

7.
Fidel Castro

8.
Shangri-La

9.
Sudan

10.
Beethoven’s Ninth

APRIL 24

CHURCH FATHERS

Easy

1.
David

2.
Jacob

3.
Zechariah

4.
Abraham

5.
Noah

Harder

1.
Adam

2.
Jesse

3.
Zebedee

4.
Saul

5.
Isaiah

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Manoah

2.
Amram

3.
Enoch

4.
Jonah

5.
Nun

STATE OF THE ARCH

1.
Fingerprints

2.
Thomas Jefferson

3.
McDonald’s

4.
Utah

5.
Fallen arches (or flat feet)

PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS

1.
The stomach

2.
The uterus

3.
The skin

4.
The penis (or urethra)

5.
The eye

APRIL 25

GALLIC SYMBOLS

1.
A magician

2.
Cayenne pepper

3.
“For No One”

4.
The French Quarter (of New Orleans)

5.
Roland Garros

6.
A condom

7.
Larry Bird

8.
Popeye (“Popeye” Doyle)

9.
The Lincoln Memorial

10.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS
?

1.
James Naismith

2.
Coca-Cola

3.
The Missouri River

4.
“Dust in the Wind”

5.
Charles Curtis

SUICIDE IS PAINLESS

Easy

1.
Hervé Villechaize

2.
George Reeves

3.
Freddie Prinze

4.
Ray Combs

Harder

1.
Ed Flanders

2.
David Strickland

3.
Dave Garroway

4.
Brian Keith

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Charles Rocket

2.
Inger Stevens

3.
Rusty Hamer

4.
Gig Young

APRIL 26

ODD FELLOWS

1.
Salvador Dalí

2.
The Detroit Pistons

3.
Charles Babbage

4.
Patch Adams

5.
Bahrain

DESTINATION TOKYO

1.
G

2.
J

3.
B

4.
E

5.
C

6.
I

7.
H

8.
F

9.
A

10.
D

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

1.
The first e-mail

2.
It’s pointy

3.
The Haymarket labor riot

4.
The paper clip

5.
Scranton (
The Office
)

6.
A cat

7.
Selenium

8.
A red stapler

9.
Mike Nesmith

10.
The EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

APRIL 27

SECOND PERSON SINGULAR

Easy

1.
Moby-Dick

2.
Hamlet

3.
Beowulf

4.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Harder

1.
Lolita

2.
Gone with the Wind

3.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

4.
The Odyssey

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Little Women

2.
Jane Eyre

3.
Pride and Prejudice

4.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND

1.
Ian Curtis

2.
Heloise

3.
William Bligh

4.
John Keats

5.
Mel Blanc

6.
Ethan Allen

7.
Curly Joe DeRita

8.
Carry Nation

9.
Dean Martin

10.
Edgar Allan Poe

EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOK

Easy

1.
Alice in Wonderland

2.
1984

3.
The Grapes of Wrath

4.
The Catcher in the Rye

5.
The Lord of the Rings

Harder

1.
American Psycho

2.
The Stranger

3.
Lolita

4.
Perfume

5.
The Diary of Anne Frank

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Master and Margarita

2.
Hamlet

3.
The
I Ching

4.
Interview with a Vampire

5.
The Tibetan
Book of the Dead

APRIL 28

VOCAL QUINTETS

1.
“I Get Around”

2.
Murciélago

3.
Southern Baptist

4.
Five thousand

5.
Plastic surgeon (
Nip/Tuck
)

6.
Pandemonium

7.
Julia Roberts (Red Om is “Moder” backwards)

8.
The tambourine

9.
The shower curtain

10.
Milquetoast

11.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

12.
Cauliflower

13.
Greg Louganis

14.
Mountain Dew

15.
Annie Proulx (“Brokeback Mountain”)

16.
The question mark

17.
A Chorus Line

18.
Mozambique

19.
Education

20.
Port-au-Prince

WITH THIS KING I THEE WED

Easy

1.
Rainier III of Monaco

2.
Henry VIII

3.
Prince Andrew

4.
Queen Victoria

5.
Louis XVI

Harder

1.
Catherine the Great

2.
Nefertiti

3.
Edward VIII

4.
Aly Khan

5.
Mary II

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
King Hussein of Jordan