Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (90 page)

9.
Northern Exposure

10.
The Kremlin

I’M A MAGIC MAN

1.
Don Herbert

2.
John Wooden

3.
Elton John

4.
David Duke

5.
Ozzie Smith

6.
Merlin

7.
Phylicia Ayers-Allen (now Rashad)

8.
A squib

9.
New Jersey

10.
Ian McKellen (
The Fellowship of the Ring
)

MAY 16

ROOTS ROCK

1.
An endodontist

2.
Toby

3.
The cassava’s

4.
-10

5.
The love of money

6.
Mo’ Better Blues

7.
Idaho and Montana

8.
Ginseng

9.
AstroTurf

10.
Canada

A MATTER OF A PINION

1.
Erica Jong’s (
Fear of Flying
)

2.
The Toronto Maple Leafs

3.
Beavis and Butt-Head’s

4.
Nantucket

5.
Peter Falk

6.
Ailerons

7.
“Blackbird”

8.
Albatross

9.
On TV’s
The West Wing

10.
Nike

MAY 17

HAM-DUNK

Easy

1.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

2.
The Rock

3.
Brett Favre

4.
O. J. Simpson

5.
Jim Brown

Harder

1.
Carl Weathers

2.
Vinnie Jones

3.
Alex Karras

4.
Shaquille O’Neal

5.
Cam Neely

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Alex English

2.
Fred Williamson

3.
Merlin Olsen

4.
Chuck Connors

5.
Ray Allen

FOUR BETTER OR WORSE

Easy

1.
John

2.
The Thing

3.
Percussion

4.
Raphael

5.
Water

Harder

1.
Anni-Frid (ABBA)

2.
Plasma

3.
Pennsylvania (Monopoly railroads)

4.
Cut

5.
Cups (tarot suits)
Yeah, Good Luck

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
From fear (FDR’s Four Freedoms)

2.
Euphrates (Garden of Eden rivers)

3.
Cytosine (DNA bases)

4.
“Little Gidding” (T. S. Eliot’s
Four Quartets
)

5.
Dwight White (the “Steel Curtain”)

STREET SMARTS

1.
Wall Street

2.
Sunset Strip

3.
Penny Lane

4.
8 Mile Road

5.
Canal Street (“
Tri
angle
Be
low
Ca
nal”)

6.
The Appian Way

7.
Drury Lane

8.
Avenue of the Americas

9.
The Las Vegas Strip

10.
Lombard Street (in San Francisco)

MAY 18

DRAFTY IN HERE

Easy

1.
Pittsburgh Steelers

2.
Seattle Mariners

3.
Pittsburgh Penguins

4.
Indianapolis Colts

5.
Cleveland Cavaliers

Harder

1.
Baltimore Colts

2.
Atlanta Braves

3.
New York Islanders

4.
Milwaukee Bucks

5.
Charlotte Hornets

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Orlando Magic

2.
Baltimore Orioles

3.
Atlanta Falcons

4.
San Diego Padres

5.
Detroit Red Wings

THE DAWN PATROL

1.
Claude Monet

2.
Vienna

3.
Grenadine

4.
The Florida Panthers

5.
July (
not
June, surprisingly)

THE FIVE
W
S (
AND ONE
H)

1.
The Grinch’s

2.
Georgetown (“Hoya”)

3.
Wendy’s

4.
Barry Sanders

5.
Frankie Avalon

6.
The Grapes of Wrath
(“Battle Hymn of the Republic”)

MAY 19

SPOT CHECK

1.
Roy Lichtenstein

2.
Two and one, respectively

3.
The 101 Dalmatians

4.
Your blind spot

5.
Her house is on fire and her children are gone

6.
Four

7.
SOS

8.
Currants

9.
Fiji

10.
Sunspots

11.
Brian Hyland

12.
Georges Seurat’s (
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
)

13.
Earth, as seen from space

14.
Six

15.
Ellipsis

ACA-DUMMY-A

1.
I

2.
J

3.
A

4.
B

5.
G

6.
D

7.
E

8.
F

9.
H

10.
C

MAY 20

STAR SEARCH

1.
Australia

2.
North Korea

3.
The Marshall Islands

4.
Israel

5.
Ethiopia

6.
Zimbabwe

SUBSCRIPTION APTITUDE TEST

1.
Martha Stewart

2.
Mode

3.
Cracked

4.
Canada

5.
Pet

6.
Mia Farrow (first cover girl)

7.
“For Him”

8.
Cosmo Girl

9.
Rolling Stone

10.
Inc.

BIG-CITY DINING

1.
The Jerusalem artichoke

2.
Chicken Kiev

3.
Habanero (named for Havana)

4.
Lima beans

5.
Vienna

MAY 21

CAR-PE DIEM

1.
I

2.
H

3.
C

4.
J

5.
A

6.
D

7.
B

8.
G

9.
F

10.
E

BUS TA MOVE

1.
50 mph

2.
Ralph Kramden

3.
Montgomery, Alabama

4.
The Maddencruiser

5.
The Merry Pranksters

THE AMEND CORNER

Easy

1.
Fifth

2.
First

3.
Fourth

4.
Second

Harder

1.
Sixteenth

2.
Eighteenth

3.
Thirteenth

4.
Nineteenth

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Twenty-fourth

2.
Twenty-third

3.
Seventeenth

4.
Twenty-fifth

MAY 22

PATENTLY RIDICULOUS

1.
L

2.
O

3.
N

4.
B

5.
K

6.
G

7.
E

8.
F

9.
C

10.
M

11.
I

12.
D

13.
H

14.
A

15.
J

RENT CONTROL

1.
The Watergate (Woods was Nixon’s secretary)

2.
Apartment 3-G

3.
Grand Hotel
and
The Godfather

4.
Cockroaches

5.
Mama Cass and Keith Moon

6.
Purple

7.
La Bohème

8.
Waylon Jennings

9.
Rosemary’s Baby

10.
On
A Streetcar Named Desire

MAY 23

CARRYING A TOON

Easy

1.
Tim Allen

2.
Julie Kavner

3.
Mel Blanc

4.
Robin Williams

5.
Mike Myers

Harder

1.
Seth MacFarlane

2.
Vin Diesel

3.
Mike Judge

4.
Matthew Broderick

5.
Jim Backus

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Don Adams

2.
Tom Kenny

3.
Lorenzo Music

4.
Sterling Holloway

5.
Daws Butler

IRON HORSES

1.
The Harlem Globetrotters

2.
John Grisham

3.
The Los Angeles Dodgers (Don Drysdale and Orel Hershiser)

4.
“One Sweet Day”

5.
George

6.
Heinz (57 games)

7.
Lost in Space

8.
Allen Ginsberg

9.
Raise interest rates

10.
The America’s Cup

11.
All in the Family

12.
Jimmy Connors

13.
The Simpsons

14.
Brett Favre

15.
Robert Byrd

MAY 24

INDIGENOUS INDIGNATION

1.
Sitting Bull’s

2.
Oklahoma

3.
Hiawatha (Ayonwentah)

4.
“Dead”

5.
Massasoit

MUST-SEES

Easy

1.
Audrey Hepburn

2.
Jamie Foxx

3.
Al Pacino

4.
Ben Affleck

5.
Patty Duke

Harder

1.
Emily Watson

2.
Roger Daltrey

3.
Uma Thurman

4.
Bryce Dallas Howard

5.
Edward Albert

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
David Strathairn

2.
Virginia Cherrill

3.
Elizabeth Hartman

4.
Wallace Shawn (and, later, Beau Bridges)

5.
John Malkovich

MONDEGREEN DAY

1.
“There’s a bad moon on the rise” (“Bad Moon Rising,” Creedence Clearwater Revival)

2.
“We split up on a dark, sad night” (“Tangled Up in Blue,” Bob Dylan)

3.
“The girl with kaleidoscope eyes” (“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” the Beatles)

4.
“Last night I dreamt of San Pedro” (“La Isla Bonita,” Madonna)

5.
“Revved up like a deuce” (“Blinded by the Light,” Manfred Mann’s Earth Band)

6.
“Hold me closer, tiny dancer” (“Tiny Dancer,” Elton John)

7.
“Here we are now, entertain us” (“Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Nirvana)

8.
“Round yon virgin mother and child” (“Silent Night”)

9.
“You and me endlessly” (“Groovin’,” the Rascals)

10.
“Rock the Casbah” (“Rock the Casbah,” the Clash)

MAY 25

SWITCHING TEAMS

1.
James Jeffords

2.
George

3.
Seattle (the Brewers and the Seahawks)

4.
Italy

5.
The earth’s magnetic field

SPACE RACE

1.
Houston

2.
Yuri Gagarin

3.
J. G. (Jake Garn and John Glenn)

4.
The
Discovery

5.
Peace

6.
Gordon Cooper

7.
Laika

8.
Deke Slayton

9.
Left

10.
Pieces of Skylab fell there

SAME OLD SONG

Easy

1.
CSI

2.
The Drew Carey Show

3.
Married…with Children

4.
Cops

5.
The Wonder Years

Harder

1.
Charmed

2.
The Sopranos

3.
China Beach

4.
Smallville

5.
Las Vegas

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Get a Life

2.
Action

3.
Roswell

4.
Freaks and Geeks

5.
The Benny Hill Show

MAY 26

KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES

1.
Henry

2.
Ravi Shankar

3.
Catherine the Great

4.
“Too Tall”

5.
The Cannonball Special