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I met the very amicable Ken Jennings at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, in 2008, asked him a few questions, got him to autograph 2 books, and then played trivia based on questions from his book. Our team, composed mostly of strangers, finished 5th or 6th out of 22 teams. One of the questions was: "Oscar-wining Actress who was replaced in 1997 as a spokesperson for Weight Watchers by Sarah Ferguson" [NOTE: I later checked on this question and found that she did not win an Oscar but was twice nominated for one].
"BLACK" IS BEAUTIFUL
8) Hypothetical heavenly body formed by the contraction and collapse of a star whose gravity is so intense that not even light can escape
Ans: Black hole.
"GOLDEN" OPPORTUNITY
13) Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual awards honoring TV and motion pictures
Ans: Golden Globes.
IFFY PROVERB COMPLETIONS
21) If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with _____.
Ans: Fleas.
THEY'RE ALL "O'S"
34) Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-1986) from Massachusetts nicknamed "Tip"
Ans: Thomas P. O'Neill.
TEA FOR TWINS
55) Famous conjoined twins born in Siam in 1811 who remained joined until their death in 1874, thus originating the term Siamese twins
Ans: Chang and Eng Bunker.
GOOD "LORD"
TB) 2-word term for the Eucharist, one of the 2 sacraments instituted by Jesus
Ans: Lord's Supper.
ITALIAN PASTA, AS LITERALLY NAMED
1) Small square pasta filled with meat, cheese, etc., and often served in a tomato sauce, literally named from the Italian for "turnips"
Ans: Ravioli.
TITLES, NOBLE OR OTHERWISE
1) Actor/comedian who played the lead role in the TV sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Ans: Will Smith.
DOUBLE CLUES
2) A flatfish and to struggle awkwardly or to move or speak in a confused manner
Ans: Flounder.
WOMEN AS WORLD LEADERS
3) Country where Angela Merkel became its first female chancellor, in 2005
Ans: Germany.
CENSORSHIP/INDECENCY/OBSCENITY
5) Term designating Germany during the period under Hitler when it burned books and threw abstract and avant-garde art out of museums
Ans: Nazi Germany.
ALPHABET IN FILM
8) 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, and Ray Milland based on Frederick Knott's mystery play
Ans: Dial M for Murder.
-"OLA," NOT OOH-LA-LA!
13) First, middle, and last name off the director of The Godfather films
Ans: Francis Ford Coppola.
STAY ON MESSAGE
21) Mythological messenger of the gods, depicted as a herald wearing winged sandals than enabled him to travel quickly
Ans: Hermes (or Mercury).
ENDING IN -"IX"
34) Scar left by the formation of new tissue over a wound
Ans: Cicatrix.
MAKE YOUR "POINT"
55) Utah site where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies completed the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869
Ans: Promontory Point.
MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO
TB) Part of an e-mail address that is called klammeraffe or "spider monkey" in German
Ans: "at" symbol (@).
GALLIMAUFRY
1) Word beginning with G for "a mishmash," "a jumble," "potpourri," or "a dish with a hodgepodge of ingredients, such as a stew or ragout"
Ans: Gallimaufry.
MAGAZINES, TAKE A LOOK
1) Magazine begun in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon
Ans: National Lampoon.
IN THE THOUSANDS
2) River in which the Thousand Islands are located on the boundary between the U.S. and Canada at the outlet to Lake Ontario
Ans: St. Lawrence River.
PITY THE FOOL
3) Actor born Laurence Tureaud known for the catch phrase "I pity the fool!" from Rocky III when speaking about Rocky Balboa
Ans: Mr. T.
PEOPLE WITH LONG NAMES OR SURNAMES
5) American librettist and lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers on Carousel and Oklahoma!
Ans: Oscar Hammerstein II.
CELEBRITY MIDDLE NAMES
8) Jennifer _____ Leigh, the actress known for her role as Hedy Carlson in the film Single White Female
Ans: Jason.
SHAPED LIKE
13) Thick triangular-shaped muscle that covers the shoulder joint and raises the arm
Ans: Deltoid.
SHAPELY, BUT NO VA-VA-VOOM
21)Shape of the forehead scar student wizard Harry Potter has from Lord Voldemort's attack that killed his parents
Ans: Lightning-bolt.
DEATH BY CAR ACCIDENTS
34) First black heavyweight boxing champion who died in 1946
Ans: Jack Johnson.
SOUTH AMERICA
55) Present-day country the Spaniards formerly called Alto Peru, or "Upper Peru"
Ans: Bolivia.
SPORTS QUOTES
TB) Baseball manager who is credited with saying, "Nice guys finish last."
Ans: Leo Durocher.
FICTIONAL SHIPS
1) Quint's fishing boat whose name designates a killer whale in Peter Benchley's Jaws
Ans: Orca.
SHARKS
1) Australian golfer known as the "Great White Shark"
Ans: Greg Norman.
THEY DIED YOUNG
2) Saturday Night Live star who died of a drug overdose at 33 in 1982
Ans: John Belushi.
THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
3) Andy's young son played by Ronny Howard
Ans: Opie Taylor.
SHARED NAMES
5) Bobby, the "Golden Jet" of the NHL and the famous settlement house founded in Chicago by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr
Ans: Hull.
NATIONALITY COMMONLY PRECEDING
8) Bull, coffee, Free State, potato, stew, tweed
Ans: Irish.
FILM VILLAINS
13) Actor as Max Cady in 1962's Cape Fear
Ans: Robert Mitchum.
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
21) Shakespearean character who is wooed by Hamlet and later goes mad and drowns
Ans: Ophelia.
LET'S DANCE
34) Brisk, lively French ballroom dance led by one couple and characterized by the continual changing of partners, named from the Old French word for "petticoat"
Ans: Cotillion.
A MATTER OF DEGREES
55) N. Richard Nash 1963 musical written as an adaptation to his play Rainmaker and revived in 2007 for Audra McDonald in the role of Lizzie
Ans: 110 in the Shade.
U.S. SATELLITES/SPACE PROBES, 2 CLUES
TB) First communications satellite, actually a large balloon launched in 1960 off which radio signals were bounced, or any repetition of the words or sounds of another
Ans: Echo.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
1) Only U.S. state that grows both bananas and coffee
Ans: Hawaii.
MAGIC
1) Trade name for a pen with a felt-tip writing tip
Ans: Magic Marker.
FAMOUS TOWERS
2) Paris tower built on the Champs de Mars for the Centennial Exposition of 1889
Ans: Eiffel Tower.
POP CULTURAL EMBARRASSMENT
3) Indiana University basketball coach who threw a chair across the court to protest a referee's call, in 1985
Ans: Bobby Knight.
SOAP OPERA TITLE COMPLETIONS
5) General _____
Ans: Hospital.
CITY SETTING FOR TV SHOWS
8) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Ans: Minneapolis.
ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT "SIX" BUT ARE AFRAID TO ASK
13) Tom Clancy novel about a fictional multinational counterterrorist unit
Ans: Rainbow Six.
PRESIDENTS AND SEVERAL TERMS OF OFFICE
21) Elected in 1896 and 1900
Ans: William McKinley.
SINGLE-NAME ENTERTAINERS
34) Singer born Christina Claire Ciminella who adopted her name after an Oklahoma town mentioned in the song "Route 66," known for her "No One Else on Earth"
Ans: Wynonna (Judd).
"ASH" YOU WISH
55) Largest and very powerful ethnic group in Ghana, originally a native kingdom, then a protectorate of the Gold Coast from 1901 to 1951
Ans: Ashanti.
FAMOUS "BERGS"
TB) Actress who made her film debut in 1985's The Color Purple
Ans: Whoopi Goldberg.
ANCIENT GREEK NAMES
1) Philosopher condemned to drink hemlock for corrupting the youth of Athens
Ans: Socrates.
DAYS OF THE WEEK
1) Monday in September on which Labor Day is celebrated in the U.S.
Ans: First.
CURSES
2) Major League Baseball team said to be affected by the curse of the billy goat for having ejected a goat along with its owner from Wrigley Field in 1945
Ans: Chicago Cubs.
THE EARL IS A PEARL
3) Sweater that opens down the front, named for James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of _____
Ans: Cardigan.
ENDING IN "US" NOT THEM
5) Mediterranean island of which Archbishop Makarios became the first elected president, in 1959
Ans: Cyprus.
THINGS THAT ARE "GRAND"
8) George M. Cohan song that includes the lines: "You're a high flying flag / And forever in peace, may you wave."
Ans: "You're a Grand Old Flag."
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY
13) Odysseus's long-faithful wife in Greek mythology
Ans: Penelope.
HEROES
21) Tennessee turkey hunter who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroic action in the Argonne Forest in 1918
Ans: Alvin York.
KINGLY NICKNAMES
34) Actor, composer, producer called the "King of Broadway" known for his tune "Give My Regards to Broadway."
Ans: George M. Cohan.
CHICAGO
55) Philanthropist who said, "The good Lord gave me my money, and how could I withhold from the University of Chicago," speaking to its first graduating class
Ans: John Davison Rockefeller.
U.S. HISTORY
TB) Country that held U.S. hostages for 444 days, releasing them in 1981
Ans: Iran.
CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVATIONS
1) BC
Ans: British Columbia.
"-YA," -YA, -YA, NOT YADA, YADA, YADA
1) Asian mountain range that is the world's highest and home to the world's highest peaks
Ans: Himalaya(s).
POTPOURRI OF NAMES/NICKNAMES
2) Fiber called the "Queen of Fibers" because of its texture, sheen, and strength
Ans: Silk.
MORMONS
3) Angel who visited this prophet in 1823 telling him he would receive gold plates on which the history of early peoples of the Western Hemisphere was engraved in ancient language
Ans: Moroni.
SAY, SAY, SAY
5) Actress who in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes tells Charles Coburn, "I always say a kiss on the hand might feel good, but a diamond tiara last forever."
Ans: Marilyn Monroe.
BEAUTY IS SKIN DEEP
8) Pope Alexander VI's daughter whose beauty was as legendary as her reputed wickedness
Ans: Lucrezia Borgia.
LET THEM EAT CAKE
13) Round or rectangular thick pastry with a sweet filling eaten during the Mid-Autumn Chinese festival
Ans: Mooncake.
PEOPLE FROM THEIR NICKNAMES
21) Swedish soprano known as "The Swedish Nightingale" whose 1850-1852 tour of the U.S. was organized by P.T. Barnum
Ans: Jenny Lind.
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN
34) Highest in Europe, at 18,481 feet, in the Caucusus Mountains in Russia
Ans: Mount Elbrus.
IN THE CLOUDS
55) British poet who wrote the lines, "She walks in beauty like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies . . ." in the poem "She Walks in Beauty"
Ans: Lord Byron.
FAMOUS -"BURGS"
TB) Austrian city of Mozart's birth that claimed first rights for celebrations of his 250th birthday in 2006
Ans: Salzburg.
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TV SHOWS FROM THEIR THEME SONGS
1) "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
Ans: Cheers.
HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES
1) Traditionally America's most wholesome and "patriotic" dessert
Ans: Apple pie.
-"ANA," -ANA, BANANARAMA
2) Spanish word designating a beach shelter and a swimming pool bathhouse
Ans: Cabana.
ONE OUT OF TWO GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS
3) One of the 2 countries on the island of Hispaniola
Ans: Dominican Republic or Haiti.
AWESOME AUSSIE TALENT
5) 2000 Olympics Opening Ceremonies headliner known for her "Have You Never Been Mellow"
Ans: Olivia Newton-John.
MORE BITTER THAN SWEET
8) Dutch artist who Paul Gauguin visited in Arles, only to have the visit end in a bitter quarrel when his host suffered an attack of madness
Ans: Vincent van Gogh.
THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
13) German-American scientist who said in 1941, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
Ans: Albert Einstein.
CONSPIRACY
21) Group that William Kunstler defended against charges of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Ans: Chicago Seven.
UNIVERSITIES IN THE NEWS
34) School that in 2006 honored Autherine Lucy (Foster), its first black student, on the 50th anniversary of her role as a civil rights trailblazer
Ans: University of Alabama.
NURSERY RHYME QUESTIONS
55) Who were fighting for the crown all round about the town?
Ans: The lion and the unicorn.
FICTIONAL PAIRS
TB) 2 crime-fighting Hardy Boys
Ans: Frank and Joe.
LITERARY COMPLETIONS WITH AND IN THE TITLE
1) Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. _____
Ans: Hyde.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
1) Character William Shatner plays on TV's Boston Legal
Ans: Denny Crane.
SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC
2) Taurus
Ans: The Bull.
U.S. POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS
3) Michigan
Ans: MI.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
5) Full meaning of the acronym RAM
Ans: Random Access Memory.
IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?
8) South African surgeon and medical pioneer who performed the first known human heart transplant in 1967 in Cape Town
Ans: Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
STATE CAPITALS FROM THEIR STATE'S NICKNAME
13) Grand Canyon State
Ans: Phoenix (Arizona).
GREAT ESCAPES
21) Alexander Dumas novel in which the hero, Edmond Dantes, escapes from the island Chateau d'If
Ans: The Count of Monte Cristo.
MALES WITH OLD TESTAMENT FIRST NAMES
34) Scottish "Father of Modern Economics," who in 1776 advocated the principles of laissez-faire economics in The Wealth of Nations
Ans: Adam Smith.
WOMEN WITH DISTINCTIVE FIRST NAMES
55) Actress Douglas, in To Die For
Ans: Illeana.
GEOGRAPHY POTPOURRI
TB) Arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula
Ans: Adriatic Sea.
FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES WITH A LETTER CLUE
1) C - French for "That's life"
Ans: C'est la vie.
PUT YOUR CARDS ON YOUR TABLE
1) Mathematical table used to memorize up to 12 x 12
Ans: Multiplication table.
FAMOUS BATTLE SITES
2) Plain in ancient Greece where the Athenians defeated the Persians in 490 B.C.
Ans: Marathon.
EDUCATORS/TEACHERS
3) Greek philosopher who taught Alexander the Great
Ans: Aristotle.
WHERE'S STANLEY?
5) 2006 animated Pixar film featuring the town of Radiator Springs founded by Lizzie's late husband, Stanley
Ans: Cars.
COMPLETION OF PROPER-NAME TERMS
8) Freudian _____; a verbal mistake
Ans: Slip.
STRIKES, BUT NO BALLS
13) Governor, later President, who said during the 1919 Boston police strike, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime"
Ans: Grover Cleveland.
LONG ACRONYM COMPLETIONS
21) NORML, National Organization for Reform of _____ Laws
Ans: Marijuana.
FINE ART TERMS
34) Technique of painting in which gum is is added to water colors to produce an opaque effect
Ans: Gouache.
COMMON MEDICAL INTIALISMS
55) MRI
Ans: Magnetic resonance imaging.
HARRY POTTER
TB) The "He-who-must-not-be-named" villain whose real name is Tom Marvolvo Riddle
Ans: Lord Voldemort.
COMBO CARRYOVERS
1) 23rd U.S. President and actor who played Indiana Jones
Ans: Benjamin Harrison Ford.
CAPITAL CITIES KNOWN FOR THEIR MUSEUMS
1) Victoria and Albert Museum
Ans: London.
THE END
2) Character who climbs up beside the conductor and shakes his hand at the end of The Sorcerer's Apprentice section in the Disney film Fantasia
Ans: Mickey Mouse.
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APRIL IS THE CRUELLEST MONTH
5) American-born British author who wrote the line "April is the cruellest month" in The Waste Land
Ans: T.S. Eliot.
-"ISH"ES BUT NO ISH KABIBBLE
8) Something believed to have magical or spiritual powers
Ans: Fetish.
ONLY IF
13) 37th U.S. President who said: "If...the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism...will threaten free nations..."
Ans: Richard Nixon.
"JR." NOT SENIOR
21) Georgian who was the first and only golfer to win the Grand Slam of Golf, in 1930
Ans: Bobby Tyre Jones Jr.
DOWN HOME ALABAMA
34) City in which the Boll Weevil Monument is located
Ans: Enterprise.
HALF IS BETTER THAN NONE
55) Henry Hudson's ship on his 3rd voyage in 1609-1610 when he explored today's Hudson River while sailing for the Dutch East India Company
Ans: Half Moon.
MORE THAN JUST AN "ARROW"
TB) Soft substance in bones eaten by hunters of the Ice/Stone Age
Ans: Marrow.
2-LETTER WORDS
1) 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, or the transcendental number that is approximately 3.14159
Ans: Pi.
ANGRY RAISINS, OR GRAPES
1) Word completing the title of the Aesop fable "The _____ and the Grapes"
Ans: Fox.
F.F., BUT NOTHING VULGAR
2) Someone who establishes something, or a member of the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787
Ans: Founding Father.
"MOTHERS"
3) Personification of the power seemingly controlling the physical universe
Ans: Mother Nature.
ARTISTS
5) Spanish surrealist artist noted for his painting The Persistence of Memory, popularly called Soft Watches or Melting Clocks
Ans: Salvador Dali.
CELEBRITY MOTHERS OF CELEBRITY FEMALES
8) Lorna Luft
Ans: Judy Garland.
IN A FOG
13) American artist who settled permanently on Prout's Neck on the Maine coast and painted The Fog Warning and The Gulf Stream
Ans: Winslow Homer.
NFL TEAMS UNLESS YOU ARE CLUELESS
21) Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock
Ans: New England Patriots.
CATCH PHRASES/QUOTES/SLOGANS
34) Character played by Don Adams known for saying "Would you believe?" on TV's Get Smart
Ans: Maxwell Smart.
NORTH TO ALASKA
55) Its northermost town, the northernmost in the U.S.
Ans: (Point) Barrow.
ONLYS IN GEOGRAPHY
TB) Only active volcano on the mainland of Europe
Ans: Vesuvius.
NO DIFFERENCE
1) Most powerful chess piece and a female monarch
Ans: Queen.
WHO SAID IT?
1) Character on TV's The Simpsons whose expression of dismay is, "D'oh!"
Ans: Homer Simpson.
G.G., BUT NOT GIGI
2) Eugene Patton, "The Dancing Machine," on Chuck Barris's TV series The Gong Show
Ans: Gene Gene.
THE SPICE OF LIFE
3) Leaves of a wormwood plant used for seasoning, especially in vinegar, and whose name may be from the Greek for "dragon"
Ans: Tarragon.
NO "WAY"--YES "WAY"
5) Arch that Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen completed in 1965 as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Ans: Gateway (Arch).
BERRA-ISMS (from Yogi Berra)
8) "A ______ ain't worth a dime anymore."
Ans: Nickel.
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET
13) British author whose Just So Stories include "The Elephant's Child"
Ans: Rudyard Kipling.
"THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"
21) Fort in Baltimore during whose bombardment it was written
Ans: Fort McHenry.
WHAT IN THE FLORA
34) _____ Ledger, the actor starring in A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain
Ans: Heath.
WHAT DID ARKANSAS
55) Town where Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart and the company has its headquarters
Ans: Bentonville.
NATIVE AMERICANS
TB) Oglala Sioux chief who is depicted mounted on horseback in a memorial being constructed in South Dakota's mountains
Ans: Crazy Horse.
U.S. STATES
1) Largest state in area
Ans: Alaska.
CITIES FROM THEIR INHABITANTS
1) Hamburger
Ans: Hamburg (Germany).
NAMES ENDING IN -"EAU"
2) Henry David, the Massachusetts-born author who wrote Walden
Ans: Henry David Thoreau.
2- OR 3-WORD QUOTATION COMPLETIONS
3) Dwight D. Eisenhower's "We must stand guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-_____," in 1961
Ans: industrial complex.
PROPER NAMES ENDING IN THE LETTER "X"
5) Fort in Kentucky where the U.S. gold depository is located
Ans: Fort Knox.
CARS AND PLACES
8) Chevrolet mid-sized car and the French island that is the 4th largest in the Mediterranean, whose chief city is Ajaccio
Ans: Corsica.
A,B,C NICKNAMES SHARED BY COLLEGE TEAMS
13) New Mexico State University and Texas A&M University
Ans: Aggies.
WORDS ENDING IN AN "OH" PRONUNCIATION
21) System of fortification built by the French in the 1930s along their eastern border
Ans: Maginot Line.
RIDDLES
34) Puccini opera set in ancient Peking at which a suitor will be executed if he is unable to answer the Princess's 3 riddles
Ans: Turandot.
ARIZONA, BUT NO TEA
55) Year in which it became the 48th state
Ans: 1912.
3-LETTER WORDS
TB) Large, flightless Australian bird, considered to be the largest living bird after the ostrich
Ans: Emu.
COUNTRIES/CITIES AS FORMERLY NAMED
1) Persia
Ans: Iran.
WORDS ENDING IN THE LETTER "X"
1) Machine that plays records and compact disks when coins are inserted
Ans: Jukebox.
PURPLE, BUT NO PEOPLE EATERS
2) Purple teletubby with an inverted triangle on his head, the one the Rev. Jerry Falwell suggested was secretly gay
Ans: Tinky Winky.
L'E, NOT LE
3) French king who supposedly said, "L'etat, c'est moi," or "I am the state."
Ans: Louis XIV.
EXTINCT OR FLIGHTLESS BIRDS
5) Migratory bird that became extinct in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, the last of which was named Martha
Ans: Passenger pigeon.
THINGS TO BE IRONED OUT
8) Nickname of Otto von Bismarck, the founder of the German Empire who served as its leader for 19 years
Ans: "The Iron Chancellor."
FIRSTS, NOT LASTS
13) North Carolina village where the Wright brothers first flew their heavier-than-air plane in 1903 on Kill Devil Hill
Ans: Kitty Hawk.
4-LETTER INITIALISMS
21) RCMP (Canada)
Ans: Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
APRIL IS NOT ALWAYS THE CRUELLEST MONTH
34) French king who issued the Edict of Nantes on April 13, 1598, extending religious freedom and full civil rights to the Huguenots
Ans: Henry IV.
CARS AND ANIMALS
55) Buick convertible and a Eurasian bird famous for singing while flying
Ans: Skylark.
RHYMES WITH ORANGE
TB) State whose Orange County includes the incorporated city of Aliso Viejo
Ans: California.
"SILVER" STREAK
1) Craftsman who makes and repairs articles of silver
Ans: Silversmith.
RING AROUND THE POSEY
1) Former U.S. President who in running for the presidency in 1912 said, "My hat is in the ring"
Ans: Theodore Roosevelt.
RANDOM NUMBERS
2) Only even prime number
Ans: 2.
A "FORD," BUT NOT EXACTLY
3) Only U.S. President with Ford in his first name
Ans: Rutherford B. Hayes.
USED CARS, ANYONE?
5) Better known alliterative name of Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the NPR radio show "Car Talk," started in 1987
Ans: Click and Clack.
5) American-born British author who wrote the line "April is the cruellest month" in The Waste Land
Ans: T.S. Eliot.
-"ISH"ES BUT NO ISH KABIBBLE
8) Something believed to have magical or spiritual powers
Ans: Fetish.
ONLY IF
13) 37th U.S. President who said: "If...the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism...will threaten free nations..."
Ans: Richard Nixon.
"JR." NOT SENIOR
21) Georgian who was the first and only golfer to win the Grand Slam of Golf, in 1930
Ans: Bobby Tyre Jones Jr.
DOWN HOME ALABAMA
34) City in which the Boll Weevil Monument is located
Ans: Enterprise.
HALF IS BETTER THAN NONE
55) Henry Hudson's ship on his 3rd voyage in 1609-1610 when he explored today's Hudson River while sailing for the Dutch East India Company
Ans: Half Moon.
MORE THAN JUST AN "ARROW"
TB) Soft substance in bones eaten by hunters of the Ice/Stone Age
Ans: Marrow.
2-LETTER WORDS
1) 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, or the transcendental number that is approximately 3.14159
Ans: Pi.
ANGRY RAISINS, OR GRAPES
1) Word completing the title of the Aesop fable "The _____ and the Grapes"
Ans: Fox.
F.F., BUT NOTHING VULGAR
2) Someone who establishes something, or a member of the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787
Ans: Founding Father.
"MOTHERS"
3) Personification of the power seemingly controlling the physical universe
Ans: Mother Nature.
ARTISTS
5) Spanish surrealist artist noted for his painting The Persistence of Memory, popularly called Soft Watches or Melting Clocks
Ans: Salvador Dali.
CELEBRITY MOTHERS OF CELEBRITY FEMALES
8) Lorna Luft
Ans: Judy Garland.
IN A FOG
13) American artist who settled permanently on Prout's Neck on the Maine coast and painted The Fog Warning and The Gulf Stream
Ans: Winslow Homer.
NFL TEAMS UNLESS YOU ARE CLUELESS
21) Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock
Ans: New England Patriots.
CATCH PHRASES/QUOTES/SLOGANS
34) Character played by Don Adams known for saying "Would you believe?" on TV's Get Smart
Ans: Maxwell Smart.
NORTH TO ALASKA
55) Its northermost town, the northernmost in the U.S.
Ans: (Point) Barrow.
ONLYS IN GEOGRAPHY
TB) Only active volcano on the mainland of Europe
Ans: Vesuvius.
NO DIFFERENCE
1) Most powerful chess piece and a female monarch
Ans: Queen.
WHO SAID IT?
1) Character on TV's The Simpsons whose expression of dismay is, "D'oh!"
Ans: Homer Simpson.
G.G., BUT NOT GIGI
2) Eugene Patton, "The Dancing Machine," on Chuck Barris's TV series The Gong Show
Ans: Gene Gene.
THE SPICE OF LIFE
3) Leaves of a wormwood plant used for seasoning, especially in vinegar, and whose name may be from the Greek for "dragon"
Ans: Tarragon.
NO "WAY"--YES "WAY"
5) Arch that Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen completed in 1965 as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Ans: Gateway (Arch).
BERRA-ISMS (from Yogi Berra)
8) "A ______ ain't worth a dime anymore."
Ans: Nickel.
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET
13) British author whose Just So Stories include "The Elephant's Child"
Ans: Rudyard Kipling.
"THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"
21) Fort in Baltimore during whose bombardment it was written
Ans: Fort McHenry.
WHAT IN THE FLORA
34) _____ Ledger, the actor starring in A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain
Ans: Heath.
WHAT DID ARKANSAS
55) Town where Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart and the company has its headquarters
Ans: Bentonville.
NATIVE AMERICANS
TB) Oglala Sioux chief who is depicted mounted on horseback in a memorial being constructed in South Dakota's mountains
Ans: Crazy Horse.
U.S. STATES
1) Largest state in area
Ans: Alaska.
CITIES FROM THEIR INHABITANTS
1) Hamburger
Ans: Hamburg (Germany).
NAMES ENDING IN -"EAU"
2) Henry David, the Massachusetts-born author who wrote Walden
Ans: Henry David Thoreau.
2- OR 3-WORD QUOTATION COMPLETIONS
3) Dwight D. Eisenhower's "We must stand guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-_____," in 1961
Ans: industrial complex.
PROPER NAMES ENDING IN THE LETTER "X"
5) Fort in Kentucky where the U.S. gold depository is located
Ans: Fort Knox.
CARS AND PLACES
8) Chevrolet mid-sized car and the French island that is the 4th largest in the Mediterranean, whose chief city is Ajaccio
Ans: Corsica.
A,B,C NICKNAMES SHARED BY COLLEGE TEAMS
13) New Mexico State University and Texas A&M University
Ans: Aggies.
WORDS ENDING IN AN "OH" PRONUNCIATION
21) System of fortification built by the French in the 1930s along their eastern border
Ans: Maginot Line.
RIDDLES
34) Puccini opera set in ancient Peking at which a suitor will be executed if he is unable to answer the Princess's 3 riddles
Ans: Turandot.
ARIZONA, BUT NO TEA
55) Year in which it became the 48th state
Ans: 1912.
3-LETTER WORDS
TB) Large, flightless Australian bird, considered to be the largest living bird after the ostrich
Ans: Emu.
COUNTRIES/CITIES AS FORMERLY NAMED
1) Persia
Ans: Iran.
WORDS ENDING IN THE LETTER "X"
1) Machine that plays records and compact disks when coins are inserted
Ans: Jukebox.
PURPLE, BUT NO PEOPLE EATERS
2) Purple teletubby with an inverted triangle on his head, the one the Rev. Jerry Falwell suggested was secretly gay
Ans: Tinky Winky.
L'E, NOT LE
3) French king who supposedly said, "L'etat, c'est moi," or "I am the state."
Ans: Louis XIV.
EXTINCT OR FLIGHTLESS BIRDS
5) Migratory bird that became extinct in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, the last of which was named Martha
Ans: Passenger pigeon.
THINGS TO BE IRONED OUT
8) Nickname of Otto von Bismarck, the founder of the German Empire who served as its leader for 19 years
Ans: "The Iron Chancellor."
FIRSTS, NOT LASTS
13) North Carolina village where the Wright brothers first flew their heavier-than-air plane in 1903 on Kill Devil Hill
Ans: Kitty Hawk.
4-LETTER INITIALISMS
21) RCMP (Canada)
Ans: Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
APRIL IS NOT ALWAYS THE CRUELLEST MONTH
34) French king who issued the Edict of Nantes on April 13, 1598, extending religious freedom and full civil rights to the Huguenots
Ans: Henry IV.
CARS AND ANIMALS
55) Buick convertible and a Eurasian bird famous for singing while flying
Ans: Skylark.
RHYMES WITH ORANGE
TB) State whose Orange County includes the incorporated city of Aliso Viejo
Ans: California.
"SILVER" STREAK
1) Craftsman who makes and repairs articles of silver
Ans: Silversmith.
RING AROUND THE POSEY
1) Former U.S. President who in running for the presidency in 1912 said, "My hat is in the ring"
Ans: Theodore Roosevelt.
RANDOM NUMBERS
2) Only even prime number
Ans: 2.
A "FORD," BUT NOT EXACTLY
3) Only U.S. President with Ford in his first name
Ans: Rutherford B. Hayes.
USED CARS, ANYONE?
5) Better known alliterative name of Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the NPR radio show "Car Talk," started in 1987
Ans: Click and Clack.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
FIBONACCIO! October
Let's Play Fibonaccio! The Trivia Game in Book Form
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 + 89
Fibonaccio! is in the house and available for shipping. See www.patrickspress.com / see also www.myspace.com/johnpcampbelljr for other types of questions.
The game has 400 sets of 10 themed questions (plus a tie-breaker), meaning that there are 4,400 questions, arranged subjectively from 1 point in value to 55 points.
ERRATA:
p. 109, 13) 1993 film should be 1953 film
p. 126, 1) Wendy should be Wendy's
If John Campbell can create 400 categories of 11 themed questions each, can anyone do it? Yes, of course.
However, with 26 years experience, albeit writing mostly academic type questions, no one has created categories like 3 of "The Name's the Same" (Britney Spears's first husband and an actor on "Seinfeld"); no one has "Black-And-White, Shared Surname" (Wilt and Neville); no one has "Big Red," "Little Misses," and "Rockets, Mainly in Sports." And no one has ever written "Gay Is Everywhere" featuring a Grambling State U. football coach and an actress in "Pollock" (both with the middle name Gay), a B-52 plane, and a French chemist.
In addition, one other reason to buy this book: Columbus's egg. As everyone knows the meaning of this expression, enough said.
What do Fibonaccio!, "The View," and Barry Manilow have in common?
I sent Joy and Elizabeth 3 of our books, including Fibonaccio!, to help them improve on their 2 out of 5 correct responses to "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" questions. As no one has acknowledged these books, Fibonaccio!, like Barry Manilow, will not appear on "The View." P.S. Whoopi's name appears in Fibonaccio! in "Black Oscar Winners."
A GOOD "MAN" AT THE END
34) Bandleader called the "King of Jazz" and "Pops" who conducted the 1924 premier of Rhapsody in Blue
Ans: Paul Whiteman.
JUST BLACK-AND-WHITE
55) 20th-century photographer known for black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially national parks such as Yosemite in California
Ans: Ansel Adams.
NUMBERS FROM 21-30
TB) 2007 film starring Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen
Ans: The Number 23.
LITERARY POSSESSIVES
1) Annual book (1732-1796) published by Ben Franklin
Ans: Poor Richard's Almanac.
SWEET 'N' SASSY SARAH
1) Biblical woman who according to Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code had a child with Jesus named Sarah
Ans: Mary Magdalene.
SOMETHING, BUT NOT MUCH MORE
2) Word completing the idiom to look like something the cat _____ in, meaning "appearing totally unkempt"
Ans: Dragged (brought).
SOMETHING "OLD"
3) "The best doggone dog in the West" in a 1957 Disney film
Ans: Old Yeller.
SOMETHING "NEW"
5) President John F. Kennedy's economic and social programs
Ans: New Frontier.
SOMETHING "BORROWED"
8) Word completing the wedding rhyme: "Something old, something new, / Something borrowed, something blue, / And a lucky _____ for her shoe"
Ans: Sixpence.
SOMETHING "BLUE"
13) Widespread work outage from pretended illness, as used by police and others as a means of protest
Ans: Blue flu.
-"UTTERLY" RIDICULOUS
21) Sacramento, California, sawmill near which gold was discovered in 1848, leading to the 1849 gold rush
Ans: Sutter's Mill.
BUTTERFLY AWAY
34) 19th-20th century Italian composer known for his operas Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and La Boheme
Ans: Giacomo Puccini.
AFRICAN ANIMALS
55) Black-spotted wildcat with long legs and large erect ears without tufts
Ans: Serval.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER?
TB) Number of questions a contestant must answer correctly to win $1,000,000,000 on the TV show
Ans: 11.
"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"
1) Word completing the line: "O beautiful for spacious _____"
Ans: Skies.
"AMERICA, AMERICAN"
1) Largest veterans' organization in the U.S.
Ans: American Legion.
A.A., BUT NO ALCOHOL
2) First Black male to win the U.S. Open, the Australian Open, and Wimbledon and be on the Davis Cup team
Ans: Arthur Ashe.
THE "DEVIL" MADE ME DO IT
3) 865-foot-high volcanic rock in Wyoming that is a national monument
Ans: Devils Tower.
HITTING THE WALL
5) Robert Frost poem that includes the line "Good fences make good neighbors"
Ans: "Mending Wall."
KING FOR A DAY
8) U.S. President born Leslie Lynch King Jr.
Ans: Gerald Ford.
KISS ME, YOU FOOL
13) 1953 movie in which Marilyn Monroe tells Charles Coburn, "I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."
Ans: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
MONDAY, MONDAY
21) Month in which the U.S. Supreme Court's annual term traditionally begins on the first Monday
Ans: October.
JUST A PENNY
34) Hen who listens to Chicken Little and not to Cocky Locky in a Disney short, thus helping Foxey Loxey's plan succeed
Ans: Henny Penny.
SNAKES/SERPENTS ON THE BRAIN
55) Cartoonist whose now famous 1754 "Join, or Die" cartoon shows a snake severed into 8 parts to represent the colonies he was trying to unite
Ans: Benjamin Franklin.
PHOBIAS, THE A, B, C'S OF
TB) Cyberphobia
Ans: Fear of computers or working on a computer.
"GATES," BUT NO DOORS
1) To travel around the world, either by plane or by ship
Ans: (To) circumnavigate.
D.D., BUT NO DINAH
1) Actor who starred as FBI agent Fox Mulder on TV's The X-Files
Ans: David Duchovny.
APOSTLES, BUT NOT EXACTLY
2) Founder of Islam known as the "Apostle of the Sword" because he enforced Islamic faith at sword point
Ans: Mohammed.
"ROCK" MY WORLD
3) Long line of female dancers known for their precision kicking in New York City's Radio City Music Hall
Ans: Rockettes.
"BIG" ANSWERS IN THIS GAME
5) Nickname of the Home Depot Corporation as well as Los Angeles and sometimes the state of California
Ans: Big Orange.
"JOE," BUT NO COFFEE
8) First black prosecutor in Memphis and later the judge on a syndicated TV show that premiered in 1998
Ans: Joe Brown.
"BABY," BABY
13) Infant born with cyanosis
Ans: Blue baby.
CALLING ALL BRAINIACS
21) Disease characterized by water on the brain
Ans: Hydrocephalus.
BUILDING A BRIDGE
34) Portable fabricated steel structure designed to carry heavy loads in WWII, named after British engineer Donald Coleman _____
Ans: Bailey Bridge.
NATIVES OF
55) Monaco, as known by a term ending in -que
Ans: Monegasque.
IT'S A GUY THING
TB) Heavy-metal singer/musician known for 1973's "No More Mr. Nice Guy," which includes the line, "They say he's sick, he's obscene"
Ans: Alice Cooper.
J.C., BUT NOT THIS GAME'S AUTHOR
1) U.S. President who was a born-again Christian and allegedly avoided using his initials J.C. to eliminate any association with Jeus Christ
Ans: Jimmy Carter.
"BULL"
1) 2-word term designating various breeds developed to attack bulls and bears and fight other dogs--once very popular until a spate of fatal attacks against people
Ans: Pit bull.
E.E., BUT NO CUMMINGS
2) Alleged power some are said to have to bring harm or bad luck to others simply by looking at them, or the look itself
Ans: Evil eye.
ROWING DOWN THE RIVER
3) River rising in Montana that is the longest river in the U.S.
Ans: Missouri River.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 + 89
Fibonaccio! is in the house and available for shipping. See www.patrickspress.com / see also www.myspace.com/johnpcampbelljr for other types of questions.
The game has 400 sets of 10 themed questions (plus a tie-breaker), meaning that there are 4,400 questions, arranged subjectively from 1 point in value to 55 points.
ERRATA:
p. 109, 13) 1993 film should be 1953 film
p. 126, 1) Wendy should be Wendy's
If John Campbell can create 400 categories of 11 themed questions each, can anyone do it? Yes, of course.
However, with 26 years experience, albeit writing mostly academic type questions, no one has created categories like 3 of "The Name's the Same" (Britney Spears's first husband and an actor on "Seinfeld"); no one has "Black-And-White, Shared Surname" (Wilt and Neville); no one has "Big Red," "Little Misses," and "Rockets, Mainly in Sports." And no one has ever written "Gay Is Everywhere" featuring a Grambling State U. football coach and an actress in "Pollock" (both with the middle name Gay), a B-52 plane, and a French chemist.
In addition, one other reason to buy this book: Columbus's egg. As everyone knows the meaning of this expression, enough said.
What do Fibonaccio!, "The View," and Barry Manilow have in common?
I sent Joy and Elizabeth 3 of our books, including Fibonaccio!, to help them improve on their 2 out of 5 correct responses to "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" questions. As no one has acknowledged these books, Fibonaccio!, like Barry Manilow, will not appear on "The View." P.S. Whoopi's name appears in Fibonaccio! in "Black Oscar Winners."
A GOOD "MAN" AT THE END
34) Bandleader called the "King of Jazz" and "Pops" who conducted the 1924 premier of Rhapsody in Blue
Ans: Paul Whiteman.
JUST BLACK-AND-WHITE
55) 20th-century photographer known for black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially national parks such as Yosemite in California
Ans: Ansel Adams.
NUMBERS FROM 21-30
TB) 2007 film starring Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen
Ans: The Number 23.
LITERARY POSSESSIVES
1) Annual book (1732-1796) published by Ben Franklin
Ans: Poor Richard's Almanac.
SWEET 'N' SASSY SARAH
1) Biblical woman who according to Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code had a child with Jesus named Sarah
Ans: Mary Magdalene.
SOMETHING, BUT NOT MUCH MORE
2) Word completing the idiom to look like something the cat _____ in, meaning "appearing totally unkempt"
Ans: Dragged (brought).
SOMETHING "OLD"
3) "The best doggone dog in the West" in a 1957 Disney film
Ans: Old Yeller.
SOMETHING "NEW"
5) President John F. Kennedy's economic and social programs
Ans: New Frontier.
SOMETHING "BORROWED"
8) Word completing the wedding rhyme: "Something old, something new, / Something borrowed, something blue, / And a lucky _____ for her shoe"
Ans: Sixpence.
SOMETHING "BLUE"
13) Widespread work outage from pretended illness, as used by police and others as a means of protest
Ans: Blue flu.
-"UTTERLY" RIDICULOUS
21) Sacramento, California, sawmill near which gold was discovered in 1848, leading to the 1849 gold rush
Ans: Sutter's Mill.
BUTTERFLY AWAY
34) 19th-20th century Italian composer known for his operas Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and La Boheme
Ans: Giacomo Puccini.
AFRICAN ANIMALS
55) Black-spotted wildcat with long legs and large erect ears without tufts
Ans: Serval.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER?
TB) Number of questions a contestant must answer correctly to win $1,000,000,000 on the TV show
Ans: 11.
"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"
1) Word completing the line: "O beautiful for spacious _____"
Ans: Skies.
"AMERICA, AMERICAN"
1) Largest veterans' organization in the U.S.
Ans: American Legion.
A.A., BUT NO ALCOHOL
2) First Black male to win the U.S. Open, the Australian Open, and Wimbledon and be on the Davis Cup team
Ans: Arthur Ashe.
THE "DEVIL" MADE ME DO IT
3) 865-foot-high volcanic rock in Wyoming that is a national monument
Ans: Devils Tower.
HITTING THE WALL
5) Robert Frost poem that includes the line "Good fences make good neighbors"
Ans: "Mending Wall."
KING FOR A DAY
8) U.S. President born Leslie Lynch King Jr.
Ans: Gerald Ford.
KISS ME, YOU FOOL
13) 1953 movie in which Marilyn Monroe tells Charles Coburn, "I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."
Ans: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
MONDAY, MONDAY
21) Month in which the U.S. Supreme Court's annual term traditionally begins on the first Monday
Ans: October.
JUST A PENNY
34) Hen who listens to Chicken Little and not to Cocky Locky in a Disney short, thus helping Foxey Loxey's plan succeed
Ans: Henny Penny.
SNAKES/SERPENTS ON THE BRAIN
55) Cartoonist whose now famous 1754 "Join, or Die" cartoon shows a snake severed into 8 parts to represent the colonies he was trying to unite
Ans: Benjamin Franklin.
PHOBIAS, THE A, B, C'S OF
TB) Cyberphobia
Ans: Fear of computers or working on a computer.
"GATES," BUT NO DOORS
1) To travel around the world, either by plane or by ship
Ans: (To) circumnavigate.
D.D., BUT NO DINAH
1) Actor who starred as FBI agent Fox Mulder on TV's The X-Files
Ans: David Duchovny.
APOSTLES, BUT NOT EXACTLY
2) Founder of Islam known as the "Apostle of the Sword" because he enforced Islamic faith at sword point
Ans: Mohammed.
"ROCK" MY WORLD
3) Long line of female dancers known for their precision kicking in New York City's Radio City Music Hall
Ans: Rockettes.
"BIG" ANSWERS IN THIS GAME
5) Nickname of the Home Depot Corporation as well as Los Angeles and sometimes the state of California
Ans: Big Orange.
"JOE," BUT NO COFFEE
8) First black prosecutor in Memphis and later the judge on a syndicated TV show that premiered in 1998
Ans: Joe Brown.
"BABY," BABY
13) Infant born with cyanosis
Ans: Blue baby.
CALLING ALL BRAINIACS
21) Disease characterized by water on the brain
Ans: Hydrocephalus.
BUILDING A BRIDGE
34) Portable fabricated steel structure designed to carry heavy loads in WWII, named after British engineer Donald Coleman _____
Ans: Bailey Bridge.
NATIVES OF
55) Monaco, as known by a term ending in -que
Ans: Monegasque.
IT'S A GUY THING
TB) Heavy-metal singer/musician known for 1973's "No More Mr. Nice Guy," which includes the line, "They say he's sick, he's obscene"
Ans: Alice Cooper.
J.C., BUT NOT THIS GAME'S AUTHOR
1) U.S. President who was a born-again Christian and allegedly avoided using his initials J.C. to eliminate any association with Jeus Christ
Ans: Jimmy Carter.
"BULL"
1) 2-word term designating various breeds developed to attack bulls and bears and fight other dogs--once very popular until a spate of fatal attacks against people
Ans: Pit bull.
E.E., BUT NO CUMMINGS
2) Alleged power some are said to have to bring harm or bad luck to others simply by looking at them, or the look itself
Ans: Evil eye.
ROWING DOWN THE RIVER
3) River rising in Montana that is the longest river in the U.S.
Ans: Missouri River.
Monday, September 3, 2007
FIBONACCIO! September 2007
SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE
55) Nickname of both the fictional Natty Bumppo and the explorer John Charles Fremont
Ans: "The Pathfinder."
WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?
TB) Marmalade-eating bear from Peru wearing a floppy hat who lives with the Brown family in London in children's books by Michael Bond
Ans: Paddington.
MOVIES AND LITERARY CONNECTIONS
1) 1956 film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab in his search for a great white whale and based on a Herman Melville novel
Ans: Moby Dick.
BLACK OSCAR WINNERS
1) Best Actor Oscar for playing Idi Amin Dada in 2006's The Last King of Scotland
Ans: Forest Whitaker.
GREAT QUOTES/CATCH PHRASES
2) U.S. President who said "I am not a crook" in 1973, adding that he had not profited from public service
Ans: Richard Nixon.
SCIENTIFIC POSSESSIVES
3) Iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color
Ans: Fool's gold.
FROM 100 TO 500
5) _____ B Baker St., Sherlock Holmes' address
Ans: 221.
BIRTH NAMES
8) American basketball player born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.
Ans: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
BODY PARTS NICKNAMES IN HOLLYWOOD, SURNAME ONLY
13) Comedian/actor Roscoe "Fatty" and "The Prince of Whales" _____
Ans: Roscoe Arbuckle.
STICKS, BUT NO STONES
21) U.S. state capital whose name means "Red Stick" in French
Ans: Baton Rouge.
"STONES," BUT NO STICKS
34) Sacred Muslim object located in a corner of the Kaaba and believed to be a sign that Allah sent to mankind
Ans: Black Stone.
NUMBERS FROM 11-20
55) First written code of Roman law, carved about 449 B.C. on wooden tablets and publicly exhibited
Ans: Twelve Tables.
SNOW WHITE AND THE 7 DWARFS A LA DISNEY
TB) Character with a pure-white steed who with a kiss awakens Snow White from the sleep induced by a poisoned apple from a witch, or the Queen transformed
Ans: Prince (he did not have a name).
STRANDED ON AN ISLAND
1) World's largest island, within the Arctic Circle and owned by Denmark
Ans: Greenland.
WHERE'S A "MAN" WHEN YOU NEED ONE
1) British island in the Irish Sea whose capital is Douglas
Ans: Isle of Man.
IF YOU KNOW IT AND CAN PRONOUNCE IT . . .
2) President of Iran as of 2005
Ans: Mahmoud Ahmandinejad.
RING ANY BELLS
3) American author who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ans: Ernest Hemingway.
PIRATES
5) Sailor/pirate's sword with a single-edged blade that shares its name with an Oldsmobile mid-sized car
Ans: Cutlass.
CAPITAL CITIES FOR U.S. COLLEGES
8) U.S. Naval Academy
Ans: Annapolis.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL OLDS
13) One called "Old Kinderhook" as he was born in Kinderhook, New York
Ans: Martin Van Buren.
"DE" FOLLOWED BY A CAPITAL LETTER
21) NBA player nicknamed "Big D" for his defense, who won 2 championships with the New York Knicks
Ans: Dave DeBusschere.
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES
34) Miss Josephine Norris in 1946's To Each His Own
Ans: Olivia de Havilland.
LET MY PEOPLE GO
55) First black, in 1884, to play professional baseball at the major league level
Ans: Moses Fleetwood Walker.
CLASSIC ROCK BANDS FROM THEIR ALBUMS
TB) 1976's Hotel California
Ans: The Eagles.
FOOT TRAFFIC
1) Error called against the server in tennis for having his foot cross the base line before hitting the ball
Ans: Foot fault.
IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME
1) Catalyst that helps digest food, from the Greek for "leavened"
Ans: Enzyme.
GROUP THINK
2) Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Capitoline, Aventine, and Caelian
Ans: 7 Hills of (ancient) Rome.
SENSE OF SMELL
3) Word completing the idiom to smell a _____, meaning "to suspect a betrayal," or "to sense that something is wrong"
Ans: rat.
JUDY, JUDY, JUDY
5) Actress starring as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown and as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love
Ans: Dame Judi Dench.
LOOKING FOR A GOOD MAN
8) Tailless cat named after the Isle of Man where it is believed it originated
Ans: Manx.
SOME OF THE 8TH WONDERS OF THE WORLD
13) City whose Astrodome opened in 1965 as the world's first domed sports structure
Ans: Houston.
IT JUST AIN'T RIGHT
21) American humorist to whom is linked the remark, "It ain't a fit night out for man or beast," said several times in the film The Fatal Glass of Beer
Ans: W.C. Fields.
55) Nickname of both the fictional Natty Bumppo and the explorer John Charles Fremont
Ans: "The Pathfinder."
WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?
TB) Marmalade-eating bear from Peru wearing a floppy hat who lives with the Brown family in London in children's books by Michael Bond
Ans: Paddington.
MOVIES AND LITERARY CONNECTIONS
1) 1956 film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab in his search for a great white whale and based on a Herman Melville novel
Ans: Moby Dick.
BLACK OSCAR WINNERS
1) Best Actor Oscar for playing Idi Amin Dada in 2006's The Last King of Scotland
Ans: Forest Whitaker.
GREAT QUOTES/CATCH PHRASES
2) U.S. President who said "I am not a crook" in 1973, adding that he had not profited from public service
Ans: Richard Nixon.
SCIENTIFIC POSSESSIVES
3) Iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color
Ans: Fool's gold.
FROM 100 TO 500
5) _____ B Baker St., Sherlock Holmes' address
Ans: 221.
BIRTH NAMES
8) American basketball player born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.
Ans: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
BODY PARTS NICKNAMES IN HOLLYWOOD, SURNAME ONLY
13) Comedian/actor Roscoe "Fatty" and "The Prince of Whales" _____
Ans: Roscoe Arbuckle.
STICKS, BUT NO STONES
21) U.S. state capital whose name means "Red Stick" in French
Ans: Baton Rouge.
"STONES," BUT NO STICKS
34) Sacred Muslim object located in a corner of the Kaaba and believed to be a sign that Allah sent to mankind
Ans: Black Stone.
NUMBERS FROM 11-20
55) First written code of Roman law, carved about 449 B.C. on wooden tablets and publicly exhibited
Ans: Twelve Tables.
SNOW WHITE AND THE 7 DWARFS A LA DISNEY
TB) Character with a pure-white steed who with a kiss awakens Snow White from the sleep induced by a poisoned apple from a witch, or the Queen transformed
Ans: Prince (he did not have a name).
STRANDED ON AN ISLAND
1) World's largest island, within the Arctic Circle and owned by Denmark
Ans: Greenland.
WHERE'S A "MAN" WHEN YOU NEED ONE
1) British island in the Irish Sea whose capital is Douglas
Ans: Isle of Man.
IF YOU KNOW IT AND CAN PRONOUNCE IT . . .
2) President of Iran as of 2005
Ans: Mahmoud Ahmandinejad.
RING ANY BELLS
3) American author who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ans: Ernest Hemingway.
PIRATES
5) Sailor/pirate's sword with a single-edged blade that shares its name with an Oldsmobile mid-sized car
Ans: Cutlass.
CAPITAL CITIES FOR U.S. COLLEGES
8) U.S. Naval Academy
Ans: Annapolis.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL OLDS
13) One called "Old Kinderhook" as he was born in Kinderhook, New York
Ans: Martin Van Buren.
"DE" FOLLOWED BY A CAPITAL LETTER
21) NBA player nicknamed "Big D" for his defense, who won 2 championships with the New York Knicks
Ans: Dave DeBusschere.
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES
34) Miss Josephine Norris in 1946's To Each His Own
Ans: Olivia de Havilland.
LET MY PEOPLE GO
55) First black, in 1884, to play professional baseball at the major league level
Ans: Moses Fleetwood Walker.
CLASSIC ROCK BANDS FROM THEIR ALBUMS
TB) 1976's Hotel California
Ans: The Eagles.
FOOT TRAFFIC
1) Error called against the server in tennis for having his foot cross the base line before hitting the ball
Ans: Foot fault.
IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME
1) Catalyst that helps digest food, from the Greek for "leavened"
Ans: Enzyme.
GROUP THINK
2) Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Capitoline, Aventine, and Caelian
Ans: 7 Hills of (ancient) Rome.
SENSE OF SMELL
3) Word completing the idiom to smell a _____, meaning "to suspect a betrayal," or "to sense that something is wrong"
Ans: rat.
JUDY, JUDY, JUDY
5) Actress starring as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown and as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love
Ans: Dame Judi Dench.
LOOKING FOR A GOOD MAN
8) Tailless cat named after the Isle of Man where it is believed it originated
Ans: Manx.
SOME OF THE 8TH WONDERS OF THE WORLD
13) City whose Astrodome opened in 1965 as the world's first domed sports structure
Ans: Houston.
IT JUST AIN'T RIGHT
21) American humorist to whom is linked the remark, "It ain't a fit night out for man or beast," said several times in the film The Fatal Glass of Beer
Ans: W.C. Fields.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
FIBONACCIO! August 2007
Let's Play Fibonaccio!
The Trivia Game in Book Form
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 + 89
Fibonaccio! is in the house and available for shipping. All back orders have been shipped.
This game consists of 400 sets of 10 themed questions (plus a tie-breaker), meaning that there are 4,400 questions, arranged subjectively from 1 point in value to 55 points.
ONE CORRECTION OF NOTE: p. 109, 13) 1993 film should be 1953 film
FIRSTS
2) South Carolina city where the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter
Ans: Charleston.
THE EAGLES HAVE LANDED
3) Comedian/satirist whose show, a spinoff of The Daily Show, has a set called "The Eagle's Nest" and features bald eagles throughout the show
Ans: Stephen Colbert.
COMIC STRIP NAME COMPLETIONS
5) Rhymes With _____ by Hilary Price
Ans: Orange.
CHARACTERS IN ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
8) Agitated animal with pink eyes wearing a white jacket who is worried about being late and whom Alice follows down the rabbit hole into Wonderland
Ans: White Rabbit.,
DATE FOR HOLIDAYS/FEASTS/EVENTS
13) Groundhog Day
Ans: February 2.
JAPANESE IF YOU PLEASE
21) Wide sash with a large flat bow in the back for use with a loose, wide-sleeved robe
Ans: Obi.
3-LETTER PALINDROMES
34) Word used with "out" meaning "to supplement with great effort," as an income, or "to make something last by practicing strict economy"
Ans: (to) eke.
EXPLORERS
55) First French explorer to circumnavigate the world, 1766-1769, and after whom a plant and the largest of the Solomon islands are named
Ans: Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO
TB) "Colorfully dressed" Seneca Indian chief who lived in the area and is honored with a monument there
Ans: Red Jacket.
BIG RED
1) Major League baseball team of the 1970s known as "The Big Red Machine"
Ans: Cincinnati Reds.
HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS, SURNAME ONLY
1) 1963 Navy quarterback Roger _____
Ans: Roger Staubach.
ROCKETS, MAINLY IN SPORTS
2) Rod, "The Rocket," the Australian tennis player who twice won the Grand Slam of tennis, in 1962 and 1969
Ans: Rod Laver.
ONE OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD
3) Of the 3 Pep Boys, the one whose name is shared by one of the Three Stooges
Ans: Moe.
"QUE," QUE, QUE QUEBECQUE
5) 17th-18th century style of music and architecture named from the Portuguese for "an imperfect pearl"
Ans: Baroque.
COLONELS ANYONE
8) 2nd man, a colonel, to step on the moon
Ans: Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin.
SHAKESPEARE TITLE COMPLETIONS
13) King _____
Ans: Lear (or John).
BEST ACTOR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES
21) George M. Cohan in 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ans: James Cagney.
SPANS OF TIME
34) Japanese battle cry or patriotic cheer literally meaning "May you live 10,000 years!"
Ans: Banzai.
MUSICAL TRIOS
55) Anita, June, and Ruth after Bonnie went solo in 1978
Ans: The Pointer Sisters.
DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE
TB) Former name of the NHL team in California now known as the Anaheim Ducks, winners of the 2007 Stanley Cup
Ans: Mighty Ducks (of Anaheim).
COMIC STRIPS FROM THE CLUE
1) Goober, by Charles Schulz
Ans: Peanuts.
HORSES AND HORSE BREEDS
1) Small, wild horse of the southwestern plains, a variety descended from Arabian horses brought here by Spanish explorers
Ans: Mustang.
HALF AND HALF
2) Mythical half-fish and half-horse sea creature ridden by Neptune and other sea gods
Ans: Sea horse.
POSSESSIVES
3) Full name of the YMCA
Ans: Young Men's Christian Association.
SINGLE INITIAL "J."
5) American oil billionaire said to be the world's richest man at his death in 1976 now known for a California museum named for him
Ans: J. Paul Getty
COMPLETION OF FAMOUS TRIPLETS
8) Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and _____
Ans: Belmont Stakes.
THE NAME'S THE SAME (first and last names must be given here)
13) Jennifer Lopez's husband and Cleopatra's lover, the Roman military leader defeated at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.
Ans: Marc Anthony/Antony.
MUSICALS FROM THEIR SONGS
21) 1964's "I'm the Greatest Star" and "Sadie, Sadie"
Ans: Funny Lady.
GREAT SPORTS OUTCOMES
34) San Francisco player who made "The Catch" on a pass from Joe Montana to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the 1982 NFC Championship game
Ans: Dwight Clark.
4-LETTER REDUPLICATIVES
55) Character in Puccini's La Boheme who embroiders flowers on linens and silks, is in love with Rodolfo, and dies in a garret at the opera's end
Ans: Mimi.
HAIR-RAISING NICKNAMES, SURNAME ONLY
TB) Actress Clara "The Redhead" _____
Ans: Clara Bow.
"X" NAMES
1) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Marvel Comics superhero mutants with special abilities who frequently fight against Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
Ans: The X-Men.
"STEPHEN," UNSTONED
1) Broadway composer known for Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods
Ans: Stephen Sondheim.
SPANISH GEOGRAPHY
2) California city whose name means "cats"
Ans: Los Gatos.
YOU SAY POTATOES, I SAY . . .
3) Type of potato the "three men in a tub . . . all jumped out of" in the nursery rhyme
Ans: Rotten potato.
GEOGRAPHICAL PEOPLE
5) Hannah _____, the fictional 14-year-old pop star on Disney played by Billy Ray Cyrus's daughter Miley, or the state whose quarter features a bison skull
Ans: Montana.
THAT EMPTY FEELING
8) Peninsula bordering the Red Sea where the Rub al Khali, a vast desert region also called The Empty Quarter, is located
Ans: Arabian Peninsula.
PETER PAN
13) Surname of the 3 children who go with Peter to his magical land and whom he rescue from the pirates
Ans: Darling.
IT'S THE LARGEST
21) Jupiter's largest moon, the largest moon in the solar system
Ans: Ganymede.
VICTORIA, VICTORIA
34) Scot who discovered Victoria Falls in 1855, in the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe
Ans: David Livingstone.
The Trivia Game in Book Form
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 + 89
Fibonaccio! is in the house and available for shipping. All back orders have been shipped.
This game consists of 400 sets of 10 themed questions (plus a tie-breaker), meaning that there are 4,400 questions, arranged subjectively from 1 point in value to 55 points.
ONE CORRECTION OF NOTE: p. 109, 13) 1993 film should be 1953 film
FIRSTS
2) South Carolina city where the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter
Ans: Charleston.
THE EAGLES HAVE LANDED
3) Comedian/satirist whose show, a spinoff of The Daily Show, has a set called "The Eagle's Nest" and features bald eagles throughout the show
Ans: Stephen Colbert.
COMIC STRIP NAME COMPLETIONS
5) Rhymes With _____ by Hilary Price
Ans: Orange.
CHARACTERS IN ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
8) Agitated animal with pink eyes wearing a white jacket who is worried about being late and whom Alice follows down the rabbit hole into Wonderland
Ans: White Rabbit.,
DATE FOR HOLIDAYS/FEASTS/EVENTS
13) Groundhog Day
Ans: February 2.
JAPANESE IF YOU PLEASE
21) Wide sash with a large flat bow in the back for use with a loose, wide-sleeved robe
Ans: Obi.
3-LETTER PALINDROMES
34) Word used with "out" meaning "to supplement with great effort," as an income, or "to make something last by practicing strict economy"
Ans: (to) eke.
EXPLORERS
55) First French explorer to circumnavigate the world, 1766-1769, and after whom a plant and the largest of the Solomon islands are named
Ans: Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO
TB) "Colorfully dressed" Seneca Indian chief who lived in the area and is honored with a monument there
Ans: Red Jacket.
BIG RED
1) Major League baseball team of the 1970s known as "The Big Red Machine"
Ans: Cincinnati Reds.
HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS, SURNAME ONLY
1) 1963 Navy quarterback Roger _____
Ans: Roger Staubach.
ROCKETS, MAINLY IN SPORTS
2) Rod, "The Rocket," the Australian tennis player who twice won the Grand Slam of tennis, in 1962 and 1969
Ans: Rod Laver.
ONE OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD
3) Of the 3 Pep Boys, the one whose name is shared by one of the Three Stooges
Ans: Moe.
"QUE," QUE, QUE QUEBECQUE
5) 17th-18th century style of music and architecture named from the Portuguese for "an imperfect pearl"
Ans: Baroque.
COLONELS ANYONE
8) 2nd man, a colonel, to step on the moon
Ans: Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin.
SHAKESPEARE TITLE COMPLETIONS
13) King _____
Ans: Lear (or John).
BEST ACTOR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES
21) George M. Cohan in 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ans: James Cagney.
SPANS OF TIME
34) Japanese battle cry or patriotic cheer literally meaning "May you live 10,000 years!"
Ans: Banzai.
MUSICAL TRIOS
55) Anita, June, and Ruth after Bonnie went solo in 1978
Ans: The Pointer Sisters.
DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE
TB) Former name of the NHL team in California now known as the Anaheim Ducks, winners of the 2007 Stanley Cup
Ans: Mighty Ducks (of Anaheim).
COMIC STRIPS FROM THE CLUE
1) Goober, by Charles Schulz
Ans: Peanuts.
HORSES AND HORSE BREEDS
1) Small, wild horse of the southwestern plains, a variety descended from Arabian horses brought here by Spanish explorers
Ans: Mustang.
HALF AND HALF
2) Mythical half-fish and half-horse sea creature ridden by Neptune and other sea gods
Ans: Sea horse.
POSSESSIVES
3) Full name of the YMCA
Ans: Young Men's Christian Association.
SINGLE INITIAL "J."
5) American oil billionaire said to be the world's richest man at his death in 1976 now known for a California museum named for him
Ans: J. Paul Getty
COMPLETION OF FAMOUS TRIPLETS
8) Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and _____
Ans: Belmont Stakes.
THE NAME'S THE SAME (first and last names must be given here)
13) Jennifer Lopez's husband and Cleopatra's lover, the Roman military leader defeated at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.
Ans: Marc Anthony/Antony.
MUSICALS FROM THEIR SONGS
21) 1964's "I'm the Greatest Star" and "Sadie, Sadie"
Ans: Funny Lady.
GREAT SPORTS OUTCOMES
34) San Francisco player who made "The Catch" on a pass from Joe Montana to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the 1982 NFC Championship game
Ans: Dwight Clark.
4-LETTER REDUPLICATIVES
55) Character in Puccini's La Boheme who embroiders flowers on linens and silks, is in love with Rodolfo, and dies in a garret at the opera's end
Ans: Mimi.
HAIR-RAISING NICKNAMES, SURNAME ONLY
TB) Actress Clara "The Redhead" _____
Ans: Clara Bow.
"X" NAMES
1) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Marvel Comics superhero mutants with special abilities who frequently fight against Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
Ans: The X-Men.
"STEPHEN," UNSTONED
1) Broadway composer known for Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods
Ans: Stephen Sondheim.
SPANISH GEOGRAPHY
2) California city whose name means "cats"
Ans: Los Gatos.
YOU SAY POTATOES, I SAY . . .
3) Type of potato the "three men in a tub . . . all jumped out of" in the nursery rhyme
Ans: Rotten potato.
GEOGRAPHICAL PEOPLE
5) Hannah _____, the fictional 14-year-old pop star on Disney played by Billy Ray Cyrus's daughter Miley, or the state whose quarter features a bison skull
Ans: Montana.
THAT EMPTY FEELING
8) Peninsula bordering the Red Sea where the Rub al Khali, a vast desert region also called The Empty Quarter, is located
Ans: Arabian Peninsula.
PETER PAN
13) Surname of the 3 children who go with Peter to his magical land and whom he rescue from the pirates
Ans: Darling.
IT'S THE LARGEST
21) Jupiter's largest moon, the largest moon in the solar system
Ans: Ganymede.
VICTORIA, VICTORIA
34) Scot who discovered Victoria Falls in 1855, in the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe
Ans: David Livingstone.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Fibonaccio! July 2007
REDUPLICATIVES, OR DOUBLE NAMES--PROPER ONES
5) Island of French Polynesia in the Leeward group of the South Pacific Ocean's Society Islands
Ans: Bora Bora.
BLUE POTPOURRI
8) World's largest deep blue diamond, now on display at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History
Ans: Hope Diamond.
AIRPORT LOCATION
13) George Bush Intercontinental
Ans: Houston, Texas.
"SAINTS," NOT SINNERS
21) Bishop of Hippo in Africa who wrote the Confessions and The City of God
Ans: St. Augustine.
SINNERS, NOT SAINTS
34) Serial killer played by Charlize Theron in the movie Monster who admitted killing 7 men in Florida--she was executed in 2002
Ans: Aileen Wuornos.
"YELLOW," BUT NO SUBMARINES
55) Popular term for the alleged threat to Western Civilization from Asian people, especially those from China and Japan, during the late 19th and early 20th century
Ans: Yellow peril.
FATHERLY NICKNAMES OF LITERARY EUROPEANS
TB) Thomas, the "Father of Bowdlerizing" and editor of the heavily censored 10-volume Family Shakespeare
Ans: Thomas Bowdler.
"BROWN" PEOPLE, REAL OR FICTIONAL
1) Comic strip Peanuts character known for saying "Good grief!"
Ans: Charlie Brown.
THE "EL'S" HAVE IT, BUT NO ERNIE ELS
1) Texas city whose Spanish name means "The Pass"
Ans: El Paso.
CARDINAL NUMBER FILM TITLE COMPLETIONS
2) 1960's The Magnificent _____, starring Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen
Ans: Seven.
FAMOUS WILLIAMS WITH A MIDDLE NAME
3) William Frederick _____, Pony Express rider, army scout, and buffalo hunter
Ans: Cody.
POTENT POTABLES WITH A TWIST
5) Brand of bottled gin from the U.K., or a yeoman of the British monarch's royal guard
Ans: Beefeater.
MUSICALS
8) Leonard Bernstein's 1957 musical drama set in New York City and loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Ans: West Side Story.
ANSWER THE "BELL"
13) Poisonous European plant, also known as deadly nightshade, whose name is Italian for "beautiful lady"
Ans: Belladonna.
WORLD AIRPORTS, CITY AND COUNTRY
21) Jose Marti International
Ans: Havana, Cuba.
TV SHOW TITLES BY THE NUMBERS, T's and S's
34) Teen-oriented police series about a L.A. Police Department unit fighting crime in schools with Johnny Depp as Officer Tom Hanson
Ans: 21 Jump Street.
PROVERB COMPLETIONS, BEGINNING WITH A
55) _____ makes strange bedfellows.
Ans: Adversity.
IF YOU HAVE AN "ITZ," SCRATCH IT
TB) St. _____, the Swiss resort where the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics were held
Ans: Moritz.
NUMBERS FROM 1-10
1) Single in baseball by a batter who reaches first base
Ans: One-base hit (one-bagger).
RICH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
1) Millionaire Gotham City crime fighter in disguise as Batman, the "caped crusader," who operates out of his secret crime laboratory
Ans: Bruce Wayne.
BODY PARTS NICKNAMES IN SPORTS, SURNAME ONLY
2) Baseball's Sandy "Man with the Golden Arm" _____
Ans: Koufax.
THAT'S MIGHTY NOBLE OF YOU
3) Alpine plant whose name means "noble white" in German
Ans: Edelweiss.
STORMY, STORMY NIGHT
5) 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg about a tropical hurricane that collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes
Ans: The Perfect Storm.
STEAMY FILMS, TITLE COMPLETIONS
8) 1972's Last Tango in _____, starring Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando
Ans: Paris.
LITTLE MISSES
13) First name of the U.S. President's daughter known as "Little Miss Roosevelt" and "Mrs. L."
Ans: Alice (Roosevelt Longworth).
"VAN," VAN, HE'S OUR MAN
21) Bands of high radiation circling the earth named for their discoverer James Alfred _____
Ans: Van Allen belts.
WHAT ABOUT US VONS!?
34) System of notation for dance that Hungarian Rudolf von Laban developed in the 1920s
Ans: Labanotation.
ON THE TITLE COMPLETIONS
55) Wassily Kandinsky's 1912 On the Spiritual in _____, expressing his ideas on abstract painting
Ans: Art.
GOOD "KNIGHT"
TB) Roman Catholic fraternal organization of men and their families who give moral support to other Catholic families
Ans: Knights of Columbus.
TV's JEOPARDY!
1) TV host and producer who with his wife, Julann, developed Jeopardy! in 1964
Ans: Merv Griffin.
TV's WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
1) Letter of the answer designed to elicit a laugh on the $100 question
Ans: D.
5) Island of French Polynesia in the Leeward group of the South Pacific Ocean's Society Islands
Ans: Bora Bora.
BLUE POTPOURRI
8) World's largest deep blue diamond, now on display at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History
Ans: Hope Diamond.
AIRPORT LOCATION
13) George Bush Intercontinental
Ans: Houston, Texas.
"SAINTS," NOT SINNERS
21) Bishop of Hippo in Africa who wrote the Confessions and The City of God
Ans: St. Augustine.
SINNERS, NOT SAINTS
34) Serial killer played by Charlize Theron in the movie Monster who admitted killing 7 men in Florida--she was executed in 2002
Ans: Aileen Wuornos.
"YELLOW," BUT NO SUBMARINES
55) Popular term for the alleged threat to Western Civilization from Asian people, especially those from China and Japan, during the late 19th and early 20th century
Ans: Yellow peril.
FATHERLY NICKNAMES OF LITERARY EUROPEANS
TB) Thomas, the "Father of Bowdlerizing" and editor of the heavily censored 10-volume Family Shakespeare
Ans: Thomas Bowdler.
"BROWN" PEOPLE, REAL OR FICTIONAL
1) Comic strip Peanuts character known for saying "Good grief!"
Ans: Charlie Brown.
THE "EL'S" HAVE IT, BUT NO ERNIE ELS
1) Texas city whose Spanish name means "The Pass"
Ans: El Paso.
CARDINAL NUMBER FILM TITLE COMPLETIONS
2) 1960's The Magnificent _____, starring Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen
Ans: Seven.
FAMOUS WILLIAMS WITH A MIDDLE NAME
3) William Frederick _____, Pony Express rider, army scout, and buffalo hunter
Ans: Cody.
POTENT POTABLES WITH A TWIST
5) Brand of bottled gin from the U.K., or a yeoman of the British monarch's royal guard
Ans: Beefeater.
MUSICALS
8) Leonard Bernstein's 1957 musical drama set in New York City and loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Ans: West Side Story.
ANSWER THE "BELL"
13) Poisonous European plant, also known as deadly nightshade, whose name is Italian for "beautiful lady"
Ans: Belladonna.
WORLD AIRPORTS, CITY AND COUNTRY
21) Jose Marti International
Ans: Havana, Cuba.
TV SHOW TITLES BY THE NUMBERS, T's and S's
34) Teen-oriented police series about a L.A. Police Department unit fighting crime in schools with Johnny Depp as Officer Tom Hanson
Ans: 21 Jump Street.
PROVERB COMPLETIONS, BEGINNING WITH A
55) _____ makes strange bedfellows.
Ans: Adversity.
IF YOU HAVE AN "ITZ," SCRATCH IT
TB) St. _____, the Swiss resort where the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics were held
Ans: Moritz.
NUMBERS FROM 1-10
1) Single in baseball by a batter who reaches first base
Ans: One-base hit (one-bagger).
RICH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
1) Millionaire Gotham City crime fighter in disguise as Batman, the "caped crusader," who operates out of his secret crime laboratory
Ans: Bruce Wayne.
BODY PARTS NICKNAMES IN SPORTS, SURNAME ONLY
2) Baseball's Sandy "Man with the Golden Arm" _____
Ans: Koufax.
THAT'S MIGHTY NOBLE OF YOU
3) Alpine plant whose name means "noble white" in German
Ans: Edelweiss.
STORMY, STORMY NIGHT
5) 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg about a tropical hurricane that collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes
Ans: The Perfect Storm.
STEAMY FILMS, TITLE COMPLETIONS
8) 1972's Last Tango in _____, starring Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando
Ans: Paris.
LITTLE MISSES
13) First name of the U.S. President's daughter known as "Little Miss Roosevelt" and "Mrs. L."
Ans: Alice (Roosevelt Longworth).
"VAN," VAN, HE'S OUR MAN
21) Bands of high radiation circling the earth named for their discoverer James Alfred _____
Ans: Van Allen belts.
WHAT ABOUT US VONS!?
34) System of notation for dance that Hungarian Rudolf von Laban developed in the 1920s
Ans: Labanotation.
ON THE TITLE COMPLETIONS
55) Wassily Kandinsky's 1912 On the Spiritual in _____, expressing his ideas on abstract painting
Ans: Art.
GOOD "KNIGHT"
TB) Roman Catholic fraternal organization of men and their families who give moral support to other Catholic families
Ans: Knights of Columbus.
TV's JEOPARDY!
1) TV host and producer who with his wife, Julann, developed Jeopardy! in 1964
Ans: Merv Griffin.
TV's WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
1) Letter of the answer designed to elicit a laugh on the $100 question
Ans: D.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Fibonaccio! June 2007
MOVIE LORE
55) Jazz musician nicknamed "Bird" featured in the Clint Eastwood-directed 1988 film entitled Bird, starring Forest Whitaker
Ans: Charlie Parker.
"I AM" QUOTATIONS
TB) Geodesic dome creator who said, "I am doing what I am doing only because . . . I am the only guinea pig I have."
Ans: R. Buckminster Fuller.
KNOW YOUR JACKSONS
1) 7th U.S. President
Ans: Andrew Jackson.
CRYING WOLF
1) American author who wrote The Sea Wolf and shares his surname with a European capital
Ans: Jack London.
THREE TIMES THE CHARM
2) The 3 who "all jumped out of a rotten potato" in the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-dub-dub, / Three men in a tub."
Ans: Butcher, Baker, and Candlestick Maker.
SINGLE LETTER BEGINNING
3) Popular chain of discount stores founded by Sebastian S. Kresge
Ans: Kmart.
B.B.'S, BUT NO EYES PUT OUT
5) Area in the Southern U.S. where fundamentalist Christian beliefs prevail
Ans: Bible Belt.
MMM-MMM GOOD
8) Candy bar named after the daughter of President Grover Cleveland
Ans: Baby Ruth.
ONLYS
13) Washington, D.C., school that is the world's only liberal arts college for the deaf
Ans: Gallaudet College.
U.S. STATE CAPITALS
21) Capital that is known for its annual "Frontier Days" festival and prides itself on being the capital of the first state to allow women to vote
Ans: Cheyenne (Wyoming).
U.S. TOPONYMS (Names Derived from a Place or Region)
34) Covered horse-drawn wagon, after a village or region in Pennsylvania where wagons of this type were made
Ans: Conestoga wagon.
"SINGLE" AND NOT MARRIED
55) Deciduous tree that is the single surviving species of an order that flourished at the time of the dinosaurs
Ans: Ginkgo.
20TH-CENTURY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
TB) James Fenimore Cooper's Natty _____
Ans: Bumppo.
THE LETTER X IN THE ANSWER
1) U.S. President who said, "I want you all to stonewall it."
Ans: Richard Nixon.
SCIENTIFIC NAMES FOR BONES OF THE BODY
1) Upper leg or thigh bone
Ans: Femur.
JUST TRIVIA
2) Standard typewriter keyboard as named from the first 6 letters top left, sometimes called the Sholes keyboard
Ans: Qwerty.
GOING MY WAY, MRS.
3) Company known for its cookies, opened in 1977 by Debbi _____, in Palo Alto, California
Ans: Mrs. Fields.
GEOGRAPHY BEARS
5) NBA team known as the "Grizzlies," and formerly called the Vancouver Grizzlies
Ans: Memphis.
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
8) U.S.'s oldest permanent European settlement, founded by Spanish explorer Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles in Florida on August 28, 1565
Ans: St. Augustine.
TRIANGLES
13) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, site near the confluence of 3 rivers
Ans: Golden Triangle.
MILLERS ANYONE
21) American author who wrote Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady
Ans: Henry James.
"GREEN" GREEN GRASS OF HOME
34) Barbra Streisand's Oscar-winning song from 1976's A Star Is Born
Ans: "Evergreen."
ALL ABOUT MARY
55) Pen name of English-born novelist Mary Ann Evans
Ans: George Eliot.
ONE-WORD TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICALS
TB) 1970's winner, based on a story about the world of showbiz and whose title designates approval expressed by the clapping of hands
Ans: Applause.
WORLD HISTORY
1) Quadrennial athletic competition Emperor Theodosius ordered ended in A.D. 393
Ans: Olympic Games.
STATE FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
1) Boise State University
Ans: Idaho.
BIG, BUT NOT IN THE ANSWER
2) Paul Bunyan's large ox who is "twice as big as all outdoors and playful as a hurricane"
Ans: Babe.
EVERY "LITTLE" BIT HELPS
3) Product line of colorful toy ponies produced by Hasbro in 1982
Ans: My Little Pony.
55) Jazz musician nicknamed "Bird" featured in the Clint Eastwood-directed 1988 film entitled Bird, starring Forest Whitaker
Ans: Charlie Parker.
"I AM" QUOTATIONS
TB) Geodesic dome creator who said, "I am doing what I am doing only because . . . I am the only guinea pig I have."
Ans: R. Buckminster Fuller.
KNOW YOUR JACKSONS
1) 7th U.S. President
Ans: Andrew Jackson.
CRYING WOLF
1) American author who wrote The Sea Wolf and shares his surname with a European capital
Ans: Jack London.
THREE TIMES THE CHARM
2) The 3 who "all jumped out of a rotten potato" in the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-dub-dub, / Three men in a tub."
Ans: Butcher, Baker, and Candlestick Maker.
SINGLE LETTER BEGINNING
3) Popular chain of discount stores founded by Sebastian S. Kresge
Ans: Kmart.
B.B.'S, BUT NO EYES PUT OUT
5) Area in the Southern U.S. where fundamentalist Christian beliefs prevail
Ans: Bible Belt.
MMM-MMM GOOD
8) Candy bar named after the daughter of President Grover Cleveland
Ans: Baby Ruth.
ONLYS
13) Washington, D.C., school that is the world's only liberal arts college for the deaf
Ans: Gallaudet College.
U.S. STATE CAPITALS
21) Capital that is known for its annual "Frontier Days" festival and prides itself on being the capital of the first state to allow women to vote
Ans: Cheyenne (Wyoming).
U.S. TOPONYMS (Names Derived from a Place or Region)
34) Covered horse-drawn wagon, after a village or region in Pennsylvania where wagons of this type were made
Ans: Conestoga wagon.
"SINGLE" AND NOT MARRIED
55) Deciduous tree that is the single surviving species of an order that flourished at the time of the dinosaurs
Ans: Ginkgo.
20TH-CENTURY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
TB) James Fenimore Cooper's Natty _____
Ans: Bumppo.
THE LETTER X IN THE ANSWER
1) U.S. President who said, "I want you all to stonewall it."
Ans: Richard Nixon.
SCIENTIFIC NAMES FOR BONES OF THE BODY
1) Upper leg or thigh bone
Ans: Femur.
JUST TRIVIA
2) Standard typewriter keyboard as named from the first 6 letters top left, sometimes called the Sholes keyboard
Ans: Qwerty.
GOING MY WAY, MRS.
3) Company known for its cookies, opened in 1977 by Debbi _____, in Palo Alto, California
Ans: Mrs. Fields.
GEOGRAPHY BEARS
5) NBA team known as the "Grizzlies," and formerly called the Vancouver Grizzlies
Ans: Memphis.
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
8) U.S.'s oldest permanent European settlement, founded by Spanish explorer Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles in Florida on August 28, 1565
Ans: St. Augustine.
TRIANGLES
13) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, site near the confluence of 3 rivers
Ans: Golden Triangle.
MILLERS ANYONE
21) American author who wrote Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady
Ans: Henry James.
"GREEN" GREEN GRASS OF HOME
34) Barbra Streisand's Oscar-winning song from 1976's A Star Is Born
Ans: "Evergreen."
ALL ABOUT MARY
55) Pen name of English-born novelist Mary Ann Evans
Ans: George Eliot.
ONE-WORD TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICALS
TB) 1970's winner, based on a story about the world of showbiz and whose title designates approval expressed by the clapping of hands
Ans: Applause.
WORLD HISTORY
1) Quadrennial athletic competition Emperor Theodosius ordered ended in A.D. 393
Ans: Olympic Games.
STATE FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
1) Boise State University
Ans: Idaho.
BIG, BUT NOT IN THE ANSWER
2) Paul Bunyan's large ox who is "twice as big as all outdoors and playful as a hurricane"
Ans: Babe.
EVERY "LITTLE" BIT HELPS
3) Product line of colorful toy ponies produced by Hasbro in 1982
Ans: My Little Pony.
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