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.

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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.