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.