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.

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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.