FIBONACCIO! January/Feburary/March 2008

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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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