The Big Book of American Trivia, Page 34

  7. Jackie Cooper, who appeared in The Champ, Treasure Island, and other classics [Back]

  8. Survivor [Back]

  9. Darth Vader, of Star Wars fame [Back]

  10. Seinfeld [Back]

  11. Frank Sinatra [Back]

  12. Circumcision [Back]

  13. Joan Collins [Back]

  14. Viagra [Back]

  15. Jay Leno [Back]

  16. George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars brand [Back]

  17. Gary Coleman [Back]

  18. Harmon Killebrew, also known as “Hammerin’ Harmon” [Back]

  June // Answers

  1. Elian Gonzalez [Back]

  2. Timothy McVeigh, perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing [Back]

  3. The Omen, with its references to the Antichrist and the number 666 [Back]

  4. The Department of Homeland Security [Back]

  5. Ann Landers [Back]

  6. Plymouth [Back]

  7. Bob Barker, host of The Price Is Right [Back]

  8. West Virginia [Back]

  9. Bob Dylan; the degree was awarded by Scotland’s University of St. Andrews. [Back]

  10. Angelina Jolie [Back]

  11. General Motors [Back]

  12. Tatum O’Neal [Back]

  13. Farrah Fawcett [Back]

  14. “Shoe” [Back]

  15. Golf courses [Back]

  16. Jimmy Dean [Back]

  17. The National Do Not Call Registry [Back]

  July // Answers

  1. The Statue of Liberty, whose “crown” (viewing deck) had closed after the 9/11 attacks [Back]

  2. John F. Kennedy Jr. [Back]

  3. Steve Fossett [Back]

  4. Walter Cronkite [Back]

  5. Anne Rice, who a few years earlier had announced she had become a Christian and would write novels about Jesus [Back]

  6. Sirius [Back]

  7. Ted Williams [Back]

  8. Billy Joel [Back]

  9. Bob Hope [Back]

  10. Amazon; it was decided that “Cadabra” sounded too much like “cadaver.” [Back]

  11. ABC [Back]

  12. Tony Snow [Back]

  13. Prince (Actually, he does have a last name, but he doesn’t use it professionally.) [Back]

  14. Michael Jackson [Back]

  15. Walter Matthau [Back]

  16. Napster [Back]

  17. The F. W. Woolworth Company [Back]

  18. So You Think You Can Dance? [Back]

  August // Answers

  1. Barry Bonds [Back]

  2. The Confederate States of America [Back]

  3. Ted Kennedy [Back]

  4. Hurricane Katrina [Back]

  5. The Statue of Liberty, which had closed after the 9/11 attacks; the “crown,” however, did not reopen until 2009. [Back]

  6. The Lincoln Memorial [Back]

  7. Arnold Schwarzenegger [Back]

  8. Presidential candidate John McCain, who owned seven houses [Back]

  9. Mark Chapman, who had killed John Lennon; parole was denied. [Back]

  10. Alaska [Back]

  11. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? [Back]

  12. John F. Kennedy—and also Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy [Back]

  13. Michael Phelps, who won eight [Back]

  14. Jerry Reed [Back]

  15. Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune [Back]

  16. 60 Minutes [Back]

  17. United and Continental [Back]

  18. Michael Jackson’s [Back]

  September // Answers

  1. Yankee Stadium—or, to be precise, the old Yankee Stadium, which was demolished in 2009, the year the new Yankee Stadium opened [Back]

  2. Dunkin’ Donuts [Back]

  3. Google [Back]

  4. The Guiding Light; its seventy-two-year run included both TV and radio. [Back]

  5. AOL (America Online) [Back]

  6. T. D. Jakes, pastor of The Potter’s House church in Dallas [Back]

  7. Ford, which introduced the Escape SUV [Back]

  8. An elephant; the cover story was about the Tea Party movement, and the elephant represented Republicans. [Back]

  9. Barack Obama; “They” referred to Republicans. [Back]

  10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden [Back]

  11. William Calley, apologizing for the 1968 My Lai massacre [Back]

  12. Barack Obama; many thought he was referring to candidate Sarah Palin. [Back]

  13. The National Rifle Association [Back]

  14. Glenn Beck; the cover story was titled “Mad Man.” [Back]

  15. The Lost Symbol [Back]

  16. Johnny Unitas [Back]

  17. Ken Starr [Back]

  18. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico [Back]

  October // Answers

  1. Washington, D.C. [Back]

  2. Drew Carey [Back]

  3. John Glenn, who was an astronaut before his Senate days [Back]

  4. Leave It to Beaver [Back]

  5. Promise Keepers [Back]

  6. Bill Gates of Microsoft [Back]

  7. George W. Bush announced her nomination to the Supreme Court. A ruckus ensued, and later that month the nomination was withdrawn. [Back]

  8. Sonny Bono, one of the act’s sponsors; he died shortly before it was passed. [Back]

  9. The Social Network [Back]

  10. Bill O’Reilly [Back]

  11. Happy Days [Back]

  12. Lakewood Church [Back]

  13. The Tonight Show [Back]

  14. PayPal [Back]

  15. Afghanistan [Back]

  16. The Crystal Cathedral [Back]

  November // Answers

  1. John Allen Muhammad, one of the two snipers who targeted the D.C. area in 2002 [Back]

  2. Jeopardy; Jennings won seventy-four consecutive games. [Back]

  3. Fort Hood [Back]

  4. Florida, where numerous ballots were improperly punched, delaying the outcome of the presidential election [Back]

  5. Jack Kevorkian, “Dr. Death,” who was afterward charged with and convicted of homicide [Back]

  6. Rush Limbaugh [Back]

  7. Al Gore [Back]

  8. George W. Bush [Back]

  9. Septuplets [Back]

  10. The International Olympic Committee; Obama tried unsuccessfully to lobby for Chicago as the site of the 2016 Olympics. [Back]

  11. Sylvester Stallone [Back]

  12. Walter Payton [Back]

  13. Donald Rumsfeld [Back]

  14. George Foreman, who knocked out heavyweight champion Michael Moorer in the tenth round [Back]

  15. Mark Twain [Back]

  16. Speaker of the House of Representatives [Back]

  17. Ralph Nader [Back]

  December // Answers

  1. O. J. Simpson, who was sentenced to thirty-three years for robbery, kidnapping, and other felonies [Back]

  2. Oral Roberts [Back]

  3. Montgomery Ward (or “Monkey Ward,” as it was colloquially known) [Back]

  4. The Panama Canal [Back]

  5. His underwear; his attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 failed, fortunately. [Back]

  6. O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Back]

  7. Tiger Woods [Back]

  8. Saddam Hussein [Back]

  9. Illinois [Back]

  10. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook [Back]

  11. Schindler’s List [Back]

  12. Special prosecutor Ken Starr [Back]

  13. Hyundai [Back]

  14. James Brown [Back]

  15. True Grit [Back]

  16. The Lone Ranger [Back]

  17. “Pearls before Swine,” by Stephan Pastis [Back]

  18. Blake Edwards, husband of Julie Andrews [Back]

 

 

 
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