Free Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac by Ken Jennings

Mitch
    9. Sally Ride
    10.
Cocoon
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FEBRUARY 1
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    1906 T HE FIRST STEAM shovels arrive in Utah to begin excavating the Bingham Canyon copper mine near Salt Lake City. Today the 1,900-acre mine, still producing, is the world’s largest man-made excavation.
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    COPPER TONE
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    1. What’s added to copper to make bronze?
    2. What’s the only part of the Statue of Liberty’s exterior that’s not copper?
    3. The Latin name for copper comes from what island where the ore was mined anciently?
    4. Today’s U.S. pennies are 2.5 percent copper. What metal is the other 97.5 percent?
    5. Who was engaged to magician David Copperfield for six years in the 1990s?

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    1920 T HE “M OUNTIES” are officially formed when the North West Mounted Police merges with the Dominion Police. Look out, Snidely Whiplash.
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    STRAIGHT “EH?”S
    Oh,
Canada!
How much do you know about our “Kraft dinner”–eating neighbors to the north?
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    1. What Canadian island was named for the father of Queen Victoria?
    2. How many points are there on the maple leaf on the Canadian flag?
    3. What ship sank in 1975 after passing too close to Ontario’s Caribou Island when the gales of November came early?
    4. What music star is named for a Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics?
    5. Prime Minister Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for defusing what world crisis?
    6. What prospector is cremated in poet Robert Service’s most famous ballad?
    7. What violinist-bandleader was the first inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame?
    8. What two Canadian provinces have capitals named for the same person?
    9. What future TV western star was CBC News’s “Voice of Canada” during World War II?
    10. What’s the name of the mainland portion of the province originally called Newfoundland?
    11. What Canadian company is North America’s oldest brewery?
    12. What sports championship is named for a man whose great-uncle has a tea blend named for him?
    13. What actor’s 1999 memoir was entitled
Get a Life
?
    14. What Italian army captain who settled in Toronto in 1831 lent his name to a popular teen drama?
    15. What’s the only one of the Great Lakes that has no Canadian waters?

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FEBRUARY 2
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    1602 S HAKESPEARE’S
T WELFTH N IGHT
is probably first performed at London’s Middle Temple Hall, to celebrate Candlemas, not the titular holiday. The Bard playfully labels the play “Or What You Will,” making it his only work with a subtitle.
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    SUB POP
    What famous novels use these subtitles?
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    Easy
    1.
The Whale
    2.
And What Alice Found There
    3.
A Tale of the Christ
    4.
The Autobiography of a Horse
    5.
A Space Odyssey
    Harder
    1.
From This World to That Which Is to Come
    2.
The Modern Prometheus
    3.
Life Among the Lowly
    4.
There and Back Again
    5.
The Parish Boy’s Progress
    Yeah, Good Luck
    1.
A Novel Without a Hero
    2.
The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
    3.
The Children’s Crusade
    4.
A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented
    5.
The Saga of an American Family
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    1887 T HE P UNXSUTAWNEY G ROUNDHOG C LUB makes its first annual trek to Gobbler’s Knob to watch a small rodent predict the weather.
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    TIME AFTER TIME
    Celebrate your own personal
Groundhog Day
with some questions about endless repeats…endless repeats…endless repeats…
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    1. What Sanskrit word do Buddhists use to refer to the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth?
    2. What Beatles number one hit repeats the title in the lyrics forty-one times?
    3. What ad campaign gave us Sitagin hemorrhoid cream, Rottenbrau beer, Golden Grenades cereal, and Château Marmoset wine?
    4. What Italian phrase for “from the beginning” is used in music notation to indicate a repeated passage?
    5. What’s the only team ever to appear in four consecutive Super Bowls?
    6. Jack Torrence’s “novel” in Kubrick’s
The Shining
actually consists of what proverb, typed over and over again thousands of