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Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 1 * Books and Bookers * |
Q1
|
b) Yu and Mie
|
The world’s longest roller coaster, at 8,133.2 ft, is Steel Dragon 2000 at Mie in Japan, so the other
half of Mie’s pair must be Yu, for Charles Yu, 2020’s National
Book Award winner for fiction.
National Book Awards:
p. 263
Roller coasters: p.
87
|
Q2
|
c) 2
|
Tuskegee Institute
was founded by Booker T. Washington; the 1984 Booker Prize was
awarded to Anita Brookner for Hotel du Lac
[an English-language novel despite the non-Englishness of its title].
[Page 794 has two basketball photos: the photo on the right
is the NCAA championship game [the lettering NCAA is on
the basketball and also on the top of the backboard, plus the
visible lettering on the offensive player’s jersey is LO, for BAYLOR,
the college champions], so Booker [the Phoenix Suns’ Devin
Booker] in the photo on the left is playing in the NBA
professional game, not in the NCAA college game.]
National
parks/monuments: p. 424
Basketball – NCAA
– Men’s tournament champions: p. 794
– NBA – Season highlights (2020-21): pp. 794, 933
Booker Prize:
p. 261
|
Q3
|
a) Jethro Tull
|
The album is Aqualung; the invention (with
hyphen added) is the Aqua-Lung, by French scientists Jacques Cousteau
and Emile Gagnan.
Inventions: p. 285
Science – Scientists,
noted past: p. 188
Rock and roll –
Noted artists: pp. 216-18
|
Q4
|
d) McCallum
|
Mike McCallum was
WBA middleweight champion 1989-91 and then WBC light heavyweight
champion 1994-95. [Thomas Hearns was
middleweight champion only in the 1980s; Sugar Ray Leonard was champion in
both weights, but only in the 1980s.]
Boxing: p. 965
|
Q5
|
c) McGee
|
It’s 2011’s A
Sick Day for Amos McGee. [Flora is in a Newbery book; Sophie
is a Caldecott illustrator, not character.]
Caldecott Medal: p.
262
|
Q6
|
NC ; is
|
[either upper- or lowercase is fine] The last name
of expedition outfitter Walter Raleigh (who named Virginia) is the
same as the name of the capital of North Carolina, whose postal
abbreviation is NC; Björk was born in
Iceland, which joined with Norway in 1262 and whose government’s website
address is www.government.is [not ic].
Virginia – Name
origin, nickname: p. 419
States, U.S. – Capitals:
p. 417
Postal Service,
U.S.: p. 360
Entertainers, noted
present: p. 219
→ Iceland: p. 784
|
Q7
|
b) one of the 20 most popular …
|
Marshmello is #11
among YouTubers. [Donovan performed “Mellow Yellow”.]
YouTube: p. 242
Inventions: p. 287
Rock and Roll –
Noted artists: p. 216
|
Q8
|
d) dwarf planet with a highly elliptical orbit
|
Dwarf planet 2007 OR10 (provisionally) was named Gonggong in 2020.
Planets: pp. 342-43
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 2 * Names of Girls and Boys * |
Q9
|
b) 3
|
Emma alone in 1880s and 1890s, Emily alone
in 1990s. [The year 2020 is not one of the 14 decades.]
p. 713 (given)
|
Q10
|
b) 3
|
Matthew in 1990s and 2000s, Lucas in 2020.
[The year 2020 is one of the 15 specified lines for Q10, though it was
not included for Q9.]
p. 713 (given)
|
Q11
|
d) Rachel
|
Ricky Martin’s original last name is Morales, the
same as the last name of 12th season The Amazing Race winner Rachel
Morales.
Entertainers – Original
names: p. 238
Reality TV: p. 251
|
Q12
|
b) Joey
|
A little kangaroo is called a joey.
Animals – Names for
offspring/collectives: p. 711
|
Q13
|
d) Phoebe
|
Phoebe Fillmore’s son Millard died in 1874, the year in which Herbert
Hoover was born; Phoebe Harding’s son Warren died in 1923, the
year in which his successor Calvin Coolidge, son of Victoria, was
inaugurated.
Presidents, U.S.:
pp. 467-82
|
Q14
|
a) Chandler
|
Joel Chandler Harris
Georgia: p. 568
Writers,
noted: p. 207
|
Q15
|
a) Friends
|
Friends United
Meeting: 40,000 in 600 congregations.
Religion –
Adherents, members: p. 699
|
Q16
|
a) Henry David Thoreau’s Walden was published
|
The treaty was drafted in 1853 but was ratified in 1854,
when Walden was published. [Marbury v. Madison was
decided in 1803, van Gogh was born in 1853.]
Gadsden Purchase
(1854): p. 433
Painters, noted
past: p. 177
Supreme Court, U.S.
– Decisions, notable: p. 560
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 3 * Know the Conƒtitution * |
Q17
|
c) erection of magazines
|
Section 8: ‘… Authority over all Places purchased … for
the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, …’
Constitution, U.S.:
p. 456
|
Q18
|
a) giving of information
|
Section 3: ‘… give to the Congress Information
on the State of the Union, …’
Constitution, U.S.:
p. 457
|
Q19
|
c) corruption of blood
|
Section 3: ‘… no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption
of Blood …’
Constitution, U.S.:
p. 457
|
Q20
|
d) domestic violence
|
Section 4: ‘… shall protect … against domestic
Violence.’
Constitution, U.S.:
p. 458
|
Q21
|
a) equal suffrage
|
‘… no State … shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage
…’
Constitution, U.S.:
p. 458
|
Q22
|
a) bound judges and religious tests
|
‘… the Judges in every State shall be bound
…’; ‘no religious Test shall ever be required’
Constitution, U.S.:
p. 458
|
Q23
|
d) The Way of All Flesh
|
Emil Jannings won the 1927-28 Actor Oscar for The Way of
All Flesh. [A 2020 Oscar-winning songwriter – whether also an actor
or not – is Emile, with an extra e.]
Oscars (Academy
Awards): pp. 268-71
|
Q24
|
a) Émile
|
In education (Émile,
1762) Rousseau stressed
subjective spontaneity over regularized instruction.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques:
pp. 658-59
|
MM I
|
d) estimated number of … mechanics …
|
Mechanics held 306,301
certificates, flight attendants only 248,742 (footnote: airmen includes men
and women). [The certified mail fee for 50,000 pieces of unrestricted
certified mail would be $3.75 x 50,000 = $187,500; Streisand
and Carey combined certified album sales is 137.0 million, or 137,000
thousand.]
Flights →
Aviation – Airmen/aircraft statistics: p. 329
Mail service: p. 360
Music and musicians
– Top-selling albums, artists: p. 249
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 4 * Picking Up a Language * |
Q25
|
a) his mind
|
The expression translates roughly as ‘You are not of sound mind.’
Language –
Non-English words, phrases: p. 713
|
Q26
|
c) pardon
|
Excuse me in English
is equivalent to bao qian
in Mandarin and pardon in French; Pardon My Take is the #8 2021
podcast.
Podcasts, most
popular: p. 242
Language –
Non-English words, phrases: p. 713
|
Q27
|
b) an asteroid
|
A theoretical structure, a space elevator has a cable
that’s anchored at its outer extremity to a mass such as an asteroid.
Language – New
words, English: p. 710
|
Q28
|
a) a multitude and swarms
|
‘He
has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms
of Officers … ’
Declaration of Independence: p. 452
|
Q29
|
c) fourth President of the United States
|
James Madison became
rector of the Univ. of Virginia in 1826. [Madison’s predecessor,
Jefferson, became a widower of Martha.]
Architecture –
Timeline: p. 729
Presidents, U.S.:
p. 469
|
Q30
|
c) member of U.S. Congress from Massachusetts
|
Author Louis Auchincloss’s last name is the same as that
of Congressman Jake Auchincloss of
Massachusetts. [The Signa painter is
Morris Louis; the Senator is Jake Garn.]
Authors, noted →
Writers, noted: p. 205
Congress, U.S.
– House of Representatives – Members: p. 555
Painters, noted
past: p. 176
Space exploration – Human
spaceflight: p. 325
|
Q31
|
c) 3
|
Tinker AFB [Air
Force Base] is a notable facility in Oklahoma, most of which (map on p. 420:
all but its panhandle) was part of the Louisiana Purchase; Joe Tinker
is in Cooperstown; a young mackerel is a spike, blinker, or tinker.
[Jessica is a tanker, not a tinker.]
Louisiana Purchase
(1803): p. 420
→ Maps, world: p. 493
→ Oklahoma: p. 582
Hall of Fame – Baseball:
p. 932
Animals – Names for
offspring/collectives: p. 711
Ecuador: p. 771
|
Q32
|
b) 2
|
Steve Coll won for Ghost
Wars in General Nonfiction in 2005 and Julia Wolfe won for Anthracite
Fields in Music in 2015; Paul Harding won for Tinkers
in Fiction in 2010 and Annie Dillard won for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
in General Nonfiction in 1975. [Lynn Nottage’s
Ruined and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced both
were Dramas; Kiran Desai won a Booker, not a Pulitzer, for The
Inheritance of Loss.]
Pulitzer Prizes: pp.
258-61
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 5 * Firsts and Seconds, Minutes and Hours * |
Q33
|
b) no
|
Jefferson was born in 1743, after the First
Silesian War (1740-42) and before the Second (1744-45).
Jefferson, Thomas:
p. 469
War of the Austrian
Succession (1740-48): p. 126
|
Q34
|
b) second it
|
He seconded the resolution introduced by Richard
Henry Lee on June 7, 1776.
Declaration of Independence:
p. 451
|
Q35
|
c) minute
|
… to a very minute
degree, in the Earth itself.
Tides: p. 310
|
Q36
|
b) One of Ours
|
Willa Cather won for 1923’s One of Ours.
[Michael Cunningham’s The Hours was 23 years ago.]
Pulitzer Prizes: p.
259
|
Q37
|
b) no
|
Each of a number of horses has won in more than one year,
therefore at different ages; e.g., Tiznow in
the 2000 and 2001 Classics.
Breeders’ Cup: pp.
970-72
|
Q38
|
b) Bubbling Over won Kentucky Derby
|
It was the 1926 Derby. [Bubble gum was invented
in 1928; Bardeen won a 1956 Physics Nobel, then became a double laureate in
1972; the beagle was best-in-show in 2015.]
Kentucky Derby: p.
968
Inventions: p. 285
Nobel Prizes: pp.
255-58
Westminster Kennel Club: p. 978
|
Q39
|
b) Derby County
|
Burnley FC won
its sole championship in 1959-60; thereafter, Derby County won in
1971-72 and 1974-75. [Tottenham Hotspur won
after Burnley only in 1960-61; Chelsea’s last five
wins all were not in the English League but in the Premier League,
which was formed in the 1992-93 season; Real Madrid plays in La Liga of Spain.]
Soccer: p. 952
|
Q40
|
NI V LS
|
For the first sausage, Eadulf
wrote NI,
the 2-letter top-level domain used by Nicaragua’s asamblea;
for the second sausage, the letter V is
common to the 2-letter postal abbreviations of Nevada (NV)
and West Virginia (WV); for the third sausage, the 2
letters LS end
Lesotho’s website address www.gov.ls [not le].
p. 817 (given)
States, U.S.
– Capitals: p. 417
South Africa: p. 834
→ Lesotho: p. 806
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 6 * Casting Call * |
Q41
|
b) doubt
|
They cast doubt on the claim; higher precision
measurements are planned.
Cosmic background
radiation: p. 337
|
Q42
|
b) doubt
|
It cast doubt on many laws restricting political spending.
Supreme Court, U.S.
– Decisions, notable: p. 562
|
Q43
|
a) cast
|
He was cast into lion’s den; the kingly name is
Darius.
Old Testament: p.
705
Persia → Iran
– Persia: p. 650
|
Q44
|
b) hawks
|
Kettle is an
alternate to cast for hawks; finches are in a charm, otters in
a romp, vultures in a committee.
Animals – Names for
offspring/collectives: p. 711
|
Q45
|
b) Birmingham
|
It’s in Birmingham’s Vulcan Park.
Alabama: p. 563
|
Q46
|
b) 1
|
The alcohol measure fifth = 1.6 pints (the same as
a fifth of a gallon). [The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople
in 1204, the Scottish Lowlands’ belt’s ends are at Firths, not
Fifths.]
Weights and
measures: p. 358
Crusades: p. 126
Scotland: p. 847
|
Q47
|
c) fifth
|
Perseverance is the fifth
NASA rover to explore Mars since 1997.
Planets: p. 339
→ Mars (planet) – Landings/exploration: p.
19
|
Q48
|
c) film whose 25th anniversary is this year
|
Bruce Willis’s The Fifth Element is a 1997
film. [The classical four elements include water, not gravity, and
with æther are not in the World Almanac in any
case; the atomic weight of Boron’s isotopes is over 10, not between 5 and 6.]
Elements, chemical:
p. 277
History –
Anniversaries: p. 42
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 7 * Feeling a Bit Logy * |
Q49
|
a) yes, the father of John Harrison
|
The campaign of William Henry Harrison
(grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison, who was the son of John
Harrison, whose father, therefore, was William Henry Harrison) included the
slogan “Log Cabin and Hard Cider”.
Presidents, U.S.:
pp. 470, 471, 473
|
Q50
|
d) Tungsten
|
The treaty was signed in 1959 by New Zealand, one
of whose industries is logs and wood articles and the first letter of
whose capital, Wellington, is W, the symbol for Tungsten.
Elements, chemical:
p. 276
Antarctica –
Exploration: p. 687
→ New Zealand: p. 817
|
Q51
|
d) logs
|
Pres. Biden said last May that he did not support the
Justice Dept. policy to pursue journalists’ call logs.
Justice, Department
of: p. 23
|
Q52
|
c) win the Kentucky Derby
|
Iron Liege won the
1957 Kentucky Derby. [Sudetenland was invaded in 1938-39, over 80 years
ago; Streep’s 2011 Oscar was for The Iron Lady, not Iron Liege.]
Kentucky Derby: p.
968
Oscars (Academy
Awards): pp. 268-71
|
Q53
|
b) iron horse
|
It’s at 315 Iron Horse Way, Ste. 101, Providence.
Rhode Island: p. 584
|
Q54
|
c) iron out
|
… left some key details to be ironed
out.
Trade, trade
tariffs: p. 15
Christmas Day: p.
349
|
Q55
|
b) Irons and/or c) Steele
|
[We did not intend for two answers to fit, but
they do and we will score either of them
correct – or both of them if both were marked.] Frank Irons
won the 1908 Olympics Long Jump competition; Willie Steele
won the same event in 1948. [Although Fabrice Guy won
the winter 1992 Nordic Combined Men’s Individual event, the World Almanac
does not say that he won it for jumping [jumping is half; Combined includes cross-country]; also,
although Hughes Fabrice Zango won the 2020
Triple Jump Bronze, he did not win the competition
[Gold].] Note: this does not affect Q81, since both Irons and Steele
are on page 872.
Olympic Games –
Summer – Champions (1896-2020): p. 872
– Winter – Champions (1924-2018): p. 880
Olympic Games: p.
859
|
Q56
|
c) 1990s Grammy Award winner for album …
|
Rock and roller Alanis Morissette
has performed “Ironic” and won the 1995 best album Grammy for Jagged
Little Pill; a section of the coast of Massachusetts is jagged.
Grammy Awards: p.
272
Rock and roll –
Noted artists: p. 217
Massachusetts: p.
574
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 8 * Ems and Emmys * |
Q57
|
b) river in Germany
|
Ems is one of
Germany’s chief rivers, flowing toward the North Sea. [A printer’s en is half an em, not
vice versa; Ricch is featured in the single
“Walk Em Down”, with no letter s.]
Germany: p. 778
Music and musicians
– Top-selling albums, artists: p. 249
Printer’s measures:
p. 358
|
Q58
|
b) Gail
|
Paintsville’s Crystal Gayle’s original middle name is Gail,
which is the same as the last name of 2021 daytime Emmy supporting actor
winner Max Gail.
Emmy Awards: p. 267
Entertainers – Original
names: p. 238
– Noted present: p 222
|
Q59
|
a) Abe
|
Long’s shot put record, set in 1964, was superseded by
Randy Matson’s put in 1968, when Abe Fortas was on the
Court. [Frankfurter left in 1962; Tom Clark left in 1967; Burger joined
in 1969.]
Supreme Court, U.S.
– Justices: p. 559
Olympic Games –
Summer – Champions (1896-2020): p. 872
|
Q60
|
a) Desire
|
Desiree Linden won
in 2018.
Boston, MA – Marathon:
p. 978
|
Q61
|
c) Soo
|
They’re in Sault Ste. Marie but spelled Soo.
Huron, Lake:
p. 696
→ Michigan: p. 575
|
Q62
|
b) GMC Sierra
|
General Motors sold
both of the Chevrolet models plus the GMC Sierra: total 1,110,685; vs. 947,349 for Ford and 669,193 for Toyota.
Trucks → Motor
vehicles – Sales: p. 80
Corporations –
Business directory: pp. 405-06
|
Q63
|
a) Barney
|
Jim Unger drew Herman, also the first name of Herman
Melville, who wrote Billy Budd, whose title character’s
first name also is the first name of cartoonist Billy DeBeck,
who drew Barney Google, whose last name is the same as the name
of Alphabet Inc.’s internet-related Google.
Cartoonists: p. 178
Corporations –
Business directory: p. 403
Authors, noted – Writers,
noted: p. 208
|
Q64
|
d) Miller
|
Wiley Miller has drawn Non Sequitur, whose
title is the same as the Latin phrase non sequitur.
Cartoonists: p. 178
Language –
Non-English words, phrases: p. 711
|
MM II
|
a) 3,000,000,000,000
|
2.900 trillion,
nearly 3 with 12 zeros. [Septillionwould have
24 zeros; picotillion would be a tiny fraction,
with a large number in its denominator.]
Cellphones,
Smartphones: p. 296
Measures →
Weights and measures: p. 356
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 9 * Hoops! * |
Q65
|
b) 3
|
#11-ranked UCLA beat
#5 BYU, then skipped past #14 Abilene Christian to beat #2 Alabama,
then #1 Michigan. The other Final Four teams had no upsets on their
way there.
Basketball – NCAA
– Men’s tournament champions: p. 889
|
Q66
|
c) 2
|
Basketball – NCAA
– Women’s tournament champions: p. 891
|
Q67
|
d) Vitruvius, architect
|
Vitruvius flourished
(fl. abbreviation) late 1st cent. BCE. [Mughals date from the
16th century.]
Romans, ancient –
Leading figures/rulers: p. 677
Abbreviations –
Common: p. 711
→ Calendars: p. 347
Mughals: p. 656
|
Q68
|
c) type of novel written …
|
Suspense (1913
film); Briton Eric Ambler’s suspense novels. [Bread is a 1918
film; Chaplin’s is 1914.)
National Film Registry
(2020): p. 240
Writers, noted: p.
205
Presbyterian
churches: p. 706
|
Q69
|
a) Stone
|
The quintuple Emmy-winning program is Modern Family
(2010-2014); Modern is in the name of both New York’s
Museum of Modern Art and Ft. Worth’s Modern Art
Museum; no famous New Yorker has the name of any of last year’s
Golden Globe Awards, but famous Texan Carol Burnett’s
name is the name of the Golden Globe presented last year to famous “Nutmegger” [i.e., of Connecticut] Norman Lear; Ft.
Worth’s museum was designed by Tadao Ando,
who also designed the Stone Hill Center in Mass. [Edward Durell Stone designed the interior of Radio City Music
Hall as well as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which is not in Texas.]
Emmy Awards: p. 267
Golden Globe Awards:
p. 267
→ Texas: p. 587
→ Connecticut: p. 567
Architecture – Architects,
noted past: pp. 173-74
|
Q70
|
d) no
|
The first year of the 1990s five-in-a-row comedy
Emmys is 1994, for Frasier; in 1994 the outstanding drama
Emmy was given to Picket Fences, whose name’s word Fences
is the same as a word in the name of Garth Brooks’s
13th-ranking album No Fences, whose other word is No.
Emmy Awards: p. 267
Music and musicians
– Top-selling albums, artists: p. 248
|
Q71
|
a) yes
|
Nobelist for
Literature Salvatore Quasimodo traveled to Esmeralda: 9
letters each. (2020 Presidential vote 474 total)
Nobel Prizes: pp.
255-58
Nevada – Presidential
elections: p. 522
|
Q72
|
a) dam in country that borders Austria
|
It’s a dam in Switzerland, which borders Austria.
Dams, major: p. 727
→ Switzerland: p. 838
|
Question Number |
Answer |
Chapter 10 * High & Low: Comparatively & Superlatively * |
Q73
|
a) yes
|
Atlanta’s High Museum of Art is in Georgia
– Little Richard is a famous Georgian; The Higher Power of Lucky
was awarded the 2007 Newbery Medal; Scott’s single is “Highest in the
Room”.
Museums: p. 243
→ Georgia (state): p. 568
Newbery Medal: p.
262
Music and musicians
– Top-selling albums, artists: p. 249
|
Q74
|
b) no
|
Although Little Richard (originally Richard Penniman) and Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low
both are famous Georgians; and The Lower Depths dramatist
Maxim Gorky’s first name is the same as the last name of Hiram and
Hudson Maxim of Maine; nevertheless, Hilton and Milton’s works are Lost
Horizon and Paradise Lost, not Lowest.
Entertainers – Original
names: p. 238
→ Georgia (state): p. 568
Writers, noted: pp.
207-08
Maine: p. 573
|
Q75
|
c) Lillian
|
President Carter’s mother’s name is Lillian Gordy
Carter.
Presidents, U.S.:
p. 476
|
Q76
|
a) Elias
|
Elias Howe invented his sewing machine in 1846.
[The Englishman Saint invented his in 1790, in the 18th century.]
Sewing machine
(1846): p. 432
Inventions: p. 287
|
Q77
|
a) low, rolling coast
|
The coast is followed by the hills and mountains.
[Vermont’s backbone is 20-36 miles wide.]
New Hampshire: p.
578
Vermont: p. 587
|
Q78
|
b) no
|
The photo on p. 198 shows structures and cultivated
fields on one bank of the canal.
Suez Canal: p. 198
|
Q79
|
d) 4
|
The #11 Broadway show is Rent, whose composer Jonathan
Larson also composed tick, tick… BOOM!; the
letters forming Rent are in the name of the Council of Trent;
also in the name of the #12 magazine Parents; also in the word
describing torrential rains.
Broadway →
Theater – Broadway statistics: p. 243
Composers, noted: p.
212
Reformation,
Protestant: p. 656
Magazines –
Best-selling (2021): p. 245
Floods –
Characteristics: p. 302
|
Q80
|
ELEVEN
|
Cartoonists Scott Adams and Berkeley Breathed both were
born in 1957; 11 years later the 1968 Hambletonian
was won by Nevele Pride, whose first name,
spelled backwards and capitalized, is ELEVEN.
Cartoonists: p. 178
Hambletonian:
p. 973
|
Q81
|
32
|
Pages are 262, 699, 711, 310,
563, 872, 889, and 476. Sum of last digits is
2 + 9 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 2 + 9 + 6 = 32.
|