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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.