Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
Do not try this at home. IN A LIGHTER VEIN A bloody hard quiz. 1. The “K” in vitamin K stands for the Danish spelling of what eleven-letter word? 2. What country’s civil war is the setting for the film Blood Diamond? 3. Who used hypnotism to treat the hemophilia of Tsarevich Alexei? 4. What’s the stage name of rapper Jayceon Taylor, a onetime member of L.A. gang the Bloods? 5. In Shaw’s Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle offends the society types by saying the word “bloody.” What word serves the same purpose in My Fair Lady? 6. Shechita is the method of producing meat that is what? 7. Who was hunted by Dutch physician Abraham van Helsing? 8. What’s the largest artery in the human body? 9. What kind of blood is dumped on Stephen King’s Carrie? 10. What Burlingame, California, company was founded in 1984 to provide blood and urine analysis to athletes? 11. What Sam Peckinpah western did Roger Ebert describe as “200 simultaneous blood transfusions with no recipients”? 12. What was misspelled in blood on Leno and Rosemary LaBianca’s refrigerator on August 10, 1969?
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