The Big Book of American Trivia
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16. Cowboys; the Cowboy Hall of Fame also contains the Rodeo Hall of Fame. [Back]
17. The Country Music Hall of Fame [Back]
18. Trapshooting [Back]
19. Football [Back]
20. Colorado; it’s in Colorado Springs. [Back]
21. Colonial pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards [Back]
22. New York [Back]
23. John Deere [Back]
Grave Matters: Final Resting Places of the Famous // Answers
1. Ronald Reagan—who had some other jobs besides acting [Back]
2. His estate, Mount Vernon [Back]
3. President of the United States; he is buried at Monticello, his estate in Virginia. [Back]
4. Mrs. Grant—along with Gen. U. S. Grant, of course [Back]
5. John Paul Jones; “I have not yet begun to fight.” [Back]
6. Elizabeth Taylor [Back]
7. Edgar Allan Poe [Back]
8. Will Rogers [Back]
9. Robert E. Lee; the school had originally been Washington College. The “and Lee” was added to honor Robert, who had been its president. [Back]
10. The bronze nose is shiny because so many visitors rub it. [Back]
11. Douglas MacArthur [Back]
12. “Uncle Sam”; Wilson supplied meat to American soldiers in the War of 1812. They were stamped U.S., and the soldiers said it stood for “Uncle Sam.” [Back]
13. New York [Back]
14. Zachary Taylor [Back]
15. The person buried there was a Confederate soldier; C.S.A. stands for the Confederate States of America. [Back]
16. The infamous Belle Boyd, who died in the city while on a lecture tour [Back]
Named in Honor of Whom? (Part 2) // Answers
1. Ronald Reagan [Back]
2. Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club [Back]
3. Bob Hope [Back]
4. Will Rogers [Back]
5. Paducah, Kentucky [Back]
6. Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon [Back]
7. William III, king of England at the time [Back]
8. Houston, named for Sam Houston [Back]
9. Brigham Young, who led the Mormons to settle the state [Back]
10. Kansas, where he grew up; the park is near Emporia. [Back]
11. Texas [Back]
12. James Madison [Back]
13. Winfield Scott, especially famed for his leadership in the Mexican War [Back]
14. Georgia (named for King George II), Virginia (named for Elizabeth I, the “Virgin Queen”), and North and South Carolina (named for King Charles II—Carolus in Latin) [Back]
15. Chief Henry Roman Nose, a Cheyenne Indian (who, no doubt, had a Roman nose) [Back]
16. Louisville, named for (surprise!) King Louis XVI [Back]
17. Reno, Nevada, named for Union general Jesse Reno [Back]
18. J. Paul Getty [Back]
19. John James Audubon [Back]
20. Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves; the “755” commemorates Hank Aaron’s home run total. [Back]
Famous Cemeteries, Famous Occupants // Answers
1. Arlington, across the river from Washington [Back]
2. Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills [Back]
3. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier [Back]
4. Massachusetts, in the town of Concord [Back]
5. John J. Pershing [Back]
6. Marilyn Monroe; the cemetery also has such stars as Carroll O’Connor, Natalie Wood, and Peter Lorre. [Back]
7. New Haven, Connecticut, home of Yale [Back]
8. George Patton [Back]
9. Cleveland; both are in Lakeview Cemetery. [Back]
10. Richmond, Virginia (the capital of the Confederacy), in the famous Hollywood Cemetery [Back]
11. The Congressional Cemetery [Back]
12. Tennessee—Nashville, to be precise [Back]
13. Mel Blanc’s; Blanc, who did voices for various Looney Tunes characters, is buried along with numerous other entertainers in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. [Back]
14. The 1889 Johnstown flood; the 777 people in the Unknown Plot are unidentified victims. [Back]
15. Arlington, across the river from Washington [Back]
16. James Monroe, fifth president, and John Tyler, tenth president [Back]
17. Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain [Back]
18. Boston, Massachusetts [Back]
More Grave Matters: Final Resting Places of the Famous // Answers
1. Bob Hope [Back]
2. Elvis Presley, of course [Back]
3. Leslie Nielsen, buried in Fort Lauderdale’s Evergreen Cemetery [Back]
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt [Back]
5. Daniel Boone [Back]
6. John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams [Back]
7. Stephen Douglas (famous for the Lincoln-Douglas debates) [Back]
8. James Madison’s [Back]
9. Christopher “Kit” Carson [Back]
10. Buffalo Bill Cody [Back]
11. Andrew Jackson [Back]
12. Rutherford Hayes, the nineteenth president; his nickname came from the disputed election returns in 1876. [Back]
13. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s; after being wounded, Jackson’s left arm was amputated, and a devoted friend gave it a prayerful burial. Jackson himself is buried in Lexington. [Back]
14. Sonny Bono, who died in 1998; “The Beat Goes On” was one of his songs. [Back]
15. Calvin Coolidge, who was born in Plymouth in 1872 [Back]
16. Herbert Hoover; his birthplace, grave, and presidential library are all there. [Back]
17. At the U.S. Naval Academy [Back]
18. Springfield, Illinois [Back]
Named in Honor of Whom? (Part 3) // Answers
1. Sideburns, named for Ambrose Burnside, who wore them [Back]
2. Mississippi; Jackson, the capital, is named for Andrew Jackson. [Back]
3. Henry Hudson [Back]
4. Pennsylvania, named for the Quaker William Penn [Back]
5. St. Louis, Missouri; besides being a king, Louis also was a saint canonized by the Catholic church. [Back]
6. John Hancock; the John Hancock Tower has an excellent view of the city. [Back]
7. England’s king, James I (the same James of the King James Version of the Bible); the name was also given to the river the colonists settled on. [Back]
8. Yonkers, now a suburb of New York City [Back]
9. Joseph Pulitzer [Back]
10. Andrew Carnegie; Carnegie is a common name for city sites in Pittsburgh. [Back]
11. The Library of Congress [Back]
12. Will Rogers [Back]
13. Wilkes-Barre [Back]
14. Miles Standish [Back]
15. Ypsilanti, named for Gen. Demetrios Ypsilanti [Back]
16. William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania; Rogers’s full name was William Penn Adair Rogers. [Back]
17. Hawkeye [Back]
18. St. Augustine; he was a major Christian theologian in the late Roman Empire, famous for his Confessions. [Back]
19. Andrew Jackson, who just barely beats out George Washington for the honor [Back]
Author! Author! // Answers
1. John Grisham, contemporary novelist [Back]
2. Rick Warren, contemporary religious writer [Back]
3. Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer (1809–1849) [Back]
4. Erma Bombeck, humorist (1927–1996) [Back]
5. Washington Irving, essayist and short-story author (1783–1859) [Back]
6. Emily Dickinson, poet (1830–1886) [Back]
7. John Irving, contemporary novelist [Back]
8. E. B. White, essayist and children’s author (1899–1985) [Back]
9. Laura Ingalls Wilder, novelist (1867–1957) [Back]
10. Tennessee Williams, dramatist (1911–1983) [Back]
11. Stephen King, contemporary novelist [Back]
12. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) [Back]
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br /> 13. James A. Michener, novelist (1907–1997) [Back]
14. Anne Bradstreet, poet (1612–1672) [Back]
15. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), novelist and short-story author (1835–1910) [Back]
16. Ann Coulter, contemporary political writer [Back]
17. Edith Wharton, novelist (1862–1937) [Back]
18. Robert Frost, poet (1874–1963) [Back]
19. Mario Puzo, contemporary novelist [Back]
20. Zane Grey, western novelist (1875–1939) [Back]
21. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807–1882) [Back]
22. Anne Tyler, contemporary novelist [Back]
23. O. Henry, short-story author (1862–1910) [Back]
24. Henry David Thoreau, poet and essayist (1817–1862) [Back]
25. Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819–1891) [Back]
26. Larry McMurtry, contemporary novelist [Back]
27. Cotton Mather, Puritan preacher and historian (1663–1728) [Back]
28. Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (1905–1989) [Back]
29. Michael Crichton, novelist (1942–2008) [Back]
30. Jonathan Edwards, theologian and preacher (1703–1758) [Back]
31. Willa Cather, novelist (1873–1947) [Back]
32. Sinclair Lewis, novelist (1885–1951) [Back]
33. Thomas Paine, political essayist (1737–1809) [Back]
34. James Fenimore Cooper, novelist (1789–1851) [Back]
35. e. e. cummings, poet (1894–1962) [Back]
36. Thornton Wilder, dramatist and novelist (1897–1975) [Back]
37. Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short-story writer (1804–1864) [Back]
38. Carl Sandburg, poet (1878–1967) [Back]
39. Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet (1803–1882) [Back]
40. Dashiell Hammett, mystery writer (1894–1961) [Back]
41. Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900–1938) [Back]
42. Louisa May Alcott, novelist (1832–1888) [Back]
43. L. Frank Baum, journalist and writer (1856–1919) [Back]
Short Reading: Newspapers and Magazines // Answers
1. National Review [Back]
2. Better Homes and Gardens [Back]
3. Reader’s Digest [Back]
4. National Geographic [Back]
5. The AARP—American Association of Retired Persons. The magazine is now called AARP The Magazine. [Back]
6. Photos [Back]
7. Consumer Reports [Back]
8. Billy Graham’s [Back]
9. Life [Back]
10. U.S. News and World Report, which continues in an online edition; the last print edition was in December 2010. [Back]
11. The Knights of Columbus [Back]
12. Time. Before the change, several women had been honored as “Woman of the Year.” [Back]
13. The Boy Scouts of America [Back]
14. New Orleans [Back]
15. Hartford, Connecticut’s [Back]
16. William Randolph Hearst [Back]
17. Sunset Publishing, with its famous Sunset magazine and books [Back]
18. A magazine available on the Internet; e-zine comes from “electronic magazine” and is also called a webzine. [Back]
19. P. T. Barnum [Back]
20. Ladies Home Journal [Back]
21. The Christian Scientists, who publish The Christian Science Monitor [Back]
22. It was the first women’s magazine. [Back]
23. Erma Bombeck [Back]
24. George F. Will [Back]
25. TV Guide [Back]
Painters, Sculptors, and Other Artsy Types // Answers
1. Andrew Wyeth [Back]
2. Light [Back]
3. “Whistler’s Mother” [Back]
4. Norman Rockwell [Back]
5. John James Audubon [Back]
6. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [Back]
7. Father and daughter, according to the artist; most people assume that the two are husband and wife. [Back]
8. Gibson’s wife [Back]
9. Forest Lawn, in Glendale [Back]
10. Red Skelton, who died in 1997 [Back]
11. The circus; wealthy John Ringling built the museum with money from the Greatest Show on Earth. [Back]
12. Lincoln’s, inside the Lincoln Memorial [Back]
13. The National Gallery of Art in D.C. [Back]
14. The Berlin Wall, which still existed when the sculpture was done [Back]
15. St. Louis; its Museum of the Dog is a center for dog-related art. [Back]
16. Thomas Hart Benton’s, one of the great American artists of this century [Back]
17. South Dakota; the statue was carved from the granite of Thunderhead Mountain. [Back]
18. Gilbert Stuart [Back]
19. Portrait painters [Back]
20. Mount Rushmore, the four presidents [Back]