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for the 2013 Almaniac.

We posted them here on May 8.

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mailed earlier in the week.

The answer books also include the procedure for filing a protest (objection) regarding any answer.

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May 18 update:

Fopr Q40, we scored EL WY N correct as well as EL VY N. Although page 883 gives the Robinsons' school as NaVY, page 436's United States Naval AcadeMY would fit as well.

For Q81, we scored 26 correct as well as 32. The data for Q75's Sophocles, Euripides, and Socrates can be found on page 650 as well as on page 676.

For MM III, we scored scored answer d correct as well as answer a. The question posits the birth and death rates continuing 'as long as they can'; because of impossibly fractional people, the rates couldn't continue, despite rounding, below a population of approximately 160 people.

Final results books will be mailed as soon as we have them from the printer, probably in about 10 days.

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 1 * A Bibliophile's Challenge *
Q1	b) Bible or Brave New World	Huxley's Brave New World was #7. Books – Most challenged (2011): p. 277
Q2	a) measures of diameter …	Caliber is the diameter of a gun bore; Quire is 25 sheets of paper. [There's a Dodge Caliber, but no Quire.] Weights and measures: p. 388 Roller Coasters: p. 121 Cars → Automobiles, motor vehicles – Production: p. 113
Q3	c) 3	Johnny Depp and Emma Stone 2 each for Film; Katy Perry several for Music and Television. People's Choice Awards: p. 301
Q4	d) New Jersey	Of the choices, only New Jersey is in the top 10. Travel and tourism – States, territories: p. 119
Q5	d) two of 2011's 50 top-grossing movies	They ranked #41 and #48. Movies – Top grossing: p. 272 Indochina War (1946-1954): p. 667
Q6	c) two of 2011's 30 top-grossing movies	They ranked #28 and #22. [Horrible Bosses was among the 15 favorite cable movies as well, but not Bad Teacher.] Movies – Top grossing: p. 272 Spectrum, colors of: p. 313 Cable television → Television – Program ratings, favorites: p. 285
Q7	c) 2	Michael was #1 in both decades; the 1950s' James is a form of the 1990s' Jacob. Names – Popular given: p. 715
Q8	c) 2	The 1960s' Karen is a form of the 1990s' Katherine; the 1960s' Michelle is a form of the 1990s' Michael. Names – Popular given: pp. 715-16

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 2 * The Flight of the Phoenix *
Q9	a) 0	[Arizona's bird is the cactus wren. Baltimore is not the capital of Maryland; Annapolis is. The other capitals are Honolulu and Saipan.] States, U.S.: pp. 565-97
Q10	b) dispersed	The Very Long Baseline Array is dispersed from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands, … 'making it the highest resolution telescope in the solar system'. Telescopes: p. 363 Cities, U.S. – Population: p. 615 States, U.S. – Capitals: p. 457
Q11	c) Ursa Minor	Ursa Minor means Littler Bear. [Gene Littler won the U.S. Open in the 1960s only.] Astronomy: p. 364 Golf: p. 951
Q12	d) some other Jean	Jean Dujardin won a 2011 Oscar for The Artist. Oscars (Academy Awards): pp. 302-04
Q13	a) Gene Autry or Gene Hackman	Gene Hackman won 2: for The French Connection (1971) and Unforgiven (1992). Oscars (Academy Awards): pp. 302-04
Q14	b) share a Nobel Prize for physics	Willis Lamb and Polykarp Kusch shared the 1955 physics Nobel. [The Emmy was shared by Gansa, Gordon, and Raff. Charles Lamb wrote Specimens of English Dramatic Poets.] Nobel Prizes: p. 287 Emmy Awards: p. 300 Writers, noted: p. 240
Q15	a) breeds in different groups of dogs	The Buhund is in the Herding Group, the Lundehund in the Non-Sporting Group. Dogs – American Kennel Club: p. 321
Q16	d) 130 years	The Defenestration (a violent act indeed) kicked off the ThirtyYears War in 1618; the Treaty ended the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748. Thirty Years War (1618-48): p. 168

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 3 * Buckle My Shoe and A Big Fat Hen *
Q17	c) 2 or more	Actor Ernest Borgnine and actress Kathryn Joosten died in 2012. Deaths – Obituaries (2011-12): pp. 67-69
Q18	c) 2 or more	Journalist Andy Rooney and painter Cy Twombly died in 2011. Deaths – Obituaries (2011-12): pp. 67-69 Painters, noted: p. 218
Q19	a) 0	[Billie Burke was nominated for Supporting Actress for 1938, but Fay Bainter won that year.] Academy Awards (Oscars): pp. 302-04
Q20	c) 2 or more	Billy Wilder won for Directing both for The Lost Weekend (1945) and for The Apartment (1960). [Billy Bob Thornton was nominated for Supporting Actor for 1998, but James Coburn won that year.] Academy Awards (Oscars): pp. 302-04
Q21	b) 1	The AFCA selected Bowden Wyatt in 1956. [In 1993 the FWAA selected Terry Bowden, but the AFCA selected Barry Alvarez that year instead.] Football – NCAA – Coaches: p. 888
Q22	a) yes; both chuse and Nor	The Constitution has several chuses (e.g., Article I Section 2: 'The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker …'); Nor starts the Declaration's penultimate paragraph. Constitution, U.S.: pp. 506-14 Declaration of Independence: pp. 503-05
Q23	b) Montana	He's Nick Mowrer of Ramsay, west of Butte. Pistol champions (2012): p. 978
Q24	a) easternmost city in the United States	Eastport, ME, is approx. 67° W [of 0°, the Greenwich Meridian]. Santiago, Chile, and Santiago, Dominican Republic, both are just under 71° W; Québec City is just over 71° W. United States of America – Geographic superlatives: p. 455 → Longitude – Cities (U.S., world): pp. 697-99  Maps, world – Color: p. 471
MM I	c) Spokane, WA	Spokane is at 117° 25' 30" W. The lowest point in the U.S. isin California at Death Valley; judging its longitude between the 110° and 120° lines on p. 469, it's at approx. 116° 25'. Yellowknife is at approx. 114°; the Galapagos Islands are at approx. 91°. United States of America – Geographic superlatives: p. 455 – Maps: p. 469 → Longitude – Cities (U.S., world): pp. 697-99  Maps, world – Color: p.472

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 4 * On the Internets *
Q25	c) 2	17% never buy things, so 83% (or 84%, depending on rounding) do; same for playing games: 40% never do, so 60% do; but 87% never gamble online. Internet – Access/usage: p. 394
Q26	a) Catalan language and culture	It's the Catalan generic Top Level Domain. Internet – Domain names: p. 392
Q27	d) Council for Advancement and Support of Education	That's their web address. [If he typed case.com, he'd be redirected to the Authority Store; if case.net, Computer and Software Enterprises. The carburetor kit might be found at tractorpart.com.] Education – Associations and organizations: p. 440
Q28	a) Alcoholics Anonymous	That's their web address. [The astronomers are at aaa.org; American Airlines is at aa.com.] Alcoholic beverages → Liquor – Abuse – Help organizations: p. 453
Q29	a) convocation of eagles	A collective of eagles is called a convocation or aerie. Animals – Names for offspring/collectives: p. 713
Q30	b) no	She died in 1910, 4 years before World War I. [She nursed in the Crimean War, and advanced nursing thereafter before her death.] Social reformers, noted past: p. 231 World War I (1914-18): p. 169
Q31	b) collective of nightingales	A nightingale collective is called a watch. [A torsion pendulum {no spring} may be part of a watch, as a balance wheel.] Animals – Names for offspring/collectives: p. 713
Q32	b) French territorial collectivity	It comprises 2 Pacific island groups. [Wallis is a cyclone name, but not Futuna; Edward VIII abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson.] France – Departments, territories: p. 778 Cyclones: p. 333

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 5 * The Peanuts Gang *
Q33	b) Lucy became an Olympic swimming …	Lucy Morton became 200-meter breaststroke champion in 1924. [Lucy Hayes became First Lady in 1877: 50 years later was 1927; Charles Schulz turned 30 in 1952; I Love Lucy first was highest-rated in 1952-53.] Olympic Games – Summer – Champions (1896-2012): p. 867 Television – Program ratings, favorites: p. 286 Cartoonists: p. 219 First ladies: p. 536
Q34	c) popes	They acceded to the papacy in 67 and 236, respectively. [Fabian was astronaut and society, not Linus; Linus Pauling won Chemistry Nobel, not Fabian.] Popes: p. 704 Nobel Prizes: p. 288 Challenger (space shuttle): p. 350 Britain → United Kingdom – History – World War I and aftermath: p. 663
Q35	a) middle names of girls who became First Ladies	They're Claudia Alta Taylor (Johnson) and Edith Kermit Carow (Roosevelt). [Utah has Alta; Texas has Kermit.] First ladies: p. 536
Q36	c) winner and loser of U.S. tennis championship in the 1940s	He's F. R. Schroeder Jr., who won in 1942 and lost in 1949. [The chancellor Gerhard Schröder was a Social Democrat; Patricia Schroeder was a Presidential {not Vice Presidential} candidate for the 1988 Democratic nomination but withdrew in 1987.] Tennis: p. 956 Germany – History – Reunification (1990): p. 671 Vice Presidents, U.S. – Nominees: p. 540
Q37	c) place in Georgia, …	The Georgia place increased from 10,050 to 24,346. [The Woodstock site in New York is near Bethel, not Bethlehem; Perot's running mate is James Stockdale; the Forest Service owly icon is Woodsy.] Georgia (state) – Population – Cities, towns: p. 632 Woodstock music festival (1969): p. 492
Q38	a) Piccard	Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones did so in 1999. Balloons and ballooning: p. 356
Q39	b) Curiosity	Curiosity landed on Mars on August 6. [Shuttle Discovery was placed at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in April, after its last landing. Beagle 2 was deployed in 2003 but contact was lost.] Discovery (space shuttle): p. 809 → Space exploration – Mars missions (1976, 2008, 2012): p. 307 – Space shuttle retirement: p. 353
Q40	ELVYN	E + L for Elton Brand's first name's second letter L (Christian Laettner played for Duke earlier); VY for the last two letters of Navy, for which David Robinson played before Glenn Robinson 7 years later played for Purdue (Purdue is in Indiana, and The Old Maltese says that Navy is about 100 miles from Philadelphia, so both are east of the Mississippi; UCLA and UNLV [Johnson] aren't; Texas [Ford] isn't); N for the consonant in every 2004-2005 winner's name. Wooden Award, John R.: p. 883 Schools → Colleges and universities – Four-year institutions: pp. 424-39 United States of America – Maps: p. 469

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 6 * What's in the Cabinet? *
Q41	b) Secretary of War	They were War Secretaries under Madison, Monroe, and McKinley, respectively – also Secretaries of State, but in the 20th century in the case of Root. Cabinet, U.S.: pp. 558-62
Q42	a) yes; one of each of them	They are Jefferson and Madison's Caesar A. Rodney, T. Roosevelt's Charles J. Bonaparte, and McKinley and Roosevelt's Philander C. Knox. Attorneys general, U.S.: p. 560
Q43	b) Olympic heavyweight boxing champion …	The Sochi winter games are scheduled for next year; Berger was heavyweight champion in 1904. [The figure skater was Alfred Berger; Clinton's Berger was National Security Advisor; G's author was John Berger.] Olympic Games – Summer – Champions (1896-2012): p. 863 – Game sites: p. 856 – Winter – Champions (1924-2010): p. 877 – Game sites: p. 856 State, Department of – Secretaries: p. 558 Booker Prize (Man Booker Prize): p. 295
Q44	a) Economics	They're part of the heading America the Beautiful quarters. Coins: p. 87
Q45	d) places where more than 20 people died in munitions explosions	30 died at munitions barges in New Jersey in 1950; 40 at munitions works in Finland in 1976. Explosions: p. 347
Q46	a) Princess Stephanie, born …	Stephanie was born in 1965; Boothe in 1948 (1980-32); Powers in 1942; Tarkington in 1869. Actors, actresses – Noted present: p. 260 → Noted personalities: p. 214 Authors, noted → Writers, noted: p. 242
Q47	c) Prince (The Artist), …	Prince was born in 1958; Faith Prince in 1957; the Prince of Wales in 1948 [Charles; not to be confused with his sons Prince William (of Wales) and Prince Henry (of Wales)]; Percy Faith and Walker Percy earlier than Prince (their awards came before Prince was 5 years old); Clint Walker in 1927. Entertainers – Noted present: pp. 254, 260 → Noted personalities: p. 213 National Book Awards: p. 296 Grammy Awards: p. 306
Q48	d) star of movie whose director twice has won …	Armie starred in J. Edgar, directed by 1992 and 2004 Oscar winner Clint Eastwood. [Armie is great-grandson of Armand Hammer, Occidental Petroleum's former CEO {not founder} and board member of Church & Dwight {which produces OxiClean}; Burrell is just Hammer.] Movies – Stars, directors (2011-12): p. 271 Corporations – Brand ownership: p. 103 – Business directory: p. 444 Oscars (Academy Awards): p. 304 Entertainers – Original names: p. 270
MM II	b) 2	Promises overtook Kisses by increasing 8.5% to $100.0 million (from 100/1.085 = $92 million) while Kisses decreased 2.9% to $93.1 million (from 93.1/0.971 = $96 million). Oreo started at 341.9/1.07 = $320 million, overtaking slower Chips Ahoy, which started at 330.7/1.019 = $325 million. [Häagen-Dazs already was ahead of Ben & Jerry's, which was growing faster but not enough to flip their rankings.] Brand names: p. 102

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 7 * Electing to Vote With His Feet *
Q49	b) Maine	Prof. Ellington walked in 18 states, from MN to WI, IA, IL (via Norbert F. Beckey bridge), IN, MI, OH, and PA; thence to MD, DE, NJ (via Delaware Mem. bridge), NY, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH, and ME. Any other order and he would have missed more states or had to enter one twice, or missed Norbert F. Beckey. Page 539 [given]Bridges: pp. 725-28
Q50	a) definitely yes	Prof. Ellington had many choices most of the way: one way from Arizona to Missouri: AZ, UT, ID, WY, MT, ND, SD, NE, KS, MO. As he said, without a bridge he didn't walk directly from Missouri to Kentucky, so to reach Kentucky at all he had to do so via Tennessee: one way from MO: OK, TX, LA, AR, MS, AL, GA, TN, KY. Then he couldn't backtrack through Tennessee to get to South Carolina, so he had to continue to West Virginia. [Total number of states: 20, excluding only SC. If he had ended in South Carolina, he would have had to exclude both KY and WV.] Page 539 [given]
Q51	d) to observe a total solar eclipse	Its path of totality is Atlantic Ocean and Africa, on whose west coast Gabon lies, at the equator. [The present President Ondimba was elected in 2009. 'Most countries near the equator do not deviate from standard time.' The Islamic Year 1435 begins, not ends, this November.] Eclipses: p. 365Gabon: p. 778 Islam – Holy days: p. 702 Daylight saving time: p. 380
Q52	c) less than 50% …	Although that distribution is likelier than any other specific single distribution, the odds against that distribution are about 4 to 1; there's only about a 20% chance of its being dealt in a hand. Bridge (card game): p. 385
Q53	b) hat	The photo on p. 813 shows him in a hat. Rice, Condoleeza: p. 813Cruise, Tom: p. 813
Q54	b) Knights of the Holy Sepulcher	He was named Cardinal last year. [There was no 1947 chess champion; 1979 fiction book award was won by Tim O'Brien.] Cardinals, Roman Catholic: p. 705 Chess: p. 971 National Book Awards: p. 296
Q55	b) Persianized Turks	They invaded from the NW under Babur in the 16th century. Mughals: p. 656
Q56	b) numbers in a common …	They're four and two in Mandarin Chinese. [Sports Illustrated is one of the top 20, but there's no ER.] Language: p. 716 Magazines – Best-selling (2012): p. 276

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 8 * We Shall Not Flag or Fail *
Q57	b) Kingdom of Swaziland	It's Swaziland's. [Sudan's is on p. 467, before Suriname; Swabia isn't a nation.] Page 468 (given) Sudan: p. 837 Swaziland: p. 838
Q58	c) movie	It's a movie whose earnings are expected to help pay for less profitable movies. [Lone pet needs another letter t to be an anagram of tentpole. A tent that supports a pole would be a kind of tent, not a kind of pole.] Language – New words, English: p. 711
Q59	a) moon of the second-largest known …	It's a moon of Pluto. [President Nixon resigned in 1974; The Wiz won in 1975.] Kuiper Belt: p. 372 → Pluto (dwarf planet): p. 371 Tony Awards: p. 300 Presidents, U.S. – Birth, death dates: p. 524
Q60	d) Texas	Bill Hanna died first and was born in 1910; in 2010 the mean center was in Texas County, Missouri. Population, U.S. – Center of (1790-2010): p. 611 Cartoonists: p. 219
Q61	c) Preakness Stakes winner, with …	Damrosch won the 1916 Preakness with jockey L. McAtee. [Leo Damrosch wrote biography of philosopher Jean-Jacques, not artist Henri; two Damrosches were music directors of the Philharmonic but were not founders.] Preakness stakes: p. 966
Q62	b) up 50 - 100 %	From 1990 (the first Pres. Bush's second year) to 2010 (V.P. Biden's second year), fresh broccoli consumption went from 3.1 pounds to 5.1 pounds, an increase of 2.0 / 3.1 = 65%. Food – Consumption statistics: p. 125 Presidents, U.S.: p. 524 Biden, Joe: p. 12
Q63	a) yes; he displays one of …	'Eating disorder sufferers may not admit they are ill.' Eating disorders: p. 183
Q64	c) 3	'Cholesterol free' may have 2 g of saturated fat; 'Sugar free' may have up to 0.5 g sugar; fiber is fine. ['Hormones are not allowed in raising … poultry.'] Sugar – Food label claims: p. 188

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 9 * We Shall Fight on the Beaches *
Q65	b) United States, per its Constitution	Article IV Section 4: 'The United States …shall protect each [State] against Invasion;' [Article 1 Section 8 says that 'The Congress shall have Power To … provide for calling forth the Militia to … repel Invasions', not that the United States shall protect each state.] Constitution, U.S.: p. 510
Q66	a) only film produced in Delaware in 2010-11	There were only two productions, the other being for TV (Punkin Chunkin). [A capital crime is infamous per Amendment V, not Article V; Dec. 7 lives in infamy {noun}, not infamous {adjective}.] Films → Movies – Production, by state: p. 273 Constitution, U.S.: pp. 510-11 Pearl Harbor (1941): p. 489
Q67	b) no, but Twentieth Century was	The film named Twentieth Century (made in 1934) was. [The Iron Horse was also.] {The Kiss was added in 1999.} National Film Registry (2011): p. 273
Q68	a) yes	Stand and Deliver was placed there in 2011. ['E.g.' means 'for example'; the list of movies is not exhaustive.] History – Anniversaries: p. 75 National Film Registry (2011): p. 273 Abbreviations – Common: p. 713
Q69	b) year that Geiger …	The puzzle was published 100 years ago, in 1913, when Geiger invented the Geiger counter. [The Eiffel Tower's Eiffel invented the wind tunnel in 1912, so its second anniversary was in 1914; Rhodes won the Pulitzer in 1918; the 1913 Secretaries were Wilson and Redfield.] History – Anniversaries: p. 74 Inventions: p. 314-17 Commerce, Department of – Secretaries: pp. 561-62 Pulitzer Prizes: p. 292 Buildings, tall: p. 722
Q70	a) architects of structures …	Louis Skidmore designed Cincinnati's Terrace Plaza Hotel, Roland Wank the Cincinnati Union Terminal. Architecture – Architects: p. 215 Colleges and universities – Four-year institutions: pp. 424-39
Q71	d) "tulip revolution"	He was President at Kyrgyzstan's 2005 "tulip revolution". Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud: p. 673
Q72	b) no; in the Adelphia Coliseum	P. 907 footnote (17); they've been in Nashville since 1998. [Under former name of Houston Oilers, they played in the Astrodome, not Superdome.] Football – NFL – Stadiums: p. 907
MM III	a) country in which the Chernobyl nuclear power plant …	Chernobyl is in Ukraine, whose rate of natural population increase (actually decrease, since it's negative) of - 0.62% per year (birth rate 9.6 / 1000 minus death rate 15.8 / 1000, x 100 to give a percentage) is much more severe than Russia's - 0.18%. [Russia is the only country among 2012's top 10 to have a population decrease, and North Korea's change is positive.] From Ukraine's 2012 population of 44,854,065, it would take just over 2,700 years to decline to 2 persons (solving for the exponent x in: 44,854,065 x (1 – 0.0062)x = 2), past which generation must end. Russia starts with more people and (more important) declines more slowly, so it would take (142,517,670 x (1 – 0.0018)x = 2) over 10,000 years for Russia's population to decline to 2. [In 2,700 years at current rates, the U.S. would be getting close to 500 trillion, or over 100 million per square mile, so all bets are off.] Nuclear energy – Accidents, major: p. 348→ Ukraine: p. 846 Population, world – Largest/smallest countries: p. 735 → Russia: p. 827 Pueblo incident (1968): p. 492 → North Korea → Korea, North (Democratic People's Republic of): p. 795

Question Number	Answer	Chapter 10 * We Shall Never Surrender *
Q73	d) state whose capital's name …	#7-ranked Florida rose to the quarterfinals (where Louisville prevailed); Florida's capital Tallahassee has 11 letters in its name. [All other quarterfinals teams were ranked higher than Florida; Harvard didn't reach the quarterfinals.] Basketball – NCAA – Men's tournament champions: p. 882 States, U.S. – Capitals: p. 457 National park system, U.S.: p. 462 United States of America – Maps: p. 469 NCAA → National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (NCAA) – Team nicknames, colors: pp. 890-91
Q74	a) 0	Every quarterfinal was between a #1 and a #2; e.g., Baylor against Tennessee. [The other 56 teams may as well have stayed home.] Basketball – NCAA – Women's tournament champions: p. 884
Q75	d) Socrates, philosopher	The dramatists were born BCE, in 496 and 484, respectively, and both died in 406. Socrates was born in the meantime, in 469. [Pericles was born when Sophocles was alive, but Euripides hadn't been born yet; Boethius was born AD, 900 years later.] Ancient civilizations – Historical figures: p. 676
Q76	c) hometowns of Misses America	1961's Nancy Fleming is from Montague, Michigan, 1979's Kylene Barker from Galax, Virginia. [The scenic design Tony was won for Peter and the Starcatcher.] Miss America (beauty pageant): p. 299 Tony Awards: p. 300
Q77	GORDIE	That would be ID for dancer Isadora Duncan, plus GR for Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, plus O plus E. The gentleman is 1938's Gordie Drillon. National Hockey League → Hockey, ice – NHL – Trophy winners: p. 945 Dance: p. 248 Blues artists, noted: p. 246
Q78	a) HOWE, …	That would be H plus W (for Wolfram) plus O plus E, forming the acronym HOWE. Elements, chemical: p. 310
Q79	d) women's bowling team	They were 2012's women's champions for scratch team. [The friction match was invented in the 19th century; tidal friction brakes the earth's rotation {not breaks its revolution}; {the actual coefficient μ is the ratio of lateral force to the product of mass times gravitational acceleration}.] Bowling: p. 971 Earth: p. 374 Inventions: p. 315
Q80	MESGIR	ME for the first two letters of the name of Mercury, atomic number 80; SG for the symbol for Seaborgium, atomic num-ber 106; IR for the symbol for Iridium, atomic number 77. Periodic table of elements: p. 311
Q81	32	Pages are 272, 321, 394, 536, 347, 656, 510, and 676. Sum of last digits is 2 + 1 + 4 + 6 + 7 + 6 + 0 + 6 = 32.