Books Owned By Authors
This horror writer noted an omnibus of "Tales from the Crypt" when giving The Washington Post a 2023 tour of his personal library
Stephen King
The slowest of the 4 Olympic swimming strokes, it provides a great cardio workout
Breaststroke
A mac & cheese roll served with beer cheese dipper, offered by Badger Bites, no less? Where else but at this state's fair?
Wisconsin
This kid took on a Dog the Bounty Hunter persona as bear spray-toting Hall Monitor; he also has opinions about Kyle's mom
Cartman
It's the weight of the Liberty Bell...
if it lost 80 pounds
a ton
Among the military histories owned by "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell was 1902's "Reminiscences of" this war
The Civil War
Though associated with the bike, this co. founded in 2012 offers a rowing machine that works "86% of your muscles in just 15 minutes"
Peloton
This, sausage dipped in batter & fried, was a hit at the 1942 Texas State Fair, but Iowa knew what it needed to add in 2024: lobster
A corn dog
At his longtime job, this TV character "turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island"
Homer Simpson
In a nursery rhyme, it's what the fourth little piggy had
None
DAILY DOUBLE: Harvard's collection of books owned by this man includes his marked-up copy of the 1839 work "Natural History of the Sperm Whale"
Herman Melville
This discipline, seen here, has evolved from a martial art to a more placid way of maintaining health
Tai chi
Arkansas jazzed up picklesby mixing in this drink that comes in packets, & all we can say is, "Oh, yeah!"
Kool-Aid
On this show, "Who wants to watch a mad scientist use...sci-fi tools to take out...alien guards when we can sit here...at Shoney's?"
Rick and Morty
In "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", the economics teacher says "Bueller?" 4 times and this 6-letter word 14 times
“Anyone?”
A library he started in Conn. includes "Birds of Eastern North America", inscribed "To Jean Clemens with her Father's love"
Mark Twain
CrossFit people refer to chain workout spots as this gym, after the soulless one that opposes Average Joe's in "Dodgeball"
Globo Gym
Oh, N.C., just wow; a hamburger patty, cheese & bacon between 2 donuts by this chain that began its glazing in the state in 1937
Krispy Kreme
A game show on this "equine" 'toon was "Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!"
BoJack Horseman
A warrior who didn't try hard in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains might be told by Attila, "You call yourself" this?!
Hun
In the chain of Southern lit, his library at Rowan Oak has the last novel he read, William Styron's "Lie Down in Darkness"
Faulkner
In 2025 Beatrice Chebet became the first woman to break 14 minutes in this distance, often used for charity runs that go a bit slower
A 5K
Arizona had fried these venomous arachnids, said to taste like shrimp; maybe pair it with the frog it killed in an old story?
Scorpions
This Chum Bucket owner has one goal: "To misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of affordable comestibles!"
Plankton
Metaphysical poet who wrote, "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies"
John Donne