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In honor of the 76 Trivias to have been run from Baxter Hall, 1966-2004

Below are 76 descriptions of things from the realms of sports, television, movies, Williamsiana, literature, art, history, and other assorted topics that have been staples of Trivia ever since its inception. The answer to each question is simply a number between 1 and 76, inclusive. Each answer appears once, and only once. Those are all of the instructions you need. Good luck.

  1. Short-lived hosting gig for Maury Povich

  2. Current real-time age of the second-oldest super-hero

  3. Total number of people who were ever one of The ThreeStooges

  4. Briefly, Michael Jordan's number

  5. Highest room number in Fitch (this year, not with the new numbering for next year)

  6. Age when McCartney might get a cottage on the isle of Wight

  7. Number of people HAL 9000 kills during 2001

  8. Smallest whole number that is composite, square, and triangular

  9. Number associated with the most popular Kalashnikov

  10. Proposed number of works in August Wilson's current project

  11. Number of times a wallet-bearing New York man was shot at in 1999

  12. Height, in inches, of "Honey Bun"

  13. Points a bridge partnership should usually have to bid "4 spades"

  14. Years since the Knicks first beat Toronto in pro basketball

  15. Number of chimes that open 1984

  16. Members in Nine Inch Nails

  17. Top setting on The Machine in The Princess Bride

  18. Short stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon

  19. Most wins for an NBA teams during the mid-90s

  20. Constant in Fahrenheit-Celsius conversion

  21. Books in the Old Testament, not including the Apocrypha

  22. In feet, distance that was long-jumped in the late 60's and not equaled until the 90s

  23. Number of stories in Joyce's most famous collection

  24. Anniversary celebrated by comic featuring Wimpy

  25. Hidden Dave Matthews Band song

  26. Number on the back of a fire truck in a famous poem and painting

  27. Only two-digit number that is reversed in hexadecimal

  28. Title number, with "Buffalo"

  29. Points gained for a win in World Cup Soccer

  30. Age of death for a girl who sang the blues, a very apologetic man, and a reptile in leather

  31. Elmore Smith's record number

  32. The number of roads a man must go down, according to lab mice on the talk show circuit

  33. Age of the oldest president at the time of his first election

  34. Average period, to the nearest year, of Halley's comet

  35. Number associated with the Blackbird

  36. Caliber of Dirty Harry's gun

  37. Series focusing in part on the Bauer family

  38. Armistice Day number

  39. Record scoring kick, done by a club-footed player

  40. Route that Dylan came back to

  41. Number of plays usually attributed to Shakespeare

  42. Record number shared by a movie about a sunken ship and one about a conniving actress

  43. Stars on the longest-lasting American national flag

  44. Rounded down, the longest reign, in years, of a British king

  45. Ho

  46. Number of humans who have stepped on the moon

  47. Most wins for an NHL team in the 90s

  48. Interstate between the two biggest cities in Missouri

  49. Heinz Varieties

  50. Fee for bicycle registration at Williams, in cents

  51. Age of Baxter Hall

  52. Major arcana of the tarot

  53. By volume, percent of alcohol in Grey Goose

  54. Number of characters who die during Hamlet

  55. Original number on Heller's masterpiece

  56. Year Rome's most famous fiddler wasdeposed

  57. Major league baseball's single-season home run record

  58. Duration, in minutes, of the only war that an African island has ever declared on England

  59. Life-span of the most successful Western military leader, in terms of conquest

  60. Ranking of the heaviest of ESPN's 100 Greatest Athletes of the 20th century

  61. Possible opening moves in a game of chess

  62. Number of US presidents who have been impeached

  63. Babe's number during the sheepdog contest

  64. Number of unsuccessful attempts to recall a Californian governor

  65. Chromosomes possessed by most humans

  66. Speed limit on campus, in mph

  67. In feet, the longest artillery piece ever constructed

  68. Match-length of Navratilova's winning streak

  69. Number of embassy hostages held 1979-1981

  70. Purchasable properties in Monopoly

  71. Symphonies by composer of "Slavonic Dances"

  72. Age of consent in Massachusetts

  73. Rounding up, percent of campus that voted in the last CC general election

  74. Electoral votes California will have in the next presidential election

  75. Number of Americans who have died in space

  76. Words in the preamble of the Constitution