Memorize these and you could recognize 12.6% of all Nonfiction clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl Sagan | 6 | With Ann Druyan, this astronomer traces the history of life in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" |
| 2 | Mount Everest | 4 | "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer explores a 1996 tragedy while summiting this mountain |
| 3 | the Civil War | 3 | "The Blue and the Gray" is an account of this event drawn from private diaries & state papers |
| 4 | A Brief History of Time | 3 | This best-selling science book by Stephen Hawking is subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" |
| 5 | Churchill | 3 | In 1941 a collection of his speeches was published under the title "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" |
| 6 | Wounded Knee | 2 | Dee Brown's "Indian History of the American West" is called "Bury My Heart at" this place |
| 7 | Thomas Wolfe | 2 | David Herbert Donald won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize for "Look Homeward: A Life of" this author |
| 8 | Theodore White | 2 | He won a 1962 Pulitzer Prize for "The Making of the President 1960" |
| 9 | the sinking of the Titanic | 2 | In "A Night To Remember," Walter Lord examined this tragedy |
| 10 | The Perfect Storm | 2 | Sebastian Junger re-creates the final hours of a fishing boat during a devastating nor'easter in this bestseller |
| 11 | the Lusitania | 2 | "Dead Wake" chronicles the last crossing of this luxury liner, sunk en route to Liverpool from New York |
| 12 | the Dalai Lama | 2 | "The Art of Happiness" is a dialogue between Dr. Howard Cutler & this Buddhist |
| 13 | the Cuban Missile Crisis | 2 | Publish posthumously in 1969, Robt. F. Kennedy's "Thirteen Days" was "A Memoir of" this event |
| 14 | Studs Terkel | 2 | "Working" & "Hard Times" are among the best-selling oral histories by this author |
| 15 | Silent Spring | 2 | This book by Rachel Carson is called "the classic that launched the environmental movement" |
| 16 | Profiles in Courage | 2 | In 1963 John F. Kennedy made the bestseller lists with an inaugural edition of this book |
| 17 | Nixon | 2 | Appropriately, "RN" was the title of his 1978 Presidential memoirs |
| 18 | Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus | 2 | This "planetary" 1992 work by John Gray analyzes the psychological differences between the sexes |
| 19 | Margaret Mead | 2 | In “Letters From The Field: 1925 - 1975”, she discussed anthropology methods she used |
| 20 | John Steinbeck | 2 | "Working Days" is a compilation of the journals he kept while writing "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| 21 | John Reed | 2 | He titled his eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution "Ten Days that Shook the World" |
| 22 | Joan Didion | 2 | She covered the aftermath of her husband's death in "The Year of Magical Thinking" & of her daughter's in "Blue Nights" |
| 23 | Jane Goodall | 2 | In 1990 she wrote about her "Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe" |
| 24 | J. Edgar Hoover | 2 | While director of the FBI, he wrote "Masters of Deceit" & "A Study of Communism" |
| 25 | Henry Kissinger | 2 | "Years of Upheaval" by this former Secretary of State is a memoir of the Watergate years |
| 26 | Helter Skelter | 2 | Co-written by Vincent Bugliosi, it was subtitled "The True Story of the Manson Murders" |
| 27 | French Cooking | 2 | In 1961 Julia Child started a culinary revolution when she published "Mastering the Art of" this |
| 28 | Erma Bombeck | 2 | Her "Aunt Erma's Cope Book" was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1979 |
| 29 | Ebola | 2 | ''The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston recounts the scary outbreak of this virus at a U.S. government facility |
| 30 | David Halberstam | 2 | "The Fifties" & "The Powers That Be" are bestsellers by this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist |
| 31 | Darwin | 2 | In 1840, after his return home, he published "Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle" |
| 32 | Chicken Soup | 2 | In 1996 Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen cooked up "A 3rd Serving Of" this "for the soul" |
| 33 | Betty Friedan | 2 | Her 1976 book, "It Changed My Life," is an account of her years in the Women's Movement |
| 34 | a cookbook | 2 | Published in 1742, "The Complete Housewife" was the first of this type of book in the U.S. |
| 35 | (Richard) Wright | 2 | Published in 1977 "American Hunger" is the sequel to his autobiographical "Black Boy" |
| 36 | Noah Webster | 2 | "The American Spelling Book" was the first part of his "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language" |
| 37 | Theodore Roosevelt | 2 | Edited by H. Paul Jeffers, "The Bully Pulpit" is a collection of quotations by this president |
| 38 | Jackie Kennedy Onassis | 2 | A 2014 biography tells her "Untold Story" of dealing with flashbacks after her husband's 1963 assassination |
| 39 | John Krakauer | 2 | His work "Into the Wild" became a 2007 hit film directed by Sean Penn |
| 40 | Kennedy | 2 | The recent book subtitled "Reckless Youth" deals with this president's early years |