The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World

Author: Gary Fuller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442214031
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Gary Fuller's entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peaceful country requires citizens to keep guns in their homes? what continent contains at least 75 percent of the world's fresh water? and why aren't New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia the capitals of their respective states? An inveterate traveler and geographer extraordinaire, Fuller provides extensive background, clear illustrations, and thorough explanations for each intriguing question, carefully grounding the text in practical geographic concepts. Both enjoyable and enlightening, this book challenges today's global generation to truly get to know their world.

The List Lover's Guide to Jane Austen

Author: Joan Strasbaugh
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 9781402282034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"It's Jane like you've never seen! Through fun and breezy lists, discover everything there is to know about Jane Austen, the sassy literary genius we know and love. Learn her likes and dislikes, her haves and have-nots, where she traveled, how she lived, and who she knew."--From publisher description.

The Big Trivia Quiz Book

Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744036887
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
Put your general knowledge to the test, and impress your family and friends with your astonishing brainpower and trivia genius. An addictive quiz book for all the family featuring 10,000 questions, The Big Quiz Book has something for everyone. With 10 different general knowledge categories - from Science & Technology, Art & Literature, and Natural History, to Food & Drink, Film & TV, and Sport & Leisure - and three increasing levels of difficulty, it offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute quizzing experience that will educate and entertain all the family. Bursting with fascinating facts to boost your trivia knowledge, whatever your specialist subject or your nemesis topic, The Big Quiz Book is perfect for home entertainment and virtual pub quizzes. You won't be able to put it down!

The World Book

Author: Joe Fullman
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1913519945
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
A whirlwind tour of the entire globe, this beautifully illustrated atlas is jam-packed with facts about every country in the world, perfect for readers 8+. Where would you like to visit next? Take a tour of every single country in the world within the pages of The World Book. Featuring a special diecut globe cover, this book is packed with facts, stats and flags - explore different cultures and the best things to see, do and taste on this planet. Find out how to say 'good morning' in Maltese, the most popular dishes in Colombian cuisine, and where you can see over 60 species of hummingbird. Seek out the tallest mountain, the longest river, and everything in between.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sports History & Trivia

Author: Mike McGovern
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028639635
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
For the sports fan, this guide offers fascinating facts and tidbits on baseball, football, basketball, hockey, the Olympic Games, tennis, figure skating, soccer, and more. It contains special sections on women's sports, young people's sports, and the Special Olympics, and includes listings of winners of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other major competetions.

The World War 2 Trivia Book

Author: Bill O'Neill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781648450129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
The World War 2 Trivia Book is an entertaining, instructive and interesting Trivia & Facts book about the World War 2. Get ready to impress your friends with your knowledge - not just of the main events of World War 2, but of all the gritty details and weird true facts.

Atlas Obscura

Author: Joshua Foer
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 076118967X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

Literary Trivia

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
From the author of Crazy English and The Miracle of Language, a fiendishly engrossing, thoroughly addictive volume of anecdotes, curiosities, and quizzes testing your knowledge of books from Genesis to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest..

The Ultimate Trivia Study Guide

Author: Graig Zethner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
1,000+ questions, expertly crafted, for anyone who loves trivia. It includes 50 general knowledge quizzes across a range of topics, a holiday quiz, and the year in review quiz for 2018. Each quiz is written and reviewed by trivia experts. In most cases, the questions are more difficult than other trivia books on the market. They also include detailed information accompanying the answers which allows you to really understand the topic. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, you're almost certainly going to learn a lot from this book. The questions are in a pub quiz style, spanning categories including history, geography, music, movies, television, sports, literature, art, technology, business, theater, mythology, and others. NOTE: "Trivial Studies Quiz Archive: 2018 Edition" and "The Ultimate Trivia Study Guide: Vol. 1" are the same book. If you own one, then you do not need to purchase the other (unless you want both covers).

World Trivia

Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: Gardena, CA : East West Discovery Press
ISBN: 9780966943726
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
World Trivia is the 2004 Dr. Toy's Best Children's Vacation Products Award Winner sponsored by the Institute for Childhood Resources. It reveals many amazing and amusing facts of culture, politics and geography around the world. Distinctly different from most trivia books, it illustrates a broad range of cultures and political realities with enhanced geographic and map information. The book is designed to enrich one's knowledge of the world and its people. "Interesting and amazinggreat for social studies and sociology classesfamily and friends games." - Children's Literature "A fat little volume full of little known facts from around the world." - Today's Librarian Sample questions include: What is the only Asian country never to have been occupied by a foreign power? In which country do women sometimes have more than one husband (not the other way around)? In which country is collecting mushrooms a major national hobby?