Almanacs Trivia category: 3486 books
Uncle John's Plunges into New York
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Uncle John Plunges into New York…in color!
You think you know New York? Fugeddaboutit! Uncle John knows New York, though, and he’s taking readers on a whirlwind tour of America’s greatest city…this time in Technicolor!
Uncle John’s Plunges into New York (Illustrated Edition)...
by David Hilliam
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The Little Book of Dorset is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The county's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters, royal connections, and...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The Little Book of Surrey is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The county's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters, royal connections, and...
by Wayne Wheelwright
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Walking Dead is the television and written world phenomenon that has come from the work of Robert Kirkman and his Image Comics series. Inside this book you'll find trivia and many interesting facts about the walkers, the characters and the actors, cast and crew that bring them to life on the hugely successful...
Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists
Fascinating Facts and Shocking Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities, History, and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Book of Origins
Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known:
• Gandhi was married at age thirteen!
• Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China...
by Ray Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
You can never know too much stuff. For example:
• Today, the people of earth take more photos in two minutes than they did in the whole of the nineteenth century.
• When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris in 1911, one of the suspects was Pablo Picasso.
•...
The Book of Lists: Horror
An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything! Now the latest edition turns an evil eye toward the strange, the blood-curdling, and the macabre with spine-tingling fun...
by Laura L. Enright
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2005
Established less than 200 years ago, Chicago has seen a lot of living in that short span of time. Burned to the ground early on, its been frozen and just recently flooded. Tucked away in the Midwest, it still rivals both coasts with its food, entertainment, and cultural venues. Chicagos Most Wanted™:...
Now I Know
The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Praise for the Webby Award-winning newsletter: "I eagerly read 'Now I Know' every day. It's always fresh, always a surprise, and always interesting!" --Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia
Did you know that there are actually 27 letters in the alphabet, or that the U.S. had a plan to...
Uncle John's Beer-Topia
A Heady Brew of Beer Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
From the world leader in fascinating facts and amusing true stories comes a book about all things beer.
For more than 25 years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has helped you learn amazing things you didn’t know (and amazing things you didn’t know you didn’t know). Now, Uncle John’s...
101 Amazing Facts about Brexit
...and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
On Thursday the 23rd of June 2016 the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted to leave the European Union after 43 years of membership. This excellent book guides the reader through what Brexit actually means, explaining everything from the history of the EU and the terminology...
The Book of Lists
The Original Compendium of Curious Information
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A new edition of the classic bestseller from the original authors, with additional material specifically prepared for Canadian readers by long-time This Morning CBC producer, Ira Basen, and Jane Farrow, the author of Wanted Words.
In 1977, a publishing sensation was born. The Book of Lists,...
Now You Know Canada
150 Years of Fascinating Facts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
A National Bestseller!
A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday.
Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and...