Almanacs Trivia category: 3486 books
by Varla Ventura
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The sequel to the best-selling The Book of the Bizarre, Beyond Bizarre offers up scores of new freaky facts, terrifying trivia, and stranger-than-fiction stories. Arranged into 13 chilling chapters like Haunted Hollywood, Blood Red Crosses and Gross Anatomy: Hospital Horrors, Bride of Bizarre, and Tales...
Numberpedia
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
What does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also the year the first Super Bowl was held and in which Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed. But...
by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The New York Times best-selling authors of the QI series return with a fourth collection of mind-bending trivia.
The New York Times best-selling authors of the Quite Interesting series have made you see sideways, knocked your socks off, and left your jaw on the floor. Now John Lloyd, John Mitchinson,...
by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
A dazzling third installment of astounding new facts from the New York Times best-selling authors of 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off and 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop.
1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways is a gold mine of wide-ranging,...
The Essential Book of Useless Information
The Most Unimportant Things You'll Never Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
More facts! Less substance! The newest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Useless Information series.
The useless information never ends in the newest, most crucially meaningless entry in the Useless Information series. This latest cornucopia of amazingly pointless facts and figures will have trivia buffs marveling at all the things they never needed to know.
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A list of five words to describe Uncle John's Lists That Make You Go Hmmm...: 1. Funny; 2. Fact-filled; 3. Surprising; 4. Unique; 5. Essential.
Uncle John's Lists That Make You Go Hmmm... puts a whole new spin on Uncle John’s unique brand of trivia. Readers will be treated to 288 pages of...
Mega Quiz Book 3
12,000 Questions - 480 Quizzes on a Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Truly a mega-sized book of 12,000 trivia questions, divided into 480 separate quizzes. Fun for the family or professional quiz nights. Ideal for revising your general knowledge or entertaining others on long journeys. This book mixes up easy to hard questions across random subjects,...
Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?
Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Author's previous trivia book has sold more than 20,000+ copies and continues to sell well after many years
Features 100+ intriguing questions and detailed answers
Perfect for bathroom reading, giving as a gift, or party item for quizzing friends
by David Long
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The Little Book of London is a funny, fact-packed compendium full of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or just strange-but-true stuff which no-one will want to be without. London's looniest laws, its most eccentric inhabitants, the realities of being royal, literally hundreds of wacky facts about the...
A Miscellany of Garlic
From Paying Off Pyramids and Scaring Away Tigers to Inspiring Courage and Curing Hiccups, the Unusual Power Behind the World's Most Humble Vegetable
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
From ancient Greek lore to vampire movies and modern medicine, what other herb invokes such strong feelings in people as allium sativum-better known as garlic? Most people know garlic can season food and may even protect from evil spirits but they may not know it can cure colds, attract lovers, and...
by Gideon Haigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Make way for this defiantly idiosyncratic, hilariously illuminating compendium of curiosities you never knew you wanted to know!
How do you flirt in Turkish? How do you dump someone in Japanese? What are the names of all the animals ever sent into space? These are just some of the fun and insightful...
The United States of Awesome
Fun, Fascinating and Bizarre Trivia about the Greatest Country in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red
The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
400 intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious etymological journies
English is filled with curious, intriguing and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:
• Read between the Lines
• Cat Got Your...
What Language Is
And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in the world to the big ones like Mandarin - What Language Is celebrates...