Trivia category: 3486 books
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...
by Alexandra Powe Allred
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
The cat is out of the bag. Alexandra Powe Allred has written another fun- and fact-filled book in Potomac's Most Wanted™ series, Cats Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Mysterious Mousers, Talented Tabbies, and Feline Oddities. Allred provides fascinating details about the history of the cat, from...
Delicious Geography
From Place to Plate
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This entertaining book takes us on a fascinating exploration of the world of food. Take a journey with the dynamic father and daughter duo, geographer Gary Fuller and chef Tracy Reddekopp, as they travel around the globe into different cultures and traditions, enriching the trip with recipes to extend...
by Mimi Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
From making stripes to making shapes, from tension swatches to avoiding tension headaches, from creating fringes to dealing with frogging, you’ll find all the handy, easy-to-follow advice you need in The Knitting Pocket Bible to ease your woolly worries. There’s also valuable advice on what items...
by Emma Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Fancy having a go at growing your own produce? How do you improve your chances of getting an allotment? How do you plan what to grow? And what exactly is a cold frame? Find the answer to all these questions and more inside The Allotment Pocket Bible, the perfect gardening gift full of indispensible...
by Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Number 2 in the W.C. Privy series, this bathroom companion is chock full of jokes, stories, historical factoids, quizzes, trivia, and pop culture fun. An ecletic reading array, the book includes:
*Rules and Histories of Laughably Obscure Sports
*The Night They Invented Champagne--the Accidental...
The Adlard Coles Nautical Quiz Book
With 1,000 questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Adlard Coles Nautical Quiz Book is perfect for seafaring quizzers. It's divided into six nautically-flavoured categories, covering 1,000 questions. Categories range from Geography, Famous people and History to Culture, Science and Trivia. Each round is graded as easy (Able Seaman), medium (Midshipman)...
It's About Time
From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
From the ice-age recordings of moon cycles and the earliest calendars, to modern wristwatches and quantum clocks, time and its effects have always enthralled mankind. We've spent centuries developing new ways of measuring time, describing it and quantifying it, and such methods have given rise to some...
by Anthony Rubino Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
From the invention of the electric chair to the less offensive post-it note, "Bollocks! Why Didnt I Think of That?" features 101 clever inventions we could no longer imagine life without. Each ingenious invention comes complete with its history and handy trivia - I bet you you didn't know...
Why Didn't I Think of That?
101 Inventions that Changed the World by Hardly Trying
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Why Didn't I Think of That? proves not all successful inventions are the greatest thing since sliced bread (not even sliced bread, which is literally just a precut loaf for lazy loafs). This humorous guide to “mind-blowing” inventions deconstructs just how complex these can't-live-without necessities...
The Lazy Intellectual
Maximum Knowledge, Minimal Effort
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
It's a small attention span world out there, and not everyone's interested in paging through lengthy tomes to deepen their intellect. They want their information. And they want it now.
This book fills that void next to the recliner as the go-to reference whenever work conversations or bar trivia...
Politics Weird-o-Pedia
The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Government and politics might seem twisted today, but they’ve always been strange.
There’s something about public office that, throughout time, has transcended normalcy. Politics Weird-o-Pedia presents some of the oddest and most interesting political absurdities and tidbits from around...
by Maurice Fells
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The Little Book of Bristol is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people, and trivia. A rich, and indeed sometimes bizarre, thread of history weaves its way through the "Bristol story." Find out all manner of things, from why local women were allowed to hang out...
by Brian M. Thomsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Irish is more than a nationalityits a state of being. What other cultural background allows you to demand a kiss, celebrate the wearing of a color, toast the wee folk, and take pride in ones readiness to fight? What other land is celebrated by parades and parties and allows even the non-blessed to declare...