5087 Trivia Questions & Answers

by Steve Tamerius and Marsha Kranes

Book Overview

Taking Trivial Pursuit to the extreme, this book offers trivia buffs hours of toil testing their knowledge and fact finding skills with a huge collection of intriguing but little known facts. The book features wonderfully arcane questions with often surprising answers organized by topic, from language, art, government and sports to film, history, science, religion, business and food.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579120865
• ISBN13: 9781579120863
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Huge Book = Hours of Fun

This is an excellent resource for the weekly trivia game where I live, an assisted living residence for people over age 60. All adult age groups - really, adolescents too - will enjoy this collection of Q's and A's.The questions cover a wide variety of subjects, and they are arranged logically and systematically. It's helpful that the answers are with the questions (on the back of the page), so you don't have to fumble around at the back of the book, trying to find the right set of answers, as you have to with so many trivia and quiz books. This nice, fat book is going to keep our weekly game well supplied with trivia questions for months to come!

A TRIVIA LOVER'S DELIGHT

The way this book is formatted, it overcomes some problems that many other trivia books share. For starters it is neatly categorized so that the reader can easily access trivia related to a particular (broad) category, instead of everything being scrambled together as is often the case. secondly, it is in a question and answer format with questions on one side of a page and their answers on the reverse side. Frequently, I have found myself bouncing back and forth from the front section of a book where the questions are found to the back section for their answers. Just turning the page for the answer is really helpful. Some of the answers do amaze you, while others make you laugh, or add to your store of useful knowledge. Some examples: Q. "What is unusual about Mona Lisa's eyebrows in ...Davinci's Painting? A. "She has none." Q. "What was the hometown of Sgt. Snorkel in Beetle Bailey?" A. "Pork Corners, Kansas" Here's a great one: Q. "On what vegetable did an ancient Egyptian place his right hand when taking an oath?" A. "The onion, its round shape symbolized eternity." I could go on and on, but let me end with just one more. Q. "Where did the British regae band UB40 get its name?" A. "From the code number on the British unemployment benefit card." There are 5 thousand plus entries in every category from "A" (Arts and Literature) to 2 entries under "W" (War and the Military and The World). You can have a lot of fun with this book, I know that I do.

a nice trivia book

while a lot of the info in this book useless info it is still a fun read.I got a long time ago and i still read it from time to time. i do not know if they still sale it, but i would say it is a good buy.

A Must-Have For Trivia Buffs

An astonishingly broad array of fascinating categories for those with unquenchable trivial leanings! Whether to read for fun or for use in trivia games, this book is an invaluable source.

A great book to have around!

Better than any TV show or board game, just open up this big, wonderful book and have fun. Lots of categories, well put together. So far, it looks 100% accurate, too! Well done! But what was Betty Rubble's maiden name???????? ("McBricker")