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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Little Book of Essential Knowledge

Refresh your memory, make new discoveries, and quiz yourself on facts you once learned and may have long forgotten?just pick up this handy reference to have all the answers at your fingertips.

Wish you were that person who could answer any question? Can?t find just the right thing to say to start a conversation at a cocktail party? This book offers hours of fact-finding pleasure with a huge collection of intriguing and useful facts, plus quizzes to improve your knowledge. You can gain valuable information about a myriad of subjects?with just a page or two devoted to each topic?presented in clear, easy-to-understand language. And, best of all, you will be on your way to becoming a Know It All!

There are 10 sections?Understanding the Universe, The Story of the Earth, The Story of Life, Exploring the World, Invention and Discovery, Conflicts of the Modern Age, Structure of Society, Religion and Philosophy, Artistic Endeavors, and Quizzes. Sidebars such as ?Conversation Starters,? ?In the Know,? and ?In Fact? provide at-a-glance tidbits of information. At the end of each chapter are ?Test Yourself? quizzes that can be taken at any time to give your brain a workout and prove how much you?ve learned. Each quiz has ?Research Notes? sidebars that point you to the pages in the book that discuss the subjects covered in the quiz.

All of the content has been thoroughly researched and written by a team of experts to convey the basic elements of knowledge across a variety of topics and areas of interest. Know It All provides the essential knowledge for every subject and then some.



Know It All

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Jennifer Grace

Makes a great gift!  Think St, Patrick’s Day!!

What’s the traditional Irish cure for a hangover? What do Irish men and women hope to ward off by wearing an iron ring on the fourth finger? Which daughter of the Emerald Isle was hanged in Boston on accusations of being a witch? Think you know the answers to these tough questions? It’s time to test your IQ (Irish Quotient, that is) and find out.
More fun than a U2 concert on St. Patrick’s Day, Irish Trivia on Tap is packed with over 600 questions that are guaranteed to help you get your Éire on and test your Celtic qualifications. This delightful book covers all aspects of Irish culture including arts and entertainment, food and drink, history and language, and superstitions and folklore. With special sections devoted to the natives of Dublin as well as the Irish in America, its quizzes leave no stone—Blarney or otherwise—unturned. In addition, this volume offers fascinating anecdotes about famous Irish authors, the custom of the Claddagh Ring, the history of Guinness, the origins of Halloween, and even a few recipes for delicious Irish fare.

Whether you’re Irish by blood or only in spirit, you’ll find plenty here to enjoy. So grab your lucky shamrock, draw yourself a dram of Irish Trivia on Tap, and get ready for a craic-ing good time.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

600 Questions to Measure Your IQ (Irish Quotient)

Irish Trivia on Tap

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New York

A New Collection of Utterly Useless Information

That's a Fact Jack!

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packed with stories, lists, anecdotes, and quotes about words and language. Explore 16 chapters of fascinating information about the quirks of language, unusual vocabulary, word games, etymology, and more.  #trivia #facts #tidbits #funfacts

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Book of Random Oddities is a massive 704-page padded hardcover book that is packed with stories, lists, anecdotes, and quotes about words and language.
 * Explore 16 chapters of fascinating information about the quirks of language, unusual vocabulary, word games, etymology, and more.
 * Find out the origins of words from "juggernaut" to "meh."
 * Discover the intricacies of baseball lingo.
 * Laugh at poorly worded headlines and spell-checker mistakes.

Random Oddities

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Brand new; unwrapped but not listened to.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question. Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history--from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Swarup's Q & A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know--not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil--and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.

Q and A (Audio Book on CD)

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Tennessee

An Imponderables Book

"Once again, it's time for David Feldman to plunge into that sea of question marks and conundrums known as Imponderables. These are the mysteries of everyday life. They're the questions that can't be answered by numbers, measurements, or a trip to the reference library. They're the things that drive you nuts - or that you've never thought of until someone brings them up, and then they drive you nuts." "Don't you ever wonder, for instance, how astronauts scratch an itch? Or why blank videocassettes slide out of the backs of their boxes, while prerecorded tapes fall out of the bottom? How do skywriters learn good penmanship?" "From the thousands of letters, phone calls and E-mail messages he gets every year, Feldman has picked the most intriguing puzzles and gone to the experts to find the answers. In his light, bright, delightful style, he tells us not only the how and the why, but the who, what, where and when."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch?

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Mike Towle

The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book is interactive in that each of the eighteen chapters is assigned a par of three, four, or five. Readers can keep score and earn eagles, birdies, pars, bogeys, and double bogeys dependent on the number of correct answers he or she provides for that chapter. Par for this book's course is 72. Golf-savvy readers will love trying to break 80. Scattered throughout the book are interesting sidebars such as top-ten lists, strange-but-true stories, and more than thirty photographs.

With 40 black and white photos as well as line drawings throughout, this book is the consummate test of golf knowledge with over 1,000 questions and answers on the game of golf and famous players. Perfect for the golfer and the sports trivia buff.

The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

Strange but true trivia

Bill McLain

Virginia

Puzzling and Improbable Questions and Answers

Is it true that elephants are afraid of mice?
How much gold does the United States store in Fort Knox?
Why do I get a headache when I eat ice cream too fast?
How did the "seventh inning stretch" originate?


As the official webmaster for Xerox, Bill McLain was surprised by the kinds of questions he was receiving, like whether people born blind can see in their dreams and why rabbits are associated with Easter. McLain began to answer each and every question--attracting national attention from MSNBC, CNN, and People--and the result, collected in Do Fish Drink Water?, is a surprising, funny, and informative collection of facts. McLain's answers can often be as wild as the questions and prompt entertaining anecdotes about where he found them. McLain explains how magnets are made, what caused the Great Depression of 1922, and even explains why cats purr. Also included is an extensive list of websites where he conducts research, offering an informative guide to making the most of the Internet.

Do Fish Drink Water

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Book in excellent condition with the exception of a few ripples across the top of the front jacket cover and a tiny tear at top of back cover jacket.   #johnjuliusnorwich #quotes #musings #trivia #funfacts #tidbits #Christmas #anthology

More Christmas Crackers

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Nebraska

The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about (Supposedly) Ordinary Things

Weird-O-Pedia

Webb B. Garrison

In addition to trivia and facts, the book includes 33 fascinating sidebar articles, and 48 unusual photographs and stories. Thoroughly indexed, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers. 
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Still in original packaging

Unusual and Often Overlooked Facts about America's Civil War

Provides answers to questions on the personalities, statistics, places, weapons, and events of the Civil War

Civil War Trivia and Fact Book

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Delaware

The response to our Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Puzzle Book #1 was so overwhelming it demanded an encore performance. So we sent our premiere puzzlemaker Stephanie Spadaccini and her team of top puzzle constructors back to the Bathroom Reader archives to seek out more tantalizing trivia to craft into more popular puzzles for aficionados everywhere. As Hollywood knows, sequels are challenging, but we have managed a second act that is, if anything, even better than our first. Here again are the most popular types of puzzles--word searches, crosswords, criss-crosses, anagrams, cryptograms, double-crostics, and brain-teasers--along with cryptolists, trivia quizzes, palindromes, and more. Every puzzle is ranked according to degree of difficulty and every one is fun.
People have always enjoyed solving puzzles and the number of puzzlers is growing by leaps and bounds. So sharpen your pencil and settle in for a satisfying session of mental aerobics.

People have always enjoyed solving puzzles and the number of puzzlers is growing by leaps and bounds. So sharpen your pencil and settle in for a satisfying session of mental aerobics.


Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

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Kick The Ball

New Jersey

New York Yankees Baseball

Updated with fun and interesting facts through the end of the 2009 baseball season, Yankeeology Trivia Challenge New York Yankees Baseball offers Yankees fans the opportunity to relive the Yankees' greatest moments. Each of the book's 210 MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS allows players to give informed answers even for the book's more ambitious questions. In addition, most answers include in-depth supportive background offering the book's players even greater knowledge about correct responses. The book also includes the publisher's unique COOL FACTS placed at the end of each of the first four sections. All of this makes Yankeeology Trivia Challenge New York Yankees Baseball a great gift for yourself or for friends and family.

Yankeeology Trivia Challenge

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Bathroom Readers' Institute Staff

Whether you're passion is Hunter payson, Barrel racing, or just a quiet Trail ride, everyone loves horses - in the folks at bri are no exception. So we've grabbed some of the world's most hare raising and hilarious horsetails and to this collection of equine Antics saddle up and read about

Uncle John's bathroom reader

Quit horsing around! Whether you want to ride 'em, race 'em, or raise 'em, you'll find everything equine in these pages. From the cowboy companions of the Old West to elegant Kentucky Derby winners, Uncle John has tracked down some of the most hair-raising, hilarious, and heartfelt horse tales from around the world.Saddle up and read about:* The secrets of Secretariat, Affirmed, and other Triple Crown winners* Horse records--the biggest, smallest, oldest, and fastest* What it takes to be a jockey* Austria's dancing Lipizzans* Pressing equine questions (Just how big is a hand, anyway?)* The wild ponies of Chincoteague* Mythological horses: Pegasus, unicorns, and centaurs* The high-stepping Budweiser Clydesdales* And much more!

Horse Lover's Companion

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Patrick Merrell

Oregon

Puzzles, Games and Avian Trivia

Why does the Blue Grouse migrate north in the winter? Why did Lewis Carroll use a dodo bird to represent himself in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? What are the bird names that appear most often as crossword clues? Birdwatchers and puzzle fans alike will delight in Bird Brainteasers, a fresh collection of puzzles, games, and avian amusements by noted puzzle creator Patrick Merrell. This book is packed with bird-themed crosswords, visual puzzles, and the first-ever Birdoku challenges. Interspersed throughout are fascinating and amusing bird facts, trivia, and lore, drawn from everything from music and literature to popular culture. Packaged is a small format and highly illustrated with a unique combination of historical and cultural images, Bird Brainteasers is the perfect gift for any bird lover. Put down the binoculars and pick up a pencil!

Bird Brainteasers

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#whitehouse #presidents #trivia #facts #politics #americanhistory #history

The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

An irreverent look at Presidential foibles, follies, fibs, and moral failures

Were past presidents smarter, more honest, and better behaved that those we elect today? Don't bet on it! White House Confidential shows that commanders-in-chief have been lying, cheating, stealing, and womanizing from the days of the Founding Fathers. Focusing on the qualities that never made it into White House press releases, the authors look at their sexual misdeeds and strange family relationships, scandals that engulfed administrations, fights with enemies, and questionable money matters. Dip into these pages to find out:

Which president was famous for being the richest man alive because of all his brilliant real estate deals?
Which president was born in Canada, and was ineligible to hold the office of president?
Which president caused some problems by trying to grow "strange herbs" in the White House garden?
Which president often ordered White House staff to rub Vaseline into his scalp while he ate breakfast in bed?
Which president often called his deputy chief of staff "Turd Blossom"?

Updated with new material about many presidents including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, White House Confidential will have you laughing (and sometimes cursing!) as you take a second look at the next occupant of the Oval Office.

White House Confidential

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Jack Kreismer

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Nuggets of Knowledge for America's Favorite Reading Room

The Bathroom Trivia Book

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Brian Boone

Arkansas

Outrageous Facts about Murders, Maniacs, and Mayhem

Brian Boone's Totally Terrifying True Crime Trivia provides compelling trivia for true crime fans...

Totally Terrifying True Crime Trivia

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It may be kind of making questions that keep distracting you from your work, like what is the sandy stuff that always finds in your pockets of your jeans? And maybe the sort of annoying riddle that has you lose some sleep, like, what happens to the holes that are punched out of loose leaf paper? And it may be the type of perplex and dilemma that leads to full blown sinus rack and headache.

How does aspirin find a headache?

Ever wonder what's really in spam? Had cheese? Teresa? Secret recipes from hell, one of the most respected and Powerful figures in Hollywood made to pornographic films one of them at 3D names named, ever since Houdini's time, magicians have baffle police and public alike by escaping from straight jackets, handcuffs and federal prison step by step explanation so simple your kid's sister could do it this in other questions answered in this book

Biggest Secrets

Learn to answers to hundreds of questions such as what's the best way to beat a lie detector test? What's really in spam, Coca-Cola and the secret recipe for Mrs Fields cookies? Does grape upon really come directly from deshawn? It's another question's answered in this book

The big book of big secrets

Who discovered fire? Does the Tasmanian devil really exist? Who are Aunt Jemima and uncle ben? Are there any hiccup remedies that really work? These are just a few questions answered in this trivia book

How does olive oil lose its virginity?

Samantha Ettus

The simplest things are the hardest to master. From brewing your morning cup of coffee and reading the newspaper to apologizing or remembering names, it’s the small stuff that makes up day-to-day life. The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do provides unparalleled insights into how to do them better—more resourcefully, more effectively, and more efficiently—in 100 brief how-to essays by 100 of the world’s leading experts, including:

• Interpersonal skills like how to Tell a Story by Ira Glass and Listen by Larry King

• Etiquette essentials like how to Shake Hands by Letitia Baldrige, Set a Formal Table by Peggy Post, and Give and Receive a Compliment by Ms. Demeanor, Mary Mitchell

• Home pointers such as how to Paint a Room by Bob Vila, Remove a Stain by Linda Cobb, the Queen of Clean, and Do Laundry by Heloise

• Beauty basics that include how to Apply Lipstick by Bobbi Brown and Wash Your Hair by Frederic Fekkai

• Cooking tips such as how to Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies by Mrs. Fields, Barbecue by Bobby Flay, and Make Eggs by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

• Health hints like how to Breathe by Bikram Choudhury and Do Push-ups and Sit-ups by Kathy Smith

• Athletic advice including how to Hit a Tennis Ball by Jennifer Capriati, Swing a Golf Club by Jim McLean, and Swim by Summer Sanders

Some of these experts are household names, others are industry leaders—all are at the very top of their professions. From Holiday Inn’s housekeeper of the year (Make a Bed), the head groundskeeper of Fenway Park (Mow a Lawn), and the mayor of Buffalo (Shovel Snow) to the CEOs of Harry Winston (Buy a Diamond) and Thomas Pink (Tie a Windsor Knot), they are the authorities on their subjects. The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do brings together the best of the best, offering the world’s most valuable advice. With this book in hand, life will indeed be better.

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