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The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,065 ratings — published 2006
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,671 ratings — published 1977
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,338 ratings — published 2006
The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
by (shelved 39 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,680 ratings — published 2010
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.40 — 9,348 ratings — published 1995
Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? and Other Imponderables: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.62 — 930 ratings — published 1987
Schott's Original Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,116 ratings — published 2002
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.14 — 193,531 ratings — published 2014
Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,684 ratings — published 2012
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,425 ratings — published 1987
The Book of Useless Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,639 ratings — published 2006
Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.58 — 802 ratings — published 1991
mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.92 — 923 ratings — published 2004
The Straight Dope (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.18 — 733 ratings — published 1984
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,158 ratings — published 2012
Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #17)
by (shelved 22 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.25 — 576 ratings — published 2004
The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,553 ratings — published 2006
Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.27 — 482 ratings — published 2002
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 29,603 ratings — published 2004
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,306 ratings — published 2016
1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: The Ultimate Bathroom Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,698 ratings — published 2010
Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.59 — 316 ratings — published 1986
Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits (Mental Floss Presents)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.95 — 828 ratings — published 2005
Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,647 ratings — published 2000
Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #16)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.28 — 496 ratings — published 2003
How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.64 — 283 ratings — published 1993
Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #14)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.26 — 513 ratings — published 2001
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,006 ratings — published 1987
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,847 ratings — published 2020
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.19 — 607 ratings — published 2002
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,761 ratings — published 2011
Uncle John's Fast-Acting Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #18)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.29 — 322 ratings — published 2005
An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,557 ratings — published 1997
The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,406 ratings — published 2003
When Do Fish Sleep? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.62 — 515 ratings — published 1989
More of the Straight Dope (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.25 — 299 ratings — published 1988
Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.96 — 291 ratings — published 2007
1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.09 — 976 ratings — published 2013
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,742 ratings — published 2013
When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth? An Imponderables Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.59 — 237 ratings — published 1992
Return of the Straight Dope: Still More from the Popular Newspaper Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.20 — 227 ratings — published 1994
Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #12)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.25 — 531 ratings — published 1999
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,026 ratings — published 2015
The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,355 ratings — published 2013
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,688 ratings — published 2007
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers (Fascinating Bathroom Readers)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.20 — 429 ratings — published 2010
Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #19)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.29 — 377 ratings — published 2006
The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.90 — 677 ratings — published
Do Fish Drink Water?: Puzzling and Improbable Questions and Answers (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.56 — 728 ratings — published 1999
5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.77 — 757 ratings — published 2007
“Southwick informs us that a Colonel Townsend of Dublin had the ability to stop his heartbeat at will and 'at last lost his life in the act,' that lightning turns milk sour, and that Adam, of Adam-and-Eve fame, was born on October 28, 4004 B.C. Adam is a Scorpio!”
― Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
― Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
“On the day I started my self-examination I asked myself these questions: ‘Am I interested in people? Do ideas excite me? Am I knowledgeable enough about novels to write one?’ I’m sure there were other questions, but I forget them now.
My earliest memories involve being one among many other children, so I did not grow up with a self-centered view of myself, and because of my early jobs I knew a great deal about life. I had knocked about America as a lad, seen Europe in my college years and had been in the Pacific as an adult. But most important, I had always loved people, their histories, the prestigious things they did and said, and I especially relished their stories about themselves. I was so eager to collect information about everyone I met that I was practically a voyeur, and always it was their accounts that mattered, not mine, for I was a listener, not a talker. If the writing of fiction was the reporting of how human beings behaved, I was surely eligible, for I liked not only their stories, I liked them.
As for ideas on which to base my writing, I was interested in everything—I was a kind of intellectual vacuum cleaner that picked up not only the oddest collection of facts imaginable but also solid material on the basic concerns of life.”
—Chapter XI, “Intellectual Equipment”, page 297”
― The World Is My Home
My earliest memories involve being one among many other children, so I did not grow up with a self-centered view of myself, and because of my early jobs I knew a great deal about life. I had knocked about America as a lad, seen Europe in my college years and had been in the Pacific as an adult. But most important, I had always loved people, their histories, the prestigious things they did and said, and I especially relished their stories about themselves. I was so eager to collect information about everyone I met that I was practically a voyeur, and always it was their accounts that mattered, not mine, for I was a listener, not a talker. If the writing of fiction was the reporting of how human beings behaved, I was surely eligible, for I liked not only their stories, I liked them.
As for ideas on which to base my writing, I was interested in everything—I was a kind of intellectual vacuum cleaner that picked up not only the oddest collection of facts imaginable but also solid material on the basic concerns of life.”
—Chapter XI, “Intellectual Equipment”, page 297”
― The World Is My Home
