Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8319 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Review
We all have a sneaking admiration for people who know the names of every British Prime Minister, and most of us would be interested to know exactly what ingredients go into a Big Mac. This book is packed with the sort of fascinating trivia you feel you should know, and it contains wonderful lists of knowledge you wish you could memorize for the purpose of impressing others, subtly dropping snippets into casual conversation. This book boasts such a varied, far-reaching coverage of information that the mind truly boggles, and no sooner have you put the book down then you find yourself picking it back up again. Think you know all Ten Commandments and each of the Seven Deadly Sins? Can you list 86 Cockney Rhyming Slang terms? Did you know what was on the dinner menu the night the Titanic sank? The information seems both essential and useless, and can be either, which is why trivia is so addictive. The Clothing Care symbols and Shakespearean Insults are likely to be useful and amusing respectively, but will your friends and family thank you for your knowledge of the Curious Deaths of Some Burmese Kings? And it may be pleasant to know how to say 'I love you' in 43 different languages but unless you like to seduce far and wide you'll never need to know, and the same goes for the names of the suppliers to the Queen; it may not be particularly useful information but it's strangely interesting, and this is why this book is such a success. Perfect as a gift, to yourself or anyone else. (Kirkus UK)

The Bookseller, 30th August, 2002, Kes Nielsen afrom WHSmith
"the best little book of trivia going."

The Bookseller, 30th August, 2002, Stephen Torsi from Borders.
"Pythonesque in range and irrelevance but somehow essetial... This is the perfect stocking filler."

Customer Reviews

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Put this by the side of the bed if you are going to a dinner party the next day and you want to shine. Bone up the night before and watch their tongues flop out with your amazing grasp of trivia!

Fantastically pointless, yet very informative
A book basically full of irrelevant information, facts from tables of Braille and Morse code to who has won the world cup and where, or a list of all the Kings and Queens of Britain. Ultimately a pointless collection of information from all over the place, yet great to flick through for odd tidbits of imformation.

So as one reviewer said, maybe not the ultimate book for pub quiz goers, but definately handy for some odd questions setting up one. Or purely out of interest for odd bits of information here and there and something interesting to flick through sitting on the loo.

Also a very nicely presented book, a nice hardcover (classy and minimal under the paper cover) and very well set out information that is very nice to read, with a very handy cloth bookmark (forgive me for not knowing if theres a proper name for it) you can mark out a page with for later reading with.

Just awful
This little booklet contains a lot of data but especially extreme trivia you don't want to know.
Interesting data is hard to find in it. To be avoided by avid quiz players or people with a broad general knowledge. You'll only be disappointed.

After I perused it, I decided to give it away on the next quiz I would organise. No reason at all to keep it myself. Somebody won it. Poor guy.