- Hardcover: 752 pages
- Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (Jun 23 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1579120865
- ISBN-13: 978-1579120863
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.9 x 6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 998 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #356,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
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.
From the Inside Flap
5087 Trivia Questions and Answers is the definitive collection for diehard trivia buffs (and the rest of us who think we know a thing or two). A mammoth assortment of minutia, it's guaranteed to boggle the minds of even the most informed and eclectic readers. With entries on everything from the amount Warner Communications paid for the rights to the song "Happy Birthday" to the strange death that befell Atilla the Hun, it's an endless source of obscure and enlightening entertainment. Based on nearly twenty years of the 365 Amazing Trivia Facts Page-A-Day Calendar--the quintessential source of fun information for trivia fanatics--5087 Trivia Questions and Answers is organized by chapter with themes like The Cinema, Language, War & The Military and The World. Questions range from science to entertainment, antiquity to the Space Age, and include some little-known facts about some well-known people, like the special clause Jimmy Stewart had worked into all his movie contracts and the president who was ticketed for speeding during his term by Washington, D.C. police. Other entries expose those undeniably entertaining trivia gems, like the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box or the difference between a nook and a cranny. 5087 Trivia Questions and Answers is virtually bursting with facts that inhabit the murky ground between essential and irrelevant--from the number of exclamation points in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Bonfire of the Vanities to the number of grooves on the edge of a quarter. Accept the challenge and test your knowledge in this exhaustive compilation of obscure statistics and vital details, with the answers to some of life's least important but most intriguing questions, and all the facts they never taught you in school.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
a nice trivia book,
By matt "starylighties" (bothell,wa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 5087 Trivia Questions & Answers (Hardcover)
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.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great for online trivia games!!!,
By "bradtina" (Chatsworth, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 5087 Trivia Questions & Answers (Hardcover)
I spend alot of time reading questions online ( i.e. paltalk). I've used this book among others and find that the subjects are conveniently broken down by category and the answers are readily accessible on the next page vs. flipping to the end of the book. This is a great book to have for online games!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great but not Excellent,
By Michelle L. Ma "michelle2017" (Shoreview, Minnesota United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 5087 Trivia Questions & Answers (Hardcover)
I would recommend buying this book because it contains many questions. The quality of the questions is not as good as those I have seen in other books. If you want to purchase a fun, general trivia book, this would be an excellent choice. If you want to purchase a slightly more academic book this is still a good choice but you will have to carefully choose the questions. Approx. 60% of the questions contain useless information.(If you're looking for academic questions) Still, this book is a very good value.
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