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If you paid attention to Homework for Grown-ups you should hopefully now have a grasp of the basics: know your chiasmus from your zeugma, your obliques from your acutes, and your Anne of Cleves from your Anne Boleyn. Now, sit up straight, and get your jotters and pencils out, because E Foley and B Coates are back to steer you through some of the more complicated elements of the curriculum and beyond. In addititon, new subjects enter the timetable: Music, Modern Languages, Economics, Politics, Philosophy and Psychology, as well as Design and Drama. Packed with fun practical excercises and, of course, examination papers for the competitive, Advanced Homework for Grown-ups will be the perfect gift. Advanced Homework for Grown-ups will revisit and refresh the core subjects of Maths, English, Science, Geography, History and Classics in a little more depth. This time, amongst other topics, they tackle logarithms, unlock the secrets of semantics, and explore the Agrarian Revolution, with a mix of really useful information and entertainingly esoteric material. ... Read more

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A combination puzzle and trivia book with cats as the only subject. Crosswords, word searches, multiple choice, true or false, facts and trivia, quotes from famous cat lovers, activities to do with your cat, illustrations and more. A great way to test your knowledge of cats, learn, and have fun, all at the same time. ... Read more

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great little puzzle book!
this little book(although pricey)is great fun for the cat lover who alsoloves puzzles!

Cat lover
This is a wonderful puzzle book including a variety of puzzles for cat lovers.Any cat lover would like this one!

YOU'LL LOVE THIS CAT PUZZLE BOOK TOO!
I HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT VARIOUS PUZZLE BOOKS ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS. I WAS DELIGHTED TO FIND THIS PARTICULAR PUZZLE BOOK ABOUT CATS. IT IS A GREAT WAY TO GET TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FELINE FRIEND AND ALSO TO TEST YOUR SMARTS ABOUT HIM OR HER. THERE IS A GREAT VARIETY OF PUZZLES IN THIS BOOK AND I KNOW YOU WILL LOVE IT AS MUCH AS I HAVE. SINCE I HAVEN'T YET FOUND ANY SEQUELS TO IT, I HAVE HAD TO CONTROL MY IMPULSE OF DOING TOO MANY, SO I WON'T FINISH THE WHOLE BOOK TOO SOON. KEEP CHECKING BACK IF IT'S NOT AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'LL LOVE IT. I LOOK FORWARD TO READING YOUR REVIEWS TOO. ... Read more

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This new fully updated and revised "World Wine Challenge 2" provides great fun for users to test their wine knowledge and learn more about fine wines.Spin the Wine Wheel to land on a wine region and field a question about its wines. The game instantly indicates whether the answer is correct and automatically tabulates the score, which is based on the question's difficulty.World Wine Challenge 2 can be played by one or two players at three different levels of difficulty, wine drinker, student or master. With over 500 randomised answers no two games are ever alike. The game also contains a 'learn' button that gives a summary of why the answer was right or wrong. ... Read more

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The Ultimate Guide to Proving You Know Everything About Music!/ Do you know the name of The Who's second rock opera?/ Can you name the three longest running Broadway musicals in history?/ How about the person Kurt Cobain referred to as his favourite performer on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged recording?/ How old was the oldest Beatle when Paul McCartney announced he had left the band in April 1970?Now music snobs can test their musical savvy about everything from acid techno to folk metal. THE GREAT MUSIC TRIVIA QUIZ BOOK covers all musical genres with a focus on rock and pop from the 1960s through today.You may know that Bono's real name is Paul Hewson and that John Lennon was featured on the first cover of Rolling Stone, but it might surprise you to learn that compact discs have been on the market since 1982, that the title of AC/DC's 8th album, "For Those About to Rock, Salute You" is a reference to Roman gladiators, and that music was first transmitted over phone lines in the 19th century.A variety of quiz formats from multiple choice questions to matching lists are accompanied by timed challenges, colourful anecdotes, and sidebar explanations.Featuring chapters like VIDEOS THAT KILLED THE RADIO STARS and OOPS, I DIDN'T DO IT AGAIN (the sad fate of one-hit wonders.) You might nab a high score in classic rock, but how will you score in hip hop? And maybe it's time to find out if your knowledge of jazz is as extensive as your taste for movie soundtracks.For the tone deaf and the virtuosos, for those who claim to be authorities and those who want to learn more, for the musical theorists and the X Factor fanatics, this collection of music trivia is fun to play on your own, ideal to test friends in the pub, or intriguing to simply read for the surprising facts and behind-the-scenes trivia. ... Read more

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Armed with expert information and a biting wit, mental floss's CondensedKnowledge officially takes the chore out of learning. The book's 15chapters, covering everything from pop culture to physics, arejam-packed with lucid explanations, intriguing facts, and a smugirreverence you're bound to love. Who else is going to tell you about 3Major Mistakes on Your World Map, or which 5 Literary Classics WereWritten Under the Influence, or which Nobel Prize Should Never BeenAwarded, or what the 4 Things Einstein Got Wrong are?

Brush over the titles, flip through the pages, ease into a paragraph ofyour choice. And an hour later, when your kids are tugging at your pantlegs and your spouse is burning dinner, and you're busy wondering justwhere the time went, you'll realize that learning isn't just easy, it'saddictive. ... Read more

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Great Bathroom Literature
When I want to read something interesting in a "limited" timeframe, I reach for Condensed Knowledge. Much like the magazine of the same name ("Mental Floss"), C. Knowledge consists of many page or paragraph length snippets of information on a plethora of topics. Your view of history may vary with personal politics, but there's something for everyone in this tome. Some reviewers have chimed in to point out inaccuracies. I personally didn't notice any, but wouldn't discount such a claim, as many of these facts are so random as to be unbelievable. Needless to say, I won't be going into surgery tomorrow using anything I learned reading "Condensed Knowledge".

Laura Reviews: Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge
As I get older, my brain gets mushier. It was high time I brushed up on something to stay useful in this world.

I'd be lying if I said that Mental Floss' Condensed Knowledge is a veritable encyclopedia.

It's even better.

In summary, it lists 15 categories of information (from performing arts to geography to economics), that include short summaries of accurate knowledge in a flippant tone.

But don't just leave it on the coffee table. Pick it up and read something new once a day. Invite friends over and quiz each other. Or if you have no friends, you can quiz yourself.

Entertaining trivia
If you like cocktail party nuggets of knowledge, then you'll enjoy this compendium.Each chapter contains an array of quirky topics, and each has a few paragraphs on the subject, which might be about odd subjects such as religions with supernatural females, or how certain emperors met their fate. It is the light hearted kind of tome you can pick up and put down repeatedly, and each time find something new.

I'm not as dumb as I thought... or maybe I am.
Great book, which I suspected before I bought it.I was thrilled to find a topic I already had done quite a bit of research on and had also bored my family and friends to tears with... "Rock Stars who Died at 27" (might not be right on title, but you get my drift).I was so thrilled to see that I wasn't the only one expounding on it!Other than that, so much information, so interesting... well done.

Fun book, and informative, too
There seems to be a trend over the last 10 years of books that try to make academic subjects more enjoyable and interesting--series such as the Idiot's and Dummies books, for example--which are often well done despite their light-hearted approach. This book seems to follow in their footsteps. Sure, it sometimes glosses over the subject matter, and doesn't go into a lot of technical detail, but if you consider that after reading one of the chapters in this book on, say, general science, history, or literature, the average person will probably know more than they remember from that college course of many years ago, these books do perform a useful service.

Of course, the pundits can always claim that they're just dumbing down their subject, but on the other hand, what better way to get the current semi-literate generation raised on MTV and video games to actually read something worthwhile for a change?

At this point I might fall into that category myself. :-) I was one of the "grinds," who studied sedulously and diligently while the other students were goofing off or partying, but what with the ravages of age and memory, much of that learning had been forgotten. When I read the chapter on art history, for example, I learned some new things, and many things that I had forgotten came back. Funny how powerful the principle of multiple association is, and memory psychologists have of course studied this in detail. But for me reading this book not only gave me some new insights but brought back so much that I had forgotten. So for me it was truly a little trip down "memory lane."

You'll find all the usual academic subjects here, as well as juicy tidbits and trivia such as "rock stars that died at 27." Sometimes the choice of a topic just seems to come from left field, such as in "The Ceremony of the Bambara People," in the Theater chapter, but it's all fun and you still learn a lot. (Oddly enough, my father, who was an amateur collecter of Africa art, had a Bambara antelope sculpture in his collection).

The book is well written and is just chock full of fun information, trivia, and facts. It's a fun, enjoyable, and even seductive little romp through many fields of learning, and gets points for performing a useful educational service. If people in this country just knew what was in this book they'd be a lot better off than they are now.



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Zany facts and far–out figures are packed into Bible Trivia for Every Day. Families, groups, church classes, and individuals of all ages will enjoy learning more about God’s Word as they—

• Baffle over Bible brainteasers
• Ponder puns and puzzles
• Rally during riddles
• Test their trivia knowledge
• Get into godly games

This gathering of some of Bob Phillips’ favorite trivia is the book to take along for family gamenights, vacations, car trips, and church events. It will make “down time” the perfect time to learn Scripture’s incredible but true cool details.

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A number-one bestseller, this is a comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge' that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition, carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument. ... Read more

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Everything I thought, was wrong!
Great read. A book you can just pick up and turn to any page to find out something you never knew before.

Totally fascinating !
Filled with TONS of fascinating information . Hard to put down . Revealing , enlightening and absorbing.

Things you should know.
Very informative.I've used books like these to help teach my jr and sr high students facts they should know if they want to be considered literate.

This book was a gift.
I had give this book General Ignorance as a gift to my friend on hes birthday ,
he like it and said that is a very nice gift,I cant tell much because I had no read yet..

This book dominates!
This is a great book with tons of great random information. Definitely a good buy. ... Read more

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Just because you're a Bathroom Reader fan;doesn't mean you'll like this one!!
Someone who knows I'm a fan of the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers;gave me this edition.I am not particularly a fan of Trivia,though all of the Reader's have a fair amount of trivia in them.I gave this book 5 Stars even though I had had enough of it by the time I got to about page 75.I had put it aside and my son dropped in and showed some interest in it ;so I said "take it,if you want;I won't be finishing it".
However; if you are a fan of pure Trivia;there is a ton of it here and no doubt you''ll think it is great.
How good a book it is from a Trivia standpoint;I really can't say.But,it is not like the Readers we get and like;and be warned,particularly if you are buying it for a gift.

Fun for trivia buffs, but beware of typos and errors galore
As a team trivia player and devoted bathroom reader, this book is right up my alley.However, I am dismayed by the massive number of typos, errors and flubs in this book.Norman Mailer wrote Tropic of Cancer?Really?There are quite a few quizzes that have 11 questions and only 10 answers, or vice/versa.For trivia buffs and fans of the Uncle John books, I'd recommend it, but just be prepared for some frustration with the sloppy proofreading and fact-checking.Overall, it's useful and entertaining enough to overlook some of its problems. ... Read more

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The ultimate trivia and quiz book for Python fans of all ages, from longtime friend and assosiate of the troupe Kim "Howard" Johnson. After three Compleat Monty Python volumes as well as Monty Python: The First 200 Years, Johnson is in a unique position to deliver this fantastically underpriced and overpacked fountain of knowledge. ... Read more

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Test your knowledge of Python with "Completely Trivial"!
Python fans beware: this book will extremely tax your knowledge of everything Python and make you exclaim "my brain hurts!"Kim Howard Johnson masterfully displays both his love of the group's comedy andhis knowledge of their work in this whimsical trivia compendium.Filledwith fun facts and quirky quizzes, "Trivial" will make even themost devout Python follower feel like a novice.Think you know "HolyGrail" or the Dead parrot sketch like the back of your hand?Come andtake the test.... ... Read more

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From obscure facts to backstage scandals, The Everything TV and Movie Trivia Mini Book gives you a chance to prove your knowledge.Test yourself or stump your friends with dozens of quizzes, questions, and lists.This incredible little book makes the perfect gift for any TV or movie junkie! ... Read more

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informative, but not too user friendly
This book has a lot of interesting trivia, however as far as finding the answers to the questions it is very confusing.I've been interested in trivia books for quite awhile and I found this one to be the most frustrating to work with.It's really a shame since there is really quite a bit of fun information and trivia.

A very complete reference book
I really liked this one.It is compact, the sections are quite complete and it is easy to use for any occasion. ... Read more

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A Treasury of Texas Trivia ranked in the top ten best sellers for Republic of Texas Press last year. It's one of those little books that fascinate and amuse readers for many reasons and just keeps on selling. Now author Bill Cannon has gathered a new collection of new facts and fun tidbits relating to the state, the people in it, and the ones who have left to make their mark on history. This book is a great conversation starter, useful for trivia game players and anyone else who enjoys trivia. ... Read more

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Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything. Join author Bill Cannon as he reveals facts that depict the colorful bravado unique to the Lone Star State. For instance, not six but seven flags flew over Texas. In 1832 the composer of The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, was the counsel hired by Sam Houston to defend him on assault charges. And someone other than Sam Bass may be buried in his grave. A Treasury of Texas Trivia is complemented by newspaper accounts, photographs, and other documentation of these and other little-known bits of Texas history. ... Read more

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Refreshing Book about Texas
I found this book to a very interesting book on Texas tidbits.I read a lot about Texas that I never imagined.I recommend this book as arefreshingbook to read.

Refreshing
I found that this book was very interesting and I learned a lot about Texas and Texans.I recommend this to everone who is interested in Texas, trivia and even to those who are not.Very enjoyable reading.

Very interesting book about Texas.Great reading.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. It was hard to put down.Many extremely interesting facts about the great state of Texas.I recommend this book for everyone to read, even non-Texans.

Turly enjoyable!
This book by Bill Cannon is a book that can be enjoyed a little at a time or read until complete. I truly did feel that I learned a lot about Texas and Texans.

Fascinating, fun, and humorous facts about Texas history.
A Treasury of Texas Trivia by Bill Cannon is a great read.It's the kind of book you can pick upin the middle and read just a story or two (of course you'll want to read more) ... Read more

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This is quiz book with a difference. In it lie a multitude of questions on the one thing we all have in common - sex. It includes chapters on history, literature and royalty, as well as plenty of other saucy subjects. "The Rumpy Pumpy Quiz Book" is a tonngue-in-cheek confection of fact and humour that shoud intrigue, surprise and fascinate. ... Read more

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The Official Trivia Quiz Book is a completely authorised quiz book designed to test the knowledge of the most dedicated Friends aficionado. Every question about Friends - from the silly to the sublime - is asked and answered in this guide to one of the biggest sitcoms of all time. From who performed 'the routine' to what Chandler's job was, this trivia-filled book is also the perfect companion to Friends 'Til the End. ... Read more

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A masterful collection of mindboggling questions guaranteed to have bibliophiles wracking their brains.

This engaging and stimulating book of quizzes will test readers' knowledge of classic and contemporary literature. From Charlotte Brontë to Chinua Achebe, hidden double entendres to famous opening lines, Who Killed Iago? runs the gamut and challenges even the most avid readers.

Readers can flex their literary muscle with questions such as:

• In Pride and Prejudice, what is Mr. Darcy's first name?
• Which classic novel of the Second World War begins: "It was love at first sight"?
• In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, how many times has the Wife of Bath been married?
• In the Harry Potter novels, what are the first four names of Professor Dumbledore?
• In Othello, who kills Iago? ... Read more

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brain teaser for the highly educated
I bought this book for some friends of mine who know everything - the book lists lots of questions, which i found impossibly hard but my friends knew many of the answers. it would work best with someone who is very well read, otherwise i imagine it would be frustrating. the questions are pure knowledge - who did this, where was that. they are not puzzles that you can figure out by logic. ... Read more