Almanacs Trivia category: 3486 books
by Jimmy Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
In this, the first title in Jimmy Russell's Games Console History series, we learn 101 amazing facts about Atari's seminal 2600, the first truly popular home family computer games system. The facts cover many areas, including the history, the hardware, game titles both rare and popular and some incredible...
What's That From?
The Ultimate Quiz Book Of Memorable Movie Lines Since 1969
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Do you know what films have given us the following quotes?
"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
"Excuse me while I whip this out."
"Would somebody get this walking carpet out of my way?"
"I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper, it does...
I Know That Name!
The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Every day Canadians buy groceries at Sobey's, develop film at Black's, or grab a coffee at Tim Horton's without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We're familiar with the names, but what do we really know about the people who lie behind them? I Know That...
You Are One-Third Daffodil
And Other Facts to Amaze, Amuse, and Astound
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Did you know that most toilets flush in E-flat? Or that American Airlines once saved $40,000 by removing a single olive from each salad served in first class? Well, now you will with this clever, fun, and occasionally shocking compendium of facts from around the world.
Organized into witty...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Uncle John’s 27th Bathroom Reader is all new and better than ever!
Weighing in at a whopping 544 pages, Uncle John’s Canoramic Bathroom Reader presents a wide-angle view of the world around us. It’s overflowing with everything that BRI fans have come to expect from this bestselling trivia...
The World's Worsts
A Compendium of the Most Ridiculous Feats, Facts, & Fools of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
A hilarious collection of the lowest of the lows – from the worst generals to the dumbest dogs, the shortest Hollywood marriages to the most dangerous golf courses.
The World's Worsts is the latest compendium of quirky information and vamped–up trivia from Pop Culture guru Les Krantz. This...
Remember That?
A Year-by-Year Chronicle of Fun Facts, Headlines, & Your Memories
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
A Blast From the Past
Take a trip down memory lane with this interactive trivia book of headlines, fads, sports, music and more from 1930–2010. Inside, you'll find year-by-year snapshots of the events and trends that shaped our lives. Family milestone fill-in pages for each year help you...
by Robert A Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Journey back fifty years to explore the decade of baby boomers, the Red scare, and the birth of rock and roll with Robert Rodriguezs The 1950s Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All-American Oddities. America was revving its engines when the fifties came along, and...
by Steven A. Ruffin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Ever since the caveman gazed longingly at the winged creatures above him, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flightof just taking off and soaring away. Steven A. Ruffin celebrates that spirit, that sense of wonder, with Aviations Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Winged Wonders, Lucky Landings,...
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt had a guinea pig called Fighting Bob Evans along with many other hilariously named pets? Were you aware that a certain Brazilian Emperor didn’t oppose a military coup because he no longer enjoyed his job? Brought to you by renowned trivia historians...
by Dee Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Little Book of the 1960s is a look back at the swinging decade from someone who was there, in mind, body, and spirit. But this is nostalgia with a difference. This is nostalgia based on quirky facts and fascinating data, with a discerning eye on the bizarre, the frivolous, and the funny. It is...
The Mammoth Book of Useless Information
An Officially Useless Information Society Publication
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Did you know the Sumerians were the first to brew beer, and all the brewers were women? Or that the zip in zip code stands for zoning improvement plan? Did you know that your big toes have two bones each, while all the rest have three? Or that the first fruit eaten on the moon was a peach? The Useless...
Uncle John's Plunges into Canada
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Uncle John Plunges into Canada . . . in color!
Uncle John and the folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute love all things Canadian and figure that just because we weren’t lucky enough to be born in the Great White North doesn’t mean we can’t devote an entire Bathroom Reader to the...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Want your bathroom reading with a twist? You’re only a click away from 500 pages of the most twisted trivia in the world. The crackpot staff at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute has scoured the worlds of pop culture, politics, sports, history, and more to bring you Slightly Irregular, the 17th all-new...