Easy Questions, Evil Answers

by Kjartan Poskitt, Philip Reeve (Illustrator)

Why do people think Friday 13th is unlucky? How can you make a liar tell the truth? How many people in the world share your birthday? "Easy Questions, Evil Answers" provides the answers to all these questions and more. It's the perfect laugh-out-loud, boredom busting read for everyone who's ever wondered just how many footballs you can fit in a swimming pool and how long it takes to count to a million.

Genres: Nonfiction, Mathematics, Humor, Science, Reference

159 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2010

About the author

Kjartan Poskitt is an author and TV presenter who is best known for writing the Murderous Maths children's series of books. Poskitt was educated at Collingwood College, Durham. In addition to his popular science and maths books, which include books on Isaac Newton (Dead Famous: Isaac Newton and his Apple), puzzles, practical jokes and secred codes, Poskitt has written a book of magical tricks, a GCSE Maths support book and four Rosie and Jim annuals. In 2007, Poskit published the first in a new series of children's novels called Urgum the Axeman.

He also wrote the theme tune for the children's art program SMart, as well as the title theme and music for the first two series of Brum. He is also the creator of a logic puzzle, Kjarposko.

He has been a presenter for a number of (mostly BBC) educational children's TV shows.

Reviews

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

234 - 2019

[Wesley Mead · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of a series (Murderous Maths) I enjoyed as an inquisitive kid. For this edition - think a kid-friendly, maths-heavy "What If?"

[Mao Mao · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book because I want to study the four famous big numbers. My favorite number is Skewes' Number. Skewes' Number is actually much smaller than 10^{10^[10^(34)]}, as it says in the book. I never knew that prime numbers starts to get more common again if you go high enough in the number line.