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The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,153 ratings — published 2006
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,673 ratings — published 1977
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,365 ratings — published 2006
The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
by (shelved 39 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,697 ratings — published 2010
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.40 — 9,364 ratings — published 1995
Schott's Original Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,132 ratings — published 2002
Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? and Other Imponderables: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.62 — 939 ratings — published 1987
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.14 — 196,394 ratings — published 2014
Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,702 ratings — published 2012
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,433 ratings — published 1987
The Book of Useless Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,643 ratings — published 2006
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,162 ratings — published 2012
Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.58 — 806 ratings — published 1991
mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.92 — 928 ratings — published 2004
The Straight Dope (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.18 — 738 ratings — published 1984
Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #17)
by (shelved 22 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.25 — 582 ratings — published 2004
The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,646 ratings — published 2006
Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.27 — 484 ratings — published 2002
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 29,746 ratings — published 2004
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,532 ratings — published 2016
1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: The Ultimate Bathroom Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,697 ratings — published 2010
Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.59 — 317 ratings — published 1986
Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History's Naughtiest Bits (Mental Floss Presents)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.95 — 828 ratings — published 2005
Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #16)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.29 — 498 ratings — published 2003
How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.63 — 287 ratings — published 1993
Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #14)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.27 — 513 ratings — published 2001
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,025 ratings — published 1987
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,916 ratings — published 2020
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.20 — 607 ratings — published 2002
Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,659 ratings — published 2000
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,763 ratings — published 2011
Uncle John's Fast-Acting Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #18)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.29 — 323 ratings — published 2005
An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,562 ratings — published 1997
The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy – Startling and Unexpected Illustrated Moments Presented by The History Channel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,414 ratings — published 2003
When Do Fish Sleep? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.62 — 515 ratings — published 1989
More of the Straight Dope (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 301 ratings — published 1988
Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.97 — 297 ratings — published 2007
1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.09 — 978 ratings — published 2013
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,749 ratings — published 2013
The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,354 ratings — published 2013
When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth? An Imponderables Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.59 — 237 ratings — published 1992
Return of the Straight Dope: Still More from the Popular Newspaper Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.21 — 228 ratings — published 1994
Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #12)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.25 — 532 ratings — published 1999
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,100 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,695 ratings — published 2007
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers (Fascinating Bathroom Readers)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.20 — 435 ratings — published 2010
Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #19)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.30 — 378 ratings — published 2006
Do Fish Drink Water?: Puzzling and Improbable Questions and Answers – A Wildly Informative Collection with Entertaining Anecdotes (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.56 — 731 ratings — published 1999
5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 759 ratings — published 2007
Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 300 ratings — published 1989
“Thanks to a documentary series on Netflix, I knew that nachos were called nachos because of their inventor's name (Ignacio, nicknamed Nacho). Croissants originated in Australia, not France, a tricky question that knocked all the other teams down... except for Bennett. Thanks to a paper I'd written in college on the history of the celebrity chef, I knew that the first TV celebrity chef was Fanny Cradock in England, not Julia Child, which three of the other teams thought.
Not Bennett, of course. I wondered how he knew about Fanny. She wasn't exactly a household name. At least, not here. If I asked him, he'd probably expound upon a teenage trip to England, where he'd visited the former set.
The first food eaten in space? Applesauce. The first sushi restaurant in New York City? Nippon.”
― Best Served Hot
Not Bennett, of course. I wondered how he knew about Fanny. She wasn't exactly a household name. At least, not here. If I asked him, he'd probably expound upon a teenage trip to England, where he'd visited the former set.
The first food eaten in space? Applesauce. The first sushi restaurant in New York City? Nippon.”
― Best Served Hot
“By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,--its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over; and if you would know what will make for the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into some of our minds which have been subjected to this treatment so long.”
― Life Without Principle
― Life Without Principle
