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The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 11,375 ratings — published 2006
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,679 ratings — published 1977
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,428 ratings — published 2006
The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
by (shelved 38 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,733 ratings — published 2010
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.40 — 9,413 ratings — published 1995
Schott's Original Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,143 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 — 951 ratings — published 1987
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,622 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 3.61 — 3,742 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 — 2,439 ratings — published 1987
The Book of Useless Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,666 ratings — published 2006
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,188 ratings — published 2012
Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.58 — 817 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 — 931 ratings — published 2004
The Straight Dope (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 741 ratings — published 1984
Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #17)
by (shelved 23 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.26 — 591 ratings — published 2004
The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,713 ratings — published 2006
Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.28 — 489 ratings — published 2002
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 30,028 ratings — published 2004
1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: The Ultimate Bathroom Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,700 ratings — published 2010
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,841 ratings — published 2016
Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.59 — 320 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 — 831 ratings — published 2005
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.20 — 620 ratings — published 2002
Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #16)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.28 — 500 ratings — published 2003
How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.63 — 290 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 — 514 ratings — published 2001
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,040 ratings — published 1987
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 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,431 ratings — published 2003
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,025 ratings — published 2020
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 — 1,683 ratings — published 2000
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 4,775 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 — 325 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 4.06 — 1,568 ratings — published 1997
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,759 ratings — published 2013
When Do Fish Sleep? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 519 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 — 305 ratings — published 2007
1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.09 — 989 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 4.04 — 2,362 ratings — published 2013
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,707 ratings — published 2007
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers (Fascinating Bathroom Readers)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.27 — 483 ratings — published 2010
5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.77 — 770 ratings — published 2007
When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth? An Imponderables Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.58 — 243 ratings — published 1992
Return of the Straight Dope: Still More from the Popular Newspaper Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.20 — 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 — 533 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 — 2,213 ratings — published 2015
Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #19)
by (shelved 13 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.30 — 381 ratings — published 2006
The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 694 ratings — published
Do Fish Drink Water?: Puzzling and Improbable Questions and Answers – A Wildly Informative Collection with Entertaining Anecdotes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 739 ratings — published 1999
“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
“So maybe we never would have realized we were so compatible if we hadn't been trading song lyrics and movie dialogue. That's textbook trivia right there."
Mindy looks unconvinced. "But that's how *everybody* gets together. They find some dumb thing they both know a little about that they can talk about until the waiter brings dinner. According to you, there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia."
"I think that's exactly right," I agree. "To trivia.”
― Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
Mindy looks unconvinced. "But that's how *everybody* gets together. They find some dumb thing they both know a little about that they can talk about until the waiter brings dinner. According to you, there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia."
"I think that's exactly right," I agree. "To trivia.”
― Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
