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Trivia Books
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The Book of General Ignorance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.75 — 11,195 ratings — published 2006
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,678 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 — 3,376 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 — 2,703 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 — 9,375 ratings — published 1995
Schott's Original Miscellany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,137 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 3.63 — 940 ratings — published 1987
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.14 — 197,340 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 — 3,714 ratings — published 2012
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,436 ratings — published 1987
The Book of Useless Information (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 1,649 ratings — published 2006
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 4,169 ratings — published 2012
Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 805 ratings — published 1991
mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 926 ratings — published 2004
The Straight Dope (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 737 ratings — published 1984
Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #17)
by (shelved 23 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.25 — 583 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 — 3,656 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 — 485 ratings — published 2002
The Know-It-All (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 29,814 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 — 8,586 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 — 1,696 ratings — published 2010
Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.59 — 318 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 — 830 ratings — published 2005
Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #16)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.28 — 499 ratings — published 2003
How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as trivia)
avg rating 3.63 — 286 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 4.05 — 1,031 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 — 3,938 ratings — published 2020
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as trivia)
avg rating 4.20 — 612 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 — 1,666 ratings — published 2000
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 4,767 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 — 324 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 — 1,563 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 — 1,415 ratings — published 2003
When Do Fish Sleep? : An Imponderables' Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 515 ratings — published 1989
More of the Straight Dope (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 300 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 — 299 ratings — published 2007
1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 977 ratings — published 2013
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts (Hardcover)
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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)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,355 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 4.20 — 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 — 534 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 — 2,121 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong (Hardcover)
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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 — 437 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 — 379 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 — 730 ratings — published 1999
5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 760 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
“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
“I poked him in the chest. 'First of all, yes, it was. Lacy cards and love tokens were widely exchanged even in Victorian times. By now, you should know better than to screw with me on historical trivia.”
― Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
― Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men












