5087 Trivia Questions & Answers - Hardcover

Marsha Kranes; Fred Worth; Steve Tamerius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579120865 ISBN 13: 9781579120863

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1999

Synopsis

Taking Trivial Pursuit to the extreme, this book offers trivia buffs hours of toil testing their knowledge and fact finding skills with a huge collection of intriguing but little known facts.

The book features wonderfully arcane questions with often surprising answers organized by topic, from language, art, government and sports to film, history, science, religion, business and food.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

5087 Trivia Questions and Answers is the definitive collection for diehard trivia buffs (and the rest of us who think we know a thing or two). A mammoth assortment of minutia, it's guaranteed to boggle the minds of even the most informed and eclectic readers. With entries on everything from the amount Warner Communications paid for the rights to the song "Happy Birthday" to the strange death that befell Atilla the Hun, it's an endless source of obscure and enlightening entertainment.

Based on nearly twenty years of the 365 Amazing Trivia Facts Page-A-Day Calendar--the quintessential source of fun information for trivia fanatics--5087 Trivia Questions and Answers is organized by chapter with themes like The Cinema, Language, War & The Military and The World. Questions range from science to entertainment, antiquity to the Space Age, and include some little-known facts about some well-known people, like the special clause Jimmy Stewart had worked into all his movie contracts and the president who was ticketed for speeding during his term by Washington, D.C. police. Other entries expose those undeniably entertaining trivia gems, like the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box or the difference between a nook and a cranny.

5087 Trivia Questions and Answers is virtually bursting with facts that inhabit the murky ground between essential and irrelevant--from the number of exclamation points in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Bonfire of the Vanities to the number of grooves on the edge of a quarter. Accept the challenge and test your knowledge in this exhaustive compilation of obscure statistics and vital details, with the answers to some of life's least important but most intriguing questions, and all the facts they never taught you in school.

From the Back Cover

THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION FOR DIEHARD TRIVIA BUFFS

(AND THE REST OF US WHO THINK WE KNOW A THING OR TWO).

Language / Art , Comics & Literature / Presidential Trivia / The World / Television & Radio / Sports & Games / War & the Military / America--Past & Present / Religion, the Bible & Mythology / Music & Theater / Science / Nature & Medicine / The Cinema / Food / Business, Advertising & Inventions / Miscellaneous

Including:

What Oscar-winning film featured a scene with an estimated 300,000 extras? --GHANDI. The scene in the 1982 film was a recreation of the Indian leader's massive funeral in New Delhi on January 31, 1948.

What country once was plagued by a murderous religious sect whose members were called thugs? --INDIA. The group was wiped out by the British in the 19th century, but its name is still used to describe criminals.

What singer, as a teenager, ended up in juvenile detention center for shoplifting a Kiss T-shirt? --COURTNEY LOVE

In the late 1920s, who arranged 200 golf balls in neat rows in the hollow of a fallen tree at a public golf course in Winnnipeg, Canada? --A GOPHER, in the mistaken belief that they were eggs and would make appetizing wintertime eating.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1579120865
• ISBN 13: 9781579120863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 752