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How to Kick Someone's Ass

de E. R. Silverman

A drunk giant comes charging at you in a bar. Go with a roundhouse kick, Judo hip throw, or Karate punch to bring him to the ground. Your cheapskate neighbor refuses to pay you back. The next time he's on vacation,...

Star Trek Trivia Book: Star Trek All Series

de Jill Sherwin

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW STAR TREK®? WELL, FIRE UP THOSE NEURONS, BECAUSE HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO PROVE IT!

1. How many tribbles did Spock calculate had bred aboard Deep Space Station K-7?

2. What type of life-form...

God Save the Queen

de Summersdale

A wealth of fascinating facts about Queen Elizabeth II

She's one of the most well-known women on the planet, but while many people know of her love of animals, her taste in fashion, and her attendances at Royal...

The Big Book of American Trivia

de J. Stephen Lang

Impress your friends with knowledge of all things American-geography, history, entertainment, people, culture, and quirky miscellany. More than 3,000 questions will fill countless hours of fun as you learn fascinating...

California Trivia

de Lucy Poshek

Test your California smarts! This engaging trivia book is packed with fascinating facts about the history, culture, people, and places of the intriguing Golden State. You'll discover well-known and not-so-well-known...

The Intellectual's Checklist

de Richard J. Wallace

All five movements of "Beethoven's Missa" solemnis. Check. The films that Kurasawa based on Western works. Check. Dante's "Nine Circles of Hell". Check. These are the sorts of elegant erudition every self-respecting...

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s and 80s

de Gael Fashingbauer Cooper & Brian Bellmont

If you owe a couple cavities to Marathon candy bars, learned your adverbs from Schoolhouse Rock!, and can still imitate the slo-mo bionic running sound of The Six Million Dollar Man, this book is for you.

Whatever...

Parenting, Uncensored: Straight Talk from Real Moms on Giving Birth

de Gideon Haigh

Make way for this defiantly idiosyncratic, hilariously illuminating compendium of curiosities you never knew you wanted to know!

How do you flirt in Turkish? How do you dump someone in Japanese? What are the...

The First Book of Seconds

de Matthew Murrie & Steve Murrie

With the exception of a few consolation prize-winning legends (Susan Lucci, Al Gore, and the Buffalo Bills come to mind for their mediocrity), most runners-up aren't even remembered. But now the not-so-amazing...

Freak Nation

de Kate Stevens

Vegans. Skateboarders. Trekkies. The Cult of the Individual is alive and well and expressing itself all over America-and this book proves it. With this enlightening (and sometimes frightening) field guide, you'll...

The Lazy Intellectual

de Richard J. Wallace

It's a small attention span world out there, and not everyone's interested in paging through lengthy tomes to deepen their intellect. They want their information. And they want it now.

This book fills that void...

1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You

de ary McNeal

Fact: Chocolate contains the alkaloid theobromine, which in high doses can be toxic to humans, and in even small amounts can kill dogs, parrots, horses, and cats.

This means that despite its name, the Kit-Kat...

The Big Book of Canadian Trivia

de Mark Kearney & Randy Ray

Here in one big book is all the trivia and facts about Canada anyone needs to know. All regions are covered, as well as important Canadian figures such as John Molson, Elizabeth Arden, and Russ Jackson. This...

Now You Know Baseball

de Doug Lennox

Everyone will know the score with this grand slam of Q&A that's sure to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Doug Lennox hammers it out of the park by filling us in on who's won the most Cy Young Awards and the...

Now You Know Big Book of Sports

de Doug Lennox

Doug Lennox, the world champion of trivia, is back to score touchdowns, hit homers, and knock in holes-in-one every time with a colossal compendium of Q&A athletics that has all anyone could possibly want to...

The Indispensable Book of Useless Information: Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any More Useless--It Does

de Donal Voorhees

Nothing you'll ever need to know is in this book

The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about.

Why bother learning that......

The Book of Origins: Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things

de Trevor Homer

Read Trevor Homer's posts on the Penguin Blog.

Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have...

Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: The Decline of the Average American

de Peter Strupp & Alan Dingman

The world's lone superpower...supreme guardian of democracy...and home of the blithely uninformed and epidemically obese. Welcome to America -- pull up a chair, click on the tube, and grab a donut. Concerned...

Who's Your TV Alter Ego?: The Ultimate Television Character Personality Test

de Noah Lusky

ARE YOU A JERRY OR AN ELAINE?

Or maybe you've been living life as a compulsive Monica, when all along there's a carefree Phoebe just waiting to get out? Now's your chance to learn the truth, without having...

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?

de New Scientist

• What time is it at the North Pole?

• What's the chemical formula for a human being?

• Why do boomerangs come back?

• Why do flying fish fly?

• Do the living really outnumber the dead?

• Why does...