notbrianna wrote:
This might sound weird but I think that reading Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (any volume) would be good. Often when I get one of the questions right it's because I remember it from one of the bathroom readers.
I do love the Bathroom Readers and also heartily reccomend picking up a few (notably 1995's
The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader which contains cherry picked material from the first seven bathroom readers and new material, and 2008's
Best of the Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader which contains material from the rest of them - and there's about 30 of them).
another fantastic book is
5,003 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia by Stanley Newman and Hal Fittipaldi which I know is available from Barnes & Noble. It has stuff in there that's available nowhere else. The only problem I have with the book is that the publishers didn't do a tremendous job of binding and glueing it, but it is worth the $30 or so dollars. It truly is. I'm a trivia nut and find it invaluable before trivia tournaments.
Other good books:
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts by Isaac Asimov. Although best known as a science fiction author, Asimov is also the only author to have written a book in every Dewey Decimal System category (with the exception of Philosophy and Psychology). This was one of his General Information books. I believe it's out of print, but readily available on Amazon.com. It's a pretty good little fact book, too.
The most recent
World Almanac and Book of Facts is absolutely invaluable. It is the most concise reference book on the planet and it's rather inexpensive too. If you're going on Jeopardy!, you'll need to study the hell out of this baby.
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