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#1 New Release in History, Reference, and Trivial & Fun Facts
─ Entertaining Trivia Nights in a BookFans of Uncle John's
Bathroom Reader and the Guinness Book of World
Records will achieve trivia mastery and dominance
with We Don't Know Either: Trivia Night Done Right. More than
a fact book:Â Building on the increasing popularity of pub
trivia and mobile trivia apps We Don’t Know Either: Trivia
Night Done Right brings you the entertaining format of City
Trivia anywhere you want. City Trivia’s format is packed with
trivia entertainment in five rounds of questions and four bonus
rounds, including puzzles, pictures, fill-in-the-blank challenges,
and even music rounds. Divide into teams, pick your most (or least)
entertaining friend to host and prepare for two hours of fun per
chapter. You just might learn something interesting to say when
you’re out and about next weekend. Packed with exciting, fun,
head-scratching trivia to play and laugh with, We Don’t
Know Either: Trivia Night Done Right is your how-to guide for
a lively and humorous night of trivia at home or at your favorite
bar or restaurant. A perfect book for trivia nights and special
occasions:Â Create your own fun and entertaining event with
this unique trivia book that guides you through rounds of trivia
fun and humor. This book will help you liven up a family night or
make a special event, such as a birthday or wedding, even more
memorable by bringing people together with trivia. The book’s
host commentary will introduce you to the trivia while guiding you
through the games with humor and wit. As the folks at City Trivia
say, “We’ve Got Questions, You’ve Got Answers!†Get ready
to have fun and learn something new with We Don’t Know
Either: Trivia Night Done Right. We Don’t Know Either will:
Provide a fun game that will unleash your competitive streaks
Enhance your knowledge on a wide range of topics, both mundane and
truly bizarre Entertain you with witty comments and interesting
facts Improve your pub trivia night Pub trivia has never been more
fun!
The QI Annuals are the nearest things to having the hit BBC1 TV
show live in your living room. Top comedians and brainiacs, from
Stephen Fry and Alan Davies to guests such as Phill Jupitus, Jo
Brand, Clive Anderson, Jeremy Clarkson and Rowan Atkinson, have
joined top cartoonists and illustrators, and the estimiable QI
elves themselves in the first three QI Annuals, covering the
letters E, F and G (starting at A is so overrated). Collected by
the writers of the BBC show, QI, and authors of the worldwide
bestsellers The Book of General Ignorance and 1,227 QI Facts To
Blow Your Socks Off, here is a hilarious and informative selection
of the QI team's fun facts. Featuring the likes of Stephen Fry,
Alan Davies and many other QI guests, this bumper paperback edition
is the perfect Christmas gift for pub quiz experts, fans of
Guinness World Records and lovers of all things QI.
All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz
form! Test your London knowledge with this fascinating book, packed
with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest
events from the illustrious history of this wonderful city. Quiz
categories include: Ancient traditions London eccentrics Getting
about Ghosts and ghouls Corridors of power Monumental monuments
Quirky buildings Just plain weird Whether you're testing your
friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an
armchair, this book will take your London knowledge to a whole new
level. Word count: 30,000 words.
Imagine an edition of Guinness World Records created by a panel of
stand-up comedians... The QI Annual 2008 features original
contributions from Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Bill Bailey
and other regular guests on the show. It's packed full of fun games
to play at home, puzzles, cartoon strips, mini-encyclopedias,
how-to diagrams and masses and masses of QI's weird, wonderful and
incredibly interesting facts. If you want to read Julian Clary's
poetry about the Queen, Roger Law's musings on flatulent kangaroos,
or have often wondered how you might make a waterproof apron out of
a whale's foreskin, your Christmas gift dilemma has just been
solved. WARNING: very silly indeed. Will offend dullards, whales
and parents in no particular order. From the bestselling authors of
The Book of General Ignorance and 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks
Off, comes a hilarious selection of the QI team's most interesting
facts. Perfect for pub quiz experts, fans of Guinness World Records
and lovers of all things QI.
The perfect boredom-busting book for long winter evenings with the
family, Richard Herring's Would You Rather? is packed with hundreds
of the biggest questions to face us all, including: Would you
rather have a conversation with a dolphin or an elephant? Would you
rather fall in love or fall into a swimming pool full of your
favourite biscuits? Would you rather live in a giant shoe or a
giant peach? Would you rather own a car with Jimmy Carr, a lorry
with Laurie Anderson or a van with Van Morrison? The questions will
have the whole family, whether 6 or 106, debating on car journeys
and train journeys, or stuck in on wet days during the school
holidays, and will keep you entertained around the table at
Christmas lunch (or when you're falling asleep after Christmas
lunch...). Fun, family-friendly and often completely bonkers, this
book is a perfect gift as well as a game.
Put your knowledge to the test with over 1,500 questions on all
things festive, from movies to music! Do you know The Holiday from
Holidate? Can you name the bestselling Christmas song of all time
or which song featured in the last five John Lewis adverts? From
iconic Christmas TV specials and festive films to bestselling toys
and Christmas tunes, there are 34 quizzes to try your hand at with
each split into three levels of difficulty to suit everyone. Fun
for the whole family, or perfect to play with friends, So This is
Christmas Quiz Book is the ideal gift, stocking filler or secret
Santa present. Discover who wishes it could be Christmas every day
and who is a real Grinch! Quizzes include Christmas TV Christmas
Movies Christmas Toys Christmas Number Ones Christmas Adverts
Christmas Around the World Christmas Trivia
From the team who brought you The Empire Film Guide, here are all
the obscure, indecent and downright bizarre movie facts and figures
that were not considered sensible for a practical film guide.
Discover which country translated GI Jane as Satan Female Soldier,
which Hollywood heartthrob is the lead singer of 30 Odd Foot of
Grunts, and which country takes a bag of toasted leaf cutter ants
to the cinema instead of popcorn! The Schott's Miscellany of
movies, packed full of movie facts, figures and lists, as well as
explanations of filmmaking terminology and a "shot miscellany" - a
list of all the various camera shots. You will soon know your Oscar
Hosts from your Monty Python French insults, and never be short of
small talk again!
Imagine the world before Google or Facebook, when books were the
only source of recorded fact. Originally published in 1956, The
Guinness Book of Superlatives is the very first book in a series
that would one day become one of the most well-known and trusted
brands in the world-The Guinness Book of World Records. This is the
original fun and informative edition, which gathered world facts
and records from the year of its publication and prior. Included
within are world records and facts from the sectors of: Science
Politics Economics Art Architecture Engineering Accidents and
disasters Human achievements The natural world And many more! Pick
up this entertaining reference book, and expand your knowledge of
the world as it was more than sixty years ago.
A paperback reissue of Londonopolis (9781849941655)This curious
history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole and into the
warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets,
museums and secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the
cockneys, politicians, fairies, philosophers, gangsters and royalty
that populate the city, their stories becoming curiouser and
curiouser as layers of time and history are peeled back.Find out
which tube station once housed the Elgin Marbles and what lies
behind a Piccadilly doorway that helped Darwin launch his theory of
evolution and caused the Swedes to wage war against Britain. Do you
believe in fairies? Do you know which Leadenhall site became a
Nag's Head tavern, morphing into the mighty East India Company,
before taking flight as the futuristic Lloyds Building? Who named
the Natural History Museum's long-tailed dinosaur Mr
Whippy?Spanning above and below ground, from the outer suburbs to
the inner city, and from the medieval period to the modern day,
Londonopolis is a celebration of the weird and the wonderful that
makes the mysterious city of London so magical.
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