Brainstorming Trivia Combo: Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac & The Book of Useless Information

A Delightfully Refreshing Trivia Resource!

If the occasional game of trivia isn't enough to keep your fact-loving facility happy, then this is exactly what you need. This set offers more than a thousand hilarious and intriguing facts and nearly ten thousand pre-made trivia questions, making it easy to satisfy the trivia buffs in your group as often as you like. Creating your own trivia is as easy as pie if you've got themed and daily trivia resources at you fingertips.

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Ken Jennings Trivia Almanac

Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac is the ingeniously organized book where, for a change, the all-time Jeopardy! champ gets to ask the questions–and where every day of the year will give you the chance to test your trivia mettle.? For example:

February 21: In 1912, on this day, Teddy Roosevelt coined the political phrase “hat in the ring,” so Ken Jennings fires off a series of “ring” questions. What two NFL quarterbacks have four Super Bowl rings each?* What rings are divided by the Cassini Division?** Also on this date, in 1981, the “goth” music scene was born in London, so here’s a quiz on black-clad icons like Darth Vader, Johnny Cash, and Zorro. Do you know the secret identities of Ivanhoe’s Black Knight*** or Men in Black’s Agent M****? ?

In this ultimate book for trivia buffs and other assorted know-it-alls, the 365 entries feature “This Day in History” factoids, trivia quizzes, and questions categorized by Jennings as “Easy,” “Hard,” and “Yeah, Good Luck.” Topics cover every subject under the sun, from paleontology to mixology, sports feats to Bach suites, medieval popes to daytime soaps. This addictive gathering of facts, oddities, devilishly clever quizzes, and other flights of fancy will make each day a fun and intriguing new challenge.

The Book of Useless Information

If you’re tired of the same old trivia, here’s a collection of little known factoids that will make your next trivia game fun and exciting again! Guaranteed to surprise and delight, you’ll be amazed at the bizarre tidbits that have been unearthed to create this fascinating volume. Perfect for constructing a trivia contest unlike any other you’ve had before. Or, use the book as a discussion piece – there are certainly plenty of little-known facts in here to get folks talking!

All you never needed to know, and couldn’t be bothered to ask...

What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book...

Did you know (or do you care)...

• That fish scales are used to make lipstick?
• Why organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States’s annual income?
• The name of the first CD pressed in the United States?
• The last year that can be written upside-down or right side-up and appear the same?
• The shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar®?
• How much Elvis weighed at the time of his death?
• What the suits in a deck of cards represent?
• How many Quarter Pounders can be made from one cow?
• How interesting useless information can be?

The Book of Useless Information answers these teasers and is packed with facts and figures that will captivate you—and anyone who shares your joy in the pursuit of pointless knowledge.