5087 Trivia Questions & Answers

Book Description
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.


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.


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