Reddit mentions: The best quiz books

Didn’t get a chance to grade this week because I am on vacation, but here are the answers...


1. Singapore - The 2018 summit was the first-ever meeting between leaders of North Korea and United States. They signed a joint statement, agreeing to security guarantees for North Korea, new peaceful relations, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, recovery of soldiers' remains, and follow-up negotiations.

2. Toronto - The CN Tower, built by Canadian National, held the title until passed by the Burj Khalifa in 2007. It was the world's tallest tower until 2009 when passed by the Canton Tower. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the other Modern Wonders are the Channel Tunnel, Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, Itaipu Dam, Delta & Zuiderzee Works, and Panama Canal.

3. Nicolas Cage - The couple had been dating a year at the time of their sudden marriage. His first marriage was to actress Patricia Arquette (1995-2001), followed by Lisa Marie Presley (three months in 2002), and Alice Kim (2004-2016). He won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995).

4. Flint, Michigan - The GM employee count in Flint decreased from 80,000 in 1978 to about 50,000 in 1992, and is currently close to 5,000. The documentary was the most successful in American history when released, but now sits 39th. The current #1 is Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11", followed by "March of the Penguins" and "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never".

5. "Jane the Virgin" - The series stars Gina Rodriguez as Jane Villanueva, a devout virgin who becomes pregnant after an accidental artificial insemination by her gynecologist. During the third season, in which the lead is no longer a "virgin", the title card was changed with "The Virgin" crossed out and replaced with a substitute corresponding to each episode.

6. Columbia - Grant's only real wish when he died was to be next to his wife when he was buried. This eliminated all military cemeteries as they did not permit women to be interred. Grant's family agreed to have his remains interred in New York City. The Committee on Organization of the monument was led by former President Chester A. Arthur who practiced law in New York City at the time.

7. "American Gods" - The book won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2002. It follows Shadow, released from prison early following the death of his wife, who takes a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday (an incarnation of Odin) while he is recruiting Old Gods for a battle with the New Gods, manifestations of modern life such as the Internet, media, and transportation.

8. Mark Grace - Of the Cubs stars from the 1980s and 1990s, Grace was the only one who went to another team and won a championship. In the 2001 World Series, Grace's single off Mariano Rivera started the series-winning rally in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Seven.

9. Philips - It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik; its first product was light bulbs. As of 2017 it employed around 74,000 people across 100 countries and had revenue of €17.78 billion. It was given its royal honorary title in 1998.

10. "Wrecking Ball" - The song never fell lower than #3 while Lorde's "Royals" was #1 for the entire nine week gap. At one time the music video, which took home the 2014 Video of the Year VMA, held the Vevo record for the most views in the first 24 hours after its release with 19.3 million views.

11. Persepolis - It is believed that Cyrus the Great chose the site of Persepolis, but Darius I built the terrace and palaces; the city probably became the capital of Persia during his reign. Due to a remote mountainous location, the city was not well known to the Greeks until Alexander the Great plundered it circa 330 BCE.

12. "Zero Wing" - Set in 2101, the game follows the signing of a peace treaty between the United Nations and CATS, an alien cyborg. The home console versions of "Zero Wing" were never released in North America. Other famously poor translations in the game include "Somebody set up us the bomb" and "You have no chance to survive make your time".

13. Michael J. Fox - Fox and Pollan first met when Pollan played Ellen Reed on "Family Ties", and became a couple while filming "Bright Lights, Big City" several years later. They have four children together. Prior to Fox, Pollan was in a five-year relationship with Kevin Bacon.

14. "Kids" - The film tells a day in the life of a group of teens in New York City and their hedonistic behavior towards sex and substance abuse during the '90s. Sevigny was friends with screenwriter Korine since high school, while Dawson, in a classic Hollywood story, was discovered by the writer while sitting on her front porch.

15. "The Heights" - "The Heights" centered on a fictional band (also called The Heights). When the theme song went to #1 on the Hot 100 it was the first TV theme song to top the charts since 1985 ("Miami Vice Theme"), and the first by a fictional band since 1969 ("Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies).

16. Puerto Rico - The trench is 497 miles long and has its maximum depth in the Brownson Deep. Scientific studies have concluded that an earthquake occurring along this fault could generate a significant tsunami, such as the one in 1918 following the San Fermín earthquake (aka the Puerto Rico earthquake of 1918).

17. Ptolemy - During ancient times the "Amalgamest" was used across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with Ptolemy becoming an almost mythical figure. Like most of works of Classical Greek science, it was preserved in Arabic manuscripts before being translated to Latin in the 12th Century.

18. Bowling - Earl Anthony, who led the list created by the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour in honor of its 50th anniversary, won 43 titles and six Player of the Year awards. Dick Weber was a founding member of the PBA and, along with Don Carter, is regarded as professional bowling's first superstar.

19. Tata - Following their time under Leyland they were independent again until Ford, which then owned Jaguar, acquired Land Rover from BMW in 2000. The India based Tata Motors purchased them in 2008. In September 2017, Jaguar Land Rover announced that all new models launched after the 2020 model year will have an electric or hybrid option.

20. "Il trovatore" - "Il Trovatore" is performed frequently and is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire. Verdi dominated Italian opera during the mid-late 1800s, with works including "Rigoletto" (1851), "Il trovatore" (1853), "La traviata" (1853), "Aida" (1871), and "Falstaff" (1893).

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I have a lot of me time at the moment, but my real perfect night at the moment would include my SO, because we are long distance for the next year, and it's already a bit tough. I'd love to make a comfy blanket fort, watch some Game of Thrones or Doctor Who, toast marshmallows on candles, drink some wine, and talk about absolutely anything. I'd probably even crack out a quiz book like this because we would end up debating it all and having a good laugh :p

I am an independent author. And am excited about making my books available with Doge.

My books are available on Amazon: Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, Omnibus

But I believe for Dogecoin to be successful, more and more people need to make their products available for Dogecoins. Hence, I am making it available for Dogecoins and available via multiple platforms.

You can pick them up from:

1. AllSos: Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
   
   
2. Dogeslist: Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
   
   I have also been giving out quite a few free copies here as this is a fantastic community and I feel guilty about charging such wonderful people here. So if you would like a free copy, just holler. :)
   
   Lastly, if my experiments with Dogecoins go well, I am looking at releasing Volume IV for Dogecoins exclusively for the initial couple of months.

Agreed, loved Rivers of London. I've read the sequel Moon Over Soho as well. I think I liked the first one better bit it was still good :). Pick up a signed copy from the Waterstones in Covent Garden, that's where the author works / worked. Their London book section is quite good as well.

I happen to collect Londony books, way hey!

Mark Mason's Walk the Lines is pretty great. Guy takes on the task of walking the Underground routes overground. The book has lots of Underground and general London facts and stories.

Paul Talling's London's Lost Rivers and Derelict London are nice to just pick and look through every now and then.

Ackroyd's Biography is great, but for something a bit lighter there's I Never Knew That About London.

I would recommend these:

• The Economic Naturalist by Robert H. Frank. It's a collection of explanations about microeconomics and industrial production (for example: why are milk cartons rectangular while cans are cylindrical? why do DVDs and CDs have different kinds of cases? why are supermodels paid so much?).
  
  
• The New Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace. Many lists feature short anecdotes you might enjoy.
  
  
• Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott. It's not properly a "trivia book", it's a hodgepodge of charts, tables and lists that cover pretty much every possible topic, from the types of clouds to the slang used by the British gay subculture to the flag of Guadeloupe. By the way, every book by Schott is worth reading.
  
  Surely, there are others I've read and I don't remember at the moment.

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> It was May 4, 1984 and Pope John Paul II was visiting Sorok Island off South Korea, a one-time leper colony where several hundred people with the disfiguring disease were receiving care.

> "He touched them with his hands, caressed them, kissed each one," Mari said. "Eight hundred lepers, one by one. One by one!"

I read about this fact in the book 'The Second Book of General Ignorance'.

If you are interested at all in the rules and officiating side, I highly recommend this book

Thank you very much for these

For UK readers here are the same books on Amazon UK

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Volume II

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Volume IV

Heeey, you've got MY collection of Hitchhiker's Guide books...

I love that book company (Picador), they also published a very affordable collection of some writings of Hunter S. Thompson, which is awesome. I think the art on the Hitchhiker books are bomb-ass as all hell.

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He's incredible to watch, usually I hate runaway games but he makes it fascinating. He even studied how to buzz in first.

https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Complete-Quiz-Book/dp/1783337303/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1511285951&sr=8-2&keywords=harry+potter+trivia+book

This is ok. I used it to come up with questions for a trivia night. But it's not a game, so you'd have to create your own trivial pursuit cards or something.

The Prince of Wales in Highgate on a Tuesday night is quite well known for their quiz. There's even a book about it.

Schott's Original Miscellany

I practiced the "cross your hands in front of you, hanging down" strategy from the one guy who wrote the book. But a few questions into the actual game I gave up on it. Hands hanging down was harder to deal with than it had been in practice.

ETA: the book I was thinking of was Secrets of the Buzzer by Fritz Holznagel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014OI84CE/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_nPa3DbWPYNVFA

Probably Schott's Miscellany.

Of course

I found this book at a library used bookstore and it's just a collection of useless info.

http://www.amazon.com/Schotts-Original-Miscellany-Ben-Schott/dp/1582343497

Fiasco is the Italian word for flask. Glass blowing is a delicate art form and if a glassblower was attempting to make a bottle (or whatever) and made a mistake, it would become a common drinking flask, or fiasco.

OK comes from the Civil War when the field commanders would be tallying up the deaths from the day. For instance they would mark 3K for 3 killed or 0K for zero people killed, which made it an OK day.

Source: this book, which is full of these sorts of things: http://www.amazon.com/Why-Do-We-Say-Expressions/dp/1555210104

Edit: people are saying OK is wrong and linking me to a wikipedia page where the main page doesn't list the explanation from the book. It's located in one of the alternative possible etymologies linked from the main page.