Random Kinds of Factness
This latest romp through history, politics, religion, and science from the dyno-duo Barrett and Mingo is sure to tickle the fancy of trivia buffs everywhere.
Amuse your date, impress your boss, bore your kids, or be the 6th caller to win a pair of tickets to the nose-flute band concert All because you know that a Twinkie in the microwave will explode in 45 seconds, that you have a 1 in 3,448,276 chance of dying from a snake bite, that 342 cases of tea were tossed into the "hahbah" during the Boston Tea Party or that white rhinoceroses are not actually white but grey (you'll have to read the book to discover why). Barrett and Mingo, partners in life and crime (er, writing) can do a thing or two with random facts, and this book ranks right up there. From the time the Wallace family made famous books of lists of one kind or another, readers have found fascination--or maybe just food for their obsessions--in books like Random Kinds of Factness.
Book details
- Author
- Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo
- Imprint
- Conari Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 226
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Reference › Trivia
Games & Activities › Trivia
Reference › Curiosities & Wonders
Social Science › Popular Culture - Topics
- trivia · fun facts · history · science · popular culture · curiosities and wonders · random knowledge
- ISBN-13
- 9781573242127
About the author
ERIN BARRETT and JACK MINGO are the co-authors of more than 20 books, including the bestselling Just Curious Jeeves, How the Cadillac Got Its Fins, and The Couch Potato Guide to Life.
Barrett and Mingo have written for The New York Times, Salon, Reader’s Digest, and The Washington Post, and have generated more than 30,000 questions for trivia games and game shows, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. They also write a nationally syndicated "This Day in History" column.