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title: "Ultimate Book of Trivia: The Essential Collection of over 1,000 Curious Facts to Impress Your Friends and Expand Your Mind"
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# Ultimate Book of Trivia: The Essential Collection of over 1,000 Curious Facts to Impress Your Friends and Expand Your Mind

**Brand:** scott mcneely
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- **What is this?** Ultimate Book of Trivia: The Essential Collection of over 1,000 Curious Facts to Impress Your Friends and Expand Your Mind by scott mcneely
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Urban legends and funny anecdotes masquerading as facts within the first five pages...
  

*by B***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2018*

I wanted to like this book, really I did. My friends are always teasing me about being a great source of useless information, so I'm always up for a trivia book, and I liked the way it was divided by subject etc. And then I read the author's forward about how diligently he fact-checked all his information (great) with primary and secondary sources (uh, secondary sources?) including wikipedia... and still decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. There's still plenty of very useful and accurate information on wikipedia (I'm a frequent user and donor), although it should definitely be fact-checked and taken with the grain of salt, and you should really use the handy bibliography that every entry provides for fact-checking purposes.Where he lost me was when he claimed like 3 pages into the actual trivia section (after a bunch of Star Wars "facts" like "hey, technically Nasa probes use the same propulsion system as TIE Fighters") was that Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door. Uh, no. Yes, he was mocked by his contemporaries for cutting a second, smaller cat door after his cat had kittens (har har, stupid smart guy couldn't figure out that small cats could go through a bigger hole). But, by then, cat holes in doors and walls had already been a thing for quite some time.In fact, even wikipedia states that it's an urban legend that he invented them (in their pet door entry -- no mention of cat doors or pet doors in their entry on Newton), which tells me that he read something in Cat Fancy or The Daily Mew or something, said "Hey, it's a secondary source and that's good enough!!!" and published it as fact without bothering to do so much as a quick google search to confirm it (seriously, google search it; you won't need to go past the first page to realize it's not fact). At that point, I deleted it from my tablet. If he can't fact-check something that basic, I'm not taking anything else in the book at face value. And it defeats the purpose of reading a trivia book for fun if you have to fact-check every last alleged fact.Sorry for the mini rant, but considering that he went out of his way to start the book with a passage on how diligently he fact-checked everything when he couldn't even be bothered to check GOOGLE, it annoys me and makes me think I could have spent that $1 better elsewhere.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 24, 2020*

A bit dated now but some interesting facts and figures on many main topics for general and  trivia game usage.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Amusing
  

*by I***F on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 2, 2018*

I enjoy these types of books.  But you can't just be a re-hash or a collection of snippets from other books.  For me at least, this one had some new interesting and to me anyway unknowns.  I read it while working out on the elliptical.  Worth the .63$ I paid for it.

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