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World Trivia | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Smith
Creator: Gillian Dale
Publisher: East West Discovery Press
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
Buy New: $5.35
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 292576
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 268
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0966943775
Dewey Decimal Number: 031.02
EAN: 9780966943771
ASIN: 0966943775
Publication Date: June 4, 2007
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Product Description
The award-winning World Trivia reveals many amazing and amusing facts of culture, politics and geography around the world. Distinctly different from most trivia books, it illustrates a broad range of cultures and political realities with geographic and map information. It is designed to challenge even the most knowledgeable, and to enrich our knowledge of the world and its people. This book is for all readers, especially those thinking globally.
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 Not worth buying August 4, 2008
Sparse, random geography trivia questions (less than 60 in the book!!!). There's more cartoonish illustration than trivia in this weak excuse for a trivia book.
 Great Fun & Educational too February 28, 2008
I purchased this book for an online group I moderate. The only gripes I've received from participants is that they are geographically inept and the questions make them feel dumb. However, they love the learning ability and we always get a kick out of the factoids and elaborations some answers are given. An example question:
Q: which country's national sport is a competitive game between men on horses trying to drag a headless calf's carcass around an arena?
While this might sound foreign to you, once you know the answer, you'd naturally like to know more about this strange sport. Not only does the book provide the answer, but it elaborates on how the sport is played; typical injuries; the variations to the sport; and the prizes given out to winners.
Each question is on the odd-numbered pages; you turn the page to the next page for the answer. When its a geographical question, there is usually a map provided for context. There are also other drawings throughout the text.
This is the perfect book for a trivia buff. That would be me, and I have thoroughly enjoyed learning trivia that is actually educational and useful.
Answer to the question: Afghanistan.
Not a good purchase January 28, 2008
I was very dissapointed with this book. It is not worth the money if you really are looking to learn some world trivia. It would not even make a good reference book. To be honest I am not sure why Amazon even sells it, the content is very weak. Save your money buy something else, or go to the library. I can not even imagine what the publishers were thinking when they decided to publish this book, truly a dissapointment.
 Great car trivia January 16, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved the book. However, some of the pictures on the question page give a clue to the answer itself.
 Interesting but not good value for money January 4, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a fun and informative book but there just isn't enough content to warrant its price. There is only one question on an entire page and the following page is the answer!! You are paying for lots of blank space on the pages with this book.
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