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Brainiac: The Curious, Competitive, and Compulsive World of Trivia Enthusiasts
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From America's highest-earning game show contestant of all time and host of Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings offers an insightful, informative, and humorous dive into the colorful history of trivia. Jennings, the undisputed king of trivia, traces his rise from an anonymous computer programmer to a nerd folk icon, while exploring the world of trivia itself, which he has discovered is centuries older than his childhood obsession.
Whisking readers from the coffeehouses of seventeenth-century London to the Internet age, Jennings chronicles the ups and downs of the trivia fad. He delves into the quiz book explosion of the Jazz Age, the rise, fall, and rise again of TV quiz shows, the nostalgic campus trivia of the 1960s, and the 1980s, when Trivial Pursuit® once again made it fashionable to be a know-it-all.
Jennings also investigates the shadowy demimonde of today's trivia subculture, guiding readers on a tour of trivia across America. He goes head-to-head with the blowhards and diehards of the college quiz-bowl circuit, the slightly soused faithful of the Boston pub trivia scene, and the raucous participants in the annual Q&A marathon in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, "The World's Largest Trivia Contest." And, of course, he takes us behind the scenes of his improbable 75-game run on Jeopardy!
At its core, Brainiac is a love letter to the useless fact. Jennings delights in sharing obscure and fascinating trivia, such as the fact that there's a crater on Venus named after Laura Ingalls Wilder. Engaging and erudite, Brainiac is an irresistible celebration of nostalgia, curiosity, and geeky obsession—in a word, trivia.
"Insightful, informative, and written with a strong dose of humor and humility. . . . I loved this book," says Will Shortz, crossword editor of The New York Times.
product information:
| Attribute | Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| publisher | Villard; Reprint edition (October 30, 2007) | ||||
| language | English | ||||
| paperback | 288 pages | ||||
| isbn_10 | 0812974999 | ||||
| isbn_13 | 978-0812974997 | ||||
| item_weight | 8.8 ounces | ||||
| dimensions | 5.5 x 0.64 x 8.22 inches | ||||
| best_sellers_rank | #302,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #494 in Television Performer Biographies #639 in Trivia (Books) #9,713 in Memoirs (Books) | ||||
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