Customer Reviews

The Big Book of American Trivia

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I had a wonderful time just browsing through playing trivia as a soloist. Although, when I found myself involved with others the true colors of this wonderful trivia book began to shine. This book is excellent for anyone who has a fervour for good American History. You will come to find just how much you really know about the state your from or live in today. I was suprised at some of the things I was not aware of. So why not learn a little , while having a lot of fun?

Call me old-fashioned, but we don't have a TV in our van, so our kids have to actually converse or play games on the road, and this book saw us through a long trip this summer around Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The thing that makes the book fun is that it is (pardon the pun) all over the map, with series of questions about entertainment, politics, geography, food and drink, others too numerous to list. My kids and I just enjoyed skipping around from one section to another, quizzing each other. Whenever we crossed a state line we went to the section of the book that has a set of 20 questions for each state, which is a neat feature.

This is a terrific trivia book. I would highly reccommend all of J. Stehpen Lang's books. His questions are interesting and a pleasure to read. The author clearly is a lover of trivia and presents it in an enjoyable format.

This book is full of interesting facts and questions. I think it is one of the best books I have ever read. If you like Jeopardy! you will definately love this book. It is a Must of trivia fanatics.

I received this book as a Christmas present. I am a very patriotic girl and
I want to be President someday, so I love it! There is a chapter on presidential history, so I dove in.
The chapters are:
1:For The Record
2:Let Us Entertain You
3:Our Love Affair With Music
4:Leisure Time, American Style
5:So Many Sights To See
6:Call Of The Wild
7:As A Memorial
8:The Finer Things:Authors, Artists, And Such
9:Hail To The Chief (my personal favorite)
10:Doing It By The Decades
11:American Potpourri
12:Ten Questions(About Each State)
13:Things Of The Spirit
Buy this book. You won't be sorry!

I have been a history buff for years, and there are lots of great history questions here, but I also enjoyed the material about pop culture and food. Guess I knew more about pop music and movies than I did about the presidents! There is something here for everybody including kids. I really liked the final section, 20 questions about each oft he 50 states.

OK, so we're all in a patriotic mood now, and why not? America has a lot to celebrate, and this book is all about every aspect of American culture and history. I found this book in my doctor's waiting room and liked it so much I bought it myself. Everything is here--history, TV, movies, pop music, food, trends, politics, especially the US presidents, lots more. I like the format of having the answers on the backs of the question pages. It's good clean fun, and we've enjoyed it with the family.

I use this book for work at a nursing home. I use it to ask trivia questions of residents. It has a good variety of trivia questions and lots of good hints.

This book has a lot of trivia questions. And that's one of the reasons why it isn't a great book. With 3,000 questions, one has to strain to find the interesting ones. A much better bet is the book titled "Quizzing" which I found had interesting answers to almost all the questions it carried.

Our family has enjoyed this a lot, since we take a lot of trips in our RV. Great way to entertain on the road. We really liked the questions about pop music and movies, also some great questions about the US presidents. Very entertaining, clever.