The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide is designed for someone who wants to study for any of the many game shows now on TV. Many of the clues on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and Jeopardy! are contained within the pages of this book. It contains over 12,500 facts that come up over and over on these types of shows. No other trivia book today contains the amount of information in this book and designed with short easy to study clues. This book is a must for anyone studying for any of the challenging game shows on American TV today.
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Steven Ferrill is a self-professed trivia fanatic. He first realized this magnetism toward diverse facts during the original run of Jeopardy! from 1964 to 1974, where he rarely missed a show. Today he is a veteran of High School Bowl, College Bowl and hundreds of local trivia matches. He has also passed the test for Jeopardy! twice, although he has yet to be called. Making the move behind the microphone, he now hosts trivia matches for many local charities in the St. Louis area.
As a trivia maven, he knows what material comes up over and over again on todays game shows. He has taken eleven years to compile the information in this book and arrange it into an easy to study format.
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Fraught with Errors!,
By "ewbarry" (Augusta, ME USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide (Paperback)
While I appreciate and applaud Mr. Ferrill's unique effort, I must point out that within the first couple of minutes that I looked through this book, I KEPT FINDING ERRORS! For instance, the second American in Space was Gus Grissom, not Scott Carpenter. The first American to walk in space was Ed White, not Alan White. The Bismark was a German Battleship, not a Destroyer. The major rivers in Maine are the Penobscot, Androscoggin, and the Kennebec, not the KENNEBUNK. (The Kennebunk is a small river, significant only for its mouth's proximity to ex-Pres. Bush's estate.) Stonewall Jackson was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, not TENNESSEE. The trachea is not the "tube traveling from the mouth to lungs"-it connects the larynx to the lungs (or even more accurately, it connects the larynx to the left and right mainstem bronchi). Erythrocytes don't "carry" Red Blood Cells-they ARE Red Blood Cells, and they carry oxygen. Cartilage is not the "tissue that attaches tendons to bones"-tendons attach muscle to bones and insert directly into the bones. Tojo was a Japanese General, not an ADMIRAL. I won't even address the spelling errors. Again, I found these errors within a few minutes of picking the book up and randomly glancing through a couple of sections-and these are just the errors I could instantly identify. These errors may seem trivial, but afterall, this is a book about trivia! I suppose this book may have served some game show participants and viewers adequately, and I'm sure the vast majority of Mr. Ferrill's information is accurate. But, based on the number of errors I discovered in the first ten minutes, I sure wouldn't trust it as a reliable source to settle a bet or an argument.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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bad bad bad,
By mungo181 (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide (Paperback)
I just started the book (randomly, at US Presidents), and, after looking at just three pages I've found an error. Not a typo, an error. This is bad. How can I possibly trust the rest of information in the book?
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful if you can avoid believing errors,
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This review is from: The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide (Paperback)
The most recent ISBN of this book is apparently 1893937038. There's an older version up on Amazon as well, which seems to have many more errors. The versions do not appear to be differentiated except by their ISBN numbers. After running into some mistakes on my own, I've been checking on some of the errors reported here and elsewhere and finding that many have been fixed in this edition, but some have not.
I would NOT, repeat, NOT buy this used! The older version claimed Miami was the capital of Florida, to name just the most ridiculous example. It kind of makes me think the author just wrote down every fact he could think of and never checked any of them because he thought he knew for sure. This version correctly lists Tallahassee. Some errors and typos that remain: p. 226 The Lighthouse at Alexandria is not named "Pharaohs" -- it's "Pharos". It should also be noted that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are thought to not have actually existed. p. 227 Comedy of Errors characters are named Antipholus, not Anipholus p. 276 South Dakota listed as The Sunshine State; it's not. (That's Florida) I would really like to see a web page gathering together all the errors people have found in this book so we could all make note of them in our copies. This book would be a great resource if only we could trust it.
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