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Fact or Crap Quiz Book (Quiz Books)

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I purchased this for a 2 day/13 hour road trip for my kids (1 tween and 1 young teen). They didn't run right to it but they did enjoy it after they tired of their ipods and computers. I liked the questions because it taught them older and odd facts but there are current facts as well (ie Simpsons) so they did not get frustrated at all. The format where 2 teams or individuals can play against each other provided extra incentive and excitement to the game (and we let them ask a 3rd party for a certain number of questions like one of the TV quiz shows does). I would buy it again for next year's trip.

The title says it all: This is a super quiz book with 175 pages of questions with only two answers possible -- Fact or Crap. Play on your own or with 2 teams.

The information to be evaluated is varied and challenging:

* The term schema refers to a movie's structure and plot.
* Spider-Man's creator, Stan Lee, once attended a seminary with hope of becoming a priest.
* Ducks have three eyelids.
* Celery takes more calories to eat than it actually contains.
* Bette Davis' tombstone reads, "She did it the hard way."

We've played this with teams and had a great time. Fact or Crap is a wonderful gift for teens and adults.

I found the questions in this book too easy and not always well written. The answers are at the bottom of each page, which makes checking answers convenient...unless you're perusing the book alone. Since the book is small-sized and the answers are either "fact" or "crap" it's easy to catch a glimpse of an answer or two.

At $10 this book isn't a good value - for a few dollars more I recommend Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days. It's larger but it has many more questions (which aren't true or false), it's interesting to read, and the questions range from easy to difficult and from contemporary pop culture to the arcane.

This was somewhat entertaining and useful to keep us occupied on our trip. But, we could not understand/questioned some of the answers - wish there would have been some accompanying answer information to validate answer.