Puzzles and quizzes

This book contains 5000 interesting and entertaining general quiz questions.

Energize your relationship with this quiz book for couplesCuriosity is a great way to create and sustain intimacy in relationships.

Did you hear the one about the canal builder who forgot canals need water?

In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions.

"Oh, this is elementary, my dear Watson!

With his characteristic talent for finding the connections between writing and the stuff of our lives (most notably in his earlier hit Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer), Peter Turchi ventures into new, and even more surprising, territory.

This exciting book shows you how to fold realistic models of your favorite pets, zoo animals and other wildlife!

Discover hundreds of entertaining and often hilarious etymological journeys, by the bestselling author of Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?

Computer Methods in Operations Research focuses on the computational methods used in operations research.

For Texans and non-Texans alike, Mythic Texas is a fascinating journey into a culture that is like no other in the world.

The story of the United States military is the story of the countryitself.

Whether you're an American Mah Jongg newbie or an intermediate player looking to gain an edge over your opponents, American Mah Jongg for Everyone is the perfect book to help you start practicing your game!

Test your knowledge of our great nation with this comprehensive volume of United States trivia, complete with quizzes to challenge-and stump-your friends.

Can you escape this book?

**Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award Bronze Medal**Kids ages 6 to 11 will love this adorably cute collection of easy origami crafts that can be customized in endless ways.

Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians.

Once again Doug Lennox, the toastmaster of trivia, serves up a mammoth selection of some of his most cherished Q&As culled from his previous books.

Astonishing stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, and customs-from Kleenex to steak sauce, Barbie Dolls to honeymoons.

Fun facts about the first state!

Vainglorious gods and irresistible seductresses.

Sign Language of the Deaf: Psychological, Linguistic, and Sociological Perspectives provides information pertinent to the psychological, educational, social, and linguistic aspects of sign language.

The beloved bathroom reader series returns with this twenty-sixth edition that's flush with weird facts on a wide array of topics.

Step into a world of daring knights, brave princesses and fire breathing dragons!

While baseball is touted as America's favourite pastime, everyone will know the score with this grand slam of Q&A that's sure to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The One Culture focuses on the state of the American culture in the so-called Age of Technology.

Human and Machine Vision provides information pertinent to an interdisciplinary program of research in visual perception.

C++ is famous for getting all the default behaviors wrong and for sometimes making demons fly out of your nose.

Take an astonishing, amusing, and charmingly unconventional tour through the curious everyday lives of humans past.

When Archimedes, while bathing, suddenly hit upon the principle of buoyancy, he ran wildly through the streets of Syracuse, stark naked, crying "e;eureka!

Fold and launch world record-setting paper airplanes!

Un livre pour les tripeux d’énigmes, de charades et autres casse-tête.

Key thinkers, theories, discoveries, and inventions each explained on a single page!

Key thinkers, theories, discoveries, and concepts each explained on a single page!

Learn the facts on some popular myths so you'll be able to decide whether that smart-sounding person is spouting knowledge, or they're just full of it.

From Sudoku to Quantum Mechanics, Unraveling the Mysteries of Mathematics!

Bite-sized bits of information to give you the edge on trivia night-from crime and punishment to the rich and famous to ghosts, ghouls, oddballs, and more!

Uncle John's latest compendium of the most bizarre and entertaining information imaginable: a Worldwide Weird-opedia!

Teaching of Statistics and Statistical Consulting is a collection of papers dealing with graduate programs in statistics; teaching service courses and short courses; and training statisticians for employment in industry and government.

More than 150 new fun facts to delight, befuddle and amaze, from the bestselling author of Why Do Roller Coasters Make You Puke?

The Game is Afoot!

Two Girls, One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords is an audaciously constructed book on the pleasures and puzzles of cryptic crosswords and their linguistic wordplay, from Alan Connor, the Guardian's writer on crosswordsOn 21 December 2013, the crossword puzzle will be 100 years old.

What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective?

When it comes to Q&A trivia, Doug Lennox has no peer.

Take a walk through the biggest events, the wars, the economic, political, and social forces, the presidents, and lesser-known personalities as well as the sports, music, and entertainment that created, changed, and built the United States!