Sorry, Wrong Answer : Trivia Questions That Even Know-It-Alls Get Wrong Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Evans, Rod L
- Used
Evans takes readers on a tour of misleading trivia, debunking commonly held assumptions and sharing surprising "right" answers.
Description
Details
- Title Sorry, Wrong Answer : Trivia Questions That Even Know-It-Alls Get Wrong
- Author Evans, Rod L
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2010-06-01
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 12401018-75
- ISBN 9780399535864 / 0399535861
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 4.47 x 0.64 in (20.57 x 11.35 x 1.63 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Questions and answers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009051988
- Dewey Decimal Code 031.023
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Summary
What color is the black box on a commercial airplane?
Where did India ink originate?*
Most of us know more than we think we know. We also think we know more than we actually do-because some of what we think we know simply "ain't so." We all harbor misconceptions that are accepted not only because they are popular but also because they make sense.
It makes sense to believe, for example, that German chocolate originated in Germany rather than the truth: that German chocolate is so named because it was created by Sam German. It seems logical to believe that Mercury is the hottest planet because of its proximity to the sun, or that buttermilk contains butter, that Danish pastry is from Denmark, and that the boat race America's Cup was named after the United States of America.
In Sorry, Wrong Answer, Rod Evans takes readers on a tour of misleading trivia, debunking commonly held assumptions and sharing surprising "right" answers.
*Answers: Japan; Orange; China
