{"product_id":"brainiac-adventures-in-the-curious-competitive-compulsive-world-of-trivia-buffs-0812974999","title":"Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0812974999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jennings, Ken\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER  A witty, charming, and engaging dive into trivias colorful history, from Americas highest-earning game show contestant of all time and host of Jeopardy!Insightful, informative, and written with a strong dose of humor and humility. . . . I loved this book.-Will Shortz, crossword editor, The New York TimesKen Jennings is trivias undisputed king-and as he traces his rise from anonymous computer programmer to nerd folk icon, he explores his newly conquered kingdom: the world of trivia itself.Trivia, he has found, is centuries older than his childhood obsession with it. Whisking us from the coffeehouses of seventeenth-century London to the Internet age, Jennings chronicles the ups and downs of the trivia fad: the quiz book explosion of the Jazz Age; the rise, fall, and rise again of TV quiz shows; the nostalgic campus trivia of the 1960s; and the 1980s, when Trivial Pursuit again made it fashionable to be a know-it-all.Jennings also investigates the shadowy demimonde of todays trivia subculture, guiding us on a tour of trivia across America. He goes head-to-head with the blowhards and diehards of the college quiz-bowl circuit, the slightly soused faithful of the Boston pub trivia scene, and the raucous participants in the annual Q\u0026amp;A marathon in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, The Worlds Largest Trivia Contest. And, of course, he takes us behind the scenes of his improbable 75-game run on Jeopardy!But above all, Brainiac is a love letter to the useless fact. (Who knew that theres a crater on Venus named after Laura Ingalls Wilder? Ken Jennings, thats who.) Engaging and erudite, Brainiac is an irresistible celebration of nostalgia, curiosity, and geeky obsession-in a word, trivia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51974578864416,"sku":"NEW0812974999","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/brainiac-adventures-in-the-curious-competitive-compulsive-world-of-trivia-buffs-0812974999","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}