{"product_id":"brainiac-adventures-in-the-curious-competitive-compulsive-world-of-trivia-buffs-9780812974997","title":"Brainiac: Adventures In The Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World Of Trivia Buffs","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A witty, charming, and engaging dive into trivia's colorful history, from America's highest-earning game show contestant of all time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Insightful, informative, and written with a strong dose of humor and humility. . . . I loved this book.\"--Will Shortz, crossword editor, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKen Jennings is trivia's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTrivia, 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(R) again made it fashionable to be a know-it-all. Jennings also investigates the shadowy demimonde of today's 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 World's 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 there's a crater on Venus named after Laura Ingalls Wilder? Ken Jennings, that's who.) Engaging and erudite, Brainiac is an irresistible celebration of nostalgia, curiosity, and geeky obsession--in a word, trivia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42979001761958,"sku":"9780812974997","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/brainiac-adventures-in-the-curious-competitive-compulsive-world-of-trivia-buffs-9780812974997-32252033532082.jpg?v=1656109819","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/brainiac-adventures-in-the-curious-competitive-compulsive-world-of-trivia-buffs-9780812974997","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}