Any Good Recent Question and Answer Trivia Books?

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I found this site many many years ago via Usenet’s Cecil Adams group and I found that because I read the Straight Dope books. I loved those books and I found those because I really enjoyed books that gave trivia in the format where people would receive questions from readers and provide answers. Other ones I read and reread included Imporderables and Why Things Are.

I know the Internet has really put a damper on this genre but are there any more recent books of this type out there you would recommend?

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Not *exactly *what you’re looking for, but worth mentioning:

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, by Randall Munroe (of the xkcd webcomic).

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The New Scientist publishes books of its “last word” column, such as Why Don’t Penguins Feet Freeze. That’s an early one - there are many others, the first one is “Does Anything Eat Wasps”, I think.

Well worth a look.