Anyone? I know lots of people on here use trivia sites and games and watch the programs- just the names of some of the best would be much appreciated!
I’ll check back in a week. Thanks!
I mentioned in this thread that there’s a great old radio quiz show called “Information, Please.” You might enjoy that; people from across the country would send in questions to try to stump a panel of celebrities, journalists, politicians, musicians, etc. The guests were usually very witty in their responses, and more often than not they got the questions right. Some of the questions are a bit, well, archaic (the show was made in the '30s and '40s), but others are still answerable to a modern trivia fan. (The kind of questions asked give an interesting insight into what, apparently, was part of the school curriculum in those days. Questions about poetry in particular pop up MUCH more often than you’d expect today on a show like Jeopardy, and from the ease with which the panelists answer the questions, it’s obvious that rote memorization of poems was very big in those days.) You can buy MP3 CDs of the show on some of the sites mentioned in the other thread.
I assume you already know about trivia shows like Jeopardy!, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, etc.
There are a series of books called “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” that are chock full of interesting facts, stories, news articles, etc. Don’t be turned off by the title.
I don’t know where you live, but if you ever make your way to the UK, be sure to find out which night is Quiz Night at the local pub. Lots of pubs over there have them; typically they’re divided into four or five categories, and the winning team wins a bar tab. They’re usually lots of fun (hey, beer and trivia – what could be better), and one of the things I miss most from my time in the UK. Unfortunately I’ve never found anything similar in the US. (…Though I think there would be a good market for it – anyone else agree?)
This is the trivia book I keep on my desk at the puzzle factory. Well organized, a good index – and fact-checked, which I’m not sure the Uncle John books were, although they’re a lot of fun.