Ken Jennings
Brainiac
Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A witty, charming, and engaging dive into trivia's colorful history, from America's highest-earning game show contestant of all time Insightful, informative, and written with a strong dose of humor and humility. . . . I loved this book.-Will Shortz, crossword editor, The New York Times Ken 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. Trivia, he has found, is centuries older than his childhood obsession with it. Whisking us from the coffeehouses of seventeenth-century London to the…
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A witty, charming, and engaging dive into trivia's colorful history, from America's highest-earning game show contestant of all time Insightful, informative, and written with a strong dose of humor and humility. . . . I loved this book.-Will Shortz, crossword editor, The New York Times Ken 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. 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 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&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.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8129-7499-7
- EAN: 9780812974997
- Produktnummer: 2946264
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Über den Autor
Ken Jennings was born in Seattle but spent much of his childhood in Seoul, South Korea. A graduate of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he worked as a computer programmer until becoming an unlikely celebrity due to his unprecedented record-breaking streak on the television quiz show Jeopardy! He lives outside Salt Lake City with his wife and son.
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