Review: Fun questions and answers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
As other reviewers have said, and as I have said about previous volumes in this series, these are not just questions of factual knowledge but brief stories that make you care about the answer. If you don't know the answer immediately, there are usually enough subtle clues sprinkled within the paragraph or two that makes up the question to at least make an educated guess.Compared to the earlier volumes, this one is more US-centric, and within the US, more California than anywhere else. While a large minority of the questions are historical, the popular culture questions concentrate on the 80s and 90s, so may be most appealing to post-Baby-Boom readers born in the late 60s or 70s. Older and younger readers may be at a slight disadvantage, but should enjoy the book nonetheless.The formatting worked fine on my Kindle at a variety of font sizes. The book would be improved a bit by links. The format, identical to earlier volumes, is five questions followed by an answer section that repeats the question and gives the solution. This works pretty well because you often want to let some of the questions rattle around your unconscious for a while, so you can read through all five, then go back over the ones you didn't get immediately. However there is lot of wasted space in the book since each question is repeated, and sometimes you'd like to read only some of the answers. It would be nice for each question to have a link to the answer, in which case the answers could be somewhat longer, giving additional details.Despite minor suggestions for improvements, this is a great book for trivia lovers, far superior to the typical question-and-answer book.