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Author: Chris Adams Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 9781797202044 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
Filled with clues from NPR's popular news quiz show,Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!, this collection features 80 new crossword puzzles, perfect for every fan who's been itching to put their own trivia powers to the test! * BRAND-NEW PUZZLES FORWAIT, WAIT FANS: The 80 all-new puzzles in this book include content featured on the last several years of the show, ranging from pop culture to current events. * THERE'S TRIVIA TOO: The book also includes six pages of specialty trivia, perfect for hardcoreWait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! * A GREAT GIFT FOR THE PUZZLER IN YOUR LIFE: Buy this crossword collection for trivia nerds, pop-culture fanatics, word-game lovers, and public radio enthusiasts.
Author: NPR Publisher: Rodale Books ISBN: 9781579546533 Category : American wit and humor Languages : en Pages : 0
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Its no wonder that Wait, Wait....Dont Tell Me! has the fastest-growing audience of all the shows on NPRits witty, funny, and smart. Every week 1.5 million listeners tune in to test their knowledge against some of the best and brightest personalities in the news and entertainment worlds, such as Roy Blount Jr., Sue Elliot, and Charles Pierce among others, while figuring out whats real news....and whats made up. Where else would you find former Secretary of State Madeline Albright showing her funny side while getting all three of her quiz questions wrong?Now, at last, the game shows adoring fans can tickle their brain cells anytime, anywhere with this first-ever collection of tricky trivia questions, challenging quizzes, hilarious stories and obscure tidbits from the arenas of politics, history, and entertainment. The producers have culled all their favorite bits from past shows and marveled at just how darn clever theyve been. You may find you actually learn something while laughing your head off.
Author: Roy Blount, Jr. Publisher: ISBN: 9780756795337 Category : Languages : en Pages : 178
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National Public Radios' (NPR) weekly show, Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!Ó is sassy, fast-paced, irreverent, & one of NPR's most popular programs. A typical episode is a mix of offbeat questions & answers that prompt giggles & guffaws. This book contains some of the entertaining questions (& answers) from the show. Did you know that a World War II British spy manual recommended sneaking into German brothels to put itching powder in German prophylactics? How about that Elvis offered to help Pres. Nixon track down communists & drug abusers? All manner of valuable & worthless news lies between these pages, waiting for you to take it to the beach, on a road trip, to the bathroom so you can roar with friends or privately. Illustrations.
Author: Oliver Roeder Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324003782 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Author: Peter Sagal Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1451696256 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 224
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Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World, shares “commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you” (Susan Orlean). On the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal—brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public radio—started running seriously. And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and trails all over the United States and the world, including the 2013 Boston Marathon, where he crossed the finish line moments before the bombings. In The Incomplete Book of Running, Sagal reflects on the trails, tracks, and routes he’s traveled, from the humorous absurdity of running charity races in his underwear—in St. Louis, in February—or attempting to “quiet his colon” on runs around his neighborhood—to the experience of running as a guide to visually impaired runners, and the triumphant post-bombing running of the Boston Marathon in 2014. With humor and humanity, Sagal also writes about the emotional experience of running, body image, the similarities between endurance sports and sadomasochism, the legacy of running as passed down from parent to child, and the odd but extraordinary bonds created between strangers and friends. The result is “a brilliant book about running…What Peter runs toward is strength, understanding, endurance, acceptance, faith, hope, and charity” (P.J. O’Rourke).
Author: Paula Poundstone Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616207191 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 288
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“A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat.” —Lily Tomlin “Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.” —Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice “Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?” In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights—the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself up as a human guinea pig in a series of thoroughly unscientific experiments, Poundstone tries out a different get-happy hypothesis in each chapter of her data-driven search. She gets in shape with taekwondo. She drives fast behind the wheel of a Lamborghini. She communes with nature while camping with her daughter, and commits to getting her house organized (twice!). Swing dancing? Meditation? Volunteering? Does any of it bring her happiness? You may be laughing too hard to care. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is both a story of jumping into new experiences with both feet and a surprisingly poignant tale of a single working mother of three children (not to mention dozens of cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny, and one ant left from her ant farm) who is just trying to keep smiling while living a busy life. The queen of the skepticism-fueled rant, Paula Poundstone stands alone in her talent for bursting bubbles and slaying sacred cows. Like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and David Sedaris, she is a master of her craft, and her comedic brilliance is served up in abundance in this book. As author and humorist Roy Blount Jr. notes, “Paula Poundstone deserves to be happy. Nobody deserves to be this funny.”
Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: ISBN: 9780340978504 Category : Cancer Languages : en Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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