It's easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback, but the true football fan has the answers all week long. Doug Lennox, the all-pro of Q&A, leads the drive as he tells us why a touchdown is worth six points, who first decided to...
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Everybody seems to be a golfer or at least knows someone who is. The game is one of the world’s most popular sports, and now Doug Lennox, the links pro of Q&A, hits the green with a barrage of golfing trivia on everything from...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
As Canadians, we all think we know hockey inside and out, but Doug Lennox, the head referee of Q&A, delivers the score on everything from All-Stars to Zambonis and stickhandles the skinny on who wore the first mask in hockey, how...
- Author:Lennox, Doug, Wight, CatrionaSummary:
This is a follow-up to last year's runaway bestseller Now You Know ... The Book of Answers, which went through five printings and sold over 20,000 copies! Why do we shout "Fore" on a golf course? Why is confetti thrown at...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Shiver me timbers and avast ye hearties! We think we know pirates, from Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow to Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, or literature’s Long John Silver and Captain Hook. But what do we really know? The true...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
We're all familiar with the trials and tribulations of the current British Royal Family, but there are more than 25 royal families that still wield power in the world today from Japan and Thailand to Saudi Arabia and Scandinavia....
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Known around the world as football, soccer is the world's most watched and played sport. Now Doug Lennox, the striker of Q&A, scores with a pitch full of tidbits that delivers the goods on Pelé, Maradona, Beckham, Zidane, and...
- Author:Lennox, Doug, Wight, CatrionaSummary:
Why are golf assistants called caddies? Why do the British drive on the left and North Americans on the right? Why is football played on a "gridiron," and a leg injury called a "Charlie horse"? The answers to these...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Presenting three books in the popular and exhaustive trivia series. This collection takes a trip to the dark side of crime and disaster that is educational and informative. Lennox answers such questions as: How long does it really take...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Presenting five books in the popular and exhaustive trivia series. This one’s for the sports buff in the family! Doug Lennox, the world champion of trivia, is back to score touchdowns, hit homers, win the golden boot, and knock in holes...
- Author:Lennox, Doug, Wight, CatrionaSummary:
Presenting five books in Doug Lennox’s popular and exhaustive trivia series. Throughout these books you will find and astound your friends and family with such questions (and the answers to them, of course) as: Why do the British drive...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Presenting four books in the popular and exhaustive trivia series. In these Doug Lennox’s brain-teasers focus on famous figures, both real and mythological, dealing with kings and queens, villains, Canada’s heroes, and dastardly pirates...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Presenting two books in the popular and exhaustive trivia series. They are a treasure trove of his favourite trivia culled from previous Now You Know books, answering such brain-teasers as: Why is an evil adversary called a "...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Building on the success of his previous bestsellers, Now You Know, Now You Know More, and Now You Know Almost Everything, this fourth volume is headed straight for the bestseller list! It is Doug Lennox at his best as he masterfully...
- Author:Rinzler, Carol AnnSummary:
You've been hearing it since you were a little kid: "You are what you eat." But unlike most adages you've long since debunked, this wise saying is true! Good nutrition is the key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and...
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This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. The lectures draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious...
- Author:Gibson, KevinSummary:
As engaging as the great game itself, the stories behind the National Hockey League are entertaining, fascinating and, at times, unbelievable. Faux facts emerge from urban legends, conspiracy theories and coincidences, leaving sports...
- Author:Chomsky, NoamSummary:
Restoring to print two of Chomsky's most famous and popular books in one omnibus volume, On Language features some of the noted linguist and political critic's most informal and highly accessible work, making it an ideal introduction to...
- Author:Darwin, CharlesSummary:
Join an eccentric young naturalist on a tropical voyage to exotic destinations where he encounters fascinating and sometimes dangerous creatures and meets local residents who free him from the rigid dogma of his native England. He also...
- Author:Rose, Michal G., DeVita, Vincent T., Lawrence, Theodore S., Rosenberg, Steven A.Summary:
Oncology in Primary Care is for primary care clinicians who need practical and concise information on caring for their patients with cancer. Written in an easy-to-browse format, chapters cover risk factors, prevention, screening,...
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