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Are you a whiz a Trivial Pursuit? Do you blurt out
the question to a Jeopardy! answer before Alex Trebek has a chance to
finish talking? If so, The $25,000 Challenge might just be your cup of tea.
Billed as the world's toughest trivia challenge, this book contains more
than 1,500 questions ranging over nine categories: technology, geography,
sports and games, arts and humanities, science, history and politics,
television/film/pop music, photo recognition and miscellaneous.
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The challenge is quite
simple. Buy the book, answer all the questions correctly, send the answers
in, and win $25,000! Sound easy? You might think again, after perusing some
of the questions in this book. Sure, there are the simple giveaways, like
"What is Mozart's full name?" and "Who is the patron saint
of bricklayers?" But other questions will tax the mental power of even
the most wide-ranging polymath. For instance, do you know how much the TV
detective Jim Rockford charged his clients? What city is the capital of the
Hyogo Prefecture? How is the "Babinsky Effect" produced? Not
quite as simple as those Trivial Pursuit questions, eh?
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