Now You Know Big Book of Sports
Title | Now You Know Big Book of Sports PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lennox |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 2009-09-07 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1459718739 |
Doug Lennox, the world champion of trivia, is back to score touchdowns, hit homers, and knock in holes-in-one every time with a colossal compendium of Q&A athletics that has all anyone could possibly want to know about sports, from archery and cycling to skiing and wrestling and everything in between.
Now You Know Big Book of Answers
Title | Now You Know Big Book of Answers PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lennox |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 499 |
Release | 2007-08-31 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1550027417 |
Provides answers to trivia questions on the origins of common expressions and social conventions, covering such categories as politics, sports, religion, crime, and war.
Now You Know Football
Title | Now You Know Football PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lennox |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2009-08-24 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1459718720 |
Doug Lennox, the all-pro of Q&A, tells us why a touchdown is worth six points, who first decided to pick up the ball and throw it, and how a childrens toy changed the sports biggest championship.
Now You Know Soccer
Title | Now You Know Soccer PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lennox |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2009-06-01 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1770704078 |
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 other superstars, as well as the history, traditions, and rules of the game. Doug has compiled a World Cup of trivia about a truly universal phenomenon that has legions of passionate, and sadly sometimes violent, fans. How did soccer originate?, Who was the first soccer player to score a hat trick in a World Cup final? What was the largest attendance ever for a soccer match? What is the "technical area"? Where was the world’s first soccer club formed? What was the first movie ever made about soccer? Where was the first World Cup held? What are the Laws of the Game? What were the 10 worst losses of life in soccer history?
Now You Know Baseball
Title | Now You Know Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lennox |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2010-03-10 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1554887135 |
Everyone will know the score with this grand slam of Q&A that's sure to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Doug Lennox hammers it out of the park by filling us in on who's won the most Cy Young Awards and the five ways that a player can be called ?out.” This is a treasure trove of baseball lore.
Now You Know Canada's Heroes
Title | Now You Know Canada's Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lennox |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2009-08-24 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1770706186 |
When it comes to Q&A trivia, Doug Lennox has no peer. Sir Isaac Brock, Tecumseh, Laura Secord, Norman Bethune, Terry Fox, and Roberta Bondar are all Canadian icons we've come to cherish. Doug gives the dope on all those famous heroes and many more, but you'll also discover the amazing courage, pluck, and accomplishments of Upper Canada Rebellion heroine Elizabeth Barnett, privateer Joseph Barss, the Angel of Long Point Abigail Becker, the First Lady of Labrador Mina Hubbard, and Second World War pilot Charley Fox - genuine heroes all! Who was the "musketeer in petticoats"? Who was the "Laura Secord of Gananoque"? What War of 1812 privateer was the founder of a major Canadian bank? How did an aristocratic French girl become a Canadian Robinson Crusoe? Who was the first Canadian firefighter to die in the line of duty? How did Tom Longboat astound the world in 1907? Who was the first Black woman electedt o Canada's Parliament? How did a dog named Gander become a Canadian war hero?
Now You Know the Bible
Title | Now You Know the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Lennox |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1554887984 |
Doug Lennox, the vicar of Q&A, serves up an entertaining but informative slice of biblical lore, literature, and history, including who the only left-handed person in the Bible is, and who was taken up to heaven in a ?chariot of fire.” You'll ?eat, drink, and be merry” with this collection of minutiae!