Whitaker's little book of knowledge

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Yearbooks;Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An authoritative, quirky trivia book divided into themed chapters.Whitaker's Little Book of Knowledgecontains thousands of general knowledge gems: from everything you learned at school to fascinating lists of contemporary 'top-tens', mini-biographies of famous artists and writers, plus condensed guides to films and works of art and literature. In addition, there is a light-hearted journey down memory lane featuring humorous entries on forgotten treasures from different decades and a stand-alone sport chapter with guides to both well-known and obscure sports, key rules, a glossary of terms and short biographies of the world's greatest sporting heroes.

Facts are both newly researched and drawn from the rich treasure-trove of theWhitaker's Almanackarchive, which dates back to 1868.

Whitaker's Little Book of Knowledgeis a truly unique ready-reference containing fascinating facts for every trivia buff while providing a unique insight into the world from the 19th century through to the present day.

✦ Table of Contents

Biggest and best (Most streamed artits
Most powerful comic book characters
High-earning actors
Fastest production cars by top speed
Best-selling toys of all time
All-time Olympic medals by country
World's most expensive hotel rooms
Sport stadiums by capacity
Largest empires
Best-selling cars of all time
Highest-paid UK civil servants
Highest-earning Heads of State
Best-selling boks of all time
Longest-running UK TV shows
All-time Eurovision winners
Most-visited museums in the world
Top ten philanthropists
Largest employers in the world
Largest city squares in the world
Largest passenger ships in the world
World's busiest airports
Most expensive paintings ever sold
Biggest underground networks
Tallest buildings in the world
Most aces in a tennis match
Biggest film flops
Most streamed tracks
Most streamed albums) School condensed (Plot summaries of Shakespeare's plays
Plot summaries of great novels
Summaries of great poems
Great historical figures
Famous battles
Mjor revolutions
Major civil wars) A sporting guide (Association football
Tennis
Basketball
Cricket
Formula One
The Olympic Games
Unusual sports) How to sound clever (The 10 films you should have heard of
The 10 playwrights you should have heard of
The 10 novelists you should have heard of
The 10 artists you should have heard of
The 10 art movements you should have heard of
The 10 philosophers you should have heard of
The 10 scientists you should have heard of) Nostalgia (TV shows
Video games
Music
Toys
Cars) Treasure trove (Introduction
Remarkable occurrences
Notable historical events
British holiday and health resorts, 1905-30
Facts and figures) Ready reference (International radio alphabet
Noms de plume
Booker Prize winners
Poets Laureate
Prime Ministers
Ranks in the armed forces
Oscar winners
Types of cheese
Beef cuts
Culinary terms
The earth
earthquakes
Weather
World geographical statistics
Collective nouns for animals
Names of male, female and young animals
Arrangement of the orchestra
Musical compositions and sections
Presidents of the USA
Secretaries-General of the United Nations
Popes
Roman emperors
The seven wonders of the world
Greek and Roman gods
The solar system
Record-breaking animals and plants
Evolution
Parts of a flower
The human bosdy
Ahtletics
Cricket
Association football
Golf
Grand National
Formula One world champions
The University Boat Race
Rugby league
Rugby union
Snooker
Tennis.