Now You Know Royalty
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. The crown prince of Q&A, Doug Lennox, is at it again, this time with a cornucopia of facts and frivolities about the escapades, excesses, and extravagances of the world’s monarchies, past and present. From betrayal and beheadings to pageantry and privilege, discover the truth about life behind the castle walls.
• Which wife of England’s Henry VIII had six fingers on one hand?
• What royal connection does Thomas Crapper, inventor of the flush toilet, have?
• What is the royal residence in Monaco known as?
• What royal family in the world today has ruled the longest?
• Who was the “Hammer of the Scots”?
• Why are members of royal families said to have “blue blood”?
• Which member of the British royal family competed at the Olympics?
• Where did the word czar come from?
• What did Marie Antoinette say before she was executed?
Now You Know Soccer
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 Extreme Weather
“When it rains, it pours,” especially when it comes to best-selling author Doug Lennox’s Now You Know Extreme Weather. Global warming, killer hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, melting permafrost — weather concerns us all, and now with this tightly packed compenium of questions and answers, everyone can get the lowdown on things like:
• What makes a perfect storm perfect?
• Where’s the world’s hottest place?
• Why was Hurricane Katrina so destructive?
Now You Know Crime Scenes
With hit cop TV dramas like the various CSI and Law and Order shows, Bones and Criminal Minds. everybody seems to think they’re a forensics expert. But what do we really know? Now, with Now You Know Crime Scenes, we can all get the dope on:
• How long does it really take to analyze a DNA sample?
• Who started the first forensics laboratory?
• Who invented criminal profiling?
• How do you do a walk-through?
Now You Know Christmas
From oversized socks filled with treats to firs in living rooms and strange stories and songs, Christmas makes us all scratch our heads now and then. Now You Know Christmas will help everyone make sense of the holiday season, with answers to questions like:
• How fast would Santa have to travel in order to deliver toys to all the children in the world in one night?
• Why are Christmas songs called “carols”?
• Why did the Wise Men bring gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts?
• Now You Know Pirates
Now You Know Pirates
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 Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Henry Morgan, and lots more, from ancient keelhauling to twenty-first-century buccaneering, are all here in Q & A commodore Doug Lennox’s Now You Know Pirates. Arrrr!
• What is the origin of the word pirate?
• Who were the Barbary Corsairs?
• What did pirates do to St. Patrick?
• What is the difference between a pirate and a privateer?
• What is the Oak Island Treasure?
• How many female pirates have there been?
• What are “pieces of eight” and “doubloons”?
• Who were the buccaneers?
• How old is piracy?
Now You Know Disasters
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and tidal waves, fires, mine cave-ins, bridge collapses, ship sinkings, airplane crashes, explosions, and plagues — natural and human-engineered calamity and catastrophe have many forms and guises. In Now You Know Disasters, Q & A ringmaster Doug Lennox showcases the what, why, when, where, who, and how of everything that’s gone tragically and terribly wrong, past and present.
• How does a tsunami occur?
• Why do Canadian engineers wear iron rings?
• Who was Richter in the Richter scale?
• What was the worst freshwater ship disaster ever in North America?
• What is wildfire?
• Who was Typhoid Mary?
• How is “ring around the rosie” related to disaster?
• How did the Halifax Explosion occur?
• What was the world’s worst airplane crash?
