{"id":13938,"date":"2012-04-30T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missouriinsight.com\/site\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-04-22T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:00:17","slug":"book-report-missouri-trivia-by-ernie-couch-1992-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/book-report-missouri-trivia-by-ernie-couch-1992-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Missouri Trivia by Ernie Couch (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>This book<\/a> is a collection of questions and answers loosely grouped into categories where the questions are about people, places, and things in the state of Missouri. I browsed it during a couple of football games and in advance of our recent trivia night triumph. The book didn’t help in that regard, however, as there were no Missouri-centric questions at the trivia night.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the format of the book as questions and answers grouped loosely at the chapter level means this book is better for, say, quizzing someone during a long drive rather than reading it straight through to pick up knowledge about the state of Missouri. I might retain a couple of nuggets, but the loose grouping and the format make for poor retention. For retention, organization by title, region, or something might have helped.<\/p>\n

Although for the sheer quizzing of a companion, some of the answers are going to be marvelously trivial. What was the corn production in 1870? I don’t remember if that actual question is in there, but there are some looking for particularly specific numbers that you’d get from an old almanac and nowhere else.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the final little asterisk? The answer given in this book to the question Who won the 1981 World Series?<\/em> is The St. Louis Cardinals<\/em>. So any answer you don’t know for sure is suspect anyway. Maybe it’s better if you not retain them.<\/p>\n

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