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Buzztime Entertainment, the interactive gaming network, is played and enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people at home, in sports bars, and in restaurants. Now this popular game is available in book form--but unlike other trivia books, these are actually fun to play. While other books reveal the answers below the questions or group all of the answers together, the Buzztime format allows you to see only one answer at a time. That way, readers can play along. Besides being packed with challenging questions, the Buzztime Trivia Series provides fascinating facts along with the answers. These are no ordinary trivia books!
The Buzztime Trivia Series is designed to put your knowledge of movies, radio, television, sports, and music to the test, with each celebrity author putting a little of himself in each game. And with dozens of individual games--nearly a thousand intriguing questions!--each book is bound to provide hours of stimulating competition. From cover to cover, the Buzztime Trivia Series is pure entertainment.
Joe Franklin (March 9, 1926–January 24, 2015) was a radio and television personality from New York City who hosted the first television talk show. The show began in 1950 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV) and moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) from 1962 to 1993.
Known as the "King of Nostalgia," Franklin's highly-rated show focused on old-time show business personalities. Franklin would delight his audience with trivia about the most obscure entertainers from out of the past, and equally unknown up-and-comers from the present. His guests ranged from novelty performers (Tiny Tim, another person obsessed with entertainment of the past, was a frequent guest) to popular mainstream show business icons like Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, and Bing Crosby among many others. This show was often parodied by Billy Crystal during the 1984–1985 season of Saturday Night Live.
After retiring from the TV show, Franklin concentrated on an all-night night radio show, playing old records on WOR-AM on Saturday evenings and later interviewing a number of celebrities on the Bloomberg Radio Network.
Franklin interviewed over 100,000 guests during his 43-year TV run. These included five U.S. Presidents, and screen legends such as Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and Cary Grant.
An author, Franklin has written 23 books. He also starred as himself in countless films, most notably the original Ghostbusters and Broadway Danny Rose.
How to Play the Games
GAME TOPICS
1 James Bond
2 Game Show Trivia
3 The ’70s
4 Grab Bag
5 Nominees & Winners
6 The Beatles
7 Frank Sinatra
8 Grab Bag
9 Friends
10 The Great Directors
11 TV Trivia
12 Grab Bag
13 Theme Songs and Soundtracks
14 Musicals and Singers
15 TV Children
16 Grab Bag
17 Family Fare
18 The ’80s
19 The Silver Screen
20 Grab Bag
21 Songs Albums and Performers
22 General Music Trivia
23 World of Animation
24 Grab Bag
25 Deaths
26 Notorious Couplings
27 Barbra Streisand
28 Grab Bag
29 Young Stars
30 Divas and Leading Ladies
31 Sketch Comedies
32 Grab Bag
34 Detectives
35 Role Play
36 Grab Bag
37 Leading Men
38 Identify the Quote
39 One-Hit Wonders
40 Grab Bag
41 Sci-Fi
42 Family Affairs 29
43 Stallone Zone
44 Grab Bag
45 Talk Show Trivia
46 The ’60s
47 The Silent Film Era
48 Grab Bag
49 What Became of. . .
50 Horror House 247
51 Brothers and Sisters 273
52 Grab Bag
53 Odd Jobs
54 Name the Actress
55 The Marx Brothers
56 Grab Bag
57 Woody Allen
58 Basic Transportation
59 All About Elvis
60 Grab Bag
61 Which Came First?
62 The Final Curtain
63 The Music Biz
64 Grab Bag
65 British Music Invasion
66 Shakespeare
67 Movies of the ’30s
68 Grab Bag
69 Movies of the ’40s
70 Superheroes
71 Movies of the ’50s
72 Grab Bag
73 Old Time Radio
74 The ’90s and Beyond
75 War Movies
76 Grab Bag
77 Western Entertainment
78 The Script
79 Bob Dylan
80 Grab Bag
About the Author
"Buzztime Trivia books are a fun time filler, and I would really recommend them."
