Against the background of his own life, the author reveals the behind-the-scenes of American television games and explores the history and modernity of intellectual games in America. Jennings' book is autobiographical. But first of all, it is not about him. It tells the story of the great phenomenon of trivia. There is no analogue of this word in Russian, but the phenomenon itself has long been familiar to us. Trivia is any interesting, non-trivial fact, and a question written about this fact, and a game of questions and answers built on interesting facts. All together.