Cash Cab: A Collection of the Best Trivia from the Hit Discovery Show

by Discovery Communications, Ben Bailey (Foreword by)

Overview

Enjoy the best, most challenging, and most popular questions from the hit Discovery show Cash Cab—and they're all no fare.The fast-paced, fact-driven, backseat game show fans can now play without hailing a taxi!

This fun and engaging book features:
• Organized for easy one-on-one read-along trivia, or game playing mode
• Hundreds of multiple-choice questions that vary in degrees of difficulty for novice trivia buffs to frontseat know-it-alls
• Popular "red-light challenges" and "shout-outs"
• Page after page of trivia sidebars and fascinating facts
• Cash Cab host Ben Bailey's favorite places to visit in New York

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451235909
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/06/2012
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Cash Cab is the hit Discovery Channel show hosted by comedian and licensed New York cab driver Ben Bailey. The cab takes passengers as normal fares, and once they agree to play, the driver asks a series of questions of increasing difficulty and cash value.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ben Bailey xi

Acknowledgments xvii

How to Play Cash Cab xix

Second Avenue and St. Marks Place to Ninth Avenue and 22nd Street (22 blocks) 1

33rd Street and Ninth to 75th Street and West End Avenue (40 blocks) 7

Battery Park to Rockefeller Center (78 blocks) 15

34th Street and Tenth Avenue to Park Avenue and 52nd Street (25 blocks) 25

West 14th and Ninth Avenue to Lexington and 28th Street (21 blocks) 33

Fifth Avenue and 45th to Wall Street (70 blocks) 39

42nd Street and Fifth Avenue to 71st and Second (35 blocks) 47

Broadway and 49th Street to Columbus Avenue and 91st (41 blocks) 53

122nd Street and West End Avenue to Madison and 94th (32 blocks) 61

Houston and Bowery to Eighth Avenue and 55th Street (61 blocks) 67

Carnegie Hall to 84th and Columbus Avenue (28 blocks) 75

Madison and 87th Street to 125th Street and Seventh Avenue (36 blocks) 83

74th and Second Avenue to Madison Square Garden (50 blocks) 91

Avenue A and 9th Street to 24th and Ninth Avenue (26 blocks) 101

Christopher and Bleecker Streets to Avenue C and 12th (19 blocks) 109

Second Avenue and 116th Street to 187th Street and Broadway (66 blocks) 115

Bowery and Bayard to 18th Street and First Avenue (28 blocks) 23

38th and Madison to Amsterdam and Cathedral Parkway (77 blocks) 129

28th Street and Ninth to Lincoln Center (35 blocks) 137

Norfolk and Rivington Streets to 30th Street and Third Avenue (35 blocks) 141

Times Square to 96th and Broadway (57 blocks) 147

Amsterdam and 116th to 81st and Central Park West (36 blocks) 155

Wall and Broad Streets to West 4th and Sixth Avenue (37 blocks) 163

Grand Central Station to 106th and Third Avenue (65 blocks) 169

Prince and Elizabeth Streets to Jane and Greenwich (29 blocks) 177

Fifth Avenue and 59th Street to Park Avenue and 23rd Street (39 blocks) 183

Columbus Circle to 23rd and Madison (39 blocks) 189

Sixth Avenue and Carmine Street to 84th and Fifth Avenue (80 blocks) 195

First Avenue and 9th Street to 29th and Tenth (31 blocks) 205

Avenue C and 12th Street to Bowery and Canal (22 blocks) 211