Don't Know Much About Anything by Kenneth C. Davis

Kenneth C. Davis's book, Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More! covers a wide range of topics with enough depth of provide a good general knowledge review.

The audio version of the book has a good question and answer format with a reader posing the question and a different person providing the answers.  It was a good book to listen to while commuting to work.  The author confesses to not being a very good student while growing up.  He had lots of questions and didn't like the format used for instruction in school.  His natural curiosity led him to write this book and a series of other books with similar titles. 

Ken Davis - Don't Know Much About Anything Else - 3 min.

 Ken has written a sequel to the book with more fun facts and information helping us know more about our world.