1. Non-fiction
2. First published after 1899
3. First published between 1900 and 1955 (inclusive)
4. Not a biography
5. Not related to politics
6. Not related to sports
7. Not related to arts and entertainment
8. Not related to science
9. Could be considered a "reference book"
10. Has a single author
11. Has its own English language Wikipedia page
12. Part of a series of books
13. No scheduled time between books in the series
14. Male author
15. Not related to cooking, repair, self-help, or family
I assume once we find out the subject matter of the book, we're 2 questions max away from the answer, but finding out wtf this book is about is really proving difficult.
1) I hope I haven't misled anyone with any of the answers (only two of them could potentially be misleading, one of which I've already identified as being a hard question to answer)
2) The name of this book will be familiar to most people (including virtually everyone itt, I expect)
I can also identify the other answer that might potentially be misleading, if that helps, though tbh I'm very confident that the answer I gave is the correct one
Part of a series of books is ambiguous. It could be a book updated periodically like the Highway Code or restaurant guides, or it could be the first in a series of books written by different people about another member of the same class eg travel guides.
1. Non-fiction
2. First published after 1899
3. First published between 1900 and 1955 (inclusive)
4. Not a biography
5. Not related to politics
6. Not related to sports
7. Not related to arts and entertainment
8. Not related to science
9. Could be considered a "reference book"
10. Has a single author
11. Has its own English language Wikipedia page
12. Part of a series of books
13. No scheduled time between books in the series
14. Male author
15. Not related to cooking, repair, self-help, or family
16. Not related to travel, religion, language, maps, business, finance, or games
Yeah, to clarify, when I said "familiar to most people," I didn't mean, for example, Japanese salarymen, Peruvian alpaca farmers, or even necessarily an Australian housewife
but "I expect the name of this book is familiar to virtually everyone itt" is true without reservation
