Erin Barrett (born 1968) is an author, trivia writer, and life coach.

Biography

Erin Barrett was born in 1968. She grew up in South East Asia. She attended

Samford University Samford University is a private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama. In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College by Baptists. Samford University describes itself as the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United Sta ...

and has a BA in Humanities from the

New College of California New College of California was a college founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971 by former Gonzaga University President John Leary. It ceased operations in early 2008. New College's main campus was housed in several buildings in the Mission ...

. Currently she lives in

Fremont, California Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area, Fremont has a population of 230,504 as of 2020, making it the fourth List of cities and towns in the San Fra ...

. She and her ex-husband

Jack Mingo Jack Mingo (born 1952) is an American author, journalist and beekeeper. He has written ''Bees Make the Best Pets'', ''The Juicy Parts'', and ''The Couch Potato Handbook''. He and a small group of media hoaxers trademarked and popularized the term ' ...

are co-founders and co-writers of the

Ask Jeeves Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warth ...

series of trivia books which published selected "questions as they flowed, unedited, into the well-known Web site". They were relied upon by game shows such as

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' (often informally called ''Millionaire'') is an international television game show franchise of British origin, created by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight. In its format, currently owned and ...

and have generated over 30,000 trivia questions for online games. Barrett has a decade of work within the wine industry. On February 27, 2004, Barrett appeared as one of the Three Wise Men, a lifeline introduced in the U.S., on ''

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' (often informally called ''Millionaire'') is an international television game show franchise of British origin, created by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight. In its format, currently owned and ...

''.

Selected works

* Just Curious, Jeeves: What Are the 1001 Most Intriguing Questions Asked on the Internet? (2000) * Just Curious About History, Jeeves (2002) * Just Curious About Animals and Nature, Jeeves (2002) * Doctors Killed George Washington: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Medicine (2002) * Not Another Apple for the Teacher: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Education (2002) * Random Kinds Of Factness: 1001(or So) Absolutely True Tidbits About (Mostly) Everything (2005) * Just Curious about Science, Jeeves (2003) * It Takes a Certain Type to be a Writer: Facts from the World of Writing and Publishing (2003) * W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003) * Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us (2009)

References

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