In 1972, after a brilliant debut on the writing scene with Fantozzi, Paolo Villaggio published (on the advice of Umberto Eco) a rather strange book: Come farsi una cultura mostruosa. The idea of the work sprang from the author’s consciousness of the necessity of possessing, in the radically changed post economic boom society, an exceptionally high cultural level. If nothing else, at least to be able to participate in and win on the quiz programmes which at the time had begun to be a big hit in TV. Now, more than forty years after the book came out, the situation in Italy has not changed. The quiz programmes are still dominant in the TV schedules and the cultural level of the contestants is a dizzying downward spiral. That is why Paolo Villaggio feels the necessity to publish Come farsi una cultura mostruosa OGGI, a new book in line with the times. Though the contents are up to date, the formula has remained intact. Villaggio gives the reader a series of names of people, places and things about which one must guess the right definition in the multiple choice answers. Are you ready to feel monstrously ignorant?