At least give PCAT author John Sellers credit for being more ambitious than your average scribe of disposable novelty books: Rather than merely compiling a collection of '80s trivia or writing a parody of college-entrance exams, the former Donkey Kong champion/Time Out television critic has ingeniously put together a book that is both a parody of tedious college entrance exams and a treasure trove of useless '80s trivia. Appropriately enough, PCAT is structured almost exactly like an SAT manual, with a generous assortment of questions involving metaphors, matching, analogies, and story problems. The twist, of course, is that rather than dealing with scholarly subjects, PCAT deals with questions about '80s television, '80s films, '80s music, and '80s trivia. The most surprising thing about the book is how genuinely difficult the test is: To get a decent score, you need to have a fairly comprehensive understanding of such disparate topics as new-wave obscurities, unsuccessful television shows, and big-screen Scott Valentine vehicles. Sellers also includes a number of sidebars, ranging from the uninspired (shows that should have starred Robert Urich) to the feeble (contests pitting one '80s staple against another) to the ploddingly obvious (a chronological list of number-one songs from the '80s). Still, while PCAT never comes close to transcending the essentially disposable nature of novelty books, it should provide sufficient entertainment to anyone bored or trivia-obsessed enough to plunk down 13 dollars for what is, essentially, a book of trivia questions. And, as the back cover indicates, it is endorsed by no less of a figure than Michael J. Fox, beloved star of such '80s film classics as The Secret Of My Success, Light Of Day, and Teen Wolf.