The University Challenge Quiz Book

by Steve Tribe
The University Challenge Quiz Book
Author: Steve Tribe
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1446417662
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For almost 50 years, University Challenge has served as a bastion of general knowledge, regularly testing our finest young minds with a dizzying array of subjects. Now - if you think you're up to the challenge - you can pit your own wits against the trickiest quiz around. With over 3,500 challenging quiz questions, The University Challenge Quiz Book will probe the murkiest corners of your intellect. Leaving no stone unturned, in-depth questions cover every aspect of history, science, language, economics, culture and more, and will put even the hardiest quiz veteran through their paces. With games to play either on your own or in teams (no conferring), here is a collection to challenge, surprise and stimulate - from your first starter for ten to the final gong. Come on, come on!

Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book

by Jack Waley-Cohen
Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book
Author: Jack Waley-Cohen
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1473530997
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RY CLV RNGH? Can you find the connection between Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes, David Brent and Ford Perfect? Only Connect is the ultimate test of knowledge and lateral thinking. Since 2008 the fiendishly difficult quiz show has been challenging contestants to find connections between apparently unrelated clues. The Only Connect Quiz Book collects over 200 of the most entertaining and perplexing challenges from the team behind the BBC’s hugely popular quiz show - including many new (never broadcast) questions. Covering each of the show’s four rounds – Connections, Sequences, the Connecting Wall and Missing Vowels – and with introductions from presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, here is your chance to put your own sleuthing and quizzical knowledge to the Only Connect test. With games to play on your own or in teams (clever names, please), The Only Connect Quiz Book will take your quizzing achievements to a new level.

Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book

by Eric Monkman
Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book
Author: Eric Monkman
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2020-07-05
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1839780444
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You probably know them best from March's electrifying University Challenge semi-final, which saw two of the series' most memorable contestants, dapper Bobby Seagull and fan favourite Eric Monkman, go head-to-head in a Cambridge derby between Emmanuel and Wolfson colleges. In this new quiz book, however, Monkman and Seagull are on the same team - and their opponent is you!Containing over 540 questions - FROM THE MOST DIFFICULT, TO ONES DESIGNED FOR YOUNGER READERS, this book will see the devilish wits of TV's brainiest boffins put to the page for the first time, with tricks and tests to taunt even the smuggest sofa-shouter. From puzzles to pop quizzes on everything from particle physics to philharmonics, it's sure to perplex even Paxman.

Starter For Ten

by David Nicholls
Starter For Ten
Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1848943997
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***Pre-order David Nicholls' new novel YOU ARE HERE now - Coming April 2024*** THE DEBUT NOVEL BY BELOVED BESTSELLER DAVID NICHOLLS A comedy about love, class, growing up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom 'Painfully funny' ELLE 'Hugely entertaining' DAILY MAIL 'Wincingly good' TIME OUT 'Unrivalled' GLAMOUR 'I laughed a lot' JEREMY PAXMAN It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all: he's going to win the game, at any cost. Because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . ONE OF BRITAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS 'One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Nicholls writes with such tender precision about love' THE TIMES 'No one else writes novels that are both relatable and revelatory in the way he does' EVENING STANDARD 'Genuinely brilliant' NEW STATESMAN

This Or That . . . Or That?

by Emma MacLaren Henke
This Or That . . . Or That?
Author: Emma MacLaren Henke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1683371003
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Hundreds of silly and serious questions to help you get to know yourself and others better.

The Mastermind Quiz Book

by Richard Morgale
The Mastermind Quiz Book
Author: Richard Morgale
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2012-09-06
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1446417220
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Mastermind is the ultimate test of knowledge, memory and nerve. Over four decades hundreds have tested their mettle in the famous black chair, and dared to put their intellect under the glare of the Mastermind spotlight. Now, can you rise to the challenge? The Mastermind Quiz Book poses over 3,500 questions, from fiendishly difficult general knowledge teasers to in-depth tests of specialist subjects. With topics ranging from Classical Mythology to Medical Science, by way of Famous Russians and The Works of Johnny Cash, only the finest minds will triumph. Whether you're playing in groups or simply testing your own brainpower, this collection of questions will challenge the very core of your mental strength - but when the clock runs down and the lights come up, will you emerge as the Mastermind?

This Or That? Quiz Book

by Emma MacLaren Henke
This Or That? Quiz Book
Author: Emma MacLaren Henke
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Character tests
ISBN: 9781609580452
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Girls love our quizzes - and here's an engaging book filled with fun questions to get girls thinking! She can make over 600 quirky choices: Would you rather share a room with a pony or a pot-bellied pig? Ride in a car with no radio or no air conditioning? Along the way, she'll discover all kinds of things she didn't know about herself, her family, and her friends.

Maps Quiz Book

by Hardie Grant Travel Hardie Grant Travel
Maps Quiz Book
Author: Hardie Grant Travel Hardie Grant Travel
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781741177251
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Become the ultimate map reader with this quiz book for all ages.