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Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated? The demolition of the old London Bridge put an end to what famous tradition? Which philosopher caught a fatal chill returning from a predawn lesson given to Queen Christina of Sweden? What was the real name of Buffalo Bill? Which mutiny, leading to a war of independence, was provoked by the use of animal fat? What was smuggled from Alexandria to Venice in, it is said, a barrel of pork? What did Pope Innocent III outlaw, as a weapon of mass destruction? Who, on the first day of 1660, had the remains of a turkey for breakfast and began a new project?
Prepare to have your general knowledge tested by the best quizmaster in the business. Here are 2000 of the world's strangest and most stimulating questions, laid out in a series of thematic quizzes that cover art , literature, politics, sport, geography and history and span all the countries of the world. Bamber Gascoigne's fascination with knowledge is highly contagious and his answers give you the context you need to find out even more.
And as to the answers to the questions above -- well, you'll have to read the book...
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So I find myself asking - why don't I like this quiz book more ? Partly because I think that a book of this size should deliver more than 2000 questions. Only 10 questions per page seems rather mean to me. Its more than that, though. Somehow I just haven't found the questions in this book to be quite as engaging as those in the two Magnus Magnusson's quiz books, for example. I can't quite put my finger on it, but with both of those books I couldn't put them down until I had worked through every quiz in them. I just didn't quite find it so with this. A few too many easy old chestnuts. Nonetheless, still a good resource for making quizzes.
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