- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (18 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340924020
- ISBN-13: 978-0340924020
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 425,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'People with a taste for arcane knowledge will love this - the ultimate collection of quiz questions as agonised over by the regulars of the eponymous London pub' -- Daily Mail 'Fascinating, infuriating and baffling ... packed with the sort of pub quiz questions that will keep you entertained for hours' -- Daily Express 'Probably the best pub quiz in the world' -- Sunday Telegraph
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'People with a taste for arcane knowledge will love this - the ultimate collection of quiz questions as agonised over by the regulars of the eponymous London pub'
(Daily Mail )'Fascinating, infuriating and baffling . . . packed with the sort of pub quiz questions that will keep you entertained for hours'
(Daily Express )'Probably the best pub quiz in the world'
(Sunday Telegraph )
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I'm something of a quiz fanatic, and I regularly set quizzes for my local pub, so I'm always on the lookout for good and interesting questions. This book is chock a block full of them. Marcus Berkman wrote the excellent "Brain Men" so I expected a lot, and I wasn't disappointed. What makes this book so different and so much better than most of the other quiz books out there is that this has not been put together by a `professional' question setter who is more interested in quantity rather than quality. All of the quizzes in this book were written by regular players in the popular quiz in the Prince of Wales pub quiz in Highgate in London. As a result, every different quiz in this book is lovingly crafted to appeal to an audience, and there really is something here for everyone, from complete novices, to Mastermind winners. Each quiz is leavened with the sort of questions which will either raise a laugh, or cause you to murmur - I never would have thought that -, and what's more, the questions seem to have been thoroughly checked as well - I couldn't find a single error in the whole thing. Either for setting quizzes, or just for you own enjoyment, this is a worthy addition to any quizzer's library.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
i've read a decent number of quiz books over the years - partly for fun and partly for inspiration in setting the occasional local quiz. This selection is simply head and shoulders above the rest. With most quiz books I get a reasonable smattering of questions which I have come across before. In this case there were very few I had come across before. They are well crafted, well written and will mostly not become redundant with age.
A word of caution, however, I think that anyone just taking this book and using it as the source for a complete quiz would be taking quite a risk unless the participants are pretty hardened quizgoers. There aren't many easy questions here and I could see some of the people who attend our local quizzes losing heart.
But that's not a reason for not using this book. If used judiciously as a source for the more interesting and challenging questions it will provide questions for a large number of quizzes.
Or, of course, you could just read it for the sheer pleasure of acquiring knowledge in an entertaining fashion.
Brilliant.
A word of caution, however, I think that anyone just taking this book and using it as the source for a complete quiz would be taking quite a risk unless the participants are pretty hardened quizgoers. There aren't many easy questions here and I could see some of the people who attend our local quizzes losing heart.
But that's not a reason for not using this book. If used judiciously as a source for the more interesting and challenging questions it will provide questions for a large number of quizzes.
Or, of course, you could just read it for the sheer pleasure of acquiring knowledge in an entertaining fashion.
Brilliant.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
It's hard to pick a quiz book when there are so many cheap ones out there and you can't look at the questions before you buy. This is easily the best one I've seen. The questions are relatively hard, but even the really obscure ones turn out to be interesting, especially when the answers are accompanied by amusing notes giving extra detail (and sometimes anecdotes about disputes in the pub when the questions came up in their regular quiz).
If, like me, you miss the days when Trivial Pursuit was good, and can't understand why they haven't produced a proper set with proper questions in about 30 years, get this book instead and you'll find balance will be restored to the universe.
If, like me, you miss the days when Trivial Pursuit was good, and can't understand why they haven't produced a proper set with proper questions in about 30 years, get this book instead and you'll find balance will be restored to the universe.
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