Download or read book The Strangest London Quiz Book written by Tom Quinn and published by Portico. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! Test your London knowledge with this fascinating book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from the illustrious history of this wonderful city. Quiz categories include: Ancient traditions London eccentrics Getting about Ghosts and ghouls Corridors of power Monumental monuments Quirky buildings Just plain weird Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your London knowledge to a whole new level. Word count: 30,000 words.
Download or read book The Strangest Rugby Quiz Book written by John Griffiths and published by Portico. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! Test your rugby knowledge with this handy quiz book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of rugby history. Quiz categories include: Famous Firsts and Lasts Trophy Cabinet Unexpected Interruptions Men and Women Behaving Badly Political Connections The Numbers Game Family Ties Never Mind the Weather Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your rugby knowledge to a whole new level. Word count: 30,000 words.
Download or read book The London Quiz Book written by Wayne Wheelwright and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 100 questions on the London, the capital city of England. London has a long and storied history and currently stands as one of the great cities of the world. Inside this book are questions about London's history, it's sports teams, it's inhabitants, it famous historical landmarks and state of the art skyscrapers and many other subjects. So test your knowledge on this amazing city.
Download or read book The Strangest Cricket Quiz Book written by Ian Allen and published by Portico. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! Test your cricket knowledge with this handy book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of cricketing history. Quiz categories include: Freak weather conditions Bad ball behaviour Streakers Time for tea The Ashes Cricket's great eccentrics Village green shenanigans Cricket quotations Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your cricket knowledge to a whole new level.
Download or read book The Strangest Football Quiz Book written by Andrew Ward and published by Portico. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! Test your football knowledge with this handy book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of football history. Quiz categories include: Outlandish scorelines Freaky weather Unfeasible goals Animals on pitches Cup madness Streakers Football's great eccentrics International antics Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your football knowledge to a whole new level. Word count: 30,000 words.
Download or read book The London Quiz Book written by Ylva French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London Quiz Book written by Jim Pipe and published by Very Peculiar History Quiz Book. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered what a 'Penny Dreadful' is? Or what the Tower of London ravens have for tea? And who. or what, is St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe? Take a butcher's hook at The Cherished Library's London, A Very Peculiar History Quiz Book and you'll find a wealth of fascinating and bizarre information, as well as a way to test yourself on what you already think you know about The Big Smoke. Delve deep into London's peculiar history with this entertaining and educational quiz book, featuring famous quotes, stories and detailed answers. Test your knowledge and discover bizarre new factual nuggets with this companion series to the popular Very Peculiar Histories series. Each book features up to 100 detailed questions and answers with background information attached.
Download or read book The London Quiz Book written by Stuart Rossiter and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London Underground Quiz Book written by Chris Cowlin and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief Description: Are you a regular commuter on the London Underground? Do you use the tube to get around for business or pleasure? Or maybe you have travelled on the underground during a visit to the UK capital? If so, just how much can you remember about the world's oldest underground system? Which tube station is the busiest, with 77 million passengers each year? If you were travelling on the Piccadilly Line, which tube station would you get off at if you were visiting Arsenal Football Club? In which year during the 1940s did the central line extend from Liverpool Street to Stratford? The answers to these and many more brain-teasing questions are all in this quiz book. Find out how well you know your way around the tube or challenge your colleagues, family and friends to discover who is the most knowledgeable about London Underground. Full of fascinating facts The London Underground Quiz Book is both fun and informative and an excellent way to help pass away the hours you spend travelling.
Download or read book London Quiz Book written by Sam Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Olympic Games Quiz Book written by Martin Greensill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 1700 questions on many aspects of both the Summer and Winter Olympics, The Complete Olympic Games Quiz Book provides a comprehensive resource that can be used in various ways, such as testing family and friends or forming the basis of a more formal quiz. The book covers the entire history of the modern Olympics, from Athens 1896 to London 2012, and includes questions on all the sports that have featured at these Games. There are also two multiple choice sections on numbers and two chapters of 'mixed bag' questions which, among other things, bring out the quirky side of the Olympics through a variety of trivia teasers. Including over 150 questions on London 2012, the book builds into a challenging but stimulating test of sporting knowledge and should provide hours of entertainment for fans of quizzes and the Olympics.
Download or read book Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book written by Eric Monkman and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-07-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The London Quiz Book written by Ron Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London Quiz written by Travis Elborough and published by Random House of Canada. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most devoted Anglophile will learn something new from these four hundred fun and wide-ranging trivia questions about London’s history, monuments, architecture, famous residents, place-names, notable events, and more. A delightful way to explore the city on foot or via armchair, this fun book is a perfect stocking stuffer, with history ranging from obscure lore to facts and fascinating, often humorous histories. Here’s a sample: Where is the only cross-eyed statue in London and who does it depict? a) Next to the Royal Exchange in the City of London; George Peabody, the nineteenth-century American-born philanthropist b) At the point where Fetter Lane and New Fetter Lane converge; John Wilkes, the eighteenth-century politician c) Islington Green; Sir Hugh Myddleton, the seventeenth century entrepreneur Answer: b) John Wilkes really did have a severe squint, as reproduced in the statue, but despite his looks, he was a legendary and eloquent womanizer who once said that, when meeting an attractive woman, it took him only ten minutes “to talk away his face.” What drowned nine people in Tottenham Court Road in October 1814? a) A water flood from a nearby reservoir b) A milk flood from a nearby dairy c) A beer flood from a nearby brewery Answer: c) A beer flood. A huge vat in the Horseshoe Brewery burst its hoops and ruptured other vats standing near it. More than a million liters of beer swept through the walls of the brewery and into the streets, carrying away a house and drowning nine unfortunates. The site of the Horseshoe Brewery is now occupied by the Dominion Theatre.
Download or read book The Psychopath Test written by Jon Ronson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . . Combining Jon Ronson's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . provocative and interesting' – Observer
Download or read book Maps Quiz Book written by Hardie Grant Travel Hardie Grant Travel and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become the ultimate map reader with this quiz book for all ages.
Download or read book The Very British Quiz Book written by Geoff Tibballs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will you be flummoxed by this Great British distraction? Do you know queuing etiquette? Twenty-one different ways to describe rain? Then this quiz book might be just your cup of tea. Politely challenge yourself, your family and your friends with questions on British culture, language, etiquette, of course, the weather, as well as lots of other essential, quintessential British subjects. Each quiz comprises 21 questions and answers are based on the real results from national surveys and polls. Hours of brain-bamboozling fun for all the family!
