Download or read book London Quiz written by Travis Elborough and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do you know London? Here are 400 provocative, curious and humorous questions to enlighten and entertain. Even the most devoted Londoner will learn something new from these 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, this fun book is a perfect stocking filler, with history ranging from obscure lore to facts and fascinating, often humorous histories. 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."
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 London Cabbie s Quiz Book written by Mr. Ian Beetlestone and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pay a visit to London and a black mini cab will probably be one the first things you will see. The London taxi drivers are almost as famous as the black cabs in which they drive, this is mainly due to their in-depth knowledge of London and ability in taking their occupants to their desired destination amid the congestion and the chaos that you often find when travelling through London’s streets. London taxi drivers go through stringent training to obtain their licence, they need to pass “The Knowledge”, a test which is amongst the hardest to pass in the world, and has been described as ‘like having an atlas of London implanted into your brain’. The test requires you to master no fewer than 320 basic routes, all of the 25,000 streets that are scattered within the basic routes and approximately 20,000 landmarks and places of public interest that are located within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. This book breaks the test down into a series of head-scratching questions and features enough trivia about the capital to surprise even born and bred Londoners. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who thinks they know London inside-out, or wants to learn more!
Download or read book A London Quiz Including Greater London Questions Answers written by LONDON QUIZ. and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Great British Quiz Book written by Roy Preston and published by Carlton Books Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quiz book is filled with questions all about the United Kingdom: people, places, history, customs, and more! Each mini-quiz will test your knowledge of a particular part of British culture or geography and the many pot-luck quizzes force you to take your chances! Play with a friend or as a group game, or just use this treasure trove of information to brush up on your general knowledge!
Download or read book The Blue Badge Guide s London Quiz Book written by Mark King and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive knowledge and celebrating London's diverse riches, this quiz book invites you to come on a wide-ranging exploration of the megacity the author calls 'The Big Onion'. Peel away its many layers in the company of one of London's top Blue Badge tourist guides. These 22 tours will inspire you, your family, colleagues and friends to leap from page to pavement in the entertaining company of a local expert. Have fun! This is the first in a series of regional quiz books written exclusively by Blue Badge guides – 'Britain's best guides' – local, professional guides rigorously examined by the Institute of Tourist Guiding, the industry's standard-setting body. World-renowned for their knowledge, interpretation skills and enthusiasm for their area!
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 Blue Badge Guide s Oxford Quiz Book written by Alexandra Jackson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think you know Oxford? Do you want to know more? Either way, this is the book for you! Pit your wits against a local specialist Blue Badge Tourist Guide on a series of themed topics around Oxford, including fun but increasingly challenging questions on subjects both ancient and modern. This is a welcome addition to a series of regional quiz books written exclusively by local, professional guides. Rigorously examined by the Institute of Tourist Guiding, the industry's standard-setting body, Blue Badge Tourist Guides are world-renowned for their knowledge, interpretation skills and enthusiasm for their area.
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 City of Thieves Battle Dragons 1 written by Alex London and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. Once, dragons nearly drove themselves to extinction. But in the city of Drakopolis, humans domesticated them centuries ago. Now dragons haul the city’s cargo, taxi its bustling people between skyscrapers, and advertise its wares in bright, neon displays. Most famously of all, the dragons battle. Different breeds take to the skies in nighttime bouts between the infamous kins—criminal gangs who rule through violence and intimidation. Abel has always loved dragons, but after a disastrous showing in his dragon rider’s exam, he's destined never to fly one himself. All that changes the night his sister appears at his window, entrusting him with a secret...and a stolen dragon. Turns out, his big sister is a dragon thief! Too bad his older brother is a rising star in Drakopolis law enforcement... To protect his friends and his family, Abel must partner with the stolen beast, riding in kin battles and keeping more secrets than a dragon has scales. When everyone wants him fighting on their side, can Abel figure out what’s worth fighting for?
Download or read book London Underground The Quiz Book written by Mike Dugdale and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last 150 years, every Londoner, tourist, and visitor uses the tube to explore and enjoy London. But behind the facade of ox-blood brick buildings and colourful diagrams lies a wealth of history and interesting facts. This book tests your knowledge in this area with 250 questions (and answers) about this incredible network.
Download or read book Proxy written by Alex London and published by Philomel Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Privileged Knox and and his proxy, Syd, are thrown together to overthrow the system"--
Download or read book The Ministry of Quizzes written by David Gentle and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Quizzes is the must-buy gift book for quiz solvers and puzzlers, from David Gentle, author of On the Tip of My Tongue. Perfect for fans of the GCHQ Puzzle Book, Bletchley Park Brainteasers, and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book. Deep in the heart of Whitehall, up a quiet side road, is an office block. Unremarkable on the outside, inside it buzzes and bustles with activity. Civil servants are hard at work, researching, compiling, cross-checking. Facts and trivia, questions and puzzles. This is the Ministry of Quizzes. This small but essential government department serves the nation’s needs on all matters relating to quizzes, puzzles and general knowledge trivia. Now, for the first time, their work can be revealed. The Ministry of Quizzes features an ingenious and irresistible mixture of over 200 quizzes and puzzles to be played solo or with family and friends. Not everyone is convinced this government department actually exists. But how else could we explain such a copious and comprehensive collection of diverse, devious and distracting questions and brainteasers? 'I find it impossible to believe you will not love this book' - Daniel Radcliffe
Download or read book Quizmaster London written by Ginny Hill and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate London quiz book! Quizmaster London gives you a fascinating range of questions all based on this Great British capital city. Test your knowledge of London with questions about Royal London, London bridges, London landmarks and London fashion, shops, food and drink. All-round entertainment is provided in Quizmaster London and, with 300 questions, it offers a fantastic resource for any family or pub quiz. Happy Quizzing!
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Download or read book The Book Lover s Quiz Book written by Gary Wigglesworth and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The perfect gift for quizzers' VAL McDERMID 'Outside of a dog, The Book Lover's Quiz Book is every bookworm's best friend -- inside of a dog . . . well, if you know the rest, you're going to love this book' PETER HANINGTON, author of A Dying Breed, peterhanington.co.uk 'Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm's bookworm' MARK MASON, author of Walk the Lines, Question Time and many more 'A book quiz quiz book what more could lovers of books, quizzes and quizzes about books desire? And marvellous it is too, Wiggleworth proving himself quite the literary Magnus Magnussen of our social media age' TRAVIS ELBOROUGH traviselborough.co.uk 'This is the ultimate literary quiz book and Gary Wigglesworth is the quizmaster to end all quizmasters' DAVID QUANTICK davidquantick.com This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover's Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary's live quizzes, at the Betsey Trotwood in London and elsewhere. So, there are lots of multiple-choice questions, some amusing answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts about authors and some of the much-loved Say What You See picture round. Also, there are fixed and variable rounds - fixed ones include 'Blankety Books' (one word missing from the title - always with a theme), 'Literary Links and lists' (what connects/next in the list etc.) and '2 of a Kind' (name the character and the author that share the same initials). The changeable rounds keep the quizzes fresh and include 'What the Dickens?' (real or made-up Dickens names), 'RomeNo or JuliYess' (real or made-up Shakespearian insults) and 'Book Bingo!' (identify the correct number). There are also more standard rounds such as 'First Lines', 'Working Titles' and 'Banned Books'. The aim of all Gary's quizzes, and this book, is that people should have fun and be able to guess (if they don't know) as much as possible.
