The University Challenge Quiz Book

Author: Steve Tribe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446417662
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 578

Book Description
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!

University Challenge: The Ultimate Questions

Author: Steve Tribe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849498951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

The Unseen University Challenge

Author: David Langford
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473208343
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
University Challenge is one of the world's top quiz shows, enjoyed by millions, both participants and observers. But Discworld fans may feel that not many questions cover the real questions in Life, for example, Who or what could be seen as the inspiration for the near-tragic accident from which nanny Ogg is saved only be a special willow-reinforced hat made for her by Mr Vernissage of Slice? And give a plausible origin for Mrs Rosie Palm, proprietor of the famous House of Negotiable Affection in the Shades. Each Faculty at the Unseen University has provided a set of questions, and answers are included for those who are not sure how the poisonous effects of quicksilver fumes are an occupational hazard of magic-users. The questions have been compiled by Mr David Langford, who knows quite as much - and arguably more - about the Discworld as its Creator, and Terry Pratchett has provided an Introduction.

Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book

Author: Jack Waley-Cohen
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473530997
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 487

Book Description
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.

University Challenge

Author: Peter Gwyn
Publisher: Andre Deutsch Limited
ISBN: 9780233050829
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
With some of the great brains of our times appearing on University Challenge, this book goes behind the scenes of 40 years of the brainiest show on television. See if you have what it takes to become a University Challenge contestant with the sample test papers and some questions, set for this book.

The Mastermind Quiz Book

Author: Richard Morgale
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446417220
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 578

Book Description
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?

The Classic University Challenge Quiz Book

Author: Steve Tribe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787132726
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
University Challenge has been dazzling, delighting and puzzling viewers with its fiercely intelligent questions since 1962. From Bobby Seagull to Gail Trimble, the show has produced some iconic contestants and continues to be as popular as ever. This book compiles some of the most dastardly questions over the years and gives you the oppurtunity to hold your very own tournament. Asking the questions... you. Fingers on the buzzers, who's ready for their starter for 10?

This Or That . . . Or That?

Author: Emma MacLaren Henke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1683371003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Hundreds of silly and serious questions to help you get to know yourself and others better.

Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book

Author: Eric Monkman
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1839780444
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
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

Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848943997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
***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