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Challenging - yes, in parts - Fascinating ? Well . . . - Rated
Bamber Gascoigne is a name that commands respect within the quiz world for his 25 year stint as the question master on University Challenge. So maybe I expected a little too much from this book. As quiz books go the questions are a little uneven, but on the whole they aren't at all bad. There's quite a spread of subjects, and I would say there are many more 'high culture' questions than is the norm. Each round has ten questions, which are linked by a particular theme. Ah, but here's the rub. You have to work out what the theme is for yourself, since it doesn't say so on the question page, only the answer page. I like the answer pages though, since there is a good attempt to actually explain why the answers are what they are, which is far from common amongst quiz books. Difficulty varies hugely between questions in the same round, but I would say that a good quizzer will average 7 or 8 correct answers per round.
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.
A great quiz book from the master of quiz masters - Rated
Wow this is a great book! The questions of which there are 2000 are broad in scope and aim to develop a healthy curiosity for general knowledge. Thoroughly recommended!
