*** With a foreword by Alexander Armstrong. Do you know your Chopin from your Schubert? Your concerto from your cadenza? The Classic FM Puzzle Book 365 will test your musical knowledge to the very core, with a fiendishly difficult puzzle to challenge you every single day of the year. From quizzes to wordsearches, logic tests to missing symbols - via emojis, sudoku, crosswords and more - our classical music experts have created a compendium of puzzles to keep you guessing the whole year round.
Readers are pushed to their memory limits to recall their most obscure music knowledge with this collection of 1,000 questions and answers to stump every music-lover With questions for the novice, the enthusiast, and the downright expert, this book is guaranteed to set your musical knowledge a-quaver as you pit wits against Quick Fire, Famous Quotations, True or False, Film Scores, Name the Year, Name the Composer, Classical Oddities, and many more family-friendly rounds. This is the perfect companion for any quizmaster looking to bring a little extra something to the quiz night; families looking to see, once and for all, who really is the best; classical music buffs; and listeners who like to have their knowledge expanded in the quiz's playful manner. This book provides 1,000 questions to get you thinking--and fortunately provides the answers too!
Calling All Know-It-Alls Can you name an astronaut who has walked on the moon? Pretty good, but can you name all of them? Can you name all of the Marx Brothers? How about the Osmonds? The Bee Gees? The Jonas Brothers? Can you identify trees based on their leaves? How about sailor's knots? Or semaphore signals? With questions from high culture to low, spanning science, language, history, sports, music, and more, this write-in quiz book is a lively parlor game, a challenging memory jogger, and an ego-boosting way to show what you know, all wrapped into one handy volume. So sharpen your pencils, put on your thinking caps, and prepare to show what you know.
Put your partner to the test and find out just how well you know one another. After more than thirty years of research into how relationships work and where they often go wrong, Allan and Barbara Pease devised this clever quiz book to help you determine how compatible you and your partner are. The special quizzes, to be taken by yourself and with your partner, will help you clear up common misunderstandings and communicate better. A unique blend of in-depth research, witty insight into human nature, and humor, Are You Made For Each Other? will help your relationship--and make you laugh as you learn.
"In addition to 80 memory-straining quizzes and five challenging crossword puzzles, Kathleen Kaska offers us a treasure trove of fascinating facts about the Great Detective and his creator." -Dan Andriacco, author of the Sebastian McCabe - Jeff Cody Mysteries and "Baker Street Beat: An Eclectic Collection of Sherlockian Scribblings" "Kathleen Kaska has put together a wonderful mind teaser for all Sherlock Holmes aficionados. She covers it all: stories, books, the media; with lots of questions, puzzles, and trivia facts. No true Sherlockian will want to miss this grand Triviography and Quiz Book." -Michael R. Pitts, author of "Famous Movie Detectives I, II, " and "III," and co-author of "The Great Detective Pictures" Step out of your hansom cab and onto the foggy streets of Edwardian London with "The Sherlock Holmes Triviography and Quiz Book," a comprehensive collection of fun and challenging trivia about the adventures of the inimitable detective whose intellectual feats overwhelmed criminals and Scotland Yard. More than a century after Sherlock Holmes stepped from the pages of Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective story, the greatest sleuth of all time is still firmly solidly ensconced in the work of modern literature. Television series, new Holmes writers, Holmes books, Holmes societies, websites, and numerous films have kept Sherlock Holmes fans intrigued with Holmes and Watson lore. "The Sherlock Holmes Triviography and Quiz Book" offers brainteasers on each story and novel about the detective and his associate Dr. Watson, as well as background on how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own experiences contributed to his literary work.
Let hosts Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman guide you through the quiz rounds with their trademark warmth and humour and battle it out against your friends and family for Pointless glory. Perfect for playing along alone or with family and friends, The Very Pointless Quiz Book will test your knowledge and tease your brains. So how good are you at Pointless? Really? Do you think you've got enough in-depth knowledge of Regional Railways, African Countries With No Coastline and Types of Lettuce to carry off the coveted Pointless trophy? Well let's see shall we? Here's your chance to step up to the podium (metaphorically speaking of course, chances are you'll be sitting somewhere very comfortably with either a mug of tea or a roll of Andrex within easy reach) put that knowledge to the test, and see just how far you can go in a genuine four-round Pointless ordeal. Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless...
The world is full of pointless things. From rail replacement bus services to chip forks. From war to windchimes. From people who put cushions on beds to people who read the bit they write about the book on amazon. Look around you right now. Just about the only thing that isn't pointless is you. You look amazing. Join Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, the hosts of BBC1 quiz show Pointless as they take you on a journey through The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World. Filled with play-along quiz questions and unlikely facts, their hilarious collection of musings on some of the most pointless things found in everyday modern life is the perfect blend of the obscure, the fascinating and the downright silly.
Compiled by acclaimed television scriptwriter and novelist Dean Wilkinson, The Classic Children's Television Quiz Book is packed with fascinating facts about the shows you loved as a child as well as those programmes currently capturing the imagination of today's young audiences. From timeless classics like Thunderbirds, Blue Peter and Dr Who to the thoroughly up-to-date Sponge Bob, the 1,000 questions in this book will not only test your memory of the characters you grew up with but your family’s knowledge of their current favourites. With a fitting foreword by popular family TV presenters Ant and Dec this book is sure to prove a hit with television lovers of all ages and, in particular, those members of the older generation who have remained young at heart.
4000 questions in more than 200 challenging quizzes from the MindGames section of The Times to really test your general knowledge. Set the pace as quiz master for your friends, colleagues and family, or pit yourself against 4-times world-champion Olav in a battle of wits. Includes a picture question in each round.
