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The Amazing 10,000 Quiz Challenge

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This is a very generous and well presented collection of quizzes. It has given me many hours of fun. The book offers a nice variety -from general knowledge to special subjects, like dictators, scandals and disasters to picture quizzes to 50 question themed quizzes. There are some errors in the answer lists but, considering this book contains 10,000 questions and answers, not very many. I find trivia quizzes to be about not only knowledge (the more you know the better you do) but also thinking and memory. The questions I enjoy the most are the ones where I don't initially know the answer, but where the answer can be deduced through logical thinking. Another type that I really like are the ones where I have to search and massage my memory to get the correct answer. Yet another type of question that I enjoy are ones where I haven't a clue as to the correct answer, but that offer an intriguing bit of information. This book contains lots of all of the above. A quibble would be that there is perhaps too much attention paid to what I refer to as 'junk culture' -e.g. fluffy television shows, movies and performers, forgettable pop musicians, people famous for being famous, etc. For example, from the number of questions that have 'Kylie Minogue' as the answer, you might think she represented some kind of high-water mark of contemporary culture. All in all though, this is an entertaining book and well worth the money.

I think that there may be people that would like this book much more than I did. Biggest problem is that I expected more out of it. I did not research it enough and made a quick decistion.