A Brit Of Trivia: Now That's Trivia [Paperback]

Mark Harrison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 23, 2006

A Brit Of Trivia is the answer to every trivia lovers dream! Whether you want to make your own entertainment at home or maybe pass the time on your way to a trip, here is a unique book which includes mystery objects, mystery eyes, mystery puzzles, name that person, state capital maps, name that year, tie breakers, true or false and over 1000 other questions. Test your intellect if you dare and enjoy this fun and exciting trivia with a twist book.

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About the Author

Originally from Bolton, Lancashire, England UK after spending a year working on cruise ships Mark Harrison moved to Santa Cruz California. Were he worked for two national sales companies in advertising and payroll sales. In 1996 one of the local bar owners at 99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall in Santa Cruz California asked Mark for an idea to help generate sales on a slow evening, Mark suggested hosting a trivia night and the owners ask him to be the host and implement the show, reluctantly Mark agreed to do the show and so was born A Brit Of Trivia ten years later he is still doing the trivia night, so word got around about the trivia night and Mark was approached by other bars which he now supplies questions to on a weekly basis. People love the trivia night which consist of audio and visuals questions. Mystery voices, Mystery sounds, Name that tune TV Themes, some of the visual hand out sheets and questions you will see here in the book. The bar is extremely busy and people are having fun. Coming up with new categories is challenging and I am not to sure other people would take as much time as Mark does in putting this kind of trivia night together, but it is worth it each time Mark turns up hand out the trivia sheets, pencils and then picks up the microphone looks down and see an eager waiting audience. The strangest thing of all is that I had never been to a trivia night in England or America before I started this. I don’t call it trivia night or quiz night I like to think of it as entertainment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (January 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595381405
• ISBN-13: 978-0595381401
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,511,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Badly in need of an editor, February 9, 2007

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This review is from: A Brit Of Trivia: Now That's Trivia (Paperback)

I like trivia, but this book is so badly constructed I can't enjoy it. It consists mostly of quiz sets of 21 questions each. Inexplicably, question #15 in every quiz is labeled a "Tiebreaker."

There's hardly a single page that's free of punctuation errors, spelling mistakes, typos, capitalization errors, grammatical errors, and just plain odd wording. There are some factual errors too, which makes me question how well the author checked his facts.

Example: He calls Def Leppard "Death Leopard" instead. Sheryl Crow becomes Sherly Crow.

Example: "All of these writers are known for their horror stories except A) Frank Barum B) Bram Stoker C) H.P Lovecraft" The answer: "A) Frank Barum he was author of children's books Oz books" Never mind the strange wording, it was L. Frank Baum who wrote the Oz books.

Example: "Butch Cassidy or Jesse James who's real name was Robert Leroy Parker"

Example: "Horse racing how many furlong in a mile."