Product Description

As what is the painting La Gioconda better known? Upon which city is the original game of Monopoly based? Whose portrait is on the reverse side of current Bank of England GBP50 notes? From Magnus Magnusson, presenter of BBC's Mastermind for twenty-five years, comes the complete quiz book, perfect for both the serious contestant and for family fun. Echoing the television show's classic twin formula of specialist subjects and general knowledge, the book contains over one thousand carefully graded questions (together with the all-important answers). It offers a question list far superior to the usual stock pub quiz fodder. Many of the questions have been chosen for their unusual answers, or for the surprising stories behind them. The specialist subjects include topics of particular interest to Magnus, such as Norse Mythology and perfume; and for the most hardened of quiz enthusiasts, there are a smattering of old favourites from Mastermind itself.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20398 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Historian and Norse scholar Magnus Magnusson, presented Mastermind for 25 years (1972-1997) and the show became a national institution.

Customer Reviews

One of the best
I'm always on the look out for new sources of questions. When I came upon this one my hopes weren't high, but I should have guessed that the late great Magnus would never have put his name to anything which is substandard. There's plenty of questions in the book, 2,000 by my reckoning, which is pretty good value. Half of the rounds are general knowledge, and the other half are themed. More than that, though, each round is carefully put together so that the questions increase in difficulty, and the last few questions in many of the rounds are absolute stinkers.You'll find a lot of original questions here. I do think this is a book for the regular quizzer rather than families, though. Nothing wrong with that , either.I don't read quiz books for pleasure, but once I started working my way through this one I couldn't put it down until I had tried every quiz over a couple of days. That says a lot. In my humble opinion, one of the best 'straight' quiz books I've bought for a very long time.

Excellent
Both this and 'Magnus Magnusson's Quiz Book' (ISBN 0751530654) are among the best quiz books around for serious quizzers. Many original, challenging and entertaining questions and very few of the boring, generic questions you find in most quiz books. Well worth buying if you're serious about quizzing.

Quiz book for the super family?
At the risk of sounding like a complete dullard, I would have to question the appropriateness of this book's title, as a large proportion of the questions contained therein are much too difficult for me and my family to answer.

Whilst I like a challenge, and consider myself to have a fairly broad spread of knowledge, this book has proved to be less entertaining and more demoralizing than I had hoped.

I think it is probably one for those with super intellects or hard-core quizzers rather than mere mortals such as me and my family.