Portico The Strangest London Quiz Book Quinn Tom

All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! • Test your rugby knowledge with this handy quiz book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of rugby history • Quiz categories include • Famous Firsts and Lasts • Trophy Cabinet • Unexpected Interruptions • Men and Women Behaving Badly • Political Connections • The Numbers Game • Family Ties • Never Mind the Weather • Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your rugby knowledge to a whole new level

All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! • Test your football knowledge with this handy book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of football history • Quiz categories include • Outlandish scorelines • Freaky weather • Unfeasible goals • Animals on pitches • Cup madness • Streakers • Football's great eccentrics • International antics • Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your football knowledge to a whole new level

Britain's most fiendishly difficult quiz is back. Do you have what it takes to make it to the grand final? • With their first bestselling quiz book, the Only Connect team tested your lateral thinking with killer connections, challenging sequences and byzantine walls. Now, Only Connect question-setter (and former champion) Jack Waley-Cohen returns with a NEW collection of 200 cryptic, brain-busting questions, including many never-before-broadcast and all-new ones exclusive to the book. Organized into a series of discrete 4-round games, each game increases in difficulty, as you try to reach the grand final. It's like having your very own full series of Only Connect at home • With a healthy dose of trivia between games (What are the greatest ever Only Connect questions? Who is the best team of all time?) and an introduction by presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Only Connect Quiz Book will take you skills to a new level

For almost 50 years, University Challenge has served as a bastion of general knowledge, regularly testing our finest young minds with a dizzying array of subjects. Now - if you think you're up to the challenge - you can pit your own wits against the trickiest quiz around • With over 3,500 challenging quiz questions, The University Challenge Quiz Book will probe the murkiest corners of your intellect. Leaving no stone unturned, in-depth questions cover every aspect of history, science, language, economics, culture and more, and will put even the hardiest quiz veteran through their paces • With games to play either on your own or in teams (no conferring), here is a collection to challenge, surprise and stimulate - from your first starter for ten to the final gong • Come on, come on!

Test your knowledge and get to know the real London • Can you find your way from Bond Street to Kentish Town on a word ladder? • Can you crack a 1950s underground code? • Puzzle your way across London with this official TfL quiz book and over 200 word puzzles, cryptic clues, number games, anagrams and spot-the-difference challenges • Explore the capital from a whole new point of view, through the maps, posters and other fascinating artifacts of the iconic Underground, stored in Transport for London’s archive

Перед вами "Самая настоящая британская книга-викторина. Как ты завариваешь настоящую чашку чая? и 720 других важных вопросов" от Джеффа Тиббаллса • Будете ли вы сбиты с толку этим великим британским развлечением? • Знаете ли вы этикет в очереди? Двадцать один способ описать дождь? Тогда эта книга-викторина, возможно, придется вам по вкусу • Вежливо задавайте вопросы себе, своей семье и друзьям о британской культуре, языке, этикете, конечно же, погоде, а также о множестве других важных, типично британских тем • Каждая викторина состоит из 21 вопроса, а ответы основаны на реальных результатах национальных опросов • Книга на английском языке • Will you be flummoxed by this Great British distraction? • Do you know queuing etiquette? Twenty-one different ways to describe rain? Then this quiz book might be just your cup of tea

Is London the rainiest city in Europe? Where are the Crown Jewels kept? And where is TV soap opera EastEnders set? From royal homes to Sherlock Holmes, this book is packed with over 250 quick-fire questions for the whole family to enjoy. Includes multiple choice, true or false and odd-one-out questions, and all the answers at the back of the book

A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history • Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, the world’s railways have given rise to plenty of intriguing stories. In this fascinating book, revised and updated with a new selection of tales, railway buff Tom Quinn explores the more bizarre side of train travel, featuring weird weather conditions, audacious robberies, hair-raising accidents, vanishing passengers, an infestation of maggots and a mysterious missing mummy • From the dawn of rail travel, when speeds of 15mph were considered dangerous to health and people mistook engines for fire-breathing demons, through the Victorian heyday of royal trains and seaside specials to today’s more prosaic leaves on the line, this whistlestop tour through railways’ long and storied history is the perfect gift for armchair travellers, history fans and trainspotters

Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history • Fishing's Strangest Tales gathers together choice stories and bizarre fishing tales from all over the world. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Or how about the nine-year-old boy fishing for trout who caught a large mussel – containing no less than forty pearls – and managed to earn more in one day than his father, a farm worker, had earned in the last five years? Fishing's Strangest Days is full of fascinating tales that may sound fishy and unbelievable but will have have you caught hook, line and sinker

Packed with memorabilia and anecdotes from the Twisted Wheel in Manchester to the mighty Wigan Casino, The Story of Northern Soul is the definitive history of the Northern Soul scene • What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others. The Northern Soul scene has confounded its critics by surviving and growing into an adult dance phenomenon whose followers share a passion for the music of Black America unrivalled anywhere else in the world. The Story of Northern Soul takes the first ever in-depth look at the culture, the music, the artists and the people frequenting the all-night venues which are synonymous with the British Soul Scene