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All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form! • Test your London knowledge with this fascinating book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from the illustrious history of this wonderful city • Quiz categories include • Ancient traditions • London eccentrics • Getting about • Ghosts and ghouls • Corridors of power • Monumental monuments • Quirky buildings • Just plain weird • Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your London 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!

The World War II Book является частью серии Big Ideas и объясняет сложную и обширную тему простыми словами. Это всеобъемлющее руководство рассчитано как на новичков, стремящихся узнать что-то новое, так и на экспертов, желающих освежить свои знания! The World War II Book предлагает читателям свежий и яркий взгляд на историю благодаря превосходным иллюстрациям и понятным схемам • В книге вы найдете • – Более 100 невероятных идей о Второй мировой • – Факты, схемы, хронологии и графики, позволяющие объяснить ключевые концепции • – Иллюстрации и графики, облегчающие понимание темы • – Простой текст, который будет понятен людям с любым уровнем подготовки • The World War II Book станет идеальным введением в историю самого крупного вооруженного конфликта

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

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

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

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety • These notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened • Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. John Brooks's insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history really does repeat itself

Hoodwinkd in faery fancy. This volume contains a selection of Keatss greatest verse including his gothic story in verse The Eve of St Agnes and the mysterious Lamia exploring themes of love enchantment myth and magic Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16thcentury California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage poems epic and intimate essays satirical and inspirational and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. John Keats