Author: Steve Tribe Publisher: ISBN: 9781787132726 Category : Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
University Challenge has been dazzling, delighting and puzzling viewers with its fiercely intelligent questions since 1962. From Bobby Seagull to Gail Trimble, the show has produced some iconic contestants and continues to be as popular as ever. This book compiles some of the most dastardly questions over the years and gives you the oppurtunity to hold your very own tournament. Asking the questions... you. Fingers on the buzzers, who's ready for their starter for 10?
Author: Steve Tribe Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1446417662 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 578
Book Description
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!
Author: Steve Tribe Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1849497389 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
'Fingers on buzzers, your first starter for ten...' Every week the nation tunes in to hear these legendary words. Over the course of its incredible 53 years, University Challenge has achieved cult status. It's regularly the third most popular BBC2 show, testament to the enduring appeal of this beloved programme. It even has its own spin-off series: The Professionals, and Christmas specials featuring famous faces. This bumper quiz book allows you to pit your wits against the students withover 3000 questions drawn from the University Challenge archive. Plus there are quotes and testimonies from behind-the-scenes. Massively popular with fans of all ages, University Challenge's Ultimate Quiz Book makes the perfect gift for children, students, grandparents and everyone in between.
Author: Marina Coles Publisher: Andre Deutsch Limited ISBN: 9780233999470 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Britain loves University Challenge. An ITV institution of the 1960s, when it was presented by Bamber Gascoigne the show even featured contestants who have gone on to become superstars in their own rights (such as Stephen Fry). Off air for almost ten years, University Challenge was brought back in 1994, with a new, equally distinctive presenter, Jeremy Paxman. In the show, two colleges or universities compete against each other by answering tough questions on subjects as diverse as anclent Greek mythology and rocket science. 'Your starter for ten...no conferring' is one of the most famous phrases in television. University Challenge Quiz Book gives the reader the rare opportunity to pit themselves against the real starters for ten and bonus questions that have featured throughout the programme's long history. Drawing on the immense archive of questions accumulated over the decades, University Challenge Quiz Book includes starter questions on subjects that range from the Tall Ships Race to women in politics, the history of space travel to contemporary children's fiction. New York Hotels, for example, or three on writers and food, or even three on surnames. Incredibly broad in it's range, the University Challenge Quiz Book is as challenging as the programme itself. A must for all fans of the show and quiz fiends alike.
Author: Wendy Roby Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books ISBN: 1843176181 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 133
Book Description
There's nothing quite like a quick fire question, the pressure of a countdown, or the expectant stare of Jeremy Paxman for making even the most intelligent quiz show contestants (as well as the not so clever) come out with the most unbelievably stupid answers. Universally Challenged is a collection of slip-ups, blunders and misunderstandings from contestants who really are the weakest link. Includes these priceless examples from Family Fortunes: . Les Dennis: Name something that could be useful to a blind man. Contestant: A sword. . Les Dennis: Name a bird with a long neck. Contestant: Naomi Campbell. . Les Dennis: Name something people might be allergic to. Contestant: Skiing. This hilarious compendium of stupidity is guaranteed to have readers of any age howling in disbelief.
Author: Jack Waley-Cohen Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1473530997 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 464
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RY CLV RNGH? Can you find the connection between Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes, David Brent and Ford Perfect? Only Connect is the ultimate test of knowledge and lateral thinking. Since 2008 the fiendishly difficult quiz show has been challenging contestants to find connections between apparently unrelated clues. The Only Connect Quiz Book collects over 200 of the most entertaining and perplexing challenges from the team behind the BBC’s hugely popular quiz show - including many new (never broadcast) questions. Covering each of the show’s four rounds – Connections, Sequences, the Connecting Wall and Missing Vowels – and with introductions from presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, here is your chance to put your own sleuthing and quizzical knowledge to the Only Connect test. With games to play on your own or in teams (clever names, please), The Only Connect Quiz Book will take your quizzing achievements to a new level.
Author: Granada Television Staff Publisher: ISBN: 9780563371946 Category : Questions and answers Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Who was appointed conductor of the Worcester County Lunatic Asylum Band in 1879? What is the cube root of 512? In which 20th-century novel are the central characters Hilda's sister and Bertha's husband? These are among the questions in this quiz book, based on television's University Challenge.
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