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You probably know them best from March's electrifying University Challenge semi-final, which saw two of the series' most memorable contestants, dapper Bobby Seagull and fan favourite Eric Monkman, go head-to-head in a Cambridge derby between Emmanuel and Wolfson colleges. In this new quiz book, however, Monkman and Seagull are on the same team - and their opponent is you!Containing over 540 questions - FROM THE MOST DIFFICULT, TO ONES DESIGNED FOR YOUNGER READERS, this book will see the devilish wits of TV's brainiest boffins put to the page for the first time, with tricks and tests to taunt even the smuggest sofa-shouter. From puzzles to pop quizzes on everything from particle physics to philharmonics, it's sure to perplex even Paxman.

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Publié par	Eyewear Publishing
Date de parution	05 juillet 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781839780448
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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ERIC MONKMAN is from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. He has studied (and quizzed) at the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge. When he lived in Ottawa to work for the Canadian government, he quizzed there too. He is known for his intense concentration and his emphatic delivery.

BOBBY SEAGULL was born in East Ham and is studying for a doctorate in Education specialising in Maths alongside teaching Maths at Chesterton Community College. He worked as a financial trader at Lehman Brothers, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PwC. He is also co-founder of OxFizz, an educational social enterprise, and a trustee of the charity UpRising, a youth development leadership organisation.
The pair are good friends, and became famous after appearing on series 46 of BBC Two s University Challenge .
First published in 2017
by Eyewear Publishing Ltd
Suite 333, 19-21 Crawford Street
London, W1H 1PJ
United Kingdom
Illustrations Michael Chester, 2017
Graphic design and typesetting Edwin Smet, 2017
Editorial material Rosanna Hildyard,
Todd Swift, Alexandra Payne, 2017
Introductions and prefaces Bobby Seagull and Eric Monkman, 2017
Printed in England by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall
Readers of this book are encouraged to use the questions and answers contained within for quizzing, at home, online or in other social spaces.
All readers of this book are free to copy and share this information, so long as they do not seek to profit by their actions, and have legally purchased their own copy.
Copying from your own copy will be considered fair use, so long as this applies to the text of questions and answers only, not the illustrations, drawings or other prose. The licence to publish this book, in whole and part, remains with Eyewear and the copyrighted artists and authors above.
ISBN: 9781839780448
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2017-2020 Eric Monkman, Bobby Seagull
- except as outlined above.
The moral right of Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
DEDICATION

STARTERS
30 Starter For 10s
60 Bonus Questions (20 sets of 3)

CATEGORIES OF QUESTIONS
SPORTS
10 Words In The Name Of British Football Clubs
20 Sports Time
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
10 Red, Yellow and Blue - The Arts
10 Literature
10 English Words of Non-Indo-European Origin
10 Names Of Books In The Old Testament Of The Bible
11 Words That Are Associated With Colours
MATHS AND SCIENCE
10 Maths And Science
10 Units
10 Equations Statements (mix/match)
10 Discredited Theories
10 No Diminishing Returns to Knowledge! - Business, Economics and Finance
HISTORY
4 Parallel Lives
10 The Road To D-Day
10 National Days
10 Before 1000 BC

MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE
20 The Price of a Pint of Milk - Pop Culture
10 Best Picture Winners of the Past 10 Years
10 Non-Capital Cities
20 Amazing Women
15 Colleges of Oxford
20 6.48 a.m. Puzzle for Today (and Tomorrow)
DIFFERENT FORMS OF QUIZ
19 Connection Questions Starting at 199
48 Pub Quiz
10 Newspaper Quiz
50 Primary School-Level Questions

CHRISTMAS
20 All I Want For Christmas Is Christmas-Themed Quiz Questions
THE FINAL CHALLENGE
40 Buzzer-Style Trivia Tossups (10 questions, each followed by 3 bonuses)
ANSWERS!
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
This book is best enjoyed with friends (though we wouldn t blame you if you tried these questions by yourself). Part of the fun of quizzing is seeing how you do in comparison to others. The satisfaction of knowing something ( What s the capital of Burkina Faso? , for example, or who invented the microwave? ) when everyone else on your team draws a blank is part of what has made pub quizzing a national pastime in the UK. And who doesn t enjoy seeing whether you know more than the contestants on a quiz show? Certainly both of us were pleased after our matches when people told us how many answers they got when watching. It was like being able to enjoy your favourite hobby with people across the whole country!
The two of us first met as part of a quiz at Cambridge University. Bobby Seagull had arranged some practice matches, in which Eric Monkman competed. Our friendship pretty much grew out of a shared love of trying to see who knew what . We had the chance to go head-to-head, buzzer to buzzer, against each other for our teams (Emmanuel College and Wolfson College) for just under 30 minutes on TV at 8pm Monday 27 th March 2017. It was an exciting match, but Wolfson ultimately prevailed in University Challenge s tightest semi-final for twelve years (Bobby has since forgiven Eric for this, especially as Eric had the chance to meet world-famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in the grand final!).
We still enjoy quizzing each other. In fact, Bobby even has a special way of tearing and folding a newspaper around the daily quiz to make looking up the answer easy. We do not always get all the answers between us (Bobby needs to work on his Greek Latin word roots and Eric on his sporting knowledge), nor do we always win pub quizzes (they often require a different knowledge set than the one we needed on television). But we always have fun quizzing together, and now we get to quiz you.
Good luck!
Bobby Seagull and Eric Monkman
DEDICATION
Eric : This book is dedicated to my mother Deborah Badowski, my original fan.
Bobby : I spent a lot of my childhood Saturday afternoons in East Ham library, sprawled across the floor with books ranging from the history of the Aztecs, to Roald Dahl s fiction, to science and the solar system. My papa, Jose, used to take me, my elder brother Davey and my younger brother John as a regular pilgrimage. My youngest brother Tommy had to wait a few more years before his library adventures began. And my mum, Jamma, would have some south Indian food waiting for us at home after we were tired out by reading (and ready by 4.45pm, just in time to listen to the final football scores!) I d like to dedicate this quiz book to my family and to all the books that opened my eyes to the world.
Eyewear: We d like to thank Robert Gwyn Palmer, agent, for being so helpful during this book s creation, and Catherine Flanagan for her expert Quiz master eye.

CHAPTER 1: 30 STARTER FOR 10s
These are typical starter questions to begin the book. You can choose to do them all at once; or play University Challenge- style, and for any correctly answered question, go forward to any of the sets of three bonus questions in Chapter 2 ; or any of the sets of 10+ category questions later in the book. If you get a question wrong, you ve lost your chance to answer any more questions until the next turn. Good luck!
1
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This is one of the three laws formulated by which British writer? Born in Somerset in 1917, he became famous for co-writing the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and as the author of the novels Childhood s End, Rendezvous with Rama and The Foundations of Paradise . Alongside Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, he is known as part of the Big Three of science fiction. He died in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2008.
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2
What single digit links: the number of Galilean moons; in mathematics, the fourth root of 256; in Buddhism, the number of Noble Truths; and in chemistry, the atomic number of the element beryllium?

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3
He speaks to me as if I were a public meeting. According to biographer George Russell, these were the words of complaint by Queen Victoria about which of her Prime Ministers? Born in 1809 in Liverpool, he was a campaigner for Home Rule for Ireland. Identify this former Liberal Prime Minister, whose career lasted over 60 years and who was not only Britain s oldest PM, but served that role on a record four occasions.

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4
German Bartholomeus Strobel and Italians Titian and Caravaggio are among artists who have painted which biblical event? This distasteful incident was ordered by Herod Antipas at a dinner party, acting on the request of his stepdaughter Salome. He may have been named Antipas, but the guests were not likely to savour the first course
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5
Name this animal: the only living relative of the giraffe, this animal is native to the canopy forests of the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. First described in 1901 by English zoologist Philip Sclater, it derives part of its full classification name from the British governor of Uganda, Sir Harry Johnston. It could be a missing link between giraffes and zebras: much smaller than its long-necked cousins, at 1.5m at shoulder, and with striped black-and white legs standing out below a reddish-brown body. The mule (half-horse, half-donkey) can eat its heart out.

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6
Citing her work in the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their module spaces , what is the name of the Iranian mathematician who was the first female winner of the Fields medal in 2014, and died of cancer in July 2017?
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7
Excluding the Vatican City and Rome, what are considered to be the two closest capital cities between two sovereign countries? The first of these capitals is named after Italian-French founder Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza; the second is renowned for hosting the Ragnarok of boxing matches in 1974 - the Rumble in the Jungle between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Name these two capitals, separated by just a few kilometres on either side of the Congo River.

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8
E-coli, the bacteria, is short for Escherichia coli . Give the dictionary spelling of the word Escherichia .
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