How To Win Your Pub Quiz: Your only guide to ultimate victory

What a cracking little book this is, and it is little at just over A5 size, but it punches well over its weight in its 128 pages and, to misquote the advert, does exactly what it says on the cover. Seriously, if you want to be just adequate at pub quizzes all you need to do is simply have this on side, or at your side, when you go to the loo at home; if you want to win however then also read it on the way to work (providing that you're not driving) and in your lunch time too (come on, you're a quizzer so you've no friends to talk to during your lunch break anyway) and, within a relatively short period of time, you'll be able to hold your own in any quizzing group (but then as a quizzer you'll have been doing that in private for some time anyway...).I Googled the word "quiz" and, rather strangely, its origins are oblique and relatively recent in that it appears that the first attested use of this word is only from 1781 and means an odd person (no reference here to the author of course) and from my, sadly, inattentive Latin classes at school I have a vague recollection that the Latin translation of "who knows" is "qui scit"; so a quick, and non classical (certainly from me) transliteration of "qui scit" could be "quiz" ... you read it here first.I'm not a natural pub quizzer and found this book courtesy of Messrs "Google and Windows" (windows of this parish) as I had been asked, at gun point, to join my local pub quiz evening after a member of one of the teams had, quite strangely, found a life to lead.I found this book a joy to read simply for its own sake and the gamesmanship side of it (qv School for Scoundrels, 1960, if you want to refer to this in a quiz of your own) is quintessentially English and is grounded in Wodehouse and, to no little extent, in Sellar and Yeatman whose wit and wisdom reverberates throughout this mini tome in an endearing and, quite charmingly, self deprecating way.I loved it. You can use this book as a workshop manual or simply enjoy it as a witty critique on current pub cultural mores in general. It's even available in Kindle format so you can read it without letting your anorak show. Either way it's a high flyer in the "How To..." genre which has graced the bookshelves of high street booksellers since Hesiod's "Works and Days". Hesiod, as all pub quizzers know, was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC and not, as some pub quizzers think, the finest centre forward that Tottenham ever fielded.Enjoy

Funny book bought as a gift. Quite happy.

A friend recommended this book to me as I attend pub quizzes every now and then and I found it a nicely flowing and entertaining book. What makes it a good read is that it not like other pub quiz books, that list endless trivia questions, but is more about the very funny descriptions of pub quizzes as a whole ,the people that take part in them (Norman and Norma), the quizmasters themselves , and the games that even Joe South would play to obtain the maximum points in a round. There are also some very useful tips for mugging up on specific subjects .Recommended to all

Whether you're a strict amateur or a semi-pro this is a great little book. Full of trivia, helpful tips and dreadful puns it may indeed help do what it says on the cover. It worked for me twice last week!

As I have a degree I feel I am cleverer than most people but this book is a real challenge. I would recommend it to anyone who thinks they are better than most. It has lots of questions I have never heard. Buy tis if you think you are clever and find out you are not.