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Free Kindle Books - Trivia Quiz and Pub Quiz Book: InQUIZitive (Volumes I, II, and III)

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http://www.amazon.com/Trivia-Quiz-Pub-Book-InQUIZitive-ebook/dp/...

Too many trivia and pub quizzing books in the market are focused on memorization of dry facts & obscure trivia. This book is different.It features trivia quizzes where you can work out each answer. And, if by chance you are unable to work out a particular trivia question, you will be left with a "Shucks! I should have guessed that feeling" once you see the answer.

Here is what some of the reviewers on Amazon had to say:

- The book is fun for two reasons. Firstly: it will provoke much discussion and guessing if you pull this out and play as a group or even a couple, let's say, on a long car trip, plane flight, a rainy night in a camping tent, or whenever it seems time is dragging. And secondly, answering these kinds of questions could help you guess the answer to high school or college test questions.
- Goes without saying from the number of stars I've given, the content is simply superb!
- This was an enjoyable and entertaining trivia book to read. The topics in the book make you think and they brought back a lot of memories. This would be a fun book to have with a group of friends and have one person read a question and have the group try to come up with the correct answer.
- What I really enjoyed about InQUIZitive is that questions are typically paragraph-length and give some background for the answer. I knew (or guessed) the correct answers for many questions, but even for the ones I couldn't answer, I learned some interesting tidbits.
- I am a fan of trivia and a history buff, so I enjoyed this book to the max. It gave me information about things I have never thought about in relation to trivia.

And here are three sample questions:

Q1. According to the website of the Colchester tourist board during the English Civil War a large cannon was placed strategically on the wall of the castle. A shot from the parliamentary army managed to destroy the wall under the cannon and caused it to tumble to the ground. The Cavaliers (who were loyal to the King) tried to raise the cannon but could not do so as it was too heavy. What was the name of the cannon & how has it been immortalized?
Q2. Canonization is a process by which the Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint. Now, during the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, a lawyer was appointed to argue against the canonization of the person. It was this persons job to take a skeptical view of the candidate's character, to look for holes in the evidence, to argue that any miracles attributed to the candidate were fraudulent, and so on. What was the popular name given to such a lawyer?
Q3. According In her book Fairy Tale Ending, Ursula Sautter offers this hypothesis: After the defeat of the Danes at the Battle of Bornhoved, their lands became available for colonization by the Germans. The German rulers sent out glib recruitment officers offering rich rewards to those who were willing to move to the new lands. Thousands of young adults from Lower Saxony headed west leaving their parents behind. What incident is she trying to explain?

Answers:
1. Humpty Dumpty. It is widely believed this story of the Colchester Cannon is the origin of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty
2. Devil's Advocate. Therefore, today a person who advocates an opposing or unpopular cause for the sake of argument or to expose it to a thorough examination is called a "Devil's Advocate"
3. Pied Piper of Hamelin, luring away the children of the town of Hamelin

This book features multiple such questions that will leave you wanting more.You can rest assured that this book features trivia that is fun, entertaining & enlightening.


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