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The Awfully Big Quiz Book
Could YOU challenge a chemist or baffle a biologist? The Awfully Big Quiz Book is bursting with hundreds of quirky questions to puzzle your pals, freak out your family and torture your teacher. Find out the foul facts of science you really need to know. Who ate their own granny in a soup? Which dinosaurs had bad breath? Who used pickled onions as eyeballs? How do you go to the toilet in space? With eye-popping experiments, fearsome facts and all the awesome answers you'll ever need, this brilliant book is guaranteed to boggle your brain!
100 pages, Paperback
First published October 20, 2000
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Nick Arnold
280 books143 followersNick Arnold is the author of the award winning series, Horrible Science and Wild Lives. Arnold's first published works appeared as a result of a project he was working on at the University of North London, when he was trying to teach young children. A positive review was written about him, and he started to write the "Horrible Science" books. His books are illustrated by Tony De Saulles.
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July 13, 2021
It has chapters covering topics from medicine to dinosaurs.And unlike any other quiz book it doesn't have any dry and banal facts that bore you out,but the ones that you don't usually come across but you wish you did👀(Or atleast my sixth grade self found it to be).
For instance,it has "food facts" which says about how this family ate their granny's ashes mistaking it to be some soup mix.It also has tit-bits like: (elevator thought experiment)the thought of being weightless in a lift & falling down a lift shaft is what led Einstein to the Theory of relativity;how people decided to catch the loch Ness monster🦕;And why surgeons can't operate on guts using electrically heated instruments (because fart gas can cause explosions👀💥).
Also did you know scientists working for US bell laboratories in 1964 mistook the signals( microwaves from the heat energy after the Big Bang)they detected to be interference caused by pigeon poo on their radar telescope at first?💩
It even has a bear safety instruction manual,space travel guide,dinosaur baby care tips and WHAT NOT!
So in each chapter you have a multitude of quizzes, in which you guess the answers to the questions,from the options they give & such,and keep a track of your score throughout the whole chapter and look up how you did in the scoreboard, at the end of each chapter.
They have illustrations throughout the book and questions and facts so creatively presented and it is everything that a middle schooler would find it to be intriguing, fun and entertaining.And ofcourse, it makes learning in the enjoyable/easiest way possible.
For instance,it has "food facts" which says about how this family ate their granny's ashes mistaking it to be some soup mix.It also has tit-bits like: (elevator thought experiment)the thought of being weightless in a lift & falling down a lift shaft is what led Einstein to the Theory of relativity;how people decided to catch the loch Ness monster🦕;And why surgeons can't operate on guts using electrically heated instruments (because fart gas can cause explosions👀💥).
Also did you know scientists working for US bell laboratories in 1964 mistook the signals( microwaves from the heat energy after the Big Bang)they detected to be interference caused by pigeon poo on their radar telescope at first?💩
It even has a bear safety instruction manual,space travel guide,dinosaur baby care tips and WHAT NOT!
So in each chapter you have a multitude of quizzes, in which you guess the answers to the questions,from the options they give & such,and keep a track of your score throughout the whole chapter and look up how you did in the scoreboard, at the end of each chapter.
They have illustrations throughout the book and questions and facts so creatively presented and it is everything that a middle schooler would find it to be intriguing, fun and entertaining.And ofcourse, it makes learning in the enjoyable/easiest way possible.
October 7, 2021
The greatest quiz book you could ever give to your kids. They'll learn a lot and have fun too.
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