InQUIZitive - The Pub and Trivia Quiz Game Book: Omnibus

by Sumit Dhar, Manisha Malla (Editor), Abhishek Thakkar (Illustrator)

Omnibus (Volume I & II) of the Kindle Bestseller series and one of Amazon’s Top Rated quiz books. With over 75 five star ratings on Amazon, the InQUIZitive series features quizzes that will give you multiple “Aha!” moments. Each question in this series has been selected with utmost care and the book features trivia not seen in any of the other books. This is an ideal book for party games, family get-togethers and long drives with your family. Add this book to your cart now and impress your friends with trivia that is truly unique.

Praise for the InQUIZItive series
- Best concept in a trivia book I've ever seen.
- InQUIZitive is extremely infectious!
- Trivia at its best in this written format.
- InQUIZitive series offers a great collection of good trivia questions that will be fun for almost audiences and formats.
- Fascinating questions with answers that will very enjoyably expand your knowledge.

Sample Questions
Q1. In the first century, Roman scribes wrote in cursive. So when they wrote the Latin word et (meaning “and”) they linked the e and t to form a single element. Which modern day symbol derives from this practice?
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 person’s 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. During World War II, it was increasingly difficult to import Coca Cola syrup into Nazi Germany due to a trade embargo. As a result, a German named Max Keith, used leftovers from cheese production, apple processing, and variety of other industries to create a drink. The name of this drink is derived from German word for imagination. What drink?

Answers:
1. Ampersand or the & symbol
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. The German word ‘fantasie’ gave rise to the drink’s name: Fanta

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

179 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 14, 2013

About the author

Sumit is an Engineering graduate from IIT Bombay and an MBA from ISB Hyderabad.He is currently the Practice Lead for BCP & Risk Management Consulting at GBS, Hewlett Packard.

Right from his childhood, he has been interested in Trivia Quizzing. He firmly believes trivia quizzing is not about knowing facts but about working out the answers using the clues provided in the question. He hopes that he can get a whole set of readers interested in Trivia Quizzing via his series InQUIZitive.

In his spare time, he enjoys movies, music, books and photography. He can be reached at sumit.dhar@gmail.com.

Reviews

[Paula Vince · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was surprised how thoroughly I enjoyed this quiz book. The quizzes are presented in batches of 5 questions. They are phrased in such a way that, even though we don't know the answers, there's a good chance we can figure them out by drawing upon intuition, life experience and common sense. And I did plenty of face-palming whenever I gave up, and then read the answers, seeing that I should have got them with just a bit more thought, or more correctly, a different direction of thought.

The questions would surely be great conversation starters and ice-breakers. I enjoyed running several past my family to see their reactions. I can't imagine how long it must have taken the author to source them all out and put this volume together, but I'm glad he did.

The format of the book is such that each question (and some are lengthy) is repeated, word for word, in the answers sections after each quiz. It probably doubled the word count unnecessarily, yet I appreciate the intention of reminding us before giving us the answers so we don't have to flip back and forth. Also, toward the end, some questions were repeated. Not many, thankfully, but probably enough to make a couple of extra quizzes.

Altogether though, I liked it a lot and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it for anybody who is searching for quizzes. In fact, read it just for your own benefit.

I received a copy from the author in return for an honest review.

[Rob Slaven · Rating 5 out of 5]

As usual I didn't pay anything for this book. It showed up in my email unasked for directly from the author. It has been my experience that this is a VERY bad sign for most books but in this case I was very pleasantly surprised.

In general I'm not a fan of trivia books because they're just disconnected random facts that don't really have any cohesion and don't build on each other well. I just can't stuff all that randomness into my head and expect it to stay put. This trivia book is not one of those. Instead of "Who won the British Open in 1989?" each question is a story and the question is often along the lines of "who is this story about" or "how is this person better known". It appeals because it puts the unknown bits out first and when you find the answer the reaction is usually, "OH! THAT guy!"

The only constructive point I might make is that the book does tend to use up a lot of space repeating the question. The format of each section is 5 questions laid out like:

Question Section
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5

Answer Section

Question 1
Answer 1

Question 2
Answer 2

Question 3
Answer 3
etc...

Also, some of the questions are a bit long so if you are trying to read these aloud to a crowd it might be hard for everyone to follow the whole question.

In summary, immensely educational and entertaining. Best concept in a trivia book I've ever seen. This author has got it completely right. Extremely impressed. Best book that ever just randomly showed up in my mailbox.

[Christopher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not your usual quiz book. It was divided into quizzes with five passages, each leading up to a question. Some of them gave information that made the answer fairly obvious.

Downsides: The entire quiz is repeated with answers that are maybe 3 or 4 words. There are questions where it is not obvious that the answer being sought is a fictional person or place. Some of the questions are repeated later in the book. And there are a couple of quizzes that are India-specific, for which you need much more than just a passing or even casual knowledge of the country.

But it was a quick read and I didn't pay anything for it. (I think it was recommended in a mailing, and I only downloaded it because it was a trivia book.)

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

Usually quiz books are full of raw facts and by-heart type questions. There is nothing to understand or comprehend, there is only information to mug up. Most quiz books contain questions like:

1. What is the capital of Syria?
2. Who was the 11th President of US?
3. Which company was founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce?

This quiz book contains a lot of thought provoking questions. I found it really interesting to read and finished the whole book in a day. I had to challenge my brain logically. There are 40 sets + a bonus set each consisting of 5 questions. A lot of the questions were first timers for me. A few others were able to disguise themselves as hard questions so I had to stress my brain to solve them. See the examples in the book description in Kindle store to see how the questions look like.

Although I feel that this book is slightly overpriced, I recommend it for quizzers especially beginners.

Edit 1: There is a buy one get one offer. So I got Vol 3 for free. Three books for the price of one (because Vol 1, Vol 2 and Vol 1 and 2 Omnibus are priced the same).

5/6

[Les · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Trivia and this book is the best I have ever read. It offers long well researched questions that offer subtle clues to the answers. The categories range from Ancient Mythology to new movies.

This is more than a quiz book, but a book that you can actually sit down and read