The World Cup Of Everything

by Richard Osman

Richard Osman has been trying to settle the most important issues society faces today. Who would win in a head-to-head between Quavers and Cheesy Wotsits? And What's the ultimate Christmas film (Home Alone, obviously). The World Cup of Everything is an incredibly popular format that began life on twitter where his hilarious polls received 1.5 million votes a go becoming a national talking point, inciting debate amongst twitter users at odds over their favourites, celebrities and key figures join in, bookies offer odds on the outcome, papers report on it all as if it is a real sporting event with headlines about how Richard Osman has melted the internet.

This autumn we're bringing The World Cup of Everything to the page in a brilliant book perfect for Christmas.
With new competitions such as The World Cup of British Sitcoms, Christmas Songs, Animals, British Bands and so on, as well as some of the favourites that have already had the country talking: Chocolate and Crisps among them, Richard will offer commentary, share funny, quirky pieces of trivia and stand-up style entries about each of the contenders. The World Cup of Everything will offer something for everyone making it the perfect gift for pretty much anyone.

This is Richard at his best: super smart, quick-witted and writing about the matters that the British public really care about.

Genres: Nonfiction, Comedy

400 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2018

About the author

An English television presenter, producer, director, and novelist.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is INCREDIBLE. It gives even the quietest person a reason to debate back with you, opens people up in a way I've never seen before, great ice breaker! Also fun to play with your partner, who knew a debate between twix vs milky way would result in a actual argument! Hahahaha still a fab gift though, or even for yourself.

[Patricia O'Brien · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book provided a most enjoyable couple of lockdown 🔐😷 Zoom hours with friends while we discussed, quite heatedly I might add, the merits of various bars in the first suggested Topic (yes, that one did come up) in The World Cup of Chocolate Bars. I look forward to the next subject.
Good old fashioned fun!

[Lisa Bentley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Years ago, to keep my students entertained on a lunch period we decided to create the ‘League of Biscuits’. We measured he varies qualities of each biscuit – texture, dunkability, taste and we decided that the best biscuit is the ginger nut – not the favourite biscuit but it is the best.

Richard Osman’s book The World Cup of Everything is built on this premise – in this book you get a game and a really good book to read. It is a book that will keep you entertained for hours on end.

The World Cup of Everything by Richard Osman is available now.

[Liz Banks · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a great format. The author had brackets set up for World Cups of things like: Chocolatae Bars, Christmas Songs, Famous Americans - there were 14 categories Unfortunately, he's British so some meant nothing much to me. His comments were both enlightening and hilarious. One of my favorites was Christmas songs where he paired classic carols with terrible British Christmas hits. I enjoyed asking Alexa to play the British hits. (They were always the losers.) I did get a good idea for a party game from this.

[Amy W · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just read this as a trivia book rather than actually doing the world cup parts and quizzes. It was both interesting and surprising and had all the humour from Richard that I enjoy on Pointless. I can imagine it would be good fun in a group though and is a great idea for a party game with the family.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of the laziest books I've ever read, it seems to have been 'researched' using Google and Wikipedia. The section on Disney movies contains so many mistakes and untruths that it makes me doubt every so-called 'fact' Osman offers.

[David Lai · Rating 3 out of 5]

At times when I was reading this book, I thought "This guy's a comic genius". The section on the world cup of animals is especially hilarious, but the whole book is riddled with Osman's witty jokes.

A really fun read.

[Andrew Oakes · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good bit of fun but riddled with errors, especially the Disney section.

[Stephen Donovan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was was given this one for Christmas and it was a fun, interactive read with a lot of interesting facts.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the concept, but after a while it all got far too repetitive. Works better on Twitter, though more of my choices “won” in this version!

[Kevinjwoods · Rating 2 out of 5]

Would call it

MOSTLY POINTLESS

But somehow that joke seems a bit obvious

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good fun at party's though I recommend having a drink in hand for extra fun!

[Nathan Herat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed playing along 😊

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great group fun. Even if you didn't think you cared, you will find yourself arguing passionately over the relative merits of Quavers vs Chipsticks.

[Ali Nembhard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it. Great family fun. Great over zoom during lockdown

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bit of fun sprinkled with the comfortable humour of Richard Osman

[Thomas Shuttleworth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surprisingly Interesting

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I paid a pound for this. If I’d paid the asking price of £14.99 I would probably be scoring this lower. I got it for the quizzes which were fun to do. The book itself was OK with some entertaining facts but like all these books it’s hard to know how much trust to place in them, especially in this case as the author has a jokey style and sometimes it’s unclear what’s a joke and what’s fact.