General Knowledge Genius!: A Quiz Encyclopedia to Boost Your Brain

by D.K. Publishing

The brilliant quiz book for clever kids - answer the questions correctly on your favourite subjects to test if you're a general knowledge genius. Children won't be able to resist the General Knowledge Genius brain-busting challenge. For every topic, pages are packed with eye-popping pictures - but do you know what they show? To help you, "Test Yourself" panels list what you're looking for. With three levels of difficulty, the challenge gets harder as you work your way from Starter, to Challenger, and finally the truly tricky Genius category. If you need it, there's a fun fact with every picture to give a helpful clue. With more than 60 topics, from across the encyclopedia, there's something for everyone. Can you name the most famous rivers worldwide? Do you know your cranium from your clavicle, or do you need to bone up on the parts of the human skeleton? Are you a demon on dinosaurs, and able to spot the difference between an archaeopteryx and an allosaurus? Perhaps you're a brain box and can do all of this standing on your head? You can! Then what are you waiting for? Open the pages of General Knowledge Genius to find out what you know, and challenge yourself to learn even more!

192 pages, Hardcover

Published April 4, 2019

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Tim Roast · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quizzing is ultra popular in the UK. It has even become a viable job these days with quizzing professionals on TV shows such as Eggheads and The Chase. This book is perhaps tapping in to the love of quizzing in this country as it presents itself as a "quiz encyclopedia".

Inside the book are lots of "fun facts" and a number of picture quizzes. What is interesting about the quizzes is that you are not told the answers in the preceding text, so it is not a read and then remember type of quiz. The answers are presented on the page in a box (split into three sections - starter, challenger and genius!) and then you need to assign the answers to the pictures. Not gifting the answers beforehand potentially leads to learning outside of the book, which is good.

The book is not all quizzes. It also has some top up pages with some "fun facts" and learning bits and pieces on them. The content is spread across five chapters - 1. Science Geek, 2. Nature know-it-all, 3. Geography genius, 4. History buff and 5. Culture vulture - with topics starting with space ("Milky Way: Our home galaxy contains between 200 and 400 billion stars!") and ending with sports and games.

The book is presented very well in full colour. Each of the bits of text is bitesize and whilst the text is simplified so children can read it, the quizzes are not dumbed down and are suitable for adults as well as children. Some quizzes are easier than others (e.g. shapes quiz was easier than "wonders of the world" quiz where the starter answers were "Uluru, Perito Moreno Glacier, Great Blue Hole, Momument Valley and Mount Roraima"), and some quizzes will be preferred to others. For example my wife won't do the snakes quiz as she hates looking at snakes, but also certain topics may appeal over others, indeed the introduction recognises this and encourages users to "start with one that you know all about then move on to something new" (and also possibly some quizzes are just better made than others).

All-in-all then a well presented quiz book that encourages "general knowledge" learning wider than just that in the book.

[Gretchen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is just what it says it is, an encyclopedia to boost your brain. When I was a kid it was great to look through sets of encyclopedias to just find fun information and see pictures, etc. Those are really a thing of the past due to the internet but sometimes it's still fun to leaf through big, beautiful pictures and learn things that you didn't even know would be exciting to learn about. On the right side of each spread of pages, there is a list of words that you have to match to the descriptions on the page to challenge yourself. For those types of kids that love Guinness Books, Almanacs, and odd fact books, this would be wonderful!!

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[Hrdaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Fun knowledge

[Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun and very attractively presented book. It contains a wide variety of picture quizzes on many different topics. Each quiz has around 12-30 pictures which you match with the answers (which are arranged into 3 levels of difficulty). Each picture also has additional information about the item which is a fun way of learning more about the topic as well as providing additional clues for the quiz. For an extra challenge you can try to do the quiz without reading the extra information. There are also some introductory pages on wider topics to help set the scene.
Overall it's a fun and engaging non-fiction family book.