To celebrate reaching 200 episodes of the Quiz Addict Podcast, I am doing my second ever all day Podcast quiz. 17 new episodes across the day, released on the hour from early until late.
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One of the ever presents on my Gift Guide over the years has been Linkee. The game shot to fame initially when it got some exposure on Dragons Den and is now in its 4th edition, available across many high street stores. The game is simple and fun to play, each card as 4 questions all linked in one way. One player reads out the questions, the first to spot the link wins. The questions are well written, the links are consistently inventive and its the perfect pick up and play game for the festive period.
To celebrate reaching 200 episodes, this Sunday (28th November) Ill be running an all day podcast quiz on the subject of Movies. As usual, each episode will be 15 questions long and I intend to upload episodes on the hour every hour from early until late.
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Gareth Kingston's fabulous Youtube channel All Things Quiz has began its third "Quiz Omnium" Challenge. This time under the 'Pop Culture' banner. See 4 of the UK's top Pop Culture Quiz brains battle it out on fantastic sets of question. And whilst you are there check out the earlier entries in the series as well....
The Quiz Addict Podcast is now well over 200 episodes (including special) long. That gives you well over 3000 questions to get stuck into on a wide range of subjects. If you can like, share, follow and subscribe to the podcast that would be great. Feedback also welcome!
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Back to the Christmas guide guide and I am still on the subject of Quiz Books and this time its three books from BBC Quiz Shows - Namely - Mastermind, University Challenge and Only Connect. The BBC books are always high quality, earlier in the series I suggested the Brian of Britain book and even the likes of the Question of Sports books are always quality.
But those listed below serve as ideal gifts for the quizzer in your life, or as I keep saying a little Xmas treat for yourself. The questions are plentiful, high quality and well crafted. Hours of fun to be had!
It has been a hectic few weeks, hence the lack of posts, and I am only just getting round to mentioning the fabulous OQL Buzzer Quiz event which took place in Birmingham on the 13th November. 30 teams of quizzers from across the UK and Ireland came together to square off in a series of matches, that are best described as University Challenge style buzzer games (with the option to steal bonuses). I will post a full write up of some point, of what I have no hesitation in saying is my favourite ever quiz event, but see below a video from Gareth Kingstons excellent All Things quiz blog about the day as well as the final which was...well.....just take 40 minutes to watch it, that's all I will say...
The gift guide continues with another quiz book from my collection - Classic FM Friendly Quiz Book. I often find that Classical Music is one area, that if you put the work in, can reap great rewards in quiz. At every level from the pub quiz to the league competitions. This book is a great primer and a great test of that knowledge. With over 1000 questions the book looks at everything from straight up trivia questions, to match the symphony name to the composer style rounds, to guess the decade to themed rounds of operas and composers. It really does have a great coverage of subjects and it is all golden content you would expect to come up time and time again!
Xmas Gift Guide - #6 6Music Quiz Book
The Quiz Book suggestions keep on coming and the latest suggestion is the fabulous BBC Radio 6 Music Quiz Book. Released in 2016, this is another quiz book I rarely see in stores but is well worth hunting down online. The book contains over 3000 fresh questions on huge rage of music in line with what the station itself covers. This isnt a "pop" music quiz as such but its hard to pin point as it pretty much covers everything else. But it's not "niche" to the extent of not being useful. These are all names, bands, songs and albums you will hear come up in all manner of quizzes.
The questions are unique, well written and its clear time and effort was taken into putting the book together and I for one have certainly found it useful and interesting to work though!
The Quiz Addict Podcast is still going strong with twice-daily episodes issued, with the occasional bonus episode thrown into the mix. Appraoching 200 episodes now!
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Fronted by Alex Scott and Ross Kemp, the latest edition to the Daytime BBC Quiz show is the interesting sounding "The Tournament". Its finally been given an air date of Monday 8th November so watch out for it then!
Again, I continue the theme of suggesting what I think are useful/enjoyable quiz books in the gift guide series and this entry focuses on a literature theme booked 'The Penguin Quiz Book'. Released in 2019, the book contains a wide range of unique and interesting question, broken down in 10 parts. The sections in each part include themed rounds, connections, quotes, buzzer style who am I questions and more. The answers contain extra information and it a treasure chest of great content that will not only boost your literature knowledge but provide a stiff test of it!
Xmas Gift Guide #4 - The Brain of Britain Quiz Book
In case you haven't gathered by now, the first dozen or so entries in this series are all going to be about Quiz books I recommend as being useful revision tools for yourself or the perfect gift for the quizzer in your life.
This book , the Brain of Britain Quiz book, has appeared on my list for the last few years and is likely to do so until they update it. This edition is from 2017 and was released without much publicity but is widely available on Amazon. The book contains over 2000 new questions split into Rounds of 40. As with the actual show itself, the questions are challenging, testing and cover a wide syllabus and despite a few rounds to "ease you in", the difficulty ramps up early and this there is very little room for filler.
Answers come the page after the questions which is always better than flicking through to the back of the book, and some additional information is included. Its presented in a hardback form and will take some time to work through. A perfect gift to have by your side over the Xmas period and one which is well worth picking up for yourself!
