Like many people, I love a good quiz. But I am often frustrated when I hear an answer to something that I didn’t know, as I wonder ‘why’? So I was delighted to discover a pair of books by Brian Clegg that not only explain the answers to the questions, but also base all the questions around my favourite subject — science.
The books, How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? and What Colour is the Sun? (Icon Books), both follow the same pattern. Each contains two quizzes of six themed rounds consisting of eight questions. In addition, each quiz has two ‘special rounds’, for example in What Colour is the Sun? there is a coded message written using the names of chemical elements, as well as a couple of picture rounds. What makes these books readable and informative as well as fun is that following each question there are some snippets of interesting information under the heading ‘While you’re thinking’ and then after each answer is a page of explanations and extra details, accompanied by a reference to some further reading.
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