Game Query by Philip Coggan
Test yourself against The Economist's champion quiz team - the only trivia book you'll ever need Trivia books are a dime a dozen. Trust The Economist, which knows the price and the value of everything, to do something different. In its first ever trivia book in a 175-year history, the sharp wits of The Economist's own champion pub quiz team (team name: Marginal Futility) throw down the gauntlet for a genuinely tough contest. Ranging over the globe and the sweep of world history, peering into the most significant developments in science, politics and culture, this is the rare quiz whose answers shed real light on the ways of the world. For example:- Where did 15th-Century popes live?
- Which European country's flag features a double-headed eagle?
- Who was the only man to serve as president of the U.S. and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
- What is notable about the constitution of Israel?
- Ikebana is a Japanese art associated with what skill?
Philip Coggan was a Financial Times journalist for over twenty years, and is now the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist. In 2009 he was named Senior Financial Journalist in the Harold Wincott awards and was voted Best Communicator at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. He is the author of The Money Machine, and Paper Promises, winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781610399906 |
| ISBN 10 | 1610399900 |
| Titel | Game Query |
| Autor | Philip Coggan |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Economist |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2018-07-31 |
| Seitenanzahl | 224 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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