Book review
A great book to put your mind to
The Puffin inter-school quiz competitions have taken several cities by storm in the course of the past year. Questions from this phenomenally popular quiz are now available in this first volume of The Puffin India Quiz Book. The book contains a total of 800 questions, including all the questions actually used in the Puffin quizzes, and hundreds more from quizmaster Srinjoy Chowdhury’s quiz bank.
The Puffin India Quiz Book 1 is a delight for any young quiz enthusiast. Packed with information and interesting trivia, it will enthrall and entertain children of all ages. The questions are divided into sets of eight; each set contains questions from diverse areas of interest. So the book can be read from cover to cover or opened at random to start off an impromptu quiz contest between friends. As a bonus, there are three special sets of questions, on dinosaurs, Harry Potter and Sachin Tendulkar.
Put together with the champion young quizzer in mind, this is quite simply the best quiz book available for today’s teenager.
About the author Srinjoy Chowdhury works for The Statesman, and has been in quizzing for over two decades.
A great book to put your mind to
The Puffin inter-school quiz competitions have taken several cities by storm in the course of the past year. Questions from this phenomenally popular quiz are now available in this first volume of The Puffin India Quiz Book. The book contains a total of 800 questions, including all the questions actually used in the Puffin quizzes, and hundreds more from quizmaster Srinjoy Chowdhury’s quiz bank.
The Puffin India Quiz Book 1 is a delight for any young quiz enthusiast. Packed with information and interesting trivia, it will enthrall and entertain children of all ages. The questions are divided into sets of eight; each set contains questions from diverse areas of interest. So the book can be read from cover to cover or opened at random to start off an impromptu quiz contest between friends. As a bonus, there are three special sets of questions, on dinosaurs, Harry Potter and Sachin Tendulkar.
Put together with the champion young quizzer in mind, this is quite simply the best quiz book available for today’s teenager.
About the author Srinjoy Chowdhury works for The Statesman, and has been in quizzing for over two decades.
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