Power Quiz ’18: A Quiz Trainer

By Stilovsky and Schrodinger

Many love a good quiz and fantasize about winning Millionaire. But even if it’s only the local pub quiz evening, do we often wish that we could do better? This book aims to improve your ability by presenting typical quiz information in a concise and easy-to-learn format.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jan 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728383729

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© 2019 Stilovsky and Schrodinger. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/09/2020

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8373-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8372-9 (e)

DDC 793.73

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Contents

Father Christmas’s Reindeer

County Towns

The Greatest

‘The’ Nicknames

Nationality

Chesters

Some NFL

Seven Deadly Sins

The English Civil Wars

Zodiac

Some NHL

Monarchs of Hanover and Windsor

Scepter’d Isles

Some MLB

Towns of the Isles

Tudor and Stuart Monarchs

Some NBA

Liz’s PMs

The Preserved Counties of Wales

Cheers!

Original names

Eurovision Brits

Instrumentalists

Masculine and Feminine

WWII Operations

Birthstones (UK version)

Spelling

Calendar

US Presidents of the 20th Century

European Landlocked ‘Countries’

States of the Union

Group Roots

First States’ Capitals

Doctors Who

Naming the Kids

It’s not the Capital!

Done too soon

The Magnificent Seven

The Great Lakes of North America

The Great Lakes of Africa

Characters of The Bard

Seven Wonders

Good Health

Mine Host

Private Dicks

Who the Dickens?

Cocktails

Elements

Grades

Index

Numeros et Nummers

River Deep …

… and Mountain High

The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment…

…and their Peacetime Occupations

Flatitudes

Wives of Henry

The Ivy League

Uncle Sam’s Cities

Worldwide Cities

Grandest Nationals

Golden Boots

By the old name

Snookered…

…and where’s home?

Little Places

Superheroes

Last Resting Place

Heritage Lines

Motown UK

Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories

Enlightenment

Portugal

American Civil War

Jules Rimet

FIFA World Cup

Watch your back!

Country Dance

Fighting Talk

Consorts

Fathers

Eponyms

It’s all Greek to me!

Partnerships

Turner Prize-winners

Mann Bookers

OZ 1

OZ 2

OZ 3

OZ 4

Connery’s Bond Girls

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Heroines

Oscars (Best picture)

Ten Spouses at No. 10

FIFA World Players

Football Animals

Common Compounds

Tits and Things

National Park Capitals

Indian State Capitals

Literary Classics (1)

Literary Classics (2)

By a new name

Shapes

Directors

World Heritage UK

Trees

Husbands…

…and Wives

Battleships

Recent Academy Awards

BGT

Rappers

Wars of the Roses

County Grounds

T20 Teams

Exploring Ships

Straits

War at Sea….

…. in the Air….

….and on Land

BBC Sports Personality

Bingo Numbers

Seas

The Baltic

Showstoppers

Space Probes

Soaptown

Xmas songs

Christmas Number Ones

Professional Boxing Weights

Strip Cartoons

Computers

Architects

Parfum

Sportsmen

Flavoursome

Best Actors

Queen of the Jungle

King of the Jungle

Bubbly Bottles

The Beaufort Wind scale

The Twelve Labours of Hercules

The D Day Beaches

Roman Numerals

Ranks Army - Navy

Ranks Army – Air Force

American Aircraft

More ‘Oz’ to finish it all off – with no clues!

Foreword

Our first book was all about numbers, the second about people, the third about music and the fourth about language. We now present our first quiz book which should be of interest to anyone of a quizzical nature but should also be of a general interest to all.

Readers should be aware that lists like these are never complete and it’s possible that more than the odd error may have crept in so if you propose to use any of the information contained herein, please remember that it is your own responsibility to verify it before such use.

All of this information is freely available in the public domain so feel free to use to use parts of it in any quiz, but please include an appropriate attribution.

The authors are grateful for the input of Angel Liszt and Margaret Gabica in the production of this book.

We have generally stuck with the simplified English alphabet and apologise to those who like their accents, graves and cedillas. Remember – this is not Wikipedia!

Please notify us of any errors at our website: https://felixschrodinger.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/using-these-pages/

Pyotr and Felix

Dedicated to quiz setters and all those who love to quiz.

By the same authors:

Hoggrills End published December 2017

The Power of Numbers published January 2018

The Power of Names published May 2018

The Power of Notes published September 2018

The Power of Words (1) published December 2018

Power Quiz ’18 published January 2019

The Power of Words (2) expected Spring 2019

Power Quiz ’19 expected summer 2019

More ‘Power’ books to follow

Baselines

Everyone gains knowledge in different ways; some prefer visual aids whilst others favour the spoken word. Current mediums, especially those on-line, provide a variety of means to access information but there is one fundamental underlying principle – you need a framework in which to place remembered facts otherwise they tend to get mixed up and hence confused or even forgotten.

We are firm believers in the related principles of benchmarks and baselines and give the following as an example if you wish to learn about British History.

Since 1066 and The Norman Invasion (a benchmark) there have been eight royal Houses in Britain and these form the baseline for remembering the monarchs around which much of English (hence British and World) history has been centred.

Norman; Plantagenet; Lancaster; York; Tudor; Stuart; Hanover; Windsor (was Saxe-Coburg Gotha)

To remember these a simple mnemonic suffices:

No plan like yours to study history wisely

Once embedded in the brain, ordering the individual monarchs becomes a lot simpler. Start with the Normans then jump