Quiz A Day

Test your wits with this all-new collection of mindbusters from Mensa, the high-IQ society. Master puzzler Abbie Salny provides a fun brainteaser, logic twister, math mystery, or word game for every day of the year. Whether you're mathematically, verbally, or visually inclined, you're sure to find twelve months' worth of exciting challenges inside.Included with each puzzle's solution is the percentage of Mensa members who answered it correctly, so you can score yourself against the people with the high IQs. With a puzzle for every date and an extra for leap years, you can match wits with Mensa 366 days out of every year! Here are a couple of sample questions, and the percentage of Mensans who answered correctly: February 24: Can you make three words from the letters LGNEA? (100%) May 14: You have fifty coins that total 1.00. If you lose one coin, what is the chance that it was a quarter? (15%)

The idea of this book came to me one year back, when I was going through the material of the quizzes I had hosted in the past 12 years. As a passionate student of the art of quizzing, I wanted to share some of the questions that I was proud of and I wanted to share them with the world. This quizbook is meant to be opened on a relaxing weekend; or on a journey; or to be read with loved-ones on a beautiful spring day. Most of the topics that I have included are also the topics I am really interested in.

So you think you're smart . . . well, try these quizzes, puzzles, games, and strategies compiled by Mensa, the internationally famous high-IQ society. You need an IQ in the top two percent of the population to join this elite group. Take the sample tests inside to see how you rate alongside such famous Mensans as Buckminster Fuller, Theodore Bikel, and Isaac Asimov. Subjects range from math and logic to culture and trivia.

Put your general knowledge to the test, and impress your family and friends with your astonishing brainpower and trivia genius. An addictive quiz book for all the family featuring 10,000 questions, The Big Quiz Book has something for everyone. With 10 different general knowledge categories - from Science & Technology, Art & Literature, and Natural History, to Food & Drink, Film & TV, and Sport & Leisure - and three increasing levels of difficulty, it offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute quizzing experience that will educate and entertain all the family. Bursting with fascinating facts to boost your trivia knowledge, whatever your specialist subject or your nemesis topic, The Big Quiz Book is perfect for home entertainment and virtual pub quizzes. You won't be able to put it down!

After the resounding success of the Amar Chitra Katha Family Quiz, Season One, we bring you some of the questions that were played by over 25000 families from across the country. This book is packed with questions from mythology, history and literature, among others. Do you think you know all the answers?

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.