Why do people watch quizzes on TV, and why do so many go to a pub quiz each week, to compete for a cash prize smaller than the amount they spend on beer? This book delves into the dark heart of British quiz culture - its origins, its practices, its background - and its unfortunate knitwear.

The pains of the ageing cricketer revealed in the hilarious sequel to 'Rain Men' (about the appalling Captain Scott Invitation XI - named after the model of heroic failure).

The pains of the ageing cricketer revealed in the hilarious sequel to RAIN MEN (about the appalling Captain Scott Invitation XI - named after the model of heroic failure).

The Prince of Wales pub in Highgate, north London, has held a weekly Tuesday night pub quiz for nearly twenty years. What was surrendered to Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita on February 15th, 1942? What was unique about Alan Shepard's golf shot on February 6th, 1971? This book aims to do for pub quizzes what Ben Schott did for lists.

Product Description: For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying a motorbike...read more