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The Cryptic Pub Quiz Book
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Are you a regular quizzer at your local pub? Do you fancy yourself a cryptic crossword whiz? Might you be up for a challenge? Since 2015, The Mill in Cambridge has hosted an unusually fiendish quiz from the mind of legendary quizmaster Frank Paul. Contestants could...
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Description
Are you a regular quizzer at your local pub? Do you fancy yourself a cryptic crossword whiz? Might you be up for a challenge?
Since 2015, The Mill in Cambridge has hosted an unusually fiendish quiz from the mind of legendary quizmaster Frank Paul. Contestants could expect to be delighted and perplexed by wordsearch poems, jokes and rebuses, a bewildering encounter with the Sphinx, and a confounding murder mystery.
With rounds including Motion Picture Mixture, Eight Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Gogglebox Jigsaw, and Chemical Element Blind Date, this is the best of The Millβs quiz night. Are you ready to have your mind bent, blown, and boggled?
Find out with The Cryptic Pub Quiz Book by Frank Paul.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780861543991
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 April 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
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About the Author
Frank Paul is a fine artist and a superstar in the world of quizzes. He is the author of The Twelve Quizzes of Christmas. An Only Connect champion, he was proposed to by Victoria Coren Mitchell on TV. He lives in Cambridge where he runs the notoriously difficult Mill pub quiz.
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