Friday, September 07, 2007

15: Brain Men: The Insider's Guide to Quizzing, Marcus Berkmann

Good fun, in the same vein as Ken Jennings' Brainiac. Lots of amusing typically British writing. An example, discussing the Trivial Pursuit mania of the 80's:


So, by a strange process of social osmosis, it gradually became accepted that the game was crap but the questions were the thing. People would say, "Let's junk the game and just ask each other the questions." Cheeses ceased to matter, as did the argument whether they should be called cheeses or cakes. (If the little things were cakes, what was the big round thing you put them in? The big cake?) Quiz culture, barely extant, was already beginning to evolve.

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