The Strangest Cricket Quiz Book
Published on 1. May 2020
160 pages
978-1-911622-41-3 (ISBN)
Description
All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form!
Test your cricket knowledge with this handy book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of cricketing history.
Quiz categories include:
Freak weather conditions
Bad ball behaviour
Streakers
Time for tea
The Ashes
Cricket's great eccentrics
Village green shenanigans
Cricket quotations
Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your cricket knowledge to a whole new level.
Test your cricket knowledge with this handy book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of cricketing history.
Quiz categories include:
Freak weather conditions
Bad ball behaviour
Streakers
Time for tea
The Ashes
Cricket's great eccentrics
Village green shenanigans
Cricket quotations
Whether you're testing your friends, practising for pub quizzes or just reading it in an armchair, this book will take your cricket knowledge to a whole new level.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911622-41-3 (9781911622413)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
Ian Allen is the compiler of several joke books and a cricket quiz book, and has been a member of the National Trust for decades. He loves the wide range of properties and the epic sweep of the landscape of the Trust, but is even more interested in the quirky stories that lie behind the history.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Lamentable Efforts
- 2 Multiple-Choice Madness
- 3 Abnormal Ashes
- 4 It's Not Cricket!
- 5 Reluctant Record-Breakers
- 6 Brilliant and Bonkers Bowlers (1)
- 7 Brilliant and Bonkers Batsmen (1)
- 8 Who Said?
- 9 Miscellaneous Strangeness (1)
- 10 Bizarre Book Titles
- 11 Strange Goings-On At Thevillage Green
- 12 What Happened Next?
- 13 Odi? Oh Dear ...
- 14 County Cricket
- 15 Ducks Galore!
- 16 Strange Sayings
- 17 Miscellaneous Strangeness (2)
- 18 History Makers
- 19 Daft Descriptions
- 20 Venturing Outside First-Class Cricket
- 21 What's in a Name?
- 22 Beyond the Boundary
- 23 Brilliant and Bonkers Batsmen (2)
- 24 Strange Rules and Dumb Dismissals
- 25 Brilliant and Bonkers Bowlers (2)
- The Answers
- 1 Lamentable Efforts
- 2 Multiple-Choice Madness
- 3 Abnormal Ashes
- 4 It's Not Cricket!
- 5 Reluctant Record-Breakers
- 6 Brilliant and Bonkers Bowlers (1)
- 7 Brilliant and Bonkers Batsmen (1)
- 8 Who Said?
- 9 Miscellaneous Strangeness (1)
- 10 Bizarre Book Titles
- 11 Strange Goings-On At Thevillage Green
- 12 What Happened Next?
- 13 Odi? Oh Dear ...
- 14 County Cricket
- 15 Ducks Galore!
- 16 Strange Sayings
- 17 Miscellaneous Strangeness (2)
- 18 History Makers
- 19 Daft Descriptions
- 20 Venturing Outside First-Class Cricket
- 21 What's in a Name?
- 22 Beyond the Boundary
- 23 Brilliant and Bonkers Batsmen (2)
- 24 Strange Rules and Dumb Dismissals
- 25 Brilliant and Bonkers Bowlers (2)
- About the Author
- Copyright
