Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated? The demolition of the old London Bridge put an end to what famous tradition? Which philosopher caught a fatal chill returning from a predawn lesson given to Queen Christina of Sweden? What was the real name of Buffalo Bill? Which mutiny leading to a war of independence was provoked by the use of animal fat? What was smuggled from Alexandria to Venice in it is said a barrel of pork? What did Pope Innocent III outlaw as a weapon of mass destruction? Who on the first day of 1660 had the remains of a turkey for breakfast & began a new project? Prepare to have your general knowledge tested by the best quizmaster in the business. Here are 2000 of the worlds strangest & most stimulating questions laid out in a series of thematic quizzes that cover art literature politics sport geography & history & span all the countries of the world. Bamber Gascoignes fascination with knowledge is highly contagious & his answers give you the context you need to find out even more. & as to the answers to the questions above
- well youll have to read the book...
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When a farmer on Exmoor found a frightened & badly injured red deer calf hanging by the leg from a barbed wire fence he knew there was only one man he could call. Johnny Kingdom took Bambi home & became her surrogate mother nursing her through the night after the dangerous operation to amputate her now infected limb. Against the odds Bambi survived & as she grew bigger became a part of Johnnys family taking over his garden & developing a taste for custard creams (and Johnnys wifes roses). But it wasnt just Johnny & his family who loved Bambi
- friends neighbours & even complete strangers would occasionally drop by with tasty treats they thought she might enjoy. But the doe in his back garden was by no means Johnnys only contact with the red deer of Exmoor. Over the years he followed the wild herds over moor & farmland as the seasons changed filming every detail of their lives & trying to understand what Bambi was missing out on. Millions of viewers fell in love with Bambi during Johnnys BBC television series & accompanying book but now he tells her full story. Sometimes poignant & sometimes hilarious this is both the tale of all of Exmoors wild deer & the story of how one very special animal came to live a very different life.
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In 1964 Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the propaganda of disbelief doubt & dirt being poured into homes through the nations radio & television sets. Whitehouse senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement: the National Viewers & Listeners Association. For almost forty years she kept up the fight against the programme makers politicians pop stars & playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer of blasphemy & obscenity. From Dr Who (Teatime brutality for tots) to Dennis Potter (whose mother sued her for libel & won) to the Beatles
- (whose Magical Mystery Tour escaped her intervention by the skin of its psychedelic teeth)
- the list of Mary Whitehouses targets will read to some like a nostalgic roll of honour. Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the countrys intellectual elite. But were some of the dangers she warned of more real than they imagined? Ben Thompsons selection of material from her extraordinary archive shows Mary Whitehouses legacy in a startling new light. From her exquisitely testy exchanges with successive BBC Directors General to the anguished screeds penned by her television & radio vigilantes these letters reveal a complex & combative individual whose anxieties about culture & morality are often eerily relevant to the age of the internet.

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Join two little monkeys as they tussle over a banana until finally they learn to say the magic word
- please! From envy to joy
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Joe Edley the wordplay genius who created the puzzles in Bananagrams now steps it up in More Bananagrams! by creating eight new joyously mind-bending puzzle types & adding another level of difficulty-puzzles with a five banana (super hard!) rating. In all there are over 500 original new anagram puzzles including Banana Splits (solve letter substitution scrambles in rapid-fire fashion) Banana Peels (add new letters to words & rearrange to spell something new) Banana Boats (evolve a chain of words one new letter at a time) intersecting words vowel replacements adjacent letter scrambles & much more. The puzzles are rated one banana (simplest) to the fiendish new five banana & enriching supplementary material is featured including fun banana facts helpful word lists & yes an answer key. ...

This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes
- governments promoting tourism companies moving their factories overseas soldiers serving on foreign soil
- & shows that the real landscape is not exclusively male. She describes how many womens seemingly personal strategies
- in their marriages in their housework in their coping with ideals of beauty
- are in reality the stuff of global politics. In exposing policymakers reliance on false notions of femininity" & "masculinity " Enloe dismantles an apparently overwhelming world system revealing it to be much more fragile & open to change than we think."



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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

The sensational sequel to Papillon. Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charriere
- nicknamed Papillon
- in Venezuela where

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When Todd Belknapss best friend goes missing it seems that a mysterious figure known only as Genesis is responsible. Meanwhile hedge fund analyst Andrea Newton gets an unexpected call. She has been left a fortune by a cousin shes never met
- on the condition that she joins the board of the charitable Bancroft Foundation. Yet the foundation appears less & less benign the more deeply involved she becomes. As events escalate & Genesis appears to be working to destabalise governments Todd & Andrea must form an uneasy alliance if they are to uncover the truth
- before its too late...

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Team Brass" is firmly established as the best-selling series of brass tutors. It presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each student ideal for individual group & class tuition
- including the ABRSM music medals. The books in the series contain plenty of carefully graded music in a wide range of styles from Baroque & Classical eras to film flok jazz & Latin American. The series encourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire for both orchestral & brass band instruments & develops instrument-related aural skills improvisation & composition. Included are scales & arpeggios & a CD comprising of over 70 backing tracks to make every student feel like a star performer."
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