The Times millennium quiz book - Howard Robin

The Ultimate Test of Your Knowledge of the Last 1000 Years. 2,000 questions covering arts, sciences, people, places and events - all with answers.

The Times Millennium Quiz Book contains a startling array of 2,000 stimulating, engrossing, challenging, intriguing, tantalising and brainteasing questions that will puzzle and delight.

Starting with the 20th century and then arranged century by century all the way back to the 11th, it presents an arresting melange of questions about kings and queens, emperors, rogues, hoodlums, statesmen, scientists and artists from the last 1,000 years. There are questions about great events and trivial events, about places, about discoveries, about politics, about wars, questions about popes and pop singers, explorers and engineers, buildings and books, actors and activists.

Name the five kings of England after William the Conqueror. Which countries fought the Chaco War? Which famous astronomer was a professional organist? What are googols and googolplexes? And, finally, who said, "A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar and then thrown out"?

There's only one place to find the answers. The Times Millennium Quiz Book!