Review: Fun, But A Couple Problems
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
InQUIZative is a series of five-question quizzes which test both your knowledge and reasoning ability. I am normally a sucker for these kinds of books, because I enjoy trivia and reasoning puzzles.=== The Good Stuff ===* The questions are fairly interesting, and run the gamut from history, entertainment, politics and world events, geography and technology. While most of them seek specific answers, many of them are such that you can use a bit of logic and reasoning and figure out the answer...or at least make a good guess.* Dhar does a reasonable job of getting his facts straight. For better or worse, just about all of his material seems to be based on Wikipedia entries-so you will be as confident in the answers as you are of Wikipedia.* The quizzes are short and fast-moving. They are broad enough that most anyone can appreciate them, although there were a few "India specific" quizzes included.=== The Not-So-Good Stuff ===* The book needed a good editor. There are several questions that are repeated in multiple quizzes, and some of the questions/answers are in a different voice than the others. There were few, but not zero, typos.* There is a fine line between "trivia" and obscure facts. For the most part, Dhar stays on the right side of this line, although a few questions drifted over into the "What?" category.* Many of the questions ran a little long- paragraphs of several sentences. The length of these seemed beyond what you could comfortable ask someone as an oral question-they were better suited to written formats. That may limit some of the applications of the book.=== Summary ===All things considered, a fun little book. It could have been better if the language was tightened up, and some of the obvious editing mistakes corrected. Trivia fans will probably enjoy it.Disclaimer: I received this book as an unsolicited, complimentary review copy. I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in Mr. Dhar or any of the authors or publishers of this book.