Review: More hours of pleasure and intellectual stimulation from Sumit Dhar
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
Sumit Dhar has created a book of quizzes that are not only fun to work but also provide a terrific source of information, derivation of popular sayings, bits and pieces of the origin of phrases and the meanings of words we use everyday whose positioning our vocabulary come from the most bizarre and peculiar sources. His book is aided by some very fine illustrations by Abhishek Thakkar - images that enhance the fun and prove the right answer.Each page of this terrific book is a quiz  with several parts and following the quiz, a section of answers are given  (along with some graphic illustrations by Thakkar!).  An example: Question 2: William was working as the public relations director at Loyola University of Los Angeles. He participated as a contestant on the Groucho Marx quiz show `You Bet Your Life' and won $ 10,000. This enabled him to quit his job, retire to a remote chalet of Lake Tahoe and work full time on writing a novel. Which novel, inspired by a 1949 case of demonic possession that he heard about at Georgetown University, did he write? Answer 2: The Exorcist by William Blatty.The quiz questions cover interesting facts, trivia and incidental humor. They are not easy - until you begin to really paste ideas together in your brin and come up with at least a semblance of an answer! This is terrific fun and excellent brain food.Contained in this thoroughly entertaining book are situations and questions that hold our interest, pique our curiosity, and ultimately give us the answers in that embarrassed moment when we just can't put it all together. Whatever your responses, soon the reader comes to appreciate the clever questions and the fascinating answers - and when you put it all together this is a brain teaser and a jolly source of entertainment! Highly recommended for all those who love to check the speed of synapses! Grady Harp, June 14