Review: Test your brain while entertaining your funny bone
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
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.InQUIZitive is a book of 20 quizzes each containing a number of questions and subsequent answers. I doubt that anyone would term the questions difficult, just unexpected bits of well researched data that when formed into a question give enough connection to our memories and mental storage to actually come up with the answers. The quizzes are great fun to take: the answers end up being phrases or ideas we should know - such as the source of derivation of the terms `pinch of salt' or `limelight' or the image of a `His Master's Voice'. Most of the time, in the early phases of `testing' the response of the reader will be `Wow!  I didn't know that! ` or `Oh my gosh, how stupid of me to have missed that one!'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, October 13