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Up Your Pub Quiz Game

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Up Your Pub Quiz Game

Load up on your general knowledge and wow your friends
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Personal Development Education

This is the pre-eminent general knowledge collection for pub quiz hopefuls and champions alike. Whether you're looking for bragging rights or just to brush up on fun facts, these Blinks are the perfect starting point. While they aren't particularly applicable in your everyday life, they're absolutely fascinating. Explore how the internet has transformed the English language, how to make the perfect nigiri, and how the humble kitchen staple drove trade and conquest.

Up Your Pub Quiz Game

Load up on your general knowledge and wow your friends
Cork Dork
Cork Dork
Bianca Bosker
A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
24 min
4.4
The Story of Sushi
The Story of Sushi
Trevor Corson
An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice
16 min
4.1
The Reason For Flowers
The Reason For Flowers
Stephen Buchmann
Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
21 min
4.2
Nine Pints
Nine Pints
Rose George
A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
24 min
4.4
Entangled Life
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape Our Futures
26 min
4.8
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
A New History of a Lost World
28 min
4.6
Holy Sh*t
Holy Sh*t
Melissa Mohr
A Brief History of Swearing
17 min
4.2
Because Internet
Because Internet
Gretchen McCulloch
Understanding the New Rules of Language
22 min
4.1
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer
38 min
4.5
Salt
Salt
Mark Kurlansky
A World History
23 min
4.4
The Golden Thread
The Golden Thread
Kassia St Clair
How Fabric Changed History
23 min
3.9
The Science of Kissing
The Science of Kissing
Sheril Kirshenbaum
What Our Lips Are Telling Us
11 min
4.2
When Women Ruled the World
When Women Ruled the World
Kara Cooney
Six Queens of Egypt
24 min
4.1
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