It's British, but the potato-chip-eating, can't-stop-reading feel to
The Guardian article by its quiz writer (if I've got that right) left this colonial reading and reading and reading....
There are no short cuts to acquiring a quizzer’s general knowledge. Mine
came through a lot of reading when I was young – neither structured nor
even age-appropriate, but definitely omnivorous. I read children’s
encyclopedias, the Guinness Book of Records, Usborne histories and
compendiums of facts. Poring over atlases full of now-defunct countries,
I savoured names such as Tashkent and Ulan Bator,
and began learning that staple of the quiz world: capital cities.
Meanwhile, Top Trumps left me able to reel off recherché facts and
figures about Olympic athletes, second world war aircraft, footballers
of the 70s and diesel locomotives. When I was recovering in hospital
after an emergency appendectomy, my parents brought me the Ladybird book
on Warwick the King Maker: the ruthless machinations of the Wars of the Roses, they figured, would be the perfect postoperative read.
Up with the nerds!
I remember remembering, but it's a fuzzy recollection.
ReplyDeleteLiving in a fact free universe:
ReplyDeleteRocky Balboa beat Classius Clay.
The Yankees have never lost a World Series.
Bernie Sanders is the best American President in history. He succeeded Donald Trump who was found guilty on multiple charges and condemned to life imprisonnment / house arrest without parole in Mar-a-Largo.