How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book

Brian Clegg has collated over 100 often mind-blowing science facts in the form of a quiz, either to be used in a pub quiz or to test your own knowledge. The subjects cover everything from traditional biology, chemistry and physics to space, technology and maths. Each question is followed by the

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answer with additional information limited to one page, which is both the book's strength and flaw: its strength because the author manages to explain even complicated science in a way that makes it understandable to someone unfamiliar with the topic, its flaw because the self-imposed limit of one page maximum occasionally (especially in physics, I found) makes the explanation difficult to follow when I would have preferred more extensive background information in order to put one and one together. There is a two-page recommended reading list at the back if a particular topic has sparked your interest and you want to find out more.

I found this perfect bedtime reading when I was too tired to pick up any of my other books.

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