Quizzing Canada. 2nd ed.

Jeffrey Moon is head of the Documents Reference/Data Centre at Queen’s
University.

Who doesn’t like a quiz? Not the “pop-quiz” pressure cooker from
your school days, but rather a diverting test designed purely to
entertain and inform. Quizzing Canada presents a series of 13 quizzes
tied loosely to Canadian holidays, from New Years to Christmas, and
beyond. A brief “holiday history” precedes each quiz, and within
each quiz questions are clustered into manageable groups by topic.
Answers are placed conveniently (and mercifully!) after each quiz—no
flipping to the back of the book. In most cases answers are
straightforward, but in others more detailed explanations are provided.

The authors use anagrams, quotes, dates, and definitions, combined with
a healthy dose of trivia, to keep quizzes varied and entertaining. There
are easy questions, real stumpers, and everything in between. Some
questions are next to impossible, but give readers a chance to take a
guess and see how close they were to the real answer (e.g., What was the
average life expectancy for men and women in 1930?). This book is a
follow-up to a popular first edition published in 1987. Given the recent
surge in popularity of quiz-based games and game shows, this second
edition is bound to please.