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THE MEGA QUIZ BOOK FOR
ADULTS - PLAY YOUR WAY
TO SUPERBRAIN
Featuring the Best from Hundreds
of Celebrity Biographies
✔ Maximum Quiz Fun
✔ Tons of Crazy Trivia
✔ Suitable for Groups of Any Size
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THE MEGA QUIZ BOOK FOR ADULTS - PLAY YOUR WAY TO SUPERBRAIN
Featuring the Best from Hundreds of Celebrity Biographies
For a limited time only: See for yourself and get the complete trial version for $0!
General Knowledge with an Extreme Fun Factor
Quality - Made with Love
For Any Number of Players
Perfect as a Gift
Super Compact
Expert-approved
Illustrious & Infamous - The Great Celebrities and Personalities Quiz
Jack the Ripper, Marilyn Monroe, Shakespeare, Donald Trump, God, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Genghis Khan, and countless more:
Take your friends and family along and guess your way through the most bizarre and scandalous stories from the biographies of the most famous personalities of all time and today’s superstars.
Often unbelievable – but still true!
Which actor spent 12 months in his mother’s womb and had to be surgically removed when he already weighed 11 lbs (5 kilograms)? (→ p. 34)
Which legendary monarch married two of her own brothers, had the first one murdered, and poisoned the second herself? (→ p. 265)
Which musician sent various fake photos of his newborn to close friends to see who would sell them to the press? (→ p. 221)
THE ULTIMATE COMBINATION OF CRAZY FACTS, QUIZ FUN & EXCITEMENT
✓ Elevate your general knowledge to the maximum level – easy, relaxed, „on the side,“ and effortlessly!
✓ Meet the heroes and villains of world history in private … with all their bizarre quirks and dirty secrets! Become a superbrain – stand out with thousands of fun facts: From now on, you have conversation material for hours of lively entertainment – and the best story at every party!
QUALITY – MADE WITH LOVE ♥
Over 350 jam-packed pages – by quiz fans for quiz fans
✓ My diligent expert team and I handpicked, meticulously researched, and lovingly compiled all the quizzes.
✓ Illustrious & Infamous is the book we have always wanted to have ourselves. We aimed for nothing less than the best personality quiz book of all time. With fun facts as clues that are so funny and interesting that you would devour them even if there were nothing to guess. Put us to the test! 🙂
THE CLEVER „15-TIP COUNTDOWN“ TO THE SOLUTION
For playing with any number of players, maximum excitement, and a real „duel“ feeling
✓ Play with as many participants as you want, clue by clue until it „clicks!“ – excellent for any size groups (pub quizzes, birthdays, etc.)
✓ No excess or waiting times: The tension rises with each tip – and ALL players are „live“ and can join in the guessing.
✓ Still, you can also play the quizzes excellently alone, „against yourself“!
A QUIZ FOR EVERYONE
A gift for every taste
Illustrious & Infamous is great as a birthday or Christmas present. Whether a gossip expert or a history professor, a passionate know-it-all or a pub quiz freak: Who doesn’t care about people?
And there’s something for everyone here: be it Pamela Anderson, Napoleon, the Pope, Michael Jordan, or Mickey Mouse.
SUPER COMPACT AS A BOOK
For on-the-go & easy lightning-fast game start
✓ Play when & where you want: With friends at home or at parties, at family gatherings, game nights, with school classes, seniors, and students, in pubs, as a pub quiz, at summer camps, or while traveling.
The very best from hundreds of biographies – compressed into 350 pages filled with astonishing facts.
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About the Author
Alexis Williamson grew up in a small town in Bavaria. Even as a child, his curiosity drove his relatives to despair. He still remembers his nickname from that time – „Alexikon“ – which his aunts and elementary school friends gave him because he clung to always learning new things by heart.
His passion was football, and (not least because of his father’s Karl May collection, which he devoured as a 10-year-old) books.
As he grew older, he increasingly found the most exciting stories in biographies. The all-too-human details from the life stories of famous personalities fascinated him and became the key to understanding all the great events that shook the world.
He was always an enthusiastic player as well. As a teenager, he met up with friends almost daily to play various board games for hours.
Over time, he noticed that the fun of playing many of these games could be significantly increased by changing and optimizing the rules. This led to an increasing desire to develop his own games, especially for situations in which it was not convenient to have a game board, such as on a train or in a car. He came up with more and more games that required little equipment, entertaining those present at countless family gatherings and among friends with his creations. Often, several family members would call him a few weeks later to ask about the rules for his games that they wanted to replay at home.
333 Personality Quizzes - over 4444 Fun Facts
Which Oscar winner only found out as an adult that his sister was actually his mother – just because a journalist had researched it?
(→ p. 282)
Which politician survived the record number of 30 confirmed assassination attempts – he even counted over 600?
(→ p. 114)
Whose globally broadcast funeral was infiltrated by a fake sign language interpreter who gestured aimlessly next to the famous speakers?
(→ p. 40)
Which ruler had a former slave boy castrated, named him after his late wife – and married him?
(→ p. 103)
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How the Game was Invented - About the Creation of the Book
During a longer train journey, Williamson and friends developed a game to pass the time, which could be played against each other with just a smartphone: the initially called Biography Guessing. Since it was so much fun, it became a constant travel companion.
It went like this: One player was the game master for each round. They chose a famous personality and called up their biography on the internet. Then, they changed the name and pronouns to the first person while reading. A sentence like „Michael Jackson grew up in Indiana; his father was very strict.“ became „I grew up in Indiana; my father was very strict.“ The players then had to guess who it was, getting more and more information. The first to give the correct answer won the round. It was a game without waiting times for the players from the beginning, which also worked excellently for large groups and entertained them well.
However, there were two small problems:
- The game demanded a lot of improvisational and language talent from the game master. The direct transformation of the original article into the guessing version was not easy.
- Sometimes, there were long passages in the biography articles that were rather dull, especially when lengthy political details were elaborated.
This gave rise to the idea of optimizing the game and maximizing the fun factor by using only the best, most interesting, and exciting facts about the personalities. This way, players would not only have fun but also feel good because they learned a lot in the process.
However, this required a lot of research and preparation. Therefore, the chances of actually implementing the game idea in a generally playable form were rather poor for a long time. But that changed due to the Corona restrictions. With the extra time he suddenly had, Williamson saw the opportunity to produce the game in the quality he envisioned. He gathered a team of quiz-enthusiastic experts around him and immersed himself in the work. „My claim was to create the best, most educational, and exciting personality quiz ever. The individual clues about the personalities should be so extremely entertaining that you would read them even without focusing on guessing,“ says Williamson. He decided to design the game as a quiz book that could be easily taken anywhere, whether on a long train journey or on vacation.
After a year in which the author and his tireless research team meticulously searched through countless biographies, websites, articles, and „fun fact“ collections for the most interesting stories and bizarre facts, and created over 333 personality puzzles from all of these, the time had finally come: Illustrious & Infamous – The Great Celebrities and Personalities Quiz was born.
