 The Malice Box Quest
In under a month the Malice Box will detonate and an unimaginable evil will be unleashed. Only one man – Robert Reckliss – can save the world from it's fury and Robert needs
your help to complete his Quest.
If you choose to help, your path will also be hard, facing your own
7 trials before you are through. Robert is ready - are you?
Find out how you can join The Malice Box Quest here
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 Which Bond baddy are you?
Penguin is proud to publish all fourteen of Ian Fleming's James Bond titles, each with two stunning jacket designs. But, which of the great Bond villains do you take after? It's your mission to find out. Are you a criminal mastermind or criminally insane? Does your evil ambition outstrip your ability?
Take our Bond baddy quiz to find out. |
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 The Penguin TV Companion
Take a nostalgic trip through 70 years of television with The Penguin TV Companion quiz. From Little House on the Prairie to Little Britain, The X Files to The X Factor, and Department S to Desperate Housewives, test your knowledge of the small screen here.
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 Dead or alive?
Test your knowledge of the bygone pop demise with the Number
One in Heaven quiz.
Take our quiz
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 Will you crack under pressure?
Take our P.D. James quiz and test your knowledge!
Test your knowledge today
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 Shoot the Puppy!
Test your knowledge of contemporary jargon with Tony Thorne's Shoot the Puppy quiz...
No cheating now!
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 We Could Have Been The Wombles…
Take the We Could Have Been The Wombles quiz and test your knowledge of the one hit wonder!
See if the groove is in your heart here…
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 Are you more New York Sophisticate than Country Chic?
Should you be basking in the Cote D'Azur or relaxing in a Notting Hill boutique hotel?
Click your way through the quiz and get the glamour-factor with Pout plus the gossip on the fabulous new jet-set novel by Maggie Alderson, Cents and Sensibility.
Take our quiz here.
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 Penguin prize-winners - they're champion!
They're the brightest and the best, each and every one a recipient
of a major literary prize, but how much do you know about our
penguin prize-winning authors and their books?
Test your knowledge by taking our quiz, but no prizes for guessing ...
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Are you a criminal mastermind or criminally inept?
Do you know your hard-boiled from your techno-thriller? Now's the time to find out by plotting your wits against our crime quiz … it's dead, dead good!
The interrogations start here… |
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 Can you guess the meaning of 'tingo'?
In The Meaning of Tingo you can find not only those words for which there is no direct counterpart in English (such as the Japanese Bakku-shan which is the word for a girl who appears pretty when seen from behind but not from the front), but also a frank discussion of exactly how many 'Eskimo' terms there are for snow, and a vast array of information exploring the wonderful and often downright weird world of words...
Test your own word knowledge and see if you can guess the
meaning of 'tingo' here. |
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 Europe: Sweet land of porn stars, turned politicians, Stalin World and wife-carrying contests...
For all those who have asked themselves 'what's really going
on in Europe?' Melissa Rossi has set out to bring the dynamic, fascinating, and often bizarre elements of Europe to life. Don't
let laziness stand in the way of your foreign education!
Test your knowledge of our European cousins in our quiz. |
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 Which Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character are you?
Celebrate the release of Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hitting the cinemas in August by finding out if you're as
loud and greedy as Augustus Gloop, as spoilt as Veruca Stitle,
as annoying as Violet Beauregarde, as surly as Mike Teavee …
or as good as Charlie Bucket. Take the quiz... |
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 How Bond are you?
Before the name became the legend. Before the boy became
the man. Meet James Bond.
Get to know the teenager who became the world's most iconic
spy in Puffin Books' SilverFin, the first in the Young Bond™
series by actor, producer, novelist and co-creator of The Fast
Show, Charlie Higson.
Take the quiz to find out just how alike you and James really are |
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 The Great Greek Mythology Quiz
Are you ready to laugh your trotters off? You'd better be, because Gryllus the smarty-pants talking pig is back in Puffin Books', The
Pig Scrolls! The world as we know it is in danger and the only
one who can save it is Gryllus! Oh dear ... How well do you
know your Greek gods from your temple carvings?
Take quiz here and find out |
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 How fashionista are you?
Set in a lip-smackingly glossy world, peopled with a mixture of
the fashion famous and the fictional, Handbags and Gladrags
is a love story and a journey of self discovery for a woman who
was kidding herself that a Birkin bag was all she needed to
achieve fulfilment. Are you more J-Lo than Boho or should you
be out shopping with Sienna or SJP?
Take our fashionista quiz and find out |
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 The One and Only
Some people are born great. Some people achieve greatness.
And some people go in with a bullet at number three, enjoy a
token appearance on Top of the Pops' and then never trouble
'the forty' again. The One and Only is a celebration of such one
hit wonders: the brilliant and the bizarre, the sublime and the ridiculous, the good, the bad and the Chesney Hawkes.
How well do you know your one-hit wonders?
Take the quiz and find out |
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 Too posh to wash?
Soap dodgers beware, the Queens of Clean, Kim and Aggie
are on a new mission ... and this time it's personal...
Having previously taken on the nation and tackled hygiene in
the home, they're ready to take on your very dirty habits from
nasty niffy knickers to knock-out breathe in, Too Posh to Wash.
Are you a soap dodger or squeaky clean?
Take the quiz and find out |
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 Trivia Heaven Since 1897
First published in 1897 Pears Cyclopaedia is an endlessly fascinating collection of facts, figures and trivia and there's
no other book of its kind that offers such a variety of useful
and curious information. Where else could you find out about
subjects as diverse as: Arctic explorers, the Country Code, exorcisms, flying saucers, the Greek alphabet and many more ...
So, pop your trivia hat on and see how many facts you know! |
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 Which Jane Green character are you most like?
Jane Green has just published her seventh novel, The Other
Woman, and it's packed with characters that we just can't resist. Funny, warm and touched with the heartache of real life, Jane
Green's books always contain characters who smack a familiar
note. In fact, there's usually one about whom you can't help
thinking 'that is so like me'.
So it's time to finally find out; are you trying to maintain your independence in the face of a domineering mother-in-law like
Ellie from The Other Woman, are you a country-loving homebody
like Alice from Spellbound, or are you a glamour-loving passion
junkie like Tasha from Straight Talking?
Take the quiz and find out ... |
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 Do you need a love trainer?
Help push your lovin' in the right direction. Take our quiz to find out
if you're already on the love train, if you need a love trainer, or if you
are simply stuck on the platform beyond all help ... |
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 Are you anxious?
There are few more powerful desires in the world than the wish to
be thought of as a success, worthy of dignity, respect and to be
liked. We long for status and dread its opposite. Take our quiz and
find out how anxious you are.
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 The essential difference
What really makes men and women different? Are the differences between the sexes really just down to our upbringing - or is there another, more fundamental explanation?
Leading psychologist and author Simon Baron-Cohen confirms
what most of us had suspected all along: that male and female
brains are different - female-type brains are better at empathizing
and communicating, while male brains are stronger at
understanding and building systems.
Take the test to find out if you're an empathizer or a systemiser. |
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 Literary love quiz
Whether you’re fulfilled or disappointed in love, test your romantic knowledge in our literary quiz based on the penguin classics. |
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 Catcher in the Rye
Recently championed by Ruby Wax on the BBC's Big Read,
Catcher in the Rye is probably J D Salinger's most famous novel.
Find out how well you know Holden, his kid sister and the local smells in our Catcher in the Rye quiz. |
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 Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was chosen as one of the top
21 Big Read titles by you the public - now it's time to find out if you really know your Bennetts from your Bingleys. |
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 Are you a filth offender?
You might wonder exactly how clean we're all supposed to be?
Surely no one can live up to the exacting standards of Kim and
Aggie, of Channel 4's How Clean is Your House? fame. You're
certain you're not as filthy as the mucky people they visit in the
show, but perhaps you've got the odd nook and cranny that
you'd rather they didn't poke their fingers into on a surprise visit?
So discover whether or not you are a filth offender and whether
your home resembles a grim scene. Make an honest note of
your score - and no cheating you mucky puppies! |
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 Calling all Big Readers!
The next stage of the BBC's Big Reads campaign is almost
upon us, when the top twenty-one books will be announced.
This is when you, the public, will be asked to vote for your
number one favourite book of all time.
So, to give you all a taster, we've created our very own Penguin
Big Read quiz to get your literary juices flowing. Find out how
literary you really are! |
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 Are you a scholar or a philistine?
Not sure? Well, do you know your fiction from your thriller? Or
perhaps you have a passion for the written word? Find out how scholarly you are by trying our 'read more' quiz and see if your penchant for literature is as good as you think.
Take the quiz and
find out … |
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 There's a bitch in the house … is it you?
Twenty-six working women tell the truth about sex, solitude,
work, motherhood and marriage in the US bestseller the Bitch
in the House, re-released this autumn. See how you rate in our
quiz and find out if you're the bitch in your house. |
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 Holiday heaven - find your ideal companion
Summers here and it's time to find your ideal holiday companion. Sadly we haven't got a selection of hot hunks for you to choose
from, but we can offer you feel-good fiction on love, life and relationships guaranteed not to disappoint.
To find out which book suits you and your holiday style just answer
a few easy questions and you'll soon be in holiday reading heaven … |
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 Which Marian Keyes' character are you?
Marian Keyes has that rare ability to capture the essence of your everyday girl - all be it ones with slightly complex lives! So it's time
to finally find out; are you feisty like Rachel from Rachel's Holiday,
a bit of a worrier like Ashling from Sushi for Beginners or have you recently just been feeling the need to get away from it all like nice sensible 'lickarse' Maggie from Angels.
Take the quiz and find out ... |
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 Take the Roget Challenge
With over thirty-five thousand words, phrases and definitions, the 150th edition of roget's thesaurus is the essential creative writing tool. Test your knowledge of the english language by taking our wordy quiz. |
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 What's in the beef?
International bestseller Fast Food Nation - now out in paperback
- tells the unpalatable truth behind the all-American meal as never
told before. Find out how much you know about what really goes
into that juicy burger by taking our fast food nation quiz. Warning:
this might change the way you think about fast food forever. |
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 Irish writers quiz
Ireland has had more than its fair share of writers and poets,
but how much do you know about them? Play on to find out. |
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 Travel
Parochial couch potato or citizen of the world? Expand your
horizons with our travel quiz. |
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 Pop Trivia
From classic 70s TV drama to the best in contemporary comedy,
it's all here. But how much do you know? |
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 Literary
Test your knowledge of all things literary, from classics to
contemporary to children's.
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 Famous First Lines
Fancy yourself a literary maven? Test your textual talent with this
famous first lines quiz. |
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Will Self
So you think you know Will Self? Esteemed author, literary critic,
TV presenter and all-round man-about-town, over the last few
years will has enjoyed an enviable media presence, but how
much do you really know about him?
Find out here |
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The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
From Lewinsky to Asquith, Aitken to Zappa, certain phrases have
come back to either haunt or honour the great and the good.
Containing over 8,000 quotations, The New Penguin Dictionary
of Modern Quotations is an entertaining romp through the wit and
wisdom of the eminently quotable. Why not test your knowledge
of who said what in the great quotations quiz?
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