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Bobby Seagull’s Big Book Quiz

Bobby Seagull loves a good quiz (he was a contestant on University Challenge after all!). As demonstrated in his book The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers, his strong suit is maths, but now he’s challenging your knowledge of books. Can you get through this fiendishly difficult quiz?

13 December 2018

Bobby Seagull

BOBBY SEAGULL became a cult star as a contestant on University Challenge in 2017. He is now an obsessive quiz enthusiast, TV presenter, secondary school maths teacher, a doctoral student researching maths anxiety at Cambridge University and also a long-suffering West Ham fan.

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