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Are you in the top 50% of the country? The top 10%? Or even the top 1%?This is your chance to find out. The 1% Club Official Quiz Book, brought to you by the team behind the hit TV show, is a quiz book for all the family, where an 8 year old has as much chance of winning as an 80 year old, where intelligence is not based on how many exams you passed, it's all about how your brain works. To win, you need to be be able to correctly answer a set of fifteen questions that get progressively harder with each round, starting with a question that 90% of the country can get right down to a question that only 1% of the country can answer. Suitable for contestants of all ages because, unlike most quizzes, no swotting up is required to do well. Logic and common sense are the key to success. Can you be part of the 1% Club?

Did You Know That...A cockroach can live for a week without its head, before dying of starvation?Slugs have four noses? So, if you thought that couldn't get more disgusting, now imagine them with a cold ...During its lifetime, a cow can produce nearly 200,000 glasses of milk? Which is extraordinary, because where is it getting all those glasses?The natural world is an amazing, compelling and funny place: a place where fact is always more staggering - and often funnier - than fiction. Based on BBC Radio 4's hit science and comedy series Nature Table, and with an introduction from the show's presenter, Sue Perkins, A Housefly Buzzes in the Key of F is a celebration of the astonishing everyday occurrences that happen right under our noses.Split into sections exploring everything from nature's High Achievers, Chatterbox Plants and Wonder Women to Master Builders, True Romance and Power Plants, Simon Nicholls delves into the hidden, hilarious and downright weird world of our planet's extraordinary flora and fauna.If you want to learn how maggots have been used to successfully prosecute murders, why raw broccoli's bitter taste is their attempt to poison us or the secrets of the elaborate, synchronised mating dance of the albatross, then focus your binoculars and get spotting this collection of fascinating facts, big jokes, fun games and entertaining anecdotes.