Knowledge Genius!: A Quiz Encyclopedia to Boost Your Brain

by D.K. Publishing

A brilliant book that puts your general knowledge to the test: pick your subject, look at the pictures, and see if you can name them all.

Children won't be able to resist the Knowledge Genius brain-busting challenge. For every topic, pages are packed with eye-popping pictures--but do you know what they show? To help you, "Name Game" panels list what you're looking for. With three levels of difficulty, the challenge gets harder as you work your way from Starter, to Challenger, and finally the truly tricky Genius category. If you need it, there's a fun fact with every picture to give a helpful clue.

With more than 80 topics throughout the encyclopedia, there's something for everyone. Can you name the countries of Asia? Do you know your cranium from your clavicle, or do you need to bone up on the parts of the human skeleton? Are you a demon on dinosaurs, and able to spot the difference between an archaeopteryx and an allosaurus? Perhaps you're brainy and can do all of this standing on your head?

You can!

Then what are you waiting for? Open the pages of Knowledge Genius to find out what you know, and challenge yourself to learn even more!

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

192 pages, Hardcover

Published April 16, 2019

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Carla · Rating 5 out of 5]

This amazing hard cover book was so much fun learning both together and on my own (I say on my own because I wanted to cheat a bit and study before we quizzed each other the second time!).

In order to use this book, you start off each chapter with learning about the basics of that chapters (chapters include: space, nature, geography, history and culture). Then comes the harder parts, you need to challenge yourself by looking at the test yourself section and then the quizzes. Each page has helpful pictures and clues to help guide you to your answer, along with increasingly difficult questions. You can find the answers at the bottom of each page upside down. Each chapter starts with its own picture quiz, which I didn’t realize at first!

This is an excellent learning tool and activity to play together as a family and especially for those little ones who may not be always so keen on reading by themselves. They will truly enjoy the challenge of answering the questions, reading the clues and looking at the pictures. You definitely don’t have to do the whole chapter at a time – you don’t even have to go in order. The learning should be fun – I started with History which I love (and knew I could beat those kids with!!) but they loved the nature section. This will become a true family favourite in all homes.

[MK · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great resource for children as young as 10 years old to understand general education all together.

Topics range from science, animals, vehicles, buildings, history, people, and culture.
It covers general education not only in the U.S., but around the world.

When purchasing a DK book, check the Published Year and choose the latest book if possible.

[Lisa Day · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like how the book was organized. It started out with some information about a topic, followed by a bunch of pictures and description. You have to guess the name of the creature/item from a list. The answers are at the bottom of the page. There is a lot of interesting information in this book.

[IUS F19 ERIC WISE · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good read to know some interesting things about the world we live in. You can plan on doing a fun pop quiz so the kids would be amazed by the answer and look for themselves.

[Elle · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 10 year old and I could look at this for hours. There are a lot of these types of books out there, but this is one of the best I've seen.

[Allison Riding Larsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite nice. I thought I’d know more answers 😩

[Catherine Mustread · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the format of this oversize book with info about all aspects of the geographical world and a quiz on almodyevery page. My only complaint was that the fine print of the answers was in tiny print, hard to read for my old eyes, but would be fine for kids.