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Who do you have lunch with? And how do you keep going?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeaturing \u003c\/i\u003eJON RONSON, EMMA DONOGHUE, DENNIS KELLY, CAITLIN MORAN, JASON HAZELEY, JOEL MORRIS, SUZANNE MOORE, CATHERINE ROSENTHAL, MARK ELLEN, JOHN PANTON, JO UNWIN, MARTYN WAITES, MARK BILLINGHAM, ISZI LAWRENCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Quantick \u003c\/b\u003eis an Emmy-winning television writer and the author of the best-selling writing manual \u003ci\u003eHow To Write Everything\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Quite difficult quizzes that tax the brain and make it go in directions it didn't know it could. That's not to say the questions are fiendishly scientific and packed with questions about dates and the periodic table. They're about books and music, movies and actors, strange events and interesting quotes. You don't leave a Quantick quiz knowing how many times Spurs have won the League, but you may know how many Shirleys have sung a Bond theme or how George V made the front page of \u003ci\u003eThe Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe effectiveness of David's quizzes is down to their unusual variety and almost stream-of-consciousness leaps and bounds of factual imagination. 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