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The bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code —the most talked-about book in years—has created enormous interest in a world animated by mystery and mysticism. Now, that novel’s readers have something new to look forward to— The Da Vinci Quiz, which features 501 intriguing questions with answers, plus eight lavish full-color plates. Once again, readers can immerse themselves in the novel’s mystery and intrigue. This brand-new volume impels them to recall the ways in which the novel probed a world of secret societies, revealed mystical clues hidden in famous artworks like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, explored conspiracy theories, and examined shadowy religious cults and their strange rites. The Da Vinci Quiz, a compulsively readable follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, tests each reader’s memory and deductive skills with questions like—
How are the Knights Templars linked to unlucky Friday the 13th? Why did Vincenzo Peruggia steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911? Which organization related to the Da Vinci Code has its world headquarters at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City? What is a Manurhin MR-933? Which is the correct way to refer to the great Italian Renaissance artist: da Vinci, or Leonardo? And why?
Although The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, it is set in the world of true historical facts. The brand-new The Da Vinci Quiz tests not merely the reader’s knowledge of that bestselling novel, but goes one step further by testing their understanding of the factual world that relates to the novel. Here is an all-new addition in the absorbing field of Da Vinci Code facts and fiction. Readers simply won’t be able to put down The Da Vinci Quiz until they’ve reached its final, fascinating page. Color illustrations.
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Can You Crack The Da Vinci Code?
The phenomenal worldwide success of Dan Brown’s remarkable novel, The Da Vinci Code, has spearked widespread discussion and debate about the many mysteries — some genuine, some fabricated — on which its action is based. Readers everywhere have become fascinated by the novel’s exhilarating mix of secret societies and shadowy religious organizations, the symbology of great works of art, cryptography and code-breaking, conspiracy theories, occult rituals, historical revisionism, and, perhaps the most compelling mystery of them all: what — or who — is the Holy Grail, and where can it be found?
Although The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction it is set in a world of facts and of history. It is this real world of The Da Vinci Code that has so intrigued millions of readers across the globe. The 501 Questions of The Da Vinci Quiz will test not only the reader’s knowledge of Brown’s work, but also their understanding of the world that it inhabits.
Who were also known as the Poor Knights of Christ?
Which organization has its U.S. Headquarters at 243 Lexington Avenue, New York City?
True or false: the Louvre pyramid contains 666 panes of glass?
Who was the first non-Italian to be elected Pope in nearly five hundred years?
The Da Vinci Quiz is as fascinating, entertaining and compelling as the novel that inspirted it — inside this book, however, the answers are just a page away. . .
This book has not been approved, licensed, or endorsed by any entity involved in creating or producing The Da Vinci Code.
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