Quizzical History

To celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday, the Oxford Historical Society and Woodstock Museum, NHS,  have co-operated in a project to compile into a book, Quizzical History, a complete series of questions and answers about local history. They were originally published in a weekly quiz contest as articles in Woodstock’s Oxford Review newspaper from late 1999 to early 2003.

The questions and answers in the book cover a sampling about Oxford County people, places and events from the early 1800s until more recent times. Its contents have been grouped into 16 Topic sections, e.g., Business, Crime and Disasters, Entertainment, Military, Oxford Men and Women, Places, Politics, Recreation & Sports, etc. There is a table of contents at the front of Quizzical History that lists the page start of each Topic; an index at the back that gives a complete listing of all the questions, grouped by Topic.

• Edited by Chris Packman, member of the original Quiz Committee
• Paperback
• 243 pages
• Published in 2017 by the Oxford Historical Society and the Woodstock Museum, NHS