This Book - Hardcover

Symons, Mitchell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593053486 ISBN 13: 9780593053485

Verlag: Bantam Press, 2004

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A new collection of extraordinary facts and mind-boggling trivia from the creator of That Book

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Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning weekly column for the Sunday Express.

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* When Billy Crystal was a child, his babysitter was the legendary singer Billie Holiday
* St John's Wood is the only London Underground station that doesn't contain any letters from the word 'mackerel'
*Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him.
*It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky

THIS BOOK has airline acromyms, tongue twisters, things invented by women and the working titles of Beatles songs. There are also celebrities who own islands/went bankrupt/had liposuction/survived helicopter crashes/had hotel suites named after them/married (and divorced) their childhood sweethearts. From the author of the bestselling THAT BOOK, it has something for everyone and anyone - and more besides . . .

'Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on earth.' Chris Tarrant

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593053486
• ISBN 13: 9780593053485
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar