EVER WONDERED . . .

Why we burp?

What a wotsit is?

Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs?

Why vomit always contains carrots?

And why do farts smell like rotten eggs?

No subject is too strange and no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons, who has the answer to these crazy questions, and many more.

Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. 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 column for the Sunday Express.