
Why Would Anyone Want to Swing a Cat?
... and 499 other questions
Andy Simpson(Author)
Constable (Publisher)
Published on 18. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-84901-650-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why is bureaucracy known as red, not yellow or blue tape?
What is haywire and why do we go it?
Why is a yawn infection?
Who was Parker and why is he so Nosy?
These are just some of the burning issues that have been exercising the minds of Daily Mail readers in recent years, and 1001 of the most entertaining have been reproduced in this bumper collection.
Not all of the questions featured will have been nagging away at you for years - the scrap metal value of the Eiffel Tower, for example; and some of the answers throw up intriguing alternatives (does the expression "peg out" have its origins in the game of cribbage or in grave digging practices?); but for those who are inveterate devourers of trivia teasers and fascinating facts, The Daily Mail's Answers to Correspondents is a veritable feast.
What is haywire and why do we go it?
Why is a yawn infection?
Who was Parker and why is he so Nosy?
These are just some of the burning issues that have been exercising the minds of Daily Mail readers in recent years, and 1001 of the most entertaining have been reproduced in this bumper collection.
Not all of the questions featured will have been nagging away at you for years - the scrap metal value of the Eiffel Tower, for example; and some of the answers throw up intriguing alternatives (does the expression "peg out" have its origins in the game of cribbage or in grave digging practices?); but for those who are inveterate devourers of trivia teasers and fascinating facts, The Daily Mail's Answers to Correspondents is a veritable feast.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84901-650-6 (9781849016506)
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04/2013
Constable
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Andy Simpson is Readers' Letters editor at the Daily Mail.