Mitchell Symons is a Journalist/Writer from London

London

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, England. Born in 1957, he was educated at Mill Hill School

Mill Hill School

Mill Hill School, in Mill Hill, London, is a coeducational independent school for boarding and day pupils aged 13–18. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, an organisation of public schools in the United Kingdom....

 and the LSE

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

 where he studied Law. Since leaving the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, where he was a researcher and director, he worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer for the early UK editions of the world-renowned board game Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. The game was created in 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette and Scott Abbott, a sports...

, and has devised many television formats. He wrote an award-winning opinion column for the Daily Express

Daily Express

The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

. Currently, he writes a weekly column for the Sunday Express.

Non-fiction

• Why Girls Can't Throw (and Other Questions You Always Wanted Answered)
• That Book
  That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information
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• This Book of More Perfectly Useless Information
• The Other Book of the Most Perfectly Useless Information
• This, That and the Other (Compilation of That Book
  That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information
  That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information, commonly abbreviated as "That Book" is a book written by writer and journalist Mitchell Symons, and published in 2004.-Material:...
  
  , This Book and the Other Book)
• Forfeit!
• The Equation Book of Sports Crosswords
• The Equation Book of Movie Crosswords
• The You Magazine Book Of Journalists (four books)
• Movielists
• The Sunday Magazine Book Of Crosswords
• The Hello! Magazine Book Of Crosswords (three books)
• How To Be Fat: The Chip and Fry Diet
• The Book of Criminal Records
• The Book of Lists
• The Book of Celebrity Lists
• The Book of Celebrity Sex Lists
• The Bill Clinton Joke Book
• National Lottery Big Draw 2000
• How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum
• The Sudoku Institute Book
• How To Speak Celebrity
• Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies?
• Why Eating Bogeys Is Good For You
• Don't Get Me Started: A Way-Beyond-Grumpy Rant About Modern Life
• How Much Poo Does An Elephant Do?
• Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs?
• Why Does Ear Wax Taste So Gross?
• Mitchell Symons Diary 2010
• Why You Need A Passport When You're Going To Puke
• Do Igloos Have Loos?
• On Your Farts, Get Set, Go!

Awards

• Winner of the 2010 Blue Peter Best Book with Facts for Why Eating Bogeys Is Good For You
• Winner of the 2011 Blue Peter Best Book with Facts for Do Igloos Have Loos?