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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.

"Children and adults alike will want to keep delving in for just one more fact" Scotsman "Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on Earth" -- Chris Tarrant