Notes & Queries

Notes And Queries #4

by Brian Whitaker (Compiler)

A compilation of "The Guardian"'s cult column "Notes and Queries", which is a forum for the informed reader to attempt to answer questions which have puzzled other readers. The questions range from the profound to the idiotic and include such imponderables Who composed "Happy Birthday to You"?

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

Brian Whitaker was a journalist for the The Guardian since 1987 and its Middle East editor from 2000-2007. He is currently an editor on the paper's "Comment is free". He also writes articles for Guardian Unlimited, the internet edition of the paper. He runs a personal, non-Guardian-related website, Al-Bab.com, about society and politics in the Arab world.

Reviews

[Nick Davies · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly quirky little mixture of Q&A from the pages of The Guardian, a lot of which was interesting, but some of which seemed a little self-congratulatory and 'Radio 4 in-joke'. Nice to dip back into, some funny illustrations, trivia, a bit like a pre-cursor to QI and the like.