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15 years of Notes & Queries
Born in November 1989, N&Q still thrives on a diet of the bizarre, the trivial and the perverse. Founding editor Brian Whitaker explains its genesis and introduces a selection of the best exchanges.


 
The Ultimate Book of Notes & QueriesThe Ultimate Book of Notes & Queries
Here, at last, is the Ultimate Book of Notes & Queries - the first collection in five years to bring together the best of the Guardian's cult column.

Readers provide informed and ingenious answers to brainteasers that range from the profound to the preposterous and the informed to the idiotic.

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