QUESTIONS

Q : What was the origin of the Vanity Fair publisher Conde Nast’s unusual Christian name?

Jo Fowler, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Q : Why were cats parachuted into Malaya by the RAF in 1945-6?

D. Taylor, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcs.

Q : Was the reward of $100,000 ever claimed for the death or capture of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?

Mike Mills, Christchurch, Dorset.