QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance is an illuminating collection of fun facts, perfect for general knowledge, trivia and pub quiz enthusiasts. This number-one bestseller is a comprehensive catalogue of all the interesting misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge' that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition, carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument.
Henry VIII had six wives. WRONG!
Everest is the highest mountain in the world. WRONG!
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. WRONG!
QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance is the essential set text for everyone who's proud to admit that they don't know everything, and an ideal sack of interesting facts with which to beat people who think they do.
Perfect for trivia, pub quiz and general knowledge enthusiasts, this is a number-one bestseller from the authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, packed with weird, wonderful and really quite interesting facts.
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The rest of it is by the people behind QI (BBC2 10pm Fridays).
They are John Lloyd (former producer of Not the Nine O'Clock News,
Blackadder & Spitting Image), John Mitchinson (former publisher of fat
reference books) and their crack research team: an
astrophysicist-turned-zookeeper, an archaeologist specialising in the 9th
century, a stand-up comic who speaks Mandarin Chinese, a lapsed communist
who writes for the Fortean Times and a pub accountant from Bolton.
If you've never watched QI, you will be astonished at how many things you
don't know, from the very large and strange to the very small and familiar
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galaxies and subatomic particles, killer marmots, black carrots,
colour-blind bulls and loofahs that grow on trees.
This is the world they don't teach you about at school. The real world:
where panthers aren't black, James Bond drinks whisky, America was
discovered by the Welsh, champagne was invented by the English, Santa Claus
is Turkish and there were 14 sheep on Noah's Ark.
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