1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off - Softcover

Lloyd, John; Mitchinson, John; Harkin, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571297935 ISBN 13: 9780571297931

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2016

Synopsis

Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis; the water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body; Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs; Saddam's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker; Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog.

1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.

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Review:

Put together by John Lloyd, the creator of comedy television quiz show QI; John Mitchinson, the program's director of research; and James Harkin, the senior researcher, the book's disparate, seemingly random contents elicit plenty of laughs--and no wonder; these men have made careers out of finding largely nonsensical but wholly true facts with which to entertain and delight.

Amusing fodder for trivia nuts.

Informative, astonishing and often hilarious.

A treasure trove of factoids.

Entertaining... elicit[s] plenty of laughs. --Stevie Godson

Entertaining...elicit[s] plenty of laughs. --Stevie Godson

Entertaining elicit[s] plenty of laughs. --Stevie Godson"

Informative, astonishing and often hilarious. "

Amusing fodder for trivia nuts. "

A treasure trove of factoids. "

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0571297935
• ISBN 13: 9780571297931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336