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Synopsis
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we're also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run a thriving website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iPhone App and a sister Radio 4 programme. At the core of what we do is the astonishing fact - painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. In Einstein's words: 'Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.'
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. "
Book Description
A buffet groaning with mouth-watering nuggets from QI's first ten years.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0571297943
- ISBN 13 9780571297948
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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