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1227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd; John Mitchinson; James Harkin
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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 iP ...Show more
1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd; James Harkin; John Mitchinson
Category: Humour | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless. - Flowers get suntans.- Denmark imports prisoners.- Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.- The Republic of Ireland first got post ...Show more
1,234 Qi Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd
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The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless. flowers get suntans; Denmark imports prisoners; bees can fly higher than Mount Everest; The Republic of Ireland first got postcodes ...Show more
1,342 Qi Facts to Leave You Flabbergasted by John Lloyd; James Harkin; John Mitchinson
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"Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place."--New York TimesThis book is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia - informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Every fact in this magnificent little ...Show more
1411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways by James Harkin; John Lloyd; John Mitchinson
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1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. Prepare to be knocked sideways... Orchids can get jetlag. Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie. Ladybird orgasms ...Show more
1411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways by John Lloyd
Category: No Category | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. All new facts! Prepare to be knocked sideways...Orchids can get jetlag. Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie. Lady ...Show more
1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over by John Lloyd
Category: Trivia | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.Bees can play football.Cholesterol is good for you.Camels gave humans the common cold.English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness.In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold ...Show more
Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations by John Mitchinson & John Lloyd
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Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from ambition ...Show more
QI: The Book of General Ignorance: The Noticeably Stouter Edition by John Lloyd
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An indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance comes a noticeably stouter edition, with 26% extra facts and figures perfect for trivia, pub quiz and general know ...Show more
QI: The Book of the Dead by John Lloyd
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'"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless' - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team s ...Show more
QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
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Just when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off are back. With a foreword by Stephen Fry, this parcel of unimaginable information is here to solve a few common misconceptions, mistakes and mi ...Show more
QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
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The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before ...Show more