The QI Annual 2010 (Book)

A gargantuan gallimaufry of G-ness that gambols gamely between Galaxies, Gods, Gravity, Gin, Gnus and Gravel with all our favourites and some surprises - from QI's new BBC1 series showing this autumn:

* Clive Anderson on Gordons
* Rowan Atkinson's Gambling tips
* Bill Bailey's Air Guitar Tutorial
* Craig Brown's G-acronyms
* Jimmy Carr's Guide to Grooming
* Chris Donald of Viz on Geordies, Grocers and Garden Gnomes
* Golden Grahams by Graham Norton...

... and Ronni Ancona and Rob Brydon in the next instalment of their photo luv story.

Plus illustration Genius from Jonathan Cusick, Cherry Denman, Ted Dewan, Geoff Dunbar, Beano's Hunt Emerson, Phill Jupitus, Spitting Image's Roger Law, Matt from The Daily Telegraph, Tony Husband and Nick Newman of Private Eye, Katie Scott, Adrian Teal, Robert Thompson and more.

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The QI Annual MMIX (Book)

The festive fiefdom of QI follows last year's estimable E Annual with a farrago of F-themed fabulousness. Filled with the fabrications of Fry and friends, it's a feast of fascinating facts, from fish and frogs to ferrets and Freemasons, from the frozen fields of Finland to the fruit-fringed forests of Fiji, filled with flies, flags, flamingos, fleas, floods, flowers, fog, food, football, forests, fossils, fungi, fur and furniture...You get the idea. It's the nearest you'll get to having the phenomenal BBC show live in you front room. It's often said that 96 per cent of the universe is missing, composed of so-called 'dark matter'. But isn't it interesting that the remaining 4 per cent can be compressed into just 96 pages of frabjous, free-wheeling fun.

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The QI Annual (Book)

Mockingly described as, "The sequel to the long-awaited "A", "B", "C" and "D" annuals," this first QI annual contains all the quite interesting "E" things that could not make the show.

The book features contributions from Clive Anderson, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Bailey, Jo Brand, Rob Brydon, Jimmy Carr, Alan Davies, Stephen Fry, Rich Hall, Phill Jupitus, Sean Lock, Dara O'Briain, David Mitchell, Vic Reeves and Arthur Smith.

The annual also has cartoons from Roger Law, the Spitting Image team, Husband from Private Eye, Chris Donald from Viz, Cherry Denman, Geoff Dunbar, Ted Dewan and Matt from the Daily Telegraph

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QI - The C Series (DVD)

Come! Cast across this crazy cornucopia of crucial 'C' conundrums with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and company.

The extras include "Cushing" - the first QI pop music video, cut scenes and outtakes, commentary and photo gallery, chimes, concealed Easter eggs and more.

Cast includes Clive Anderson, Carr (Jimmy), Clarkson (Jeremy) and some other contestants whose names don't begin with 'C'.

Our Review: For our in-depth review of this DVD please click here

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QI - The B Series (DVD)

Stephen Fry presents this comedy panel game where artistic licence is king. Fry is joined by four others each episode and the point of the game is to come up with the most elaborate answer, as opposed to actually being right.

Extras include:
Banter with Backroom Boys: Audio commentry from John Lloyd (Producer and creator), John Mitchinson and Piers Feltcher (The Question Wranglers) with photo gallery.
Bonus Bits & Bloopers: Deleted scenes and outtakes.
Buzzers: Collections of "B" Buzzers.
Buy, Buy, Buy!: QI product catalogue.

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QI - The Complete First Series (DVD)

The comedy quiz that refreshes the parts other shows don't even have names for.

Here is the first, ground-breaking series of the programme that won Stephen Fry the Golden Rose of Montreux for the world's best game-show host. BBC2's smash-hit comedy is also the most popular programme on BBC4. It's a 26-year project, each series dealing with a different letter of the alphabet, and this is the one that started it all off. Here is an avalanche of askings on astronomy, anteaters, apples, Africa, aeroplanes, atoms, antelopes, anchovies, Antarctica and Azerbaijan all of it absolutely astonishing to Alan Davies (QI's resident loser and Stephen Fry's favourite stud-muffin).

The friendliest show on British TV is graced by the cream of world-class comedy talent including Bill Bailey, Hugh Laurie, Rich Hall, Jo Brand, Meera Syall, Rob Brydon, Jeremy Clarkson, Jimmy Carr, Phill Jupitus, Sean Lock, Clive Anderson, Danny Baker, John Sessions, Jeremy Hardy, Linda Smith and Dave Gorman.

Discover the definitive answers to the questions you didn't even know existed. Why don't pigeons go to the movies? Why are there no Alsatians in the Spanish army? What flavour is the oldest known soup? How do otters kill crocodiles? And what is the name of the 23rd tallest tree in the world?

Special features include:
Pilot episode not broadcast on TV
Out-takes and extra bits
Dozens of extra factoids
Production team's audio commentary
Concealed elf-banter
Hidden Easter Eggs
Review

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QI Presents: Strictly Come Duncing (DVD)

The second interactive QI DVD. It should be pointed out that QI Presents: Strictly Come Duncing has little to do with dancing and nothing to do with presents.

Like the original, you face questions being asked a series of questions by Stephen Fry. The quizzes, known as "Dunce Floors" are found inside each of the "Dunce Halls". When playing, you can dunce with a friend, or have a dunce off with Alan "Duncing Queen" Davies.

The DVD also features over 300 music tracks and a selection of outtakes.

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QI - Advanced Banter (Paperback) (Book)

A paperback version of the QI book of quotations.

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The QI Book Of The Dead (Book)

In the fourth QI book, "The Book Of The Dead", you will meet hundreds of Dead People, some well-known, others completely obscure, organised into 42 short chapters that play merry hell with the usual classifications. So, instead of Royalty, Scientists and Sportsmen, you'll find rather more diverting categories like People who died Penniless, The One-Legged, Only Children, People who failed at School, Those only Remembered by a Single Quotation and the Last People to Know Everything. Most of the 90 billion or so people that have ever lived have one thing in common: they're dead. Death is something we all know is going to happen - like the rumble of distant thunder at a picnic - but most of us prefer to ignore it. This is a big mistake. We (loosely termed the Living) have one major advantage over the Dead. We can learn from their mistakes, marvel at their bad taste in clothes or food or sexual partners, share their secrets and uncover their wisdom without fear of reprisal or ridicule. Why did a church composer invent the hand grenade? What was Leonardo's proudest achievement? If "The Book of the Dead" doesn't persuade you to immediately join the massed ranks of those looking at the radishes from below, it will certainly make the tricky business of Living a tad less grim and a lot more interesting.

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The QI Book Of Animals - Pocket Edition (Book)

This is a pocket version of The Book Of Animal Ignorance, which looks at the quite interesting world of the animal kingdom.

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The Noticeably Stouter QI Book Of General Ignorance (Book)

This book is a new edition of the original Amazon bestseller, The Book Of General Ignorance. Now 26% more ignorant, it contains 50 more things you think you know, but are in fact wrong.

The book also contains a full index, a complete list of the episodes and who has been on, classic quotes from the series and some new "Four Words" from Alan Davies.

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The Sound Of General Ignorance (Audio)

The Book of General Ignorance can now be read to you by the authors, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.

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Advanced Banter - The QI Book Of Quotations (Book)

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 to worry, (or from artichokes to woodpeckers), a book which offered you a useful take on almost every situation life throws at you (from the death of your child's hamster to the unified theory of everything), a sourcebook of wise one-loners, of knock-out jokes, of drole asides and heartfelt statements of truth and beauty, a practical handbook of interestingness , well, that would be worth having. And, guess what? Those thoughtful gentlemen at QI have come up with one. Five years of learning how to avoid the dull stuff have left the QI team in a uniquely good position to deliver this elusive holy grail: the big, useful, funny and really very good book of quotations.

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The Idler: Issue 41: QI Issue (Book)

The bi-annual magazine dedicated to alternative ways of working and living features a quite interesting edition edited by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.

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The QI Book Of General Ignorance - Pocket Edition (Book)

A special pocket edition of the original Book of General Ignorance.

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The QI Book Of Animal Ignorance (Book)

The second QI book - again written by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, and also with illustrations by Ted Dewan.

This is a guide to 100 quite intersting animals, from aardvarks to worms and everything else quite interesting in between (including us humans).

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The Book Of General Ignorance (Book)

This Amazon UK bestseller is a guide to everything you thought you knew.

Written by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, it gives the real answers to the cause of the black death, Henry VIII's wives, Hitler's diet and other questions that no-one has ever asked.

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QI - A Quite Interesting Game (DVD)

The first interactive QI DVD Game.

Stephen Fry asks you up to 50 questions in seven different quizzes. Each time you complete a quiz, you will be given a letter from the alphabet. One you get all, you will have access to QI's inner sanctum in the form of an anagram, with wonders galore.

However, be careful at all times. In some case a question my have more than one right answer. If you choose the least interesting, you will find yourself down the dreaded path of General Ignorance, leading you to a dead end.

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