QI
- TV panel show
- BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
- 2003 - 2024
- 312 episodes (21 series)
Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts. Stars Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.
- Continues on Tuesday on BBC2 at 9pm with Series U, Episode 11
- Catch-up on Series U, Episode 10
- Streaming rank this week: 333
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Series A, Episode 10 - Aviation
Topics
- The aeroplane was invented by John Stringfellow. (Forfeit: The Wright Brothers)
- A person might have, "Mad, bad, fat, sad old git," on their luggage because they are airport luggage codes.
- MAD: Madrid Barajas International Airport.
- BAD: Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, Louisiana.
- FAT: Fresno Yosemite International Airport, California.
- SAD: Safford Regional Airport, Arizona.
- OLD: Old Town Municipal Airport, Maine.
- GIT: Geita Airport, Geita, Tanzania.
- Madonna's plan for the prettiest airport in the world is to buy Compton Abbas Airfield in Dorset, and shut it down.
- The smallest aircraft carrier in the world is a Mitsubishi Shogun.
- Tangent: The Shogun is known in the rest of the world as the "Pajero" except in Spain, where it means, "One who fiddles with himself for sexual pleasure."
- Tangent: Julia Morris once worked on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, known for producing good milk.
- It was a bad idea to ban smoking on aeroplanes because companies now recycle air, increasing the threat from viruses.
- The Alan tribe live on the Russian border, in the Northern Crocuses Mountains, where they were driven by the Huns in the 4th century. Pliny the Elder described them as, "A race of bastard degenerates."
- Tangent: "Alan" and "Peter" both mean "Rock" or "Pebble". Stephen Fry's father is called "Alan".
- Edgar Allan Poe predicted the Big Bang theory, the theory of relativity, parallel universes and the structure of the atom in a prose poem called Eureka.
- Alan Smithee is the Alan with the worst reputation in Hollywood. It is a name used by film directors when they disown a film. Alan Smithee credits
- In Boy on a Dolphin, Sophia Loren had to walk in a trench due to Alan Ladd being so short.
- "Alan Whicker's" is cockney rhyming slang for, "Knickers".
- Tangent: The Australian rhyming slang for underwear is "Reg Grundy's - Undies". Listerine is an example of rhyming slang moved on one. If you are "Listerine", you are "Anti-septic" and "Septic" is cockney rhyming slang for an American, as in, "Septic tank - Yank".
General Ignorance
- The first man to circumnavigate the globe was Juan Sebastian Elcano. (Forfeit: Magellan)
- The helicopter was invented by the Chinese. (Forfeit: Italian)
- Tangent: The modern helicopter was invented by the French.
- Nothing happens when you suck your pencil, because it was made out of graphite, the crystallised form of carbon. (Forfeit: Lead poisoning)
Deleted Scenes
- A third of the world's languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea. The official language is English, but most speak in Pidgin English. "Prince Charles" is rendered as, "Number one pickaninny belong Mrs. Queen." A male contraceptive is a, "Gummy belong cock." A helicopter is, "Magimix belong Jesus."
Scores
- Alan Davies: 23 points (First victory)
- Julia Morris: 9 points
- Rich Hall: 3 points
- Peter Serafinowicz: -5 points
Notes
This episode is also known as Alan.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 13th November 2003
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
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Saturday 12th September 2009 | 8:20pm | Dave |
Thursday 2nd December 2010 | 7:50pm | Dave |
Friday 8th April 2011 | 10:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 25th May 2011 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Wednesday 29th June 2011 | 10:20pm | Dave |
Thursday 30th June 2011 | 12:55am | Dave |
Sunday 15th July 2012 | 12:00pm | Dave |
Sunday 15th July 2012 | 6:40pm | Dave |
Sunday 25th November 2012 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 19th December 2012 | 2:00pm | Dave |
Wednesday 19th December 2012 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Tuesday 30th April 2013 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 1st May 2013 | 2:20am | Dave |
Sunday 16th June 2013 | 1:40pm | Dave |
Sunday 16th June 2013 | 5:40pm | Dave |
Tuesday 17th September 2013 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Wednesday 18th September 2013 | 2:25am | Dave |
Wednesday 7th January 2015 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Tuesday 17th March 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Wednesday 8th July 2015 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 18th November 2015 | 9:00pm | Dave |
Thursday 19th November 2015 | 2:20am | Dave |
Tuesday 29th March 2016 | 8:00pm | Dave |
Monday 25th July 2016 | 2:15am | Dave |
Monday 25th July 2016 | 9:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 31st August 2016 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Thursday 1st September 2016 | 2:20am | Dave |
Monday 9th January 2017 | 3:20pm | Dave |
Friday 10th March 2017 | 2:00pm | Dave |
Saturday 11th March 2017 | 12:25am | Dave |
Friday 12th January 2018 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Saturday 13th January 2018 | 1:00am | Dave |
Monday 12th February 2018 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Tuesday 13th February 2018 | 1:00am | Dave |
Saturday 17th March 2018 | 1:00am | Dave |
Saturday 17th March 2018 | 3:30am | Dave |
Saturday 12th May 2018 | 12:00am | Dave |
Saturday 12th May 2018 | 2:00am | Dave |
Friday 8th June 2018 | 12:00am | Dave |
Friday 8th June 2018 | 2:00am | Dave |
Tuesday 7th August 2018 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 8th August 2018 | 3:30am | Dave |
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Thursday 24th January 2019 | 1:40am | Dave |
Cast & crew
Stephen Fry | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Rich Hall | Guest |
Julia Morris | Guest |
Peter Serafinowicz | Guest |
Samantha Ball | Researcher |
Adam Jacot de Boinod | Researcher |
Sophie Johnstone | Researcher |
Molly Oldfield | Researcher |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
John Lloyd | Producer |
Phil Clarke | Executive Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |