A third collection of dim-witted delights and interesting interjections from the QI team.
The writers behind the hit TV show QI and international bestsellers return with a brand new book, proving once again that everything you think you know is wrong.
Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing...
Following the success of their first book, QI bring you the sequel to best-selling Book Of General Ignorance. Written by the show's creator John Lloyd and head of research John Mitchinson, the new book will the actual answers to such questions as:
Who made the first aeroplane flight?
How many legs...
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...
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...
The bi-annual magazine dedicated to alternative ways of working and living features a quite interesting edition edited by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.
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).
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.