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 14
- Catch-up on Series U, Episode 13
- Streaming rank this week: 514
Episode menu
Series C, Episode 2 - Cummingtonite
Extra Tasks
- Each member of the panel is given a wine glass. They will score 50 points if they can break it using only their voice. Alan's glass did break, but it was a trick glass with a small explosive. It is actually almost impossible to break a glass using your voice.
Topics
- You would want to smother Doon in goose-fat because she was covered in it when she swam the Channel. The first person to swim the English Channel was Captain Webb in 1875, who later died in 1883 trying to swim across the river at the bottom of Niagara Falls.
- Cummingtonite is a mineral discovered in Cummington, Massachusetts. Other comedy compounds include Penguinone, Arsole and Moronic acid.
- The deep-fried Mars bar is not an urban myth - it does exist. Other deep fried foods include the pork sausage kebab, with contains 1,000 calories and 46g of fat. Doon has eaten a deep-fried Curly Wurly, battered in her local chip shop in Fife.
- Tangent: Stephen attempts a wide range of Scottish accents, and tells the story of Maggie Smith, who was playing Scottish Miss Jean Brodie in The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie. She could not do a Scottish accent, but a friend of hers had an aunt in Morningside. Smith phoned her up asking her out to tea with a tape recorder to which the aunt said, "My dear, I have been told I have no accent whatever," and put the phone down insulted.
- The ordeal by bean is an outlawed Nigerian tribal custom where the accused is fed a poisonous bean. (Forfeit: Mr Bean)
- Tangent: 95% of the baked beans in the world are eaten in Britain.
- Big Beard Wang would regularly shave his pussy, because he was the barber to Chairman Mao. "Mao" is the Chinese for "Cat". "Mao" also means "Hat". Correction: Mandarin Chinese words have different meaning depending on how the word is pronounced. Therefore, the "Mao" in "Chairman Mao" means "Fur" or "Wool".
- According to one survey, most people would like to be 17-years-old. From a man's point of view, his ideal woman is half his own age plus seven.
General Ignorance
- Technically speaking, a platypus is very small, becuase the playtpus is a type of beetle. The Duck-Billed Platypus and the Platypus are completely different from each other. (Forfeit: About this big)
- Tangent: Platypuses and echidnas are the only mammals to lay eggs. Platypuses also sweat milk because they have no nipples.
- A dialogue can have any number of people taking part in it. (Forfeit: Two - this is a "Duologue".)
- The Queen's handbag contains some money, a comb, a handkerchief, a small gold compact and a tube of lipstick.
Deleted scenes
- Tangent: The panel talk about what it is like to kiss men who have beards. Stephen then accidentally says he has kissed 15-year-olds.
- Tangent: The panel talk about Stephen's love of the Royal Family. Stephen says that he is not keen on all of them, to which Alan claims that Stephen thinks that Prince Edward "is a tosser".
Scores
- Andy Hamilton: 5 points
- Doon Mackichan: -2 points
- Alan Davies: -4 points
- Arthur Smith: -6 points
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 30th September 2005
- Time
- 10:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
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Thursday 1st July 2010 | 10:00pm | Dave |
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 | 9:00pm | Dave |
Saturday 28th August 2010 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Thursday 7th October 2010 | 9:40pm | Dave |
Saturday 6th November 2010 | 8:20pm | Dave |
Saturday 1st January 2011 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Monday 6th June 2011 | 9:00pm | Dave |
Monday 6th June 2011 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Tuesday 9th April 2013 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Tuesday 11th June 2013 | 10:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 12th June 2013 | 1:40am | Dave |
Tuesday 3rd December 2013 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Wednesday 4th December 2013 | 3:05am | Dave |
Wednesday 7th May 2014 | 10:40pm | Dave |
Thursday 8th May 2014 | 2:40am | Dave |
Friday 5th September 2014 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Saturday 6th September 2014 | 2:00am | Dave |
Tuesday 13th January 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Thursday 2nd April 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Wednesday 9th September 2015 | 8:00pm | Dave |
Monday 30th November 2015 | 12:20am | Dave |
Monday 30th November 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Thursday 12th May 2016 | 2:20am | Dave |
Thursday 12th May 2016 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Monday 15th August 2016 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Saturday 10th September 2016 | 10:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 7th December 2016 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 1st March 2017 | 12:20am | Dave |
Wednesday 2nd August 2017 | 12:00am | Dave |
Wednesday 2nd August 2017 | 2:00am | Dave |
Wednesday 6th September 2017 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Saturday 11th November 2017 | 2:10am | Dave |
Saturday 25th November 2017 | 1:20am | Dave |
Friday 26th January 2018 | 11:10pm | Dave |
Saturday 27th January 2018 | 1:10am | Dave |
Wednesday 11th April 2018 | 12:00am | Dave |
Wednesday 11th April 2018 | 2:00am | Dave |
Thursday 24th May 2018 | 12:00am | Dave |
Thursday 24th May 2018 | 2:00am | Dave |
Tuesday 17th July 2018 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 18th July 2018 | 2:20am | Dave |
Monday 14th January 2019 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Tuesday 15th January 2019 | 1:40am | Dave |
Wednesday 26th June 2019 | 1:00am | Dave |
Wednesday 26th June 2019 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Sunday 8th December 2019 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Monday 9th December 2019 | 8:20pm | Dave |
Cast & crew
Stephen Fry | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Arthur Smith | Guest |
Andy Hamilton | Guest |
Doon Mackichan | Guest |
Justin Pollard | Researcher |
John Mitchinson | Question Writer |
Piers Fletcher | Question Writer |
Garrick Alder | Researcher |
Dan Schreiber | Researcher |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Christopher Gray | Researcher |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
John Lloyd | Producer |
Mark Freeland | Executive Producer |
Sally Debonnaire | Executive Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |