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: 509
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Series D, Episode 3 - Dogs
Topics
- Dogs are the most varied of all animal species.
- When mating, dogs start in the doggy position and then turn around so they are "Arse-to-arse", with the penis locked inside the vagina. The panel are asked to demonstrate what they thought happened using toy dogs, with Jeremy being the only one to get the answer right. Alan was given a large Old English sheepdog and a Scottish terrier dressed in tartan.
- Tangent: Jeremy and Graham Norton both own a labradoodle. The cross between a Yorkshire terrier and a poodle is a "Yorkiepoo".
- The most interesting thing a dog can smell is cancer. (Forfeit: Bottoms; Bollocks)
- You can tell the difference between a scouse dog and a Scottish dog by the accent. Their barks sound different.
- The only dog that lays eggs is a dogfish, which is a type of shark.
- Tangent: Sharks do not have to swim continuously, though they do need water flowing through their gills.
- Tangent: The largest egg in the world was laid by the whale shark, the largest fish in the world.
- The German for "Sausage dog" is "Dackel". (Forfeit: Dachshund)
- Tangent: The German for "Dog" is "Hund", as in the word "Hound". No-one knows where the word "Dog" comes from. "Dogger" is said to come from a Dutch word meaning "A type of ship".
- Fisher comes before German Bight in the shipping forecast. The one before Fisher is Dogger. (Forfeit: German bark)
- Tangent: The shipping forecast always begins with Viking. Alan used to call it the "Chicken Forecast" because that was what he thought it sounded like when he was a child.
- Examples of islands named after birds include Puffin Island and Bird Island. (Forfeit: Canary Islands - Named after the Latin for "Dog" and the birds are named after the island)
- Tangent: The sport of Canary Wrestling is similar to Sumo Wrestling.
- People on the island of La Gomera communicate by whistling in Spanish.
- Tangent: The island of La Palma has a volcano. It is said that if it erupts in a big way, it could cause a tsunami that could wipe out the whole of the Eastern Seaboard of the USA.
- Dog Kung Fu is a kind of martial art where the initial stance is on all-fours. It was invented by a Chinese nun.
- Tangent: "Karate" means "Empty hand". "Judo" means "The gentle way".
- A question on dogfighting: The aeroplane that won the battle of Britain was the Hurricane. The first two planes shot down by Spitfires in WWII were hurricanes. (Forfeit: Spitfire)
- Tangent: When planes were first used during WWI, it was not regarded as a machine for war, so at the first the Allies and Central Powers waved at each other. Then they gave each other rude signs, Mills bombs, pistols and then machine guns.
- Tangent: Jeremy's favourite VC winner was Ferdinand West, a WWI fighter pilot.
General Ignorance
- Gorillas sleep in nests. They make a new nest every day, even if there is nothing wrong with the old one. The scientific name for the gorilla is "Gorilla gorilla". This is an example of a tautonym. Other examples include "Bison bison" and "Iguana iguana".
- "Rattus rattus" is the scientific name for the rat.
- "Oriolus oriolus" is the scientific name for the golden oriole.
- "Cygnus cygnus" is the scientific name for the whooper swan.
- "Puffinus puffinus" is the scientific name for the Manx shearwater. (Forfeit: Puffin)
- Tangent: The oldest bird in the world was a Manx shearwater. One was tagged in Cokeland Island, Northern Ireland as an adult (at least 5 years old) on July 1953 and trapped again in July 2003. So it either lived for over 55 years or the birds have discovered a way of swapping rings.
- Tangent: A joke by Stephen: What's the connection between pelicans and British Gas? They can both stick their bills up their arses.
Scores
- Neil Mullarkey: 5 points
- Liza Tarbuck: -8 points
- Jeremy Clarkson: -13 points
- Alan Davies: -36 points
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 6th October 2006
- Time
- 10:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
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Monday 15th November 2010 | 9:00pm | Dave |
Saturday 1st January 2011 | 9:40pm | Dave |
Sunday 22nd April 2012 | 1:20pm | Dave |
Sunday 22nd April 2012 | 6:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 17th October 2012 | 7:40pm | Dave |
Thursday 18th October 2012 | 1:00am | Dave |
Sunday 23rd December 2012 | 2:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 20th March 2013 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Tuesday 21st May 2013 | 10:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 22nd May 2013 | 1:40am | Dave |
Sunday 7th July 2013 | 2:40pm | Dave |
Sunday 7th July 2013 | 6:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 3rd September 2014 | 11:10pm | Dave |
Thursday 4th September 2014 | 2:25am | Dave |
Saturday 20th December 2014 | 10:40pm | Dave |
Sunday 21st December 2014 | 4:40pm | Dave |
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Monday 22nd June 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Wednesday 14th October 2015 | 11:20pm | Dave |
Thursday 15th October 2015 | 2:20am | Dave |
Tuesday 1st March 2016 | 12:20am | Dave |
Tuesday 1st March 2016 | 9:20pm | Dave |
Thursday 16th June 2016 | 3:00am | Dave |
Monday 22nd August 2016 | 2:20am | Dave |
Monday 22nd August 2016 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Friday 24th February 2017 | 2:40pm | Dave |
Saturday 8th April 2017 | 12:30am | Dave |
Thursday 3rd August 2017 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Friday 4th August 2017 | 1:00am | Dave |
Tuesday 5th September 2017 | 1:20am | Dave |
Wednesday 3rd January 2018 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Thursday 4th January 2018 | 1:00am | Dave |
Saturday 3rd March 2018 | 12:55am | Dave |
Thursday 26th April 2018 | 12:40am | Dave |
Thursday 26th April 2018 | 2:40am | Dave |
Saturday 26th May 2018 | 12:00am | Dave |
Thursday 21st June 2018 | 2:20am | Dave |
Saturday 2nd March 2019 | 1:00am | Dave |
Cast & crew
Stephen Fry | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Jeremy Clarkson | Guest |
Neil Mullarkey | Guest |
Liza Tarbuck | Guest |
Justin Pollard | Researcher |
Molly Oldfield | Researcher |
John Mitchinson | Question Writer |
Piers Fletcher | Question Writer |
Garrick Alder | Researcher |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Christopher Gray | Researcher |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Justin Gayner | Researcher |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
John Lloyd | Producer |
Lorraine Heggessey | Executive Producer |
Katie Taylor | Executive Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |