LLOYD, JOHN 1339 QI FACTS TO MAKE YOUR JAW DROP
1,339 QI Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop
By: Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN/EAN: 0571308945 / 9780571308941
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 368 pages
Dimensions: 178 x 111 mm
Country of Pub.: United Kingdom
Pub Date: 07/11/2013
For over a decade QI has been the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that they are also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. They also write books and newspaper columns; run a thriving and recently redesigned website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iPhone App and a sister Radio 4 programme. At QI's very core is the astonishing fact; painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity.
In Einstein's words: 'Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.' Pigs suffer from anorexia. Wagner always wore pink silk underwear. Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie.
Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit.
