Book description
Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus
have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of
tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a
tooth in a glass of coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made
from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill
you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? John Lloyd and John
Mitchinson, the brains behind QI, here present a wonderful collection
of the most outrageous, fascinating and mind-bending facts, taking on
the popular General Ignorance round from BBC1's top rated quiz and the
first book in the bestselling series. And whatever your answers to the
questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong.
JOHN LLOYD is a broadcaster. He devisedThe News Quiz and To the
Manor Born for radio and Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and
Blackadder for television. JOHN MITCHINSON is from the world of books
and has published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary
of Phrase and Fable. The smash-hit BBC 1 panel game QI first aired on
the BBC in September 2003 with John Lloyd producing and John
Mitchinson in charge of the research. There are now more than 100
editions of the programme.
