Book description
VIVE LA REVOLUTION! Dolphins shed and replace their skin every two
hours Pluto was named by an eleven-year-old schoolgirl A donkey's
personality is called its donkeyship Freud didn't lose his virginity
until the age of 30 The bastion that was QI has been stormed, elves
have been put to the guillotine, the readers are in charge. After nine
and a half years of cumulative reading time, readers of the QI App
have selected the definitive QI collection. With a new introduction by
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, and packed full of handsome images,
these ten chapters form the best-of to end all best-ofs.
JOHN LLOYD is a broadcaster by trade. As a radio producer he
devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to
television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and
Blackadder. He lives by the motto of the German mystic Henry Suso
(1300-66): 'By ignorance the truth is known.' JOHN MITCHINSON is from
the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's,
he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The
Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
He's with the Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu: 'To know that you do not
know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a
disease.' Visit them at www. qi. com or follow them on www. twitter. com/qikipedia
