1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

363 Pages·2014·0.553 MB·English

by  John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin

1,411 qi facts
John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI
and the man who devised The News Quiz
and To the Manor Born for radio and
Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image
and Blackadder for television.
His favourite page is 213.
John Mitchinson, QI’s Director of Research,
has been both bookseller and publisher
and looked after authors as diverse as
Haruki Murakami, The Beatles and
a woman who knitted with dog hair.
His favourite page is 26.
James Harkin, QI’s Senior Researcher,
has a maths and physics degree, a dark past
as an accountant for a chain of pubs and is
nicknamed ‘Turbo’ for his phenomenal work rate.
His favourite page is 83.
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afterliff
a quite interesting book
1,411 QI FACTS
to knock you sideways
Compiled by
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
& James Harkin
with the QI Elves
Anne Miller, Andrew Hunter Murray,
Anna Ptaszynski & Alex Bell
First published in 2014
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London wc1b 3da
Typeset by Ian Bahrami
Printed in England by CPI Group (UK) Ltd,
Croydon cr0 4yy
All rights reserved
© QI Ltd, 2014
The right of QI Ltd to be identified as author of this work
has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of
the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
A CIP record for this book
is available from the British Library
isbn 978–0–571–00000–0
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Contents
Introduction vii
1,411 Facts 1
A Note on Sources 337
Index 339
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Introduction
To come
[ vii ]

Facts are to the mind
what food is to the body.
edmund burke (1729–1797)