Read 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off Online
Authors: John Lloyd,John Mitchinson
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off (20 page)
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 2.
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 306.
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 38.
THE BOOK OF GENERAL IGNORANCE
THE SECOND BOOK OF GENERAL IGNORANCE
THE BOOK OF ANIMAL IGNORANCE
ADVANCED BANTER: THE QI BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
THE QI BOOK OF THE DEAD
THE QI ‘E’ ANNUAL
THE QI ‘F’ ANNUAL
THE QI ‘G’ ANNUAL
THE QI ‘H’ ANNUAL
also by John Lloyd (with Douglas Adams)
THE MEANING OF LIFF
THE DEEPER MEANING OF LIFF
First published in 2012
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