James Harkin
- Researcher and comedian
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Video: What did ninjas wear?
You might think that we elves would be annoyed when we're proved wrong about something, but it's really not true - it's one of the great privilages of working on QI that we often have real experts in a subject watching the show and ready to pull us up if they feel we have made a mistake.
James Harkin, QI.com, 2nd December 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 12 'Illumination'
The International Cloud Symbols look very odd to the uninitiated, rather like various body-parts, as our panelists so subtly pointed out.
James Harkin, QI.com, 28th November 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 11 'Infantile'
Fran Beauman is an extremely 'QI' writer, in fact, I believe she almost became a QI researcher, but instead decided to do her own thing, writing a number of truly excellent books, that we would recommend to anyone who likes what we do.
James Harkin, QI.com, 21st November 2011A Guide to QI. Series I, episode 10 'Inland Revenue'
The first question on this week's QI was about Karachi's attempt to persuade its citizens to pay its tax.
James Harkin, QI.com, 14th November 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 9 'Illness'
The Epworth Sleepiness Scale came in the I-series of QI under the guise of "Indices".
James Harkin, QI.com, 7th November 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 8 'Injustice'
The idea of a show about 'injustice' came about directly after we read about the story of George Spencer 'who didst lie with a beast'. It was such an incredible story, that we decided to build a show around it.
James Harkin, QI.com, 31st October 2011The QI set
One of the most common group of questions that we get at QI (if you ignore the ones asking why we said that there was more than one moon) are queries about the iconic set.
James Harkin, QI.com, 31st October 2011New research: Why don't we have more women on QI?
We said previously said: A study by Robert Provine at the University of Maryland showed that women laugh more than men, and that both men & women laugh less at women than they do to men. But some new research has come out.
James Harkin, QI.com, 25th October 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 7 'Incomprehensible'
Headless Males Make Great Lovers is a perfect QI book - full of fascinating facts about nature. It was here that we first saw the fact that prairie dogs have been found to have some kind of language.
James Harkin, QI.com, 24th October 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 6 'Inventive'
What invention have we all been looking forward to, more than any other? (apart from, perhaps, the personal jet-pack)
James Harkin, QI.com, 17th October 2011