QI
- TV panel show
- BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
- 2003 - 2025
- 324 episodes (22 series)
Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts. Stars Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.
- Continues today on BBC2 at 9pm with Series V, Episode 3
- Catch-up on Series V, Episode 2
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Episode menu
Series M - QI VG: Compilation Show 13
Theme
- A mixture of new material and best bits from Series M.
Topics
- Best Bit: Mix and Match Tangent - Origins of the names of birds.
- Best Bit: Military Matters - Shooting with a punt gun.
- Best Bit: Monster Mash Tangent - The Hairy Hand of Dartmoor.
- Best Bit: M-Places - Places named after breasts.
- Best Bit: Marriage and Matings Tangent - Anal hoopla.
- Best Bit: Maths - Probability magic card trick.
- Best Bit: Making a Meal of It - The Goliath bird-eating spider.
- Best Bit: Messy - Distorted speech.
- Best Bit: A Medley of Maladies - The country with the best teeth in the world.
- Best Bit: Making a Meal of It - How to deal with being bitten by a snake.
- Best Bit: Messing with your Mind Tangent - Ways of waking up on time.
- Best Bit: Menagerie Tangent - Alan showing Bill Bailey a picture of a cock and balls he drew on a map.
- Best Bit: Mix and Match - The melting teaspoon magic trick.
- New Material: M-Places Tangent - When diving in caves, scuba divers take extra tanks with them because you cannot swim the whole distance on just one tank. Therefore, you have to leave a trail of tanks behind you, and remember where you put them on your way back.
- Best Bit: Miscellany - How the brown-headed cowbird makes an offer you cannot refuse.
- Best Bit: Messing with your Mind - The money-making press magic trick.
- Best Bit: Mix and Match - How many paintings did Vincent van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
- Best Bit: Middle Muddle Tangent - Alan is distracted by someone eating sweets in the audience.
- Best Bit: Merriment - Songs from the musical The Bathrooms are Coming.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 4th March 2016
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Stephen Fry | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Bill Bailey | Guest |
Jo Brand | Guest |
Jimmy Carr | Guest |
Phill Jupitus | Guest |
Jeremy Clarkson | Guest |
David Mitchell | Guest |
Johnny Vegas | Guest |
Sandi Toksvig | Guest |
Sue Perkins | Guest |
Ross Noble | Guest |
Sarah Millican | Guest |
Susan Calman | Guest |
Sara Pascoe | Guest |
Noel Fielding | Guest |
Josh Widdicombe | Guest |
Aisling Bea | Guest |
Lucy Porter | Guest |
Matt Lucas | Guest |
Sheila Hancock (as Shelia Hancock) | Guest |
Sami Shah | Guest |
Cariad Lloyd | Guest |
Rhod Gilbert | Guest |
Greg Davies | Guest |
Danny Bhoy | Guest |
Tommy Tiernan | Guest |
Jenny Eclair | Guest |
Romesh Ranganathan | Guest |
Dermot O'Leary | Guest |
Eddie Kadi | Guest |
James Acaster | Guest |
James Harkin | Script Editor |
John Mitchinson | Question Writer |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Molly Oldfield | Question Writer |
Andrew Hunter Murray | Question Writer |
Alex Bell | Researcher |
Anne Miller | Question Writer |
Stevyn Colgan | Question Writer |
Anna Ptaszynski | Question Writer |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
John Lloyd (as John Lloyd CBE) | Series Producer |
Piers Fletcher | Producer |
Sohail Shah | Executive Producer |
Justin Pollard | Associate Producer |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |