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 on Tuesday on BBC2 at 9pm with Series V, Episode 5
- Catch-up on Series V, Episode 4
- Streaming rank this week: 153
Episode menu
- Series R - Highlights Special
Topics
- Roaming New Material Tangent: The panel are shown some Danish words and are asked what they mean. "Bagslag" (pronounced "bowslay") means "backfire". "Fart" means "speed". "Boghandel" (pronounced "bo-handle") means "bookshop".
- Rest & Recreation Best Bit Tangent: The model Fabio and his roller coaster accident with a bird.
- Radioactive Best Bit: How to sell a house which is next to a nuclear power station.
- Rubbish Best Bit Tangent: Holly Walsh's "motorway moony" and Bridget Christie's tractor crash.
- Rude Best Bit: The "BARF" scale.
- Rubbish Best Bit Tangent: More of Bridget's miserable time on the farm.
- Ruff and Reddy Best Bit Tangent: Susan Calman's first ever bikini wax.
- Revolutions Best Bit Tangent: Gyles Brandreth going to a casino with Mick Jagger.
- Road and Rail New Material Tangent: Chris de Burgh once wrote a really bad song about a death train.
- Restaurants Best Bit: The Beer Hunter.
- Roaming Best Bit: The fast 19th century surgeon Robert Liston.
- Rest & Recreation Best Bit Tangent: Susan watching Gravity.
- Radioactivity New Material Tangent: Humans are radiations because 60% of our body heat leaves through radiation. Toucans radiate even more with their large beaks.
- Road and Rail New Material Tangent: Cally Beaton says that there was a man who claimed that women at 50 are invisible. Sandi says this is true at restaurants, with which Aisling Bea suggests popping one tit out, but Cally says that at a certain age this would not work.
- Revolutions Best Bit Tangent: Gyles' ancestor Jeremiah Brandreth.
- Reflections Best Bit: Which is better, symmetrical knees of symmetrical nostrils?
- Rude Best Bit Tangent: Catching shuttlecocks with chopsticks.
- Radioactivity New Material Tangent: Alan and Josh Widdicombe both won £25,000 on Celebrity Million Pound Drop. Alan however lost £450,000 on the question: "What was the first flavour of crisps?"
- Restaurants Best Bit Tangent: Sandi cutting champagne bottles with swords.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 13th August 2020
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Sandi Toksvig | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Gyles Brandreth | Guest |
Phill Jupitus | Guest |
Liza Tarbuck | Guest |
Johnny Vegas | Guest |
Susan Calman | Guest |
Sara Pascoe | Guest |
Josh Widdicombe | Guest |
Aisling Bea | Guest |
Holly Walsh | Guest |
Joe Lycett | Guest |
Stephen K Amos | Guest |
Cally Beaton | Guest |
Tom Allen | Guest |
Lou Sanders | Guest |
Zoe Lyons | Guest |
Mark Watson | Guest |
John Barrowman | Guest |
Jessica Fostekew | Guest |
Shazia Mirza | Guest |
Benjamin Zephaniah | Guest |
Julian White (as Julian the Magnificent) | Self |
James Harkin | Script Editor |
Anna Ptaszynski | Script Editor |
Sandi Toksvig | Script Editor |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Will Bowen | Researcher |
Andrew Hunter Murray | Researcher |
Ed Brooke-Hitching | Researcher |
Mandy Fenton | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Jack Chambers | Researcher |
Emily Jupitus | Researcher |
James Rawson | Researcher |
Ethan Ruparelia | Researcher |
Diccon Ramsay | Director |
John Lloyd (as John Lloyd CBE) | Series Producer |
Piers Fletcher | Producer |
Justin Pollard | Associate Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Nick Collier | Lighting Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |
Sarah Clay | Commissioning Editor |