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 6
- Catch-up on Series V, Episode 5
- Streaming rank this week: 150
Episode menu
Series U - QI VG: Part II
Topics
- Ultras Best Bit: How to identify an ultra marathon runner by their feet.
- Upside-down Best Bit: Is this artwork upside-down?
- All I Want For Christmas Is U Best Bit Tangent: Diving horses.
- University Best Bit Tangent: How the father of dissection hid what he was up to.
- Uncle Sam Best Bit: The original name for the Boston Tea Party.
- Underground & Underwater New Material Tangent: Zoe Lyons's favourite thing to see when diving is the porcupine fish. Zoe says that puffer fish can only puff up three times, and then they cannot deflate. This leads Zoe to ask if you get prankster puffer fish, tricking other puffer fish to inflate when they don't need to. She also adds that when the fish is inflated, they cannot swim properly, and dolphins start to play with them. However, the Elves check out all this information, and it is not true at all.
- Uncle Sam Best Bit: Pringles are not technically potato chips.
- Upbringing Best Bit Tangent: Getting Egyptian mummies to speak.
- 'U' Animals New Material Tangent: Rhod Gilbert was told while walking his dog that if you hear an owl going "twit-twoo", it is actually two owls, one calling to the other. This is true, but Rhod still refuses to believe it.
- Unrelated Best Bit: Being unceremoniously buttbuttinated.
- Ulex Best Bit Tangent: What makes someone creepy.
- United Best Bit Tangent: Bill Bailey playing an allegory of Hitler.
- Ultras Best Bit Tangent: Problems when using ultrasound on animals.
- Upsadaisy Best Bit Tangent: Pope Leo X's white elephant.
- Unsavoury Best Bit: The unsavoury behaviour of English monkeys.
- Underthings New Tangent: The world's tallest church, Ulm Minster in Germany, took more than 500 years to build.
- Unsavoury Best Bit: More about the unsavoury behaviour of English monkeys.
- Ufology Best Bit: What would happen to your body temperature if you were ejected into space without a spacesuit on?
- Upsadaisy Best Bit: Aimon Koivunen, the Finnish soldier who overdose on methamphetamines.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 17th May 2024
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Sandi Toksvig | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Bill Bailey | Guest |
Jo Brand | Guest |
Gyles Brandreth | Guest |
Jimmy Carr | Guest |
David Mitchell | Guest |
Jack Dee | Guest |
Jason Manford | Guest |
Sara Pascoe | Guest |
Josh Widdicombe | Guest |
Victoria Coren Mitchell | Guest |
Aisling Bea | Guest |
Cariad Lloyd | Guest |
Rhod Gilbert | Guest |
Romesh Ranganathan | Guest |
Holly Walsh | Guest |
Nish Kumar | Guest |
Joe Lycett | Guest |
Sally Phillips | Guest |
Cally Beaton | Guest |
Bridget Christie | Guest |
Tom Allen | Guest |
Lou Sanders | Guest |
Daliso Chaponda | Guest |
Zoe Lyons | Guest |
Maisie Adam | Guest |
Chris McCausland | Guest |
Justin Moorhouse | Guest |
Eshaan Akbar | Guest |
Rosie Jones | Guest |
Ahir Shah | Guest |
Guz Khan | Guest |
Urzila Carlson | Guest |
Nabil Abdulrashid | Guest |
Judi Love | Guest |
Kiri Pritchard-McLean | Guest |
Kemah Bob | Guest |
Alex Edelman | Guest |
Jordan Gray | Guest |
Tom Ward | Guest |
Lara Ricote | Guest |
Emmanuel Sonubi | Guest |
Morgana Robinson | Guest |
Josh Pugh | Guest |
Aaron Simmonds | Guest |
Dan Tiernan | Guest |
James Harkin | Script Editor |
Anna Ptaszynski | Script Editor |
Sandi Toksvig | Script Editor |
Will Bowen | Researcher |
Andrew Hunter Murray | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Jack Chambers | Researcher |
Emily Jupitus | Researcher |
James Rawson | Researcher |
Lydia Mizon | Researcher |
Miranda Brennan | Researcher |
Tara Dorrell | Researcher |
Henry Eliot | Researcher |
Leying Lee | Researcher |
Manu Henriot | Researcher |
Joe Mayo | Researcher |
Ben Hardy | Director |
Diccon Ramsay | Director |
Piers Fletcher | Producer |
John Lloyd | Executive Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Gemma O'Sullivan | Lighting Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |
Aran Kharpal | Graphics |
Helen Ringer | Graphics |
Oli Richards | Lighting Designer |
Sarah Clay | Commissioning Editor |