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QI

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.

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Series V - QI VG: Part II

A further selection of the best moments from the V series, hosted by Sandi Toksvig, with Alan Davies and their guests struggling to come up with the most interesting answers.

Topics

- New Material Veggies Tangent: Holly Walsh's necklace interferes with her microphone.

- Best Bit Variety: Using an orange to burst a balloon.

- Best Bit Vets: The Japanese water scavenger beetle.

- Best Bit Victory: The ideal volume of urine to put into wine.

- Best Bit Vintage Tangent: The ancient Minoan V-neck.

- Best Bit Vulgar: Why was Vespasian like Elvis?

- Best Bit Vices and Virtues Tangent: Eshaan Akbar has never placed a bet.

- Best Bit Vulgar Tangent: How Vespasian made money.

- Best Bit Visionaries Tangent: The fashion for mouche.

- Best Bit Visual Tangent: Sandi and Alan talk about kitchen gadgets.

- Best Bit Very Varied: What does a vicar do in the jungle?

- Best Bit Viral Tangent: Where does Vaseline comes from?

- Best Bit Very Varied Tangent: Sticky rice in the Great Wall of China.

- New Material Vintage Tangent: Journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Vine rides a penny farthing bike, and almost died falling off it.

- Best Bit Very Varied: The definition of a brass instrument.

- Best Bit Voyaging Tangent: Nabil Abdulrashid once got chased by a crocodile.

- Best Bit Vocal Tangent: William Shatner once starred in a film in Esperanto.

- Best Bit Variety Tangent: Bob Monkhouse once had trouble with a sperm donation.

- Best Bit Volatile: How near do you have to be to fire at point-blank range?

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 17th February 2025
Time
10pm
Channel
BBC Two
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Sandi Toksvig Host / Presenter
Alan Davies Regular Panellist
Guest cast
Jo Brand Guest
Gyles Brandreth Guest
Jimmy Carr Guest
Jack Dee Guest
Ross Noble Guest
Susan Calman Guest
Sara Pascoe Guest
Josh Widdicombe Guest
Aisling Bea Guest
Cariad Lloyd Guest
Rhod Gilbert Guest
Nish Kumar Guest
Joe Lycett Guest
Sally Phillips Guest
Cally Beaton Guest
Desiree Burch Guest
Ed Byrne Guest
Tom Allen Guest
Lou Sanders Guest
Daliso Chaponda Guest
Zoe Lyons Guest
Mark Watson Guest
Maisie Adam Guest
Chris McCausland Guest
Eshaan Akbar Guest
Rosie Jones Guest
Rob Beckett Guest
Nabil Abdulrashid Guest
Judi Love Guest
Kiri Pritchard-McLean Guest
Lara Ricote Guest
Emmanuel Sonubi Guest
Melanie Bracewell Guest
Michelle Wolf Guest
Laura Smyth Guest
Ignacio Lopez Guest
Lulu Guest
Neil Delamere Guest
Rhys James Guest
Writing team
James Harkin Script Editor
Anna Ptaszynski Script Editor
Sandi Toksvig Script Editor
Will Bowen Researcher
Anne Miller Researcher
Mike Turner Researcher
Jack Chambers Researcher
Emily Jupitus Researcher
James Rawson Researcher
Lydia Mizon Researcher
Miranda Brennan Researcher
Tara Dorrell Researcher
Leying Lee Researcher
Manu Henriot Researcher
Joe Mayo Researcher
Lieven Scheire Researcher
Manu Henriot Script Editor
Production team
Ben Hardy Director
Diccon Ramsay Director
Piers Fletcher Series 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
Chris Reid Graphics
Sarah Clay Commissioning Editor

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