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 I - QI VG: Compilation Show 5
Theme
A mixture of new material and the best bits from Series I.
Topics
- Best Bit: International - Jesse Owens being snubbed by FDR.
- Best Bit: Imbroglio - Frank Skinner plays the banjolele.
- Best Bit: Inland Revenue - Harold MacMillan joining the AA.
- Best Bit: I-Spy - Scouting for Boys advice on dealing with the suicidal.
- Best Bit: Incomprehensible Tangent - SatNav voices and Ross Noble on the longest straight road in the world.
- New Material: Inequality Tangent - Patrick Litchfield was once asked to photograph a royal wedding at Hampton Court in which all the crown heads of Europe would attend (the first such photo), except for the elderly and wheelchair-bound Princess Catherine of Greece. When the photo was taken someone wheeled in an old woman on a wheelchair who was visiting the palace, thinking it was Princess Catherine.
- Best Bit: Illumination - Hydrogel beads.
- Best Bit: Incomprehensible - Lettuce on the Titanic.
- Best Bit: I-Spy XL Tangent - The "Durable" Mike Malloy.
- New Material: Ice - If you take two phone books and inter-leaf them, so each page of one book fits between the pages of the other, it is practically impossible for you to pull the two apart because of the friction caused by the pages. You need 8,000lb of force to do it. Alan is only able to do it because he trashes the books around with such force that some of the pages are torn out.
- Best Bit: Indecision - Sexing chicks.
- Best Bit: Inventive XL Tangent - Pig in a poke.
- Best Bit: Infantile - The best hugs.
- Best Bit: Inventive - The panel try ventriloquism.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 16th December 2011
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Stephen Fry | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Bill Bailey | Guest |
Rich Hall | Guest |
Clive Anderson | Guest |
Jimmy Carr | Guest |
Sean Lock | Guest |
Dave Gorman | Guest |
Phill Jupitus | Guest |
Dara O Briain | Guest |
David Mitchell | Guest |
Ronni Ancona | Guest |
Sandi Toksvig | Guest |
Lee Mack | Guest |
Jack Dee | Guest |
Sue Perkins | Guest |
Ross Noble | Guest |
Chris Addison | Guest |
Brian Blessed | Guest |
Brian Cox (as Prof Brian Cox, University of Manchester) | Guest |
Frank Skinner | Guest |
John Bishop | Guest |
Nina Conti | Guest |
Henning Wehn | Guest |
Al Murray | Guest |
John Mitchinson | Question Writer |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Justin Pollard | Question Writer |
James Harkin | Question Writer |
Molly Oldfield | Question Writer |
Will Bowen | Researcher |
Andrew Hunter Murray | Question Writer |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
David Morley (as Dave Morley) | Executive Producer |
Ruby Kuraishe | Executive Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |