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QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig. Copyright: TalkbackThames
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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Book extract: 46 mind-blowing QI facts

From the hilarious name of one Westminster Abbey cleric to how many cookbooks Theresa May owns, here are just some of the amazing facts found in new book 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over.

The Mirror, 13th October 2017

School kids to be offered QI-style bootcamps

Children are to be offered QI-style "bootcamps" to enthuse them about learning and banish classroom boredom. Trials of the scheme dreamt up by John Lloyd, who devised the hit QI quiz show for television, are to take place in private schools.

Lewis Smith, i Newspaper, 3rd October 2017

The secrets behind the making of QI

TV viewers are baffled and bamboozled by QI's staggering facts. But the secrets behind the making of the quiz show are... Quite Incredible!

The QI team, Daily Mail, 3rd June 2017

The QI boxsets: a pedantic look

As a fan of the show, I was always going to cover this show positively and thus I feel that a straightforward review might be too biased. Therefore, I have decided on a different approach. As the Elves have called me their "chief pedant", and soon they will begin researching Series P, I have decided in good humour to cover both of these boxsets pedantically. Please note that if I do make any mistakes, feel free to pedantically correct me in return.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 27th May 2017

Fry: I'd like to be on QI again; Tom Hanks is a QI fan

Fry, who hosted over 3,000 hours of the much loved programme, also revealed that he was asked to host University Challenge before he accepted the QI job.

Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 10th May 2017

New QI book to Faber

Faber editorial director Laura Hassan acquired world all languages rights to 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over from QI Ltd.

Natasha Onwuemezi, The Bookseller, 5th May 2017

No Such Thing As A Fish announce new tour

The stars behind QI's podcast No Such Thing As A Fish have announced a 2017 live tour.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd March 2017

JK Rowling pleads for mercy after QI Elf got fact wrong

The author has threatened to send a box of socks to the QI Elves if the punishment is not reversed.

Eleanor Bley Griffiths, Radio Times, 22nd February 2017

Alan Davies: I miss Fry, but Toksvig's given QI a boost

Sandi Toksvig might be firmly ensconced in the QI host's chair... but panellist Alan Davies has admitted he still misses her predecessor Stephen Fry.

Morgan Jeffrey, Digital Spy, 20th February 2017

Preview - QI: New

Lots of people were worried when Stephen Fry left QI and replaced by Sandi Toksvig, but over the past few months she has proven to be brilliant at the job.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 10th February 2017

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