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The noticeably stouter QI Book of General Ignorance sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. If, like Alan Davies, you still think the Henry VIII had six wives, the earth has only one moon, that George Washington was the first president of the USA, that Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, that the largest living thing is a blue whale, that Alexander Graeme Bell invented the telephone, that whisky and bagpipes come from Scotland or that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, then there are at least 200 reasons why this is the book for you.
The noticeably stouter QI Book of General Ignorance sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. If, like Alan Davies, you still think the Henry VIII had six wives, the earth has only one moon, that George Washington was the first president of the USA, that Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, that the largest living thing is a blue whale, that Alexander Graeme Bell invented the telephone, that whisky and bagpipes come from Scotland or that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, then there are at least 200 reasons why this is the book for you.
QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson is an essential companion to QI, BBC 2 and BBC 4's highest rated show.
John Lloyd was the producer of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting
Image and Blackadder. He started The News Quiz, Quote . Unquote,
The News Huddlines and To The Manor Born and played a key role in
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Mr Bean, shooting TV
commercials in his spare time. For most of the 1980s he went
without lunch and slept for four hours a night. He won an absurd
number of prizes and got very, very tired.
John Mitchinson started off in publishing where he was the
marketing manager of Waterstone's. Combining his skills with John
Lloyd meant that opening a bookshop in the QI building was
inevitable. John is a man who likes to read, eat and drink, and who
now gets paid to do all three simultaneously.
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