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1,411 qi facts John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and the man who devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio and Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder for television. His favourite page is 213. John Mitchinson, QI’s Director of Research, has been both bookseller and publisher and looked after authors as diverse as Haruki Murakami, The Beatles and a woman who knitted with dog hair. His favourite page is 26. James Harkin, QI’s Senior Researcher, has a maths and physics degree, a dark past as an accountant for a chain of pubs and is nicknamed ‘Turbo’ for his phenomenal work rate. His favourite page is 83. by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson & James Harkin 1,227 qi facts to blow your socks off 1,339 qi facts to make your jaw drop by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson the book of general ignorance the second book of general ignorance the book of animal ignorance advanced banter: the qi book of quotations the qi book of the dead edited by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson the qi ‘e’ annual the qi ‘f’ annual the qi ‘g’ annual the qi ‘h’ annual by John Lloyd & Douglas Adams the meaning of liff the deeper meaning of liff by John Lloyd & Jon Canter afterliff a quite interesting book 1,411 QI FACTS to knock you sideways Compiled by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson & James Harkin with the QI Elves Anne Miller, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski & Alex Bell First published in 2014 by Faber and Faber Ltd Bloomsbury House 74–77 Great Russell Street London wc1b 3da Typeset by Ian Bahrami Printed in England by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon cr0 4yy All rights reserved © QI Ltd, 2014 The right of QI Ltd to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library isbn 978–0–571–00000–0 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Contents Introduction vii 1,411 Facts 1 A Note on Sources 337 Index 339 [ v ] Introduction To come [ vii ] Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. edmund burke (1729–1797)
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