Funny You Should Ask . . .
- Author QI Elves
- Narrator Anne Miller, James Harkin, James Rawson, John Lloyd, QI Elves
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Publish Date 13 October 2020
- Run Time 4 hours and 42 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Trivia and quiz questions.
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What to expect
EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY
QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI -
IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW
The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE BALL
Pre-order the next book in this series,
222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions, published in paperback on 3rd November.
'QI have outdone themselves!'
ALAN DAVIES
'Fabulous . . . A cracker of a book!'
SUE PERKINS
'The QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant.'
ZOE BALL
'Genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating.'
THE SPECTATOR
'Hilarious.'
DAILY MAIL
The QI Elves are the brains behind the enduringly popular BBC TV panel show
QI.
Every Wednesday the Elves appear on
The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of BBC Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners.
Dive into this splendid collection of listeners' unusual questions and some unexpected answers that are sure to make your head spin on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between. Generously sprinkled with extra facts and questions from the Elves,
Funny You Should Ask . . . is essential reading for the incurably curious.
How much water would you need to put out the Sun?
If spiders can walk on the ceiling, why can't they get out of the bath?
Why do dads make such bad jokes?
Why does red mean 'stop' and green mean 'go'?
Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?
How do plant seeds know which way is up?
Can you fill up a black hole?
Who popularised the recorder, and where can I get hold of them?
For more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com. You can also follow QI's fact-filled Twitter account @qikipedia and listen to their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com
For more mind-boggling nuggets of wisdom check out the QI FACTS SERIES
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