QI: The Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

*** Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great. STEPHEN FRY *** I'm an avid fan of QI the television series. I've watched all four seasons so far on television, most of the episodes more than once thanks to BBC4 and BBC2 repeats and of course UKTV G2. I ordered season one on DVD from Amazon together with this book. A gift voucher received a little while back enabled me to purchase both, the DVD box set AND the book accompanying ...
...the hardback edition by Faber was £5.20, however, upon checking prices you now have to pay £6.50. I had hoped to get it cheaper at Tesco but this time round they were not the cheapest (£9.95 in store). But even if you order from Amazon now, it's still only half price as RRP is £12.99. ~~~ What colour is water? ~~~ … Not clear or transparent, if that's what you thought. "The Book of General Ignorance" is often mistakenly accredited to Stephen Fry ...

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This review is on QI: the Book of General Ignorance, written by John Mitchinson along with John Lloyd. This book came about as a result of a show on BBC called QI, which has been hosted by the one and only Stephen Fry (or whatever else it is that you may think about him!). This book tells you all about a whole host of different topics, and tells you the things that you never knew about that topic because you always assumed that you knew the opposite. ...
...mean. The things that you find out about are the kinds of things that you don't want to be told by some snotty kid, who think that they know better than you because daddy is something quite high up. Out of the 230 in the book, take these short examples as something to whet your appetite to see what I mean: The fact that you don't have two nostrils, but four - it is only that you can only see the two external ones! Think of fish, and you have got ...

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I cannot drive - I find it too expensive, and I was put off during a go-karting accident when I was 15. It set on fire with me in it, and the proprietor of the circuit blamed me! It was a very frightening experience which opened an exciting prospect up for me. The prospect of catching trains. When travelling by train, I read a newspaper, tabloid, generally, as the pages in broadsheets are far too big for me to hold, and I would need to lay on the ...
...to music through my mobile phone - at the moment however, Orange are being extremely inefficient and have problems with their activation keys, for downloaded songs. If I'm feeling flush, I will buy a book - normally a fiction book; Nick Hornby and Mark Haddon being favourites of mine. They are good to read on public transport as it gives you something to do and stops you from falling asleep, which I have done once on a train, and woke up when the ...

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Those readers familiar with the ever-unpredictable BBC series will already have an idea what to expect from this, but for those who aren't - or haven't read this book - I'll mention that first rule of approaching anything QI related - "Everything you think you know is wrong". Many, many years ago, my gran gave me a little book by the Readers' Digest called fact or fiction which explored common myths and misconceptions such as "If it rains on St. ...
...The QI book is a little like a new millennium version of that book but more accessible and entertaining in content. Trick questions and obscure trivia abound - ever wondered what the proper name is for a female goldfish? Have a look in this book. I didn't buy this for myself - I asked for it as a Christmas present - so I'm not sure exactly what it cost, but I have loved the slightly quirky, irreverent and often wandering-down-the-garden-path feel ...

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This is a book like i have never read before. I'm usually a fiction-reader myself, but i came across this and i bought it, just to see what it was like. I started to read, and i was very intrigued. I actually couldn't believe how ignorant i was! I thought that; Henry the Eighth had 6 wives, which he didn't; i thought a goldfish has a three-second memory, which is incorrect; and i thought Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, which is false ...
...wrong people can be. On reciting some facts from the book, my partner actually didn't believe it, and that shows how ignorant people can be! Some of the facts in this book are everyday things that you think you know, and some are a little less known, but there are always people who think they know! But they don't! This book is also great for conversation, an ice-breaker. "Did you know...", as most people would think they know the answer, but you ...

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A fantastic book that accompanies the TV series wonderfully well. This book contains the many General Ignorance questions that were asked throughout the series, and gives a more detailed explanation of the true answers. While it shares many formats to other quiz books that have been released this year, it is far more interesting by far. The book is formatted very professionally. The questions are easily distinguishable from the answers. Although ...

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I love the TV series of QI. Probably my favourite show on TV. And this book may not be quite as funny but it is certainly very entertaining. There are hundreds of things in here you thought you know but really you don't. It is incredibly interesting the sort of things that are in here. What really annoys me is the reviews which say 'Everything that you never needed to know' because some of the things in here are really quite useful to know. Being ...

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