The Third QI Book of General Ignorance

The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate frogs' legs? Which cat never changes its spots? What did Lady Godiva do? What can you legally do if you come across a Welshman in Chester after sunset?

About the author

John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. If pressed, he'd concur with Heraclitus: 'abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.'John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and now runs Unbound. He's with Einstein: 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.Andrew Hunter Murray writes for QI and Private Eye magazine, and co-presents No Such Thing As A Fish.

Product details

• Authors: James Harkin, James et al Harkin, Harkin James, Joh Lloyd, John Lloyd, Joh Mitchinson, John Mitchinson, Mitchinson John, Andrew Hunter Murray, Murray Andrew Hunter
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780571309016
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30901-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Learning aids/university-entrance diploma theory > Reference works; Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Miscellaneous; HUMOR / General, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Trivia, Media tie-in humour