Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and ...

The QI Annuals are the nearest things to having the hit BBC1 TV show live in your living room. Top comedians and brainiacs, from Stephen Fry and Alan Davies to ...

The indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI .

The noticeably stouter QI Book of General Ignorance sets out to show you ...

In The Book of the Dead you will meet hundreds of Dead People, some well-known, others completely obscure, organised into 42 short chapters that play merry hell with the usual ...

The third great QI Annual written, drawn, photographed and lavishly blu-tacked together by the many writers, performers and brains from the BBC1 TV series, including: Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Rowan ...

Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you’ve never heard of?

It’s a shame because a really ...

Welcome to the QI Zoo ...

Albatrosses can fly non-stop for ten years
Box jellyfish have twenty-four eyes but no bottom
Worms get addicted to nicotine

From the bestselling writers of ...

Purcell was the greatest ornament of English music in the seventeenth century, and has been a source of inspiration for British composers ever since. Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and Peter ...

The festive fiefdom of QI follows last year’s estimable ‘E’ Annual with a farrago of ‘F’-themed fabulousness. Filled with the fabrications of Fry and friends, it’s a ...

Everything you think you know is wrong!

Henry VIII had six wives. WRONG!

Everest is the highest mountain in the world. WRONG!

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. WRONG!

A ...

Imagine an edition of The Guinness Book of Records selected by a panel of stand-up comedians . . . The QI Annual 2008 is packed with original contributions from Stephen Fry, Alan Davies ...

Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that ...

A humungous holdall of hedonistic humour, histrionic hairsplitting and highbrow head-candy.

Featuring cartoons, jokes, facts and games from Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Phill Jupitus, Jo Brand, Clive Anderson, Rowan Atkinson ...

Everything you think you know is wrong ... Listen and learn! The number-one bestseller is now available in audio. Impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument.

Henry VIII ...

A comprehensive and humiliating catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge', which will make you wonder why anyone ever bothers to go to school.

If you ...

Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have ...

The iconic bestselling comedy classic The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd has been continuously in print for three decades. To mark its 30th anniversary Faber will ...