Funny You Should Ask . . . (eBook)

The QI Elves (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-36338-4 (ISBN)

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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

The 'QI Elves' are the team of researchers and writers behind smash hit panel show QI. They have authored the 10,000 Facts series of QI books across seven titles, reached the semi-finals of Only Connect and had over 350 million downloads on their podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. They have appeared on 'The Why Workshop' on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2 for over two years. For more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com or @qikipedia.

Autor

lt;p>The QI Elves are the team of writers and researchers behind BBC Two's smash-hit panel show QI. They have authored the 10,000 Facts series of QI books across seven titles, reached the semi-finals of the BBC quiz show Only Connect and had over 250 million listens on their podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish. For more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com or @qikipedia.

Zoe Ball is the current and first female host of the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. After presenting the much-lauded Live & Kicking on the BBC, she was also the first woman to front the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. An avid film buff, Zoe interviews all the top stars for BAFTA's Red Carpet and presents SKY's exclusive coverage of the OSCARs. Zoe can also be seen providing the nation with behind the scenes Strictly gossip on her weekday show, It Takes Two on BBC2.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Schlagworte: Alan Davies • BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show • GCHQ Puzzle Book Guinness Book of World Records Ripley's Believe It or Not! The A-Z of Pointless The Great book of British Useless Information • James Harkin James Rawson Anne Miller John Lloyd • NO SUCH THING AS A FISH • Qi • quite interesting • Stephen Fry • Stephen Fry Alan Davies Sandi Toksvig Zoe Ball • The QI Elves • Zoe Ball
• ISBN-10: 0-571-36338-5 / 0571363385
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-36338-4 / 9780571363384