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Funny You Should Ask . . .
The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask why...? With an introduction from Zoe Ball. The QI Elves are the clever clogs behind the hit panel show QI. 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?
What's the point of snot?
Why does my pizza taste so much better the next morning?
Why do dads make such bad jokes?
Why am I a capital letter and you're not?
Why is there an Essex, a Wessex, a Sussex but no Nossex?
Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?
Why aren't unicorns called unihorns?
Do cats get goosebumps?
When does a rock become an island?
Why don't clouds freeze?
Can I live forever?
If spiders can walk on the ceiling why can't they get out of the bath?
What's the point of snot?
Why does my pizza taste so much better the next morning?
Why do dads make such bad jokes?
Why am I a capital letter and you're not?
Why is there an Essex, a Wessex, a Sussex but no Nossex?
Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?
Why aren't unicorns called unihorns?
Do cats get goosebumps?
When does a rock become an island?
Why don't clouds freeze?
Can I live forever?
Book Details
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publish Date: Aug 24th, 2021
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.10in - 0.70in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9780571369058
- Categories: • Form - Trivia• Trivia
About the Author
Elves, Qi: - 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.
Praise for this book
I love these books - these are like factoids on steroids ... Brilliant. -- Chris Evans Fascinating ... The answers to the questions you never even thought to ask. -- Daily Mail Intriguing, hilarious and downright surprising little nuggets of information. -- Daily Mirror Funny You Should Ask...[...] is by my reckoning the 17th book released under the [QI] banner so far. It's also one of the best ... it's both genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating. -- Spectator
PRAISE FOR QI QI at its best is sort of what television is about ... when I watch the show when I'm - you know when I'm not on it - I'll watch it and you find it's just time spent in good company. -- Jimmy Carr We, generally, as people, humans, retain far more information than we're actually aware of on a daily basis. And what this programme does, is actually by a series of sort of randomly opening doors and switching on and off of synapses unlocks all this information that hitherto you probably didn't even know you knew. Bill Bailey