1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop
1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop
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Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, this title returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten: it is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit; Wagner always wore pink silk underwear; and, Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie.
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1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd
EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW 'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans 1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin is packed with even more fascinating facts. Whilst you're bending over to grab your socks following the succes of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, don't forget pick up your jaw as the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Did you know that: Pigs suffer from anorexia. It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit. The first computer mouse was made of wood. Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. J. K Rowling has no middle name. If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on QI's website.
John Lloyd devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and now runs Unbound. 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780571308941 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571308945 |
| Title | 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop |
| Author | John Lloyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2013-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |