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QI Fact of the Day
8% of the population of California claim to have been abducted by aliens.
QI Quote of the Day
“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
EDWARD ABBEY (1927-89)
Sudo N'Ko answer
If you're baffled by the Sudo N'Ko puzzle in the 'G' QI Annual, or if you finished it ages ago and simply want to check your answer, click here to see the completed puzzle. No cheating now!
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Americans need us!
After the success of our online petition to have Series 1 released on DVD, we're following it up with another - this time to get QI shown in America. Read more.
QI in the Telegraph
QI now has a regular column in the weekend Telegraph. You can find a mix of letter-based facts and short essays that show 'the scenic route' through everything that's quite interesting.
Daily feed
RSS feeds for QI can be found here.
What is an RSS feed? You'll be wanting a news reader...
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The QI Qibble Blog
The trusty QI researchers or Elves have been known to make the odd small mistake. Our viewers and readers are never shy about letting us know when that happens, and we are always pleased to learn more so we've decided to collect together the most common 'quibbles', along with official responses from the elves responsible, in our new Qibble Blog.
QI: The BBC TV Show
The new series of QI (all things 'G'), is currently broadcasting on BBC1 on Friday nights with "XL" repeats the following Saturday on BBC2. As usual, older series can still be seen regularly on Dave or purchased in DVD format.
The QI Talk Forum
If you're bursting with questions - or answers - come in and join the QI Talk Forum where you can chat with like-minded people. You'll be quite interested to discover that the exact opposite of what is generally believed is often closer to the truth.
The QI Shop
If you want QI in three dimensions, there is a rather diverting range of books, games, DVDs and gewgaws available in our online Shop.
QI on Twitter
At Stephen's suggestion, QI has created its own account on twitter.com. We'll be serving up a daily helping of interestingness so why not come over and see what we're tweeting about. You can find us at: http://twitter.com/qikipedia
Quite Interesting
Have you ever wondered what you should be doing with your life? What it's all about? We have too. And that's why QI exists - to satisfy our curiosity about... well, everything. It's all Quite Interesting if you look at it in the right way.
NEW FROM QI THIS AUTUMN
The new G TV series started in late November on a Thursday night on BBC1...
Plus...
The QI Book of the Dead
The QI Book of the Dead compares and contrasts the different ways individual human beings cope (or fail to cope) with the curves that the universe throws at us. Collected into themed chapters such as 'There's Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life', 'Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone' and 'Is That All There Is?' here is a chance to share the secrets of the Dead, to celebrate their wisdom, to learn from their mistakes, and to marvel at their bad taste in clothes.
"The man who is not dead still has a chance."
LEBANESE PROVERB
The 'G' QI Annual
A gallimaufry of G-ness featuring all our QI favourites.
Advanced Banter in paperback....
"Five years of learning how to avoid the dull stuff have left the QI team in a uniquely good position to deliver this elusive holy grail: the big, useful, funny and really very good book of quotations."
IF IGNORANCE IS BLISS
"A book with perhaps the best title ever" - USA Today
The American version of Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations is now available in the USA, where it goes by the punchy new name IF IGNORANCE IS BLISS, WHY AREN'T THERE MORE HAPPY PEOPLE?
Follow this link to hear Lloyd and Mitchinson interviewed on NPR (National Public Radio) on Liane Hansen's 'Weekend Edition' 23rd August 2009.
Follow this link to read the excellent review on the USA Today website.
You can buy a copy from Amazon here in the UK
If it were not for quotations, conversation between gentlemen would consist of an endless succession of "what-ho!s".
-- PG WODEHOUSE
News from QI
A list of the latest Quite Interesting things going on in the world of QI
QI lands in Australia!
Series 6, all things F, has started screening on Tuesday evenings on ABC at 9.30pm.
Thank you to all the QI followers for writing and emailing support for the programme.
Here is the trailer going out on ABC to announce the show.
John Lloyd on TED.com
Nature's mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen.
QI Talk on YouTube
A film crew recorded the talk by QI's John Lloyd and John Mitchinson which took place on 17th April this year at Wootton Village Hall in Oxfordshire.
An 11-minute version, filmed and edited by Jess Reid (picture researcher on QI), is now available on YouTube.
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