222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM ZOE BALL

'Funny and fascinating.' ZOE BALL

From spiders to stinging nettles, bees to boy bands and twins to thermal undies, you'll wonder why these questions hadn't occurred to you before - but you'll never forget the answers and will want to share them with all your friends.

Which lottery numbers should I pick
Is it true that we are made entirely of stardust
Can dogs tell the time
Why do songs get stuck in my head
If Rome wasn't built in a day, how long did it take
How do you wash a raspberry
What is the most expensive thing on Earth
Where is last Wednesday

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 MUCH ANTICPATED FOLLOW-UP TO FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK . . .

'QI have outdone themselves!.' ALAN DAVIES
'A cracker of a book.' SUE PERKINS
'Genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating.' THE SPECTATOR
'Hilarious.' DAILY MAIL

Reviews

"Genuinely interesting." -- Popular Science

"The best trivia book of the season." -- Spectator

Author Bio

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 350 million listens on their podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. They have appeared on 'The Why Workshop' on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 for over two years. 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. @ZoeTheBall