QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance

Name: QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780571308989
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By Andrew Hunter Murray and John Lloyd and John Mitchinson and James Harkin

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QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance by Andrew Hunter Murray, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin is a humorous dive into misconceptions and surprising truths about the world. Packed with intriguing facts and amusing insights, each page encourages readers to question what they know and to delight in the unexpected twists of knowledge. It's a joyful exploration designed for those who love learning with a smile.
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QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance

For Christmas 2015 the writers behind the hit TV show QI and international bestsellers return with a brand new book, proving once again that everything you think you know is wrong.

For Christmas 2015 the writers behind the hit TV show QI and international bestsellers return with a brand new book, proving once again that everything you think you know is wrong.

Description

The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the QI's popular 'General Ignorance' round.For the past decade, the QI team have been patiently correcting the myths, misunderstandings and misplaced certainties that go to make up 'general knowledge'. The first Book of General Ignorance, published in 2006, became an instant international bestseller and has been translated into 29 languages. The Second Book of General Ignorance in 2010 set the record straight on hundreds more areas of everyday wrongness. Now, the QI team returns to complete the trilogy. The Third Book of General ignorance gathers together 180 more questions to which the answers all seem perfectly obvious. Some have appeared in the BBC TV programme's 'General Ignorance' round, but many appear here for the first time. What they prove, beyond all reasonable doubt, is that none of us know anything at all. The largest pyramid isn't in EgyptThe Nile isn't the world's longest riverThe Himalayas aren't the longest mountain range'Jingle Bells' wasn't written for ChristmasWhalebone isn't made of whale boneMost deserts aren't made from sandThe ozone layer isn't made of ozoneCowboys didn't wear StetsonsAll snakes are venomousNot all fish live in water

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571308989

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 October 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 164.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 551g

Pages: 320

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Andrew Hunter Murray Fiction Humour James Harkin John Lloyd John Mitchinson

About the Author

John Lloyd devised The News Quiz, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. John Mitchinson is the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell and now runs Unbound.