QI : The Second Book of General Ignorance : Now 13.51% more ignorant

QI : The Second Book of General Ignorance : Now 13.51% more ignorant
ISBN: 9780571290727
Publication Date: 1 October 2012

At last in a TV tie-in edition! The sequel to the phenomenal international best-seller The Book of General Ignorance, with, as ever, a foreword by Stephen Fry.

Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do?

John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, the brains behind QI, here present a wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating and mind-bending facts, taking on the popular General Ignorance round from BBC1's top rated quiz and the first book in the best-selling series.

And whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong.

About the Authors

John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. If pressed, he'd concur with Heraclitus : 'abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.'

John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.