Funny You Should Ask . . . - by Qi Elves (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The QI Elves are the clever clogs behind the hit panel show QI.

Dive into this splendid collection of listeners' unusual questions and some unexpected answers that are sure to make your head spin on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between. Generously sprinkled with extra facts and questions from the Elves, Funny You Should Ask . . . is essential reading for the incurably curious.

How much water would you need to put out the Sun?
If spiders can walk on the ceiling why can't they get out of the bath?
What's the point of snot?
Why does my pizza taste so much better the next morning?
Why do dads make such bad jokes?
Why am I a capital letter and you're not?
Why is there an Essex, a Wessex, a Sussex but no Nossex?
Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?
Why aren't unicorns called unihorns?
Do cats get goosebumps?
When does a rock become an island?
Why don't clouds freeze?
Can I live forever?

Review Quotes

QI at its best is sort of what television is about ... when I watch the show when I'm - you know when I'm not on it - I'll watch it and you find it's just time spent in good company. -- Jimmy Carr

We, generally, as people, humans, retain far more information than we're actually aware of on a daily basis. And what this programme does, is actually by a series of sort of randomly opening doors and switching on and off of synapses unlocks all this information that hitherto you probably didn't even know you knew. Bill Bailey

I love these books - these are like factoids on steroids ... Brilliant. -- Chris Evans

Fascinating ... The answers to the questions you never even thought to ask. -- Daily Mail

Intriguing, hilarious and downright surprising little nuggets of information. -- Daily Mirror

Funny You Should Ask...[...] is by my reckoning the 17th book released under the [QI] banner so far. It's also one of the best ... it's both genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating. -- Spectator