1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off

by John Lloyd

  Solar 1, 2;

  songbird 1;

  songs 1, 2, 3, 4;

  soup 1, 2;

  soy 1;

  Spanish 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  spanners 1, 2;

  sparrows 1, 2;

  speed 1, 2, 3, 4;

  speeding 1;

  sperm 1, 2;

  spiders 1, 2;

  spies 1;

  spine 1;

  sponge 1;

  spoons 1, 2;

  sprouts 1;

  squid 1;

  squirrels 1, 2;

  stagecoach 1;

  Stalin 1, 2, 3;

  Stallone 1;

  stamps 1, 2;

  Starbucks 1;

  stars 1, 2, 3;

  statistics 1;

  stations 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7;

  steel 1;

  stomachs 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Stonehenge 1;

  storks 1;

  strawberries 1, 2;

  streets 1, 2;

  stuffing 1;

  styrofoam 1;

  submarines 1, 2;

  sugar 1, 2;

  suicide 1, 2;

  sun 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;

  sunflower 1;

  sunlight 1, 2;

  Sunny 1;

  superbugs 1;

  supermarkets 1;

  supertankers 1;

  swans 1, 2, 3, 4;

  swearing 1, 2, 3;

  Swedish 1, 2;

  sweetcorn 1;

  swimming 1, 2, 3;

  swine 1;

  syphilis 1

  tadpoles 1;

  tarmac 1;

  taste 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  tax 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  taxhavens 1;

  taxi 1;

  tea 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  tea-cosy 1;

  teachers 1, 2, 3;

  teeth 1, 2, 3;

  telegrams 1;

  telephones 1, 2, 3, 4;

  tennis 1;

  testes 1;

  thalidomide 1;

  Thatcher 1, 2;

  thieves 1;

  thigh 1;

  thrashing 1;

  thrush 1;

  thumbscrew 1;

  Thunderbirds 1;

  Tibet 1;

  tiepins 1;

  ties 1, 2;

  tigers 1, 2, 3;

  time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25;

  tins 1;

  Tintin 1;

  tiramisu 1;

  titin 1;

  TNT 1;

  toast 1;

  toasters 1;

  tobacco 1, 2;

  toenails 1;

  toes 1;

  toilet 1, 2;

  Tonto 1;

  toothbrush 1, 2;

  torture 1;

  Tourette’s 1;

  towels 1;

  towers 1, 2, 3;

  towns 1, 2, 3, 4;

  trains 1, 2, 3, 4;

  translation 1;

  trash 1;

  trees 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Tree 1;

  triangles 1;

  trolley 1;

  trombone 1;

  Trotsky 1;

  trousers 1;

  Trust 1;

  tuberculosis 1;

  tunnels 1;

  Turkey 1;

  Turkish 1, 2, 3;

  turnstiles 1;

  TV 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  tweets 1;

  Twinings 1;

  twit 1;

  Twitter 1, 2;

  typewriters 1;

  typist 1;

  tyres 1

  umbrellas 1;

  Underground 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  underpants 1, 2, 3;

  universe 1, 2, 3, 4;

  universities 1, 2, 3, 4;

  uranium 1;

  Uranus 1;

  urine 1, 2, 3, 4

  vaginas 1;

  Valentine 1;

  vampires 1;

  Vaseline 1;

  Vatican 1, 2, 3, 4;

  vegans 1;

  vegetables 1, 2;

  vegetarians 1, 2, 3;

  vending 1;

  Venus 1;

  Viagra 1, 2;

  Victoria 1, 2;

  Victorians 1, 2,3, 4;

  VIPs 1;

  Virgins 1, 2;

  viruses 1;

  Vlad 1;

  voles 1;

  voting 1, 2;

  vultures 1, 2;

  vuvuzela 1

  waffles 1;

  Wagamama 1;

  Wales 1, 2;

  walkie-talkie 1;

  wallet 1;

  wallpaper 1, 2, 3;

  Warhol 1;

  wars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;

  wart 1;

  washerwoman 1;

  wasps 1;

  water 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;

  Waterloo 1, 2;

  Waynes 1, 2, 3;

  weather 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  weddings 1, 2, 3, 4;

  weight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  Welsh 1, 2, 3;

  whales 1, 2, 3;

  Wheat 1;

  wheelbarrow 1;

  Whippy 1;

  whistling 1;

  Wikipedia 1;

  windows 1, 2, 3, 4;

  wire 1;

  witches 1;

  wives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  wombs 1, 2, 3;

  wombats 1;

  woodpecker 1;

  Warcraft 1;

  worms 1, 2, 3, 4;

  wrists 1, 2;

  WTF 1;

  WW1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  WW1 2, 3, 4

  yellow 1;

  YouTube 1

  Zeus 1;

  zinc 1;

  zoos 1, 2

  About the Authors

  John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and the man who devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio and Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder for television. His favourite page is 2.

  John Mitchinson, QI’s Director of Research, has been both bookseller and publisher and looked after authors as diverse as Haruki Murakami, The Beatles and a woman who knitted with dog hair. His favourite page is 306.

  James Harkin, QI’s Senior Researcher, has a maths and physics degree, a dark past as an accountant for a chain of pubs and is nicknamed ‘Turbo’ for his phenomenal work rate. His favourite page is 38.

  By the Same Authors

  THE BOOK OF GENERAL IGNORANCE

  THE SECOND BOOK OF GENERAL IGNORANCE

  THE BOOK OF ANIMAL IGNORANCE

  ADVANCED BANTER: THE QI BOOK OF QUOTATIONS

  THE QI BOOK OF THE DEAD

  THE QI ‘E’ ANNUAL

  THE QI ‘F’ ANNUAL

  THE QI ‘G’ ANNUAL

  THE QI ‘H’ ANNUAL

  also by John Lloyd (with Douglas Adams)

  THE MEANING OF LIFF

  THE DEEPER MEANING OF LIFF

  Copyright

  First published in 2012

  by Faber and Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  This ebook edition first published in 2012

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  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  ISBN 978–0–571–29795–5

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