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Funny You Should Ask...

By: The QI Elves, James Harkin, Anne Miller, James Rawson
Narrated by: John Lloyd, The QI Elves, James Rawson, Anne Miller, James Harkin
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Summary

EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW

The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE BALL
Pre-order the next book in this series, 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions, published in paperback on 3rd November.
'QI have outdone themselves!' ALAN DAVIES
'Fabulous . . . A cracker of a book!' SUE PERKINS
'The QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant.' ZOE BALL
'Genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating.' THE SPECTATOR
'Hilarious.' DAILY MAIL

The QI Elves are the brains behind the enduringly popular BBC TV panel show QI.

Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of BBC Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners.

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 listening 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?

Why do dads make such bad jokes?

Why does red mean 'stop' and green mean 'go'?

Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?

How do plant seeds know which way is up?

Can you fill up a black hole?

Who popularised the recorder, and where can I get hold of them?

©2020 QI Elves (P)2020 Faber & Faber
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Critic reviews

'QI have outdone themselves!' ALAN DAVIES

'Fabulous . . . A cracker of a book!' SUE PERKINS

'The QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant.' ZOE BALL

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great listen, if you like Qi you will love this also worth listening to the podcast no such thing as a fish

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All those questions you never thought to ask

Thoroughly enjoyable, listened to it in one sitting, learned lots of little tid bits I never knew I wanted to learn!

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Funny and very Inter

Easy listening with fun facts which you can use in every day life for fun

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loved it, easy listen and interesting!

Basically all ages will enjoy this as it is fun and interesting... many bits of which I didn't know!

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Excellent!!

What a great listen! Just like the QI show and the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, if you love learning about new, interesting and fascinating things in a fun way, this is perfect for you! I’m going to listen to the second one right away! :)

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A great interesting book

full of interesting facts, if you are a fan of QI or No Such Thing as a Fish you will love this.

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much fun

it was so much fun listening to, I might even listen to it again.

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Love it!

Can always rely on the QI Elves to produce funny and interesting content! I am a fan of all their books and shows.

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Great fun facts for easy reading or listening

Great alternative to my usual book of the year. It is perfect listening for the dailey commute. I arrive to work every day with slightly more knowledge than yesterday.

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A solid book interspersed with horrendous sounds.

Babies crying? Recorders being played badly? Loud chewing? Why would you put these sounds in audiobooks? Every gap between chapters seemed to contain some sound designed to irritate or annoy.

The book is exactly what I expected and didn't disappoint. Fans of No Such Thing As A Fish will love it. Chock full of weird and wonderful questions that people have always wondered about.

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