Funny You Should Ask . . .: Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves

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'QI have outdone themselves!' ALAN DAVIES 'Fabulous . . . answers all the questions you never knew you needed the answers to. A cracker of a book!' SUE PERKINS 'The QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant. Everything in this book reminds us of the extraordinary science, nature, history, humanity and everyday wonders that surround us.' ZOE BALL 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 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? 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? For more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com. You can also follow QI's fact-filled Twitter account @qikipedia and listen to their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com

The QI Elves are the team of writers and researchers behind BBC Two's smash-hit panel show QI. They have authored the 10,000 Facts series of QI books across seven titles, reached the semi-finals of the BBC quiz show Only Connect and had over 250 million listens on their podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish. For more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com or @qikipedia. Zoe Ball is the current and first female host of the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. After presenting the much-lauded Live & Kicking on the BBC, she was also the first woman to front the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. An avid film buff, Zoe interviews all the top stars for BAFTA's Red Carpet and presents SKY's exclusive coverage of the OSCARs. Zoe can also be seen providing the nation with behind the scenes Strictly gossip on her weekday show, It Takes Two on BBC2.

PRAISE FOR QI 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