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1227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd; John Mitchinson; James Harkin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Humour
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we're also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run a thriving website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iP ...Show more
1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A buffet groaning with mouth-watering nuggets from QI's first ten years.
1,234 Qi Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless. flowers get suntans; Denmark imports prisoners; bees can fly higher than Mount Everest; The Republic of Ireland first got postcodes ...Show more
1411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways by John Lloyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. All new facts! Prepare to be knocked sideways...Orchids can get jetlag. Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie. Lady ...Show more
1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over by John Lloyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.Bees can play football.Cholesterol is good for you.Camels gave humans the common cold.English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness.In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold ...Show more
Afterliff: The New Dictionary of Things There Should Be Words For by John Lloyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Agharoo - A larger-than-life sneeze in a Bollywood comedy, used as the basis for a dance routine. Toames pl - The first furtive touching of toes in bed after a severe row with your partner. Ruswarp - To deliberately write a word unclearly when you don't know how to spell it. Loudwater - A child's strong ...Show more
QI: The Book of the Dead by John Lloyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
'"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless' - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team s ...Show more
QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
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? ...Show more
QI: the Third Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before ...Show more
The Meaning of Liff by John Lloyd; Douglas Adams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art
In Life* there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist.On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing ...Show more
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