QI (BBC)

QI Quite Interesting, either, is a comic knowledgequiz, conceived and produced by John Lloyd, hosted by Stephen Fry and Alan Davies with fixed panel member. The series is broadcast by the BBC, the first first five seasons on BBC Four and one week later on BBC Two, with the highest viewing figures of BBC Four pulled out. [1]  from the sixth season, the series aired on BBC One, with a day later a longer version of the episode on BBC Two.

The most striking feature of the series is that the points are not awarded on the basis of correctness of the answers, but especially for how interesting they are. Answers that obvious, but wrong, lead to penalty points, mostly for Alan Davies.



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[hide] *Concept 1  ==Concept[ Edit] == The panel consists of four panel members: three varying and a fixed, namely Alan Davies, to the right of "QI-master" Stephen Fry is. Davies has participated to all but one of the episodes. He has 13 episodes to season I won, the highest number of all participants. Because he often the obvious, he often gives wrong answers, ending in last place. The other panelists are usually stand in the Netherlands.
 * 1.1 Buzzers
 * 1.2 General Ignorance
 * 1.3 additional commands
 * 2 Episodes
 * 3 Errors and corrections
 * 4 Prices
 * 5 other media
 * 5.1 Books
 * 5.1.1 The Book of General Ignorance
 * 5.1.2 The Book of Animal Ignorance
 * 5.1.3 The QI Annual ' E '
 * 5.2 Dvds
 * 5.2.1 interactive quizzes
 * 5.2.2 full seasons
 * 6 see also
 * 7 external links

The questions are sometimes misleading and usually very difficult, with obscure answers. The "obvious but wrong" answers cost points, but the panel members are extra humiliated by a loud alarm, where the wrong answer is projected on large screens.

The show assumes that the good answers not given can be, thus giving interesting facts, some deserved to be encouraged. [2]  not entirely relevant discussions are stimulated, allowing guests anecdotes and other stories let off steam. How many points are given and taken away, is determined by the presenter, or in advance by the programme makers, especially if it goes to many points. If someone in an episode on the question "what is the main ingredient of air?" had replied with carbon dioxide, there would be 3,000 points are subtracted. ===Buzzers[ Edit] === Each panellist has a buzzer, with the sound of the other button is often based on a certain theme. These sounds are demonstrated at the beginning of the program, but change sometimes still in the course of the program. Alan Davies buzzer is usually in comical contrast to the other sounds. ===General Ignorance<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As a parody of the many quizzes with General knowledge questions, would the last round of QI "General Ignorance", or "General ignorance". This is a question that seems easy, but all of which have "obvious but wrong" answer. As a result, costs this round the panel members the most points. In the Christmas special of the second season Davies refused to participate in General Ignorance, because he always lost points, and with Christmas not wanted to be humiliated. Fry offered Davies are spot on, after which Davies with his own prepared questions came up, which he founded Fry. This round is deprecated in season 10-J. ===Additional commands<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In some episodes, guests must accomplish an additional task during the episode. The best often gets extra points. Previous jobs included that of drawing a Christmas tree, or a hidden object seek in the course of the show. Another command was a phrase on a plate magnetic letters. Jimmy Carr produced the sentence "Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot."

<p lang="en" len="457" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the fifth season (series "E") contain all episodes the same additional command, called "Elephant in the Room": in every episode had the answer to any of the questions to do with an elephant, and it was up to the guests to the right time their "Elephant in the Room" card to bet.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sometimes there are also additional commands depending on the subject. As there were during the episode about "France" extra points for answers in the French. During the episode "Hoaxes" gave the participants an opportunity to learn a map as they thought they were fooled. They did all this somewhere in the broadcast, but the hoax was that all material was real.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In series "I" there was a "Nobody Knows" card that could be used as it was thought that no one really knows the answer to the question. Also here were given bonus points for. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Each season of QI revolves around a different letter of the alphabet, starting with a. There is therefore usually referred to the seasons with letters instead of numbers. The first season began on 11 september 2003, and consisted of questions around topics who started the A, including a round on people called "Alan". The second season revolved around the letter "B", except for two episodes, about "music" and "color". The seasons D and then took care of one topic in each episode, beginning with the letter the series. Two episodes were won by the public, the episodes "Death" and "England". In this episodes earned more points than the public panel members. ==Errors and corrections<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although most facts from the show are correct, sneaking the occasional glitches in there anyway. Therefore, various facts updated and improved in later seasons. In season A, for example, claimed that the longest animal on Earth was a certain kind of jellyfish, but this was improved in season C, where said was that a certain cord worm the longest animal. The viewers and members of the QI website contact the show to good information. At the end of the third season were there at Dara Ó Briain points deducted for his claim in the second season that the triple point of water is 0 degrees Celsius, for which he got 2 points at the time.Viewers then had written letters in which they said this point was actually at 0.01 degrees. ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fry won the Rose d'Or In 2006 for "best game show host".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="160" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  The British Sitcom Guide QI gave the prize for the best Comedy Quiz Show of 2006.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="160" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  QI is nominated for four BAFTA's. In 2008, the program won theBritish Comedy Award for "Best Comedy Panel Show of 2008".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="160" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  Fry was nominated for "Best Entertainment Performance" three times, in 2004, 2005 and 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BAFTA_6-0" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="160" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">John Lloyd and the Director of the program in 2005, Ian Lorimer, were nominated for the Lew Grade Award<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BAFTA_6-1" len="166" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  In 2007, The Book of General Ignorance, the book of the series, nominated by the British Book Awards in the category "Tv and film book of the year".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="160" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8] ==Other media<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="136" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the QI television broadcasts also enter the world of other media, and has several QI-released books and DVDs. ===Books<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====The Book of General Ignorance<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Book of General Ignorance is Quite Interesting-the first book. The book is based on the round General Ignorance from the TV series and was first published in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2006 at publishing house Faber and Faber.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="160" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  the book is written by producer John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson, with a foreword by Stephen Fry and "Four words" ("Will this do, Stephen?") by Alan Davies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It contains 230 questions and answers, which also includes the "obvious but wrong" answers are called. Many of the questions have already been addressed in the television program, but there are also new at. The book was in december 2006 World-wide best selling product on Amazon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The book was released on August 7, 2007 in the United States, and on October 3, 2007, a French-language version of the book entitled Les autruches ne specialisation pas la tête dans le sable: 200 bonnes raisons de renoncer à nos certitudes. On 1 november 2007, the book was published in Dutch, under the title the big book of false facts. The official website of QI is pleased to announce that the book will be released soon in 23 countries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11] ====The Book of Animal Ignorance<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A year after the first book The Book of Animal Ignorance came from in the United Kingdom, on 4 October 2007, again at publishing house Faber and Faber. It is a "bestiary for the 21st century",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  and contains virtually all new "quite interesting" facts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ai_shop_13-0" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  the book also includes 400 diagrams and images of "the brilliant Ted Dewan", another foreword by Fry and a "Forepaw" by Alan Davies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ai_shop_13-1" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On March 1, 2009, the Dutch translation of the book was published with the title the large book of false facts about animals. ====The QI Annual ' E '<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">1 november the first QI Annual 2007 came out. An "annual" is normally an annual edition, and it is also intended that this is the first of a series with consecutive letters.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  on the cover are caricatures of well-knownQI-panelists (left to right) Sean Lock, Vic Reeves, Phill Jupitus, Bill Bailey, Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, Rob Brydon, Dara Ó Briain, Clive Anderson, Alan Davies (with Jimmy Carr as the worm in his Apple), Rich Hall,David Mitchell and Jo Brand, all of whom also participated in the writing of the Edition. Other employees include Rowan Atkinson and cartoonists Nick Newman and Tony Husband of Private Eye.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15] ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="95" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are now three QI-DVDs released, with interactive quizzes and the full seasons. ====Interactive quizzes<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 14 november 2005 came from Warner Home Video on dvd-an interactive QIgame named QI: A Quite Interesting Game. A second interactive quiz, QI: Strictly Come Duncingfollowed on 26 november , 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [16] the quiz master is Stephen Fry In both quizzes, at which he also explains the answers in the style of the television program. ====Full seasons<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After a petition was signed by 1,821 people, the BBC released a dvd with the complete first season.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [17]  this season "A" was released on 6 november 2006 by the dvd Department of the BBC, along with the unairedpilot episode.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The DVDs of seasons "B" and "C" were produced by Warner Music instead of the BBC-section 2 | entertain. Season "B" was released on 17 March 2008, season "C" in september of the same year.