1,342 qi facts to leave you flabbergasted, Lloyd, John Mitchinson, John Harkin, James

Автор: John Mitchinson John Lloyd &
Название: QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter E
ISBN: 0571323901 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571323906
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 9670.00 T
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Описание: An indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance comes a noticeably stouter edition, with 26% extra facts and figures perfect for trivia, pub quiz and general knowledge enthusiasts.

Автор: Lloyd, John, Mitchinson, John, Harkin, James
Название: 1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless
ISBN: 0571329837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571329830
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 6150.00 T
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Lloyd, John; Mitchinson, John
Название: 1339 QI Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop (Exp)
ISBN: 057130897X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571308972
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 6150.00 T
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Описание: Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Pigs suffer from anorexia. Wagner always wore pink silk underwear. Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit. J. K Rowling has no middle name. The first computer mouse was made of wood. If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on QI's website.

Автор: Mitchinson, John
Название: QI: Advanced Banter (Exp)
ISBN: 0571254845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571254842
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 6150.00 T
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Автор: Mitchinson, John
Название: The Book of General Ignorance
ISBN: 0307394913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307394910
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 14710.00 T
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller.

Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty "gotcha" compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It'll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school.

Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. You'll be surprised at how much you don't know Check out The Book of General Ignorance for more fun entries and complete answers to the following:

How long can a chicken live without its head?
About two years.

What do chameleons do?
They don't change color to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states.

How many legs does a centipede have?
Not a hundred.

How many toes has a two-toed sloth?
It's either six or eight.

Who was the first American president?
Peyton Randolph.

What were George Washington's false teeth made from?
Mostly hippopotamus.

What was James Bond's favorite drink?
Not the vodka martini.

Автор: Mitchinson John, Lloyd John
Название: If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren`t There More Happy People?: Smart Quotes for Dumb Times
ISBN: 0307460665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307460660
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 13480.00 T
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Описание: John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of tongue in cheek. Their gifts are on full display in Quote Interesting, a lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, Lloyd and Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs like:

"The Beatles are dying in the wrong order." --Victor Lewis Smith
"When you forget to eat, you know you're alive." --Henry James

"I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty." --Nancy Reagan

"You know 'that look' women get when they want sex? Me neither." --Steve Martin

Автор: Mitchinson, John Lloyd, John
Название: QI annual 2009
ISBN: 0571244149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571244140
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: A festive funbag of F stuff, featuring Fantasy Football with Alan Davies, Food Foraging the Sean Lock way, Jimmy Carr`s Famous Fannies, Romantic Ronni Ancona and Rob Brydon`s Foto-Feature, Fags of the World (as used by Jo Brand), Fry`s Forebrain forensically filleted by Phill Jupitus and a `How-to-Use Furniture` masterclass with Rowan Atkinson.