1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Book by John Lloyd June 2014 September 2020 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off 1,227 QI Facts.jpg 200px The original UK cover. John LloydJohn MitchinsonJames Harkin United Kingdom English Trivia Faber and Faber (UK) W. W. Norton & Company (US) 1 November 2012 (UK) 9 September 2013 (US) Hardback 322 978-0-571-29791-7 The Second Book of General Ignorance 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off is the sixth in a series of books based on the intellectual British panel game QI, written by series-creator John Lloyd, director of research John Mitchinson, and chief researcher James Harkin. Published on 1 November 2012 (9 September 2013 in the US), it is a trivia book containing 1,227 facts collected during the making of the series, which had been ten years in the making at the time of publication.http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/qi/buy/3062/1227_qi_facts_to_blow_your_socks_off_book/ 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off (Book) British Comedy Guide 29 October 2012 Publication history Lloyd said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph: "This book is like a set of haiku. I think it's the best thing we've ever done. It has purity and simplicity."Garner Lesley https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9640410/John-Lloyd-Creating-QI-brought-me-out-of-depression.html John Lloyd: Creating QI brought me out of depression The Daily Telegraph 29 October 2012 29 October 2012 Structure The book contains lists of facts, normally four per page. All the sources for the facts are listed online on the QI website.Lloyd John John Lloyd (writer) Mitchinson, John John Mitchinson (researcher) Harkin, James 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off Faber and Faber 1 November 2012 310 978-0-571-29791-7 Other than Lloyd, Mitchinson and Harkin, credit for authorship is also given to QI researchers (also known as "Elves") Anne Miller, Andy Murray and Alex Bell. The reason for the number of facts being 1,227, according to Lloyd and Mitchinson, was that they had originally planned to have 1,000 facts and when they wrote down the list containing all the facts that would go in the book, they discovered that they had gone past the number, to 1,227. BBC Breakfast, 6 November, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010q652 BBC Breakfast BBC Breakfast Stayt, Charlie; Reid, Susanna; Lloyd, John; Mitchinson, John BBC BBC Two Manchester 6 November 2012 7:45 References External links QI homepage - List of sources US edition of 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off Category:Books based on QI Category:Trivia books Category:British books Category:Books by John Lloyd (producer) Category:2012 non-fiction books Category:Faber & Faber books Category:W. W. Norton & Company books