QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance ebook | John Lloyd, John Mitchinson | 9780571246069

Henry VIII had six wives. WRONG!Everest is the highest mountain in the world. WRONG! Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. WRONG! EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS WRONGA number-one bestseller, this comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in ‘common knowledge’ will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school.

John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. If pressed, he'd concur with Heraclitus: 'abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.'John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, supported by a crack research squad of QI elves, are the authors of the bestselling The Book of General Ignorance. Ted Dewan is one of the UK’s best-known children’s authors and illustrators.

John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. If pressed, he'd concur with Heraclitus: 'abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.'John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, supported by a crack research squad of QI elves, are the authors of the bestselling The Book of General Ignorance. Ted Dewan is one of the UK’s best-known children’s authors and illustrators.