QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance: Qi: Quite Interesting: 3
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The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the QI 's popular 'General Ignorance' round. For the past decade, the QI team have been patiently correcting the myths, misunderstandings and misplaced certainties that go to make up 'general knowledge'. The first Book of General Ignorance , published in 2006, became an instant international bestseller and has been translated into 29 languages. The Second Book of General Ignorance in 2010 set the record straight on hundreds more areas of everyday wrongness. Now, the QI team returns to complete the trilogy. The Third Book of General ignorance gathers together 180 more questions to which the answers all seem perfectly obvious. Some have appeared in the BBC TV programme's 'General Ignorance' round, but many appear here for the first time. What they prove, beyond all reasonable doubt, is that none of us know anything at all. The largest pyramid isn't in Egypt The Nile isn't the world's longest river The Himalayas aren't the longest mountain range 'Jingle Bells' wasn't written for Christmas Whalebone isn't made of whale bone Most deserts aren't made from sand The ozone layer isn't made of ozone Cowboys didn't wear Stetsons All snakes are venomous Not all fish live in water Review: Such a good fun but factual book! - Loved this book -found a copy in a pub and needed to have a copy for the visitors to my house -very good fun 🤩 Review: Great read - Great for passing time and interesting you learn lots of fun facts I've got on Kindle so when I'm waiting for an appointment I just have a read and it's just great for that and you learn things too
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| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 618 Reviews |
N**R
Such a good fun but factual book!
Loved this book -found a copy in a pub and needed to have a copy for the visitors to my house -very good fun 🤩
♿**W
Great read
Great for passing time and interesting you learn lots of fun facts I've got on Kindle so when I'm waiting for an appointment I just have a read and it's just great for that and you learn things too
G**C
Nice book with ok(ish) facts
I purchased the kindle version of theis book, with my unlimited account. The book is full of facts that were used in the QI program. However, in the book, it goes into more detail about each interesting fact. At times, I felt that the depth of detail, was a little too deep and went on too long, to fill out a third book of QI. If there is a fourth, yes, I would get it, in the hope that it is more like the program, and more lighthearted. this feels more like a downgraded encyclopedia.
D**.
Great nuggets of info.
Kept in the loo. Always a treat to browse while waiting for gravity to take its course. Some amazing facts. Recommended.
S**P
Further mind expansion
Great service and great book, again. Absolutely bargain.
A**R
Fast delivery
Enjoyed this quiz book!
S**E
Short, but entertaining
Bought as a gift and very pleased with it - it's an good mix of general knowledge from the TV show and more. Easy to dip into and very entertaining, it covers the usual highbrow areas of classical music, literature and so on but also fetches it into the mainstream with current and recent events and social commentary. It's not got massive breadth with less than 200 facts, and then some of these are already well known from the TV and other sources but it's still well done and entertaining which is what it's setting out to do Recommended
H**Y
Great
Another great addition to the series
B**O
Entertaining all the way through.
Bought as a gift. Well received.
D**F
Divertido
Excelente conjunto de preguntas y respuestas inesperadas
J**R
Great gift
I bought a few of these for my husband's birthday. We love watching QI together and he adored getting the books!
M**A
I love this series
I live in the states and I started watching QI online. I love this series. I started getting the books and I have loved learning new things. Despite knowing that at some point that these facts can change (they do all the time), I know that there are things in these books that will not change at all. I have already used questions from this book and other QI books to test co workers and have left them either dumb founded or intrigued. The information is fascinating and you learn a lot. I cannot wait until a bigger volume of this book comes out (as they have done for the other two QI books), and I hope they do more that just three because I think we could benefit from learning more nowadays. Personally, I wish they would also come out with updated versions of the book for those facts that they had correct at the time but have changed as we get new information. I would definitely recommend this book and get the other two as well.
V**N
have fun - be curious
Perfect for teachers, students, everybody
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