QI is a comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
Some of the participants tease Stephen Fry mercilessly because he's so posh.
The show is a lot of fun, but we also learn quite interesting things. The following were taken from one of the books related to the TV series:
01) Trombone is French for paperclip, as well as the musical instrument.
02) A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, the equivalent to the combined capacity of 62 Macbook Pro laptops.
03) When a medium in trance offered to answer any questions, Groucho Marx asked, 'What's the capital of North Dakota?'
04) The whole of Liechtenstein can be rented for $70,000 a night, for a minimum of two nights. It sleeps 900.
05) Most diamonds are at least 3 billion years old.
06) Under extreme high pressure, diamonds can be made from peanut butter.
07) George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein had their shoes hand-made by the same Italian shoemaker.
08) EVERYBODY expected the Spanish Inquisition - they were legally obliged to give 30 days' notice.
09) The human brain takes 11 million bits of information every second, but is only aware of 40.
10) A 'babalevante' is someone who makes feeble jokes.
11) All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.
12) The pleasant smell of earth after rain is caused by bacteria in the soil and it's called petrichor - from Greek petros, 'stone' and ichor, 'the fluid that flows through the veins of the gods'.
13) The inventor of 'best before' dates, originally for milk, was Al Capone's brother, Ralph.
14) The G-spot was nearly called the 'Whipple Tickle', after Prof. Beverley Whipple, who coined the expression we know today.
15) 99% of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct.
16) Every human being starts life as an asshole: it's the first part of the body to form in the womb.
