{"product_id":"funny-you-should-ask-qi-elves-9780571369058","title":"Funny You Should Ask . . .","description":"EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR – A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI – IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW\n The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'.\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE BALL\nPre-order the next book in this series, 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions, published in paperback on 3rd November.\n'QI have outdone themselves!' ALAN DAVIES\n'Fabulous . . . A cracker of a book!' SUE PERKINS\n‘The QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant.' ZOE BALL\n'Genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating.' THE SPECTATOR\n'Hilarious.' DAILY MAIL\nThe QI Elves are the brains behind the enduringly popular BBC TV panel show QI.\nEvery Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of BBC Radio 2’s most inquisitive listeners.\nDive into this splendid collection of listeners’ unusual questions and some unexpected answers that are sure to make your head spin on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between. Generously sprinkled with extra facts and questions from the Elves, Funny You Should Ask . . . is essential reading for the incurably curious. \nHow much water would you need to put out the Sun?\nIf spiders can walk on the ceiling, why can’t they get out of the bath?\nWhy do dads make such bad jokes?\nWhy does red mean 'stop' and green mean 'go'?\nCan I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?\nHow do plant seeds know which way is up?\nCan you fill up a black hole?\nWho popularised the recorder, and where can I get hold of them?\nFor more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com. You can also follow QI’s fact-filled Twitter account @qikipedia and listen to their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com\nFor more mind-boggling nuggets of wisdom check out the QI FACTS SERIES","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51260592881952,"sku":"9780571369058","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571369058.jpg?v=1771829205","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/funny-you-should-ask-qi-elves-9780571369058","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}