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The QI Book of General Ignorance John Mitchinson

The QI Book of General Ignorance By John Mitchinson

The QI Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson


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How much do we really know about anything? As someone else once said, it isn't what you don't know that does you harm, it's what you know that's wrong. This book shows you how much of what you know is wrong, incorrect, piffle, nonsense.

The QI Book of General Ignorance Summary

The QI Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson

How much do we really know about anything? As someone else once said, it isn't what you don't know that does you harm, it's what you know that's wrong. The Book of General Ignorance sets out to show you how much of what you know is wrong, incorrect, piffle, nonsense. Now with added ignorance, this massive bestseller from Stephen Fry and the rest of the QI team is finally out in paperback. If, like Alan Davies, you still think the Henry VII had six wives, the earth has only one moon, that George Washington was the first president of the USA, that Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, that the largest living thing is a blue whale, that Alexander Graeme Bell invented the telephone, that whisky and bagpipes come from Scotland or that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, then there are at least 200 reasons why this is the book for you.

About John Mitchinson

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 Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. He's with Einstein: 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'

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GOR013235629
9780571251391
0571251390
The QI Book of General Ignorance by John Mitchinson
Used - Like New
Paperback
Faber & Faber
20090702
320
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