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QI

Year:

2003

Duration:

30 min (93 episodes)

Genres:

Comedy | Game-Show

IMDB rate:

8.9

Awards:

3 wins & 10 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2003-09-11

Filming Locations: The London Studios, Upper Ground, South Bank, Lambeth, London, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Stephen Fry

Himself - Host (171 episodes, 2003-2015)

Alan Davies

Himself (171 episodes, 2003-2015)

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Trivia

Each series has questions related to a subject matter beginning with a corresponding letter (i.e. in the first series, every question was related to things beginning with A, the second series used the letter B, etc.).

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Stephen Fry and Alan Davies were originally cast as the leaders of the "clever" team and the "stupid" team, respectively. Michael Palin was asked to be the host, but he didn't feel he was right for the role. After Fry and Davies settled into their roles, the idea of having two teams was discarded.

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There have been several attempts to broadcast the series in the United States. Comedy Central, PBS, Discovery Channel and BBC America all showed an interest. But the main issue preventing this is the cost of clearing the rights for the many pictures shown on the screens in the background. They are cleared for UK usage only.

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Quotes

Stephen Fry: [holding his clenched left fist out in front of him] If I've got a moth ball in this hand and a moth ball in that hand,

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Stephen Fry: [quoting Albert Einstein] Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe.

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Rob Brydon: When I was small and my dad just happened to hit his finger with a hammer for something new, he used to say, 'Hells bells and buckets of blood.'

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Faq

What is visible in the opening sequence?

The QI logo.The Gospel of John, chapter 14.Binary codeA description of scleroproteinsA page from the Oxford English Dictionary, open around "pragmatism"A text in alchemical symbolsA chemical text in FrenchSome writing about physicsA DNA code (although the bases are grouped in fours, fives and sixes, whereas they should be grouped in threes)Some mathematical equationsAnother text made of symbolsA chemical text in GermanSeveral images: a Mandelbrot fractal, flowers, bananas, a space shuttle, a Friesian cow, a British red telephone box, Leonardo da Vinci's "helicopter", a tiger, a young boy, an Ancient Greek painting, Christ the Redeemer, the periodic table, a great white shark, the world (the magnifying glass then shows Sardinia), Barrister Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, ivy, the Statue of Liberty, a frog (with Devanagari script over it), a pigeon (part of a telephone book over it), a clockface, a baby, Saint Basil's Cathedral, an island with a coral atoll, William Shakespeare.

Has the answer ever been "Blue Whale"?

Yes, on the K Series episode, "Kinetic". The question was "What is the largest animal on Earth?" and Alan did not answer. He was very frustrated afterward. And in one of the F episodes in season 6 ("France"), Fry asked Alan a question in french to which the correct answer was Blue Whale, but because it was in french, Alan didn't understand it.

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