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'''Phill Jupitus:''' [[Genre Blind|What kind of a hellish quiz is this?!]] }}
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'''[[Stephen Fry]]''': Welcome to QI! }}
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'''[[Stephen Fry]]:''' It- It kind of is. }}
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'''Alan Davies:''' ''(hesitantly)'' No.
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'''Stephen Fry:''' Quite right. }}
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'''Alan Davies:''' Yeah. It's like this show, isn't it? }}
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'''Jo Brand:''' Because they're all fucking mad!
'''Stephen Fry:''' No - because they're all fucking ''German.'' }}
{{quote|'''[[Stephen Fry]]:''' Name a poisonous snake.
'''Jimmy Carr:''' [[wikipedia:Piers Morgan|Piers Morgan?]]|*''[[Most Wonderful Sound|Klaxon]]''*}}
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'''Alan Davies:''' That is going to be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}EUJbuwIG79k snipped out, straight on YouTube.] }}
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'''Woman in the audience''': France. }}
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'''Alan Davies''': How did you know?
'''Phill Jupitus''': I just thought: "that looks like Alan wrote it". Which is the only way you can play this game! }}
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'''David Mitchell''': Well... this is an easy one. The enclave actually only exists theoretically, because it's a sort of sand bank, which was once farmed but was flooded in the 14th century, and it exists between Denmark and Germany in the Heligoland Bight, but it's sort of been an anomaly in diplomatic law ever since then, because there were arguments over who owned it theoretically even though no one could go there. And so the 5732 provisions are... actually it's a provision for each of the former states of the Holy Roman Empire, before it was dissolved by Napoleon.
'''Audience''': ''(begins to applaud)''
'''Stephen Fry''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}WdZ6v0Y1Etg That is absolutely wrong.] }}
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'''Jimmy Carr''': [[Genre Savvy|I only said that because it was the opposite of what I thought it was!]] }}
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'''Alan Davies & Jo Brand''': ''WE are!!!'' }}
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'''Sandi Totsvig''': Are they over large hearing devices?
'''Stephen''': Yes!
'''Sandi''': [[Flat What|What!]] }}
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Latest revision as of 16:25, 7 August 2014
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Al Murray: That's not knowledge; that's a crapshoot! |
John Sergeant: I'm getting the spirit of this show! It's about sex, isn't it? |
Stephen Fry: We only call ourselves "Quite Interesting", we don't call ourselves "Astonishing". |
Stephen Fry: And to General Ignorance, where we ask Alan Davies...is this a rhetorical question? |
Stephen Fry: He (Niels Bohr) also said, of quantum physics: "if you're not shocked by it, then you haven't understood it". |
Stephen Fry: I fear we have gained some insight into what life would be like in an old people's home. |
Stephen Fry: Why do [the Royal Family] open their presents on Christmas Eve? |
Rich Hall: Finally this show gets back on firm, heterosexual footing. |
Stephen Fry: What you need is length and thickness... |
Stephen Fry: [with both hands on his hips] Do you know that rhyme? "I'm a little teapot, short and stout, here's my handle... oh bugger, I'm a sugar bowl." |
Rich Hall: In space, no-one can hear you apologize. |
Stephen Fry: What's the biggest load of rubbish in the world? |
Phill Jupitus: You're watching QI for the Straight Guy. |
Sean Lock: We're the only creatures, Johnny, who like to show off. Apart from Peacocks... and quite a few others, come to think of it... All of the ones with the spines, and the horns... yeah. |
[During a question where the panelists have to identify examples of the others' handwriting.] |
Stephen Fry: we've raised the bar a little for this one in recognition of the presence amongst us of the noted historian David Mitchell of Peterhouse Cambridge. So, David, we'd like you to name the 5732 provisions affecting the enclave of Baarle Hertog in the treaty of Mastricht. Your time starts now. |
[Having correctly answered a question about what will happen if a shoal of piranhas meet a dolphin by saying that the dolphin will eat the piranhas] |
Stephen Fry: Who are the lords of shouting? |
Sean Lock: I hear voices, but I just ignore them and carry on killing. |
Stephen Fry: [On Japanese War Tubas] Can anyone tell me what these were used for? |