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* Series "L": Spend a Penny - bonus points for identifying the question as being, in some way, related to lavatories.
The show has spawned several books (including four QI Annuals), two DVD games (''A Quite Interesting Game'' and ''Strictly Come Duncing''), an [https://web.archive.org/web/20080325030828/http://www.qi.com/building/club/ Oxford club] an iPhone app and most recently [[The Board Game]]. There's also an official [http://twitter.com/qikipedia Twitter account], maintained by the elves (note the location), which provides trivia and links to Quite Interesting things.
It returned for Series F in January 2009 on [[The BBC|BBC One]] (having previously been on BBC 2) after it managed to be the highest-rated show on BBC 4 and Dave. It returned to [[BBC 2]] for the current "I" series; new guests this series include [[Brian Blessed]].
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** The show at one point addresses a letter calling them out for spreading an urban legend about the Flowerpot Men.
** Stephen says of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon [[Crowd Song|iiis]], that there are no straight lines. He corrects this in a later episode; while curving pillars to make them look straight from certain vantage points is seen in some ancient buildings, the Parthenon is ''not'' one of them.
** More cases and possible cases can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20120910013619/http://www.qi.com/qi_quibble_blog/ here].
* [[Daydream Believer]]: Bill Bailey, during David Tennant's guest appearance, jokingly insisted ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was a documentary when Stephen called it a work of fiction. Tennant played along and confirmed that it was all real. "Don't listen to the bad man." And then (at Stephen's prompting) he started waving his pen around like a sonic screwdriver...
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Rich Hall, most notably.
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