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Fans of the popular British quiz show QI and trivia fiends alike will appreciate this latest volume of fascinating, if somewhat random, minutiae from the show’s creator and head researcher, respectively. Stressing the importance of curiosity in his introduction (or “Forethought”), show host Fry separates the mere gathering of facts from the continual absorption of new information, something that should always be encouraged. Structured as a series of questions mimicking the quiz show’s final round—known as “General Ignorance,” where questions with seemingly obvious but wrong answers are posed to the four panelists and points are awarded and deducted for clever and dull responses, respectively—the book is a hodgepodge of knowledge on myriad subjects. Often, the fact that the question is being posed clues the reader in to the trickiness of the answer (here’s a hint: oranges aren’t always orange and pure water doesn’t freeze at 32oF). The lack of organization isn’t an issue simply because of the wide net Lloyd and Mitchinson cast. From Molotov cocktails (not invented by Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin, better known by his “Molotov” pen name, but by Finns during WWII as a response to M

Who reads The Second Book of General Ignorance : a Quite Interesting Book?

Author

John Lloyd - undifferentiated, John Mitchinson, John Lloyd

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571273751

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Humour

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24