The word economics originally meant 'household management', from the Greek word oikos (house) + nomos (law) from the verb nemo (to manage). So the expression 'home economics' is not, in fact, pretentious, but it is tautologous.

“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1908-2006)

Research for the sixth series of QI - Series 'F' - has started and recordings will take place between 5th May and 12th June, 2008. For more information about joining the QI audience, please contact the Applause Store.

Americans need us!

After the success of our online petition to have Series 1 released on DVD, we're following it up with another - this time to get QI shown in America. Read more.

ComedyBox is a new web comedy channel that promises all the brightest and best comedians.

Click here for more details.

QI now has a regular column in the weekend Telegraph. You can find a mix of letter-based facts and short essays that show 'the scenic route' through everything that's quite interesting.

RSS feeds for QI can be found here.

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QI: The BBC TV Show

Now in its sixth season (all things 'F'), the hit comedy quiz panel show QI satisfies both humerus and cranium, and will be broadcast in late September on BBC2. See our favourite clips and photos.

The QI Talk Forum

If you're bursting with questions - or answers - come in and join the QI Talk Forum where you can chat with like-minded people. You'll be quite interested to discover that the exact opposite of what is generally believed is often closer to the truth.

The QI Shop

If you want QI in three dimensions, there is a rather diverting range of books, games, DVDs and gewgaws available in our online Shop.

Now you can carry your ignorance with you everywhere. The Pocket Edition of the Book of General Ignorance is small enough for you to whip it out in pubs to impress your drinking buddies, to solve arguments at family dinners, or to amuse yourself when your train encounters freak weather conditions.

And, even if you have the original hardback, the pocket edition comes complete with a 16 page index, so all the scrabbling around trying to find that page with the killer fact on frogs or Benjamin Franklin will be a thing of the past.

 

 

 

 

At long last, here is QI's big-sized "B" bundle, benevolently blending bug-eyed bafflement and brilliant badinage by Britain's brightest babble-meisters. In case your hadn't spotted it, the second series is devoted entirely to the letter B.

Stephen Fry and Alan Davies are joined by Bill Bailey, Brand (Jo), Barry (Cryer), Briain (Dara O') and a lot of other people without a B in their name including Sean Lock, Rich Hall, Phil Kay, Clive Anderson, Mark Gatiss, Phill Jupitus, Jeremy Hardy, Jeremy Clarkson, Jimmy Carr, Anneka Rice, Arthur Smith, Linda Smith, Fred MacAulay, Josie Lawrence, John Sessions and Mark Steel to bounce up and down on subjects as diverse as bugs, bananas, beetles, bamboo, bangs, Bermuda shorts, Brownian motion, Bombay duck, Irving Berlin and Birmingham.

Special features

• Banter (with backroom boys)
• Bonus Bits
• Bloopers
• Buzzers (Batteries not included)

Win a chance to meet Stephen & Alan

Join us for one of the fortchcoming F series recording dates by entering the QI Quiz here.

For those of you on a strict QI diet, here is our complete smorgasbord of nutritious mind fodder. As The Times of London said only recently: "Have QI for pudding. Your cultural digestive system will feel both energised and soothed."

The Book of General Ignorance	The Book of Animal Ignorance	The QI Annual
The Complete First Series on DVD	The First QI Game: A Quite Interesting Game	The Second QI Game: Strictly Come Duncing
Each of these items is available for purchase from our Online shop, which links through to Amazon. You can also visit our new QI products page on Facebook.

Here's a selection of the latest news from around the world that we found Quite Interesting:

• Happy 100th birthday: Mobile phones (May 12th, 2008)
• The QI equation for an enriched IQ (Tom Hodgkinson, The Sunday Times, May 11th, 2008)
• The General Ignorance of Green Mammals (May 9th, 2008)
• Noteworthy (May 9th, 2008)
• Completely Potty (May 8th, 2008)
• T-Bomb (May 5th, 2008)
• Print fades away (May 4th, 2008)
• Escaped killer escapes harsh conditions by returning to jail (May 3rd, 2008)
• Oz MP admits chair sniffing (Apr 29th, 2008)
• U.S. life expectancy falls for first time in 90 years (Apr 22nd, 2008)

For more news - including that concerning QI itself - visit our news page.