The Annual E Quiz
Welcome to the online quiz for the QI Annual.
Unfortunately you've arrived a little too late to participate. The deadline for submission of correct answers was 8.08 pm on the 8th of April '08. Please try to be more punctual in future.
For those of you who couldn't quite figure out the answers to all 18 questions, they are now listed here. Hopefully this should put anyone still in suspense out of their misery and allow everyone to sleep easy at nights once more.
Of course, all answers have been thoroughly checked by our crack team of QI elves. However, if you disagree with the veracity of any of them, feel free to head on over to the QI Talk Forums to point out where you think we went wrong.
We are very sorry not to have been able to announce the results yet but have been delightfully overwhelmed by the number of your entries and the ingenuity of your tie-breakers. The QI team are working through them as you read this.
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The Annual E Quiz
Questions 1-18, along with their answers, are reproduced below.
| Question 1: What is the word for the part of the play where the plot thickens? | Answer: the Epitasis |
| Question 2: Who or what are Dunk, Mya and Mary? | Answer: they are all Elephants |
| Question 3: Which medicine comes from a Greek hedgehog? | Answer: Echinacea (from the Greek "Echinos" meaning "Hedgehog") |
| Question 4: What did zoologist Frank Buckland describe as 'horribly bitter'? | Answer: Earwigs |
| Question 5: ADTFIAT, WUEMG. What does the 'E' stand for? | Answer: England's (check the start of the hymn "Jerusalem" if you don't believe me) |
| Question 6: What connects 2 Kings of England, an estate in Kennington and a room in Kingsmeadow stadium? | Answer: the name Ethelred |
| Question 7: Who is the man pictured on the left? | Answer: Edison |
| Question 8: Which spherical object owes its name to the Ye river? | Answer: Edam cheese |
| Question 9: How many people could live off a day's oxygen from one acre of fir trees? | Answer: Eighteen |
| Question 10: Where would you find a labyrinth, an oval window and a round window? | Answer: they are all parts of the Ear |
| Question 11: What is Mr A.G.Dorsey's preferred first name? | Answer: Engelbert |
| Question 12: What is the next letter in the sequence: A, Б, B, Г, Д...? | Answer: E (or, if you want to be pedantic, Є) |
| Question 13: Who does the eye pictured on the left belong to? | Answer: Einstein |
| Question 14: What was the 28th most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2006? | Answer: Erin |
| Question 15: Which country flies the flag pictured on the left? | Answer: Eritrea |
| Question 16: What did we eat 173 times in 2006? | Answer: Eggs |
| Question 17: Where would you see beaks going up Judy's passage? | Answer: Eton |
| Question 18: What is a 'korvalappu'? | Answer: it's an Earflap (in finnish) |
The tie-breaker questions were:
Question 19: Tell us something Quite Interesting about Easington, County Durham.
Question 20: Tell us something Quite Interesting about eagles.
Question 21: Tell us something Quite Interesting about emails.