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Enter Bookhugger’s Quite Interesting competition and win QI goodies [closed]

We have five sets of great QI prizes to give away: each set features QI: The Book of the Dead and the 2010 QI Annual, in which you will learn many fascinating new facts about things that begin with the letter G.

QI Annual 2010The QI Book of the DeadIn The Book of the Dead you will meet hundreds of Dead People, some well-known, others completely obscure, organised into 42 short chapters that play merry hell with the usual classifications. So, instead of Royalty, Scientists and Sportsmen, you’ll find rather more diverting categories like People who died Penniless, The One-Legged, Only Children, People who failed at School, Those only Remembered by a Single Quotation and the Last People to Know Everything.

Why did a church composer invent the hand grenade? What was Leonardo’s proudest achievement? If The Book of the Dead doesn’t persuade you to immediately join the massed ranks of those looking at the radishes from below, it will certainly make the tricky business of Living a tad less grim and a lot more interesting.

And if all those dead people get a bit much for you, dip in to the QI Annual 2010, which has been written, drawn, photographed and lavishly blu-tacked together by the many writers, performers and brains from the BBC1 TV series, including: Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Rowan Atkinson, Jeremy Clarkson, Bill Bailey, Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus, Jimmy Carr and many more.

To win one of five sets of these books, you need to imagine you’re Alan Davies and answer a Quite Interesting question about the man who makes QI what it is, Stephen Fry.

Which one of the following Quite Interesting facts about Stephen Fry is NOT true, and will in fact make the QI klaxon sound:

a. He has served a prison sentence for fraud

b. He is a diagnosed manic depressive

c. He is a Director of Norwich City Football Club


No more submissions accepted at this time.

Terms and conditions

  1. Closing date for entries: 24th November 2009.
  2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
  3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
  4. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
  5. Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookhugger. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  6. The winner’s name(s) may be published on the Bookhugger website after the closing date of the competition.
  7. The competition is not open to Bookhugger employees and their families, or to employees of Bookhugger publishers and their families.
  8. It takes 75,000 crocuses to make a pound of saffron. Fact.
  1. Michelle Wale Says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    I love Stephen Fry :)

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