QI

8:00pm – Friday, April 6 on ABC1

This week’s episode of QI is all about insects and other ‘Invertebrates’.

Joining QI master Stephen Fry are panellists Alan Davies, Jimmy Carr, Johnny Vegas and Sarah Millican.

The first question tonight is, ‘What do bees do better than dogs?’ Stephen Fry then eats a chocolate-covered ant leading him to the next question, ‘What do you think are the advantages of eating and breeding insects for food?’

8:00pm – Friday, March 23 on ABC1

The ‘I’ theme continues on QI tonight with a show all about ‘Imbroglio’.

Joining QI master Stephen Fry are newcomers Frank Skinner and John Bishop who play alongside semi regular Sean Lock and permanently installed panellist, Alan Davies.

Kicking off the show with what he calls an easy question, Stephen Fry asks, “What’s French for innuendo?” The answer leads into a round of questions about French words and phrases that aren’t actually French.

8:00pm – Friday, March 16 on ABC1

With an ‘international’ theme this week, get onboard for a QI around the world trip. QI master and ‘captain’ Stephen Fry is joined by panellists Bill Bailey, Jack Dee, David Mitchell and Alan Davies.

Stephen Fry begins by asking, “If by some terrible concatenation of circumstances, both my co-pilot and I on this flight were suddenly taken ill, how would you land this plane?”

8:00pm – Thursday, November 24 on ABC1

This week’s episode of QI is all about ‘History’. Joining QI Master Stephen Fry are panellists Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies.

The buzzers for tonight’s show sound suitably historic. The panellists are asked to name a ‘henge’. It turns out that Stonehenge is technically not a henge as recognised by archaeologists.

8:00pm – Thursday, November 17 on ABC1

This week’s episode of QI is all about hypnosis, hallucinations and hysteria. Joining QI Master Stephen Fry are panellists Ronnie Ancona, Robert Webb, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies.

Stephen Fry kicks off the show with a quite interesting question – If I hypnotised you and then cut off your leg, how much fuss would you make? And then, what’s the best way to hypnotise either, A. an alligator, B. a tiger shark or C. a chicken?

8:00pm – Thursday, November 10 on ABC1

This week QI has conjured up a Christmas special heaving with magic as tonight’s episode is all about ‘Hocus Pocus’. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are panellists Graham Norton, Lee Mack, Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Davies.

Stephen Fry and the panellists are dressed in cloaks for this magical themed episode. The show is kicked off with the question – what is the oldest trick in the book?

8:00pm – Thursday, November 3 on ABC1

This week on QI the mood is relaxed for this ‘Holiday’ themed episode.

Joining QI Master Stephen Fry are panellists Rob Brydon, Bill Bailey, Rich Hall and Alan Davies.

Instead of being asked questions the panellists (except Alan Davies) give Stephen Fry a bit of a break and come up with their own interesting information about places beginning with ‘H’ which they have visited. For Rob Brydon it’s Hungary, Bill Bailey – Himalayas, and Rich Hall – Hawaii.

8:00pm – Thursday, October 27 on ABC1

Tally-ho! This week’s episode of QI is all about ‘Horses and Hunting’.

Shooting from the hips are panellists Jimmy Carr, Dara O’Briain, Clare Balding and Alan Davies.

The panellists’ buzzers are all ‘horsey’ sounds. QI Master Stephen Fry kicks off the show by asking – how did the horses of New York City kill twenty thousand people in the year 1900?

8:00pm – Thursday, October 20 on ABC1

This week on QI we scale the heights and plumb the depths for the theme ‘Highs and Lows’. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are panellists Sandi Toksvig, Rob Brydon, Fred McAulay and Alan Davies.

Stephen Fry kicks off the show with a question about the highlands of Scotland. He asks – as a non Scotsman, which tartan would he not be entitled to wear?

8:00pm – Thursday, October 13 on ABC1

Welcome to QI for a big dose of ‘Health and Safety’ gone mad. Joining QI Master Stephen Fry are panellists David Mitchell, Ross Noble, Jeremy Clarkson and Alan Davies.

The buzzers are hazard warning indicators. Following the theme of health, each panellist has done a test to see whether they are a hypochondriac. As the program begins the results are revealed.