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Stephen Fry and Alan Davies are bringing their hit BBC quiz show Qi to Australia later this year.

The pair will be joined by a panel of celebrity guests for the live-shows that kicks off in Perth on October 21st before heading to Melbourne and Brisbane.

Check local ticketing outlets for more info and prices.

Here’s the blurb:

Host Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, joined by a line-up of celebrity panellists (to be announced prior to each show) present QI LIVE in Perth and Melbourne in a tour commencing in October this year. The buzzers, the theme tune and the QI set are all packed and on their way Down Under to take part in what we have come to know and love on television as QI, the world’s most impossible TV quiz!

Source: Ticketek

9:35pm – Tuesday, July 19 on ABC1

This week’s ‘E’ themed episode is all about ‘Empire’. The panellists are Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Sean Lock and Bill Bailey.

QI master Stephen Fry kicks of the show by asking – What did Queen Victoria think of Mr Bean?

9:25pm – Tuesday, July 5 on ABC1

Joining QI master Stephen Fry for tonight’s ‘E’ themed episode devoted to England, are panellists Sean Lock, Charlie Higson, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies.

Stephen Fry starts off with some English manners etiquette then gets straight into asking the panel if they can name a single lake in the English Lake District? Then another English question – who was the first King of England and Scotland?

9:25pm – Tuesday, June 28 on ABC1

On tonight’s episode QI master Stephen Fry is all ‘eyes and ears’ for another E themed episode this week.

Joining Stephen Fry are panellists David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies. Stephen Fry asks – what is the best way to date a cod? And why are elephants ears so big?

9:25pm – Tuesday, June 21 on ABC1

Welcome to QI Spy, where tonight’s code word is Espionage. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are undercover man Clive Anderson, Counterintelligence Operative Vic Reeves, Special Agent Jo Brand and spy in the ointment Alan Davies.

The panellists all have spy-themed buzzers and Stephen Fry kicks off the show with the first question – do you know how to beat a lie detector?

9:25pm – Tuesday, June 14 on ABC1

Tonight’s QI episode is an eclectic one as the panel discuss this week’s topic ‘everything’, or at least everything beginning with E.

Stephen Fry is joined by panellists Clive Anderson, Jeremy Clarkson, Vic Reeves and Alan Davies. First off, the QI master holds up a picture of MDMA, otherwise known as Ecstasy, which the panel is asked to identify.

9:25pm – Tuesday, May 31 on ABC1

Joining QI master Stephen Fry are panellists Rich Hall, Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Alan Davies. Get your maps and compasses ready because this week’s ‘E’ episode is all about exploring.

For question one Stephen Fry explains one of the biggest problems faced by explorers is that of language. He asks the panellists to imagine they are the Pilgrim Fathers who arrived on the Mayflower on the east coast of the United States of America meeting up with Native Americans – how would you communicate?

9:25pm – Tuesday, May 24 on ABC1

Welcome to the QI grill for tonight’s episode on eating. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are Jimmy Carr, Johnny Vegas, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies. All of the panellists have food-themed buzzers. The first foodie question – what happens in the Rhubarb Triangle.

Then later in the show there is an interesting question about what causes stomach ulcers. Australian Nobel Prize Winner Dr Barry Marshall proved his and Dr Robin Warren’s theory by putting his own body on the line.

9:25pm – Tuesday, May 17 on ABC1

Joining QI master Stephen Fry for tonight’s electric episode are Sean Lock, Rich Hall, Jo Brand and Alan Davies. This week’s episode is themed around electricity. The panellists’ buzzers are all electrical noises.

Stephen Fry kicks off the show with an unusual question – “I’m naked, it’s pouring with rain, can you give me a good reason why I should crouch down with my bottom in the air?”

9:25pm – Tuesday, May 10 on ABC1

Tonight on QI we are ‘quite interested’ in engineering so joining QI master Stephen Fry are some of the sharpest tools in the box – Jimmy Carr, Rob Brydon, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies.

The panellists’ buzzers are precision engineered sounds. Each episode of this ‘E’ series contains an ‘elephant in the room’, the first panellist to spot it and hold up their elephant card will win a bonus. The first engineering themed question – who built Britain’s railways?