QI: Quite Interesting

[Guy Humual]

I am convinced that this is the greatest show on television.

Discuss:

[Tensor]

I can prove that it is.

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Proof:

A: QI is a show.
B: QI is the greatest show on TV.

1. Assume A -> B

2. ... A (given)

3. B (modus ponens)

thus, QI is the greatest show on TV.

BAM!

[Samnell]

Guy Humual wrote:

I am convinced that this is the greatest show on television.

Discuss:

I've been catching bits of it on Youtube and elsewhere on and off for a few months. It's a wonderful show even if the questions can occasionally get nitpicky enough to end up spreading some misleading information.

Yeah, I actually watch in part for the questions. I'm a dork. :)

[Guy Humual]

Well I think the most famous snafu was in the first season when they asked How many moons does the earth have? This was of course proven to be false, but it did lead me to read up on Cruithne (which I'd never heard of before QI), and any show that makes people want to read up on things is brilliant. I don't think QI would ever claim to be the absolute authority on anything but it is a great jumping point for all kinds of reading and research.

[hopeless]

Yes i have to admit I enjoy it too!

[Guy Humual]

One of the things that I really love about the show is how it strongly appeals to my inner nerd without pandering to it. It's a show that's not blatantly about anything really, the questions are misleading, impossibly hard, and the show doesn't expect you to know these things. The point of the show is to be interesting, and in that goal it completely succeeds. For example they once asked At what temperature does water boil and I immediately thought "well that depends on how high above or below sea level you are". But as it turns out (as you'll see from the clip) that this wasn't the answer they were looking for, However Dara O'Briain does what the show demands of him and supplies some information that is Quite Interesting . . .

Of course a year or so later when they ask again about the triple point of water the results are quite different. That amused me to no end.

[Guy Humual]

A new series has started up! Series J!