Best Of QI Series H! Funny And Interesting Rounds! 

Despite being the most famous person on that episode Daniel Radcliffe seems more like an enthusiastic fan who's got a chance to be on the show

"Usain Bolt wasn't being chased by a lion." To be fair, its not likely the Australian was, either.

It’s funny seeing Sandy answering questions with such fear and uncertainty

You'll notice that the rule on the blackboard graphic says, "'I' before 'E', except after 'C'..." The "..." is very important because it indicates that something has been left out of the sentence. What is missing is the ending of the rule which is, "'I' before 'E' except after 'C', when sounding like 'ee'." So, words such as neighbour and reign are not covered by the rule because it sounds like 'ay'. Also, many of the examples they gave were not English words, as Alan points out, but even then, they don't make the 'ee' sound and thus don't count. Some are words that are modified with a tense suffix e.g. being, and, as such, don't count. The only exception are those words that have slipped into the common vernacular from the scientific usage which is derived from Greek i.e. caffeine. Having said all that, I haven't seen the entire episode and, as this is an edited clip, I don't know if Stephen later reveals the entire rule.

Well done with the new best of series keep up the good work! I think qi is one of the few timeless shows of both inellect and entertainment!!

oh, I got one! Ancient.

Great work as always! Really liked the white tree about 2/3rds through.

❤❤❤ For Tuck- all the way from Australia

The Duke of west minster’s family stole the land first so he can’t really complain when other people stole it from them

14:30 might fuhrer of the sausage people... Fuhrer of the wurst people?

Sound can be quantified by shattering glass in a sound proof room while you observe from outside.. You can see the glass shatter but you can't hear the sound.

This was before Wim Hoff became famous as the Ice man

I heard from a reliable source that Edmund Hillary fell for a prank by members of his team.

26:10 He’s Paul McCartney!

Vexatious letigancy sounds like a wonderful pastime

This whole sound thing comes down to specific definitions. As they say, "sound" is defined by there being someone to hear it. It's the term being used that makes that question seem profound. Another take would be if a tree falls and causes vibration but there is no one there to feel it, is there a vibration. A tree falling would cause both sound and vibration (to those feeling it/hearing it) but what is the definition of the thing happening whether we are there or not. At that point its just what are the physics of the ocurrence?.

This episode made me reslize I did not know how to spell deceive.

Jo Brand with a husband joke... that makes a change.

If I wan t to visit the JFK memorial in Runnymead, do I need a passport? (26:42)

In this program Ruby Wax is about as useful as a fart in a sieve.

They are wrong about the i before e rule. The trouble is that "ie before e except after c" is not the whole rule, but it's the only part people have learned. The full rule is: "i before e except after c when the sound is 'ee'. For every other sound, use ei." (An example of "other sounds" would be veil which uses the "ay" sound not "ee", ie, "veil" is NOT an exception to the rule). That gives exactly 8 exceptions, or 6, depending on how you say either/neither (also "glacier" doesn't count, because the syllable breaks between the i and e and this rule is only used when the ei/ie is a digraph. "Glacier" more correctly follows the "c can only say s when followed by an e, i, or y" rule, the letters combine as gl-a-ci-er). Actual, real exceptions to the full, correct rule above include: weird (where the ee sound is said, but it is spelled ie), friend (where the sound is "eh" not ee but is spelled like "ee"), ceiling (where the sound is ee but is an ei after c), either/neither [depending on how you pronounce them; if you say igh-ther/nigh-ther they don't break the rule], and a few others I can't remember right now but could all fit into one sentence which is supposed to help one remember all of the exceptions but I have actually forgotten. 🤣 The purpose of the rule was to help people remember which combination to use in ee sounding words, not ei in general, which is why the rule ended up being "shorthanded".

Field, TAKE THAT LEE!

38:00 Hippos have 36 teeth

Would papyrus be considered a book just to be pedantic

I miss shaun lock 😢

americans dont approve of inedible food sandy?😂 meatloaf, doritos coated turkey..etc

When I was ten I was taught I before e, except after c, except for the exceptions. Which kind of shows how useless that rule is.

Isn’t “Fish” just a General term like “Mammal” or “Insect”?

Alan loves to point out how vicious and territorial mankind has been. As if we're any different from any other predatorial animal.

On average a human pushes out 320lbs of poo a year.

1:21:52 Well I didn't vote for him....

How do they know T8 wasn't in water bouncing off the bottom and floating a bit?

God Stephen always has to steal the limelight doesn't he? @8:55

Again, I get so annoyed by the man who is the producer or thinkerupper of QI being so incapable of a philosophical discussion or even to consider he might be wrong (does the falling tree make a sound if there’s no one to hear it). Definitely does not belong as a guest

Stephen Fry's comments on slavery in the UK just aren't true. It has never been legal to have slaves in the UK, and slaves who arrived in the UK during the transatlantic slave trade were ordered to be released by the courts as you can't be a slave in the UK.

That American woman next to Sean might be the worst guest ever

I do not care in any sense nor politeness of any wording nor meaning of the mere name of Dumbledore. It has no place in any argument of the Harry Potter verse whatsoever, nor will it ever have. You cannot in any good consciousness belittle the power of such a total legend to mere wordplay, translation, nor otherwise. If any fair being were to ever send the likes of Dumbledore onto the fields of Quidditch, they'd either have to be utterly oblivious or straight forward murderous. This being, with more names than Brian, is historically, written by the writer herself, known by all who are conscious , the absolute number one power in said verse. The man could without words, without wand, bind the opposing team to the ground and gift them eternal agony with a mere thought. You do not belittle such a being with mere wordplay, games, nor otherwise. He is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, and even Fry who has uttered every word in the books written about him, should bow down in obedience. This is not a proposition, nor a command, this is natural law.

What we come to find out is that Lee Mack isn't funny without recorded background laughter.

One of the worst shows ever conceived

The guy who kept saying ooh "sound is only in your ear" needs to grow up. It makes vibrations, which would cause the effect of someone hearing it, whether or not they do doesnt matter