# Q.I. returns this week, folks. "K" series. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247 "2013-09-07T13:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/21 "2013-10-23T02:10:44Z")
Knowledge aired last week and they discussed the incorrect facts given over the years. They estimated 7% of QI facts are wrong and awarded Alan Davies a shit-ton of points to make up for it. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/22 "2013-10-23T03:28:05Z")
And Graham Linehan was on! I’ve always wondered what he was actually like. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/23 "2013-10-23T04:09:14Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Knowledge aired last week and they discussed the incorrect facts given over the years. > > They estimated 7% of QI facts are wrong and awarded Alan Davies a shit-ton of points to make up for it. A good episode, but did Alan seem a little spacey to you? More so than usual, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/24 "2013-10-23T04:10:07Z")
Too bad it turns out that’s terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/25 "2013-10-24T01:38:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > They estimated 7% of QI facts are wrong and awarded Alan Davies a shit-ton of points to make up for it. Even the audience got points (which let them avoid finishing last). ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/26 "2013-10-24T03:50:09Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > It’s too intellectual, even given the parts of the sewer the show regularly visits. It would be up against ‘World’s Shiniest Objects’ and ‘Who Wants to be a Dumbass’, and that crap is going to win over people being smart and witty every time. It is also hard to find comedians in America that have a Ph.D. in solid state physics and quantum effects, like Ben Miller. https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3KFOLP1tG0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Classic moment with Ben Miller explaining the Higgs Field. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/27 "2013-10-24T09:49:21Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > It is also hard to find comedians in America that have a Ph.D. in solid state physics and quantum effects, like Ben Miller. British TV comedy would be quite different without the Cambridge Footlights - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge\_Footlights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Footlights) - of which it looks like Ben Miller is an alumnus. It’s ludicrous how many comedians and others originated there - glancing down the Wiki list there are Pythons, Goodies, Fry & Laurie, Smith & Jones, Mitchell & Webb etc. I haven’t followed the link to the ‘Oxford Revue’ but I imagine the other half of British TV comedy can be found there. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/28 "2013-10-24T11:01:04Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > I haven’t followed the link to the ‘Oxford Revue’ but I imagine the other half of British TV comedy can be found there. And then there’s Dara O’Briain, with his degree in theoretical physics and mathematics from University College Dublin (not that he’s British of course). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/29 "2013-10-24T11:09:01Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > It is also hard to find comedians in America that have a Ph.D. in solid state physics and quantum effects, like Ben Miller. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3KFOLP1tG0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3KFOLP1tG0) > Classic moment with Ben Miller explaining the Higgs Field. Well, he tried to explain it, before Sean Lock butted in. That’s actually one of the few things about QI that I find annoying sometimes: Whenever a contestant tries to explain something interesting, and takes more than five seconds doing it, you can bet that there’s at least one doofus on the panel who thinks it’s hilarious to interrupt in order to play the obnoxious idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/30 "2013-10-24T12:31:41Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > The Media Hint extension for Firefox or Chrome may be able to help. And then you want to have a look at the BBC iPlayer. May I just say **Baron Greenback** , I am eternally grateful. Media Hint has opened up the world of US and UK TV to me. Thank you! I will be travelling extensively soon for work and was about to pay for a service that would let me access region-blocked TV (partly because I’ll have lots of idle time in hotels, and partly to keep up with Australian shows I’m following), but this is both free and simple. I guess we, the titled aristocracy, need to support each other 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247/31 "2013-10-24T17:14:58Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > That’s actually one of the few things about QI that I find annoying sometimes: Whenever a contestant tries to explain something interesting, and takes more than five seconds doing it, you can bet that there’s at least one doofus on the panel who thinks it’s hilarious to interrupt in order to play the obnoxious idiot. Oh, I don’t know. I thought Ross Noble added a certain [illustrative flair](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmEH8cPvrUU&t=24m30s) to Brian Cox’s discourse on Titan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-i-returns-this-week-folks-k-series/668247.md?page=1)