Sara Pascoe quotes from QI

Stephen Fry

What colour is a red kite?

Jack Whitehall

Blue!

Sara Pascoe

Black.

Alan Davies

Red.

David Mitchell

White.

Stephen Fry

Oh, thank you Alan.

Stephen Fry

The thing is, they were named before we had a word for Orange. We just used Red for anything that was Orange as well. We had the word orange for a fruit, but didn't use it for the colour until the 16th Century.

Sara Pascoe

We always think it was the colour that named the fruit, but it was the fruit that named the colour.

Stephen Fry

Why do great white sharks bite people?

Sara Pascoe

To keep themselves in the news.

Psst, I think Jeremy is listing swear words.

Jeremy Clarkson

I'm way past twenty.

Sandi Toksvig

Are you, darling?

Jason Manford

Press the red button now to see what they are.

Jeremy Clarkson

Please, no. Don't tell me there are vegan tattoo places. There are really?

Yes.

Jeremy Clarkson

That's 1200 words in the Sunday Times next week, right there.

Sara Pascoe

Seriously, there are all these people doing downward dogs...

Sandi Toksvig

I'm going to stop you right there.

Sandi Toksvig

What is the opposite of a plant eating sheep?

Sara Pascoe

A sheep that grows plants.

Sandi Toksvig

See, just when I thought what I said was really clear…

Jimmy Carr

You sound like a vegan who's really hungry.

Sandi Toksvig

The opposite of a plant eating sheep would be a…?

Colin Lane

A sheep eating plant.

Sandi Toksvig

Yes!

Sara Pascoe

Well done, Colin.

Colin Lane

[triumphantly basks in the applause of the audience]

Sandi Toksvig

Colin, I said in the beginning the more you get wrong, the more points you get. I don't know if that's...

Colin Lane

I've been on this show six or seven times and I still don't know what the rules are.

Jimmy Carr

There is a penis for sale in London...

Sandi Toksvig

Sorry?

Jimmy Carr

There is a very strange store in the East End in London. And the last man to be hanged in England, ah, they have his penis and it's for sale.

Sandi Toksvig

How much is it?

Sara Pascoe

And was he hung?