Chris Addison quotes from QI

Chris Addison

You know, Edison electrocuted an elephant. It's my favourite fact of all time.

Stephen Fry

Yes. Do you know why?

Chris Addison

He was carrying out an execution.

Alan Davies

I think you might know this 'cos you saw it on QI.

Stephen Fry

[laughing] Yes.

Chris Addison

Really? [over the audience laughter] The problem of joining you people so late is that you've basically covered all human knowledge!

Stephen Fry

The first person to reason that the tropics were not hotter because they're nearer the sun, but because a smaller area is lit by an equal amount of light compared to other latitudes, was George Best. [to the incredulous amusement of the panelists] It's absolutely true! It was George Best who worked that out.

Chris Addison

Oh, you've lost it now. You've completely lost it. You're gonna have to hand this over to someone else.

Stephen Fry

If we were on a direct flight from Madrid to Montana, which American states beginning with M would we fly over on the way?

Chris Addison

‘Merica? Is that one?

Stephen Fry

Are you wrestling with the world, here?

Chris Addison

Aren’t we all, Stephen?

Stephen Fry

How did the first American Air Mail arrive at its destination?

Chris Addison

Human cannonball. They put a post man in a cannon and fired him.

Stephen Fry

What is the best way to do a massive data dump?

Chris Addison

Give your laptop to a British civil servant.