Hi everyone, James here at Merry Christmas. This is our Christmas special and what it is,

it's a compilation of all the best bits of the first half of our live TV show. So what we did is

we asked the audience to bring in their facts and we read them out and we talked about them.

Hopefully you'll enjoy it and the audio is a little bit sketchy because it's made of five or

six different episodes but we hope it's really good. And if you haven't got everyone their

presence yet then why not run out to the bookshop now and buy one three four two QI facts to leave

you flabbergasted the perfect stocking filler for that one person who you can't think of anything

else to buy them. Okay on with the show.

Please welcome to stage it's Anna Chasinsky, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray.

Hello everyone.

Hi everyone. So you guys have sent in your facts. We have a prize which is here which is one of our

no such thing as a fish t-shirt. Very exciting. Yeah and so we're going to read them out now.

Do you guys want to start with one? Okay what have I got? Oh yeah I like this one so it's about

soon and now and it's from Alex. Hello thank you very much Alex. Okay so the facts is the word soon

used to mean right now but people would misuse it and so it came to mean in a bit

because maybe people started saying soon to mean right now but then they were a bit delayed

on their way and so they got to the place and then someone said oh they must have meant in a bit.

Can I read another one here? Yeah yeah I just read this and this seems well I actually don't

believe it. So Keren where are you Keren's favourite fact? Keren you better be right about this

yeah according to Keren. The num plate of the car in which Fransfer de Land was shot is the date

that World War One ended. Do you know how exact a date is 18 or is it literally 11-11-18 or

I've got a picture of the car. Okay and this is esusicsworldwarone.org.uk and it says did you

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