The Second Book of General Ignorance

Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong

By: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong.

For example, do you know who made the first airplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of Coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What was the first dishwasher built to do? What color are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you?

Whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong. The Second Book of General Ignorance is a must-have for everyone who knows they don't know everything and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do.

©2010 QI Ltd. (P)2019 Tantor

Not bad

Considerable amount of interesting facts. A lot of the humor was a bomb for me, but really can't blame them for my lack of similar humor.

Great facts and info

Definitely a 5 star book of interesting facts and information. My only complaint is the cheesy, never funny ‘jokes’ at the end of the segments. There was simply no need.

Great facts

Lots of great information. And funny too!! Recommended for any like myself that likes strange facts about random things

It's all stuff from QI

I'd hoped it would be some extra or new information, and there is a little extra detail in it, but it's mostly just stuff that was covered in QI. It's interesting and informative, the narration is great, and I enjoyed it, but it's a little redundant.

A book to listen to many times

Very entertaining, I have listened to this a couple of times and will probably listen a couple more. It never gets old.

Excellent time killer!

Have you ever been dragged to the Mall with your party to shop? Then this excellent collection by the Elves makes 1 hour seem like 10 minutes!
My only 2 criticism’s are I wish it was longer as I didn’t want it to end and at an average of 3 minutes a chapter it was difficult to use “end of chapter“ feature on my timer.
I am confident that the Third book in this series will not disappoint.

The facts were… ok

I love stuff like this, it was interesting but in many sections, I didn’t have much interest. It’s subjective of course.

Many fun fact

The balance of wit and facts make it enjoyable read. And sometimes even very useful and inspiring.