The QI Elves are the clever clogs behind the hit panel show QI. Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show’s ‘Why Workshop’ where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of Radio 2’s most inquisitive listeners. Funny You Should Ask features the QI Elves’ answers to questions on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between. Generously sprinkled with extra facts from the Elves this is essential reading for the incurably curious.

How much water would you need to put out the Sun? If spiders can walk on the ceiling why can’t they get out of the bath? What’s the point of snot? Why does my pizza taste so much better the next morning? Why do dads make such bad jokes? Why am I a capital letter and you’re not? Why is there an Essex, a Wessex, a Sussex but no Nossex? Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth? Why aren’t unicorns called unihorns? Do cats get goosebumps? When does a rock become an island? Why don’t clouds freeze? Can I live forever?