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John Lloyd

Born

in Dover, The United Kingdom

September 30, 1951

Genre

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John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer. Lloyd was Trinity College, Cambridge, where he befriended and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence) and Quote... Unquote (with Nigel Rees). He wrote Hordes of the Things with Andrew ("A. P. R.") Marshall, co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams and then went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with him. Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989 where he created Not the Nine O'Clock News (with Sean Har ...more

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	The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, Stephen Fry (Foreword) 3.76 avg rating — 10,528 ratings — published 2006 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.84 avg rating — 4,052 ratings — published 2012 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.91 avg rating — 2,537 ratings — published 2010 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.92 avg rating — 1,711 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin 4.10 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 2013 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 4.05 avg rating — 917 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson 3.86 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance: Qi: Quite Interesting (Qi: Book of General Ignorance 3) by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin 4.16 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin 4.12 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted 4.16 avg rating — 391 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Quite Interesting Ignorant Books (5 books)
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Quite Interesting Facts (7 books)
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“In 2010, the BBC spent nearly £230,000 on tea, but only £2000 on biscuits.”
― John Lloyd, 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

tags: biscuits, tea

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“Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog.”
― John Lloyd, 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

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“In the 1950s, to allow babies of students at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to enter the premises, they were re-defined as cats.”
― John Lloyd, 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

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