How on earth do they score QI??!

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This is one of our favourite programmes and now DD loves it too. She asked how it was scored, and DH and I realised we had no idea

Anyone actually know?!

plus points for correct answers and useful factoids, minus for incorrect.

no idea lol

And Alan Davies always loses!! We are currently watching an old one, the lovely Stephen Fry is looking quite a lot younger!

Do you think SF just makes it up ( scoring) as he goes along?!

It's a really unfair system. +1 if you're right, -10 if you're wrong :D

Ah.... so there is at least a system!!
What about the general ignorance bit where the alarm goes off? That must be masses of minus points.

Thinking about it more, I think they are allowed to be wrong in most of the show but not allowed in general ignorance. That must be when it's -10.

Lol. But have you ever known Alan Davies win?!

DH likes Bill Bailey best. I like most of them but not really Jimmy Carr

Yes, Alan Davies has won, more than once - isn't it 8 times or something like that? I remember hearing that he had won it more times than anyone else - but I'm sure he's also lost it more times that anyone else, cos he is on it all the time!

Why is he a permanent fixture do you suppose?

I think it's really the Alan and Stephen show, just not entirely billed as such. I suppose it's a bit like Have I got News for You, where you have two fixed team leads as well as (originally) the fixed question master (when it was Angus Deayton of course).

I always think it's a shame there's so few women on it - only once that I've seen more than one woman on it at the same time, and often none, and quite blokey to boot.

I also don't like Jimmy Carr, bah. At least it warns me off watching him on other shows.

Can only think of Liza tarbuck / sandi tocks
tixsvik toxvik toksvidge that funny woman.

Alan Davies is the team captain - so he stays. Originally, Stephen Fry was to be the other team captain - with Michael Palin as host. When Palin dropped out - Fry stepped forward for a while - but became permanent. So now they have a moveable captain on one side and full-time captain on the other....

Ronni Anconas the only other I can think of off the top of my head

oh and Jo Brand

Doon Mackinan (sp?) was on as well

and how could I forget Sue Perkins

ok I'll stop now

Emma Thompson too.

Agree it is quite blokey, I like it when Jo Brand is on best.

I didn't even know there was a scoring system.

-10 is for making the siren go off.

Fine to be wrong, not allowed to be obvious.

And it's all made up anyway.

I love Jo brand. How could I forget her [shamed] not seen Emma Thompson or the others. Where have I been?!

How can there be team captains when there are no teams? All 4 players are scored individually.

Good point Lucy!!

I love the buzzers, they always make me titter