h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Satire is either a bunch of witty people with pens, or parody and exaggeration. I am your quizmaster, Madeleymade, and this is Have I got QI for you? Similar to my list of advertisements, each round has a topic. First: Harry Hill's TV Burp. Each player has to parody, imitate, explain and finally give a summary of this topic. Then, you'll have to do the political topic, Boris Johnson.

First, Harry Hill, bore me with interesting facts.

How many points for this?

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Harry Hill once posted something arrogant and embarrassing in an internet forum without properly thinking or doing other people the courtesy of reading some posting instructions. He was hugely embarrassed about it.

B

Harry Hill's claim to have qualified as a doctor are, in fact, completely fabricated as part of his persona.

RF

Harry Hill is a geographical feature in New South Wales. Other obscure yet interestingly-named features include Matt Munro and Private Pike.

Wrong! Harry Hil lwas in fact a doctor, under his real name Matthew Hall. Comedy Map of Britain! Deduect no points from you, whoever was right will get ten points.

10 points for each correct questions, 10 points deducted for each wrong question.

>> Wrong! Harry Hil lwas in fact a doctor <<

I know.

It was just slightly more interesting than saying "Harry Hill is a doctor".

You should have spotted that. It was satire!

RF

Next, is the quickfire round. The topic is Boris Johnson.

What year was Boris born?

A. 1944

B. 1957

C. 1964

B 1957

Nope, it was 1964. Check that Who do you think you are? 10 points deducted!

Next question, what year did Mock the Week start?

A. 1990

B. 1986

C. 2005

1986, obviously.

B

Toothpaste.

I have a lollipop.

It's strawberry.

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Actually? It seems like a fairly modern show, I would have initially thought late nineties would be the absolute latest!

Has Dara Ó Briain always presented the show?

It was actually a provocative answer aimed at U12792173, whose posting style I find to be excessively pompous and irritating.

But clearly subtlety plays no part here any more.

B

I've kind of lost the plot with this one. Are you aware that the h2g2 QI Society has rules and its own scoring system, MadelyMade?

I've played along with this one in the forlorn hope that you were planning something original, inventive and amusing, but it seems not to have materialised.

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My apologies for not realising your subtle sarcasm sooner but I always give the poster the benefit of the doubt

Yes, I signed up to "QI" for some kind of interwebz equivalent of "QI", not "Have I got New For you"! However good that show may be, it undermines the purpose of this QI society

Will someone post a question worth answering now?

2005! Actually, let's scrap the points system together, and just play for fun. Next round is the quote round.

Who said

No one i nthe world will stop me now.

Actually, let's make it QI?

What is a heffulump?