QI: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of QI Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Engineering
Sep 21, 2007
Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Rob Brydon, Jimmy Carr and Bill Bailey discuss quite interesting topics beginning with 'E' - this episode's theme is 'Engineering'.
Electricity
Sep 21, 2007
Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and guests Jo Brand, Sean Lock and Rich Hall tackle the quite interesting subject of electricity.
Eating
Sep 28, 2007
Guests Jimmy Carr, Phill Jupitus and Johnny Vegas join Stephen Fry and Alan Davies in a Quite Interesting quiz about eating.
Exploration
Oct 6, 2007
Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Rich Hall and Sean Lock join Stephen Fry in a quite interesting quiz concerning the topic of exploration.
Europe
Oct 12, 2007
Alan Davies, Phill Jupitus, David Mitchell and Dara O Briain join Stephen Fry in a Quite Interesting show. This episode has a European theme.
Everything Etc
Oct 19, 2007
Alan Davies, Clive Anderson, Jeremy Clarkson and Vic Reeves join Stephen Fry in a Quite Interesting quiz. This episode is about Everything.
Espionage
Oct 26, 2007
Alan Davies, Clive Anderson, Jo Brand and Vic Reeves are quizzed by Stephen Fry on Quite Interesting things concerning espionage.
Eyes and Ears
Nov 2, 2007
Alan Davies, Jimmy Carr, Phill Jupitus and David Mitchell this week discuss eyes and ears in a Quite Interesting quiz with Stephen Fry.
Entertainment
Nov 9, 2007
Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Jo Brand and Jeremy Clarkson join Stephen Fry in this Children in Need special, mostly concerning the topic of entertainment.
England
Nov 16, 2007
This episode of Stephen Fry's Quite Interesting quiz involves Alan Davies, Charlie Higson, Phill Jupitus and Sean Lock being asked to answer interesting questions about England.
Endings
Nov 23, 2007
Alan Davies, Jimmy Carr, Doon Mackichan and Dara Ó Briain this week talk about endings in this Quite Interesting quiz with Stephen Fry.
Empire
Dec 7, 2007
Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Jo Brand and Sean Lock join Stephen Fry to be quizzed about the empire in this Christmas Special.
Elephants
Dec 14, 2007
Series E compilation show containing unseen footage from the previous episodes.