QI and last up to two hours, although only 30 minutes of footage is used for normal episodes and 45 minutes for "XL" episodes. By 10:00 pm, recording has usually finished and the set has been disassembled. Roughly 16 questions are asked and about half of those make it into the show; 20% of material researched is used in a "QI" episode, while other facts may appear in the XL versions, a "QI" book, on "QI"s Twitter feed or on their website. The makers of the show insist that the answers are not given to the panellists beforehand. The host is
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