0:00:28 > 0:00:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:31 > 0:00:37Hello. Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44This is Captain Fry speaking in, I hope, a very reassuring tone,
0:00:44 > 0:00:49welcoming you aboard this QI international, around-the-world trip.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53We have an impressive roster of VIP passengers on board with us tonight.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56International man of mystery Jack Dee.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Global phenomenon Bill Bailey.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06APPLAUSE
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Seasoned world traveller David Mitchell.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13APPLAUSE
0:01:15 > 0:01:19And from another planet entirely, Alan Davies.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22APPLAUSE
0:01:26 > 0:01:33And gentlemen, if at any time you wish to get my attention, don't hesitate to use your call buttons.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Jack goes...
0:01:35 > 0:01:37'Icelandair to Inverness, Gate B.'
0:01:37 > 0:01:39LAUGHTER
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Bill goes...
0:01:41 > 0:01:44'Iran Air to Istanbul, last call.'
0:01:44 > 0:01:46David goes...
0:01:46 > 0:01:49'Air India to Islamabad now closing.'
0:01:50 > 0:01:52And Alan goes...
0:01:52 > 0:01:55'Unexpected item in the bagging area.'
0:01:55 > 0:01:59- LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE - Very good.- Oh, yeah.
0:02:01 > 0:02:07Good. If you make sure that all your seats are in an upright position, we are cleared for take-off.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Don't forget that this year we are celebrating our ignorance
0:02:11 > 0:02:14with the Nobody Knows Round.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16FANFARE 'Nobody knows.'
0:02:16 > 0:02:20If you think that nobody knows the answer to that question,
0:02:20 > 0:02:24then you can wave your "nobody" and you get a big bonus.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29But if you wave it and you're wrong, you get a bit of an old forfeit.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33What are the points that you can gain by using it correctly?
0:02:33 > 0:02:39I think we all agree that nobody in this universe understands QI's scoring system.
0:02:39 > 0:02:45So, by that logic, were we to raise the subject of the scoring system and I was to do that, then...
0:02:45 > 0:02:47A-ha!
0:02:47 > 0:02:51- APPLAUSE - Nobody knows.- Nobody knows.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57- He's made a very good point. - It's a good point.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59I suppose I'm trapped in an infinite loop.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- Yes. Fortunately, that isn't one of the questions.- Ah.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06If it were, in the hypothetical round, a question, "What is the QI scoring system?",
0:03:06 > 0:03:11and nobody knows, what would happen to the person that DOES the QI scoring?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Would they not then feel rather sad?
0:03:13 > 0:03:18- They would.- They, at least, presumably, are sitting there THINKING that they know.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23His name's Colin. He is brilliant. He works for Lumina, the scoring-system people,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27and HE knows what he's doing. But it is a bit of a puzzle to the rest of the world.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32- There's a company out there responsible for the scoring system on this programme?- That's right.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36For nine years we've used them, and I think they've served us proud.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39- What happened before then? - Served themselves!
0:03:39 > 0:03:44- They must be laughing all the way. - What a good scam, Colin!
0:03:44 > 0:03:46I think they also do Pointless and Eggheads,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48and other things like that.
0:03:48 > 0:03:53- I think they reserve a lot of their creativity for this show, don't they?- Yes, I know!
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- I wonder what the score is now. - Yes, the score now...
0:03:57 > 0:04:02- Amazingly, Bill has three and everyone else has zero. - APPLAUSE
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Why three?
0:04:09 > 0:04:14I either thought one or ten, but three?
0:04:14 > 0:04:19- How could you divide your contribution by three?- Better than you, you, you. Three!
0:04:19 > 0:04:20APPLAUSE
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Let's get going, shall we?
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Now, if by some terrible, terrible concatenation of circumstances,
0:04:30 > 0:04:35both my co-pilot and I on this flight are suddenly taken ill,
0:04:35 > 0:04:38how would you land this plane?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Can't they just land themselves?
0:04:40 > 0:04:45I'd stop reading the Kindle on the steering wheel and concentrate.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48LAUGHTER
0:04:48 > 0:04:51That would be a wise start, yes.
0:04:51 > 0:04:58- Don't you radio the...? The co-pilot is slumped normally in these situations.- Someone talks you in.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02- Somebody talks you in? - That's what happens in the movies.
0:05:02 > 0:05:08- Robert Duvall would probably be good. That's who I'd ring.- Or Lloyd Bridges in the case of Airplane.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13- Perfect choice. - Presumably, there are legal problems with someone talking you down
0:05:13 > 0:05:19because you could sue if it was interpreted by your relatives that you were given bad advice.
0:05:19 > 0:05:24So probably these days, the air traffic controller would refuse to give advice and say,
0:05:24 > 0:05:28"We're not covered for my saying something..."
0:05:28 > 0:05:34You'd have to sign a waiver and text it to them, then insurance would cover you to be talked down.
0:05:34 > 0:05:40It is a minefield. Extraordinarily, and happily, it has never occurred in commercial airline travel history
0:05:40 > 0:05:46that someone has gone, "Can anyone fly this plane because the pilot and co-pilot are ill or dead?"
0:05:46 > 0:05:50It's never happened, but it would be fraught with difficulty.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53They have tried various simulations.
0:05:53 > 0:05:59For example, those with American civil private pilot licences in America who can fly light planes
0:05:59 > 0:06:02were invited on to simulators of big jets.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07One of them couldn't even operate the seat that moved him towards the control.
0:06:07 > 0:06:13Another one turned the radio off. Another one turned off the autopilot and instantly crashed the plane.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16The fact is it's incredibly difficult.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21Stephen, am I allowed to say that in your uniform how incredibly unlike a pilot you look?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24So what do I look like instead?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Be brutal, be frank.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I think you'd be the chap who calls himself the bursar.
0:06:29 > 0:06:34He's got a big leather wallet and takes money for duty-free.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Yeah, CALLS himself the bursar.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41- He calls himself the bursar?- Yes, I think he does.- Or the purser?
0:06:41 > 0:06:45- The bursar is the one that does the money for...- Public schools.- Yeah.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47What kind of plane is he flying on?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49LAUGHTER
0:06:49 > 0:06:54"The bursar will be collecting money for the end-of-term jamboree."
0:06:54 > 0:06:57"Here on Charterhouse Air..."
0:06:57 > 0:07:01The bursar with the trolley and then, with the drinks, the groundsman.
0:07:01 > 0:07:08Anyway, the fact is it's fraught with difficulty. The first problem is simply getting into the cockpit
0:07:08 > 0:07:11because since 9/11, of course, cockpits are locked.
0:07:11 > 0:07:17If the pilot and co-pilot were too ill to be able to fly, they may be too ill to let you into the cockpit.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21- Do they have a secret knock? - That's a lovely thought.
0:07:21 > 0:07:27- When they give them their lunch, they have to get in.- Yes.- So they must have a coded knock or something?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Like... "It's me.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31"I've got your...
0:07:31 > 0:07:33"I've got your lunch."
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Something like that. They go, "It must be the lunch."
0:07:37 > 0:07:42Yes, it must be Deirdre with the lunch. The lunches. Why do I say "lunches"?
0:07:42 > 0:07:46- Because there's more than one. - But why is there more...?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:07:53 > 0:07:57- You are accruing points at a fantastic rate.- I tell you what...
0:07:57 > 0:08:01- Why is there more than one lunch? - They have to eat different meals.
0:08:01 > 0:08:07- Yes, the pilot and the co-pilot must eat different meals.- In case one of them gets botulism?- Exactly.
0:08:07 > 0:08:13If one is by accident poisoned. And in extra long-haul flights, there are three pilots, not two.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17So you can't get into the cockpit, it's very dangerous, never been done.
0:08:17 > 0:08:23If it was on autopilot, you'd be able to fly level, but once you got into the landing situation,
0:08:23 > 0:08:29yes, the film scenario would take over whereby you'd be told how to operate the flaps and at what speed,
0:08:29 > 0:08:35but there are so many variables in terms of glide paths and vertical and horizontal axes and so on,
0:08:35 > 0:08:39it is extraordinarily difficult. There is an auto-land system.
0:08:39 > 0:08:45There's no way of flying it remotely from the ground? Just somebody with a Wii or something.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- I don't know.- Maybe one day.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Someone comes in the room. "What? Oh!"
0:08:51 > 0:08:53LAUGHTER
0:08:54 > 0:08:57It's a horrifying thought,
0:08:57 > 0:09:02but fortunately it never has yet happened in major commercial air travel.
0:09:02 > 0:09:08They say the chances are one in ten if it was an intelligent person and the plane was on autopilot,
0:09:08 > 0:09:14- they could be talked down, there is a one in ten chance the plane would survive the landing.- Right.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19- If it was not on autopilot, probably one in 100.- This is not reassuring.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22There are 400,000 people in the air at any given time.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26- Is that right?- Yeah. - That's fabulous. Wow!
0:09:26 > 0:09:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Very good!
0:09:32 > 0:09:38There is no question that trampolining is a very popular sport.
0:09:38 > 0:09:43- Yes! It sounded really plausible.- I heard it once in a pub or something.
0:09:44 > 0:09:50There are points if you can give me, within five years, when the autopilot was invented.
0:09:52 > 0:09:541965.
0:09:54 > 0:09:571965 we've got there.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- 1970.- 1970.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02'77 to coincide with the Jubilee.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06I'm going to go for 1945.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10You're the closest, but you're still miles away. It's 1914.
0:10:10 > 0:10:16The first autopilot was used at the Paris Air Show. An American invented it. They were a huge success.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20They had a big rubber band on the joystick. "Look, no hands!
0:10:20 > 0:10:22"It's flying itself!"
0:10:22 > 0:10:27The gyroscope got so popular they would have the pilots standing on the wings.
0:10:27 > 0:10:33- We've got a picture showing you how impressive it could be.- People were just crazy in those days.
0:10:35 > 0:10:40That's when people went over Niagara Falls in a barrel. They were mental!
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Those were the days of the barnstormers.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45You wouldn't want to be ball boy.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49But it's a surprisingly ancient invention. It was the early days...
0:10:49 > 0:10:54That's almost before aeroplanes were invented. He probably had this thing in his shed,
0:10:54 > 0:10:59- hoping something would be invented he could apply it to.- It was a gyroscopic corrective mechanism.
0:10:59 > 0:11:05Is the modern autopilot still recognisably the same system?
0:11:05 > 0:11:12- No, it's more complicated.- It's not a gyroscope where you put string in and wind it round to get it going?
0:11:12 > 0:11:18One of the worrying things about the autopilot is it's on for most of the time you're in the plane.
0:11:18 > 0:11:23They switch it off just before they land. They switch it off just as they take off...
0:11:23 > 0:11:28They watch the telly, then now and again they go to that channel where the map is
0:11:28 > 0:11:32to make sure they're heading in the right direction.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Then they put Michelle Pfeiffer back on.
0:11:35 > 0:11:40There are long flights, but where is the shortest commercial flight? Do you know?
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Oh, Bill!
0:11:42 > 0:11:47I think I might know this. I don't know. I'll try it. I'll go out on a limb.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Is it the Orkney Isles?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- Yes!- Is it?- Yes!
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- APPLAUSE - Oh, Bill, well done!
0:11:58 > 0:12:02- How many points? - There's another 4.5 points(!)
0:12:02 > 0:12:07- Yeah.- It's between...- 27 and a half, I think you'll find.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10- It's between Westray and Westray Papa.- Yeah.
0:12:10 > 0:12:16It's usually done in around two minutes, though the record is 58 seconds from take-off to landing.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Do you think people go, "I hope it's a quick one today?"
0:12:19 > 0:12:23The distance is shorter than the runway of Edinburgh Airport.
0:12:23 > 0:12:28Do they just take off, throw peanuts at you and then land?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Run up to you and rush back again.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35But the most bizarre thing about it is a return ticket is £39.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39- It's not cheap. - Why don't they build a bridge?
0:12:40 > 0:12:45- I'm assuming there is some sort of gorge to be got over. - I assume there is too.
0:12:45 > 0:12:50You get a certificate and a miniature of Highland Park whisky for doing the flight,
0:12:50 > 0:12:55so maybe people just get off on the idea of doing the shortest flight in the world.
0:12:55 > 0:13:00The sea's quite choppy round there, so it's quite difficult...
0:13:00 > 0:13:05It is a bit like that. They just do the exits and... "Oh, here we are."
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Well, there we are.
0:13:08 > 0:13:14Ladies and gentlemen, we've arrived at our first destination, which is India.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Which of these two gentlemen is going to make the better policeman?
0:13:19 > 0:13:23One of them has seen the camera and is about to arrest the photographer.
0:13:23 > 0:13:28That seems to be what policemen do nowadays, so I'll go with that one.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32- Interesting.- And he's got a Biro. - Yeah, the one with the pen.
0:13:33 > 0:13:38Writing notes down. The other one seems to be more concerned with how he looks.
0:13:38 > 0:13:43He's smiling, chatting away. The other one's a bit more sober, more professional.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46I think it's the guy in white behind them.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49He's plain-clothes. He's mingling in.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53You've missed the one detail that the state of Madhya Pradesh
0:13:53 > 0:13:59will pay policemen an extra 30 rupees a month to grow a moustache.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03- Really?- They consider that policemen are better in all kinds of ways.
0:14:03 > 0:14:09They're less intimidating, they work better with the community, they're more respected by the public.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- They're extraordinary...- The human race never ceases to disappoint.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17It's not just India. The British had weird ideas about moustaches.
0:14:17 > 0:14:23In India, they're considered a sign of virility, but at the moment there's a north-south divide.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27In the north of India, it's rarer to have moustaches because in Bollywood
0:14:27 > 0:14:32and the cricket team, the great heroes tend not to have moustaches,
0:14:32 > 0:14:37but in Tamil cinema, everybody has a moustache and that is just considered...
0:14:37 > 0:14:40It's Steve Wright in the Afternoon, isn't it?
0:14:40 > 0:14:44I've never trusted a moustache. I'm completely the other way.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48That's interesting because in the British Army from 1860
0:14:48 > 0:14:52it was a regulation that every soldier had to have a moustache.
0:14:52 > 0:14:58You could be imprisoned for shaving your upper lip, right up until the First World War,
0:14:58 > 0:15:02- then you had the option of shaving off your moustache.- Why?
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Why suddenly in the First World War?
0:15:05 > 0:15:09"We're fighting total war. The moustache, that was ridiculous."
0:15:09 > 0:15:15Surely, if they think...if we need moustaches, we need them more than ever now. It should be beards.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18They give you a certain... Don't they?
0:15:18 > 0:15:22- Yeah? Yeah? - APPLAUSE
0:15:22 > 0:15:24I think so.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28But this "beh-h-h" sort of moustache is...
0:15:28 > 0:15:31APPLAUSE
0:15:31 > 0:15:35Thank you. It's going to win a war, isn't it?
0:15:35 > 0:15:40But as you can see there, that's typical British soldiers, all of them with moustaches.
0:15:40 > 0:15:46I'm just imagining that that moustache is going to have its own website by the end of this.
0:15:46 > 0:15:51How long do you imagine the longest moustache in the world might be?
0:15:51 > 0:15:5324 feet.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57- Well, that's a little bit too much. - OK. 12.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- It's 14 feet. There it is. It's pretty impressive, isn't it?- Wow.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05- This man makes a living out of it. - LAUGHTER
0:16:05 > 0:16:10He was in the film Octopussy. I don't know what he did with his moustache...
0:16:10 > 0:16:13- But it's pretty impressive. - Do you distrust him?
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Deeply.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20If he turned up to do a bit of woodwork in the house
0:16:20 > 0:16:24and he just... "I'll measure 14 feet."
0:16:27 > 0:16:28APPLAUSE
0:16:28 > 0:16:31I'd naturally...
0:16:33 > 0:16:37- You wouldn't want to stand at a urinal.- Oh...
0:16:37 > 0:16:41- Oh, dear.- Trailing it around on the floor?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43He's wringing them out!
0:16:43 > 0:16:45LAUGHTER
0:16:45 > 0:16:49- Did... When you were children, did you have Action Men toys?- Yes.
0:16:49 > 0:16:54If I was to show you a picture of an Action Man toy, what could you tell me about this particular one?
0:16:54 > 0:16:56- Oh, Lord!- That's the adventurer.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Well, the adventurer just had a polo neck and jeans and boots.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02He seemed to be kind of a one-man band.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- Yes, but this one is a member of an armed service. - Well, he'll be in the Navy.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09Exactly, because it's only in the Navy that you're allowed to grow a beard.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13Yes, yes. And there are three jolly Jack Tars.
0:17:13 > 0:17:18In the Disney Corporation, none of the staff can have facial hair.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21- Really? In Disney? - Or earrings or anything.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26There was a rather good story about Disney some years ago.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30There was a furious e-mail sent out by the head of human resources, or whatever,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32to all Disney employees, and said,
0:17:32 > 0:17:38"The Disney Corporation takes strong exception to the use by some employees
0:17:38 > 0:17:44"of the phrase 'Mauschwitz' to describe the Disney Corporation.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50- "If it is used again, anyone using it will be summarily fired."- Shot!
0:17:52 > 0:17:56Within half an hour, they were using the phrase "Duckau".
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- I think it's very pleasing, isn't it? - APPLAUSE
0:18:04 > 0:18:09It's interesting they didn't, in any way, see the irony of the fact people had been using a term -
0:18:09 > 0:18:12a sort of fascist term - to refer to refer to their organisation.
0:18:12 > 0:18:17- "Well, we'll put a stop to this!" - Yes, I know! Exactly. Exactly!
0:18:17 > 0:18:22You might like to see a picture of some interesting moustaches there.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27And I have actually... I have what you might call moustachabilia.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32These are real things used by people with moustaches.
0:18:32 > 0:18:37This is simply to drink. It's a silver, beautifully made thing you put in a cup
0:18:37 > 0:18:41so that you can sip through here without...
0:18:41 > 0:18:46- Without staining your moustache. - Keeps it out of it.- Nice and dry.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50With soup, you'd want a soup spoon. You just sip through that part.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54So you take your soup like so and you just...like that.
0:18:54 > 0:19:00Again, I keep my moustache nice and dry. What else have I got here?
0:19:00 > 0:19:05They hadn't invented the straw at this point?
0:19:05 > 0:19:12Albert Finney had this in Murder On The Orient Express. At night this went round your ears.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Like that. Look at that.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18LAUGHTER Wh-What's that for, though?
0:19:18 > 0:19:23- You say you want to keep your moustache. Keep it from what? - Escaping!
0:19:25 > 0:19:27APPLAUSE
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Wild creatures of the night? I don't know.
0:19:34 > 0:19:40- People might come and nibble at it. - There's a slight air of gimp about it.- There is!
0:19:40 > 0:19:45- Isn't there?- The odd thing is that people using that spoon and drink cover
0:19:45 > 0:19:52are people who don't want to look stupid. "I don't want to look like a complete arse,
0:19:52 > 0:19:59- "so excuse me while I get out all my paraphernalia." - It is true, what you are saying.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Oh, dear. I'm going to take my moustache off now, cos it's causing me rather a lot of pain.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08Mm. Now, this is a question inspired by the International Brigade,
0:20:08 > 0:20:13who fought - as I'm sure you know - on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Which of these is the odd one out?
0:20:16 > 0:20:23- Machine gun.- Machine gun.- A tomato. - It's a Vickers.- Vickers?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25You asked which one is the odd one out. They ALL are!
0:20:25 > 0:20:30They're all the odd one out! They kind of are, aren't they?
0:20:30 > 0:20:33Well, there is a misapprehension about jellyfish.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37- If you're stung by a jellyfish, what are you supposed to do?- Wee on it. - Yes. The odd thing is,
0:20:37 > 0:20:42the jellyfish is the odd one out cos it's the only one you're NOT supposed to wee on.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45- You're supposed to wee on a tomato? - Yes.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50Weeing on tomatoes is good, and weeing on machine...
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- DAVID: I've never been stung by a tomato.- Not for that reason.
0:20:53 > 0:20:58If they'd known about the weeing in the First World War, it could've saved a lot of casualties!
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Well, it DID, actually. They did use them.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03After the first wave on the Somme,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05everyone's following with their cocks out?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11It's not quite like that. There's a little more to it, David.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13To get rid of the jellyfish first,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16it's a fallacy to suggest that you should pee on a jellyfish sting.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20The best thing you can do is sea water, which is likely to be around anyway.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Sometimes, acid is better than...
0:21:22 > 0:21:24But you can't be sure unless you know the species.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28But just leave it alone, and use sea water. Tomatoes?
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Well, the fact is, the world is running out of phosphorus,
0:21:32 > 0:21:36and human urine is an extremely good fertiliser for tomatoes.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38When you said "urinate on tomatoes",
0:21:38 > 0:21:41I thought you meant instead of salad dressing.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46I agree - it was a laxly phrased question.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51We're quite happy to use animal manure in order to grow things and know that they grow well.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54I know. That's weird, isn't it? That's because I think we find -
0:21:54 > 0:21:57and this may be a function of our own self loathing.
0:21:57 > 0:22:03- We find our own excrement more disgusting than that of other creatures.- Speak for yourself!
0:22:07 > 0:22:12- What about the wee and the gun, though? Why is...- Now, the gun...
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- Now, what is the issue with machine guns?- They kill you dead.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Dead, Stephen, dead.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22- As a... We have here...- A gun?!
0:22:22 > 0:22:26We have a gentleman from the Royal Armouries - welcome.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:22:33 > 0:22:37- Thank you very much. - He's not going to wee on it, is he?!
0:22:37 > 0:22:39We did ask if he would - he declined.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41He's left it unattended. Come on!
0:22:41 > 0:22:46It's a mark one Vickers, 1917 model, as used in the First World War.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Used by the British Army all the way up to the Korean War.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52A very, very popular form, but the main problem for the operator
0:22:52 > 0:22:57- aside from them getting jammed occasionally - was overheating. So they had a jacket,
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- and they were water cooled.- Oh, OK.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03But very often, of course, you were fighting in places where there was no water.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07There's a jerry can - that's not where the water comes from.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09The water is poured into a hole in the top,
0:23:09 > 0:23:13and then it condenses and collects in the jerry can. You then reuse it.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17But in the Spanish Civil War, the phrase "pass the piss" was used,
0:23:17 > 0:23:19and they would actually fill up jerry cans
0:23:19 > 0:23:22and use human urine to cool down the guns.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25It was the only way of doing it - there was no water.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29- Oh, I see.- Must have been horrible in the trenches -
0:23:29 > 0:23:34- not only the risk of being shot, but then, later, a very nasty cup of tea.- Yes!
0:23:34 > 0:23:37"Which jerry can did you use for the...?"
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Actually, Robert Graves, in his great novel Goodbye To All That,
0:23:40 > 0:23:44claims they used to make tea from the water used in the machine guns.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48- Yeah, yeah. Very unpleasant.- But that's not necessarily...- Pee water.
0:23:48 > 0:23:53There's no shortage of water in eastern France.
0:23:53 > 0:23:59No, hence I was saying it was the International Brigade, in particular - the drier parts of La Mancha.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01They probably made sangria out of it.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04The Russians actually made a gun with a hole in which to pee,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07they were so used to the idea that peeing into it would help.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11They gave a little peehole so you could pee straight into the gun.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13So you could pee and...while you're firing the gun.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I don't think...
0:24:16 > 0:24:21Oh! Oh, that's good. Oh!
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Oh, I needed that.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29What a relief!
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Well, there you are. That's really the answer, I suppose.
0:24:32 > 0:24:37The jellyfish is the odd one out, because it's the only one that isn't improved by being widdled upon.
0:24:37 > 0:24:43Maybe we can ask our lovely Royal Armouries friend to wheel away his Vickers now. Thank you very much.
0:24:49 > 0:24:55Now, what was Italy's biggest export in the year 1953?
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Er...frozen urine.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01KLAXONS WAIL
0:25:03 > 0:25:09- Urine?- Yes, urine. We know you, Bill Bailey.
0:25:09 > 0:25:10Would it be dried pasta?
0:25:10 > 0:25:13- KLAXON WAILS - Ooh, I'm sorry.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19It came from a place called Castelfidardo, and it's an object.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- It had thousands of parts but a very complex mechanism.- Jigsaw. Jigsaw!
0:25:26 > 0:25:28In 1954, they were overtaken by Fiat,
0:25:28 > 0:25:32who then were the biggest exporter from Italy with their cars,
0:25:32 > 0:25:34but in the year 1953, amazingly,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37it was this object that Italy exported more than anything else.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41- It was a musical instrument, Bill. - Oh. Em, er... A hurdy-gurdy.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45- No, an accordion.- An accordion is the right answer!- Yes.- There you are.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Rather extraordinary!
0:25:53 > 0:25:56There you are - it's the Italian town of Castelfidardo,
0:25:56 > 0:25:59which still makes them to this very day, and is proud to do so.
0:25:59 > 0:26:05Mm. Now what did Mussolini want Italians to eat to make them big and strong?
0:26:05 > 0:26:09He had a national propaganda day for this foodstuff
0:26:09 > 0:26:12and he wanted Italians to take to it.
0:26:12 > 0:26:18- Was it a vegetable?- Not quite. - Nuts.- Not nuts, no.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22- It's something Italians do eat. They have a specialist dish. - Polenta?- Very close.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26- What's a great Italian dish, apart from pasta?- Macaroni cheese.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- R...- Ravioli?- Ri...
0:26:28 > 0:26:34- Risotto!- Which is made from...?- Rice. - Rice, exactly.
0:26:34 > 0:26:39And he wanted Italians off the habit of eating pasta and onto rice.
0:26:39 > 0:26:46- They didn't take kindly to this and so here are some...- Paddy fields. - ..Italian ladies growing rice.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50- And singing while they do it. - As they did it.
0:26:50 > 0:26:56He had on his side the Futurists. You probably know about the Futurist movement.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- Not yet.- Like the Dadaists...
0:26:58 > 0:27:03"Not yet". Very good! Much too quick. That was brilliant.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08The Futurists were an art movement and they were pretty witty.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, one of the great Futurists,
0:27:12 > 0:27:17said pasta made Italians lethargic, pessimistic and sentimental.
0:27:17 > 0:27:23This caused outrage. He opened his own restaurant and had some extraordinary dishes.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Way ahead of Heston Blumenthal and anybody like that.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31My favourite one is Aerofood. Pieces of olive, fennel and kumquat
0:27:31 > 0:27:34eaten with the right hand,
0:27:34 > 0:27:40while the left hand caresses various pieces of sandpaper, velvet and silk.
0:27:40 > 0:27:46All the while, the diner is blasted with a giant fan and sprayed with the scent of carnation
0:27:46 > 0:27:48to the music of Wagner.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50LAUGHTER
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Isn't that a dish?
0:27:54 > 0:28:00I think somebody should have the guts and the wit to open a Futurist restaurant.
0:28:00 > 0:28:06There was Chicken Fiat. The chicken is roasted with a handful of ball bearings inside.
0:28:06 > 0:28:14When the flesh has fully absorbed the flavour of the mild steel balls, it is served with whipped cream.
0:28:14 > 0:28:21And Excited Pig - a salami skinned is cooked in strong espresso coffee, flavoured with eau de cologne.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23GROANS
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Have you been to a motorway services?
0:28:26 > 0:28:31- I quite like the idea of a chicken that tastes a bit of metal.- Yes.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35I love the idea of stroking something while you're eating.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39Have you ever been to one of those - there's one in Berlin I went to -
0:28:39 > 0:28:42restaurants where it's completely dark?
0:28:42 > 0:28:45All the waiters are blind, and they lead you to your table,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48they recite the menu to you, and you order the food
0:28:48 > 0:28:52and it's put in front of you. You often use your fingers.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54It concentrates you entirely on the taste of the food.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58I know it sounds a bit weird, but it is a fantastic experience.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01I'm not saying you should go there every night.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05The kitchen - chefs wandering around with no fingers.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08I get stressed in restaurants,
0:29:08 > 0:29:12when the waiters don't write down your order.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15You know - "No, we're a cool restaurant, we can remember it."
0:29:15 > 0:29:18And you say, "Well, CAN you remember? Are you sure?"
0:29:18 > 0:29:21Because this is specifically what I have to eat.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24If I want to torture my mother, which...
0:29:26 > 0:29:29Then, it's a free country.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32Do what you like, Wing Commander.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35In a restaurant, she'll say, "What are you going to have?"
0:29:35 > 0:29:38You say, "I'm not telling you. I'm going to tell the waiter."
0:29:38 > 0:29:42- "No, tell me what you're going to have."- "Waterboarding for you, Mother."
0:29:42 > 0:29:45There ARE people who cannot... Who just can't bear it
0:29:45 > 0:29:48unless they know what everyone else is going to order.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52So it does drive my mother slightly potty not to tell her.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54Now, as far as pasta is concerned,
0:29:54 > 0:29:58what sort of sauces fit what sort of pasta?
0:29:58 > 0:30:01Do you think there's a rule that you should apply?
0:30:01 > 0:30:03The Italians have a kind of code,
0:30:03 > 0:30:07that certain pastas hold more sauce, so if it's a very strong flavour,
0:30:07 > 0:30:11you want a pasta like the little shell-shaped ones.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Anything hollow, they reckon should have a tomatoey one,
0:30:14 > 0:30:17because it's more liquid and it fills the inside of the tube, as well.
0:30:17 > 0:30:22- They also don't have Parmesan on, by any means, any of it.- They often regard that as vulgar.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26- And Bolognese is just for idiots. - Yeah. 'Fraid so, yeah.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29And the other major thing is that we use about four times more sauce
0:30:29 > 0:30:31on the pasta than the Italians do.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33They just basically coat the pasta with the sauce.
0:30:33 > 0:30:38The point is, though, they just have pasta as one of many courses in an elegant meal.
0:30:38 > 0:30:42We say, "Oh, pasta's a great way of getting the whole chore of feeding ourselves over with,
0:30:42 > 0:30:46"in one great stodgy go. We'll have loads.
0:30:46 > 0:30:51"I'll have a pile of it, until I just can't face another mouthful."
0:30:51 > 0:30:54Exactly. You're looking at the cooking instructions.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56"Serves what?"
0:30:56 > 0:30:57APPLAUSE
0:30:59 > 0:31:02"Serves four? Nah! I'll double that, I think."
0:31:02 > 0:31:06I regard myself, in some ways, as a sophisticated being and, yet,
0:31:06 > 0:31:10I'm not even ashamed of the fact that I love spaghetti hoops on toast. I just do!
0:31:10 > 0:31:15That's what the Italians wouldn't understand - the thing to do with pasta is to put it on toast.
0:31:15 > 0:31:19Is that what you do after a show? Go home, get some spaghetti hoops, heat them,
0:31:19 > 0:31:23put the toast on, turn the lights out, put the blindfold on...
0:31:29 > 0:31:33My life! That's my life!
0:31:34 > 0:31:40Moving to another country now, which international head of state
0:31:40 > 0:31:45snubbed Jesse Owens after his triumph at the 1936 Olympics?
0:31:45 > 0:31:48- Yes, Jack?- Hitler.
0:31:49 > 0:31:54- KLAXON SOUNDS - Oddly enough, it's not true. It's what the whole world thinks.
0:31:54 > 0:32:00And we know this from no greater source than Jesse Owens himself.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04It's a really rather sad and very typically unfortunate story.
0:32:04 > 0:32:11Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, stage-managed, of course, by Hitler.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16On the first day, Hitler congratulated only German winners.
0:32:16 > 0:32:22Someone said to him that he should either congratulate all the winners or none of them,
0:32:22 > 0:32:28- so he said, "I won't congratulate any winners." So he didn't personally...- Look at the far right.
0:32:28 > 0:32:32- ..he didn't personally congratulate Jesse Owens. - LAUGHTER
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Who are you looking at there?
0:32:34 > 0:32:38The bloke on the far right is just going like that.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42That bloke on the far right is called Hermann Goering.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45LAUGHTER
0:32:45 > 0:32:48- Surely they're all on the far right? - Hey!
0:32:49 > 0:32:52- Wa-hey! - APPLAUSE
0:32:52 > 0:32:54Brilliant!
0:32:57 > 0:33:02They're all taking bets on how high the high jump was going to go.
0:33:02 > 0:33:08- "About there." - The one on Hitler's left is thinking, "I didn't get the memo."
0:33:08 > 0:33:10How To Dress.
0:33:10 > 0:33:16Well, no, it is rather sad. Hitler decided that he wouldn't congratulate anyone,
0:33:16 > 0:33:21so he didn't snub Jesse Owens at all. According to Jesse Owens,
0:33:21 > 0:33:25"When I passed the Chancellor, he arose, waved his hand at me
0:33:25 > 0:33:31"and I waved back at him. Hitler didn't snub me. It was..." Who snubbed him?
0:33:31 > 0:33:36- So Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all...- The jury's still out.
0:33:36 > 0:33:41- We know he's bad, but he didn't snub Jesse Owens.- The King of England.
0:33:41 > 0:33:43- No, FDR.- Bastard.
0:33:43 > 0:33:48The President of his own country. It's a terrible story here.
0:33:48 > 0:33:53"The President didn't even send me a telegram." He won four golds.
0:33:53 > 0:33:59"When I came back to my native country, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus,
0:33:59 > 0:34:06"I had to go to the back door, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President."
0:34:06 > 0:34:12He had to use the goods lift at the Waldorf Astoria to get into the reception
0:34:12 > 0:34:17for returning US athletes as he wasn't to use the front door.
0:34:17 > 0:34:23- Sammy Davis Junior couldn't go in the front of hotels in Vegas where he was performing.- Astonishing.
0:34:23 > 0:34:29- He went in through the kitchen. - I know. That still happens to me sometimes.
0:34:29 > 0:34:35Moving on elsewhere again, where does the rainwater that falls into this creek go?
0:34:35 > 0:34:39- It's in Wyoming, I should say. - FANFARE
0:34:39 > 0:34:42- 'Nobody knows!'- You're right!
0:34:42 > 0:34:43CHEERING
0:34:43 > 0:34:45Well done!
0:34:47 > 0:34:49All right!
0:34:52 > 0:34:58You're very good at this. As you probably know, round about the Rockies
0:34:58 > 0:35:04there is the Continental Divide and rainwater that falls on one side drains into the Pacific,
0:35:04 > 0:35:09- the other to the Atlantic, but in this particular place... - LAUGHTER
0:35:09 > 0:35:12Nobody knows.
0:35:12 > 0:35:17- It's called North Two Ocean Creek in Wyoming.- It's a big one.
0:35:17 > 0:35:22- LAUGHTER - Nobody, as you rightly say, knows. And there it is.
0:35:22 > 0:35:29Now fasten your seatbelts as we head into a spot of unexpected general ignorance.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32Name the world's largest pyramid.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36Don't know the name of any.
0:35:36 > 0:35:38- That one in the middle. - LAUGHTER
0:35:38 > 0:35:41KLAXON
0:35:45 > 0:35:48Oh, Jack! I'm so sorry.
0:35:48 > 0:35:53- Am I really that predictable?- I'm afraid you are. Terrible thought.
0:35:53 > 0:35:59Well, well, I don't know. I'm going to say something that will be wrong, like Giza.
0:35:59 > 0:36:02Well, that's where we're looking.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06- The three great pyramids of Giza. - It's not an Aztec one, is it?
0:36:06 > 0:36:12Yes, it is. I don't expect you to know its name. If you did, you'd get 40 points.
0:36:12 > 0:36:17I don't know its name, but I'll spit out some consonants!
0:36:17 > 0:36:21- It's called Cholula. - Ah, Cholula!
0:36:21 > 0:36:27- It was on the tip of my tongue. - It's not Opl-lopl-opl...? - No, it's not Popocatepetl.
0:36:27 > 0:36:34It's Cholula. Although it's got a flat top and it's not as high, its cubic capacity is much bigger.
0:36:34 > 0:36:39It's 4.3 million cubic yards as opposed to Khufu or Cheops' 3.36.
0:36:39 > 0:36:45- It's not actually a pyramid. - According to archaeologists, that qualifies as a pyramid.
0:36:45 > 0:36:49There is a word for a pyramid with a flat top.
0:36:49 > 0:36:53- Unfinished. - LAUGHTER
0:36:54 > 0:36:56APPLAUSE
0:36:56 > 0:36:58It's on the sign.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02"Due for completion early BC497."
0:37:02 > 0:37:06It's called a frustum. Name the world's fattest country.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Or the country with the fattest citizens.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12- Cos otherwise I'd say it would be Russia.- No.- Tonga.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15- Not Tonga. No.- Fiji.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18No, but you're absolutely in the right area, you've correctly...
0:37:18 > 0:37:21- Vanuatu.- No, you're abso...
0:37:21 > 0:37:23- You're so... Oh!- The Cook Islands.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26- So close to round there.- Fiji.
0:37:26 > 0:37:27It begins with N.
0:37:27 > 0:37:28Nnnn...
0:37:28 > 0:37:29Nyuh!
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Nnn-not Tonga.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33Nauru.
0:37:33 > 0:37:34Near Tonga.
0:37:34 > 0:37:35North Tonga!
0:37:36 > 0:37:38Nnn-never Tonga.
0:37:38 > 0:37:39Is it Nauru?
0:37:39 > 0:37:41Now! Exactly, yes.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:37:43 > 0:37:45In your face!
0:37:48 > 0:37:50It only has a population of 10,000 people,
0:37:50 > 0:37:55but 97% of the men are obese or overweight and 93% of women are obese or overweight.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59- I remember they had a one-man Olympic team and he was in the weightlifting. - Yes.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02They get rather upset at being called obese and they say they're a stocky people
0:38:02 > 0:38:04- and...- Big boned.
0:38:04 > 0:38:05Big boned, exactly. Exactly.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08- It's their metabolism. - Well, I'm afraid the fact is,
0:38:08 > 0:38:10you can't really put on weight, as I know to my cost,
0:38:10 > 0:38:12unless you put things in your mouth.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14That's where it comes from.
0:38:14 > 0:38:18When was the First World War first named as such?
0:38:20 > 0:38:24The outbreak. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28- You think it was straightaway? - Before it started.
0:38:28 > 0:38:34It would be an act of a pessimist to call it that early.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39- It's going to be some point after 1939, isn't it? - A realist, surely.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42"There's going to be more of these." KLAXON
0:38:44 > 0:38:49Excuse me! I think what I said, people in the box,
0:38:49 > 0:38:51is AFTER 1939,
0:38:51 > 0:38:55which may contain 1939, but does not mean it.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57KLAXON
0:38:58 > 0:39:02OK... No, no, no.
0:39:02 > 0:39:08I think "After 1939" and "After the Second World War" are not synonymous.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12This is just giving you time to type "After 1939".
0:39:12 > 0:39:14KLAXON
0:39:17 > 0:39:18Oh...
0:39:18 > 0:39:22Why not just type, "Mitchell is a cock"?
0:39:24 > 0:39:28- I wouldn't put it past them! - LAUGHTER
0:39:28 > 0:39:35No, the surprising news is that it was in 1918 that it was first called the First World War.
0:39:35 > 0:39:39A British officer, Lt Col Charles a Court Repington,
0:39:39 > 0:39:45recorded in his diary for 10th September that he met Major Johnstone of Harvard University
0:39:45 > 0:39:51to discuss what to call the war. Repington said to call it The War was no good.
0:39:51 > 0:39:56- That War?- To call it the German War gave too much credit to the Boche.
0:39:56 > 0:40:02"I suggested the World War," Repington said, "Finally, we agreed to call it the First World War
0:40:02 > 0:40:08"to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war."
0:40:08 > 0:40:13In 1920 he published a book called The First World War, 1914-18.
0:40:13 > 0:40:20- Wasn't it called The Great War? - Yes, but there was another Great War before that. Do you know it?
0:40:20 > 0:40:26- Napoleonic War?- Napoleonic, yes. So wars do change their names. There you are.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Supplementary on this international question,
0:40:28 > 0:40:34why did the colonels in chief of the Royal Dragoons and the 1st King's Dragoon Guards
0:40:34 > 0:40:37fail to turn up for duty at the start of the First World War?
0:40:37 > 0:40:39They were entwined in an embrace.
0:40:45 > 0:40:50- Only now can we reveal the truth. - It was one of those embarrassing things about...- Oh, I know!- Yes?
0:40:50 > 0:40:52Because it was Kaiser Bill.
0:40:52 > 0:40:56Yes. Kaiser Bill was in fact the colonel in chief of the Royal Dragoons,
0:40:56 > 0:41:01and Franz Joseph Habsburg was the colonel in chief of the King's Dragoons,
0:41:01 > 0:41:04- so...- That's a security risk, that. - It was a bit, wasn't it?
0:41:04 > 0:41:10If it turned out that Osama bin Laden was actually an admiral of the fleet,
0:41:10 > 0:41:11that would have been a nightmare.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15We appointed Emperor Hirohito a field marshal in the 1930s though,
0:41:15 > 0:41:19so we carried on doing this. There was a bit of embarrassment when they had to go to war
0:41:19 > 0:41:23with their colonel in chief. It was eventually sorted out,
0:41:23 > 0:41:25and we pretty much spanked their botties.
0:41:25 > 0:41:26We pretty much did.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29- So...- Only four years of carnage. - Yes. Quite.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31And lastly,
0:41:31 > 0:41:34on the international journey that we've been enjoying,
0:41:34 > 0:41:36who invented this salute?
0:41:36 > 0:41:39- The Scouts.- The Scouts, no.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42Is this a kind of "who were the first fascists" question?
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Not really, no.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47Who actually used this as a salute first, do we know?
0:41:47 > 0:41:48Oh! Was it a Roman?
0:41:48 > 0:41:51- Ah... No. - KLAXON
0:41:51 > 0:41:53Unfortunately not.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57It was basically the French Classical artists, notably David,
0:41:57 > 0:42:00- the leading French Classical artist, who...- Artists have a salute?!
0:42:00 > 0:42:05They painted Romans doing this, but there is no evidence in Roman literature, murals or art
0:42:05 > 0:42:09- that Romans ever did this as a salute.- They're bound to have done.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13- At some point, I mean... - They might have put their arms out, but it wasn't used as a salute.
0:42:13 > 0:42:17It just became a common idea that they did this.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20And so it then became very much a symbol of the Olympic movement,
0:42:20 > 0:42:23it was the Olympic salute, until 1936.
0:42:23 > 0:42:29Um, and also, American school children when they took the Oath Of Allegiance they did that.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32- And then again, once it became a fascist salute...- Now they do...
0:42:34 > 0:42:40It's a strange thought that the Nazi salute was in fact American school children and Olympic athletes
0:42:40 > 0:42:43who first used it. There you are, wasn't invented by the Nazis at all.
0:42:43 > 0:42:49And with that we reach our final destination. Please remain seated for the scores.
0:42:49 > 0:42:55My goodness, me. Well, I'm afraid very much in the bucket class,
0:42:55 > 0:42:58with minus 44, is David Mitchell!
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0:43:06 > 0:43:09Standing room only at the back. With minus 27 it's Jack Dee!
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0:43:14 > 0:43:19- With a surprising amount of leg room, at minus 10, Alan Davies! - Thank you.
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