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Good evening, and welcome to QI, | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
where tonight we're up in the attic rootling through the tea chests | 0:00:34 | 0:00:40 | |
and old suitcases in search of Quite Interesting Odds And Ends. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
And joining me on my rummage are an absolute treasure, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
Romesh Ranganathan... | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
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..a collector's item, Liza Tarbuck... | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
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-..a guest of rare antiquity, Matt Lucas. -Hello. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
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And look who else we've managed to dig up - Alan Davies. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
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Right, their buzzers are an O-ssortment of odds and sods. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
Romesh goes... | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
# Bits and pieces, bits and pieces. # | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
Liza goes... | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
# I said I've had too much of this and that. # | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
Oh, I like that. Matt goes... | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
# Needles and pins. # | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
-These are jolly, aren't they? LIZA: -They are. -Ha. And Alan goes... | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
# Sex and drugs and rock and roll is very cool indeed. # | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
OK, how's this for openers - what would you open with these? | 0:01:49 | 0:01:54 | |
So, let's have a quick look. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:55 | |
I've got number one here. Do you want to have a look? | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
A door? A lock or something like that? | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
Well, it's going to certainly open something that's difficult to open. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:04 | |
A safe, a suitcase. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
Your heart. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
That would be a story, I tell you. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
-Is it a device for... -Yes? | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
..opening two unexploded party poppers? | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
-Oh, I want it to be that. -Yeah. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
I see that you're wearing a very fine watch there, Romesh. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
-What do you think that it might be? -It's for a watch. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
That's why we have you on this show, | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
it's the sharpness of the mind that is so fantastic. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
Is it...? No. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
No. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
It's the back case cover opener. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
Yeah, so for a lady's... | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
With a simple action, you can get the things closer together, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
or indeed further apart. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
Yeah. So it could do a lady's watch or a gentleman's watch. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
And, also, you can measure the girth of your penis with it. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
Maybe YOU can, mate. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
You could measure the length of yours with that. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
How did we get there so quickly! | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
I just don't understand the applause of recognition | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
from members of the audience. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
-Yes? -What...? Do you actually know? What do you do? | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
I'm not sure your watch is worth opening. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Thank you, Sandi. I was thinking to myself, I feel a bit victimised, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
-it's been... -Sorry, I'm sorry. -But I don't mind, I don't mind | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
people talking about my penis, but my watch...! | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
-That's a step too far. -OK. Let's have a look at this one. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
You guys can have a look at that one | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
and see what you think of that. That's number two. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
Well, it's gynaecological, isn't it? If we're opening something. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:50 | |
It is opening something, but you may be at the wrong end. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
Is that for, when you do a heart transplant, keeping the chest open? | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
-LIZA: -Oh! -So this thing here is also used in the same area. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
-So this is another... -Oh, now you're talking. -Yeah. LIZA: -Is it mouthy? | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
-It is mouthy, darling, yes. -OK. -It's on the mouth side, | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
do you want to try that? So it's something to do with the mouth. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
-So it's keeping the mouth... -Yeah. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
So, if you see, Matt, the thing that it's got, it ratchets open, | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
-but you would... -Is that right? -It is. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
So what is that for? | 0:04:19 | 0:04:20 | |
Turning the mouth into a...into a letterbox or something? | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
They can edit that out. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
But the thing is, you can't get it out, Sandi, so... | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
It's a cheap retractor. That's exactly how it works. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
-Is it? -And so is that. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
-No, so don't put that bit in your mouth, darling. -Oh. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
I sound like a school teacher. Don't put that bit in your mouth, darling. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
Put the black bit into your mouth, so... | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
Yes, so the middle bit, you put that in. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
Well, how? My mouth isn't that big. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
Well, you've got to close it first. The thing. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
Oh. What, so put that in? | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
No, put it around the other way, I think. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
-LIZA: -I've been handling that. -The other way? -No, no. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
I usually have someone who looks after me. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
And they help me out with things like this. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
-I'm a little overwhelmed at this time. -You were heading | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
-in the right direction. -What, in there? -Yes, put that in like that. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
-And then open it up. -This? -Yes. And it... Yeah. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
That's exactly... It holds the patient's mouth open | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
while they're having dental treatment. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
-It's the stuff of dreams, isn't it? -Oh, yeah. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
-What about this one? Anybody got any thoughts what that is? -Oh. Wow. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
So it's all about openings. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
-LIZA: -If I was drunk, I'd say something that...I won't say it now. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
-No, go on, treat yourself. -Er, no, I can't possibly. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
-Are you thinking about a butt plug? -LIZA: -Yes. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
Hold on, what are you, you're trying to get into the butt? | 0:05:40 | 0:05:45 | |
Well, it's a drill, isn't it? | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
-ALAN: -We had a secret Santa once and I... -Bloody hell. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
And I bought... | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
I bought this thing called a back door beginner. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
It was quite a small one. | 0:05:57 | 0:05:58 | |
Why do you want to plug your butt? | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
-Oh, well... -Well... -Well, basically... -Yes? | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
Isn't it to do with re-educating the muscle to tighten again? | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
-LIZA: -Oh. -"Re-educating" your arse! | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
"Mum, Mum, I've got a lovely new job, I'm in education." | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
Do you want to have a look? You can have a look. No? | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
-Is it anything to do with wine? -No, no, it isn't anything | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
to do with wine. We're still in the human body. In fact, weirdly, | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
we're in exactly the same place as we were before with the mouth thing. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
-In the mouth? -And, so, what it is, it's an emergency mouth-opener. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
So, say somebody had got lockjaw or there was some reason why they | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
couldn't open their mouth, it is an emergency way of opening the mouth. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
Can I advise that you use it as that before you use it as a butt plug? | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
-Have you got number four there? -Yes. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
OK. What do you think that might be? | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
Be very careful. I do not want you to hurt yourself. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
I believe that is used for injuring panel show contestants. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
It's upside down right now. There you go. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
-It's upside down. -Incredibly heavy. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
It's all the straps, it feels like it's something to do with a horse. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
-It is exactly something to do with a horse. LIZA: -Thank God! | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
-Yeah. It is an equine mouth-opener. ALAN: -Oh. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
It is used by vets to hold the horse's mouth open. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
Sometimes their teeth need rasping, because they get a sort of | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
sharp point with their teeth and it hurts them with the bit. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
And so you need to open their mouth and just file it down. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
So, dental work for horses. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
Yeah, so it's quite a... | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
It is quite a sharp... | 0:07:22 | 0:07:23 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
Let's try the next one. Any thoughts about that? | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
-LIZA: -It's a piercing for something. What shape is it going into? | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Ah, well that's to put a hole into your bottom | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
if you don't already have one. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
Do you know, it looks like a chipolata torturing device, | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
-is what it looks like. -Why would you want to torture a chipolata? | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
If you're, like, a militant vegan, or something, I don't know. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
-Yeah, yeah. It isn't that. -This looks quite kitcheny. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
-It is kitcheny. -Is it for an egg? | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
No, it isn't. It is an oyster opener, an oyster shucker. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
So, rather than inserting a knife, where you can actually hurt | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
yourself, you do it with one of those. The other thing to do | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
is go to a nice restaurant, and somebody will do it for you, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
which I think is even easier. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
On the food front, I have one of these which I... | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
-LIZA: -Oh, hello. -It seems slightly pointless. -Is it an egg? | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
It's an egg opener. Want to try it, anybody? | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
-No, I'm fine, thank you. -Come on, I'll have a go. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
OK, the boys will do this, there we go. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
-So you put it round the egg and squeeze it? -Yeah. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
Well, I think you have to squeeze and then twist it off, | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
like a sort of beheading. OK. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:22 | |
Is this going to be a trick egg? | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
No, darling, honestly, it's just boiled. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:25 | |
Give it a turn at the same time. EGGSHELL CRACKS | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
There. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:28 | |
-Ah, that is good, it makes the egg look hideous. -Yeah. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
-I had to hold it... -A useful little tool. -Yeah. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
I had to hold it so tight, I'm glad it was already... | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
Cos the easiest way to do an egg, what you need to do is | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
you need to break both ends, like that, and then you roll it... | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
-LIZA: -Ooh, hello. -..like this and then the shell just comes off | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
unbelievably quickly. See? Like that. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
And you don't need... | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
I love eggs, they're great, aren't they? | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
-They're very realistic-looking, those prop eggs, aren't they? -Yes. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
-Very clever. -I don't think that egg was cooked recently, was it? | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
So, that closes openers. And now, an odourless question. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:20 | |
Where can you find the largest collection | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
of things that don't smell? | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
# ..pins. # | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
-Matt? -Is it in the sea? | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
Oh, right. Why do you think that? | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
Because, I mean, there's salt, | 0:09:30 | 0:09:31 | |
but salt doesn't have a very strong smell. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
-No. And neither do fish, famously. -No. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
But I, what I am proposing... | 0:09:40 | 0:09:41 | |
-Yes, yes? -..and I'm clever, is... | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
..is that once you're under the water... | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
-Right? -..you can't smell. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:48 | |
Have you tried to smell under the water, anybody? | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
That doesn't mean it doesn't smell. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Well, if a tree falls in the forest... | 0:09:53 | 0:09:57 | |
-..and it doesn't smell... -No. -..then...it... Yeah. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
-We are in the town where I was born. -Copenhagen? | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
Copenhagen, we're in wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
What are the things that old statues might lose as they get | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
transported about, or over the years? What might they lose? | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
-Fingers. -Private parts. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:17 | |
OK, yes, I was going to, again, go higher, | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
but you've just gone with that side of the thing. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
Noses, they lose their noses, | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
and, so, there is THE most glorious art museum in Copenhagen, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
it's called the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
and it contains a Nasothek. It is a collection of noses. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
In the 19th century, museums used to repair them, | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
so there used to be a collection of noses used to repair statues. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
This was a thing that we don't do any more | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
because now we think we should leave the statue exactly as it is. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
Have we got any photos from the penis museum? | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
Yes, is the truth of it. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:48 | |
Lots of statues lost their penises - that is entirely true. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
-Right. -But that was on purpose, wasn't it? -Due to prudery, yeah. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
-Yeah, absolutely. -So about 80% of the male nude statues | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
-in the Vatican Gardens are missing their members. -Oh, no, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
cos I just thought I was average. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
-Are you saying they've been taken off? -They've been taken off | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
and they say there's a secret room | 0:11:06 | 0:11:07 | |
in the Vatican that has all of them in it. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
-Sandi, I've listened to your explanation... -Yes. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
..and I'm still going with under the sea. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
Well, that's fine, darling, you're just not going to win. So... | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
But, bizarrely, the Copenhagen Nasothek | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
is not the only false nose collection in Scandinavia. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
There's a Nose Academy at Lund in Sweden | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
where you can find, supposedly, a plaster cast | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
of the great botanist there Carl Linnaeus | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
and the cast of the legendary silver nose | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
There's also an unknown nose, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
which is a monument to the nose of the common man | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
who didn't qualify for nasal immortality. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
-No-one NOSE. -Nobody NOSE, exactly. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
If your statue has no nose, it might be found in a museum in Copenhagen. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
So, here's a collection of odd-sounding O words | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
and I'd like you to pick one and use it in a sentence, please. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
A cum-spliff, what the f...? | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
-BAD DUTCH ACCENT: -"Oh, ja, a cum-spliff. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
-"Ja, cum-spliff, ja." -It doesn't take long, | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
-it doesn't take long at all. -"Oppenchops, cum-spliff." | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
Are you doing, are you doing "oojah-cum-spliff?" | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
-Yeah... -Is that your one? -Doing a cum-spliff. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
-What is your sentence, please, Alan? -"Oh, ja, a cum-spliff." | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
It's a... | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
It's a Dutchman having a joint in a brothel. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
-Cum-spliff? -I don't want it, I don't want it. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
Get it away from me, man. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:39 | |
You'd be no fun in a brothel, would you? | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
"Oh, look at Rom, he doesn't want the cum-spliff, what a prude!" | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
-Oojah-cum-spliff means all fine and dandy. -Yeah, I bet it does. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
-Earliest use found in PG Wodehouse. -I've got one. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
-Yeah, go on, then, Matt. -Tottenham had their best season for years, | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
they came first in the league... Ohnosecond. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
Oh, very good. OK. Ohnosecond. So it's sort of right, actually, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
-cos in computing... -Well, it is right, they didn't win | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
-anything at all. -No, in... -They've won nothing for years. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:13 | |
-They're rubbish. -But actually, your definition for it | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
is not too far off, because in computing what it is, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
it's the moment you realise you've made a mistake. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
So it is a computing, you go, "Oh, no" second. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
-Oh, right. OK. -I don't think yours was too far off. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:25 | |
-Come on, Liza, let's have one from you. -I'm drawn to "obsolagnium." | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
OK. It's not a good word, it's waning sexual desire due to age. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:34 | |
And I was drawn to it. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
-ALAN: -You're surrounded by it at the moment. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
-LIZA: -It's a hell of a sandwich. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
-ALAN: -When I change my little boy's nappy, | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
it's full of ottomotty and oozle, absolutely... | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
So, ottymotty, Lancastrian slang for being perplexed. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
And oozle, it's Australian slang to move slowly. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
IN AUSTRALIAN ACCENT: Can I oozle along to the barbie? | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
-IN AUSTRALIAN ACCENT: -This guy's oozling a little bit. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
Oppenchops, Lancastrian slang for a gossip. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
-Octodesexcentenary. -OK, that is probably the strangest, I think. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
It's the 100th anniversary of when your octopus's penis fell off. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
It is...it is a really specific thing. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
It's something that lasts 592 years. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
It arose in connection with a particular calendar, the lunar solar | 0:14:17 | 0:14:21 | |
calendar, devised by a 17th-century mathematician called Thomas Lydiat. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
-And he thought of the word? -And he thought of the word. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
-It is a very specific word for 592. -I'd have loved him. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
Not with your waning sexual desire. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
Now, brace, brace, brace! | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
I don't, I don't think that's funny. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
-I don't think that's funny. -That hit me on the nose. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
-That is awful. -Well, we know where we can get another one. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
Fortunately, we can get oxygen for you and a new nose, you're absolutely right, Liza. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
I'll take you to Copenhagen, we'll sort your nose out. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
So, my question is, what's in the canister | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
on the other end of the pipe that you've got? | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
Oxygen? | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
-Oh, no. -He said it. -No, he said it. -You said it. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
-He said it. -Don't put the blame on me. -He said it, 100% he said it. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
I quite like hearing all of you as if you were quite a long way away. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
I've never seen you look better, Matt, | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
that's a really good look for you. I really like that. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
-Thank you very much. -It is not oxygen. -Not oxygen. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
No, it's a mix of chemicals that make oxygen. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
It's something called an oxygen candle. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
So, there's a very fine white powder, and a spark is generated | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
and it sets off a chemical reaction which releases oxygen. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
But these canisters, there are oxides and they basically | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
take up a whole lot less room than a whole tank of oxygen. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
I think you both look absolutely fantastic! | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
Typically, an oxygen candle will last 20 minutes. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
But it's enough time for the plane to get down to where you can | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
breathe the air. But in the early years of commercial flights, | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
so before the pressurised cabin was invented, airline passengers | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
sometimes did have to wear oxygen masks during the actual flight. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
-That is a great image if you're nervous flyer, isn't it? -Yeah. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
Sort of ferrying people | 0:16:04 | 0:16:05 | |
to the Hannibal Lecter auditions, aren't they? | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
Fighter pilots breathe a mixture of oxygen | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
and air depending on the altitude. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
Sometimes if they're really high, it's 100% oxygen is supplied | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
and then in order to let that happen, | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
the pilot actually has to relax their diaphragm to allow the oxygen | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
to enter and then they have to forcibly expel the air | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
and that means they can only talk while they're breathing in. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
And they have so much witty banter to get on with | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
-with the other pilots... -I know! -..don't they? | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
-Yes, saying, "I'm on his back." -Yeah, "12 o'clock." | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
-"I've got your arse." -I know, all of that. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
-LIZA: -Does it happen automatically for them? | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
They don't have to think about it? | 0:16:37 | 0:16:38 | |
They have to be trained in order to make the diaphragm work properly. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
-ALAN: -Do they wear nappies? Is that true? | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
Well, they're called Mags, moisture absorption garments, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
the nappies that are worn by aircraft pilots and by space... | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
..space people? Astronauts, they're called. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
-Space people! -Space people. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
That's in America. Over here, we call them Huggies. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
Right, let's give a really hard pull on the pipe and it will... | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
We can get rid of it, there we go. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:06 | |
Wonderful. Now, from planes to trains. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
On which train did the Murder On The Orient Express take place? | 0:17:09 | 0:17:13 | |
The Orient Express. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:14 | |
-You're a good sport, Alan. -You're a very good sport. -Thank you so much. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
Well, sometimes, you know, they go, yes, that's correct. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
-"Yes, that is correct." -But never when I say it. -No. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
The murder took place on AN Orient Express, | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
but not the one that you are thinking of. So... | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
Well, no, we're thinking of the one that the murder took place on. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
Yeah, exactly, that's right. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:34 | |
I'm sorry, I didn't know you lived inside my brain. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
Well, there were several train services in the 1930s which | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
included the words "Orient Express" in the name. And... | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
Yeah, and those are the ones we were thinking of. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
Well, what is the full name | 0:17:47 | 0:17:48 | |
of the one where the murder took place, then? | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
We were thinking of the one where it took place. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
We don't have to say the name of it. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
We just... All of us demand the points. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
Sorry. There were lots of different Orient Expresses. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
Agatha Christie's took place on the Simplon... | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
Simplon Orient Express, yes. Yes. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
-Yes. Named after? -It's Peter Express. -Mr Simplon. -I don't know. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:14 | |
I thought you said Pizza Express. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
-No, Peter Express, the inventor of... -Lent his name to a train. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
The Simplon Orient Express, named after the Alpine tunnel, | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
and that linked Calais and Paris and Istanbul every day. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
There is a different train service, | 0:18:29 | 0:18:30 | |
commonly known as THE Orient Express, | 0:18:30 | 0:18:32 | |
and that only carried Paris/Istanbul cars three times a week. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:36 | |
-I didn't even know that one existed. -Have you been on it? -No. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
Oh, it's the most marvellous experience. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
-It's absolutely fantastic. -Is it? -Yeah, it really is worth it. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
It's eye-wateringly expensive, but you get a butler of your own. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
And I took my mother, it was for her birthday, | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
and the butler came along and he said, | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
"Good evening, madam, my name is Tybalt," and you just think, "Wow, | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
"it's... The guy from Romeo and Juliet is going to service me." | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
Was there Wi-Fi or 3G on the Orient Express? | 0:18:58 | 0:19:02 | |
-Because that for me is generally the... -No. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
That's what they meant, | 0:19:05 | 0:19:06 | |
there's no Wi-Fi, it is murder on the Orient Express. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
As you go to bad, there's a tiny hook by your bed | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
and I said to Tybalt, "What is the hook for?" | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
He said, "That's for your pocket watch, madam." | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
-Really? -A watch hook? -A watch hook. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
-But there was an actual murder on the Orient Express. LIZA: -Was there? | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
Yes, the actual Orient Express, not the Simplon one. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
So, 1935, a year after Agatha Christie's novel was published, | 0:19:25 | 0:19:29 | |
there was a very wealthy Romanian woman | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
and she was robbed by a man she was sharing a compartment with | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
and she was pushed through a window. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
And I love this, because it is very Agatha Christie, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
the killer was traced thanks to a silver fox scarf | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
that he had stolen from her. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
In 1920, a man staggered into a signal box | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
dressed only in his nightshirt and he claimed | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
he was the French president Paul Deschanel | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
and that he had accidentally fallen from the train | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
and of course they thought he was bonkers. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
So the signalman replied, "And I'm Napoleon Bonaparte." | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
Anyway, it turned out he really was the President of France. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
In those days, the train's sleeping compartments, | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
they had sash windows and he had taken some sleeping pills | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
and he'd accidentally fallen out of the window. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
Do you know the irony is, if they had Wi-Fi, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
-could've just googled him. -Yeah. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:10 | |
-And he would've solved that straightaway. -You see? | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
-Yeah. -Think about that. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:14 | |
But he was wonderfully eccentric. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
He once received the British ambassador to France | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
completely naked except for his ceremonial decorations, | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
which I think is splendid. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
He was, eventually, institutionalised | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
in a place for the mentally infirm. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:27 | |
And still, and this is a measure of how relaxed the French are, | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
re-elected to the Senate. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:31 | |
The Orient Express was developed by a Belgian businessman | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
called George Nagelmackers. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
Made its very first trip in 1883. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
The first menu on board - oysters, soup with Italian pasta, | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
turbot with green sauce, chicken a la chasseur, | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
fillet of beef with chateau potatoes | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
chaud-froid of game animals, lettuce, | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
chocolate pudding and a buffet of desserts. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
And when I was on board, for breakfast we had lobster thermidor | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
and they'd laid all the cutlery out | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
and there was a little sort of strange flattened spoon | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
and I said, "What's that for?" | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
"That is your lobster gravy spoon, madam." Wonderful. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
-Lobster... -It's completely flat? -LIZA: -Why's it flat? | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
It was so that you can scoop all the lobster gravy towards you. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
-A piece of bread would do that, wouldn't it? -Yeah. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
-You're absolutely right. I didn't rush out to buy one. -Yes. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
-ALAN: -I imagine a lobster with a couple of spoons. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
"Where's my breakfast?" | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
Here's the odd thing that I know about lobsters. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
Did you know that lobsters are left and right clawed | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
in the same percentage as human beings are left and right-handed? | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
-Yeah. -Strange. Yeah? Sorry. OK. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
The Murder On The Orient Express took place on AN Orient Express, | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
not THE Orient Express. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
So, still on Agatha Christie, naturally my next question is... | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
..whodunnit? | 0:21:49 | 0:21:50 | |
-The killer. -The killer dunnit. -Yes. -That's a given, I think, yeah. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
The murderer. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
-Anyone in the audience? -Butler. -Butler. -The butler. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
Yeah. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
So, here's a spoiler alert, | 0:22:02 | 0:22:03 | |
the butler did not do it in any of Agatha Christie's books. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
So, The Three Act Tragedy, the murderer appears to be the butler | 0:22:06 | 0:22:10 | |
but it's actually somebody pretending to be a butler. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:14 | |
And Then There Were None, Rogers, the butler, and... | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
Hang on a minute, you're going to give them all away. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
Yeah, I'm sorry about that. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:19 | |
Murder On The Orient Express, a valet is one of the 12 people | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
who murder Samuel Ratchett, but a valet is not a butler. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
What's the difference between a valet and a butler? | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
A valet parks your car. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
-Yes. LIZA: -A gentleman's maid. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
He's a gentleman's, sort of a gentleman's maid. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
-So he looks after the guy's appearance and everything. -A PA. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
Yeah. And a butler is the chief male servant in a household | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
so he's in charge of the other employees and receiving guests | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
and all that kind of thing. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
The butlers are in demand again, did you know this? | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
There's a huge demand for butlers, | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
especially in places like China and in Russia. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
It's known as the Downton Abbey effect. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
Everybody wants their own Mr Carson. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
It takes ten weeks to train to be a butler at the international... | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
-No, it takes a lifetime. -Yep. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
What task are they performing there? That's insane. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
Just put the glass on the tray, mate, common sense, | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
do you know what I mean? | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
That's Britain's Got Talent backstage. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:11 | |
-LIZA: -This is just to make it look like they do something, isn't it? | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
-ALAN: -Someone shouting, "Where is the glass? Where's the glass?" | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
"I don't know, I don't know where the glass is!" | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
It is a very old job, the word actually comes from | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
the medieval Latin for a cask | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
so that's why a beer cellar in medieval times | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
was known as the buttery. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:29 | |
People sometimes think it's a place where you made food | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
but it wasn't at all, it was the place where the wooden casks were. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
They were in charge of all the bottles. Anyway... | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
When it comes to Christie, the butler never did dunnit. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
Here's a list of organs. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:41 | |
You all own one of them, but which is it? | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
-Well, I would have thought a sperm stomach... -Yes? | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
..would have been for a whale. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
Oh, OK. It is for an animal. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
It is, strictly speaking, called a bursa copulatrix. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
It's not for a whale. Where might you find such a thing? | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
It's tiny, a tiny little... Tiny. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
-So it's a bird? -No. -Then why were you doing that? | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
-No, but it is... -Oh. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:06 | |
But, no, in fairness, it is clearly an animal that flies... | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
-A butterfly. -Yes. No, he got it. Butterfly. -Butterfly. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
-It is a butterfly. -Oh. Sandi did a mime that, what else could it be? | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
-Seriously, was a butterfly. It's... -I thought it was a bunny waving. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
-It's their... No, that's that, that's a bunny waving. -Oh, yeah. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
This is clearly a butterfly. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
No, that's a bunny waving with its ears. I was using the paws. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
Do you know, sometimes I feel unwell on this programme? | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
Well, you're the ones that invented bunnies that wave with their ears. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
You're right, I wasn't thinking it through. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:37 | |
-That's a ridiculous thought. -No, exactly. -It's clearly... | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
-That's that, isn't it? -Clearly. -And this is... | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
I don't believe I'm doing this. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
It's the reproductive system for the butterfly, | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
and it digests nutrients from the male's sperm package. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
I thought that was the name of the butterfly. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
All female butterflies will have a sperm stomach. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
-Right. -And they get nutrients out of the male sperm... | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
I'm going to say package. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:02 | |
But the bit at the bottom that says bursa copulatrix, | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
that's actually the sperm stomach. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:06 | |
Right, let's try some more. Let's see. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
So we're looking for the organ that we have. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
We do not have a sperm stomach. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
Have you got a smart vagina? | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
I... It's terribly tidy. Um... | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
I have a woman in twice a week. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
No, I do not, but some animals do. Grevy's zebra, for example. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
And they can co-ordinate the muscular contractions in order | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
to flush out semen if a male fails to live up to expectations. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:44 | |
And here's the depressing thing for the boy - the sperm dumping | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
can happen even before the underperforming male has dismounted. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:54 | |
She just goes, "Boof, not having it. No." | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
So, genetically, she knows that this guy isn't the best she could do? | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
-That's exactly right, she has decided. -So, regarding | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
-babies and stuff? -Yeah, he's not the best gene pool. -Yeah. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
Better to do that than shake him off. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
-You don't want to cause trouble, do you? -Don't want to make a scene. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
-No. -You might then put off the other zebras. They'll think, | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
-"Well, she looks tricky. She's just thrown him over a fence." -Yes. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
"I'll tell you what, mate, I wouldn't bother with her, | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
"she's got one of them new-fangled smart vaginas." | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
-So, that's probably got Wi-Fi, too, hasn't it? -Yeah, I would say. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
And are the zebras' sperms stripy? | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
Yes. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
They look like little humbugs. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:41 | |
So, we're still looking for the thing that we have. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
We don't have a sperm stomach, we don't have a smart vagina. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
-What might we have? One of those. -Have we got a mesentery? | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
-A mesentery? -We absolutely do, | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
that is the very thing that we were looking for. We do have a mesentery. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:57 | |
And it, basically, it's a fairly recent thing, | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
it connects the intestine to the stomach, | 0:26:59 | 0:27:01 | |
and we did not know that it was actually an organ in its own right. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
So there's a chap called Professor J Calvin Coffey, | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
from the University of Limerick. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
And he says, "Without it, you can't live. There are no reported | 0:27:08 | 0:27:12 | |
"incidents of a Homo sapiens living without a mesentery." | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
And nobody entirely knows what it does. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
"We've established anatomy and structure | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
"and the next step is function." | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
Intriguingly, one of the earliest descriptions of its structure | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
was by Leonardo da Vinci, so we've been aware of its existence | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
for an incredibly long time. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
Let's have a quick look at the other ones. Paddywhack, anybody? | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
Well, it makes me think of a dog chew. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
-That is exactly right. Give the dog a bone, right? -Yeah. -Yeah. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
So, dried paddywhack is sometimes sold as a dog treat, | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
which is where we get the saying from. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
Is it something from a pig, then? | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
It's the load-bearing ligament in the neck of sheep or cattle. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
It connects the head to the spine. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
And the other two that we didn't have a look at - | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
the schnauzerorgan, found on an elephantnose fish. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
And it looks like a nose - it is actually an extended chin, | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
covered in sensors that can detect electric fields. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
And the organ is so sensitive | 0:28:04 | 0:28:05 | |
that the fish can tell the difference | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
between living and dead bugs buried under the sea floor. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
And the other one, mental glands, it's a pheromone delivery system | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
found in the male salamander's chin. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
As part of the courtship, the male sprays his scent | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
right into the female's nostrils | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
and then he deposits a pack of sperm on the ground. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:25 | |
And if the female detects his scent with her mental glands, | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
and she wants to mate, then she'll pick it up. So she picks it up. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
-Oh, that's nice. -Yes, it's rather sweet. -That's like a sort of | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
-Edwardian courtship, isn't it? -Yes. Yes. "Madam, my sperm." -Yes. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
Does she then put it in her own vagina? | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
I think she sorts herself out at that point. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:43 | |
-With a lobster spoon! -Yes. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:49 | |
She uses a lobster gravy spoon... | 0:28:49 | 0:28:51 | |
Then a lobster comes in... | 0:28:53 | 0:28:55 | |
"Do you want any help with that? | 0:28:55 | 0:28:56 | |
"Cos I've got a couple of these spoons." | 0:28:56 | 0:28:59 | |
You could hear them talk if they would come out of the sea, | 0:28:59 | 0:29:02 | |
but they stay down there. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
They stay down there because it's not smelly, is that right, Matt? | 0:29:04 | 0:29:08 | |
I don't know where you heard that from, that's... | 0:29:08 | 0:29:12 | |
Can anybody define an organ? | 0:29:12 | 0:29:13 | |
Body part that has a function? | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
You know what, that's sort of it. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
The governing body for anatomy, | 0:29:20 | 0:29:21 | |
the Federative International Programme | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
for Anatomical Terminology, does not define an organ. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:27 | |
The best definition that we currently have | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
is from a science historian at | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tom Broman, who said, | 0:29:31 | 0:29:34 | |
"Any solid thing in the body that does something." | 0:29:34 | 0:29:36 | |
Now, what animals begin with O | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
and are rescued more often by the Fire Brigade than cats? | 0:29:40 | 0:29:44 | |
-# ..pins. # -Yes, Matt? | 0:29:44 | 0:29:46 | |
Is it ostriches? Because they keep burying their... | 0:29:46 | 0:29:49 | |
KLAXON | 0:29:49 | 0:29:50 | |
..burying their heads... burying their heads in the sand. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
-And they... -So, two things are wrong with that. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:55 | |
-Right. -One is they don't bury their heads in the sand, that is a... | 0:29:55 | 0:29:58 | |
-Well, I...I...I am not wrong. -No. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:02 | |
-Yes? -I think it is an opossum. | 0:30:02 | 0:30:06 | |
Oh! | 0:30:06 | 0:30:07 | |
-The audience said owls, did we hear them? -Owls, did we have owls? | 0:30:09 | 0:30:13 | |
You lose points! | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
Is it ocelot? | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
No. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:20 | |
-Is it the...? Is it...? Let's try this one on them. -Yeah. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:24 | |
Is it the four-legged onion? Ah-ha! You didn't get in there, did you? | 0:30:24 | 0:30:28 | |
Ah-ha! | 0:30:28 | 0:30:30 | |
-No, it is not the four-legged onion. -Right, OK. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:32 | |
-It's a human animal, it's an obese person. -Oh! | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
-They now rescue... -Oh, an obese person. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:37 | |
-Yeah. -But they're still, hold on, they are still people. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
"Once they get to a certain weight, they're no longer human, | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
"as far as we're concerned." | 0:30:42 | 0:30:44 | |
But we're all part of the animal kingdom. It is obese people. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
There were more than 900 such cases from January to September in 2016. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:52 | |
Up from around 30 cases ten years ago. | 0:30:52 | 0:30:55 | |
Well done for getting up the trees, though. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:57 | |
-No, it's people not being able to leave their home. -Suddenly you go, | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
-"There's one." -I just saw there were loads of apples. | 0:31:03 | 0:31:07 | |
"There's one." | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
"How did you get up there?" | 0:31:09 | 0:31:11 | |
"Trampoline, it was a trampoline. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:14 | |
"But they've moved it now. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:18 | |
"Now it looks like a miracle, but it was a trampolining incident." | 0:31:18 | 0:31:21 | |
A man in Porthcawl, who weighed 38st, | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
and they were trying to get him out of the third floor, | 0:31:24 | 0:31:27 | |
and a Sea King helicopter was scrambled from | 0:31:27 | 0:31:30 | |
RAF Chivenor in Devon, so he could be winched from a skylight. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
I think the most famous, possibly, an American man called | 0:31:33 | 0:31:36 | |
Walter Hudson, he was rescued by the American Fire Department, | 0:31:36 | 0:31:39 | |
1987, after he got wedged in his bathroom door. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
It is estimated that he weighed 1,400lb, but it's only | 0:31:42 | 0:31:46 | |
an estimate because the industrial scale that he was being weighed on | 0:31:46 | 0:31:50 | |
broke after 1,000lb, so we don't know exactly. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:53 | |
-Hold on, that's 100st. -Yes. Yes. 1,400lbs. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:57 | |
-Oh, that, yeah, that's 100st, yeah. -It's 100st, yeah. | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
That's like...that's like 100st! | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
He held the Guinness World Record for the world's largest waist. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
If you hold that end, and you hold that. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:10 | |
That would have been the size of his belt. | 0:32:10 | 0:32:12 | |
I've got a description of his average daily diet. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:15 | |
Two boxes of sausages, 1 lb of bacon, 12 eggs, | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
a loaf of bread, four hamburgers, four double cheeseburgers, | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
five large portions of fries, three ham steaks or two chickens, | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
four baked potatoes, four sweet potatoes, | 0:32:23 | 0:32:25 | |
most of a large cake, and additional snacks. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
And an average of 6.5 litres of soda every single day. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:33 | |
Well, at least he didn't finish the cake. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:35 | |
-It's good to look on the bright side of things. -Yeah. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
What do we think is the fattest animal in the world? | 0:32:39 | 0:32:41 | |
Why did you look at me when you asked that question? | 0:32:41 | 0:32:45 | |
Are you talking about body fat percentage, or actual amount of fat? | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
Yeah, body fat percentage. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
Oh, is that the... | 0:32:50 | 0:32:51 | |
Oh, that could be a tortoise, because they hibernate, that's it. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:53 | |
Yeah, but they don't hibernate, it turns out. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:55 | |
Don't they? | 0:32:55 | 0:32:55 | |
So, for years, people were putting them in boxes | 0:32:55 | 0:32:57 | |
and putting them in the cupboard under the stairs, | 0:32:57 | 0:32:59 | |
and they were just in solitary confinement. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
No? It's called an army cutworm moth. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:09 | |
And they can achieve 72% body fat, | 0:33:09 | 0:33:10 | |
it makes them the fattest animals on Earth. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:14 | |
And they live in Yellowstone National Park, | 0:33:14 | 0:33:16 | |
so it's not always cold there, | 0:33:16 | 0:33:17 | |
but they do get themselves ready for the winter, storing up the body fat, | 0:33:17 | 0:33:20 | |
and then the bears eat them. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
What, the bears eat them while they're hibernating? | 0:33:22 | 0:33:25 | |
They gorge on them just before winter sets in. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
So, one bear can eat up to 40,000 moths in a day. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
So, each moth is about an inch or two inches long, | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
and each one is about half a calorie. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:34 | |
That would be a much more sinister John Lewis Christmas ad, | 0:33:34 | 0:33:36 | |
wouldn't it - | 0:33:36 | 0:33:37 | |
just a bear feasting on tubby moths, do you know what I mean? | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
Thousands of them. | 0:33:41 | 0:33:43 | |
They eat lots and lots of nectar from wild flowers. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
They are known as miller moths, that's their nickname, | 0:33:45 | 0:33:47 | |
because the fine scales on its wings, it rubs off easily, | 0:33:47 | 0:33:50 | |
it reminds people of the dusty flour covering on a miller. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
But you can see them in the Yellowstone National Park. | 0:33:53 | 0:33:56 | |
"Yes, Boo-Boo!" Um... | 0:33:56 | 0:33:58 | |
"Huh-huh-hey-y-y, Boo-Boo!" | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
I always thought Yogi and Boo-Boo were a right pair of pricks. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:03 | |
Like, do you know what I mean? | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
They're supposed to be the heroes - they're just little thieves. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:08 | |
Just going round robbing, then we're supposed to support them. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:11 | |
You're out of order! | 0:34:11 | 0:34:12 | |
A lot of American humour is about that - | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
shucksters and shysters and idle thieves. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:16 | |
They all like it. | 0:34:16 | 0:34:18 | |
They kind of revere that person who doesn't get a proper job, | 0:34:18 | 0:34:21 | |
but gets by. They love a criminal! | 0:34:21 | 0:34:23 | |
-They voted one in, didn't they? -Yes! | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:34:25 | 0:34:27 | |
Yeah! Yeah! | 0:34:27 | 0:34:30 | |
Yeah! | 0:34:30 | 0:34:31 | |
I done a political, yeah! | 0:34:31 | 0:34:34 | |
Yeah, I'm a political satirist now! Yeah! | 0:34:34 | 0:34:39 | |
I'm going to just stay here until it's Newsnight. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
Um, where did we get to? | 0:34:44 | 0:34:46 | |
Um, picnic baskets. Um... | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
AS YOGI BEAR: "Pic-a-nic basket?" | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
Thief! | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
In the first episode, someone could have just come and shot them. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:57 | |
"Boo-Boo? It's getting dark! | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
"I'm losing blood, Boo-Boo!" | 0:35:00 | 0:35:02 | |
"Don't go to sleep, Yogi! Don't go to sleep!" | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
"I don't think I'm going to make it, Boo-Boo! | 0:35:06 | 0:35:09 | |
"I can see a great big pic-a-nic basket in the sky, Boo-Boo!" | 0:35:09 | 0:35:12 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
-Well... -Then, next week - funeral. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
I wish you two were in charge of Children's BBC. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:26 | |
Now we crash through the floorboards and land in the mess of plaster | 0:35:26 | 0:35:29 | |
and insulation that is General Ignorance. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
Fingers on buzzers, please. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
Where are your fattest fat cells? | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
Well, I suppose you want us to say on your stomach? | 0:35:36 | 0:35:40 | |
-Yes, and you'd be right. -Yes, of course. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
-See? -So you're absolutely right. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:49 | |
As people get obese, what happens is the fat cells in our midriff, | 0:35:49 | 0:35:53 | |
they don't proliferate, they just get fatter. | 0:35:53 | 0:35:56 | |
So, the fat cells in our thighs can multiply, | 0:35:56 | 0:35:59 | |
but the ones that we have round our midriff, they just get fatter. | 0:35:59 | 0:36:02 | |
Now, you don't really want to have belly fat, because what we now | 0:36:02 | 0:36:05 | |
know about it is that it's actually biologically active, belly fat. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
It is releasing hormones into your system, | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
and that could increase your risk of heart disease and so on. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:13 | |
So you don't want to get more of them, | 0:36:13 | 0:36:15 | |
because they're incredibly bad for you. | 0:36:15 | 0:36:17 | |
So, they did a study, the NHS, 91% of mothers | 0:36:17 | 0:36:20 | |
and 80% of fathers of overweight children | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
mistakenly think that their children are a healthy weight. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
Well, I'm the exception, because all my mum does is say, | 0:36:25 | 0:36:27 | |
"Well, you need to shift some of that." She says it to me a lot. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:30 | |
-Does she? -And then she just keeps trying to make me eat more food. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
-Is she a feeder? -Yeah, she puts the food down and she goes, | 0:36:33 | 0:36:37 | |
"Right, there's more chicken, I've got more peas, | 0:36:37 | 0:36:39 | |
"I've got more potatoes, I've got more..." | 0:36:39 | 0:36:41 | |
She's just like that, even before I've had the first lot, | 0:36:41 | 0:36:44 | |
then at the end, she goes, "Mmm, what are we going to do about that?" | 0:36:44 | 0:36:47 | |
So, I'll say, "Well, I won't come here again." No! | 0:36:47 | 0:36:50 | |
My mum used to give me so much food when I was going to school, | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
like, she'd give me, like, jam sandwiches, not for lunch, | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
-for break time, right. -Right. | 0:36:57 | 0:36:58 | |
And the school became concerned and phoned my mum and said, | 0:36:58 | 0:37:03 | |
"Look, we're a bit worried about it." And you know what she did? | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
She told me to hide when I was eating my jam sandwiches. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
-That's good parenting. -Yeah. -That is really good parenting. | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
From the fattest to the flattest. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
What's the most featureless place on Earth? | 0:37:19 | 0:37:22 | |
-Well, hmm. -So where were you when you talked about things | 0:37:22 | 0:37:25 | |
that don't smell? Where did you go when you talked about... | 0:37:25 | 0:37:28 | |
-# Under the sea. # -So, that is where we're going to go, | 0:37:28 | 0:37:30 | |
we're going to go under the sea. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:31 | |
It is something called the abyssal plains. And it's undersea areas | 0:37:31 | 0:37:35 | |
of sediment, and their slopes can be really shallow, | 0:37:35 | 0:37:38 | |
I mean, unbelievably shallow, like one foot per thousand. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:40 | |
And what happens is the sediments wash off the land, | 0:37:40 | 0:37:43 | |
and over time they spread out to form a smooth and level surface. | 0:37:43 | 0:37:47 | |
And it's home to the world's deepest fish, | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
that you get right down at the bottom there. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:50 | |
Are those the really freaky...? Oh, yeah. | 0:37:50 | 0:37:52 | |
-Oh, yeah. Now you're talking. -Yeah. -Oh, mate. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
I mean, these are angler fish you can see there. | 0:37:55 | 0:37:57 | |
-I think they are astonishing. -God, that one in the middle | 0:37:57 | 0:37:59 | |
-just looking through your window. -And we're there. | 0:37:59 | 0:38:02 | |
And they're really deep, so you can really, | 0:38:02 | 0:38:04 | |
like, talk to them about, like, real issues. | 0:38:04 | 0:38:06 | |
The deepest fish ever seen was in the Mariana Trench, | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
which is of course the deepest part of the ocean. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:11 | |
There are some pictures of them, but nobody's been able to catch one, | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
because they are just so deep down. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
We THINK it looks a bit like a snailfish, | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
but the people who have actually seen them | 0:38:18 | 0:38:21 | |
say it is really weird looking. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:22 | |
There's a team that found it at the University of Aberdeen, | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
and Alan Jamieson said, "It's unbelievably fragile, | 0:38:25 | 0:38:27 | |
"and when it swims, it looks like | 0:38:27 | 0:38:29 | |
"it has wet tissue paper floating behind it. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:31 | |
"It has a weird snout, like a sort of cartoon dog snout." | 0:38:31 | 0:38:33 | |
-So, it might look a bit like that. -Do you reckon it went that deep | 0:38:33 | 0:38:36 | |
-because the other fish were bullying it? -Yeah. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:38 | |
They were like, | 0:38:38 | 0:38:39 | |
"Look, you've got tissue paper hanging out your arse, mate." | 0:38:39 | 0:38:42 | |
Have a quick look at this, which is my favourite fact about the Pacific. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:46 | |
So, I've got my globe here, | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
so you can see how large the Pacific is, it covers this enormous area. | 0:38:49 | 0:38:53 | |
There is a point in the Pacific where, | 0:38:53 | 0:38:55 | |
if you drilled down through the centre of the Earth, | 0:38:55 | 0:38:57 | |
so that is off the coast of Vietnam near Hai Phong, and you came back | 0:38:57 | 0:39:00 | |
out exactly on the other side, you would still arrive in the Pacific, | 0:39:00 | 0:39:04 | |
you'd be off the coast of South America at the Chile-Peru border. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
That just gives you some idea, that is exactly halfway, | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
right through the whole planet, that the Pacific is that big. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
Oh, I love it. I love it when a fact is pointed out to you | 0:39:12 | 0:39:14 | |
and you don't have to have this whole mass of stuff. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:16 | |
-But this is rather fine, isn't it? -Yeah. -Rather an astonishing one. | 0:39:16 | 0:39:19 | |
Well, no, I don't think it is, I think you're going to get | 0:39:19 | 0:39:21 | |
very little for that on eBay, because you've completely ruined it. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
The most featureless place on Earth is underwater. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:28 | |
Who invented this and what does it say? | 0:39:28 | 0:39:31 | |
PATTERN OF BEEPS | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
I'm going to have to say Morse, aren't I? | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
Yeah, you are going to have to say Morse, I think. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:43 | |
Get it out of the way. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:44 | |
It's probably the most famous Morse code signal ever sent. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:46 | |
SOS? Is it three dots and three dashes? | 0:39:46 | 0:39:50 | |
No. It's CQD that is being sent, | 0:39:50 | 0:39:52 | |
it's the Marconi distress message that was sent from the Titanic. | 0:39:52 | 0:39:55 | |
People now say it means "Come quick drowning," | 0:39:55 | 0:39:57 | |
but that's what you call a backronym. | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
In fact, CQ was for the French "securite" | 0:39:59 | 0:40:01 | |
and then Marconi added the D for Distress. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
And so, "We have a distressing security issue." | 0:40:03 | 0:40:06 | |
But the issue about Morse code is that it isn't really a code | 0:40:06 | 0:40:11 | |
and that Morse didn't really invent it. It involved transmitting | 0:40:11 | 0:40:14 | |
numbers, Morse code, which you then looked up in a special dictionary | 0:40:14 | 0:40:17 | |
to see what word they represented. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:19 | |
And it was Morse's colleague, this man here, Alfred Vail, | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
who came up with the idea of using | 0:40:22 | 0:40:23 | |
letters and assigning dots and dashes to each one. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
So, probably, Morse code should be called Vail's code. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:28 | |
But, actually, it should be Vail's cipher. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:31 | |
So, we had a letter from a QI viewer, Phil Boyd, | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
and he pointed out that a code replaces whole words with symbols | 0:40:34 | 0:40:37 | |
and a cipher replaces individual letters. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
So, strictly speaking, Morse code ought to be called Vail's cipher. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:44 | |
What I like about Morse code - it has been used for naughtiness. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:47 | |
In January 1945, the people of Halifax, Nova Scotia complained | 0:40:47 | 0:40:50 | |
to police that people were using their car horns to communicate | 0:40:50 | 0:40:54 | |
"vile and filthy language" in Morse code. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
And there was a report in the Ottawa Journal | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
saying that, "Police are brushing up on their Morse code | 0:41:00 | 0:41:02 | |
"in preparation for a campaign against these swearing motorists." | 0:41:02 | 0:41:07 | |
So, Morse code should really be Vail's cipher. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:11 | |
How many moons did the Earth have? | 0:41:11 | 0:41:15 | |
AUDIENCE GIGGLES NERVOUSLY | 0:41:16 | 0:41:18 | |
So, we've covered how many moons Earth has many times on QI. | 0:41:21 | 0:41:24 | |
We're looking at the past here. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:26 | |
Ten. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:27 | |
-Yes? -None. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:33 | |
There is new research which suggests that our current moon is | 0:41:37 | 0:41:41 | |
the result of about 20 separate moons that have | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
coalesced into one over millions of years. | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
So, since the moon and the Earth are made of rather similar materials, | 0:41:45 | 0:41:49 | |
it is thought that the moon formed | 0:41:49 | 0:41:51 | |
when an object hit the Earth and it sent debris up into space. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
And they've run thousands of simulations | 0:41:54 | 0:41:56 | |
and they concluded there were lots of moons, at least 20, | 0:41:56 | 0:41:59 | |
each one formed from a different collision. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
So it is possible that we originally had 20 moons. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:04 | |
So, where have all the moons gone, then? | 0:42:04 | 0:42:07 | |
-They've coalesced into one, so... -Oh, they're all one big moon. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:09 | |
They've been drawn together, yeah. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:11 | |
The Earth had 20 moons, but now has only approximately one. | 0:42:11 | 0:42:15 | |
All of which shines a silvery light on to the darkness | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
which is the scores. Oh, this is tragic. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:22 | |
In last place, with -52, Alan. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:26 | |
Thank you so much. | 0:42:26 | 0:42:27 | |
-Also a quite phenomenal -36, Liza. -Hey! Get in! | 0:42:30 | 0:42:37 | |
And -29, Romesh! | 0:42:38 | 0:42:39 | |
You've done it, Matt, you've done it, with a magnificent -7, | 0:42:44 | 0:42:47 | |
-you are the winner. -Hurrah! | 0:42:47 | 0:42:50 | |
So, Matt takes home our objectionable object of the week, | 0:42:54 | 0:42:58 | |
and it's this weird device for holding a horse's mouth open | 0:42:58 | 0:43:01 | |
while you fix its teeth. | 0:43:01 | 0:43:03 | |
There you are Matt, that's for you. Wow, it's heavy. | 0:43:03 | 0:43:05 | |
-Wow, thanks very much. -You're most welcome. -Wow, thank you. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:09 | |
It only remains for me to thank Liza, Matt, Romesh and Alan. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:13 | |
And I leave you with this, | 0:43:13 | 0:43:14 | |
from a Randy Scandi Norwegian Nobel Prize winner, Knut Hamsun. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:18 | |
When returning from his first trip to Paris, a friend asked, | 0:43:18 | 0:43:21 | |
"At the beginning, didn't you have trouble with your French?" | 0:43:21 | 0:43:23 | |
"No," replied Hamsun, "but the French did." | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
Merci bien, et bonne nuit. | 0:43:26 | 0:43:28 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:43:28 | 0:43:31 |