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Well, hello. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to QI | 0:00:32 | 0:00:37 | |
for a bracing dose of health and safety gone mad. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:42 | |
Speaking of life-saving devices, I have some here. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
And I'd like you to tell me what you think they're for. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
These are the real thing. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
And they are there to save lives. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
How would that save your life? Can you see...? | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
If you look... You've got to look at your neighbour to see what you look like | 0:00:56 | 0:01:01 | |
and see if you can work out how this can be of any use. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
JEREMY: Is it for doing complicated experiments? | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
Not really a complicated experiment. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
It's for dealing with animals that don't like being looked at in the eye. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
Oh, Alan, you are on sparkling form. Absolutely right. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
-What sort of animal might that be? -A bear? | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Not a bear, actually, in this instance. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
-Some dogs don't like it. -Plenty of animals don't like it. -Ants? | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
Ants? Not so much ants. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
It's great that you're trying. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
But not ants. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
-A tiger or a lion? -It's a big primate. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
-A gorilla? -It's a gorilla. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
It's a gorilla, | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
you'll see it has written on the side of it there, in Dutch, | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
"De oplossing..." And then it says, "Bokito kijker", | 0:01:43 | 0:01:48 | |
which means "Bokito viewer". | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
"Kijken" is to look. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
But the trouble with these is it does look a bit like you're going, "Oh!" | 0:01:52 | 0:01:58 | |
Gorillas like that. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
What they don't like is a long, loving look. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
What happened was in Rotterdam Zoo, this gorilla called Bokito, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
and a woman thought she was bonding with him, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
and she would sit and smile, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
and gaze lovingly into his big brown eyes, and that's the worst thing you can do to a silverback, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
to a dominant male. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
One day, he just grabbed her. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
He leapt over, bit her 100 times and he broke many of her bones, shall we say. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:24 | |
She was very nearly killed. But fortunately, being Dutch... | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
I'd like to have a pair of these if I ever get pulled over for speeding. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
"Do you know why you've been pulled over?" "I've no idea." | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
"Where are you? Where have you gone?" | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
"You big gorilla, you." | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
We went to the zoo, and my mate Mike, who's an odd bloke anyway, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
we were in the monkey enclosure, and he was staring at a monkey for ages. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
And the monkey stared back at him and went like this... | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
Hello! | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
And what did that mean, do we think? | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
Well, they're married now, so... | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
-So if you're feeling a bit tired, can you put them on upside down? -I suppose you could. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
So, for weeks and weeks, this woman had been thinking, "I'm getting on really well with this gorilla". | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
And the gorilla's been thinking, "I hate her." | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
I'm going to do something, at some point, I'm going to crack. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
But did they check that it wasn't just an incredibly annoying woman? | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
-Tell me they didn't put the gorilla down, or anything. -No, he was tranquillised. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:31 | |
After attacking her, he went into a cafe where he caused a bit of a sensation. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:35 | |
"Cappuccino. Don't look at me!" | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
"What would you like, sir?" | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
"Cappuccino and biscuits? Certainly, we'll bring it over. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
-"No, no, it's on us." -"I'm sorry the cappuccino isn't actually in the cup | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
-"but I'm not really looking properly." -That would be a nightmare. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
Because if you had those on like that, and the cappuccinos were there, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
or the cappuccinos were there, | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
and the gorilla's going, "Why are you looking at the cappuccinos there?" | 0:04:01 | 0:04:05 | |
The gorilla would think you were giving him the shoddy one. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:10 | |
-Would dark glasses not do? -They would, they would. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
To be honest with you, David, this was more or less a publicity gimmick | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
by a health insurance company. It was to emphasise the fact, also, | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
and they gave them out at the zoo, don't look directly into the eyes of Bokito the gorilla. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
The other option you have is, you don't have to wear these, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
just hide under a picnic table, and you'll be fine. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
-I would say so, yes. -Why are they hiding under there? | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
Because there's a bloody great gorilla! | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
Splendid answers, all round, thank you very much. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
Palmistry won't tell you your future but it can tell you your past in the form of genetic markers | 0:04:40 | 0:04:46 | |
that were set down while you were in the womb. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
There's somebody playing with me. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
-He sort of looks funny with what you're doing. -There's a piece of wire. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
-I've been goosed by the palm of a skeleton. -I've been sitting here for 10 minutes, | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
thinking, "When shall I do it, when shall I do it? | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
"They're talking about palms, it should be now, it should be now!" | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
Yay! | 0:05:15 | 0:05:16 | |
You see? It had to end... | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
Oh, dear. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
-Oh, dear. -I just don't know where this goes. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
"Sorry." | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
"Keith, man, me head's come off." | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
-Heavens, thank you. -Carry on, carry on. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
They actually look a little bit like the Cheeky Girls. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
They do. Yes. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
There's some characters behind me, shifty looking characters. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:50 | |
What were they up to last night? | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
They were up all night making a picnic table. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
Before you get too insulting, they're in the studio tonight. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
I just thought I would warn you. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
-They were winning the Mr Handsome contest. -That's more like it. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
Were they harming horses? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
-You know, when people harm horses, slash horses? -No! | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
It was a night-time covert activity like slashing horses. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
-Slashing goats? -No, let's assume we wouldn't invite into the studio people who maimed animals. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:24 | |
Were they pretending to be gas men? | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
And thereby sealing the property of aged people? | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
No. If I told you this was in Wiltshire, would that help? | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
Cathedral stealing! | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
Grave robbing? Grave robbing's always... | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
They drew something rude on Stonehenge? | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
They drew something rude on Stonehenge? | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
-Crop circles! -Oh, Alan, well done! Crop circles, absolutely right. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
There they are. The equipment needed for crop circling, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
a plank with rope, but what was the crop circle? | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
-We commissioned them. -A QI symbol. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
A QI crop circle, and they did it for us. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
-It's impressive, we're rather pleased with it. -Because QI's run by aliens. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
-Would you like to see it? -I certainly would. -Let's have it, | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
-we went to the expense of having a travelling aerial shot. -Oh! | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
-What do you think of that? -Oats! | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
Extraordinary thing is, within half-an-hour of its completion and the dawn rising, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
we were contacted. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
Someone wanted to know, they said, "Is it real, or is it man-made?" | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
-You know the Burns address to the haggis? -Yes, it's a poem. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:41 | |
It's a poem which on Burns Night, at a Burns supper, somebody would address it. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:46 | |
It comes in...that's obviously been cut open, as you can see. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
Before it's cut, someone addresses it, and it starts with - | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
"Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
"Great chieftain o' the puddin' race, Aboon them a' ye tak your place, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
"Painch, tripe, or thairm. Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang's my arm." | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
Bravo! | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
But... | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
There it is, being piped in. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
But there's somebody I know was doing a Burns supper abroad | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
and they had sent the address over to Germany, and it was translated into German | 0:08:15 | 0:08:21 | |
but the German translated it back, | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
and the line instead of, "Great chieftain o' the puddin' race", | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
was translated back as, "Mighty Fuhrer of the sausage people." | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
Oh, that's fabulous. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
You can't fit a square peg in a round hole, | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
so how would you make a square hole with a round drill? | 0:08:42 | 0:08:48 | |
That's the question, can it be done? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
-BONG -Yes, Jack Dee? | 0:08:50 | 0:08:51 | |
I would drill four small holes...don't laugh before it's happened. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
I might surprise you yet. I'm thinking while I talk. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
-I would drill four small holes that would describe a square. -The corners? -Corners. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:08 | |
And then with a hacksaw, I would join them, and knock the square through, and thus creating a square. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:13 | |
It's a way of punching a square into the surface. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
But there is actually a way of using a round drill bit. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:20 | |
Well, my way's better. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
That would have been brilliant if it had gone...woo-woo | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
and every word you said.... | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
One day. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:29 | |
-Even the bit where you said... -Don't laugh before you hear it. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
There's a particular shape, a sort of circular triangle, | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
which, when it revolves, a part of it makes a square. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
-A circular triangle!? -Well... | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
Oh, no, no, no, this is your first time - | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
this sort of thing happens all the time on his show. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
"It's a sort of circular triangle." | 0:09:53 | 0:09:57 | |
Yeah, and it makes a square. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
It's not the fact that I'm boggled by that, it's the fact that | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
I now realise there's a possibility you could have | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
-a Toblerone-Rolo combo. -Yes! | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
-Something you've dreamt about for years. -A Roblerone. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
Do you know what will freak you out completely, Ross Noble? | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
The name for this form of triangle is a Reuleaux. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
It genuinely is. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
I'm not joking... | 0:10:29 | 0:10:30 | |
I think you have to have points for that, | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
you somehow found a triangle that was a Rolo. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
It's called a Reuleaux triangle, and it's a very particular shape. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
We come on this show and we discover things, | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
and tonight I've just discovered that the best three words to hear | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
in a Geordie accent are Toblerone-Rolo combo. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
Thanks, now everyone I meet's going to go, | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
"Could you say Toblerone, please? | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
"Go on, Geordie man, dance for us." | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
You've got to form a band now, called that. | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
All right, me and Cheryl Cole? | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
Her, me and Jimmy Nail as a trio. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Toblerone-Rolo combo." | 0:11:07 | 0:11:12 | |
You've got to play the trombone. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
The trombone? | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
My God. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
Right, OK, do you want to see a picture of this Reuleaux triangle? | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
-Is it only available in airports? -Let's roll it. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:28 | |
You see, that's a sort of round-ended triangle, there it is. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:34 | |
And that is the drill bit, and it is describing a square, | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
if you see, exactly. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
Isn't that crazy? | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
How loony is that? | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
You sicken me. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
I use a greasy shampoo. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:49 | |
-Do you? -What do you use, Stephen? | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
I use a sort of normal- to-intelligent-aristocratic hair... | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
Did you not find when they stopped you taking your shampoo on holiday, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
the first three or four hours of your holiday | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
you're looking around for a shampoo in Spain that suits you? | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
It is a nightmare, isn't it? | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
And I go, "Bloody Al Qaeda!" | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
"I don't know what greasy is in Spanish." | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
I've got greasy in Spanish in my dictionary, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
but I can't see it on any of the shampoo bottles, | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
and I just think, "I'm on holiday here! | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
"I'm trying to relax, and I'm going round finding a shampoo that works for me!" | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
And that's Osama Bin Laden's fault! | 0:12:29 | 0:12:33 | |
And when I catch you, you're going to pay! | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
Wow. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
It really inconvenienced me. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
You've got no hair at all. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
I've got thick hair! | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
-Where!? -What!? | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
I've got lots of hair! | 0:12:45 | 0:12:46 | |
-I've got thick hair, that's thick! -Yeah! | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
I just don't grow it. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:50 | |
Anyway, you're the last person to be laughing at my hair! | 0:12:50 | 0:12:55 | |
He's not wandering around Spain for five days looking for greasy shampoo, you weirdo! | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
You can just put your shampoo in your hold luggage, cut out the problem. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
You can't do that. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
Yes, you can. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
Why have you been...? | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
Because I cut and run. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:13 | |
When I hit holiday, I don't stand around like some dummy, | 0:13:13 | 0:13:19 | |
waiting for the carousel to bring my bag around - I cut and run! | 0:13:19 | 0:13:23 | |
No, I spend five hours looking for shampoo. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
I go out there and get some shampoo. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
Why are you sticking up for Al Qaeda?! | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
What's the matter with you people?! | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
I'm suffering here, and you don't care, do you? | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
You're turning into Michael Caine more every second. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
It's quite disturbing. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
I've got something else to give you here. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
I'm going to hand these blank £2 coins. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:49 | |
Just try and draw the Queen's head as she is on the coin. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
-The Queen's head on a coin? -Yeah, wearing a crown, you know, an outline. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
Which way does she look? | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
No-one knows. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:01 | |
Don't ask for help. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
Oi! Alan Davies, I'm going to take points away if you cheat. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:07 | |
How do you think I got through school? | 0:14:07 | 0:14:08 | |
I asked for help. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
Is everyone done? Yes. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
She looks like Lenny Henry on mine, unfortunately. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
That's all right. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
OK, done. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:18 | |
OK, hold them up. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
I like it. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:21 | |
Mine looks like a triceratops. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
And let's have a look at yours. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
Extraordinary. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
The point is, you've all - especially Bill, somehow - | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
you've all made the fundamental error that everybody makes, | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
in thinking she faces left. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
-She faces right. -KLAXON | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
You said left! | 0:14:40 | 0:14:41 | |
Because most people think that. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:42 | |
I'm sorry, it's too late now. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
88% of people think the Queen faces left on her coins. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:49 | |
-On every coin that ever was stamped since she was Queen, it's always faced the right. -Never ask for help. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:57 | |
Do they take it in turns? So did her father face the other way? | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
-Yes. -And Prince Charles... | 0:15:01 | 0:15:02 | |
He's full-on with the ears like that. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
They've alternated since Charles II. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:08 | |
But does she not face the other way on the paper money? | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
-No, on the stamp. -All right. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
One theory as to why 88% of people seem to think she faces left is because she does on the definitive | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
edition of the stamps, which we can see here. But on the other | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
hand, that's true in Denmark - Queen Margrethe, | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
they also think she faces left, but on the stamp she looks out and on the coin she looks to the right. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:36 | |
If you ask a Dane which way she faces on their coins, they will say, as most of us would, left. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:42 | |
It's something to do, probably, with right-handedness. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
We just picture a profile that way. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
It's really strange, cos we handle these things | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
every day, unless you're Giles when you have someone to do it for you. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:54 | |
It's bizarre that we just don't notice, isn't it? | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
The worst I ever saw, and it was just me and I did want to help, was on a cross-Channel ferry. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:04 | |
We've all been there when it's a terrible storm and everybody was being sick, really badly sick, and I | 0:16:04 | 0:16:10 | |
went in to the loos and you know the doors have got those sort of ships' doors so there's a lip at the bottom? | 0:16:10 | 0:16:16 | |
The entire lavatory was sick and, as the ship rolled, there was a man, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:22 | |
a businessman, you know, a suit, a tie, | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
respectable-looking man, lying and the sick... | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
Oh! | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
..would come across him, break over his head. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
I stood at the door looking at this sight and he was being sick | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
and he just looks straight at me and just went, | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
"Kill me." | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
And I thought, "If I had a heart, I would." | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
Moving on. The point is, it isn't easy predicting what the future will look like | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
beyond saying that hopefully we'll all have jet packs and smoke pipes. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
Sorry, did you just say Beyonce? | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
Probably. I usually do. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
It isn't easy to predict what the future will look like beyond saying that hopefully we'll all be riding | 0:17:05 | 0:17:10 | |
-round on jet packs and smoking pipes. -He said Beyonce! Did he not say Beyonce? | 0:17:10 | 0:17:17 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
Where did I say Beyonce? | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
"Beyond saying." Oh, golly. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
Oh. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
-What are you actually trying to say? -Beyond saying. -"It's difficult to | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
predict what the future would be like beyond saying..." You can't say | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
that without saying Beyonce. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
You can't! OK. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
OK, I'm watching, I'm listening. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
It isn't easy to predict what the future will look like beyond remarking that hopefully... | 0:17:44 | 0:17:49 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
You have to get up pretty early in the morning. He's got the big money in the middle there. | 0:17:53 | 0:18:01 | |
Now it's time for a round of quick-fire hypotheticals. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
So, all you have to do is tell me the first thing that comes into your head, basically. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:18 | |
Let's say you found a fallen tree in the forest. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
Obviously, it fell down before you arrived, but did it make a sound as it fell? | 0:18:21 | 0:18:27 | |
Ooh, um... No. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
KLAXON BLARES | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
Well, no-one's going to say yes, are they? | 0:18:32 | 0:18:36 | |
Yeah, you're right. Do you know where this question comes from? | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
-It's a famous... -Bishop Berkeley. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
Yes. If there's no-one to hear a sound, is there a sound? | 0:18:42 | 0:18:48 | |
It depends so much what you mean by sound, doesn't it? | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
-Well, there isn't because sound is the vibration of the eardrum. -Is it? | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
Well, it depends, though, cos part of the | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
definition of sound is that there has to be a recipient for the sound. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
There's the thing that makes the noise and there's the transmission of the noise and then | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
the reception of the noise. But if there's no reception, maybe the noise doesn't exist. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
Other things are still vibrating, but whether that vibration counts as a sound or not... | 0:19:08 | 0:19:13 | |
The definition of sound is what happens in the ear. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
-There isn't any sound if there's no-one to hear it. -It's a mooty point. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
There's the speed of sound and it's only what happens in the ear. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
How do you get that speed between that and your ear? | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
No. I'm... | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
Maybe by the time that tree's fallen and you've got there, that sound's halfway round the world | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
and making someone else very nervous. "Argh!" | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
Stephen, are you sure about this? | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
Well, no-one is sure. That's why it's a hypothetical. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
To a semanticist or a neurologist, they may say that sound is that, but | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
to a physicist, they would say the propagation of sound waves is sound. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
Whether or not there is an ear to vibrate, it is a sound wave. And if it's a sound wave... | 0:19:56 | 0:20:01 | |
I disagree that they are sound waves because... | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
You may disagree, but that's... You're welcome to. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
They only become a sound wave when there's an ear to receive it. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:13 | |
Do you remember we talked about that thing that really astonished me? | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
Did you know that light's invisible? In a dark vacuum, | 0:20:16 | 0:20:21 | |
if you shoot a beam of light across the eyeballs like that, | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
you can't see it, because you can only see what light hits. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:28 | |
But people said, "But that's a stupid answer because the definition of | 0:20:28 | 0:20:33 | |
light is something that goes into your eye and is then received. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
-Until it does that, it's not light. -Mmm. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
But we have all kinds of things like, not ears, for example. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
Are you saying that it's not sound if it registers on a recording device that is left there without | 0:20:40 | 0:20:46 | |
a human there, that it's bending the needle of a recording device? | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
Does the machine not hear? Is it not a sound wave that is actually causing the machine to register? | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
-Yes, but in Bishop Berkeley... -I talked about you, not about Bishop Berkeley. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
The point is, it's not as simple as just to say yes or no. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
Go on, Stephen, go on! | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
You've got him! You've got him! | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
I've swam with dolphins as well and it is quite an extraordinary experience. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
SEAN: It's terrible when they reject you. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
That's horrible and all your family and all your therapists are standing on the beach | 0:21:16 | 0:21:22 | |
and it's freezing cold and there's loads of dolphins just pissing off back to the sea. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
And then you look round and you go, "Hmm... | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
"I suppose we'd just better carry on with the medication, then." | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
No, Sean. If they rejected you... | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
"I mean, at least we tried. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:44 | |
"Can I have a towel?" | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
There was a Frenchman who had nothing better to do than to | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
electrocute people's faces, in order to make their lips turn upwards | 0:21:50 | 0:21:55 | |
without their eyes moving. There we are. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
That's what he liked to do. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
-It's a job. -He's only ten years old, that boy. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
"As you can't have real sideburns, have these electric ones." | 0:22:09 | 0:22:14 | |
His name was Guillaume Duchenne and he defined a true smile as having to involve the face | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
and the eyes and what he discovered was that you can't control your eyes, can't make your eyes smile - | 0:22:18 | 0:22:24 | |
it's involuntary - whereas you can make your lips smile. Here are some rather | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
horrifying attempts to try and make people smile. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
These are all the QI researchers. Bending over backwards for the show. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:38 | |
It's disturbing. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:39 | |
Couldn't he get a different volunteer? | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
Poor Barry. Day 60... | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Urgh! Day 61... | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
Uragh! | 0:22:49 | 0:22:50 | |
The second one from the bottom, looks like the bloke's come in from the side. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:57 | |
He's been surprised, I suppose. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
No, there is actually, Andy, a third probe you can't see. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
Mr Duchenne actually gave the numbers out. 58 is, "I forgot my mother's birthday". | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
61 - "Left the gas on". | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
That's not "Left the gas on". That's "I've just trodden on a cat and it's died". | 0:23:14 | 0:23:18 | |
The real smile is called the Duchenne Smile, and with only the mouth smiling, it's known | 0:23:23 | 0:23:28 | |
-in the trade of happiness studies, gelotology, it's known as... -A Gordon Brown. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:33 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
There have been things like yokes, you put them on your shoulders. There, look at that. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:45 | |
Splendid. And it's extraordinary how much they did give you a slight advantage. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:50 | |
It looks silly, but I find myself, more and more, | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
as I enter my 30s now... LAUGHTER | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
-..doing that. -Yes. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
And it makes a hell of a difference. Take them away, David. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
Hello, David... Not yet. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:02 | |
-Hello, David, it's lovely to see you. Now try them. -Sorry, what? | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
Put them there. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
Hello, David. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:13 | |
-Oh, sush! -You see. Practical proof. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
He's misunderstanding, for comic effect, but it's...true. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
Hello, David, lovely to see you. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
It genuinely makes a difference. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
It sounds much better. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:29 | |
That's very disorienting. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
And when you talk yourself with them, you almost fall over. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
So don't talk yourself like this. Also, you look like an idiot. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
-I feel like I'm in front of myself. -Yes. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
What's nice is it also has a nice warming effect on the ears. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
It's really a win win win win win win win, isn't it? | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
I find it very comforting, and also it means you can't hear | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
all the horrible things people behind me are saying. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
You have to reverse it like that. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
Shut up, shut up, shut up! | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
I've just had a bizarre realisation that I know loads about hedgehogs and I don't know why. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:08 | |
-When did that happen? -I think it's rather nice. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
-You know those tapes that you get, when you listen to them subliminally... -During the night? | 0:25:11 | 0:25:16 | |
..to learn foreign languages? I think that Chinese one was a hedgehog tape. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:21 | |
It was, cos a hedgehog snuck in and swapped tapes. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:25 | |
Didn't even change tapes. It just sat by the bed going, "For many years, we were feared | 0:25:25 | 0:25:31 | |
and despised by the British public and then along came Beatrix Potter..." | 0:25:31 | 0:25:35 | |
I'll be getting you back for the cheese. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
I wouldn't call your hedgehog knowledge "loads". | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
You know a couple of things, but compared to what you know about other stuff, it's loads. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
-All right, let's compare my hedgehog knowledge with your hedgehog knowledge. -OK. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
OK, Sean, here's a chance for you to pound him into the dust. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
It's a hedgehog slam down! | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
What do you call a baby hedgehog? | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
FOGHORN | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
Tiggy-Winkle Junior. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
There is a name. Two names. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
A...hoglet. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
-Yes, it's the right answer! -In your face! | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
In your face! | 0:26:15 | 0:26:16 | |
Nothing like a graceful winner, is there(?) You could have said urchin. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
-They're also known as urchins. -There's saliva coming out. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
-Graham. -Come with me, Daniel Radcliffe. -Oh, I say. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
-This did seem like a good idea. So if you want to kneel down there. -Right. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:40 | |
This feels very wrong, doesn't it? | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
Children are watching and sobbing. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
"What's he doing?!" | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
"He found Dorothy, now he's killing Harry Potter." | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
-Are you all right there? -Yeah. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:01 | |
Daniel, have you finished both of the Harry Potter films? | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
It'll be fine, it'll be fine, it'll be fine. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
They can easily finish them without you. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
I'm so bad at this. I was about to lean through. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
-Are you all right there? Are you comfortable? -Yes, it's lovely, thank you. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
Nothing can go wrong. Wouldn't it be awful? | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
We had the stuff about the bullet and soon there'll be some story - | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
"and then Graham got distracted by a bright light". | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
Have I done it..? I think I've done it all right. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:39 | |
You'll live on in films for ever. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
DRUM ROLL | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
-Drum roll. -OK, here we go. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
So, three...two... | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
AUDIENCE: One... | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
Argh! | 0:27:54 | 0:27:55 | |
On that bombshell, ladies and gentlemen... | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
..it's thanks to Graham and the late Daniel Radcliffe. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:07 | |
Goodnight! | 0:28:07 | 0:28:08 | |
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