0:00:28 > 0:00:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:31 > 0:00:37Hello. Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44This is Captain Fry speaking in, I hope, a very reassuring tone,
0:00:44 > 0:00:49welcoming you aboard this QI international, around-the-world trip.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53We have an impressive roster of VIP passengers on board with us tonight,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56international man of mystery Jack Dee.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58APPLAUSE
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Global phenomenon Bill Bailey.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06APPLAUSE
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Seasoned world traveller David Mitchell.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13APPLAUSE
0:01:15 > 0:01:19And from another planet entirely, Alan Davies.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22APPLAUSE
0:01:26 > 0:01:33And gentlemen, if at any time you wish to get my attention, don't hesitate to use your call buttons.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Jack goes...
0:01:35 > 0:01:37'Icelandair to Inverness, Gate B.'
0:01:37 > 0:01:39LAUGHTER
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Bill goes...
0:01:41 > 0:01:44'Iran Air to Istanbul, last call.'
0:01:44 > 0:01:46David goes...
0:01:46 > 0:01:49'Air India to Islamabad now closing.'
0:01:50 > 0:01:52And Alan goes...
0:01:52 > 0:01:55'Unexpected item in the bagging area.'
0:01:55 > 0:01:59- LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE - Very good.- Oh, yeah.
0:02:01 > 0:02:07Good. If you make sure that all your seats are in an upright position, we are cleared for take-off.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Don't forget that this year we are celebrating our ignorance
0:02:11 > 0:02:14with the Nobody Knows Round.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16FANFARE 'Nobody knows.'
0:02:16 > 0:02:20If you think that nobody knows the answer to that question,
0:02:20 > 0:02:24then you can wave your "nobody" and you get a big bonus.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29But if you wave it and you're wrong, you get a bit of an old forfeit.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33What are the points that you can gain by using it correctly?
0:02:33 > 0:02:39I think we all agree that nobody in this universe understands QI's scoring system.
0:02:39 > 0:02:45So, by that logic, were we to raise the subject of the scoring system and I was to do that, then...
0:02:45 > 0:02:47A-ha!
0:02:47 > 0:02:51- APPLAUSE - Nobody knows.- Nobody knows.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55He's made a very good point.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59- I wonder what the score is now? - Yes, the score now...
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Amazingly, Bill has three and everyone else has zero.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06APPLAUSE
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Why three?
0:03:13 > 0:03:20I either thought one or ten, but three? How could you divide your contribution by three?
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Better than you, better than you, better than you. Three!
0:03:23 > 0:03:25APPLAUSE
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Let's get going, shall we?
0:03:29 > 0:03:33Now, if by some terrible, terrible concatenation of circumstances,
0:03:33 > 0:03:38both my co-pilot and I on this flight are suddenly taken ill,
0:03:38 > 0:03:40how would you land this plane?
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Can't they just land themselves?
0:03:43 > 0:03:47I'd stop reading the Kindle on the steering wheel and concentrate.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50LAUGHTER
0:03:50 > 0:03:53That would be a wise start, yes.
0:03:53 > 0:04:00- Don't you radio the...? The co-pilot is slumped normally in these situations.- Someone talks you in.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04- Somebody talks you in? - That's what happens in the movies.
0:04:04 > 0:04:11- Robert Duvall would probably be good. That's who I'd ring.- Or Lloyd Bridges in the case of Airplane.
0:04:11 > 0:04:16- Perfect choice. - Presumably, there are legal problems with someone talking you down
0:04:16 > 0:04:21because you could sue if it was interpreted by your relatives that you were given bad advice.
0:04:21 > 0:04:27So probably these days, the air traffic controller would refuse to give advice and say,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30"We're not covered for my saying something..."
0:04:30 > 0:04:36You'd have to sign a waiver and text it to them, then insurance would cover you to be talked down.
0:04:36 > 0:04:42It is a minefield. Extraordinarily, and happily, it has never occurred in commercial airline travel history
0:04:42 > 0:04:49that someone has gone, "Can anyone fly this plane because the pilot and co-pilot are ill or dead?"
0:04:49 > 0:04:53It's never happened, but it would be fraught with difficulty.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55They have tried various simulations.
0:04:55 > 0:05:01For example, those with American civil private pilot licences in America who can fly light planes
0:05:01 > 0:05:04were invited on to simulators of big jets.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09One of them couldn't even operate the seat that moved him towards the control.
0:05:09 > 0:05:15Another one turned the radio off. Another one turned off the autopilot and instantly crashed the plane.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18The fact is it's incredibly difficult.
0:05:18 > 0:05:24Stephen, am I allowed to say that in your uniform how incredibly unlike a pilot you look?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26So what do I look like instead?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Be brutal, be frank.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32I think you'd be the chap who calls himself the bursar.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36He's got a big leather wallet and takes money for duty-free.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Yeah, CALLS himself the bursar.
0:05:38 > 0:05:43- He calls himself the bursar?- Yes, I think he does.- Or the purser?
0:05:43 > 0:05:47- The bursar is the one that does the money for...- Public schools.- Yeah.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50What kind of plane is he flying on?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52LAUGHTER
0:05:52 > 0:05:57"The bursar will be collecting money for the end-of-term jamboree."
0:05:57 > 0:05:59"Here on Charterhouse Air..."
0:05:59 > 0:06:04The bursar with the trolley and then, with the drinks, the groundsman.
0:06:04 > 0:06:10Anyway, the fact is it's fraught with difficulty. The first problem is simply getting into the cockpit
0:06:10 > 0:06:14because since 9/11, of course, cockpits are locked.
0:06:14 > 0:06:20If the pilot and co-pilot were too ill to be able to fly, they may be too ill to let you into the cockpit.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23- Do they have a secret knock? - That's a lovely thought.
0:06:23 > 0:06:29- When they give them their lunch, they have to get in.- Yes.- So they must have a coded knock or something?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Like... "It's me.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34"I've got your...
0:06:34 > 0:06:36"I've got your lunch."
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Something like that. They go, "It must be the lunch."
0:06:40 > 0:06:45Yes, it must be Deirdre with the lunch. The lunches. Why do I say "lunches"?
0:06:45 > 0:06:49- Because there's more than one. - But why is there more...?
0:06:49 > 0:06:51LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:06:55 > 0:06:59- You are accruing points at a fantastic rate.- I tell you what...
0:06:59 > 0:07:03- Why is there more than one lunch? - They have to eat different meals.
0:07:03 > 0:07:10- Yes, the pilot and the co-pilot must eat different meals.- In case one of them gets botulism?- Exactly.
0:07:10 > 0:07:15If one is by accident poisoned. And in extra long-haul flights, there are three pilots, not two.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19So you can't get into the cockpit, it's very dangerous, never been done.
0:07:19 > 0:07:26If it was on autopilot, you'd be able to fly level, but once you got into the landing situation,
0:07:26 > 0:07:32yes, the film scenario would take over whereby you'd be told how to operate the flaps and at what speed,
0:07:32 > 0:07:38but there are so many variables in terms of glide paths and vertical and horizontal axes and so on,
0:07:38 > 0:07:42it is extraordinarily difficult. There is an auto-land system.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47There's no way of flying it remotely from the ground? Just somebody with a Wii or something.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50- I don't know.- Maybe one day.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Someone comes in the room. "What? Oh!"
0:07:53 > 0:07:56LAUGHTER
0:07:57 > 0:07:59It's a horrifying thought,
0:07:59 > 0:08:04but fortunately it never has yet happened in major commercial air travel.
0:08:04 > 0:08:10They say the chances are one in ten if it was an intelligent person and the plane was on autopilot,
0:08:10 > 0:08:17- they could be talked down, there is a one in ten chance the plane would survive the landing.- Right.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21- If it was not on autopilot, probably one in 100.- This is not reassuring.
0:08:21 > 0:08:27There are points if you can give me within five years when the autopilot was invented.
0:08:29 > 0:08:311965.
0:08:31 > 0:08:341965 we've got there.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- 1970.- 1970.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39'77 to coincide with the Jubilee.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43I'm going to go for 1945.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47You're the closest, but you're still miles away. It's 1914.
0:08:47 > 0:08:53The first autopilot was used at the Paris Air Show. An American invented it. They were a huge success.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57They had a big rubber band on the joystick. "Look, no hands!
0:08:57 > 0:08:59"It's flying itself!"
0:08:59 > 0:09:05The gyroscope got so popular that they would have the pilots standing on the wings.
0:09:05 > 0:09:11- We've got a picture showing you how impressive it could be.- People were just crazy in those days.
0:09:12 > 0:09:17That's when people went over Niagara Falls in a barrel. They were mental!
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Those were the days of the barnstormers.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22You wouldn't want to be ball boy.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26But it's a surprisingly ancient invention. It was the early days...
0:09:26 > 0:09:32That's almost before aeroplanes were invented. He probably had this thing in his shed,
0:09:32 > 0:09:38- hoping something would be invented he could apply it to.- It was a gyroscopic corrective mechanism.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Is the modern autopilot still recognisably the same system?
0:09:42 > 0:09:49- No, it's more complicated.- It's not a gyroscope where you put string in and wind it round to get it going?
0:09:49 > 0:09:55One of the worrying things about the autopilot is it's on for most of the time you're in the plane.
0:09:55 > 0:10:00They switch it off just before they land. They switch it off just as they take off...
0:10:00 > 0:10:05They watch the telly, then now and again they go to that channel where the map is
0:10:05 > 0:10:09to make sure they're heading in the right direction.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Then they put Michelle Pfeiffer back on.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17There are long flights, but where is the shortest commercial flight? Do you know?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Oh, Bill!
0:10:20 > 0:10:24I think I might know this. I don't know. I'll try it. I'll go out on a limb.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Is it the Orkney Isles?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29- Yes!- Is it?- Yes!
0:10:29 > 0:10:32- APPLAUSE - Oh, Bill, well done!
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- How many points? - There's another 4.5 points(!)
0:10:39 > 0:10:44- Yeah.- It's between...- 27 and a half, I think you'll find.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- It's between Westray and Westray Papa.- Yeah.
0:10:47 > 0:10:53It's usually done in around two minutes, though the record is 58 seconds from take-off to landing.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Do you think people go, "I hope it's a quick one today?"
0:10:56 > 0:11:00The distance is shorter than the runway of Edinburgh Airport.
0:11:00 > 0:11:05Do they just take off, throw peanuts at you and then land?
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Run up to you and rush back again.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13But the most bizarre thing about it is a return ticket is £39.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16- It's not cheap. - Why don't they build a bridge?
0:11:17 > 0:11:22- I'm assuming there is some sort of gorge to be got over. - I assume there is too.
0:11:22 > 0:11:27You get a certificate and a miniature of Highland Park whisky for doing the flight,
0:11:27 > 0:11:32so maybe people just get off on the idea of doing the shortest flight in the world.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37The sea's quite choppy round there, so it's quite difficult...
0:11:37 > 0:11:42It is a bit like that. They just do the exits and... "Oh, here we are."
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Well, there we are.
0:11:45 > 0:11:51Ladies and gentlemen, we've arrived at our first destination which is India.
0:11:51 > 0:11:56Which of these two gentlemen is going to make the better policeman?
0:11:56 > 0:12:00One of them has seen the camera and is about to arrest the photographer.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05That seems to be what policemen do nowadays, so I'll go with that one.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- Interesting.- And he's got a Biro. - Yeah, the one with the pen.
0:12:10 > 0:12:15Writing notes down. The other one seems to be more concerned with how he looks.
0:12:15 > 0:12:20He's smiling, chatting away. The other one's a bit more sober, more professional.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24I think it's the guy in white behind them.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26He's plain-clothes. He's mingling in.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31You've missed the one detail that the state of Madhya Pradesh
0:12:31 > 0:12:36will pay policemen an extra 30 rupees a month to grow a moustache.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40- Really?- They consider that policemen are better in all kinds of ways.
0:12:40 > 0:12:46They're less intimidating, they work better with the community, they're more respected by the public.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50- They're extraordinary...- The human race never ceases to disappoint.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54It's not just India. The British had weird ideas about moustaches.
0:12:54 > 0:13:00In India, they're considered a sign of virility, but at the moment there's a north-south divide.
0:13:00 > 0:13:05In the north of India, it's rarer to have moustaches because in Bollywood
0:13:05 > 0:13:09and the cricket team, the great heroes tend not to have moustaches,
0:13:09 > 0:13:14but in Tamil cinema, everybody has a moustache and that is just considered...
0:13:14 > 0:13:18It's Steve Wright in the Afternoon, isn't it?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21I've never trusted a moustache. I'm completely the other way.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25That's interesting because in the British Army from 1860
0:13:25 > 0:13:29it was a regulation that every soldier had to have a moustache.
0:13:29 > 0:13:35You could be imprisoned for shaving your upper lip, right up until the First World War,
0:13:35 > 0:13:39- then you had the option of shaving off your moustache.- Why?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Why suddenly in the First World War?
0:13:42 > 0:13:46"We're fighting total war. The moustache, that was ridiculous."
0:13:46 > 0:13:52Surely, if they think...if we need moustaches, we need them more than ever now. It should be beards.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55They give you a certain... Don't they?
0:13:55 > 0:13:59- Yeah? Yeah? - APPLAUSE
0:13:59 > 0:14:01I think so.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05But this "beh-h-h" sort of moustache is...
0:14:05 > 0:14:08APPLAUSE
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Thank you. It's going to win a war, isn't it?
0:14:12 > 0:14:17But as you can see there, that's typical British soldiers, all of them with moustaches.
0:14:17 > 0:14:23I'm just imagining that that moustache is going to have its own website by the end of this.
0:14:23 > 0:14:28How long do you imagine the longest moustache in the world might be?
0:14:28 > 0:14:3024 feet.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34- Well, that's a little bit too much. - OK. 12.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38- It's 14 feet. There it is. It's pretty impressive, isn't it?- Wow.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42- This man makes a living out of it. - LAUGHTER
0:14:42 > 0:14:47He was in the film Octopussy. I don't know what he did with his moustache...
0:14:47 > 0:14:51- But it's pretty impressive. - Do you distrust him?
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Deeply.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57If he turned up to do a bit of woodwork in the house
0:14:57 > 0:15:01and he just... "I'll measure 14 feet."
0:15:04 > 0:15:05APPLAUSE
0:15:05 > 0:15:08I'd naturally...
0:15:10 > 0:15:14- You wouldn't want to stand at a urinal.- Oh...
0:15:14 > 0:15:18- Oh, dear.- Trailing it around on the floor?
0:15:18 > 0:15:21He's ringing them out!
0:15:21 > 0:15:23LAUGHTER
0:15:23 > 0:15:27Now you get to see a picture of some interesting moustaches.
0:15:27 > 0:15:33And I have actually... I have what you might call moustachabilia.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37These are real things used by people with moustaches.
0:15:37 > 0:15:43This is simply to drink. It's a silver, beautifully-made thing you put in a cup
0:15:43 > 0:15:46so that you can sip through here without...
0:15:46 > 0:15:51- without staining your moustache. - Keeps it out of it.- Nice and dry.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56With soup, you'd want a soup spoon. You just sip through that part.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00So you take your soup like so and you just...like that.
0:16:00 > 0:16:06Again, I keep my moustache nice and dry. What else have I got here?
0:16:06 > 0:16:10They hadn't invented the straw at this point?
0:16:10 > 0:16:17Albert Finney had this in Murder On the Orient Express. At night this went round your ears.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Like that. Look at that.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23LAUGHTER Wh-What's that for, though?
0:16:23 > 0:16:29- You say you want to keep your moustache. Keep it from what? - Escaping!
0:16:31 > 0:16:33APPLAUSE
0:16:36 > 0:16:40Wild creatures of the night? I don't know.
0:16:40 > 0:16:46- People might come and nibble at it. - There's a slight air of gimp about it.- There is!
0:16:46 > 0:16:51- Isn't there?- The odd thing is that people using that spoon and drink cover
0:16:51 > 0:16:57are people who don't want to look stupid. "I don't want to look like a complete arse,
0:16:57 > 0:17:04- "so excuse me while I get out all my paraphernalia." - It is true, what you are saying.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09Oh, dear. I'm going to take my moustache off now.
0:17:09 > 0:17:15Mm. Now what did Mussolini want Italians to eat to make them big and strong?
0:17:16 > 0:17:20He had a national propaganda day for this foodstuff
0:17:20 > 0:17:23and he wanted Italians to take to it.
0:17:23 > 0:17:29- Was it a vegetable?- Not quite. - Nuts.- Not nuts, no.
0:17:29 > 0:17:35- It's something Italians do eat. They have a specialist dish. R...- Ravioli?- Ri...
0:17:35 > 0:17:40- Risotto!- Which is made from...?- Rice. - Rice, exactly.
0:17:40 > 0:17:45And he wanted Italians off the habit of eating pasta and onto rice.
0:17:45 > 0:17:52- They didn't take kindly to this and so here are some...- Paddy fields. - ..Italian ladies growing rice.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- And singing while they do it. - As they did it.
0:17:55 > 0:18:01He had on his side the Futurists. You probably know about the Futurist movement.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04- Not yet.- Like the Dadaists...
0:18:04 > 0:18:09"Not yet". Very good! Much too quick. That was brilliant.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14The Futurists were an art movement and they were pretty witty.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, one of the great Futurists,
0:18:18 > 0:18:22said pasta made Italians lethargic, pessimistic and sentimental.
0:18:22 > 0:18:28This caused outrage. He opened his own restaurant and had some extraordinary dishes.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33Way ahead of Heston Blumenthal and anybody like that.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37My favourite one is Aerofood. Pieces of olive, fennel and kumquat
0:18:37 > 0:18:39eaten with the right hand,
0:18:39 > 0:18:46while the left hand caresses various pieces of sandpaper, velvet and silk.
0:18:46 > 0:18:52All the while, the diner is blasted with a giant fan and sprayed with the scent of carnation
0:18:52 > 0:18:54to the music of Wagner.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56LAUGHTER
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Isn't that a dish?
0:19:00 > 0:19:06I think somebody should have the guts and the wit to open a Futurist restaurant.
0:19:06 > 0:19:12There was Chicken Fiat. The chicken is roasted with a handful of ball bearings inside.
0:19:12 > 0:19:19When the flesh has fully absorbed the flavour of the mild steel balls, it is served with whipped cream.
0:19:19 > 0:19:27And Excited Pig - a salami skinned is cooked in strong espresso coffee, flavoured with eau de cologne.
0:19:27 > 0:19:28GROANS
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Have you been to a motorway services?
0:19:32 > 0:19:37- I quite like the idea of a chicken that tastes a bit of metal.- Yes.
0:19:37 > 0:19:42Moving to another country now, which international head of state
0:19:42 > 0:19:48snubbed Jesse Owens after his triumph at the 1936 Olympics?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50- Yes, Jack?- Hitler.
0:19:51 > 0:19:57- KLAXON SOUNDS - Oddly enough, it's not true. It's what the whole world thinks.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02And we know this from no greater source than Jesse Owens himself.
0:20:02 > 0:20:07It's a really rather sad and very typically unfortunate story.
0:20:07 > 0:20:13Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, stage-managed, of course, by Hitler.
0:20:13 > 0:20:19On the first day, Hitler congratulated only German winners.
0:20:20 > 0:20:25Someone said to him that he should either congratulate all the winners or none of them,
0:20:25 > 0:20:31- so he said, "I won't congratulate any winners." So he didn't personally...- Look at the far right.
0:20:31 > 0:20:37- ..he didn't personally congratulate Jesse Owens. - LAUGHTER
0:20:37 > 0:20:41The bloke on the far right is just going like that.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46That bloke on the far right is called Hermann Goering.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48LAUGHTER
0:20:48 > 0:20:52- Surely they're all on the far right? - Hey!
0:20:53 > 0:20:56- Wa-hey! - APPLAUSE
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Brilliant!
0:21:01 > 0:21:06They're all taking bets on how high the high jump was going to go.
0:21:06 > 0:21:12- "About there." - The one on Hitler's left is thinking, "I didn't get the memo."
0:21:12 > 0:21:14How To Dress.
0:21:14 > 0:21:20Well, no, it is rather sad. Hitler decided that he wouldn't congratulate anyone,
0:21:20 > 0:21:25so he didn't snub Jesse Owens at all. According to Jesse Owens,
0:21:25 > 0:21:29"When I passed the Chancellor, he arose, waved his hand at me
0:21:29 > 0:21:35"and I waved back at him. Hitler didn't snub me. It was..." Who snubbed him?
0:21:35 > 0:21:40- So Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all...- The jury's still out.
0:21:40 > 0:21:45- We know he's bad, but he didn't snub Jesse Owens.- The King of England.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47- No, FDR.- Bastard.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52The President of his own country. It's a terrible story here.
0:21:52 > 0:21:57"The President didn't even send me a telegram." He won four golds.
0:21:57 > 0:22:03"When I came back to my native country, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus,
0:22:03 > 0:22:10"I had to go to the back door, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President."
0:22:10 > 0:22:16He had to use the goods lift at the Waldorf Astoria to get into the reception
0:22:16 > 0:22:21for returning US athletes as he wasn't to use the front door.
0:22:21 > 0:22:27- Sammy Davis Junior couldn't go in the front of hotels in Vegas where he was performing.- Astonishing.
0:22:27 > 0:22:32- He went in through the kitchen. - I know. That still happens to me sometimes.
0:22:32 > 0:22:38Moving on elsewhere again, where does the rainwater that falls into this creek go?
0:22:38 > 0:22:42- It's in Wyoming, I should say. - FANFARE
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- 'Nobody knows!'- You're right!
0:22:45 > 0:22:47CHEERING
0:22:47 > 0:22:49well done!
0:22:50 > 0:22:52All right!
0:22:56 > 0:23:02You're very good at this. As you probably know, round about the Rockies
0:23:02 > 0:23:08there is the Continental Divide and rainwater that falls on one side drains into the Pacific,
0:23:08 > 0:23:13- the other to the Atlantic, but in this particular place... - LAUGHTER
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Nobody knows.
0:23:16 > 0:23:21- It's called North Two Ocean Creek in Wyoming.- It's a big one.
0:23:21 > 0:23:26- LAUGHTER - Nobody, as you rightly say, knows. And there it is.
0:23:26 > 0:23:33Now fasten your seatbelts as we head into a spot of unexpected general ignorance.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Name the world's largest pyramid.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Don't know the name of any.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42- That one in the middle. - LAUGHTER
0:23:42 > 0:23:44KLAXON
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Oh, Jack! I'm so sorry.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56- Am I really that predictable?- I'm afraid you are. Terrible thought.
0:23:56 > 0:24:03Well, well, I don't know. I'm going to say something that will be wrong, like Giza.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Well, that's where we're looking.
0:24:05 > 0:24:10- The three great pyramids of Giza. - It's not an Aztec one, is it?
0:24:10 > 0:24:16Yes, it is. I don't expect you to know its name. If you did, you'd get 40 points.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20I don't know its name, but I'll spit out some consonants!
0:24:20 > 0:24:25- It's called Cholula. - Ah, Cholula!
0:24:25 > 0:24:31- It was on the tip of my tongue. - It's not Opl-lopl-opl...? - No, it's not Popocatepetl.
0:24:31 > 0:24:37It's Cholula. Although it's got a flat top and it's not as high, its cubic capacity is much bigger.
0:24:37 > 0:24:43It's 4.3 million cubic yards as opposed to Khufu or Cheops' 3.36.
0:24:43 > 0:24:49- It's not actually a pyramid. - According to archaeologists, that qualifies as a pyramid.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53There is a word for a pyramid with a flat top.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Unfinished. - LAUGHTER
0:24:58 > 0:25:00APPLAUSE
0:25:00 > 0:25:02It's on the sign.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06"Due for completion early BC497."
0:25:06 > 0:25:12It's called a frustum. When was the First World War first named as such?
0:25:14 > 0:25:18The outbreak. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- You think it was straight away? - Before it started.
0:25:22 > 0:25:27It would be an act of a pessimist to call it that early.
0:25:27 > 0:25:33- It's going to be some point after 1939, isn't it? - A realist, surely.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36"There's going to be more of these." KLAXON
0:25:37 > 0:25:42Excuse me! I think what I said, people in the box,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44is AFTER 1939,
0:25:44 > 0:25:48which may contain 1939, but does not mean it.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50KLAXON
0:25:52 > 0:25:55OK... No, no, no.
0:25:55 > 0:26:01I think "After 1939" and "After the Second World War" are not synonymous.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05This is just giving you time to type "After 1939".
0:26:05 > 0:26:07KLAXON
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Oh...
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Why not just type, "Mitchell is a cock"?
0:26:17 > 0:26:21- I wouldn't put it past them! - LAUGHTER
0:26:21 > 0:26:28No, the surprising news is that it was in 1918 that it was first called the First World War.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32A British officer, Lt Col Charles a Court Repington,
0:26:32 > 0:26:39recorded in his diary for 10th September that he met Major Johnstone of Harvard University
0:26:39 > 0:26:44to discuss what to call the war. Repington said to call it The War was no good.
0:26:44 > 0:26:49- That War?- To call it the German War gave too much credit to the Boche.
0:26:49 > 0:26:55"I suggested the World War," Repington said, "Finally, we agreed to call it the First World War
0:26:55 > 0:27:01"to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war."
0:27:01 > 0:27:06In 1920 he published a book called The First World War, 1914-18.
0:27:06 > 0:27:13- Wasn't it called The Great War? - Yes, but there was another Great War before that. Do you know it?
0:27:13 > 0:27:19- Napoleonic War?- Napoleonic, yes. So wars do change their names. There you are.
0:27:19 > 0:27:25And with that we reach our final destination. Please remain seated for the scores.
0:27:25 > 0:27:30My goodness, me. Well, I'm afraid very much in the bucket class,
0:27:30 > 0:27:34with minus 44, is David Mitchell!
0:27:34 > 0:27:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:41 > 0:27:45Standing room only at the back. With minus 27 it's Jack Dee!
0:27:45 > 0:27:47APPLAUSE
0:27:49 > 0:27:55- With a surprising amount of leg room, at minus 10, Alan Davies! - Thank you.
0:27:55 > 0:28:03Which means... that tonight's First Class passenger with four points is Bill Bailey!
0:28:03 > 0:28:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:28:11 > 0:28:17So thank you for flying with QI International. My cabin crew, David, Jack, Bill and Alan, and I
0:28:17 > 0:28:23wish you a pleasant onward journey. And don't forget the wise words of Halvard Lange, PM of Norway,
0:28:23 > 0:28:29who said, "We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. We look on them as rather mad Norwegians."
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Good night.
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