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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to QI. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:39 | |
Does anybody know where the word "quiz" comes from? | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
As we're doing a kind of quiz. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
I feel like I do know, but I can't remember. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
Do we get a point for that? | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
Yeah, Alan can have a point for that, I'm fine with that, yeah. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
-When you say it, I'm going to go... -HE MUMBLES | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
-Watch, watch. -OK. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
We don't really know. HE MUMBLES | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
So, it used to mean a sort of eccentric person. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
How it has come to mean asking people questions for points, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
we don't really know. There's a story that Richard Daly, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
who was a theatre proprietor in Dublin, | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
in 1791 made a bet that within 48 hours | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
he could get a word into common parlance, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
and he distributed the word "quiz" | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
to be put up on walls all over Dublin, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
and it became part of the language. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
So really when they say - "Police are quizzing the suspect" - | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
that's wrong, isn't it? | 0:01:31 | 0:01:32 | |
No, that's from "inquisitive" and "inquisition". | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
-So that's a separate... -Very good. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
You've got it, you're in the right chair. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
I had a little cold feeling, then! | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
I think with hook-a-duck they do that. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
-I think they purposely... -In "hook-a-dook"? | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
-"Hook-a-duck." -"Hook-a-duck." | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
-I knew what you meant. -I'm foreign. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Hook-a-duck, oh, in the fair! At the fair? | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
Our vowel sounds are very similar to yours. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
I did a gig in Norway, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
and they could understand me more than in Cheltenham. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
Yeah. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
-Nowadays you can't fail at hook-a-duck. -Why? | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
Cos kids will kick off if they don't get something. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
-So, what do you get? -You don't come away with nothing from anything in the fair any more. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
Cos you used to get a fish in a bag, | 0:02:39 | 0:02:40 | |
and it would teach you about life and death. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
Usually very quickly! | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
Those fish, they're not dead when they're floating on the surface, necessarily. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
Can you make them better? | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
Yeah, feed them and put them in a proper tank! | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
But when they grow, they grow to fill the tank. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
You can get one about this big. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
-Really?! -Oh, yeah. -Goldfish in the wild are about 40-foot-long! | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
Absolutely huge! | 0:03:05 | 0:03:06 | |
I don't think that's true, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:07 | |
they don't just keep filling the space, mate. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
No, I don't mean like they become a square fish! | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
A big rectangular fish, like... | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
"It's tight in here!" | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
I want to win one of those! | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
Are you a good sleeper, Noel, do you sleep well? | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
Yeah, I can sleep a lot, yeah. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Apparently what you should do to find out how much you need to sleep, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
is you should spend a week not having an alarm clock at all, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
and you should let your body just wake up when it needs to, | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
and log how many hours, and if you need six hours, | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
and you need to get up at 7am, | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
then you know what time you've got to go to bed. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:42 | |
Yes, but, Sandi, you'd need a wee at five. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
-Yes. -No matter what. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
Yeah, it's very annoying. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:52 | |
It's not like you particularly have that much wee to do. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
You get there and you think, "Why have you woken me up for that?" | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
"I would rather have just left that in the bed. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
"We could have just dealt with that...in the morning!" | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
I would say sometimes, in-the-middle-of-the-night wee, | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
you can start thinking about something stressful, | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
or get frightened by noises in the house. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
Best just to stay asleep until it gets light. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
Really the solution is some sort of an apparatus where you can sleep on the loo. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
My father was in hospital and he had a catheter fitted for a | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
couple of weeks, and he said he'd never slept so well | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
for about 50 years. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
It was the best thing that had ever happened to him. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
It's like when you go and stay in a hotel and they say | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
-never use the kettle, because people pee in it, apparently. -No! | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
-What?! -You see, I don't want to know those things! -No! | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
-What? -I mean, how far away is the bathroom?! | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
I always think that must be a man who pees in that kettle. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
-Pee in a kettle?! -I can say on behalf of men | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
all over the country, we do not piss in kettles! | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
You've got to take the lid off, you've got to unplug it, | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
it's way too much effort. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
I'm not making it up, it's a well-known fact. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
I wouldn't come on QI and talk bullshit, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
I'm straight up with the facts. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:18 | |
When you go to a hotel room, and there's water already in the kettle, | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
that's a bit suspect. I always get rid of that. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
To be honest, boiled piss, it might change the flavour of the tea, | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
but it's not a bacterial threat, is it? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
Another thing, never eat the chocolate on the pillow. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
Where's that been?! | 0:05:36 | 0:05:37 | |
Anyway, moving on. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
In 2015, they were very busy, they also discovered that giraffes hum. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
-For pleasure? -Well, we don't know. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
They recorded giraffes at three different zoos, | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
and they found they make this really deep sound, | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
it's just within human hearing range. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:54 | |
They don't know if they're snoring or sleep-talking, or just saying, | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
"It's all right, I'm still here, don't you worry, | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
"light will come in the morning." They don't know what it is, but they hum at night. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
Could they be a three-part harmony, like the Beverley Sisters? | 0:06:02 | 0:06:07 | |
The Three Degrees, or the Beverley Sisters, yeah. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
That, to me, looks like the giraffe version of going into the loos with | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
one of your friends when she's about to vomit... | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
-LAUGHTER -"I'm fine!" | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
The one on the left's going, "Don't take a picture now!" | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
That one on the left looks so drunk, | 0:06:33 | 0:06:34 | |
it's trying to have sex with that tree. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
She's only got one leg, but I'll have a go! | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
She's still here, she can't be going anywhere! | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
I spent part of my childhood in East Africa, | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
and we had some neighbours who had a Mini which they were very pleased | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
with, and they had brought it all the way from England, this Mini. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
And one day they didn't come home, | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
and everybody was very worried about them. It turned out a giraffe had | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
taken that rather interesting shape there, and tried to hump their Mini! | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
And got stuck over the car! | 0:07:00 | 0:07:01 | |
They couldn't open the doors, and then the giraffe couldn't get off. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
I guess they drove it back to England... | 0:07:07 | 0:07:12 | |
"We'll knock him off in the Dartford Tunnel!" | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
Astonishing thing, twice a day the tide in the bay | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
rises 28-foot-six-inches, to the point that it overtops | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
the waterfall over which the Saint John River normally flows, | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
and the river flows backwards. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:33 | |
-Wow. -Isn't that amazing? | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
We've learnt so much, haven't we?! | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
You've got to be careful with this show, what you take away from it. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
Because you can hear people in pubs, and they'll say this happened, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
and you go, "No." And they'll go, "I saw it on QI." | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
Like, it's become that. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
I was chatting to a friend of mine, | 0:07:51 | 0:07:52 | |
I said I was thinking about going to Venice. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
He said, "I don't do Venice, it's full of racists. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
"It's a racist town." I said, "How's it a racist town?" | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
He says, "Yeah." He says, "All the gondoliers, | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
-"they've got to be black. They have to be black." -What?! | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
I said, "I don't think that's true." | 0:08:05 | 0:08:06 | |
He said, "No. It's true, I saw it on QI." | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
He said, "Honestly, I don't know how they've got past the EU with it, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
"but every single one of them has to be black." | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
I said, "I don't think that's true." | 0:08:14 | 0:08:15 | |
Anyway, about three days later, he rang me up. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
He went, "I meant gondolas. The actual gondola." | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
The gondola has to be black. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
So here's the thing, we're going to make our own nuisance call this evening. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
There is a number that anybody can ring in Sweden, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
and it's a scheme set up by the country's tourism authority | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
to celebrate 250 years of free speech in Sweden, | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
and it's called Ring A Random Swede, OK? | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
It's a genuine random thing. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:48 | |
We have no idea who we're going to get. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
We've already pre-selected a question from a member of the | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
audience, and the question is, why do you eat rotten fish? | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
Does anybody speak Swedish? | 0:08:58 | 0:09:00 | |
Here's the marvellous thing about Scandinavians, | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
-is that their English is really coming along(!) -OK. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
So, the marvellous, marvellous sound department are going to put a call through now, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:15 | |
and obviously we'll have to explain what it is that we're doing to this person. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
LINE RINGS, NUMBER DIALS | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
LINE RINGS | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
LINE RINGS | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
INDISTINCT SPEECH OVER PHONE Hello? | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
Hi, my name is Sandi, I'm ringing from London, who's that? | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
Robin! Hi, you're my random Swede that I'm ringing! | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
'Yeah.' | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
Is it your first phone call from an English person? | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
So, this is kind of exciting, Robin, | 0:10:08 | 0:10:09 | |
because I'm ringing you from a live television studio in London. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:14 | |
So you're on the BBC right now, is that OK? | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
OK. So, I'll tell you what, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
we'll have a round of applause from our audience, | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
maybe you can hear that. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:10:26 | 0:10:27 | |
So, what do you do, Robin? | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
Are you actually in the shop? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
OK. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
So, we have a question from our audience. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:43 | |
you may be buying this now, what do I know? | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
Why do Swedish people eat rotten fish? | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
is the question we want to ask you. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
It was lovely to speak to you, Robin! | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
You know when people say, | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
like, an old woman died in her flat, and she was eaten by her cats. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
-I mean... -What kind of a world do you live in?! | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
People peeing in kettles, and old women... | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
Three days. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
-Three days and your cat will eat your face. -Yeah. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
Because it will have loosened up enough for it to get purchase. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
-Yeah. -NOEL: -What sort of show IS this?! | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
They never say that, do they, about aged meat on a menu, | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
with 20-day aged beef, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:38 | |
they never use the phrase, | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
"It will have loosened up enough to get purchase". | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
Say you took an average of every single person here in this room, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
and we took height, and shoe size, | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
and collar size, and all those things, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
you won't find anybody who's average in all respects. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
It just doesn't exist. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:56 | |
And it's called the jaggedness principle, and it really matters. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
So in the 1940s, the US Air Force, they thought, "I know what we'll do, | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
"we'll design a cockpit that fits absolutely everybody." | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
The cockpit has yet to be designed that will fit my proportions. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
In what way? | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
-Oh, in a plane? -In a plane. -Oh, I'm sorry. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
How embarrassing. I thought you were talking about... | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
I try so hard with you boys. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
So they took the measurements of over 4,000 pilots, | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
and they designed this cockpit seat based on these ten different body | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
measurements, and it didn't fit a single pilot, | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
because there isn't any such thing as normal, | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
and in the end they had to develop the adjustable seat for aeroplanes, | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
because of the jaggedness principle. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
So, take me and Richard. So, Richard, you come here | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
-just for a minute, darling. -Oh, goodness. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
-So, if you wanted to do... -Where's the sun? Where's the sun?! | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
If there was a jacket to be had | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
for the average quiz show presenter... | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
Can I just say, I'm very proud of Sandi and her time at the school... | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
She won the grammar prize, well done. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
You do know that people watching won't know who's, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
and I don't use the word lightly, abnormally heighted. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
-It could be that you're 25-foot. -Yes, yes. -We need some proportion. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
I'm five-foot-nine, to give an indication(!) | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
I used to work with the brilliant Humphrey Lyttelton, | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
and Humphrey was exactly the same height as me when he was kneeling. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
-I bet I am. -Shall we try that? OK. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
Right, here we go. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:33 | |
-Oh, just about! -Not far off. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:13:36 | 0:13:39 | |
What's the worst noise in the world? | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
So, we have some props where you can make some noises. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
-Oh, hello. -Let's have a look. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
So, let's start with Nish and Alan. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
HIGHPITCHED BLEEPING That's very irritating, isn't it? | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
-Oh, God. -Wow. All right, stop it. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
LOUD HONK | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
Do you remember what that is, Nish? | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
-This is a vuvuzela. -It is a vuvuzela, yes. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
Which ruined the 2010 World Cup. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
It's a hideous noise, isn't it? | 0:14:08 | 0:14:09 | |
Well, luckily I have grade seven in vuvuzela, so we're fine. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
LOUD SCRAPING Oh, Alan, Alan... | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
That is awful. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
HE PLAYS HIGHPITCHED RECORDER | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
We've got a band going! Don't stop! | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
SHE PLAYS VIOLIN BADLY | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
I've got a mirror and this cube of white stuff. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
Is the most annoying sound in the world me on drugs?! | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
I think this is polystyrene, and... | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
LOUD SQUEAKING Oh! | 0:14:55 | 0:14:57 | |
The Journal of Neuroscience gave the top ten most annoying sounds. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
Apparently the most annoying is a knife on a bottle, | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
but we haven't been able to work out why that is. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
This one we can do. This is number two, a fork... | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
-NISH: -Oh, God. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:09 | |
# I got the power. # | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
Oh! Stop, stop, stop! | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
That's very unpleasant, isn't it? | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
This is the old... | 0:15:21 | 0:15:22 | |
ALARM BLEEPS | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
What is worse than this is when it just goes, "Doot." | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
-Yes. -Oh, yes. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
And then four minutes later goes, "Doot." | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
And you can't work out which one it is. It's somewhere in the house. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
-"Doot." -LAUGHTER | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
The thing that I love about, like, | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
any sort of smoke alarm is that we've advanced so far | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
technologically and yet we still haven't got beyond the only way | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
to solve a smoke alarm is to have a tea towel and just do this. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
Now, what did Highland Warriors wear at the Battle of Bannockburn? | 0:15:55 | 0:16:00 | |
Kilts. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
-SIREN WAILS -No. Not kilts. -No. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:06 | |
Here's a random Scandinavian fact. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
-Oh, OK. -The word "kilt" comes from the Danish word kilte, meaning "tuck". | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
-So it's actually a Danish word. -Oh? -Yes, that's rather fine. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
But medieval Scottish warriors did not wear kilts when they went into | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
battle. What did they wear? Anybody know? | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
-Dungarees. -Pantaloons. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:21 | |
-No, it was a yellow tunic. -A yellow tunic? | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
A yellow tunic called a leine croich. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
The bloke on the left has got one of those umbrella hats from the fair. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
Yes. They're rather fine, aren't they? | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
He's trying to knock it off. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:33 | |
-SCOTTISH ACCENT: -"That's a stupid hat." | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
It's not even raining! | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
What was weird, they used saffron to make them yellow, | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
but if they didn't have saffron they used to use... | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
-Urine. -Yes. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
-Horse urine. -Very keen on the yellow then. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
Piss-stained tunic. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
Urine was in all the tweeds as well, cos they used to use it to fix the colour in the tweeds. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
Yeah, but still, you know, can we not make it green from the grass? | 0:16:55 | 0:16:59 | |
No, keep on pissing on it. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:00 | |
That horse has got the hots for the painter. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
Yeah, he's looking right at him, isn't he? | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
"Now you're getting my best side. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
"Don't paint the twat in the umbrella hat, for God's sake." | 0:17:12 | 0:17:16 | |
-My mum would summon me home by whistling. -Seriously? -Yeah. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
And she taught me how to do it with the two fingers there. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
-Wow. -Now, I could hear that three miles away. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:31 | |
Me and my brother would be playing with my mates. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
We'd be out all day and then at tea-time my mum would go out | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
-the back door and go... -HE WHISTLES | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
-And then we would... -Wow. That is a seriously good whistle. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
-We would come back. -One time, do you remember we were in Manchester? | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
-Oh, yeah, yeah. -And I had to get a train? -Yeah. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
And the taxi went by and I went, "Taxi!" Like that. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
-And he ignored me and it went about 50 yards and it did that and it braked. -It went... | 0:17:50 | 0:17:55 | |
Was the taxi driver your mum? | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
Now, can you describe a bearded tit? | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
If anyone says David Baddiel, I'm leaving. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
Well, once you get past 30, it does happen. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
-We don't always talk about it. -No woman should be without tweezers. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
-No. -Or the skill of platting. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
-That's true. Give the children something to hang on to. -Exactly. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
Like a sports bra, tie them together round the back, bosh. Off. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:34 | |
I sometimes feel when I speak to you, Ross, | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
that I haven't thought things through. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
-All I'm saying is you're welcome. -Thank you. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
Now, could you please do an impression | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
of a trout faking an orgasm? | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
Oh, Deirdre's off. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:55 | |
Looks like a really bad face-lift. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
-Well, I'm trying to be a sarcastic trout. -Sarcastic trout? | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
-The gills, it would be... -A trout faking an orgasm? | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
-Was that it? -Yeah, I'm done. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
"Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, the river moved for me as well." | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
Anybody else want to try? You do a fine line in animal impersonations. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
Well, I'm not sure. I feel like I'd have to move my tail. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
I'm sure the tail... | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
I don't believe anybody is stopping you. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
If you have just tuned in... | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
That was Alan being a trout faking an orgasm. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
-The mouth opened... -APPLAUSE | 0:19:49 | 0:19:53 | |
My husband makes me sleep facing away from him, | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
cos I breathe too loudly. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:00 | |
That's quite weird, isn't it? | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
Well, like those two in the picture. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
-Oh, yeah. -When I got married, another thing I found out, | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
that wasn't usual to put your underwear and your socks on before | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
you put any of your clothes on. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
-Are you supposed to put it on afterwards? -No, no. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
Did you marry a superhero? | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
-I put my underwear on. -Yeah. -And then I put my socks on. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
-And then I put my outerwear on. -And what's wrong with that? | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
Well, apparently it's weird to put your socks on before | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
you put your trousers and your top on. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
I think your husband is telling you that things he does | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
are things that everyone does. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
It is perfectly reasonable to put your socks on | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
before your trousers or shirt. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:40 | |
It is also perfectly reasonable to breathe while you're asleep. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:44 | |
The problem in your house is he keeps pissing in the kettle. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
But at least you can stand up, so for women it's really difficult, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
because you sort of have to hover, don't you? And I remember one time, | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
I went to the ladies and the lock didn't quite work. This is a very | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
tricky moment for a woman, cos you have to sort of hover. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
And I, so obsessed with not making a mess on the seat, I thought, | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
"Oh, sod it, I'll just sit down." And as I sat down, | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
the door burst open and a woman came straight in and she went, | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
"Oh, I'm so sorry." And then she shut the door again | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
and then she burst it open again and she went, "You're Sandi Toksvig..." | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
But what is Britain's biggest national secret? | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
If we tell it, it won't be a secret any more. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
Ah, well, that is true and that was a thing that worried people | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
for a long, long time. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:36 | |
-So, we're in London. -Right. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
Was it the London Tower, something up there? | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
-It is a tower. Tower is right, Jerry. -Is The Shard a secret? | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
Is there some enormous building that isn't supposed to...? | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
-Yes, there is an enormous building that was a secret for years and years and years. -The Gherkin. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
-BT Tower. -The Post Office Tower. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
-The BT Tower is exactly right. -Oh, the BT Tower. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
It was built in 1965 and was considered such an important | 0:21:52 | 0:21:56 | |
part of the telecoms infrastructure | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
that it was classified as an official secret! | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
-What?! -Cos no-one can see it. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
-No. I know. -Oh, my God. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:04 | |
It was Britain's tallest building. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
It contained a public viewing gallery and a revolving restaurant. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
Nevertheless... | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
I went to that place once for a charity event | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
and Rick Astley was singing. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
It was wonderful. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
And I went to the loo, which is in the middle, | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
and when I came out of the loo it had revolved | 0:22:20 | 0:22:22 | |
and I came out right on stage next to him! | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
He was going, # Never going to give you up...# | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
But the restaurant was fantastic. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
Did you ever go to the revolving restaurant? | 0:22:37 | 0:22:38 | |
-No. No, I haven't been. -It was just glorious. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
And in 2009, BT said they were going to reopen it, and anybody who's ever | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
had a promise from BT will know that that never happened. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:48 | |
You get a lot of e-mails saying your order is on its way. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
A male black widow spider and a female black widow spider | 0:22:54 | 0:22:59 | |
have just finished having sex. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
What happens next? | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
Yeah, Ross? | 0:23:04 | 0:23:05 | |
Tiny cigarette. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
It wouldn't be a tiny cigarette, would it? | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
It'd be eight tiny cigarettes. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
Shall we do it again? | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
Maybe she could try and kill him in that way rather than by eating him, | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
which I think is the answer that we were being led towards. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
Ah, she eats him. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
No, she does not if she's a black widow. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
So there is one species in the widow group in which the female, well, | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
-let's say, routinely eats the male. -Scottish Widows. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
Yes, but at least she's insured. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
Right, speaking of ears, I'm going to play you two recordings, OK? | 0:24:01 | 0:24:06 | |
One is of hot water being poured into a bowl | 0:24:06 | 0:24:08 | |
and one is of cold water being poured into a bowl. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
I want you to tell me which is which, so here's the first one. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
LIQUID POURS | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
And here is the second one. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
LIQUID POURS | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
-So... -Sorry, I need a wee. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
What do we think the first one is? | 0:24:27 | 0:24:29 | |
-Hot or cold? -Hot. -Hot. -Hot. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
-Everybody? Hot? -Yes, I'll go hot. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
I thought it was the first one. Sounded like emptying a kettle | 0:24:33 | 0:24:37 | |
and the second one sounded like filling a kettle. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
-Oh. OK. Yeah. WOMAN: -Ooh! | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
The audience has taken to mocking me. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
Since Stephen left they've just turned. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
There are sitting there going, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:53 | |
"No-one's taking the piss out of that idiot, it's up to us." | 0:24:53 | 0:24:59 | |
That woman there. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
You said one was filled, one was... | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
I think that woman went, "Oh!" | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
-"Oh, yeah!" -That was admiration. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
-Admiration? -Yeah. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
The sound of admiration? I've never heard that before. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
Obviously cos I'm unfamiliar. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
The second one sounded kind of crisp and cold and I wanted a drink. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
OK, let's have one more listen, so here is the first one. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
Everyone listen. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:22 | |
LIQUID POURS | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
And the second one. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
LIQUID POURS | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
Can we just bear in mind, this is QI, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
so I've got a feeling it might be somebody pouring soup onto a horse. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:36 | |
I promise you it's hot and cold water. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
Hands up who thinks the first one is hot. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
And hands up who thinks the first one is cold. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
Ooh, that's weird. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
OK, so, it is about the right percentage. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
96% correctly usually identify the first one as hot. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
AUDIENCE WHOOPS So, yes! | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
So, they do make different noises, because hot water is, kind of, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
slightly less sticky is the thing of it. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
Molecules in it have more energy from the heat, | 0:26:10 | 0:26:12 | |
as when hot water hits a hard surface, it breaks up into smaller | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
particles and it makes a higher-pitched splashing noise | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
-than cold water. -Oh, OK. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
-So, but now you'll know. -Good. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
So that's good. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:23 | |
I'll be like, "Ah, that was hot." | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
-Yes. -The next time you pour boiling water on yourself, you'll be like, | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
"Is it hot? Oh, by the sound of it, yes, I am, I've boiled my hand." | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
OK, how would you consume the original Humpty Dumpty? | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
Is it that he wasn't an egg, he was something else? | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
Is correct. Yes. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
It has always been sort of a nickname, but it wasn't an egg. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
In fact, in the early depictions of the rhyme, | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
he is actually depicted as a child. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:50 | |
There he is, not looking entirely content. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:53 | |
Some people think it might have been a story about Richard III depicted | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
as humpbacked in Tudor histories. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
And he was defeated and despite all his kings men and horses | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
-at the Battle of Bosworth. -Oh, isn't he gorgeous? | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
So when did it start becoming about an egg? | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
Because it's an egg, isn't it? | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
Well, we now think of it as an egg, | 0:27:09 | 0:27:10 | |
but the earliest citation in the OED is for a drink made with ale, | 0:27:10 | 0:27:17 | |
boiled with brandy... | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
Yes, please. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
-..and I have some here. -Oh! | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
And I have five glasses. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
Oh, yes. Are you sharing it out or just having a brilliant time? | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
I am sharing it out. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
So, here is the thing as well, | 0:27:29 | 0:27:31 | |
-the traditional... -Keep pouring! | 0:27:31 | 0:27:33 | |
The traditional food that is eaten at a Danish Christmas is something | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
called aebleskiver. They are a little tiny, like a pancake, | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
thing which you have in jam and these have been made for me | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
by a brilliant Danish chef Bronte Aurell, from the | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
Scandinavian Kitchen in London who's here in the audience. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
-Where are you, Bronte? Give us a wave. -Hello. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
Brilliant. Have a glass, here we are. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
So you tip the jam on your head and then rub the pastry in. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
-And there we go. -It tastes medicinal. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
God, that's horrific. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
Not the food. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:09 | |
So, Humpty Dumpty was originally a mixture... | 0:28:09 | 0:28:13 | |
-This is lovely. -Look at all me jam! | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
-I never had a happy childhood. I wasn't happy. -We'll get a taxi. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
-I didn't like you either! -We'll get a taxi. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:22 | |
Let's all just get a taxi. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
We'll sort it out outside. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
Humpty Dumpty was originally a drink... | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
..of ale and brandy and you consumed it like this, cheers to everybody. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
-Cheers. -Cheers. -Skal! -Cheers to the audience. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 |