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00:00Thank you for joining us.
00:30Good evening and welcome to the QI, where tonight we're whooshing and whizzing on wheels and wings.
00:37Let's meet my wingmen and women, the freewheeling Aisling B.
00:45Wheeling and turning, it's Desiree Birch.
00:50Wheeling and dealing, it's Hank Green.
00:56And winging it as usual, it's Alan Davis.
01:00The buzzers are all wheel-based, so let it spin, Aisling goes...
01:11Like a wheel within a wheel.
01:13Ooh, very nice.
01:14Desiree goes...
01:15Spinning wheel, got to go round.
01:19Oh, I'm off. Yeah, right.
01:21OK, you ready, Hank? Go.
01:22Ride me mama like a wagon wheel.
01:25And Alan goes...
01:27We'll meet again.
01:31Don't know when.
01:34Don't know when.
01:37Right, let's get things rolling.
01:40What use is an upside-down wheelbarrow?
01:43Is it a nice alternative to the missionary position?
01:46Especially in the dirt.
01:49Yay!
01:50You know how you've got a pen and paper?
01:51Could you do a diagram of how that works?
01:52Oh, I could just show you, Sandy, to be honest.
01:53No, it's...
01:54You heterosexuals, you're a mystery to me.
01:55We are talking about warfare.
01:56We're going back to medieval China.
01:58So they used to use them as makeshift barricades.
02:00You'd place an upside-down wheelbarrow,
02:01a whole lot of them in a tangled line,
02:02to protect from the cavalry.
02:03It's much faster than digging a trench.
02:04You'd need that many wheelbarrows to dig a trench in the first place.
02:07Well, there is that.
02:08Yes.
02:09Yes.
02:10The Chinese historians call them mobile forts.
02:11And what is extraordinary, wheelbarrows did not appear in Europe
02:13until the 12th century, even though they had been used in China
02:15for at least 1,000 years.
02:16And the Europeans, they'd heard about China,
02:18and they had heard about China, and they were going back to medieval China.
02:21So they used to use them as makeshift barricades.
02:23You'd place an upside-down wheelbarrow, a whole lot of them in a tangled line,
02:25to protect from the cavalry.
02:26It's much faster than digging a trench.
02:27You'd need that many wheelbarrows to dig a trench in the first place.
02:30Well, there is that, yes.
02:31The Chinese historians called them mobile forts.
02:33And what is extraordinary, wheelbarrows did not appear in Europe
02:35until the 12th century, even though they had been used in China
02:37because the Europeans, they'd heard about Chinese wheelbarrows,
02:40but they had never seen one.
02:41And that is why ours looks so different.
02:43So this is a Chinese wheelbarrow.
02:45And the thing about the Chinese wheelbarrow, we have a little model here,
02:48is that it has a single wheel right in the middle,
02:52rather than the one that we have, which is at the front end.
02:55What do you think in terms of which is better?
02:58I mean, whichever one I don't have to use to do gardening.
03:01Yeah.
03:02I think once you've got the Chinese one up on its wheel...
03:06Yep.
03:07..the less weight for you to carry.
03:08Yeah.
03:09Yeah, the fulcrum is closer to you.
03:12I think our one is easier to get around.
03:13Well, it rather depends on what you're carrying.
03:15So this Chinese one is much better at carrying loads over a long distance
03:19because the wheel takes all of the weight,
03:20whereas with this one, you split the weight between the wheelbarrow
03:23and the person who is doing it.
03:25In terms of tipping things out, this one's going to be a little bit easier.
03:28I love these.
03:29I've finally found one that's the right size for me to be in a wheelbarrow race.
03:32LAUGHTER
03:34Wheelbarrow races, anybody ever had taken part in a wheelbarrow race?
03:35Oh, sure.
03:36Yeah.
03:37I think humans...
03:38Can I look at us?
03:39LAUGHTER
03:41Yeah, look, if you saw, like, a couple of cats doing that,
03:44you'd be like, that's the best thing I've ever seen.
03:46And you'd get the same crowd watching if it was...
03:49Yeah.
03:50LAUGHTER
03:51I've always found them absolutely terrifying, these wheelbarrow races,
03:54because you're relying on the person in front of you
03:56not being enthusiastic about the end goal.
03:58Yes.
03:59I just had an image of you and I doing a wheelbarrow race.
04:01I'm trying to look like a...
04:02Would you be holding or...?
04:04Interesting now, Sandy, and this does bring us back
04:06to slightly sexy territory, I suppose.
04:09I think... I think I'd be holding you.
04:12I'm... I... I'm just going to need a minute.
04:14OK.
04:19They really indoctrinate you at school with wheelbarrow races,
04:21and you're like, well, these are the skills you're going to need for life,
04:23so once a year, the whole school is going to compete against each other,
04:27because this reflects what will happen as adults.
04:29Yeah.
04:29So, Saoirse, lift up your legs there now and run after it.
04:33You can see it, though, like, the three-legged race
04:35is kind of preparing for marriage, isn't it?
04:37Yes, you always start.
04:38Attached to somebody but a bit hobbled by it.
04:40LAUGHTER
04:42In our school, we would have the egg-and-spoon race,
04:45but it was always called the egg-and-spoon race,
04:49but we did it with potatoes.
04:51LAUGHTER
04:56I'm seeing this now, and I...
04:57So this is the first time in all of my history on television
05:00that my mother's actually in the audience, so she can heckle,
05:03but we used to be able to bring in our own potatoes for it.
05:06LAUGHTER
05:08So my mother, who is a sports person,
05:11she's a retired jockey,
05:12and so she would be naturally a bit competitive.
05:13What?!
05:14Who was a retired jockey?
05:15I'm somehow still taller than you.
05:17LAUGHTER
05:18Oh, she's going to kill me now.
05:27Where is she?
05:28Oh, there she is.
05:29Oh, there she is.
05:30Oh, there she is.
05:31Yeah, I was going to say, but you can tell from here,
05:33she's taller.
05:34You can feel it from here.
05:35I want to see.
05:36I can't believe you.
05:37I'm just going to...
05:38Sandy, I think this is a losing battle.
05:39Do you think?
05:40LAUGHTER
05:41Oh, my God.
05:42I'm sorry, Mammy, but we do have to measure you for science.
05:44Yep.
05:45Ooh!
05:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:48APPLAUSE
05:54That's...
05:55What she said to me.
05:56What?
05:57I'll kill her.
05:58I'll kill her.
05:59LAUGHTER
06:00So, Mammy, you might even kill me further,
06:02cos I remember we had to pick the potatoes out
06:04for our egg and spoon race,
06:06and Mammy was like,
06:07here, try this one.
06:08It's small.
06:09And when you get the spoon,
06:10try and dig the spoon underneath.
06:12LAUGHTER
06:13And I was like,
06:14come on.
06:15Yep.
06:16And then we got into school,
06:18and the nun said,
06:19to make it fair,
06:20everyone has to put their potatoes into a bag
06:23and shake them up.
06:24Make them up.
06:25And then we all have to be...
06:26And I got a massive...
06:27Oh!
06:28Someone's massive spud
06:29and I was trying to dig the spoon in underneath
06:31to win the race.
06:32Those fucking egalitarian nuns.
06:33LAUGHTER
06:35We were robbed, Mammy.
06:36We were robbed.
06:37I think humans are adorable.
06:38This is awesome.
06:39LAUGHTER
06:40I think we do this in preparation for aliens.
06:42Like, if aliens come and they're like,
06:43you have to prove to yourself
06:44that we shouldn't destroy you,
06:45they're like,
06:46see all these terrible things you did,
06:47and we're like,
06:48but wait!
06:49Egg and spoon.
06:50LAUGHTER
06:51Wait till they see the satellite.
06:53LAUGHTER
06:55Sometimes in rodeos,
06:56they do wheelbarrow races.
06:57Do they?
06:58So, a man pushes another man
07:00who is in a wheelbarrow,
07:01not like this.
07:02And then on the way back,
07:03they switch,
07:04but also they release a bull.
07:05LAUGHTER
07:07No!
07:08Who's got the back legs of the bull?
07:10LAUGHTER
07:12No!
07:13The bull's in a wheelbarrow!
07:15APPLAUSE
07:16Right.
07:17How do flying lemurs get around?
07:19So, I've got a challenge here,
07:20because I really want to make the klaxons go off.
07:22OK, go.
07:23But I also know the right answer to this question, I think,
07:25which is British Airways.
07:26Oh, wee!
07:27Very...
07:28LAUGHTER
07:29APPLAUSE
07:42Well done.
07:43Why did you say British Airways?
07:44I'm sorry, they are...
07:46They're probably more value flyers.
07:47Oh.
07:48Should I go with Ryanair?
07:49Oh, yeah.
07:50LAUGHTER
07:51I just want to be piled on top of biology.
07:59LAUGHTER
08:00First of all, they're not lemurs.
08:01Well...
08:02Oh, well then.
08:03So, flying lemurs are not lemurs,
08:04and the second is they can't fly.
08:05LAUGHTER
08:06Well, it's been an administrative area.
08:09I believe.
08:10LAUGHTER
08:11They're actually just a group of actors with coats on.
08:14LAUGHTER
08:15I mean, this is true of all of the flying things.
08:17Like, the flying fish, the flying squid, the flying snakes,
08:20the flying frogs, none of them fly, they glide.
08:22No, we get over-excited about it.
08:24First of all, lemurs live in Madagascar, right?
08:26The actual lemurs.
08:27So-called flying lemurs live in South East Asia.
08:29They are more properly called kalugos,
08:31and along with the tree shrew,
08:34these are the closest living relatives of primates,
08:36which, of course, includes us.
08:38These are our close relatives.
08:39They can't fly, but they can glide.
08:40You're absolutely right.
08:41I do have a cousin who looks a bit like that.
08:43LAUGHTER
08:44She just stapled to her duvet,
08:46cos that's what that is.
08:47LAUGHTER
08:49It's like one of the victims in Seven.
08:52LAUGHTER
08:55How did they kill him when they stapled him to a duvet
08:57and dropped her off a high building?
08:59He flew for 40 miles!
09:01LAUGHTER
09:03He's dead after 10!
09:05LAUGHTER
09:06So, kalugos can glide incredible distances
09:08through the rainforest, up to 80 metres,
09:10which is over 260 feet, without losing altitude.
09:13So they're helped by their huge webbed feet,
09:15but also they have these massive flaps of skin called patageum.
09:19So, weirdly, called that because of the gold-embroidered edge
09:23on a Roman tunic.
09:24I don't know.
09:25OK.
09:26They can fly who named them on drugs.
09:28Yeah.
09:29Yeah.
09:30This feels like what Batman would actually look like.
09:33Pretty much.
09:34Yeah.
09:35What's the only mammal that can actually fly?
09:37Bats.
09:38Yes, bats is exactly right.
09:39But unlike birds, their wings are powered by their back muscles
09:42rather than their breast muscles.
09:43And also resentment from their parents being murdered.
09:46Yes, exactly.
09:47Yeah.
09:48People in Gotham.
09:49But it's OK, because they're really, really rich.
09:50Yeah, exactly.
09:51Oh, God.
09:52Will he ever get over it?
09:53No.
09:54LAUGHTER
09:57I better fly!
09:58LAUGHTER
10:00Luckily, I'll only cover the top half of me.
10:02No-one will ever know it's me.
10:04Peek-a-boo!
10:07Me!
10:08LAUGHTER
10:09Shhh!
10:11So, when bats fly, it takes so much energy
10:13that they also have a patageum.
10:15Oh!
10:16Oh, I love...
10:17Can I say, I love bats.
10:18Is that the one who gave us all Covid?
10:20Yes, that is.
10:21LAUGHTER
10:22He's smiling for the picture.
10:24Look at him.
10:25It's not his fault that he's weird.
10:26I just bat from Turkey.
10:27I just bat from Turkey.
10:28LAUGHTER
10:30How do you like him?
10:31I spent a fortune.
10:32What do you think?
10:33LAUGHTER
10:34What do you think?
10:35LAUGHTER
10:36Don't look at my feet!
10:37LAUGHTER
10:38So, because it takes so much energy for them to fly,
10:42they also have a patageum.
10:43And look how thin it is.
10:45It's so thin that oxygen can pass through it
10:47and they can actually use it to breathe.
10:48I think it's amazing.
10:49Wow, that's cool.
10:50Honestly, Aisling, they're fantastic.
10:51Bats give birth upside down and they catch the pups in their wings.
10:55Not all of them.
10:56LAUGHTER
10:58They usually give birth to a single pup who immediately clings onto the mother's nearest nipple.
11:12Oh.
11:13Mm, yeah.
11:14With teeth like that.
11:15Yeah.
11:16They stay there while she's flying.
11:18Oh, yeah.
11:19I know, for about six weeks.
11:20The whole time she's like...
11:21Oh, my God!
11:22LAUGHTER
11:23That's why she's shrieking all the time.
11:28I tried to drop you!
11:30LAUGHTER
11:31Let's have a look at a Kaluga next to it.
11:33Oh, they've got a baby!
11:34Yeah, look at the baby!
11:35So, they use their patageum to carry their young, but they have to unfurl it when they need to poo.
11:41So, I just have to be careful not to stop the baby.
11:43Oh!
11:44Kaluga poo is so full of worms, it walks across the forest.
11:48Ugh!
11:49LAUGHTER
11:50Why haven't we seen the children's cartoon of that?
11:53LAUGHTER
11:55We're just a Kaluga poo!
11:58Kaluga poo!
12:00I mean, come on.
12:02LAUGHTER
12:03Anybody know what bat wings is slang for?
12:05For people?
12:06Oh, this old chestnut down here.
12:09Yeah, some of us really know.
12:11Yeah.
12:12Also known as bingo wings.
12:13Uh-huh.
12:14Yeah.
12:15In Cantonese, they're called bye-bye yuck.
12:17LAUGHTER
12:19It means bye-bye meat, because when you wave...
12:22LAUGHTER
12:24That's very good.
12:25Right, let's fly on to our next question.
12:27Why would you want a whale as your wingman?
12:31Could they make lots of relaxing noises to put you in a chilled-out state when you're flirting?
12:37Whales are...
12:41They...
12:42They...
12:43They get around.
12:44Yeah.
12:45Like, they do a lot of doing it, and they even do it with, like, dolphins sometimes.
12:48Whoa.
12:49OK, I don't know about them doing it with dolphins, because...
12:52Just size-wise...
12:54LAUGHTER
12:55So, OK, I'm just going to warn you now. I'm going to show you some whale porn.
12:58Yeah.
12:59It's just a thing.
13:00Mummy, could you not be here for this bit?
13:02LAUGHTER
13:03So, some whales, grey whales, right whales, they're made in triads,
13:07and basically, they have a wingman that stops the couple's drifting apart...
13:11LAUGHTER
13:12So, the threesome is just two animals and one being like,
13:16No, no, no, Mary, I didn't know.
13:17Don't back it up!
13:18You said that wrong, are you?
13:19No, the...
13:20Oh, no, I, oh, no, I, oh, no, I...
13:22LAUGHTER
13:24She said she was close.
13:25You're there now!
13:26You're there now!
13:27To the end, to the end!
13:28Stop swimming!
13:29You're the brown!
13:30Back up!
13:31Back up!
13:32Back up!
13:33Mary, don't check your phone!
13:34Get back in there!
13:35Come on!
13:36Let's have a quick look at some whale porn.
13:38Yeah, quick look.
13:39An hour later.
13:41Yeah.
13:42LAUGHTER
13:43So, there you can see there are three of them,
13:45and the one on the right is going down below.
13:47Uh-huh.
13:48Yep.
13:49Correct.
13:50So they're going to have sex, and basically kind of pushing them together.
13:52Which kinds of whales are these?
13:54Big ones.
13:55Sex whales.
13:56It's the big ones, yes, the very big ones.
13:58If you have a look, the two top ones are having sex.
14:00I'm just thinking that this was the one they should have called the humpback.
14:02Yeah.
14:03LAUGHTER
14:04I think they're doing it.
14:05APPLAUSE
14:10Well, when they're done, the males sometimes switch places.
14:12Oh, I bet they do.
14:13Yeah?
14:14Yeah.
14:15Are you done yet?
14:16LAUGHTER
14:17She can have sex with up to three males in an hour.
14:20If she's not keen, she just turns her back on them.
14:22No, not happening today.
14:23But if you think about them, they're about the same as the standard ten-pin
14:25bowling lane, right?
14:26Yeah.
14:27This is how big they are.
14:28I would imagine getting it just right and fitting properly.
14:30There are some angles in which you might want some assistance.
14:34You know what I mean?
14:35Like, look, my knees aren't what they used to be.
14:38LAUGHTER
14:39But you know you said about the dolphins?
14:40Yeah.
14:41They don't really have sex with the whales, but bottlenose dolphins do gather near mating grey whales.
14:45Now...
14:46Purphs.
14:47LAUGHTER
14:48People say they don't know why.
14:49They are purphs.
14:50OK, this is the thing...
14:51I know.
14:52I'm showing you.
14:53Wow.
14:54That's quite a penis, isn't it?
14:55Oh, my God!
14:56Yeah!
14:57LAUGHTER
14:58APPLAUSE
15:00We haven't missed that entirely.
15:03We're like, look at that little pervert.
15:05Wah!
15:06Yeah, yeah.
15:07Lovely!
15:08My innocence!
15:09Nice.
15:10If you look down to the left, that's a dolphin just laughing.
15:14LAUGHTER
15:15Jesus Christ.
15:16So, we don't really know, the oceanographer Christopher Fitzsimmons thinks they might enjoy the social
15:21aspect.
15:22Yeah.
15:23LAUGHTER
15:24They clearly don't mind.
15:26I suppose they've no doors in the ocean, so everyone lives in the ocean.
15:29They're like, hey, Steve, it's not cool.
15:30We don't like it when you come around like this, like...
15:32Can't stop me!
15:33Argh!
15:34LAUGHTER
15:35LAUGHTER
15:36I just...
15:37It's the person who took the photograph.
15:39LAUGHTER
15:40Another dolphin.
15:42LAUGHTER
15:44Go right up to it.
15:45All right.
15:46LAUGHTER
15:47LAUGHTER
15:48LAUGHTER
15:49Wood-feeding cockroaches have a different kink, if you like.
15:53Oh!
15:54Yeah.
15:55So, this is...
15:56We're showing you a lot of porn today.
15:57This is two wood-feeding cockroaches at it.
15:59And they practise sexual cannibalism.
16:01Yum-yum.
16:02Well, most animals, that would mean, like, a larger female, maybe a spider,
16:05eating the male after sex.
16:06Yeah.
16:07These are really unique.
16:08When they've had sex, they eat each other's wings.
16:11Just to be like, you're mine now?
16:13Yeah.
16:14No-one can ever have you again.
16:15You're mine.
16:16Is the correct answer.
16:17Oh!
16:18Wow!
16:19What the way!
16:20APPLAUSE
16:21Oh, my God.
16:22I'm so...
16:23So glad that me being so sick in the head has finally paid off.
16:27You've got the mind of a cockroach.
16:29Yeah, pretty...
16:30Yeah.
16:31So, this is one without its wings.
16:32So, basically, they start out with little nibbles, like sort of love kisses,
16:35and then, by the end, the wings are completely reduced to stumps.
16:38What happens is the parents can't fly away after mating,
16:41and we think that's probably why they do it,
16:43and then, weirdly, mate for life, because it can't go anywhere.
16:45Yeah.
16:46I feel like that's quite human, kind of like the bitterness
16:48is what keeps you together towards the end.
16:50LAUGHTER
16:51I used to have full wings before you.
16:54I could do all that I wanted and be my own woman.
16:56You had to eat my wings, didn't you?
16:58LAUGHTER
16:59Now, how would a spider spin itself to death?
17:04Is it one of your roundabouts?
17:06LAUGHTER
17:08That's the one you have...
17:09Like the roundabouts.
17:10Well, there's the one in Swindon that everyone complains about,
17:12maybe it's that one specifically.
17:13Yeah.
17:14Best thing is not to go to Swindon.
17:15Yeah.
17:16LAUGHTER
17:17Yeah.
17:18We're talking about golden wheel spiders,
17:20which live in the Namib Desert.
17:22OK.
17:23So, they escape predatory wasps by curling into a ball
17:26and rolling downhill.
17:28Have a look at this.
17:29Beep!
17:30I know!
17:32So, they use gravity to gain momentum,
17:34and the steeper the slope, the faster they...
17:36Do you think it's going, whoa?
17:38Yeah.
17:39So, they're only 20 millimetres wide,
17:41but they can travel up to a metre and a half a second.
17:44They spin 44 times a second.
17:46I think they are extraordinary.
17:48It's nice to like rolling downhill as a child.
17:50Your career is doing that for you now, look.
17:52LAUGHTER
17:54APPLAUSE
17:56APPLAUSE
17:58There's a creature called a cartwheeling spider,
18:01and you find it in the Sahara.
18:03Have a look at this.
18:04And what it does...
18:05Wheeee!
18:06..and it just does this.
18:07So, it spins with the limbs extended,
18:09rather than in a ball.
18:10It can tumble on flat ground.
18:12It can even go backwards, uphill.
18:14I mean, they are.
18:15If I did that in our house,
18:16my wife would actually die.
18:18LAUGHTER
18:20Well, sometimes they work at it so hard,
18:22they can't wheel themselves to death.
18:24They're known as flick-flack spiders.
18:26Their correct name is Sabrenus Reckenbergi.
18:29They're named after a guy called Dr Ingo Rechenberg,
18:32and he was studying anal biomechanics,
18:35and he was inspired to create the cartwheeling bionic wheel bot.
18:39I feel like we should probably ban this before it gets too bad.
18:42Yes.
18:43Well, the only thing about it is
18:44it could possibly be used to explore Mars.
18:46He doesn't look like he's made those to explore Mars.
18:48No.
18:50There's also something called the dwarf reed snake,
18:52which cartwheels with no limbs at all.
18:55Wait, snakes can cartwheel now?
18:57What it does is it coils itself into an S,
19:00and then it launches itself with its tail.
19:02This would freak you, by the way.
19:03It can jump a metre and a half,
19:05so six times its body length.
19:06So this is it doing its thing.
19:08It does it several times in a row just to get away
19:10from a predator or something.
19:12Or if the sand's really hot at the beach.
19:14Yeah. Yeah.
19:15That's...
19:16Yeah.
19:17In America, actually, there are tiger beetle larvae
19:19that travel by wind-powered wheel locomotion.
19:22That's what they look like.
19:23They leap into the air, they curl into a ball,
19:24and they are swept away by the wind.
19:26The fastest caterpillar in the world wheels around too.
19:29It's a mother-of-pearl moth larvae, only 20 millimetres long.
19:32They can roll at 38 centimetres per second.
19:34So that's like me doing roly-polys at 65 miles an hour.
19:38Oh, please.
19:39I would like to see you and Alan race down a hill.
19:42Yeah.
19:43Back to wings now, and specifically the west wings.
19:47Good one for our American friends.
19:49Here's a plan of the ground floor of the White House.
19:51Can you name any of the rooms?
19:54I feel like the oval one is the oval office, but I...
19:56Yeah.
19:57Yeah.
19:58OK.
19:59APPLAUSE
20:01You think, right?
20:06That's the billiard room.
20:07Yeah.
20:08Exactly.
20:09The ballroom, conservatory, secret passage.
20:11Mm-hm.
20:12So the one at the front, the oval one, is called the blue room.
20:15That's why you made it.
20:16Oh, I know.
20:171837 President Martin Van Buren had it decorated with blue carpet
20:20and curtains and nobody ever got over it.
20:22It's also known as the large oval room or the elliptic salon.
20:25It has never, ever been used as an office.
20:28It's a sort of formal reception room.
20:30Apparently, inside the White House is actually quite run down
20:33and generally, it was really old.
20:35I mean, I've been in the basement.
20:37Woo!
20:38In the basement of the White House.
20:40It seemed like, you know, maybe not as shiny as you'd expect,
20:45but it was a nice house.
20:46What were you fixing?
20:47Oh...
20:53What were you doing in the basement?
20:54I was waiting, and while I was there, I just...
20:57For how many years?
20:58I put little notes in all of the books I was in
21:01because I thought maybe somebody else would open the book someday.
21:04So if you're ever in the White House...
21:06In the basement.
21:07In the basement, open up some books.
21:09What kind of things did you put in the notes?
21:11It was a while ago now.
21:12No, because I love this.
21:13I often, if there's a book in a pub or something,
21:15I'll take it down.
21:16I always put with love from the author.
21:18I do it with Bibles in hotels.
21:20Yes.
21:25There's more White House than this now.
21:27Look at the floor above, okay?
21:29So what is this room called?
21:30I suppose it would be the Oval Office room.
21:32It's gotta be right.
21:37No, it's...
21:38That's called the Yellow Oval Room.
21:39We're really trying to help you.
21:40Oh, yeah.
21:41I might quite like this, the Queen's bedroom.
21:43Have we had to change the name of that one?
21:45Which one?
21:46The Queen's bedroom.
21:47Or is it forever the Queen?
21:48So it's for all...
21:49Many Queens.
21:50Many Queens.
21:51Not all royals.
21:52Like RuPaul.
21:53I was gonna say, Ru stays whenever he goes, yeah.
21:56If you look at the front of the White House,
21:57sort of the shot that we are quite used to seeing,
22:00I always thought that was the Oval Office right there,
22:02but it isn't.
22:03To the left is the White House's West Wing,
22:06and that is where the Oval Office is.
22:07Ah.
22:08And in fact, what happened,
22:09when Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1933,
22:11he moved his main workspace
22:13into what is now known as the Oval Office,
22:15and it was actually the West Wing's laundry room.
22:18So where all of the decisions take place
22:20is the old laundry room,
22:22because it got more sunlight.
22:23What I like is that every president
22:25has made some small changes to the room,
22:27and several have installed secret buzzers,
22:29so JFK had a secret buzzer in an ashtray by his arm death.
22:33For actresses to come in.
22:34Yeah, well...
22:35Promise, president, I got your buzzer.
22:39Am I here to do some Thai pan?
22:41And Johnson probably had a whole separate room
22:43for his schlong, apparently,
22:45because he's famously, like, well-endowed
22:48and let everybody know that he just had a giant dog.
22:52It is exactly the reason he had a buzzer.
22:55Wait, what?
22:56What?
22:57What a gentleman!
22:59What a gentleman!
23:00What a gentleman!
23:01What a gentleman!
23:02What a gentleman!
23:03So...
23:04JFK in the middle there,
23:05he had one in the ashtray
23:06so he could buzz his secretary secretly,
23:08and she could come in and say the meeting was over.
23:10Lyndon Johnson was caught cheating
23:12in the office by his wife,
23:14and so the buzzer...
23:15He pressed the wrong buzzer, like, not the wife buzzer.
23:17Yeah.
23:18The buzzer was the other way,
23:19it was to warn him that she was on the way.
23:20Mm, yeah, it was.
23:21So he could roll it back up onto...
23:30Quick, Mr. Present.
23:34Calvin Coolidge, just my favourite,
23:36he used to press the buzzer
23:38and then hide from the secret surface.
23:41He's literally playing ding-dong-ditch with his secret.
23:47There wasn't a lot going on during his administration.
23:50The team thought that I should have a buzzer of my own.
23:54What noise does it make?
23:55Well, let's have a look and see what noise it makes.
23:57Do you know what that is?
24:00It's the Danish national anthem.
24:02Oh!
24:03Oh!
24:05I appreciate that.
24:06So, because it's the Danish national anthem,
24:08they bring me...
24:09Thank you, Jack.
24:10Please respect our pastries.
24:12They're so tasty.
24:17This is genuine Danish licorice,
24:19and it's called spunk.
24:20Oh!
24:22Really good.
24:23Would you like some of my spunk?
24:24I don't want it, but I will have it.
24:27I'll have...
24:28Yeah, I'll have...
24:29You want some spunk?
24:30Yeah, I'll have some spunk, Sandy.
24:31I know that's going to become a meme or something.
24:33Hank, give some spunk to Ashley.
24:34Thank you very much.
24:35Oh, yeah.
24:36I'm not even going to tell you what this tastes like
24:37because, you know, it's written on the tin.
24:40Oh!
24:41It's really bad.
24:42Yeah!
24:43It's truly bad!
24:44It tastes so salty.
24:45It's even worse than black licorice.
24:46What?
24:47You're talking about my national candy!
24:48I am!
24:49OK.
24:50Do we have, like, a spittoon or something?
24:52Yeah.
24:53What I've always wanted is to have an audience
24:55of people watch as I...
24:56Yeah?
24:59Ashley?
25:00Yes?
25:01It's really spunk just...
25:02LAUGHTER
25:04APPLAUSE
25:13My mum is applauding.
25:14My mum is applauding!
25:16LAUGHTER
25:17Mr President, please!
25:18LAUGHTER
25:22Anyway, while we're talking about American wings,
25:25what's the name of the tallest bird in the United States?
25:32LAUGHTER
25:33I'm assuming it's an ostrich?
25:34It's not an ostrich.
25:35No?
25:36No.
25:37But there's always some American with, like,
25:38a weird pet they keep in their bathtub.
25:40So this is telling me there's no ostriches in America?
25:42This is not an imported bird.
25:43OK.
25:44I'm talking about an American bird.
25:45OK.
25:46It is the whooping crane,
25:47which stands at just over five foot tall,
25:50which is taller than me.
25:51Wow.
25:52It has a wingspan of seven foot seven inches.
25:54Wow.
25:55Whoa.
25:56So the same as a golden eagle.
25:57And they whoop.
25:58So, by coincidence, I am the same height,
26:00and I wonder if you would like to see an impression...
26:02Oh.
26:03..of a whoop.
26:04I thought you were going to bring out a real crane.
26:06No, I'm going to...
26:07This would fool even another whooping crane.
26:10LAUGHTER
26:11No.
26:12I'll be honest, Andy,
26:13you have to be so careful putting on a big white hood
26:15over your head.
26:16Yeah.
26:17LAUGHTER
26:21Do we get some breadcrumbs or...?
26:23Yeah.
26:24Is this to, like, catfish them into, like,
26:26mating and getting all hot?
26:27So it's about teaching them.
26:29So they were nearly extinct until 1966.
26:31Oh.
26:32And the Wisconsin Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre,
26:36they started a breeding programme,
26:37and at the time there were only 42
26:39of these beautiful creatures in the wild.
26:40Today there are over 800.
26:42It's a really successful programme.
26:43And they're very sweet.
26:45They have childhood sweethearts.
26:46So the couples befriend each other for a year
26:49before they mate.
26:50Oh, they go steady.
26:51They go to bed for life.
26:52Like cockroaches.
26:53LAUGHTER
26:54But, so when they're trying to raise the chicks,
26:57they wanted to make sure they stayed wild,
26:59so the researchers only interacted with them
27:01while they were dressed as cranes.
27:02And they wore this head puppet.
27:04Oh, you'd never know.
27:05See?
27:06On one hand.
27:07They had a wingtip puppet on the other hand,
27:09and they used this thing to teach the chicks how to feed.
27:13Just like you see in nature some huge alien with your face
27:16on its hand being like, this is normal.
27:19That's actually Daniel Day-Lewis.
27:21LAUGHTER
27:23I am a crane for a year.
27:25They had an MP3 player in their pocket
27:28making the calls of adult cranes,
27:30and then when the chicks were old enough to fly,
27:33pilots dressed in the same outfit, okay,
27:36led them through the air in a microlight,
27:38and they were taught safe migration routes
27:40from Wisconsin to Florida.
27:42I think it's lovely.
27:43That's a long way.
27:44It is a very long way.
27:45And then, this is proper commitment.
27:47Engineers in New Mexico Tech,
27:49they wanted to study the birds in flight.
27:50They made flapping wing drones, okay?
27:53So these are made of real stuffed birds, taxidermy...
27:57They shoved a drone up a dead bird, is what you're saying.
28:01Yes, they did.
28:02That's dark.
28:03And unlike normal...
28:04Ooh!
28:05Ooh!
28:06Ooh!
28:07Does it really fly?
28:08Yeah.
28:09If you're going to do that to us one day, you realize this, guys.
28:12Yeah.
28:13But unlike just a normal drone,
28:14the birds weren't afraid of these taxidermied birds.
28:16They seemed to think it was absolutely fine.
28:18And they're beginning to think these are a good idea for spy drones,
28:21that you would have it actually just look like a bird.
28:23I know!
28:24This is why they have that whole birds aren't real conspiracy.
28:28Is that a conspiracy?
28:29Yeah, apparently that it's like...
28:31It's all just government spying and birds aren't real.
28:33That's why they're always on the power lines,
28:35is because they're recharging.
28:36Yeah, just looking.
28:37It's such an honor to have you guys here.
28:46And why are they pooing?
28:48That's the information packet.
28:50Anyway, I love the commitment to bringing these birds back from extinction.
28:55I would just like to thank the International Crane Foundation
28:58for lending us the puppet, which I think is just...
29:00Yeah.
29:05While we are on feathers,
29:07what can you tell me about the most expensive feather in the world?
29:11It's that one there.
29:13Yes.
29:14To whom does it belong?
29:15Oh, it is?
29:16Yes, darling.
29:17Oh, OK.
29:18So it's a feather sacred to the Maori people.
29:20Oh, OK.
29:21It's from the Huia.
29:22It's a New Zealand bird which died out in 1907.
29:25Oh, wow.
29:26And in 2024,
29:27one of its tail feathers sold for 46,500 New Zealand dollars,
29:31about £22,000.
29:32Wow.
29:33They're wonderful birds from what we know, the various drawings,
29:35and what's extraordinary is that the male and the female
29:37had very different bill sizes.
29:39If you have a look, we've got a drawing of one.
29:41So the female has got the curved one,
29:43and the male is the one with the stubbing one.
29:45Why do you think they might have such different bill sizes?
29:48That looks like the kind of thing where you're like,
29:50I've got to feed my man, you know, if you want to keep him.
29:52It looks like it's going inside of stuff to pick food out,
29:55and he's just like...
29:57So they're actually working together.
29:59So he is stabbing holes in rotting wood,
30:02and she can reach in and get the insects out.
30:04OK, yeah, yeah.
30:05It's a sort of cooperative.
30:06Teamwork, OK.
30:07Yeah. All right.
30:08Sometimes it pays to split the bill.
30:09Hoo-ya!
30:10Ah!
30:15Now, for something completely different,
30:17what would you do with one of these?
30:19Oh!
30:20Oh!
30:21With how many friends?
30:25That's a part of my past I don't talk about.
30:28What do you think it is?
30:29I think a wine press.
30:31I can tell you it is officially called a murenschwang.
30:34It's for punching.
30:37It is a training dummy used in the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.
30:43Yes, I've seen that.
30:44Obviously now I know it's not a wine press.
30:46Yes.
30:47You didn't put, like, a cat or a whale for a scale.
30:52Sorry, I should have helped you out there.
30:54Now, the legend of this is that there was a daughter of a Ming general
30:57and he sent her away to the countryside when Beijing fell
31:00to the Qing invaders and she became an expert in the martial arts
31:04and she saw a snake fighting a crane and she was inspired by
31:08how the crane stuck its beak out whilst blocking with its wing
31:12and she already knew kung fu and so she adapted it to a style
31:15that relied on speed and dexterity rather than on strength.
31:18Anyway, that's the story.
31:19I don't know if it's true or not.
31:21The crane might have been a man with a...
31:24Yes.
31:25It probably developed organically from other South China martial arts,
31:30although I have to say there's a tendency in history to remove women
31:33from history and say, yes, she never existed.
31:35It didn't really happen.
31:36By luck.
31:37Yeah, exactly.
31:38LAUGHTER
31:39History will remember me as that QI contestant,
31:42Paddy O'Mahony.
31:44LAUGHTER
31:45A great guy.
31:47Talked about nothing but potatoes.
31:50LAUGHTER
31:51Anyway, we have a Wing Chun dummy in the studio
31:54and here is instructor Tony Pivorski to tell us all about it.
31:58APPLAUSE
32:04So, I mean, to the outside,
32:05it looks like you're going to attack a telegraph pole, don't he?
32:08So tell me how it works.
32:09Basically, when you do the bastard crap out of it.
32:11OK.
32:12And this is something you would train on your own to do?
32:15Yeah, it's a wooden man, basically.
32:18And what you do is you use this to improve your techniques.
32:22OK, can you show me?
32:23OK.
32:24Yeah.
32:25I mean, yes.
32:26Right, right.
32:27Right, right.
32:28Right, right.
32:29Right.
32:30Right.
32:31Anybody?
32:32Hank?
32:33No.
32:34Yes.
32:35You're a woman and you're doing that.
32:36You have to go, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire the whole time.
32:38Let me see your wrists.
32:39Right.
32:40No watch.
32:41Yeah, OK, good.
32:42I was like, is he going to tell me I have small wrists?
32:44What you want to do is this, OK?
32:45Yeah, go on then.
32:46OK.
32:47I didn't see any of that.
32:48Are you a sort of fighting sort of person?
32:49Oh, all the time.
32:50All the time.
32:51Yeah.
32:52OK, so what you want to do is, is that, you're a woman and you're doing that, you have to
32:55go, fire, fire, fire, fire the whole time.
32:56Let me see your wrists.
32:57Right.
32:58No watch.
32:59Yeah, OK, good.
33:00I was like, is he going to tell me I have small wrists?
33:02What you want to do is this, OK?
33:03Yeah, go on then.
33:04This.
33:05Oh.
33:06OK.
33:07I didn't see any of that, sir.
33:12Are you a sort of fighting sort of person?
33:14Oh, all the time.
33:15All the time.
33:16Yeah.
33:17OK, so what you want to do is first, first form.
33:19Just give that.
33:20Oh.
33:21Down there.
33:22Yeah.
33:23Mm-hmm.
33:24That's not happening.
33:25Even that much.
33:27Where I come with this, and I would...
33:28That's it.
33:29Yeah.
33:30Ooh, that felt good.
33:31Yeah.
33:32I did that, man.
33:33Mm-hmm.
33:34How do we go there?
33:35Behind?
33:36I just grab it.
33:37Yep.
33:38LAUGHTER
33:39APPLAUSE
33:40Tony, thank you very much.
33:41Fantastic.
33:42CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
33:43So, William John, he became famous in the 1950s when a grandmaster called Ip Man started training
33:57Bruce Lee.
33:58I didn't think it was suddenly going to spin round and do something back.
34:02Because if you hit it, it goes whoop.
34:04Yep.
34:05That's an unforgiving enemy, isn't it?
34:06Yeah.
34:07Not really, because if you just go behind its back, you could push it over.
34:10LAUGHTER
34:11The garlic.
34:12Yeah, it's like...
34:13Why don't they ever go behind the garlic and lift them up?
34:16LAUGHTER
34:17Right.
34:18It's time to spin the Wheel of Fortune in the sudden death.
34:20It is general ignorance.
34:21Speakers on buzzers, please.
34:22It's the Renaissance.
34:23We are in Venice.
34:24What's unusual about the way the ruling classes travelled around, unlike any other city in Italy.
34:31Wagon wheels.
34:33Ryanair.
34:34LAUGHTER
34:35APPLAUSE
34:36I'm going to give you a point for getting away with it.
34:40LAUGHTER
34:41That's very good.
34:42What do we reckon?
34:43Horses.
34:44No.
34:45E-scooters.
34:46Mmm.
34:47Wheelbarrow, wheelbarrow races.
34:48Oh!
34:49APPLAUSE
34:50I don't want to say gondolas or boats or any of the things you've got lined up on the thing.
35:03So you would think it's something to do with the water, right?
35:05Yeah.
35:06They walked.
35:07Oh.
35:08Oh!
35:09Well, that's so...
35:10I don't know why.
35:11In the 16th century, the patricians in other cities would use horses, for sure.
35:15Oh.
35:16But animal transport almost non-existent in Venice.
35:18I mean, it's very narrow and there's all those bridges, about 400 bridges in total, and only the very rich could afford a gondola.
35:24Which, in any case, you could only take part of the way to your destination, and on the whole, if you are in Venice, it is quicker, probably, to walk.
35:30And travelling by boat became associated with either decadence or ill health.
35:35So you were either very rich or dying.
35:38And best if you're both, baby!
35:40LAUGHTER
35:41And basically, it was just better and quicker for everybody to walk.
35:45And even today, if you go to Italy, one of the things I love, as you become an older person and you sit down somewhere nice with a glass of something or other...
35:52You're medicine.
35:54Yeah, you're medicine.
35:55LAUGHTER
35:56La passaggiata, which is walking for pleasure.
35:58Strolling in the company of friends for no purpose whatsoever.
36:01Renaissance Venetians didn't like getting a boat by getting a boat.
36:05What kind of birds are African, Chinese and Italian owls?
36:09Owls?
36:10Yeah.
36:11Yeah!
36:16They look like a menu at an airport.
36:18They do.
36:19With, like, degrees of spiciness.
36:21Yeah.
36:22LAUGHTER
36:23There are all types of fancy pigeon...
36:25Fancy pigeons, which people collected...
36:27You're a pigeon fancier.
36:29They came in all sorts of fabulous, weird shapes and colours.
36:32And they're named after their main characteristics.
36:35If we show you a few fancy ones, aren't these fabulous?
36:37Ooh!
36:38Ooh!
36:39Yeah, this is a pigeon gone crazy.
36:40Yes!
36:41This is a pigeon by Victoria Beckham.
36:42LAUGHTER
36:43I like the one on the left.
36:45Yeah, I do.
36:46Yeah, do you?
36:47That's called the Jacobin.
36:48It's named after the large hood that was worn by medieval Jacobin monks.
36:52The one in the middle, very popular in East Anglia, the holocropper.
36:55Probably first bred in the Netherlands.
36:58And the one on the right is the frill back.
37:00Yeah.
37:01With her little box perm.
37:02Look at that!
37:03Oh!
37:04Charles Darwin loved them, kept them for selective breeding.
37:07I saw one of his dead pigeons at the Natural History Museum just the other day.
37:11Don't say we don't have things to show people.
37:13LAUGHTER
37:15Welcome to London!
37:17Has he seen a dead pigeon in a box?
37:20LAUGHTER
37:21Nice way, sir.
37:23£59 and £75 for the family.
37:26It wasn't like the Hall of Treasures.
37:29I know.
37:30We also have people made of wax who slightly look like the people are based on.
37:36If you go to Ireland, you can see a potato and a spoon.
37:40There you go!
37:44But don't be fools, because the potato's actually stuck to the spoon!
37:48Yeah!
37:49What was the full title of Charles Darwin's most popular book?
37:53Birds Aren't Real.
37:55LAUGHTER
37:58Anybody want to fall into this trap?
38:00Fifty Shades.
38:02LAUGHTER
38:04What is it about the theory of evolution?
38:06Yeah, so the one that we all talk about is the Origin of Species.
38:09Yes, On the Origin of Species and...
38:11And a couple of tales about my crazy life in show business.
38:14LAUGHTER
38:16That sold 4,250 copies.
38:18The big one was...
38:19Oh!
38:20What's in my beard?
38:21LAUGHTER
38:22It was a picture book and you lifted his beard up and there's always something different.
38:26LAUGHTER
38:27It sold 2 million copies one Christmas.
38:30LAUGHTER
38:31What's in my beard?
38:32Oh!
38:33LAUGHTER
38:34This man has good ideas.
38:35Weirdly, I think it would do well.
38:36It would do well.
38:37It would do well.
38:38He sold 6,000 copies of the formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms with observations on their habits.
38:44Oh!
38:45Ooh!
38:46But I think in the long run, On the Origin of Species might have done better.
38:49Yeah, probably.
38:50But we're talking about initial sales here.
38:52OK.
38:53Actually, he was obsessed with the whole worm thing.
38:54You know, he performed some of the earliest excavations at Stonehenge.
38:57But he was thinking for worms.
38:58He was there as a naturalist, not as an archaeologist.
39:01As he kept digging away and these stones were appearing.
39:04LAUGHTER
39:05Snow it!
39:06Snow it!
39:07I think there's one here.
39:09Imagine if he's just...
39:10If he's looking for worms and he's like,
39:11Oh, God, they're stones.
39:12I'm just going to put them up there.
39:13Yeah, over there.
39:14LAUGHTER
39:19Where are the worms, Mr. Darwin?
39:21Where do you think?
39:22LAUGHTER
39:24They're in that poop that's crawling away in the forest.
39:27Yes, yes.
39:28He thought that worms were deaf because they didn't react when his son loudly played the bassoon.
39:34LAUGHTER
39:35That's science.
39:36And then he put them on the piano and he realised they could hear through vibrations.
39:41So that's the scientific way to see if a worm can hear.
39:44So, while we're on the subject of best-selling books, I will give 100 points.
39:48Oh!
39:49100 points.
39:50To anyone who can name these authors most successful works in their lifetime.
39:54Oh, come on.
39:55Oh, no.
39:56So, the first one is Mark Twain.
39:58The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
40:00Yeah.
40:03Huckleberry...
40:04Huckleberry Finn.
40:05Huckleberry Finn.
40:06Huckleberry Finn.
40:08What's in my beard?
40:10What's in my moustache?
40:12LAUGHTER
40:13Huckleberry Finn.
40:14No, his was The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.
40:17What?
40:18Oh.
40:19Oh.
40:20Let's try HG Wells.
40:21Time Machine.
40:22The Outline of History was his most successful book.
40:23Oh, jeez.
40:24Edgar Allan Poe.
40:25What's in my moustache?
40:26Yes.
40:27My much smaller moustache.
40:28What's in my comb-over?
40:29The Telltale Heart, he did.
40:30The Conchologist's first book.
40:31What?
40:32Oh.
40:33Yeah, most successful book in his life.
40:34Wow.
40:35Sandy, can I have one of your little cards?
40:36What do you want to do with it?
40:37Give it a friend.
40:38Do you just want to have it?
40:39Yeah.
40:40Can I have, like...
40:41This is what he did in the basic book.
40:42The Conchologist's first book.
40:43What?
40:44Oh.
40:45Yeah, most successful book in his life.
40:46Wow.
40:47Sandy, can I have one of your little cards?
40:48Can I just take one of these declarations?
40:49You won't miss it.
40:50Awesome.
40:51You can have all these, darling.
40:52Do you want some spunk as well?
40:53Yeah.
40:54Don't take spunk at me.
40:55In the story Aladdin, what does Aladdin rub to release a genie?
40:56Oh, no.
40:57It's cock.
40:58OK.
40:59OK.
41:00I mean, that would be some interesting spunk.
41:01Yeah.
41:02I mean, that would be some interesting spunk.
41:03Yeah.
41:04You can have all these, darling.
41:05Do you want some spunk as well?
41:06Yeah.
41:07OK.
41:08In the story Aladdin, what does Aladdin rub to release a genie?
41:09Oh, no.
41:10It's cock.
41:11OK.
41:12OK.
41:13Yeah.
41:14Yeah.
41:15Yeah.
41:16Yeah.
41:17Yeah.
41:18Yeah.
41:19Yeah.
41:20Yeah.
41:21Yeah.
41:22Yeah.
41:23Yeah.
41:24Yeah.
41:25Yeah.
41:26Yeah.
41:27Yeah.
41:28Yeah.
41:29Yeah.
41:30Yeah.
41:31I mean, that would be some interesting spunk.
41:32Yeah.
41:33You know when your kid behaves badly at school, but you're sort of proud.
41:34Yeah.
41:35Yeah.
41:36Yeah.
41:37So, in the earliest recorded version, it's a ring.
41:41Oh.
41:42Oh, it was like it was so different.
41:44So, Alan was right.
41:45Was it his ring?
41:46Yeah.
41:47It was someone else's ring.
41:48Hang on a minute.
41:49I'll rub that and I'll get a genie out of it.
41:52You'll never get a genie out of it.
41:54I'm telling you now.
41:56I'm telling you now!
41:58Are you surprised what I can do?
42:02His mother does rub a lamp and produces a second genie.
42:04Oh, I bet she does.
42:06How many wishes did they get?
42:08Three wishes.
42:10No, many, many more.
42:12A thousand wishes.
42:13Yeah, lots and lots of wishes.
42:15Well, then you don't even have to wish for more wishes.
42:17Yeah, no, there's no need to wish for more wishes.
42:19You just keep rubbing.
42:21The word to the wise, just keep rubbing.
42:24We'll get there eventually.
42:26Oh, you'll know.
42:27You'll know.
42:28As the dolphin said to the whale.
42:33Yes.
42:34The story first appeared in a French edition of 1001 Nights,
42:37or Arabian Nights, published in 1710.
42:39And there's flying carpets?
42:41Yeah.
42:42No, it's from another French edition, the flying carpets.
42:44It's people adding their own bits and pieces to the story.
42:47The first Aladdin didn't have a flying carpet,
42:49but he did have a rubber ring.
42:51Oh, boy.
42:52Yeah.
42:53Let's see who's winged their way to the top
42:54and who's under the wheels of the bus.
42:57Oh, I think I was.
42:58In last place tonight, because the wheels totally came off,
43:01with minus 58, it's Alan.
43:03Oh.
43:04In third place, having spent a lot of time winging it,
43:08with minus 34, it's Hank.
43:10Woo-hoo!
43:11In second place, definitely earned their wings with minus nine,
43:16it's Aisling.
43:17Woo-hoo!
43:18And our winner,
43:22wheelie wheelie good.
43:24Oh.
43:25With six whole points, Desiree!
43:27Thank you to Hank, Desiree, Aisling and Alan.
43:38And I leave you with this little wing thing.
43:40The late Willie Rushton once opened a science wing at his old school.
43:44His entire speech was as follows.
43:47The buggers open.
43:49Good night.
43:51Thank you very much.
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