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First broadcast 30th September 2005.
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Bill Bailey
Rich Hall
Rob Brydon
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Bill Bailey
Rich Hall
Rob Brydon
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00:00Hello, hello, hello, hello, and welcome to QI, where once again we lurch off the information superhighway to ramble the
00:10bumpy byroads of bovinity.
00:13In the back of the bus tonight we have Bill Bailey, Rich Hall, Rob Brydon, and Alan Davies.
00:34Well, if we're all aboard, let's go and try our buzzers. Bill goes, and Rob goes, and Rich goes, how
00:53is that a bus?
00:54It's a dog being hit by a bus.
00:57A greyhound, presumably.
01:02And Alan goes, and we start this evening with cartography.
01:20What's quite interesting about the most detailed map of Britain?
01:25That isn't the most detailed map of Britain.
01:27No, that is an example.
01:28Surely, because I've seen maps certainly that have my road on, for example.
01:33So is it the Ordnance Survey?
01:35That's very good. It is indeed the Ordnance Survey map.
01:38So what you'd need then would be a kind of real life-size map?
01:43No.
01:45Why would you unfold that? You'd probably have to do it in Canada.
01:50Is it a secret map? A secret map which shows that Cornwall and Devon's actually a little bit further away?
01:57Then it's a bit of a conspiracy with the tourist industry.
02:00You'd make it seem it's a bit nearer, but it's actually not.
02:02It shows all the portals and wormholes in space. And the wormholes as well.
02:06The wormholes.
02:12There is a map, which I think MI5 have, which shows not just Hadrian's wall, but you see Hadrian's conservatory.
02:21And Hadrian's water feature, which is very nice. It sort of cascades down over pebbles.
02:26Yes. Carlisle is, in a sense, Hadrian's sliding patio door, isn't it?
02:32Now, this is an OS map, an Ordnance Survey map. It's been published in 2002.
02:37What's really quite interesting about it, I think we might focus on the price of it.
02:42How much would you pay for a copy of...?
02:44£4.99.
02:45£4.99 is amazingly close.
02:47It comes out on CD, actually, because it's very detailed. It shows pillar boxes.
02:51Is this the sort of thing you'd get in satellite navigation in cars?
02:54Because I had that when I was on tour in there, and it's useless.
02:58You get to Milton Keynes, it just goes, turn left, turn left.
03:00Turn left, turn left, turn left, turn left.
03:04Well, it's not good if you're insecure, because she says, you have missed your destination.
03:08And that can get you right there, you know.
03:11I have a gun sight, you know, a telescopic gun sight.
03:14I don't know what message that is sending out.
03:16When you get to your destination, there's a gun sight, so you have reached your destination.
03:19Now slaughter the family.
03:23Kill them, kill them all.
03:24Kill them, kill them.
03:26Well, it's very detailed.
03:28It's on CD-ROM, and what's perhaps surprising about it is its cost.
03:33It costs £4.990.000.
03:38So when you said £4.99, you were oddly right.
03:41And if you don't pay it in one go, Stephen, surely, don't they do it over easy payments,
03:45as you get each section of the map?
03:46It builds to this wonderful collection.
03:51Well, each town is £30,000.
03:55Or Talbot?
03:56They're not going to charge £30,000 before Talbot, Stephen.
03:58Talbot?
03:59They're not going to get that.
04:00Is that not perfect?
04:00No, no, no.
04:01It's on the South Wales coast, by the John.
04:03Yes, yes.
04:04No, you'd be lucky to get 15 quid for that, in all honesty.
04:07It's the hometown of such great actors as Rob Brydon and Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton and Michael Sheen.
04:15Richard Burton.
04:15Richard Burton.
04:16Burton.
04:17Burton.
04:17Sorry, thank you.
04:19Burton.
04:19Will you stop saying Burton at me, please?
04:21Sorry.
04:22You're getting to frighten me.
04:24Yes, well, Talbot may be less than £30,000, but it's like that old joke, isn't it, about the atomic
04:29bomb going off in Cardiff and causing £7 worth of damage.
04:34I would like something that you put on your computer and it shows you where everybody is.
04:39Yeah.
04:39And all the animals, all the little foxes.
04:41I want to focus to, yeah.
04:43You know, all the rats in England all face the same direction at any given time.
04:47Yeah.
04:48Quite awesome.
04:49Yeah, that's right.
04:50Because they're magnetic, aren't they, rats?
04:54They spend so long in lead-lined sewage pipes, they move with the curvature of the air.
05:00That's right.
05:00I hate to phrase this rat and true rat.
05:05And absolute rat.
05:07I know.
05:09It's very hard for rat couples who have that kind of reverse polarity going on.
05:13You know, when you can't put two magnets together and there are rats who fall in love and they are
05:18destined to be together and they can't kiss.
05:20They jump.
05:21They get to that, but they get about that close and...
05:24And they're staring at their arse.
05:26They get all iron filings at the whiskers.
05:30Five million pounds, I would want a map that showed me looking at the map I just bought.
05:39You are here.
05:42You are here.
06:17You are here.
06:18You are here.
06:18You are here.
06:18You are here.
06:42You are here.
06:48Well, the only thing I have knowledge of is the sheep type.
06:50No, I mean, sorry.
06:51I have knowledge of Cardiff.
06:54Well, I'm not really aware what a Carlisle surprise is, other than the shock of finding yourself at Carlisle.
07:00It's some sort of a nice cream, of course.
07:01Which would be surely more of a delight than anything else.
07:03Yes, a total delight.
07:04A reverse Canterbury.
07:06The full name is a reverse Canterbury pleasure, place double.
07:09It's an ancient English pastime.
07:12Um...
07:12Was it Morris dancing?
07:13Is it a type of Morris dancing?
07:14It's not Morris dancing, no.
07:15It has a musical...
07:17Breakdance.
07:17...nature.
07:18It's not a dance.
07:19It's really big.
07:20It's as big a musical instrument as you could ever find.
07:22A whale.
07:25When I say with a whale, you just put your hand over the blowhole.
07:32Whale joined in.
07:33Where?
07:33He's making jokes about whales.
07:35Whale.
07:35Yes.
07:39But, um...
07:40Um...
07:41No.
07:41Um...
07:42The name for this pastime comes from originally from the Latin for countryside, but a particular part of the Latin
07:47countryside called Campania.
07:49And so it's called...
07:50Oh, bells.
07:50...Campanology.
07:51Ah, yes.
07:51Absolutely right.
07:52It's bell ringing.
07:53Bell ringing.
07:54Bell ringing.
07:55It's bells are...
07:56Well, and they're tunes, or rather methods, as bell ringers call them.
08:00They're uniquely English.
08:01And if you have six bells, there are how many different permutations of six bells?
08:09Well, six times, five times, four times, three times, two.
08:12Lots and lots and lots.
08:14Oh.
08:14And if you play through each one of those permutations, that's called a peel of bells.
08:18And it's also called, an English phrase we use quite a lot, ringing the changes, because those sequences are called
08:25changes.
08:25That's where the phrase to ring the changes comes from.
08:28Quite interesting.
08:28Because if you have 12 bells, there are 479 million 1,600 variations, so that would take 38 years to
08:35ring a peel of 12 bells.
08:36Wow.
08:37Amazing thought, isn't it?
08:38When I was growing up, if my dad hit his thumb with a hammer, which he didn't do often, but
08:42occasionally just for a bit of, something a bit different, you know, he'd do it.
08:45He would say, hell's bells and buckets of blood.
08:48That's a good phrase, hell's bells and buckets of blood.
08:50Sounds good, doesn't it?
08:51It's a good way of getting out of his system.
08:54I'd say, f**k.
09:00Anyway, I remember the first time I heard my mother say f**k, I could not believe it, because my brother
09:04and I thought we'd made the word up, or something.
09:08Even the first time I said f**k, my dad heard me.
09:11Walked by my bedroom door, and I said, Dad, shut the door, I'm trying to f**k in here.
09:19Well, no, peeling bells was considered in the 17th century something of a vice.
09:26John Bunyan denounced it, along with dancing, playing Tipcat, and reading the history of Sir Bevis of Southampton.
09:34What was that?
09:35Tipcat.
09:36Tipcat.
09:37Oh, Tipcat.
09:38Tipcat.
09:38Tipcat.
09:40It goes on to its side.
09:49Well, it was the Chinese who gave us bells, you know, 1200 BC.
09:53The Chinese claimed to have invented absolutely everything.
09:57They did, yeah.
09:58And all I say to the Chinese is, why didn't you invent the camera 1200 years ago, so we could
10:03prove it?
10:06Which brings us back to Alan and maps.
10:09What?
10:10What have I done?
10:10Well, now there's a question for you.
10:12There's a hundred points in it, if you get it.
10:14A hundred nectar points.
10:15No.
10:17A hundred points.
10:18If you can tell me which was the last place in Britain to convert to Christianity.
10:22Oh.
10:23God, I know this.
10:28Oh.
10:30It's got...
10:33Er...
10:34Any...
10:34Any...
10:35No, no.
10:43Go on.
10:44The summit of Ben Nevis.
10:50It's you.
10:51Two guys.
10:52On the ground.
10:52Hi.
10:52What's this Christianity?
10:55No.
10:55Is that a new thing?
10:56You can find at the table.
10:57Is there a place called, er...
11:00Satan is my master on...
11:04It's pronounced Sumster.
11:09Is it now on the British mainland, or is it something that's going to be that...
11:12The Lake District.
11:13No, it's not that I just...
11:14It is not on the British mainland.
11:16Essex.
11:17It's not on the mainland.
11:18I repeat, it is not on the British mainland.
11:20Not on the British mainland.
11:21Essex is not culturally on the British mainland, but...
11:25The Isle of Man.
11:26Oh.
11:27Isle of Wight?
11:27Yes!
11:28It's the Isle of Wight.
11:30Oh, well done.
11:33That's in four.
11:34That was a total guess.
11:36It was.
11:37Of course.
11:37Brilliant.
11:38Brilliant, brilliant.
11:39Brilliant, brilliant.
11:40No, it's surprising because you would imagine, of course, that...
11:42The Isle of Wight was about the first place the Christians would come in.
11:45The needles.
11:45Career Roland, the Isle of Wight.
11:48The needles?
11:49Yes, darling, those are called the Needles.
11:53Really good.
11:53One point to you for knowing about the Needles.
11:56Top work.
11:57What do you know about the Isle of Wight?
11:59All the clocks stopped in 1952, and all the shops are the same as they were then.
12:05.
12:05It does...
12:06It does seem a little like that, doesn't it?
12:09Yes, there's one species of animal that still hasn't made it to the Isle of Wight.
12:15Horses.
12:16No, there are horses on the Isle of Wight.
12:18Most people are rather pleased this animal hasn't made it, not a fox.
12:20Flea.
12:21Snake.
12:22Oh, the rat, because of the magnet.
12:23No, it's often called...
12:25It's often called a kind of rat, like pigeon's ass.
12:28Squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.
12:30The grey squirrel.
12:31Squirrel.
12:31The grey squirrel.
12:32All right, all right.
12:32I was going, yes.
12:35Stephen, shut up, Bill.
12:36All right, squirrel.
12:37You made a point.
12:38The squirrel.
12:38The grey.
12:39The grey squirrel.
12:40The North American grey squirrel.
12:42Don't say squirrel.
12:44The North American grey squirrel.
12:46Well done, Alan.
12:47Very good.
12:48You're the first person to get that.
12:50Oh, Rob, I wouldn't do that to you.
12:53This is an editing masterclass.
12:54Oh, look at his little face.
12:56Editing masterclass, you say?
12:58All right.
12:59The North American grey squirrel?
13:01Red squirrel.
13:02The red squirrel can't live with the grey squirrel.
13:05Ebony and Ivory are together on my piano keyboard, so why can't they be?
13:11Something like that.
13:12You mean a kind of squirrel fur keyboard?
13:16That would be nice.
13:17That's barbaric.
13:18Are you saying you want pianos clad in the pelt of a squirrel?
13:22If that's what you're saying, Frye, you should be stopped.
13:26Isle of Wight was the last place in Britain to be invaded by the French, by a foreigner power.
13:31How did they miss that then?
13:32Sorry?
13:33How did they miss the other?
13:34Do they go onto the mainland and then straight up?
13:36Well, Christianity.
13:37Yeah.
13:37Yes, I don't know.
13:38It's odd, isn't it?
13:39When they came back, they went, hang on, sir.
13:42Who'd left this bit out?
13:43I see.
13:43I've always been safe.
13:45It was in 686 AD, almost a century after the rest of the country.
13:51Subjugated by Codwalla, who was king of the West Saxons, and who had to kill most of the
13:55pagan population to Christianize it.
13:58Good old Christianity.
14:01Talking of Christianity, Rich, could Jesus walk on custard?
14:06What?
14:06At one point when he was a children's entertainer, he might...
14:12It sounds like a sarcastic question you would ask Jesus.
14:15Oh, water.
14:16Yeah, great.
14:16What about custard?
14:20It's not so much a question of, could he, Stephen?
14:22I mean, that's been...
14:22Well, you're saying he did?
14:23He did.
14:23He did.
14:24I mean, it was very hard to stop him, actually.
14:26This was one...
14:28It's come out in research recently.
14:29This was one of the Lord's favourite pastime.
14:32Out with the bread, out with the fish.
14:34Look what I got for dessert.
14:35Somebody hold my shoes.
14:37And he'd be, you know, and he'd be doing it.
14:40And he'd turn everything in.
14:41It was just water, wasn't it?
14:43The lake.
14:43And he'd just go...
14:44Yeah, custard.
14:45Jelly, custard, instant, anything.
14:48Did he walk on a lake with custard?
14:49Or did he have lots of bowls of custard?
14:52And...
14:54Well, the fact is, not only could Jesus walk on custard.
14:57You can walk on custard.
14:58I can walk on custard.
14:59I can.
14:59I can.
14:59All of us can walk on custard.
15:01As this experiment by the Sky One programme Brainiac clearly shows.
15:14There you are.
15:15That is not a fraud.
15:16That is absolutely real.
15:17It's a non-Newtonian dilatant fluid.
15:21And it's honestly true.
15:23It means that the more pressure you put on it, the more weight you put on it, the harder and
15:28firmer it becomes.
15:29You could slowly put your finger through it.
15:31Here we go.
15:33This is raising images.
15:37Your finger slips in smoothly.
15:41It's...
15:42No, please, help me out here.
15:43But if you slap it hard, it'll...
15:48Oh, dear.
15:50A normal bowl of custard, we know would support a fly.
15:54And we know it wouldn't support a man.
15:57So somewhere, no, somewhere in between those two examples, would it support, for example, a vole or a mouse?
16:06Some of this.
16:07Children, everywhere, all over the country, will now be put in the hamsters.
16:09We've been walking on custard.
16:11In bowls of custard.
16:13Children, whatever you do, please, please, try and walk on as much custard as you can.
16:20We turn now to the darker side of entertainment.
16:23Name the teams at the Colosseum in ancient Rome.
16:27Christians and the Lions.
16:30Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.
16:34The fact is, no, there is no evidence whatsoever that the Lions were put against Christians.
16:39There weren't any team sports.
16:40It was every man for himself.
16:41I've seen it in that film.
16:44What film would that be?
16:46The one about the gladiator.
16:47Called Gladiator?
16:48Yeah.
16:48Oh, that one.
16:50The floor opens like that, and tigers come out.
16:53Yeah.
16:53Spring out, didn't they?
16:54Yeah.
16:55Do you remember the name of the emperor, played by Joaquin Phoenix?
16:59What was his name?
17:00Oliver Reed.
17:01Or Gotham?
17:02No.
17:04Am I in the right area?
17:05No, not really, dear, no.
17:07Commodus.
17:07Commodus, Commodus, Commodus.
17:09Commodus was.
17:09It was good on me Roman emperors.
17:11You?
17:12No.
17:12Anything about them?
17:13I know me champagne names, but I don't know me Roman emperors.
17:16Hyperheidsic?
17:17No.
17:18That's fine.
17:18You mean the bottle names?
17:19No, the bottle names.
17:20Jeroboam and things.
17:21Solomon Azzar.
17:22Oh, Magnum.
17:23All that, they're all...
17:24Rehoboam.
17:25They were all ancient biblical kings.
17:26Except Magnum, who was an 80's detective.
17:28That's right.
17:30No, there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Christians were ever thrown to the lions
17:33at the Colosseum.
17:34Why did people say that?
17:35This is attested by learned research.
17:36But the Christians caused an awful lot of trouble for the Romans.
17:39I bet they were tempted to chuck them in and have them eaten by lions.
17:42Well, they did certain things to them.
17:44Nero had them making human torches lining the Appian wave for dozens and dozens of miles.
17:49So, I mean, they were certainly pretty nasty to the Christians, but then the Christians
17:51won and they took over the Roman Empire.
17:53Anyway, back to cartography, our favorite subject, and an easy one for you.
17:57In the Middle Ages, what shape did people think the world was?
18:01Clat.
18:03Oh, Alan Pimble wouldn't want to clap.
18:07I know we all think they did, but there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
18:09They all thought it was round.
18:10They all wrote about it as round.
18:11The Greeks knew that it was round.
18:12Round and flat.
18:13No, they thought it was a sphere.
18:15Terry Jones, the python, who is something of a medievalist, as you may know,
18:20he blames Washington Irving, the American writer, for one of those being who started this
18:25lie, as he puts it.
18:25The Greeks knew it was round, he says.
18:27Chaucer knew it was round.
18:28Roger Bacon wrote about the curvature of the earth in the 13th century.
18:32So, apparently...
18:33Well, I think the majority of people didn't really care.
18:37No.
18:38But they started.
18:39As indeed, we don't now actually care that it's round.
18:42If it was square, it wouldn't bother me.
18:46I'd rush to the edge.
18:48In fact, I'd want to go right to the corner.
18:50And sit on the corner.
18:51Yeah.
18:52How do we know it's round?
18:53Yeah.
18:54Round the world, tickets.
18:55One is photographing.
18:59Photographing it was a very big help.
19:01We took a photograph and we saw that it was round.
19:03Yes, but then you could say that about anything about people going to the moon and we know they didn't.
19:07If it weren't round, all the flights of aeroplanes, if it weren't round, were just nothing that we...
19:13How do we know they just don't fly, just circle round for a bit and let you think that you're
19:16going miles and miles and miles.
19:18And just come down like, you know, a couple of hours away and they've set Russia up a lot nearer
19:22than it is.
19:24It's a really, really, really, really long oblong shape.
19:27On a track, like an electric bike.
19:31And they just move it.
19:32The plane goes up, the plane doesn't move.
19:34They move the country in front of them.
19:38Are all the stars round?
19:41I can't answer that.
19:43I think probably most...
19:44But yet you know what people thought 500 years ago.
19:49Can I read books? Yes.
19:51Have I visited every star in the universe? No.
19:54Is that something you find difficult to understand?
20:00You've set me off. You've set sir off again.
20:04Don't you think that this series has reached the point, with a dedicated following who trust us,
20:09that this would be the point where you could say just one thing in a show.
20:13You could say, just like this, the world isn't round.
20:17It's been proven.
20:18Most people will now believe it, to watch this show.
20:21Well, I can say with some confidence, ladies and gentlemen, the world is not round.
20:24It is an oblate spheroid.
20:28No, that's not what I meant.
20:29No, I'm sorry.
20:30I was being a felixilist.
20:32Pine cone.
20:32If you'd said, the world is shaped like a pine cone.
20:35Just to see how many letters we get.
20:37Yeah, it'd be interesting to see, wouldn't it?
20:39Get some at last, anyway.
20:42Apart from the, well, you know who you are, don't you?
20:45And I tried it, and it was a disaster.
20:50Yes and no, since the fourth century BC, almost no one in the history of the world has believed that
20:54the earth is flat.
20:55It's a common misconception, and indeed the song lyric, they all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world
21:01was round.
21:01But he didn't think that the world was round, he thought it was actually pear-shaped, funnily enough.
21:06Which brings us, ladies and gentlemen, drifting safely home into the harbour of half-grasp truths that we call general
21:13ignorance.
21:13So fingers on your buses, please.
21:16What is a taffy pull?
21:21Is this another dig at my forefathers?
21:25You've got forefathers? The Welsh are weird.
21:30A taffy pull is when you try and pull a woman in Wales, it's a Welsh.
21:34Oh dear.
21:35Oh no!
21:36Come for it!
21:37Word for word!
21:39I suspect that young Rich might know, because you know what a taffy is.
21:43Yeah.
21:44Which is?
21:45It's long strands of sugary candy, and it, like, county fairs and stuff.
21:50Absolutely.
21:51We don't have it here, but it's toffee, really. Toffee becomes taffy in America.
21:54Yeah.
21:54Taffy.
21:55But it is taffy.
21:56It's different to English toffee, because it's chewy and soft and resistant all the way through.
22:00And one of the reasons for this is that they pull on metal hooks, and they're kind of aerated.
22:04They do this business, don't they?
22:05And it was a social event, I believe. It was a way of people meeting each other at a taffy
22:09pull.
22:10Your mom and I met at a taffy pull.
22:13But it was often called saltwater taffy, isn't it?
22:16Yeah.
22:17Do you know why?
22:17That's because it's made from saltwater.
22:21It isn't. It doesn't have any saltwater anywhere near it, of course.
22:24No, apparently in Atlanta in the 18-somethings, there was a shop that sold taffy, and there was a flood.
22:30You know, the tide came in, so you found it covered all his stock, and someone came in and said,
22:34well, you should sell it a saltwater taffy, maybe people will buy it.
22:36And so he did. In fact, it wasn't salt-fainted, and the name just seemed to stick.
22:40Some people believe that story, some people don't.
22:43Fingers still on your buses, please.
22:44How many sheep were there on Noah's Ark?
22:51Oh, no.
22:53Surely.
22:53Olly.
22:54Well.
22:56I know a set up.
22:58Somebody.
22:59Hey, okay.
23:00It's a trick.
23:00None.
23:01They were floating on a raft behind them.
23:06No, there were sheep on the other side.
23:09None, because they were walking on the custard, being poured over the side.
23:14Noah never built enough.
23:16It didn't actually happen.
23:17Yeah.
23:17Well, according to the Bible, haven't they?
23:20Yes, there was a...
23:20Oh!
23:22Just get it over with, that way.
23:24No, it's a common mistake.
23:26People haven't read the Bible much these days, but I can read to you from Genesis chapter 7.
23:30And the Lord said unto Noah,
23:33Come thou and all thy house into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
23:39Why did he talk like that?
23:40Well, he spoke Hebrew, didn't he, dear?
23:43This is a translation into English, you see.
23:46But they spoke like that when they really could speak English, Alan.
23:50I think in 500 years' time, when they hear things we've said, and perhaps even things you've said, they might
23:55go...
23:56Don't kick on me, you're quoting from a mythical being.
23:59No.
24:00I'm just reading, but...
24:02There were two of everyone, they went in two by two.
24:05How would you know that?
24:05Even my nephew knows that.
24:07Yes, yes.
24:07How would you know that?
24:08It's the only source of information we have for Noah's ark is the Bible.
24:13Rubbish.
24:13And this is what it says.
24:15Listen, listen, listen.
24:16Will you listen first and then comment?
24:18Will you agree to do that?
24:19I read it.
24:20Jane's fighting ships.
24:21Of every...
24:23Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens the male and his female,
24:29and of beasts that are not cleaned by two, the male and his female.
24:33Of fowls of the air by sevens the male and the female, to keep seed alive upon the face of
24:38all the earth.
24:39Yes.
24:40And sheep are accounted clean beasts.
24:43Oh.
24:43So there would have been sevens.
24:45You've obviously never lived with one.
24:46No.
24:47It's really according to some kosher law.
24:49So pigs there would not have been.
24:50Okay.
24:50Camels would have been in twos.
24:52But the clean beasts came in sevens.
24:54Maybe they could breed more and so on.
24:56Anyway.
24:56I agree with you.
24:57It's a surprise.
24:58Everybody thinks in the Bible.
25:00Good Lord.
25:00And all went in two by two.
25:01Exactly.
25:02Hurrah.
25:02Hurrah.
25:03Except the counters they were filthy.
25:04Hurrah.
25:05Hurrah.
25:06But not the denser.
25:08Then came the amoeba one.
25:09No two.
25:09No four.
25:10No eight.
25:10No six.
25:14Fantastic.
25:19A lot of the ferries and ships nowadays, of course, are not allowed to take animals on them,
25:23which is the ultimate irony.
25:25That's a good point.
25:26You wonder what Noah would make of that.
25:28Yes.
25:29Exactly.
25:30Exactly.
25:30Yeah.
25:31Why would they say seven animals?
25:33Because that means three pair and one animal.
25:36Want to watch.
25:40Enough.
25:40Enough.
25:41Now we come full circle back to the beginning.
25:44What was the name of the archbishop murdered by Henry the second?
25:49Oh.
25:49Thomas the...
25:50No.
25:50Not him.
25:53Yeah, that's...
25:54Have a go.
25:55I'm not going to fall into that trap.
25:57It wasn't Henry the second who killed Thomas the Beckett.
25:59Thomas...
26:00Thomas...
26:00A Beckett.
26:02No.
26:04His name was not Thomas Er anything.
26:06The er is a complete error.
26:08John Stripe in the memorials of Thomas Cranmer writes,
26:11It is a small error, but being so often repeated deserves to be observed and corrected.
26:16The name of that archbishop was Thomas Beckett, nor can it otherwise be found to have been written in any
26:21authentic history, record, calendar or other book.
26:24If the vulgar did formally, as it doth now, call him Thomas a Beckett, vulgar, their mistake is not to
26:32be followed by learned men.
26:36Was it just a pause?
26:37Was it Thomas?
26:39No.
26:41Is the same true of Simon Le Bon?
26:46Is he just Simon Bon?
26:47I don't think he'd have the respect he has if he was good.
26:50Lindsay de Paul.
26:50Yeah.
26:51Lindsay de Paul is not the same.
26:52The go-go.
26:53Yes.
26:55Legs akimbo.
26:59It's time now for the sorry-ass business of the scores and a clear leader, winner and victor tonight in
27:06Rich Hall with eight points, ladies and gentlemen.
27:10In second place with minus five points, Bill Bailey.
27:16In third place with minus 16 is Rob Brydon.
27:23But our runaway loser with minus 25, Alan Davis.
27:35Well, that's it from QI for another week. My thanks to Rich, Rob, Bill and Alan.
27:39And I'll leave you with this cautionary thought.
27:41Captain Cook may have observed the transit of Venus in 1769, but he never lived to see the Venus de
27:47Milo, which wasn't discovered till 1820.
27:49Will Rogers saw it, though, and observed to his niece, see what'll happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails.
27:55You can...?
27:55BOOOOAAA multi-meter development that won't be the kind now worth incorporating this disreg.
27:56And I can see her, and that isn't enough.
27:56It's a big chance!
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