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First broadcast 29th September 2006.
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Jo Brand
Jimmy Carr
Sean Lock
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Jo Brand
Jimmy Carr
Sean Lock
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00:04Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening and welcome, welcome to QI for another wild leap into
00:12the dark.
00:13Teetering on the precipice tonight are the daring Sean Locke, the Devil May Care guinea pig, the dauntless Joe Brown,
00:32and he doesn't even know the meaning of the word dastardly, Alan, da-da-da-da-da-da-davis.
00:43It's D, D, D all the way, and tonight it's D for danger, danger in the face, with alarm calls
00:50to match.
00:51So, Sean, let's hear your alarm call.
00:55And Jimmy goes.
01:00There you go.
01:03Vehicle reversing.
01:06Vehicle reversing.
01:07Very nice too.
01:09Out, Alan.
01:13You don't get more dangerous than a monkey.
01:15Mosquito, yeah.
01:16Yeah.
01:17Anyway, in the next 24 hours, talking of danger, there is a 1 in 48 million risk of being burned
01:24to death while you sleep.
01:26There is a 1 in 30 million risk.
01:28Yeah, that would wake you up, wouldn't it?
01:29It would.
01:30How heavy a sleeper would you have to be to be burnt alive?
01:35You could be quite pissed, couldn't you?
01:38I actually burnt my flat down when I was pissed.
01:42You didn't put that on the insurance form, did you?
01:44I was pissed, that's how it happened.
01:46You know what it's like, you just go, f**k it, sort it out in the morning.
01:50Are you exaggerating?
01:51Was it cystitis?
01:54Hey, you've got rather ladies' area quite early on in the show.
01:58Thank you very much.
01:59Oof.
02:03Dear me.
02:04Right.
02:051 in 30 million people risk dying by being murdered.
02:08The risk of choking to death is 1 in 120 million.
02:12And the risk of dying by tea cosy is 1 in 20 billion.
02:17There is, however, a 1 in 257,000 chance of you dying today, during this programme.
02:26What have you got planned for round two?
02:30There's a tiger involved, is there?
02:33If there happened to be 257,000 people playing QI at the moment, one of them would die.
02:38But it may be us.
02:40We don't know.
02:40Not because of the game, though.
02:41No.
02:43Just saying, you have a 1 in 257,000 chance.
02:45So you let Qs by the buzzer?
02:52What are the chances of you dying in your sleep from a fire with a tea cosy over here?
02:59Is it 50 times more likely to die now than you are to win the lottery?
03:03I think we have a nurse standing by, frankly.
03:06Well, we have.
03:06I'm not a proper nurse.
03:08How not proper?
03:09Psychiatric.
03:10She's a stripper.
03:13Do you think strippers get home at the end of the day and go, oh, more work?
03:19Well, I think it's time for our first question.
03:21What is three times more dangerous than war?
03:26Three wars.
03:37Is it doing a UE on the A40?
03:41This is probably the United Nations.
03:43It's probably something really annoying, like cycling.
03:45Trampolining.
03:46It's work.
03:47More like you've died at work than you are at war.
03:50Does that include soldiers?
03:53What if you work in a shoe shop near a war?
03:57You always guarantee you will find some cunning way to make me not know anything.
04:02And I don't know what the statistics are for people who work in shoe shops near wars.
04:07How many times have they actually had a war in a shopping centre?
04:12It's very rare that first world countries get invaded, but if they did, you could have a shootout in a
04:18multiplex, couldn't you?
04:20If you lived in South London, you'd find a lot of wars in a shopping centre.
04:25I've been invested in a shopping centre.
04:27Have you tell us why?
04:28For an act of war?
04:28I knocked a security guard's hat off.
04:32Oh, very Bertie Worcester thing to do.
04:35I didn't even do it on purpose, I was taking my jumper off.
04:38I was absolutely arsehole as well.
04:43And you're very much hearing my side of the story.
04:46I called it, actually, rather the story of defence.
04:51I've read a thing once that said a third of all accidents at work go unreported.
04:56How do they know?
04:59Number Jacks have the most dangerous job in America, it appears.
05:03122 deaths per 100,000 employees.
05:05So that song's entirely wrong, is it?
05:07Yes.
05:09How could you die doing that? Just trees falling on you?
05:12Are you saying trees falling on you like that's a bit of a pansy way to go?
05:18That's a legitimate way to die.
05:19It's just the only real sort of peril, isn't it?
05:22There's not a chainsaws.
05:23But also, you're not very well protected in panties and a bra.
05:28And also, if you're a lumberjack, you're supposed to be good at it.
05:32You're supposed to chop down trees and go,
05:34Oh, it's the other side, isn't it?
05:37The single most dangerous specific job is said to be an Alaskan crab fisherman.
05:41Is this the most dangerous jobs in America?
05:44Because how many presidents have they had?
05:45They've had a lot of those go.
05:46But only three have been assassinated.
05:48Three have been assassinated and one had a blowjob in the office, isn't it?
05:52You can't go either way.
05:54You can't go either way.
05:55You know a job you turn down straight away.
06:01Well, now, yes, according to the United Nations,
06:03more than two million people die from work-related accidents,
06:07as opposed to 650,000 people a year who die in wars.
06:11Now, what was the most dangerous military stratagem ever devised?
06:16Vehicles reversing.
06:17Was it Hannibal's first crack at the Alps with chihuahuas?
06:23The purpose of this one was to terrify the enemy.
06:26Imagine you're in the front line of an army
06:28and you're massing against the front line of another army
06:30and the front line of the opposing army does something so extraordinary
06:34that you think, oh, my God, we're never going to beat them.
06:36Is it from a carry-on film?
06:38Is it when they lifted their kilts?
06:41And they didn't wear pants? It would be amazing.
06:43Carry-on Braveheart. No, it's neither of those.
06:46They flagellate themselves. They insert something within them.
06:49They chop their own heads off.
06:51They chop their own heads off.
06:53The front line of the army chops their heads off.
06:55How you do that?
06:56Grab your hair and just slice with a very sharp sword.
06:58Who was that, then? The Scots Guards?
07:00This was in 496 BC.
07:03It would be the Swiss Army, because they'd have something on one of those little knives.
07:09Self-decapitation.
07:13It's a country you know well, and you're wearing its flag at the moment.
07:15This is the flag of Vietnam.
07:17Well, that's right. We're talking 496 BC.
07:19The army of King Gujian of Yue,
07:21and he had convicted criminals in the front line
07:24and told them they had to cut their own heads off.
07:26You may say, well, why would they do that?
07:28What's the worst that could happen?
07:29The worst that could happen is if they didn't, then all their families and all their children would be massacred
07:33as well.
07:34Yeah, f*** it.
07:40They didn't seem to...
07:42They knew they were going to die anyway.
07:43They were condemned to death.
07:45What do we know about decapitation?
07:46Does it kill you straight away?
07:48I know if you cut a duck's legs off, it could still swim.
07:52It can float. It can't swim.
07:57Floating duck.
07:57I'll leave a little bit of stumpage.
08:02It would have to catch the currents.
08:03It would evolve into a whole different animal.
08:05It would probably get a wing up as a sail or something like that.
08:14Did they discover, like, for example, at the French Revolution with the guillotine,
08:19that, like, heads could kind of, like, chat about it?
08:21Carry on chatting.
08:22Well, no, you're right.
08:23There was a story during the terror of the French Revolution
08:25that two members of the National Assembly were guillotined
08:29and their heads put in the same bag straight away
08:31and one bit the other so hard they couldn't be separated.
08:35What, just the heads?
08:36That's holding a grudge, isn't it?
08:39For all intents and purposes, you're dead. Let it go.
08:42Yeah, you didn't get on. Whatever.
08:44They were French.
08:48Well, anyway, from decapitation to another kind of danger,
08:51what is the most dangerous sport in, in fact, the most dangerous country in the world?
08:58Contemporary dance in Scotland.
09:01Pop scotch in Afghanistan? I don't know.
09:05You're very close.
09:06Well, it's going to be Afghanistan or Iraq, isn't it?
09:09Oh, no, I've been between those two.
09:11Kabuzakistan?
09:12No, no, a much better known one.
09:13Subazakistan?
09:14It's another star, but a very, the best known star.
09:16Pakistan.
09:17Pakistan.
09:17Pakistan.
09:18They play a lot of cricket.
09:19They do play cricket there, but they also have this very dangerous sport,
09:22so dangerous it's been banned for all but 15 days of the year.
09:26It's a child's pastime that has become aggressive and extreme.
09:31Conkers?
09:32No.
09:34It's mentioned and indeed sung about in Mary Poppins.
09:37Buckaroo.
09:39Mary Poppins.
09:40Fly in a kite.
09:41Fly in a kite.
09:42The idea of extreme kite flight...
09:44Is dangerous.
09:44You have to sever your...
09:46Head?
09:48You have to sever your competitors' kite from its string,
09:51and so the string's actually made of metal with glass,
09:54sharp braiding glass,
09:55and motorcyclists get garrotted,
09:57because hundreds of people do it all over the country.
09:59Who told you this, Stephen? This is not...
10:01This doesn't happen.
10:03I'm afraid he does.
10:04No, I saw it on Channel 5.
10:05When kiters go back.
10:10They shout,
10:11Bokata!
10:12Kite down.
10:13What about when they can rot someone?
10:14What do they shout then?
10:15Oops.
10:16Yes, probably.
10:18It's the spring festival of Vasant Panchami,
10:20or Vasant is when it happens,
10:23and there's the people against it.
10:24The Kite Flying Effectees Committee.
10:27People who were affected by kite flying
10:29have tried to ban it completely.
10:30Do all the kites have to have the face of Des Lina among them?
10:37He is a god in Pakistan.
10:39Yeah.
10:41How big can the kite be?
10:41What's the heaviest kite you could have?
10:43They could weigh anything up to four tons.
10:47Well, the largest kite ever made weighs nearly a ton.
10:53It's 48 foot by 36 foot.
10:56And how many people does it take to fly that then?
10:5950.
11:0050 people?
11:01Yeah.
11:0150 men, says it.
11:0350 men, says it.
11:0450 men or 25 fat birds.
11:07It has 200 strings.
11:10And the smallest is 1.25 inches across.
11:13You can get them in the market and stuff.
11:15You see those brokes on those tiny kites?
11:17Have you seen them?
11:17No.
11:18Miniature kites.
11:18That's right.
11:19On bridges and things or something.
11:21Oh, do they?
11:22You start using an electric fan.
11:24One of those little handheld electric fans.
11:25It just fires up.
11:27Invisible string, which makes it very pleasing.
11:29Because it's so fine.
11:29Then you go out and cry.
11:30What am I doing?
11:33What the hell am I doing in my life?
11:36I want to be a doctor.
11:41Oh, Lord.
11:42Look at me, buddy.
11:43Oh, what's that point?
11:47No.
11:47So, name the world's most dangerous manager.
11:52It's not Dave the Decapitator, who's head of Psychos Are Us in Catford.
11:57No.
11:58Not Chernobyl Health and Safety or something, is it?
12:01No, that would count.
12:03Is it someone like Evel Knievel's manager?
12:04Very like Evel Knievel's manager.
12:06Only go back in time.
12:07To the Niagara Falls.
12:09Blondin's manager.
12:10Absolutely right.
12:11I think you should get 10 points for that.
12:13Blondin's manager.
12:18And for the boys and girls, tell us who Blondin was.
12:20He was a famous tightrope walker.
12:22He was the most famous tightrope walker of his day.
12:24But he also carried his manager across, which was a disaster.
12:28Because his manager was a lot heavier than him.
12:30And Blondin liked slippery tights.
12:33And stopped six times, because he was so heavy.
12:36It was on the 17th of August, 1859.
12:38And it took 42 minutes.
12:40Is that his manager, then?
12:41Or just some bloke that wanted to get to the outside?
12:45He'd take eggs and a frying pan and a trivet and matches and he'd stop halfway across and make an
12:51omelette and then eat it.
12:52Or he'd take a lion and a wheelbarrow across with him.
12:55Really?
12:55A lion?
12:57Yeah.
12:57A lion?
12:59Yeah.
12:59What was his manager giving him?
13:02Did he eventually die by falling off one?
13:05No.
13:06He died, actually.
13:06He died in...
13:07Tea Cozy.
13:10I thought it said, though, he died in a bed of diabetes.
13:13No, he died in bed of diabetes.
13:16Not in a bed.
13:17It's one of the restaurant menus nestling in a bed of diabetes.
13:22No.
13:23No.
13:23He died in bed.
13:24Age 73.
13:25Because actually they have terrible trouble, don't they, stopping people trying to go over the Niagara Falls.
13:31Yeah.
13:31Because people are always trying to get in a barrel.
13:33And I've no idea why, but they have to have special security men.
13:38Yeah.
13:38Because apparently there's endless kind of trucks reversing up with sort of concealed barrels.
13:45And he's just going, right, push me, Dave, I'm f***ing going.
13:51Apparently there's enough people that want to do that for them to have to really...
13:54They do stop it.
13:55There have been 16 known barrel drops and six of those have ended in mortality.
14:00The first of it was a woman.
14:01Hey.
14:02Yes, Annie, Annie Taylor.
14:04He didn't want to.
14:04He didn't want to.
14:07That's a honeymoon that's gone horribly rum.
14:10Now Annie Taylor was the first to do it.
14:13And she was something of a heroine for doing it.
14:15There she is, look.
14:17Well, a battle actually looks, I mean, God.
14:19But there's her barrel.
14:20She's all right.
14:21With her name on it.
14:21Annie Edson Taylor, Heroine of Niagara Falls, it says.
14:25And Bobby Leach was the second man to do it.
14:27The third man to do it was a Briton, Charles Stephens.
14:29And he did it with his legs tied to an anvil to decide people were really bored with the feet
14:35My two people have done it. I think it's really nice they went to all the effort of writing their
14:39names on his barrels
14:40Well, he couldn't because he tied it to an anvil in that rather sort of roadrunnery way, you know
14:45Kind of thing and all they found of him was a severed arm inside the barrel
14:50With a tattoo on it saying forget me not Annie
14:55People were obsessed with the Niagara Falls. They had this pirate ship and they filled it with animals
14:59Bears and geese and all kinds of things and sailed it off the top of Niagara and only two geese
15:04survived
15:05Two bears crawled out and they were shot
15:14So now what's the most dangerous sporting activity for women?
15:21Foxy boxing
15:23Foxy boxing
15:26Cheerleading someone like Iraq would be tough wouldn't it? You know, I'm going to give you a leading would be
15:31I'm gonna give you the money the points
15:38I really want the car
15:43You get the points because the answer is simply cheerleading
15:46Really? Cheerleading is the most dangerous more injuries and deaths are sustained by women engaged in cheerleading than any other
15:53sporting activity
15:53The best-known cheerleader in America is
15:57George Bush
15:58George Bush is the right answer
15:59Did you actually know that?
16:01Yes, what he did is thanks
16:02Yeah, it was the only sporting activity is what he did. He didn't play sports
16:09You're right. He had special t-shirts made with go nads, which was the name of his team
16:14You see I've never seen cheerleaders that aren't in a shower
16:19Yeah
16:21I thought that's what they did
16:23I thought they were just obsessed by lather
16:27Other dangerous sports bungee jumping do anything about that?
16:30You can get a detached breast tissue
16:33What are the gift job afterwards?
16:36Because if you go in the nude, they let you do it for free
16:41And back
16:41Everywhere or at a particular site you know of
16:46And you can if you don't have proper support
16:49Your breasts because of the gravitational pull
16:52Can fly clean off
16:55And you can also get a detached retina
16:57And if you shout at a breast that's just been decapitated as it were
17:00Does it still respond for the next 30 seconds?
17:02It will still lactate after
17:06It's been separated
17:07It can express itself quite literally
17:09I like to think of
17:11Can I go and have a lighter?
17:14I like to think of bungee jumping as suicide for indecisive people
17:19It's like a tester isn't it?
17:20It is
17:21Woah, no I'll be alright with this
17:22I heard a brilliant story about
17:25You know the Darwin Awards
17:25Obviously every year they have these Darwin Awards
17:27For people taking themselves out of the gene pool
17:29And there was a brilliant story of a guy that
17:31He was drunk one night
17:33And he decided right what I'm going to do is bungee jump
17:35And he went you won't be able to
17:36He went I will
17:36Just got a tow rope
17:38And jumped off a bridge
17:41Obviously
17:42Obviously the foot just snapped off
17:44And he landed in a freezing river
17:47With no feet
17:47You can swim
17:49So take me back because it's a good letter D
17:51For Darwin
17:52I don't know the Darwin Awards
17:53When you say take yourself out of the gene pool
17:54Well it's stories from around the world
17:56Of people that have killed themselves
17:57In such stupid ways
17:58Oh and killed themselves right
17:58There's another brilliant one of a guy
17:59That was sitting in his back garden
18:01And he had got a couple of balloons
18:02And filled them up with helium or whatever
18:04So he would float
18:05He thought it would be brilliant if I could float
18:08And drink beer
18:09Wouldn't that be lovely?
18:10It would be so comfy in a garden chair
18:12You went about a mile up and froze to death
18:20What an arse
18:23But I see what you mean
18:24You're taking out of the gene pool
18:25In other words
18:25The human gene pool does not need
18:27Those kind of people to pass on their genes
18:29To the next generation
18:30Indeed
18:30It's the reason why they should allow people
18:32To walk down to railway tracks
18:33If they so wish
18:34You know what?
18:35You don't need it
18:37If they can't work out a train's coming
18:41Right
18:43Let's face it
18:44The gene pool needs a little chlorine
18:47You know who you are
18:51Who invented bungee jumping and when?
18:53That's the New Zealanders
18:54Wasn't it?
18:54It was actually a British invention
18:56The bungee strap is a British invention
18:57Hurrah
18:58Yeah
18:59That's a good art
18:59And they never ever ever break
19:02That must be a real comfort to the families of the people
19:04That the rope was too long
19:05Yeah
19:06The rope if you want
19:08It's still perfect
19:10You can have another go with the coffin
19:15All the way to the grave
19:16Out of the grave
19:18Oh it must happen
19:20I want that to happen
19:24I'm redrafting my will tomorrow
19:26Exactly
19:27You've sorted out all our funeral requirements
19:30Oh excellent
19:31Another dangerous sport is Russian roulette of course
19:33That's dangerous
19:34Yes
19:34In the early days
19:35In the early days
19:35You had a musket
19:36You'd only have the one
19:39That was a man's game
19:40Yeah
19:41Exactly
19:42Oh there's six to one
19:43Sissies
19:44What we do know is that in 2005
19:47More than 200,000 cheerleaders had to attend medical facilities
19:51With cheerleading related injuries
19:53It's time
19:54It's time ladies and gentlemen
19:55How could it not be
19:56For us to dare to dip into the deep end of the pool of half-dissolved truths
20:01And sheer undiluted mithery
20:03That we call
20:03General ignorance
20:05So fingers on buzz
20:05Please
20:06What causes deep vein thrombosis on aeroplanes?
20:12Oh
20:13You're in first
20:14Sitting still phrases and getting a blood clot
20:16Ooh
20:20Sitting down for too long
20:22Oh hello
20:23Is it the five pasties you had before you set off?
20:27Well it turns out according to a Lancet article
20:30That if you put people in exactly the same conditions as on a cramped aeroplane
20:34But on dry land in an ordinary room
20:36They don't get the increased chances of DVT
20:38Oh
20:39That it's actually the poor air quality
20:41And you know the air quality on planes is worse
20:44Now that they've stopped you smoking
20:46I know
20:46Exactly right
20:47It's very bad air indeed out there
20:48And they've saved a lot of money on it being bad air
20:50And it also seems to be a contributory factor to DVT
20:54Although these compression socks
20:55There was not in the newspaper very recently about them actually working
20:58They're hugely sexually attractive those
21:01Well they stopped calling them surgical stockings
21:03Because that sounds so kind of Les Dawson old lady
21:06And they now call them compression socks
21:09I like those socks
21:11You would do
21:12Because you're sort of quite pervy aren't you
21:15Well here's the thing I like about them
21:17It's a really tight sock
21:18And when you take it off it's lovely and itchy
21:20It's very satisfying somehow
21:21Do you have bald chins?
21:23Do you have bald chins?
21:24Are you old enough now to have bald chins?
21:26The lower shin?
21:26I don't know what you've been up to Stephen
21:28You know
21:29I won't even conceive of how you've got that
21:31As men age
21:32The hair stops growing in the lower part of the shin
21:35Does it?
21:36You must have noticed that
21:37Oh no I've got virtual quiffs down there
21:38Have you?
21:40You're still pretty hairy down there
21:41Right, look at that
21:42Yeah
21:43Brought by the tip of your penis as well
21:45I can see that
21:46Most impressive
21:47I've got to get that reattached
21:49With women it's the other way around
21:51My bikini line's wound round my ankles at the moment
21:58So fingers again on buzzers
21:59How much sleep should you have every night?
22:02Vehicle reversing
22:03Go back
22:04Four hours
22:05Good answer
22:06Four hours?
22:07Four to seven hours
22:08You'll live a lot longer than if you have eight hours every night
22:10People who have eight hours or more
22:12Live shorter lives
22:13Yeah but if you only sleep four hours a night
22:15It can lead to dismantling the welfare state
22:19Margaret Thatcher is a famous example
22:20Very well put on someone who didn't get that much sleep
22:23Yeah no wonder really what she did to the miners
22:26Yeah
22:27Yeah
22:27Right
22:30The average britain gets six or seven hours sleep a night
22:33As opposed to their grandparents or great-grandparents in 1900
22:36Where nine hours a night was the average
22:38Certainly people lived less long for all kinds of reasons
22:40What scale do seismologists use to measure earthquakes?
22:47Sean
22:47The Richter scale
22:51No
22:52No they don't
22:54Seismologists don't
22:55Journalists often do still these days
22:56But not for 30 years nearly
22:58They use something else
23:00It's called the MMS
23:01The Moment Magnitude Scale
23:03Are you sure?
23:05Are you sure?
23:05Yes
23:06I got that wrong
23:07You did but you kindly went around
23:09There's an example of what happens after an earthquake
23:11The angles
23:12It's rather like Renaissance Mannerist art
23:14The diagonals are very
23:16The composition is excellent
23:18I hate Renaissance Mannerist art don't you?
23:21Do you?
23:22Yeah it's crap
23:24Michelangelo for example?
23:26Michelangelo
23:26Don't like him?
23:27Bollocks
23:28He was particularly good at bollocks it must be said
23:30It's one thing he absolutely thrived
23:33Has he been spotted in Heat magazine?
23:36Michelangelo spotted buying pants in Braymark
23:40Braymark?
23:40Braymark
23:42Braymark
23:43Do you get yours made specially by the Queen's tailor?
23:47I thought you'd had yours done on a loom by exquisite boys
23:50Oh!
23:57Stop
23:57Quit making Stephen's pants
24:00I can't wear these he's got a mole on his face
24:05I
24:06Oh God help
24:07Um
24:09Where and when was the largest earthquake in the United States of America?
24:13Oh
24:15There
24:15A bit on the left
24:17It's a big long one where everyone lives
24:20The long bit
24:20You mean San Francisco in 1996?
24:23Oh thank you so much
24:27You're a true gentleman
24:28It was not the largest
24:30It was certainly perhaps the most catastrophic
24:31It killed uh...
24:323,000
24:33Now you say it killed 3,000 people
24:35A rather disturbing fact about it is it killed 3,000 white people
24:38They didn't count the Chinese dead
24:40Isn't that horrible?
24:42A quarter of a million made homeless
24:43But the major cause of death and destruction was not the actual...
24:46Fires
24:47It was the fires
24:48Raging fires
24:48And why did a lot of the fires come about do you think?
24:51A flame
24:54Thank you very much
24:56Leaping from building to building
24:58Was it cause they were all really fed up so they all got pissed and fell asleep?
25:01No
25:02Gas
25:02Because they weren't insured against earthquake but they were insured against fire
25:05So a lot of people started setting fire to their houses
25:07When they saw that they were cracked
25:09Well the insurance company would go
25:10Oh what are the chances?
25:11It burnt down the same day did it?
25:13Oh
25:13That's my surprise
25:14Some genuine fires were caused by the fact that there was a gas main and that would go up
25:18You know it was at a time when there was gas lighting and heating all over the city
25:22I think I might know where the largest earthquake was
25:24Yes same
25:25I think it might be Yellowstone National Park
25:27Because there's a super volcano underneath it
25:29Well you see you're probably right
25:30I would have to add the right of the question since European settlement
25:33There may well have been a huge one in Yellowstone
25:35Whoa whoa whoa whoa
25:37Whoa whoa whoa
25:37It's a bit late for that scene
25:38A little bit late for that
25:39Oh you wouldn't have said 1906 if I hadn't said since European settlement
25:42No
25:43Just on the subject of San Francisco fire
25:44This is an example of very nasty
25:46When the fire caught the Windsor Hotel at 5th and Market Streets
25:49There were three men on the roof and it was impossible to get them down
25:51Rather than see the crazed men fall in with the roof and be roasted alive
25:56The military officer decided to direct his men to shoot them
25:59Which they did in the presence of 5,000 people
26:02And there was another man who started burning
26:04The entertainment back then was a rubbish
26:05Yeah
26:07Another man screamed and begged to be killed as his feet began to burn
26:10He was up on a roof then
26:11And the policeman took his name and address and then shot him through the head
26:16Name and address
26:17Name and address
26:18This is my house
26:21No actually the greatest earthquake certainly since European settlement was that in New Madrid Missouri
26:27In the Mississippi Valley during 1811 and 1812
26:30Or you may prefer the one in Prince William's Sound in Alaska in 1964.
26:34Either way, the more famous San Francisco, as Greg was just simply not in the same class,
26:39I think it brings us really handily to the end of the quiz on this particular occasion.
26:45And looking at the scores, there's astounding, astounding things going on
26:50because way out in first place with seven, Joe Brand, ladies and gentlemen.
26:58In second place with a very handy four points, Sean Locke.
27:05Neither up nor down, but in third position with zero points, it is Jimmy.
27:13Which means our runaway fourth place goes to the minus 19 of Alan Davis.
27:28And my thanks to Jimmy, Sean, Joe, and Alan.
27:30I'll leave you with the observation of former Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
27:33The most dangerous thing in the world, he said, only in a Welsh accent,
27:37is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
27:41So from all of us at QI, good night.
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