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First broadcast 17th December 2010.
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Clare Balding
Dara O'Briain
Jimmy Carr
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Clare Balding
Dara O'Briain
Jimmy Carr
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00:00Well, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, and welcome to QI.
00:08We're off on our H for holidays this evening, leaving behind Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire in favour of Hong Kong,
00:15Honduras and Hawaii.
00:17Hitching a ride along the way are the globetrotting Rich Hall.
00:24The jet-setting Rob Brydon.
00:32The wonder-lusty Bill Bailey.
00:40And the itchy-footed Alan Davies.
00:49Now, before we set off, let's hear a bit of world music.
00:52Rich goes...
00:56Lovely. Rob goes...
01:00Oh, I think this is a Welsh heart, probably.
01:03Bill goes...
01:08Oh, and Alan goes...
01:13Oh, tremendous.
01:15Right, now, settle down.
01:15The holidays are over and it's time to hand in our homework.
01:19I've been rather fed up with basically having to say things that are quite interesting to you and I thought
01:24it was time that you said things to me that are quite interesting.
01:28Right.
01:28I want you to interest me. I have sent you all off on your holidays, as you will remember.
01:32Not at the expense of the BBC, but my own personal expense I have sent you.
01:37So there's a special prize of a half-day holiday if you can report on the most interesting thing in
01:43the country that I've sent you to visit.
01:45Rob, you should start. Where did I send you? Where did you go?
01:48You, er, you sent me to Hungary.
01:50Hungary?
01:51Yes.
01:51Because you had to begin with an H?
01:52Had to begin with an H. That was the, that was the fiendish, er, plan. Very fiendishly clever. And I
01:57went to Hungary, Stephen.
01:58And were they wearing trousers as tight as that?
02:00They were, er, well, I wore trousers, interestingly enough.
02:03And you did? Good.
02:04I wore trousers very much like that. And, er, with the long sock, of course.
02:08Um, I went...
02:10We know about your long socks.
02:12Whoa.
02:12Don't we just?
02:13Um, I went to Hungary and I'll tell you what I brought back for you.
02:16Yes.
02:18Curious.
02:19Ooh.
02:20Interesting. What am I showing you?
02:21No gloves.
02:22Yeah, no gloves.
02:23You're a really bad glove puppet.
02:27Er...
02:27Glove puppeteer who really has lost the plot.
02:29Yeah.
02:30Naked glove puppetry.
02:31No, no. Very...
02:33Very clean...
02:34Clean hands.
02:36Yes.
02:36And Hungary. Can we think of a connection?
02:37Are they jumped up in the corruption tables or something?
02:40Is that a sort of a euphemistic?
02:42No, no. It's very literal. Very literal.
02:44Ooh.
02:45They don't wipe their bums.
02:47No.
02:47Oh!
02:49I don't think there's a need for that.
02:50I don't think there's a need for it.
02:53Obsessively washing their... OCD.
02:55I do think there's a need to wipe your bottom, by the way.
02:56What I was saying is I don't think there's a need for you to say wiping bottoms.
03:01They don't use that.
03:02I'm not the one-minute suggestion you leave the loo with it just...
03:04No!
03:06No!
03:06No, no, no, no.
03:06They do wipe their bottoms, but they don't use their hands to do it.
03:11Yeah.
03:11How else you'd have to have a mighty appendage to do it any other way, wouldn't you?
03:15You'd be like an elephant cleaning itself.
03:17Just whipping it back.
03:17Oh, no, no, no!
03:19Oh, no, no, no!
03:19There we go, no, no!
03:20Right, okay, let's just...
03:21You can train her.
03:22You can train her.
03:22Let's leave the lavatory now.
03:24You can train a wombat to creep up behind you and just...
03:27Yeah.
03:28Yeah.
03:28I've been trying for years to get my wombat to do that.
03:31I've got a clean pair of hands.
03:34Yes.
03:35Think, if you will, of medicine for a moment.
03:39Oh, no.
03:39Where might I be going with this?
03:41Medicine...
03:42Well, there, that.
03:42The illustration is very helpful.
03:44Surgeons.
03:44The importance of surgeons having clean hands.
03:49Scrubbing up, they call it, didn't they?
03:50Thank you, Stephen.
03:50Scrubbing up, as Stephen says.
03:52Scrubbing up.
03:52That's it.
03:53Opening doors and taps.
03:54Doing the taps like that, they do.
03:56Yeah.
03:56Before you know it, you've got a Eurovision act, haven't you?
03:58Look at that.
04:00The question you've got these on, they look...
04:02For a long time, they didn't realise, doctors and surgeons didn't realise,
04:06that it was actually very important to wash your hands before you operate,
04:11because they weren't aware of the transference of germs.
04:14And it was Ignaz Sommerweis, a Hungarian,
04:19and he came up with this theory, because he was at the Vienna Infirmary,
04:23you see?
04:24I've never sounded this knowledgeable on the show.
04:25It's very impressive.
04:26He started this whole idea of the importance of cleanliness and hygiene.
04:31You're absolutely right.
04:32There is a museum in Budapest, to which I have been, called the Semmelweis Museum,
04:36which is where he lived.
04:37He died in poverty and insanity, in fact.
04:40I think he died in an insane asylum.
04:42No one recognised the absolute truth of what he said.
04:44So excessively clean hands actually drive you mad?
04:47Well, no, what drives you mad is telling the truth and having nobody believe you.
04:50You see, doctors couldn't face the fact that he was basically saying
04:54that the thousands and thousands of deaths that took place in hospitals
04:57were probably the fault of doctors.
05:00It implied they were a little unclean, didn't it?
05:02Yes, exactly.
05:02That museum is a wonderful place.
05:04When you go in, there's a big sign that says,
05:06Now wash your hands.
05:08Very, very good.
05:09Yes, you're right.
05:10But what else is Hungary giving us?
05:12Goulash.
05:13Goulash?
05:13Yes.
05:14What does goulash mean?
05:15Do you know?
05:15Goulash means stew of some kind.
05:18Well, in Hungarian, it actually means stew of some kind?
05:22It actually means cowboy.
05:25I learnt this when I was there.
05:27Cowboy.
05:27Cowboy.
05:27Cowboy, you're right.
05:28Goulash means cowboy.
05:29Sorry, it's quite seductive when you press that heart button.
05:34It's like we're going back in time.
05:38Well, tell us, Rob, tell us.
05:43It's 1974 and a goulash means cowboy.
05:46You're quite right.
05:47No, it means cowboy.
05:48A Rubik's Cube, of course, also comes from...
05:50Yes, Erno Rubik was a Hungarian.
05:52What do they drink in Hungary?
05:53They drink...
05:54Er...
05:55Bull's blood.
05:56Bull's blood, you're right.
05:58And bull's blood was responsible for one invention which was not credited.
06:01Oh, in fact, the very word tells you who we think invented it.
06:04No pasteurization.
06:05Oh.
06:05It was not Louis Pasteur who first thought of that.
06:08It was an Hungarian, but he wrote a paper on it that was in Hungarian
06:11and nobody else in the world read it because it's a very, you know,
06:14almost a unique language.
06:16The other thing that Hungary is famous for, of course,
06:18is Laszlo Bayrou with the ballpoint pen.
06:21He actually, he also invented the automatic gearbox.
06:25Yes.
06:25He sold it to the Ford Motor Company, didn't he?
06:27Yeah.
06:27That's right.
06:28Bureau.
06:29There's a lot more to Hungary than meets the eye.
06:31My grandfather.
06:31So why not visit when you get the chance?
06:33Hungary.
06:33There's so much going on.
06:34Yes.
06:36My grandfather was born in Hungary.
06:38Really?
06:38Yep.
06:38They used to say a Hungarian is the only man who can follow you
06:41into a revolving door and come out first.
06:44Isn't there something about the languages uniquely odd?
06:47Well, it's unlike almost all European languages.
06:51But it's related to a language that's miles away.
06:53Finnish.
06:53Finnish and Estonian.
06:55Suomi?
06:56Suomi, yes.
06:57Yeah, the Finnish language.
07:03When you say Finnish, do you mean the people or the dishwasher tablets?
07:07Because that's the language on its own, isn't it?
07:10It is.
07:10You're so right.
07:11Do you really get to grips with it?
07:12I prefer the power ball.
07:14You get all the power balls out.
07:15Yeah.
07:16You can sell them to teenagers at a disco for ten years.
07:22Power balls.
07:23Wow.
07:25They don't get high, but their insides are fantastically clean.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Yeah.
07:30Wow.
07:31Yeah, when they get to the toilets, they clean them.
07:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:35Yeah.
07:36Well, well done.
07:36No, well done, Rob.
07:37That's excellent.
07:38I'm going to give you a lot of points on that.
07:42Yeah.
07:43Rob went to Hungary where they invented washing your hands,
07:46pasteurization, the Rubik's Cube, which you mentioned,
07:48and arguably the word hello.
07:49Did you know that?
07:50Because of the telephone?
07:52Yes.
07:52Edison's...
07:53One of his assistants.
07:54Assistants went halom.
07:55Halom.
07:56Halom.
07:56Which is the...
07:57Halom.
07:58Halom means I can hear you.
08:00Yeah.
08:00In I hear you.
08:01I'm not so sure if I think that sounds a bit fanciful to me.
08:04Yes.
08:04Not that it means I can hear you.
08:05The fact that that might then...
08:07... bastardize into hello.
08:09I'm not buying that.
08:10Okay.
08:11Which is why I didn't bring it up.
08:12Yeah.
08:12Fair enough.
08:14I used to...
08:15I used to collect stamps for about six months when I was 11.
08:19And you could send off for packets of stamps.
08:22Yes, I remember.
08:23About 40p or something.
08:24And you would get lots and lots of...
08:27Triangular ones and...
08:28That I would say.
08:29I've called Magyar stamps.
08:31Yeah.
08:31But apparently they're...
08:32Modsha.
08:33Those ones.
08:34Yeah.
08:34You'd always get loads of those.
08:36They must have printed a lot of stamps.
08:38Or...
08:38Yeah.
08:38No-one was sending any letters there.
08:41Oh, maybe...
08:41I collected stamps for a very brief period, like you, as my early teens.
08:46And I gave it up.
08:46I just thought...
08:47I thought to myself, philately will get me nowhere.
08:51LAUGHTER
08:53APPLAUSE
08:54Rob, quickly.
08:55Rest in.
08:56Go back in time.
08:57Go back in time.
08:58Go back in time.
09:00I collected stamps for a period when I was an early teenager.
09:03I loved it.
09:04Yes, it's good.
09:05Brilliant.
09:07That's good.
09:07Well done.
09:09Well done.
09:11Good news.
09:12So...
09:13Hungary.
09:14Great success.
09:15Lots of points.
09:16Bill.
09:16Where did I send you?
09:17Well, I went to the kingdom of Bhutan, which is in the Himalayas.
09:22It's actually the only country in the world which is a carbon sink.
09:28Which means that it actually absorbs more CO2 than it actually gives out.
09:34So the greenest country on Earth?
09:35It's the greenest country on Earth.
09:36It's written into the constitution that the forest area of Bhutan shall never dip below 60%.
09:44Wow.
09:45And the cows are not allowed to fart.
09:47No.
09:47That's right.
09:48It's a Buddhist country and the national sports are archery and darts.
09:52But not darts as we know it.
09:54Jockey Wilson style, mini lagers and shouting.
09:59They're huge.
10:00They're quite big darts.
10:01They're quite lethal.
10:01There they are.
10:02That's the archery.
10:03And that's the big dart he's chucking there.
10:04It's obviously miles away.
10:06I mean it's not like the Occy, it's obviously a lot further away.
10:08Yes.
10:09Or he's a rubbish heavy.
10:12Yes.
10:13It's not target, it's actually a hunting skill.
10:16They're trying to bring down a seagull there.
10:18It's a beautiful green country and its main export is hydroelectric power.
10:24So it's even exporting renewable energy.
10:27Come on.
10:27So it's a wonderful paradise.
10:29There is a...
10:30Invade!
10:30Yeah.
10:31Come on.
10:32I remember something about penises though.
10:34A friend of mine went there and sent me back a photograph of penises.
10:37Yeah, they paint phalluses on the doors as a fertility symbol.
10:41Oh, do they?
10:41So you see...
10:42Oh!
10:44Wow.
10:45Actually in full flight.
10:47Well...
10:47Yeah.
10:48That seems to be quite a graphic.
10:51Look at that.
10:52Goodness me.
10:53Yes.
10:53That's probably a monastery of some kind.
10:56So the monks...
10:57This is part of the religious thing, is it?
10:59Yes.
11:00The monks would...
11:00Yes, it's a very old sort of tradition.
11:02But yes, it's a Buddhist country.
11:05So it's a very sort of peace loving and beautiful place.
11:10The general state of Bhutan is measured not in money but in happiness.
11:16It's a sort of their equivalent of currency.
11:19It's gorgeous.
11:20Well, I have to say, Bill, that it's fantastic.
11:23It makes me want to go there.
11:24I've never been.
11:24Thank you very much.
11:25Bill Bailey and Bhutan.
11:26Thank you very much.
11:27Whoa.
11:31Yeah.
11:33Yes.
11:34Can I take this off?
11:35I'm getting a rash.
11:36Okay.
11:38I'm allergic to souvenirs.
11:41Yes.
11:41Anyway, yes.
11:42Bill Bailey was in Bhutan where they have the world's only carbon sink.
11:45Darts is the national sport and they pursue gross national happiness by painting huge fallacies
11:50on the doors.
11:51Rich, tell us about where you've been.
11:52I, Stephen, have been to Hawaii.
11:54Hey.
11:55Yeah.
11:56What can you tell us about?
11:57Aloha to Hawaii.
11:58I'll tell you many interesting things about Hawaii.
12:02It was discovered by Captain Cook after he discovered Sydney Harbour.
12:06And then moved to New Zealand and met very friendly people and he got to Hawaii and they ate him.
12:12That's true, isn't it?
12:13Yeah, they're very happy cannibals.
12:18I have here an outrigger canoe.
12:21Oh, yeah.
12:21I'd be there with this.
12:22This is the part that keeps it afloat, the outrigger part.
12:25Yeah.
12:25You tear through the waves and then when you come back you ride the waves back.
12:28So it basically is surfing.
12:29Hey, yeah.
12:30Yeah.
12:30This wood is called Willy Willy.
12:32Excuse me.
12:33Which means Willy twice.
12:35Because, um,
12:37Hawaiians like to repeat stuff a lot.
12:39Yes.
12:39They only have 12 letters, so.
12:41I know a word beginning with W that they repeat.
12:42That is one we use a lot on the internet.
12:45Wikipedia.
12:47Wikipedia.
12:47Wikipedia.
12:48Wiki is a, isn't it?
12:49Wiki-wiki means quick-quick.
12:50It means quick-quick.
12:51How many letters do you say they have?
12:52Twelve.
12:53Five of those are O.
12:59Hawaii Five-O.
13:00Yeah.
13:01Oh, darn.
13:02I see.
13:02Nobody got it.
13:03I thought you were just going, ooh.
13:05No.
13:05Hawaii Five-O.
13:07Oh, very good.
13:07Some of them come with like a, sort of a pamphlet to explain them.
13:12If you just read this, please.
13:14If you just read this literature about that joke, you'll enjoy it, Michael.
13:17So what kind of, there's also, there's also a word, if you can't think of a word in Hawaii,
13:20you just say Dakaing.
13:22Right.
13:22And that means any word you can't think of.
13:24So it's a fantastic way of communicating.
13:26Gosh.
13:27The majority of land is owned by the Doyle Pineapple Company.
13:30Doyle.
13:31Dole.
13:32Dole.
13:32Yeah.
13:33Dole.
13:33I thought they'd sold out, because I was there a year and a half ago, and they'd closed
13:37down some of the pineapple plantations.
13:39They bought it back.
13:39Oh, have they?
13:40Yeah.
13:41Oh, okay.
13:46And the highest mountain on the planet is in Hawaii.
13:49Yes.
13:49Why do we say it's higher than Everest?
13:54Because the island of Maui is actually a mountain.
13:57The whole thing.
13:58The mountain itself is called Mauna Loa, and from the surface.
14:01If you count from the base.
14:02It is the highest mountain in the world.
14:04Very good.
14:05Excellent.
14:05So surfing, what can you tell us about surfing?
14:08Surfing was invented by the Polynesians.
14:11I've never surfed.
14:12Oh, you may be surprised to know.
14:14But I've seen some of those surfing movies.
14:16You've crowd surfed.
14:17Big Wednesday.
14:18I've not even had a recording.
14:19Oh, yes.
14:20And naturally, there was a mosh pit there.
14:23It's really, really hard.
14:24I surfed when I was younger.
14:26You didn't anymore?
14:26It's very hard to get out in behind the waves so that you catch them.
14:30Very, very tiring.
14:32And also very hard.
14:32I had some lessons in Bondi in Australia.
14:35And it's the getting up.
14:36It's very hard.
14:37You've got to, you've got to, you know.
14:38I mean, that chap seems to have got the hang of it.
14:43And then when the moment comes, you've got to hop up.
14:45You jump on.
14:47I go surfing in Devon.
14:48Do you?
14:49It's great, yeah.
14:49In the winter.
14:50It's hardcore surfing.
14:52Wow.
14:52You have to wear wetsuits, hood, gloves, you know, the whole bit.
14:56Overcoat.
14:57Sometimes.
14:58Sometimes you're in up to your waist.
15:00Yeah.
15:01So how good are you?
15:03Could you do something like that?
15:04Oh, yeah.
15:05Yeah.
15:07Seriously though, can you do it?
15:08I've got up on the board.
15:12That's more than most of us could do, probably.
15:13And then it's very hard.
15:14It went into the water.
15:15Yeah.
15:15It's very hard to get up on the board.
15:17I stood on the board and I actually was so excited about it, I immediately fell off.
15:22I went, look I'm out!
15:25You know.
15:26Have you done anything down there?
15:27Because I know you dive.
15:27I've been on those boogie board things, you know, where you go on your tummy.
15:31No.
15:32No.
15:32That's great.
15:33It's good fun.
15:34In Hawaii I've noticed.
15:35I couldn't get through, what Rich was saying, I couldn't get past the waves.
15:39We did a bit of splashing in the waves for a bit.
15:41Yeah, yeah.
15:42I got a bit tired.
15:42They get a guy on a jet ski to tow you out there.
15:45That's the way to do it, you see.
15:47Ah.
15:47Well, wonderful.
15:48Again, fabulous.
15:49Thank you, Rich Hall, with your gem and her wife.
15:52Yeah.
15:54Yeah.
15:54Now, unfortunately, Alan didn't get a holiday this year because, well, he was in detention.
16:00But well done, everybody else.
16:04Another question, let's get hydrographical.
16:06Where in the world are you most likely to see fish falling from the skies?
16:10Ooh.
16:12Sardinia.
16:16Good effort.
16:17I like that.
16:20Well, Finland.
16:22Can I just say...
16:22Finland, very good as well.
16:24There's a...
16:24Oh, he's coming up with fish related...
16:26There's a frog interloping on that picture.
16:29There is a frog.
16:30It's not just fish.
16:31No.
16:31Is that a clue?
16:33Well, sort of, there are...
16:35Bay of Biscay?
16:36No.
16:36No, not the Bay of Biscay.
16:37They get carried up, don't they?
16:39It's to do with climatic conditions.
16:40In a tornado.
16:41So, like in the Bay of...
16:42Um...
16:43The Bay of...
16:44Pigs.
16:45It begins with H.
16:46It's nearer the Bay of Pigs.
16:47Oh.
16:47Honduras.
16:48Honduras.
16:49Good God.
16:49There is a festival every year about falling fish.
16:52They don't...
16:52We can't show you a film of it, but supposedly...
16:55In almost every culture, there are stories of fish falling from the sky.
16:59Yeah.
16:59There is...
16:59There is in Jorro, the Jorro district of Honduras, they have this festival to celebrate.
17:03But the frogs go back to where...
17:05When did frogs fall from the sky?
17:07Exodus.
17:08Exodus, exactly right.
17:09In the plagues in Egypt.
17:11It was the Pharaoh and the...
17:12The Pharaoh, yes.
17:13The plagues and the locusts, frogs.
17:15Yes.
17:16And what explanations are there for these stories?
17:18Well, it's winds.
17:19It's high pressure or something and it's...
17:20They get kind of...
17:22Sucked up into a sort of tornado.
17:24Sucked up into the sky, carried along, a bit like your pictures illustrating, and then
17:28all of a sudden, whoosh!
17:30Yeah.
17:30That's the theory.
17:31Again, it's quite hard to prove.
17:33I thought that had been proved.
17:34Not to my knowledge.
17:36Tornadoes only happen on land though, don't they?
17:38Isn't that right?
17:38Yes.
17:39Different words for them if they're on the water and on the land.
17:41I've seen the tornado in the sea.
17:43Have you?
17:43Down in Devon.
17:44Really?
17:45I've seen, definitely seen that.
17:46The exact thing.
17:48Didn't last very long, and not enough time for a fish to swim up it or be sucked up.
17:52No.
17:53There was a momentary sort of, the kind of, the twister dipped down into the water.
17:59Yeah.
17:59Water spout.
17:59Briefly, yeah.
18:00Water spout.
18:01That's it.
18:01Well, yeah, that is one of the theories.
18:03Another is that a river or the sea may, at night, burst over somewhere depositing fish
18:10and then withdraw and people see the fish in the land where it shouldn't be and assume
18:14that they've dropped from the sky.
18:15But, it's certainly true that fish eggs drop from the sky.
18:20Yes.
18:20Why would that be?
18:22Birds eaten.
18:23Birds, exactly.
18:24Yeah.
18:24So, and occasionally they will hatch because they land in water and puzzle people.
18:28So, yes.
18:28In certain parts of Honduras, it rains fish every single year, or so the locals claim.
18:33How would you like to spend two weeks lying on a pile of parrotfish droppings, covered
18:38in phenylbenzimidazole, sulfonic acid?
18:44Does that sound like a good...
18:45Is that sun cream?
18:46Oh, very good.
18:48Excellent.
18:49Excellent.
18:52So, that may not be such a bad thing after all.
18:55So, it's lying on a beach covered in sun?
18:56Yes, most people would like it, but parrotfish droppings is a very special kind of beach,
19:00the kind we'd most like.
19:02White sand?
19:03White sand.
19:04Soft, white, coral island sand is parrotfish droppings.
19:08It's called a parrotfish because it has a beak, like a parrot's beak, and it scrapes away
19:11and eats a coral, and it excretes this white sand.
19:16And each fish will excrete over a tonne of it in a year.
19:21Good work.
19:22And they're locked on them.
19:22And that builds up as the white, soft sand that is the particularly prized sand of such
19:27a beautiful island as that, for example.
19:29Each fish excretes a tonne of...
19:32Yeah.
19:33What?
19:34Yeah.
19:35What?
19:36Single fish?
19:36A little parrotfish like that.
19:37Yeah.
19:38Every single day, it's eating.
19:39It's a tonne of year.
19:40A tonne of year.
19:43Constantly processing.
19:43How much does the average man excrete in a year?
19:46I don't know why I'm looking at you.
19:48Why did you know that?
19:49I'm afraid I don't know.
19:50Your classical education has failed you.
19:52I don't think you see that.
19:53I don't know.
19:54I don't know.
19:54I don't know.
19:55Stephen knocked that up in an afternoon.
19:56No, no, no, no.
20:00The average man will excrete the Isle of Sheppey.
20:05By lunchtime.
20:07And the sun cream?
20:08What's the maximum sun protection factor at the SPF you could...
20:1350, isn't it?
20:1450.
20:14What does it mean when it's SPF 50?
20:16It means you could stay 50 times as long in the sun as you would do if you could say,
20:21if, say, for example, the sun was so hot you were going to burn in one minute.
20:25Yeah.
20:26If you put that on, you can stay 50 minutes.
20:27Yes.
20:28Right.
20:28Or if you put it on in England, you could stay for a lifetime.
20:35While with sand.
20:37Sand castles.
20:39Yes.
20:39What do you know about sand castles?
20:41Oh.
20:41You need moisture.
20:42You need moisture.
20:43You need...
20:43How much moisture?
20:45I would guess, having some experience of this, about a third of the overall amount of
20:51satin...
20:52I think it's found out to be an eighth.
20:54Yes.
20:54Yeah.
20:55By...people are very serious about it, and these are sandcastle competitions in there.
20:58Sand sculpture, as they call it, rather.
21:01And do you know where they have the world championship for satin?
21:03California, I bet.
21:04You'd think it would be California.
21:05We might even have a picture of a sand sculpture competition.
21:08And you might be able to guess where that is.
21:10Wow.
21:10In Spain.
21:10It's Canadian.
21:11It's Canadian.
21:12Yeah.
21:12It's in Vancouver.
21:14That's extraordinary, isn't it?
21:15Yeah.
21:16Imagine if you just tipped a couple of buckets out, and then you just looked over and...
21:19Oh, no.
21:20That's really...
21:21That's really...
21:23That's really put that to shame, hasn't it, really?
21:25Yes.
21:26They do take it very seriously, but there are very strict rules.
21:29Six metres by six metres is your patch.
21:31No Americans.
21:32You're allowed to use sand in your square bit, and you can't add anything.
21:36No adornments, no little flags.
21:38No flour and sugar, which apparently some cheaters use.
21:41Oh, to give it a bit more consistency.
21:42Yeah.
21:42So once you've finished, you can...
21:43It's then sprayed by the judges so that it doesn't sort of crumble, and then it's judged.
21:48What would you imagine is the world record?
21:50The longest?
21:51One mile.
21:53Ten miles.
21:54Sixteen miles.
21:56Sixteen miles.
21:56Sixteen miles.
21:57Sixteen miles, yeah.
21:57Very long.
21:58Yeah, absolutely.
21:59Stretched road over sixteen miles.
22:00It was in Myrtle Beach, Florida.
22:02South Carolina.
22:04Is it South Carolina?
22:05It is the redneck capital.
22:06You would not wish Myrtle Beach on anybody except...
22:09Is it a bad place?
22:10Except a bunch of...
22:11Those kind of people.
22:12Oh, really?
22:14That's horrible.
22:17You friends...
22:17How y'all doing?
22:19Woo!
22:20That's Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
22:21Is this a sixteen mile long beach that somebody then said was a steep sculpture?
22:27In the shape of the beach.
22:28In the shape of the beach.
22:29The perfectly representing a beach.
22:32Yeah.
22:32Let's go to the judges.
22:33Here it is.
22:34Here it is.
22:34It's a beach.
22:36Oh, my God.
22:38Well, well done.
22:39Anyway, there we were, somehow talking about sand, and talking about coral, and how lovely
22:44it all was.
22:45The sand of coral beaches is made from the excrement of parrotfish.
22:47Now, what's so lucky about the unluckiest man in the world?
22:52That's not him, incidentally, but that's an amusing assemblage of superstitions.
22:56He got killed by a horseshoe.
22:59Yeah.
23:00Well, this man is either the unluckiest or the luckiest.
23:02It depends which way you look at it, but it's...
23:03Something like he's had more operations or accidents or anything...
23:06Well, bear in mind...
23:07More claims direct things than anybody else that's still alive.
23:10Bear in mind that we're after places and countries and things beginning with H.
23:14So that...
23:15And...
23:16And if I tell his name, this may help, his name is Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
23:21I say is, he actually died in January 2010, but aged 93.
23:27So he lived a long time, so he wasn't that unlucky, you may say.
23:30So, where's the hate there with the H?
23:32Yamaguchi would suggest he came from...
23:34Holland.
23:38Harish?
23:39You can do better than that.
23:41I'd have said Japan.
23:43Japan.
23:43Now think of a place in Japan that begins with H.
23:46Okay.
23:47Hiroshima.
23:47Hiroshima.
23:48Right.
23:49It was, um...
23:50He...
23:50He was...
23:51Bomb landed on him and it bounced off.
23:55No.
23:56He was in Hiroshima on business when the bomb went off.
23:59Yes.
24:00He was badly burned.
24:01He spent a night there.
24:03He went to hospital in Nagasaki.
24:04The next day, he got on a train, bizarrely.
24:08Which shows you that even though the atom bomb fell, the trains were working.
24:14So he got on a train to Nagasaki and a bomb fell again.
24:19And he was celebrated.
24:20He became a sort of hero, but only in his 90s.
24:23He was officially recognized as the man who was bombed twice.
24:26He claims that there were over 100 people he met who had also had that same or similar experience.
24:32And he had a network of friends.
24:34But he was a cheerful fellow.
24:35I only see he lived and looked cheerful and died aged 93, so...
24:39He doesn't look that cheerful, does he?
24:40No.
24:41Well, I'm waiting between two mushroom clouds.
24:42It's happening again.
24:43Yeah.
24:43What are the chances?
24:45Yeah, it is astonishing.
24:46He's either the luckiest because he survived an atom bomb twice, or the unluckiest because...
24:50Well, he learns of 93, so he didn't have...
24:52You know, he was not...
24:53His life was not curtailed.
24:54No, exactly.
24:55But the thing is...
24:56You know, is the glass half empty?
24:58That's...
24:59Is it half full?
24:59Either way, it's radioactive.
25:01Yeah.
25:03So don't drink it.
25:04Yeah, yeah.
25:05And he never got on a train again, I can tell you.
25:07The astonishing thing to me is that you drop an atom bomb on Hiroshima,
25:11and the train service is working the next day.
25:14I mean, in our country...
25:16Yeah.
25:16Keep calm and carry on.
25:17Yeah.
25:18A couple of leaves, I see.
25:19Yeah, that's it for the rest of the winter.
25:22It is quite extraordinary.
25:22It's the wrong kind of bomb.
25:23Oh, it's the wrong kind of bomb.
25:26It was clearly the right kind of bomb.
25:28It's fine, everybody.
25:29Don't worry.
25:29It's the right kind of bomb.
25:30It's the right...
25:31A right kind of bomb has landed on the 4.30 from Potter's Bar.
25:36Please proceed to the nuclear area.
25:40I suspect they weren't privately owned.
25:42The sandwiches have not been affected.
25:45They could withstand a nuclear blast, anyway.
25:50Well, there you are.
25:50Extraordinary man there.
25:51Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
25:52Yamaguchi.
25:53Either the luckiest or the unluckiest man in history.
25:55Hit by two nuclear bombs.
25:56Survived them both.
25:57But what was the largest steam engine of all time used for?
26:03The SS Great Britain.
26:06No.
26:07Again, places beginning with H.
26:08Oh.
26:09Holland.
26:11Holland.
26:12Holland?
26:12What?
26:12I said Holland before.
26:14Will it be reclaiming land?
26:17Yeah.
26:18You're absolutely right.
26:19Tugging the sea back.
26:21Exactly.
26:22Reclaiming land.
26:22The polder land, they call it in Holland.
26:25Some might say that the Haarlemmermer is the largest man-made structure.
26:30You can call it man-made on Earth.
26:31I mean, it's obviously nature, but it's kind of...
26:34The Schiphol Airport is on reclaimed...
26:36First to go when the old polar cap melts.
26:39Schiphol.
26:39I'm afraid it will have a little bit of trouble.
26:42It's a constant battle against nature.
26:44Schiphol.
26:45Schiphol.
26:45It's a crazy place.
26:46Yeah.
26:46I went through Schiphol Airport and they had a guitar with me,
26:48and the bloke said,
26:49Excuse me, what is in the case, please?
26:51And I went,
26:52Oh, here we go.
26:53Look at the drugs.
26:54So I opened up, and I went,
26:55It's a guitar.
26:56It's a guitar.
26:57They're so cool, the guy's there.
26:58It's a guitar.
26:59And he opened, he went,
26:59That's no guitar.
27:00That's a Gibson 71 with a flying pickup.
27:06Oh, that's so cool.
27:08You guys, you guys are cool.
27:11Hey, let's jam a little bit.
27:13No, I've got to go.
27:14You're weird.
27:18Charming English friendliness.
27:20Hey, we have an amplifier system in the customs office.
27:24Come on, guys.
27:24That's it.
27:26Well, no.
27:27The Dutch, indeed, they reclaimed a lot of their land,
27:29because it's low lying.
27:30It's the low countries.
27:31They lie, no.
27:32Although not by accident.
27:33It's one of the flattest places in the world, Holland.
27:35Very, very, very flat.
27:36Yes.
27:36Talk to me about dykes.
27:38Dykes.
27:38OK.
27:41All right.
27:42Then, in a normal way, or in a,
27:45or in some crazy kind of long tundra way?
27:48What is a dyke?
27:50A dyke is a kind of a levy, as you would say.
27:52What's the difference between a dyke and a dam, then?
27:54Well, it is an old word for dam, actually.
27:56It means it looks the same thing.
27:57Yeah.
27:57The famous story of the boy that put the finger in the hole
28:00to stem the dyke, yeah.
28:02Yeah.
28:02And to stem the flow.
28:03But the odd thing about that story is that it's not Dutch.
28:06Oh, is it not?
28:07No, it's an American story written in the 19th century.
28:09Is it?
28:10Yeah.
28:10And most Dutch people don't know it,
28:11but they know so many Americans and British people know it.
28:14They actually have statues of this little boy, Hans,
28:16or whatever name they choose to give him,
28:17who put his finger in a dyke.
28:19Oh.
28:20Why dyke for lesbian?
28:21Oh, no, that's a tricky one.
28:24Well, bull dyker was the original phrase.
28:26It was a verb to mean to engage in lesbian activities.
28:29It was attested from 1921,
28:31because about 20-odd years before that,
28:34the word dyke was slang for the vulva.
28:37Oh, good lord.
28:38Right.
28:39Why don't they just call it a family run-around
28:41with an excellent safety record?
28:48You are silly.
28:51I am a bit silly, Stephen, you're right.
28:53You are silly, but very charming.
28:55The largest steam engine of all time was used to drain a large chunk of the Netherlands.
28:59Now, imagine you're in the middle of Epping Forest.
29:01Okay.
29:02And you know that the closest pub is due north.
29:06Where you want to be is due north, but you haven't got a compass.
29:09How can you make sure that you walk straight to this pub that you know is due north of you?
29:14We follow the trail of Sovereign Rings.
29:18Let's imagine there is no...
29:19Find a tree.
29:20You go to the Epping New Road and it goes straight north right the way through.
29:23Oh, if you found it, that would be helpful.
29:25Listen...
29:25Find a tree.
29:26Yeah.
29:28With moss on it.
29:29Oh.
29:31Oh!
29:32Sovereign!
29:34Find a tree with moss.
29:35He's right, I've heard that.
29:36On the opposite side.
29:37He's right.
29:38It's dry and you sit there and wait for someone to come along and ask them where the problem is.
29:43Now you had heard, and many people have heard and seem to think that moss grows on the north side
29:47of trees.
29:47Moss grows on the north side of trees.
29:48But it's not true.
29:49Find a pine.
29:50I mean it will grow on the north, but also on the south and the east and the west and
29:52the south-west.
29:53So basically don't rely on that as a kind of tracking...
29:55That would not be helpful.
29:56What other ways are there of finding north without a compass?
29:58The sun rising and setting.
29:59That's quite a good one.
30:01In due east and due west, but only in an equinox, which is, you know, only happens twice a year.
30:05So wait for an equinox.
30:05Wait for an equinox, which might be difficult if you're...
30:08No more than six months.
30:10Well, you might be near the solstice in the opposite.
30:12It would be a long wait.
30:13Do you know the one with the watch?
30:14Well, you have to go and buy a watch.
30:15No.
30:16Buy a watch with a compass on it.
30:19Ah, that's cheating.
30:20But no, you point the hour hand, the little hand, at the sun.
30:24Exactly at the sun.
30:25And then exactly between that and 12 is roughly south.
30:31So you go to the opposite direction of that.
30:34It's complicated.
30:34Unless it's daylight standards time and then...
30:36Oh, and then you screw down there.
30:39A couple miles from the pub.
30:40But just travel always with Bear Grylls and Ray Mears.
30:42And they will make you a compass out of their toes.
30:46Or something.
30:47Or their eyebrows.
30:48Or their eyebrows, for example.
30:49You can float a pine needle on water.
30:52Yes, you could do that if you were...
30:54Just to kill time.
30:54Yeah, I was going to say.
30:56I knew much more than that would it.
30:57You can search a razor blade on water and if it's magnetized it would act as a compass.
31:01All of which, aimless rambling, brings us to the tourist trap of general ignorance.
31:06What was the answer to the last question?
31:08If you get lost in Epiphorrest, just listen for the traffic.
31:11Yeah.
31:12And then go towards it.
31:13But you could use the stars.
31:15Because the stars are fixed points.
31:16But that would only be at night.
31:17It'd wait for night, yeah?
31:18Yeah.
31:18Now, do you know how to read the stars?
31:20Seriously, listen for the traffic.
31:22You're right.
31:23I'm sure you're right.
31:24It might be quicker.
31:25You wait for the stars.
31:27It's over there.
31:31Now, what's that constellation there?
31:33The very best.
31:34Yeah, the plough, the dipper.
31:35Yeah.
31:35And do you know how you might find the North Star?
31:38What is the name of the North Star?
31:39Do you know what it's called?
31:41Dardanord.
31:45Polaris, it's called.
31:46Polaris.
31:47That's a submarine.
31:47That's a submarine.
31:47You take, on the right hand, those two there.
31:50That sort of form the end of the cart, or however you want to look at it.
31:53If you follow them up in a line, you will get to the North Star above.
31:57Which is, as it were, hangs over the North Pole.
32:00You just keep heading towards it.
32:02As it were.
32:02As it were, yeah.
32:03But you look at it, and you just keep heading north.
32:06Yeah, that's it.
32:07I mean, they're mostly really good navigators, even today, use it still.
32:10You know, if things go wrong with their GPS system or whatever.
32:13They know that it's a degree out, and they know how to compensate for it over long distances.
32:17But it's still very reliable.
32:19There are 57 stars that are used.
32:21Unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere, then what do you use?
32:22If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, yes, I guess you use the Southern Cross, do you?
32:25Yes.
32:26But if, the strange thing about humans, if you are lost, you probably hear people say,
32:29when I ended up where I started.
32:31This happens all the time.
32:32If you blindfold someone and tell them to walk in a straight line, within 66 feet, they will be back
32:39where they started.
32:39That quickly.
32:41You go in circles.
32:42Really?
32:43We all do.
32:44Why do you think that might be?
32:45Homing pigeons.
32:46We're descending from homing pigeons.
32:48That's it.
32:49We're asymmetrical.
32:50We're slightly...
32:50One leg shorter than the other.
32:53We have a lot of loose change in one pocket.
32:56It's...
32:57Isn't it some evolutionary sort of...
32:59It's probably evolutionary.
33:00You find the cave in the dark.
33:02Yeah.
33:03So you don't wander off.
33:04That's a nice thought.
33:05I like that thought.
33:06Yeah.
33:07So fingers on buzzers, if you please.
33:09Which country contains the most of the River Nile?
33:13Most...
33:14Egypt.
33:15Oh!
33:16Come on, yeah!
33:18Anybody else?
33:19Is it Uganda?
33:20Not...
33:21It is.
33:21The Nile does go through Uganda, but that's not the most of it.
33:23Most of the River Nile is in...
33:25Chad.
33:25No.
33:26Belgium.
33:28You're proof.
33:29I'm buying time.
33:30I'm buying time.
33:30Tasmania.
33:31Yeah.
33:32Sudan.
33:32Sudan is the right answer.
33:34If you look at the map, you will see it is massively the most.
33:36It's the largest country in Africa.
33:38And look how much of the Nile goes through Sudan.
33:40Nearly decides to come back again.
33:41Yeah.
33:42It does.
33:42It goes up and then back down again.
33:43All the way through to Uganda.
33:45So why...
33:46Does Egypt sort of have the sponsorship deal?
33:48Like when Pepsi sponsor the Rolling Stones?
33:51I mean, is there some kind of thing?
33:52It's the fertility from the Delta down through the...
33:54Oh, right.
33:54So it's a lot of Sudan desert?
33:57Yeah.
33:57Yeah, pretty much, I fear.
33:59Okay.
34:00But it's huge.
34:01It is the biggest country in Africa, Sudan, in fact.
34:04But the lake at the bottom is called...
34:07Victoria.
34:08Victoria, yes.
34:09And where is the source of the Nile?
34:11It's not the...
34:13It's Rwanda, in fact.
34:14Rwanda.
34:15Though it was thought to be, I think, where it ends at...
34:18in Uganda, the green one there, Jinja, the north of the...
34:22of Lake Victoria.
34:24It destroyed the Nile with Rwanda.
34:25But it's now determined to be Rwanda, yes?
34:27Bit controversial, because it goes into the lake.
34:29I know, then it goes into the lake, and you would say, but apparently that's what riverologists,
34:33as it were, now claim.
34:34How long is it?
34:35It must be thousands of...
34:38Thousands of...
34:393,000 miles.
34:413,000 miles?
34:414,000 miles.
34:42An advance, or...
34:43What, I'll say 5,000 miles to enter into the spirit of this?
34:47It's 4,184 miles.
34:50That's about right.
34:51So you said 5,000, and you said...
34:533,000.
34:54I said 4,172.
34:56LAUGHTER
34:57Did you say it quietly when people were talking?
34:59Yeah.
35:00You big cheetah.
35:014,172.
35:02Big cheetah.
35:03Oh, all right.
35:05Yeah.
35:064,182 miles long.
35:08Jolly long.
35:09What does this part of the world belong to?
35:13There.
35:14There's Sudan again.
35:15There's Egypt.
35:16Which country owns that circled area?
35:18Well, it's coloured in yellow.
35:21The colour of Egypt.
35:22Is it one of ours, sir?
35:24Do we still hang on to it?
35:25It's called Bir Toali.
35:29Does it belong to Sudan or to Egypt?
35:31Which do you think?
35:32Sudan.
35:33Oh, what a pity.
35:35Oh.
35:3750, 50 ball.
35:39You muffed it.
35:41Yeah.
35:42So it belongs to...
35:43It could have been the other one, then.
35:44It could be the other one.
35:46Yeah?
35:46Yeah, the one above, which is...
35:49Maybe.
35:50Yeah.
35:50But what's that other stripey area next to it?
35:53Well...
35:53Good question.
35:54That's it.
35:54That's querying my pitch, no mistake.
35:56Yes.
35:56Well, we do not.
35:57Oh, wait a minute.
35:58Isn't that the loose coalition area between Egypt and Sudan?
36:01Yeah.
36:01And they said, the Lindens own it.
36:06It's known as the Halaib Triangle.
36:09The British drew that straight line and said, you can be Egypt and you can be Sudan.
36:13But the point is that the Bir Tawil is pretty arid.
36:16There's nothing much there of any interest.
36:17But the one next to it, which is disputed, is worth having.
36:21Oh, yeah.
36:22Yeah.
36:22The problem is both Egypt and Sudan deny that they own that,
36:26because they think if they deny they own that, they'll be getting more of a chance for someone to arbitrate
36:31that they do have the valuable one.
36:33Each country is desperate to say that it doesn't own it, which is rather rare.
36:37It's available.
36:38Let's snap it up.
36:39Yeah.
36:41So this is ongoing?
36:42It's ongoing, yeah.
36:43Oh, I see.
36:44Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia have tunneled beneath the Red Sea.
36:48And stolen the triangle and taken it away.
36:50Anyway, the area of Bir Tawil sits between Egypt and Sudan.
36:54Both countries are fighting over the right to not own it.
36:58We're currently now, not giving too much away, in a studio in London.
37:02Where is the nearest piece of American soil to us here?
37:07Groven Square?
37:09Is it...?
37:09No!
37:14The fact is most people wrongly think that you're right that the American Embassy is in Grovener Square at the
37:19moment,
37:20though they're about to move it.
37:21But an embassy is not considered the sovereign soil of the nation whose embassy it is.
37:26It belongs to Britain, the soil there.
37:28It's not American soil.
37:29This is a myth, this idea that the moment you step foot, you're on American soil.
37:33They wanted to buy the lease.
37:34Who owns Grovener Square?
37:36Duke of Westminster, I expect.
37:37The Duke of Westminster.
37:38Yeah, the Duke of Westminster.
37:39And they asked for the freehold.
37:41And do you know what he said?
37:42He said, yes, if you give my family back the state of Virginia, which you confiscated from us,
37:49you can have that.
37:51So they decided not to.
37:54Good work, Duke of Westminster.
37:56I like him already.
37:57But there is American soil in Britain, and the nearest to us is in Surrey.
38:01It's a tiny area.
38:02It's a memorial, a place in Surrey famous for an extraordinary British event in the year 1215,
38:07Do you know what happened?
38:08The signing of the Magna Carta.
38:09Oh, I know where it is.
38:11Runnymede.
38:12Runnymede.
38:13Runnymede.
38:13Yes.
38:14But what is the memorial in Runnymede?
38:15There's a JFK memorial.
38:17It's the memorial to John F. Kennedy.
38:18I've been there.
38:19I've been there.
38:20Yeah.
38:20And it's deliberately these sort of isometric, whatever the word is, no, asymmetric steps.
38:25They're slightly higgledy-biggled.
38:26It's just a journey of pilgrimage towards him.
38:28And it is officially American soil.
38:30Anyway, so embassies belong to the country they're situated in.
38:34So the U.S. Embassy is not American territory, but there is some U.S. soil at the JFK memorial.
38:39Now, what might land on your head if you live under a flight path?
38:45I know what you'd get if you sit under a cow.
38:48Right.
38:49A pat on the head.
38:50Hey!
38:53Very nice.
38:55Urine.
38:56Frozen urine.
38:57Frozen urine.
39:00No.
39:01No.
39:02No.
39:02No.
39:02That won't happen.
39:03They do not jettison their poo or their pee.
39:05Is this the blue ice?
39:07People think that's blue water that's frozen, but it just doesn't happen.
39:10They don't.
39:11It's completely sealed in.
39:12Is it pollution?
39:14You might get ordinary ice from the wings because it's...
39:16Yeah.
39:17Exactly.
39:17From the edges of the wings.
39:18But what you will not get is poo or pee, water.
39:21Because they don't jettison it to them.
39:23They never jettison it, no.
39:25Unless they're over Kent.
39:26Unless they're over Kent.
39:28Unless they're over Kent.
39:28Unless of course you do it out the window.
39:30Yeah, yes.
39:30Oh my goodness.
39:31Look at that so closey, isn't it?
39:32Good gracious.
39:33Good lord.
39:33There you go.
39:34Very cheap flat indeed.
39:37Some trains still, however, do, you know, you just, when you flush, it goes into the track.
39:42Is that why they say don't do it in the station?
39:46Well, waiting in the station, yeah.
39:46I thought that was just because they might be changing the barrel.
39:50The barrel.
39:51Like in the pub with beer, you mean.
39:53Oh, God.
39:53Me.
39:54What a thought.
39:56So aeroplanes don't done their waste while in flight.
39:58Some ice falls off a plane, then it probably came from the wings.
40:01Which country has the lowest age of consent in Europe?
40:05Kazakhstan.
40:06In Europe.
40:07In Europe.
40:09Holland.
40:11No.
40:12Holland.
40:13Holland.
40:13Is it a H?
40:15No, it's not.
40:15Well, there's, the person who runs it is a double H.
40:19Oh.
40:20Er.
40:21Holiness.
40:21Yes.
40:22His Holiness.
40:23Yes.
40:23The Vatican.
40:24The Vatican City.
40:25Has the lowest age of consent.
40:26Is it?
40:27The age of 12 is the age of consent in Vatican City.
40:29Gasps.
40:30Yes.
40:30Right.
40:31It's for peculiar reasons.
40:33Yeah.
40:33It's because...
40:35I think we know what the reasons are, Stephen.
40:37It's to do with the Lateran Treaty in which Vatican City became a source of sovereign state.
40:42So they elected to choose the laws of Italy from 1924 and it so happened that then Italy changed its
40:49consent from 12 to 16 and the Vatican didn't.
40:54They've never bothered to change it since.
40:55But is it something that's followed or is it just, it's one of those old laws but in reality it's
41:01frowned upon if you were to, you know.
41:02Oh, I don't think they would, no, I don't, I think it would be frowned upon.
41:05No.
41:05I'm not even sure that they have citizens who are likely to get married or even, who knows.
41:09I mean it's very peculiar, the only people who can vote are cardinals under the age of 80.
41:15That's the only voting they have is for the Pope and the people who vote for the Pope are cardinals.
41:20So no one, it's a peculiar city in that sense.
41:22It also has the highest crime rate.
41:24Yeah.
41:25By a long way it has the highest.
41:27What would you say its population is?
41:28Five.
41:30Five, uh, 800.
41:34500 is the answer.
41:35500, yes.
41:35There are 600 offences per year.
41:38What sort of offences?
41:40Who?
41:40Just one family.
41:41One really bad family.
41:42You've got tyres out in the front.
41:44It does mean.
41:45You're not going to die or they knock you out.
41:46Proportionally per capita it has the highest crime rate in the world.
41:49Well I'm an 11 year old is getting married.
41:51Yeah, that's probably what it is exactly, yeah.
41:54But it has the most helipads and TV stations per capita in the world as well.
41:58It's a strange place.
42:00It's nuts.
42:01Yep.
42:01The Vatican City has the lowest age of consent and the highest crime rate anywhere in Europe.
42:06But alas, our holiday romance is nearly over ladies and gentlemen.
42:08So let's see who scored.
42:10Ah.
42:11Ah.
42:12Oh, we have a clear winner.
42:13A clear winner.
42:14With plus seven, it's Rob Brydon.
42:18Wrong round.
42:21And er.
42:24Only 12 points behind on minus five, Rich Hall.
42:33And in third place on minus 22, Bill Bailey.
42:40Ah.
42:41With minus 28 is Alan Davis.
42:51So all that's left for me to you is to thank Rich, Rob, Bill and of course Alan.
42:55And I leave you with this.
42:56Er.
42:57As the extremely fragile jazz singer Billy Holiday said,
42:59Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married.
43:02He was 18, she was 16 and I was three.
43:05Good night.
43:06.
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