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First broadcast 6th November 2015.
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Noel Fielding
Cariad Lloyd
Rhod Gilbert
Stephen Fry
Alan Davies
Noel Fielding
Cariad Lloyd
Rhod Gilbert
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00:00Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening.
00:03And welcome to QI, where tonight we'll be taking in a magnificent miscellany of things beginning with M.
00:11Please welcome the Monday-vagant Rod Gilbert.
00:18The marmalicious Noel Fielding.
00:23A woman of great newly abriety, Cariad Lloyd.
00:33And macerating in the corner, Alan Davies.
00:41And their buzzers are, see, I haven't understood any of the words.
00:45Well, macerating, what do you think that means?
00:47I don't know. Something you do in the garden, I'd have thought.
00:51No, that's masturbating.
00:54You clearly have a much more private garden than I've got in with.
01:00Macerating is steeping in liquid to thin out.
01:03You do it to grapes, to make wine, you macerate.
01:06What was muliabriety?
01:09Muliabriety.
01:11It means womanliness.
01:13Wifely womanliness.
01:14Oh, nice.
01:15Oh, like mujer in Spanish.
01:16Like mujer, exactly.
01:18Mulher yogurts.
01:21You are a linguist, aren't you?
01:24You studied languages, didn't you?
01:25Yeah, I did study languages, yeah.
01:26Well, it sounds that the word I gave you was rather appropriate if you speak languages,
01:30because it sounds as if you're mundyvagant, which is what I called you.
01:32One who wanders the world.
01:34There we are, a world wanderer.
01:35Yeah, it's you.
01:36Like a womble.
01:39And I think you were marmoracious.
01:42Marmoracious?
01:42Noel was marmoracious.
01:43Wow.
01:44Sounds good.
01:45Sounds like a delicious marmalade.
01:48It's called that because a chicken one day laid an orange.
01:51An orange?
01:51Yeah.
01:52Yeah.
01:52And all the chicks said, look at the orange marmalade.
01:54And that's how it got it.
01:55Oh, no.
01:56Oh, no.
01:57Oh, no.
01:58It's just wonderful.
02:00Q&A will be replaced in the orange.
02:05Is it, uh, is it breasty?
02:07Is it?
02:07No, marmorial is of marble, and marmoracious is marble-like.
02:11Right.
02:12Marble-like.
02:12Marble isn't really a compliment, though, is it?
02:15Oh, I love that note-feeling.
02:16He's like marble.
02:17Like a marble.
02:18Like a bag of marbles.
02:19He's such a character.
02:21He's such a character.
02:22What, are you a world wanderer?
02:23World wanderer.
02:24You're a womble.
02:24I'm a world wanderer.
02:25And I was a marble.
02:26Yeah.
02:27Not sure I'm happy with that.
02:30Remindly is surely a compliment for anybody.
02:32I'd be complimented to be called a woman named.
02:34In fact, I often am, because of my breasts.
02:37But onward, the buzzers.
02:39They're, frankly, a miscellany of musical mischief.
02:43Cariad goes...
02:45BUZZER
02:46BUZZER
02:47BUZZER
02:47Noel goes...
02:50BUZZER
02:50BUZZER
02:51BUZZER
02:51Oh!
02:52BUZZER
02:53BUZZER
02:54BUZZER
02:54Rob goes...
02:56BUZZER
02:57BUZZER
02:57BUZZER
02:58BUZZER
03:00BUZZER
03:02BUZZER
03:03BUZZER
03:03And Alan goes...
03:06BUZZER
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03:08BUZZER
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03:10BUZZER
03:11Now then, what was the matter with the Gilbert U-238 atomic energy children's chemistry set?
03:20BUZZER
03:46BUZZER
03:49LAUGHTER
03:50This is the start of the Iranian weapons programme.
03:54We have the kit.
03:56The packaging said it was completely safe and harmless.
03:59It was sold in 1951-1952 for $49.50,
04:03which is about £300 now.
04:06Whoa! So it was pricey? It was pricey.
04:08If you wanted your polonium even then, it cost you.
04:09And that's why they stopped making it.
04:11Because it was too expensive.
04:12Yeah, the margins were not good enough for them to make a much more profit on it.
04:16As you see, it says along the top, another Gilbert Hall of Science product.
04:20It also says exciting and safe.
04:22That's right.
04:23I'm not sure those two things go together.
04:26They don't.
04:27My friend in science dared me to eat some iron filings and I did it.
04:31Oh, God.
04:32I got in a lot of trouble.
04:34Because my teacher was a magnet.
04:36No, but...
04:39Could you then draw a beard?
04:41Could you, like, move it around?
04:42I had to go and see the head science teacher and stand in front of the whole class
04:45and explain that I'd eaten iron filings.
04:48LAUGHTER
04:48For about two years, I was the boy that ate iron filings.
04:51LAUGHTER
04:52That's a Channel 4 documentary.
04:54LAUGHTER
04:54That's fantastic.
04:56Was it uncomfortable when it came out?
04:58Well, we had to drink a weird solution and then I didn't notice when it came out.
05:02How did it dissolve them? Like acid or something?
05:04I was hoping that I would, you know, maybe have some sort of, you know, strontium turd.
05:11LAUGHTER
05:13Well, the guy responsible, who's called Alfred Carlton Gilbert,
05:17and he came up with a number of sets for children.
05:20I mean, there was a chemistry set which contained ammonium nitrate,
05:23which is the principal ingredient for fertiliser bombs.
05:28LAUGHTER
05:28He liked the stuff and the good stuff.
05:29Yeah.
05:30He liked the good stuff.
05:31Exactly, the good stuff.
05:33Agent Orange.
05:34LAUGHTER
05:34The first...the first experiment in that kit was to make gunpowder.
05:39LAUGHTER
05:40He just didn't like children, did he?
05:42LAUGHTER
05:42His most famous invention is huge in America.
05:46It's the American equivalent of Meccano, which is called Erector.
05:50Erector.
05:51LAUGHTER
05:51LAUGHTER
05:53Oh, there are giggles from our audience.
05:55LAUGHTER
05:56It contains the word wrecked.
05:59Oh, there you are.
06:01LAUGHTER
06:01They're still all smiling out there, don't they?
06:04LAUGHTER
06:04I love that word.
06:05I just love the idea that you can make a Ferris wheel out of erections.
06:09LAUGHTER
06:10It interconnects with any penis.
06:14Simple docking.
06:16LAUGHTER
06:17Oh...
06:18What does he...?
06:19LAUGHTER
06:23Sorry, Stephen, I was doing a Ferris wheel as if it were attached to my cock.
06:27LAUGHTER
06:27I like lowering the tail again.
06:29I accept that.
06:30LAUGHTER
06:31But it was all part of that time, 1950s, this incredible worship of the nuclear bomb.
06:37And it even got to the stage where you could get a serial toy,
06:41which was an atomic bomb ring, celebrating the Lone Ranger series.
06:45There it is, there's the atomic bomb.
06:47Wow.
06:47Inside a ring.
06:48And it contains polonium alpha.
06:50So it gives off brilliant flashes of light as part of nuclear disintegration.
06:55That's interesting.
06:56So your little boy and your little girl each have one from the serial packet and they flash.
07:00But it's weird that this was for the Lone Ranger, which you may remember was a Western set in the
07:0519th century.
07:06Yeah.
07:06But somehow he had the atom bomb in some very complicated story.
07:11In the tomics...
07:11So he had an atomic bomb in his ring?
07:14Yeah.
07:15LAUGHTER
07:15And it wasn't his.
07:17Wait.
07:19Wait.
07:19Wait.
07:19That's one of my favourite ever sentences on this one.
07:23LAUGHTER
07:23That's when he was running the Erecto music.
07:26LAUGHTER
07:27I've got an A-bomb in my ring.
07:29LAUGHTER
07:30He sounded like Jeremy Clarkson, though.
07:34Jeremy would love an A-bomb in his ring.
07:37LAUGHTER
07:38Normally with an A-bomb in his ring.
07:40I saw he's got an A-bomb in his ring and then decades later James Bond comes alive and all
07:44he's watched us is fire a dart into a motor.
07:48It gives you a dead leg.
07:49I've basically got the Lone Ranger's costume on tonight.
07:53Have you got an A-bomb in your ring today?
07:55I have, yeah.
07:56At the end of the show I'll let that off.
07:58LAUGHTER
07:58Why didn't you...
08:00LAUGHTER
08:01We'll all gather round to see the lights.
08:03This is not like a, oh, we found this obscure present in some cereal packs for a four-month period.
08:09Over a million of these were made.
08:11Really?
08:11It was a big promotion.
08:13There was a boy, as late as the 90s, 94, who tried to construct a nuclear reactor in his mother's
08:20shed in his garden in Michigan.
08:22LAUGHTER
08:22He was the nuclear boy scout.
08:24There are his badges, including top left.
08:26He's holding up the nuclear badge.
08:29I didn't know that Scouts had one, but they seem to.
08:31Wow.
08:31He can't even fix a blind man.
08:34LAUGHTER
08:36They called him the radioactive boy scout.
08:38And when I said he was trying to construct a nuclear reactor, I mean it.
08:41He was trying to construct a nuclear reactor.
08:44Wow.
08:44His safety included wearing a lead poncho.
08:48LAUGHTER
08:48Where do you find a lead poncho?
08:50I've got one, I've got one, I've got one.
08:52Yes, you've got one, yes.
08:54He must have a lead poncho.
08:55You're the only person who would have a lead poncho in your...
08:58I'd keep it...
08:59I'd keep it next to my strontium turd.
09:01LAUGHTER
09:02He's not going to make a nuclear...
09:04He's got an arrow to show which way up his top goes on.
09:07LAUGHTER
09:09Well, yeah, and he threw away his clothes after each session
09:11that he was in his mother's shed.
09:12He was in the middle of purifying thorium
09:15when he was rumbled by the authorities.
09:17Wow.
09:17And his shed was found to be a thousand times more radioactive
09:20than background radiation.
09:21Wow.
09:21And was buried in the desert.
09:24LAUGHTER
09:25How did they take his shed to the desert?
09:27It's amazing.
09:28That's really a chopper.
09:29Yeah.
09:29We're going to have to take the burnt bath as well, isn't it?
09:33LAUGHTER
09:34It's watching line, that's right, haven't we?
09:36And the trellis, the trellis has got to go.
09:38Oh, yeah.
09:39That's barbecue gone, mate.
09:40Go on.
09:41So, if you want to really light up your children's faces,
09:44you could get them a radioactive chemistry lab.
09:47Which place, beginning with M, holds the world's deadest parties?
09:52Milton Keynes.
09:53LAUGHTER
09:56Michael Gove's underpants.
10:00Maidstone.
10:01What? Oh!
10:03LAUGHTER
10:03Amazing.
10:04We've got Maidstone, thank you for that.
10:06Well, no, it's an island, one of the largest islands on Earth.
10:10Oh, and...
10:10Madagascar.
10:11Madagascar.
10:12Madagascar.
10:13The Madagascar people, the Malagascar people.
10:14Yeah, every few years, they dig up their ancestors.
10:17Right.
10:17And have a party, and dance with them over their heads.
10:21LAUGHTER
10:21Yeah, I know.
10:22Not as weird as a radioactive chemistry.
10:24No, it isn't exactly.
10:25They dig them up.
10:26Yep, they dress them in silk...
10:27Dress them in silk scarves.
10:29Oh, come on.
10:30That's what we do in Camden.
10:32LAUGHTER
10:33They also spray their ancestors' bodies with perfume, perhaps.
10:37Understandably.
10:37And they bathe them with sparkling wine.
10:40After the dance, the corpses are placed on the ground.
10:43Yeah.
10:43Like that.
10:44Wow.
10:44See, there, the corpse is in winding sheets.
10:46Oh, too weird.
10:47Too weird.
10:47Yeah.
10:47And the elders tell their children about the significance of their relatives.
10:51But they also tell the dead ancestors about the children that have been born since the ancestors died.
10:58Right.
10:58So they have a sort of two-way communication, as it were, about their families.
11:02I think I think...
11:02I should have booked a bigger hall.
11:04Yeah, well, yes, it's full and bouncy.
11:06That's amazing.
11:06That's amazing.
11:07We don't talk about death enough just to bring up in a comedy show.
11:10I am not getting my grandma out.
11:14In a potato sack.
11:18I don't know what you mean.
11:19We do hide away from it here.
11:20I'm with UK.
11:20Yeah, we don't talk about it at all.
11:21Yeah, we do hide away from it here.
11:22And the cultures are much more open.
11:23I don't.
11:23I'm a goth.
11:24I'm all over it.
11:25You're right.
11:26I sleep in a coffin.
11:29No, you're right.
11:30We do.
11:30We don't like to talk about it.
11:31But they celebrate it.
11:32Exactly, they do.
11:33It's rather wonderful.
11:34Do they drink at the party?
11:35You must have to.
11:36To get through that.
11:37Do they sometimes get home and think,
11:38Oh, shit.
11:39I've left grandmas.
11:42On the bus.
11:45I see.
11:47Supposedly they do it because they've had a dream in which an ancestor has visited them
11:51and told them they're cold in their grave and that they want to come up.
11:55Right.
11:55This ceremony, it's called the Famadihana.
11:57And the whole taboo and folklore system of Madagascar is called FADA.
12:02And it's very strong.
12:03It's much stronger than it is in many other countries.
12:05And despite all the pressures on Madagascar as they are in all countries.
12:09And it seems a bit grim, but I think it's quite nice.
12:11I like it.
12:12It's the two things they're known for.
12:13That and square guitars.
12:15Yes.
12:16They're very sound, Dom.
12:17Well, there you are.
12:18Now from morbidity to meals.
12:20How can you get out of prison using nothing but a decent lunch?
12:24Is it if you get a last meal, don't you, if you're going to get the electric chair?
12:29Is it if you do a competition, if you name the right meal, you get f***ing up?
12:34If this vegetarian lasagna, you're free!
12:38No.
12:39If someone said lasagna and they were like, are you sure you want beef, lasagna?
12:44The prisoner doesn't have the lunch.
12:47Oh, the governor has a good lunch.
12:49It's not the governor.
12:50It's not someone who...
12:50I'll let them all go.
12:52Well, it's not someone who works inside the prison.
12:54It's someone who might have the power to get you out of prison.
12:56The magistrate type.
12:57Yeah, the parole board.
12:58Mousie Tom.
12:59It's the parole board.
13:01Oh, not Mousie Tom.
13:02That was a wild guess.
13:03Wouldn't that have been amazing if you'd have been right?
13:05That's, er, some judges.
13:07But this was actually...
13:09The experiment was done, er...
13:11They're so pleased with themselves.
13:14Your hair looks ridiculous.
13:15I know.
13:17Same hairdresser.
13:20They're actually meeting up to say, listen, Bill's a good hairdresser,
13:23but he can only really do the Spaniel ears.
13:25We've got to get some of that.
13:28It was a study.
13:29It was done on the Israeli parole board, actually.
13:32At the start of each day, judges granted about two-thirds of applications for parole.
13:38As time went on, they approved fewer and fewer and fewer.
13:42Until just before lunch, they approved virtually none.
13:45Then they had lunch, and then they were incredibly generous again and gave everybody parole.
13:49Wow.
13:50So, the process was, in fact, completely impartial.
13:53It was nothing to do with the ethnicity or even the severity of the crime.
13:56It just seemed to be genuinely repeated day after day after day.
14:00It was to do with...
14:01You were hungry or cruel.
14:02How hungry they were, yeah.
14:03I can understand that.
14:05Well...
14:05So, if you're in court, what should you do then?
14:07What's the best way to...
14:08Well, do all in your power for your case to be heard after lunch.
14:11After lunch.
14:11After lunch.
14:12Yeah.
14:12So, if I say I can't make it in the morning, for example?
14:14Yeah.
14:14Yeah.
14:15But if you push into it...
14:17I just thought it would be the opposite.
14:18Like, when you're coming to lunch, you're just getting hungry.
14:20You go, let him...
14:20Let him off, let him off, let him off.
14:21Quick, let's just get to lunch.
14:23But you're grumpy, aren't you?
14:24You're grumpy.
14:24So maybe you're more like, oh, no.
14:25Execution.
14:27Execution.
14:27When your fingers get in there.
14:29Execution.
14:31Probably they should just have snacks.
14:34You know, little bowls of nuts.
14:36Yeah.
14:36Well, that would do it.
14:37Just keep him going through the day.
14:38Probably not a good sign if you're in the dock and you're about...
14:41And then someone's looking at the menu.
14:43Yeah, what is that?
14:44I'll have the banoffee.
14:45Yeah, yeah, get rid of this, go.
14:48So, I'll just take a Kit Kat with you and say,
14:50before you sentence me...
14:52What about a Kit Kat?
14:54You can go.
14:55LAUGHTER
14:57Well, one of the really annoying...
14:59I feel marvelous.
15:00Annoying for someone like me, not for any of you,
15:01is that willpower, it seems, is driven by glucose.
15:08That your willpower is stronger if your blood sugar is registering...
15:12Right.
15:12..good levels of glucose.
15:14So, if, like me, you're fighting constantly not to be a fat bastard...
15:19..then you need the willpower not to eat.
15:23Wow.
15:23But you get the willpower by eating lots of sugar.
15:25Oh, my God.
15:26Every time you've got sugar, it's annoying.
15:26So you're in a terrible catch-22, like,
15:29oh, I can't, oh, no, no.
15:30I'll tell you what, I'll have lots of sugar, then I will...
15:32Then I'll be able to not eat...
15:34Oh.
15:35That doesn't work.
15:36It is easier to not eat a cake after you've eaten a cake.
15:40LAUGHTER
15:45Why should that be?
15:48I'm like that with drinking.
15:51This is definitely my last time.
15:53The trouble is, plates are too big.
15:56Yeah.
15:57If plates were smaller, people would eat less.
16:00And when you fill them up, you're too full.
16:03So you should just have smaller plates, David.
16:04But then you should make everything smaller.
16:05Try that.
16:06The other day was a small plate diet.
16:08But smaller plates.
16:09Same plates, but keep them in the distance.
16:11LAUGHTER
16:13Long recovery.
16:14Long spoons and monoculars.
16:16Oh, dear.
16:18It takes so long you get bored.
16:21I need Brussels sprouts.
16:23All right.
16:24So, now, for a serious medical malady, show me the symptoms of bicycle face.
16:31Bicycle face?
16:33Mm-hm.
16:33Wow.
16:35That's with goggles.
16:36No, these are wheels.
16:38Oh, they're...
16:38Oh, I see.
16:39Sorry.
16:40Of course they're wheels.
16:41What is bicycle face when you get sucked off by your grifter?
16:44LAUGHTER
16:45Wow.
16:47Wow.
16:48I'd better go.
16:49Yes.
16:49No, that's the right answer.
16:51That's what I've got written on the card.
16:53LAUGHTER
16:53That's amazing.
16:56On my card in this universe, on the other hand...
16:59LAUGHTER
17:01LAUGHTER
17:01The Literary Digest in 1895 warned women cyclists...
17:05I know why I'm looking at you.
17:06I'm a woman.
17:07I'm a woman.
17:07That's OK.
17:08You can't identify me as a woman.
17:10It's got to get worse, I'm afraid.
17:11OK.
17:11This thing is...
17:13Overexertion, the upright position on the wheel,
17:15and the unconscious effort to maintain one's balance
17:18produces a wearied and exhausted bicycle face.
17:21And no-one will marry you.
17:22LAUGHTER
17:23The main symptoms are a hard clenched jaw and bulging eyes.
17:27I wasn't sure what you were going to stop at on time.
17:29Quite.
17:30As well as being flushed or pale.
17:32Either of those.
17:33Yeah.
17:34And wearing a haggard, anxious expression.
17:36That's just the fear of patriarchy.
17:39LAUGHTER
17:39Well, there was a worry.
17:41It was so much pressure.
17:42Some doctors said that cycling would irritate the pelvic organs
17:44and stimulate women to disturbing lusts.
17:49LAUGHTER
17:49If you can't get it at home, you get it on a bike, right?
17:52Yeah.
17:54Well, there's a downside, according to a French expert...
17:59...who said it would ruin the female organs of matrimonial necessity.
18:04LAUGHTER
18:05Now, Carrie, tell me, your organs of matrimonial necessity...
18:09Excuse me?
18:10What?
18:10Are you asking me?
18:11I'm just hoping that they haven't been ruined by bicycles.
18:13We're the female organs of natural necessity.
18:15You know what?
18:15It's funny, cos, er...
18:16The clitoris...
18:17If we can go there...
18:19LAUGHTER
18:20I was going to draw a picture!
18:24She said it!
18:25She said it!
18:25She said it!
18:26She said it!
18:27Whoo!
18:28I've drawn a rainbow, everyone.
18:30It's all right.
18:32LAUGHTER
18:33Where's St Perkins when you do that?
18:36The clitoris is actually a very large organ.
18:38Shush!
18:38Carry out!
18:39And...
18:40It's just literally the tip of an iceberg.
18:42When you say literally the tip of an iceberg.
18:44Yeah.
18:44I knew I was looking for it in the wrong place.
18:47LAUGHTER
18:49There was an artist in New York.
18:50An artist in New York.
18:52An artist in New York.
18:52An artist in New York, and she made, like, this, er...
18:55Obviously not to scale, clitoris.
18:56And she got women to ride on it.
18:58But it literally...
18:59It's huge.
19:00It's like there's this bit,
19:01and then there's these two other huge bits that are in the body.
19:04So it's just...
19:04Who's looking behind you?
19:05Yeah.
19:06LAUGHTER
19:08Wow.
19:09It's just...
19:10But you have two, don't you?
19:11Well, it's one under each arm.
19:13LAUGHTER
19:14Have I got this wrong?
19:16Alan, help me out.
19:17It's OK.
19:17I didn't bring mine with me today.
19:19LAUGHTER
19:19So, to say it damages the marital organs is, again, the...
19:22So, how much more of it is there, then?
19:24Going...
19:24Oh, my God.
19:25Guys, do we have to, like...
19:27Is this the bit where I tell you about explaining it to you?
19:30I don't know that at some point in your life
19:31should have explained this to you, but perhaps...
19:33I've never seen so much fear in all your face.
19:36LAUGHTER
19:37Do you think people would believe it
19:39if I say that my penis is only the tip of the iceberg in the door?
19:42It's a lot more under the surface, you haven't seen...
19:45LAUGHTER
19:45Well, lady...
19:47Huge nerve-ending coming out right out the top of my head.
19:50Well, whatever it may or may not do to the organs of
19:52female matrimonial necessity...
19:54Bicycling did cause a lot of men to get rather angry and concerned
19:59about the fact that women were doing it.
20:01Do you know what? For what reason?
20:02Because they were free, they were allowed to move.
20:04Yes, exactly.
20:05If they move, what else are they going to do? Vote?
20:08What? Think?
20:09Being out on panel shows?
20:11No, we've got to stop it!
20:14It's dangerous!
20:15It's a man coming home early from work
20:16and their wife's in bed with a bicycle.
20:21He's got five gears!
20:22Five, five gears!
20:25Well, early bikes were designed, for some of them,
20:27for women to ride...
20:29Like side saddles?
20:30Yes, because the idea of women being a stride
20:32was considered rude.
20:33Well, also, the amount of skirts they had
20:34must have made it quite hard to literally get on a bike.
20:38You pedal, side pedal.
20:39So, well, the pedals were all on one side, were they?
20:41Like a...
20:41Yeah, I guess like a...
20:42She's got a woman underneath that skirt pedalling for her.
20:47Some poor Cockney woman going,
20:48I'll do it, I'll do it!
20:50It's an odd job, Mum, but it's worth it!
20:54Anyway, bicycle face was a medical condition
20:57that would apparently only affect lady cyclists.
20:59Now, for a bit of mid-show magic,
21:01would you like to learn the mysteries of the Magnus effect?
21:05Yes, yes, yes, you would.
21:07Thank you, Steve.
21:07Yes, I would.
21:08What is the Magnus effect?
21:10Well, it's about spin.
21:12It's about how spin...
21:14Oh, this could work very badly.
21:15I'm not good at this.
21:17Oh, there we are.
21:18Watch out for your organs of matrimonial necessity.
21:23LAUGHTER
21:25Like that?
21:27Yeah, that's it.
21:28No, it's not it.
21:29That'll go into my face.
21:30That's going to hit, yeah, yeah.
21:31Like that?
21:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:33That's the narcissist effect, it'll go straight away.
21:35All right, OK.
21:36Yes.
21:36So, the idea is that this should spin and then...
21:38Woo!
21:39Yeah!
21:39Well, I like that, don't you?
21:41Well, I like that.
21:44Well, um...
21:46Why don't you have a try?
21:47Well, behind you, I'll show you an effect of it on a football,
21:50which you may be familiar with.
21:52Taking a corner, like this,
21:54you'll see the plastic bend,
21:56which we're all familiar with now.
21:57David Beckham, of course, a master of it.
21:59And it's the same principle.
22:01We couldn't afford, actually, to have a moving image of him.
22:03LAUGHTER
22:05Yeah, it's all about the pressure of the air building up
22:07on the opposite side of the spin,
22:09and pushing the ball.
22:12Oh, God, God, for another one.
22:12Carriers, ready?
22:13OK.
22:15Oh, well, yes, no.
22:17Fine.
22:18It was...
22:19Good.
22:20Yeah, exactly.
22:21Who's doing that?
22:22Rob?
22:23I can...
22:23I can...
22:24Oh, that was...
22:26Oh, Rob, I can do that.
22:29I've got a bicycle-faced look.
22:34Oh!
22:35Yeah, I can do that.
22:37Yeah, I can do that.
22:37Oh, go on, show that's done.
22:40Oh, yes!
22:42That's the effect.
22:46That's the effect there, now, what you did there.
22:48You see, it went up like that.
22:49It was the pressure, because the spin creates there,
22:52and the air pushes it up.
22:54I say I'm getting home tonight.
22:55Yeah.
22:56So, we'll show you another version of it,
22:58using those two cups stuck together.
23:02Excellent.
23:02Oh, you see, it jumps up like that, and then goes down.
23:05Oh, my nose was pretty good.
23:06There you are.
23:07Well done.
23:08So, now, how would this bird make an offer you couldn't refuse?
23:16Oh, yeah, that bird.
23:17He does your tax returns.
23:18LAUGHTER
23:21It's called a brown-headed cowbird.
23:23Right.
23:24Unimaginatively.
23:25It's got a brown head, and it's on a cow.
23:26I just don't want to know how it got the brown head.
23:29I don't want to think about how it got the brown head.
23:32Oh, stop it!
23:35That's as far as I can go!
23:37LAUGHTER
23:38Now, flap!
23:39Now, flap your wings!
23:40I can't!
23:43You haven't seen the cow's legs.
23:44They're blue.
23:46And we have to forget the cow in this instance,
23:48other than the fact that it's in its name.
23:49It is a parasitic bird, in a sense, a brood parasite.
23:54Do you know what a brood parasite might be?
23:55What's a brood?
23:56A family of parasites.
23:59If you're broody...
24:00You want to have more parasites.
24:03LAUGHTER
24:04The type of parasite it is is a brood parasite.
24:07Let's say it's parasitic in the way that it occupies a host's birthing place.
24:11Yes.
24:12Not womb, in this case,
24:13because they don't have wombs exactly, do they, birds?
24:15They have eggs.
24:15Oh, I thought it was in the cow.
24:16I thought it was, like, laying eggs.
24:16Oh, no, no.
24:17It's the bird.
24:17It's the bird that's the parasite.
24:19Oh, OK.
24:19It's a brood parasite.
24:20It lays its eggs in someone else's nest.
24:22I'd love if it was the cow that was the parasite.
24:24LAUGHTER
24:27Living off the bird.
24:28That would be such a flaw for a parasite
24:30to have to wait for the bird to land on you.
24:33LAUGHTER
24:34Running around getting underneath birds.
24:38Painted a H on your own back.
24:40LAUGHTER
24:43It's put a nest on your back.
24:45The vacant sign.
24:47LAUGHTER
24:48Yeah, it's a brood parasite.
24:50It lays its egg like that, as does, more famously, our...
24:53Cuckoo.
24:54Cuckoo, yes.
24:55Cuckoo's the great British brood parasite.
24:57That nest wasn't on the back of that cow, was it?
24:59No.
24:59I did say forget the cow, but I knew that that was not going to be a helpful remark.
25:02I couldn't forget the cow, Stephen.
25:03Yeah.
25:04Well, it's a question of why the bird's put up with it.
25:06Why does the one that lays the blue eggs, in this instance,
25:09allow that to happen?
25:10Why didn't it just get rid of the egg?
25:12Is it?
25:12The answer is it does once.
25:15If it tries it, the bird that's laid that egg will come back
25:18and absolutely destroy the nest and everything in it.
25:22Wow.
25:23And the mother bird learns this,
25:25and next time it builds...
25:27laboriously builds a new nest,
25:30laboriously lays her own eggs.
25:31Next time a brown-headed cowbird comes along to lay the egg,
25:35they go,
25:35yep, you can have it, I'll look after it, it's no problem.
25:37It's basically a protection racket.
25:39They're gangster birds.
25:40Hence the phrase,
25:41make you an offer you can't refuse.
25:42Oh.
25:43But it works.
25:44So which one...
25:45Was it the one with the blue eggs or the other one?
25:46The blue eggs is like the nice guy
25:48who runs the Italian delicately...
25:50Exactly.
25:50...for his family all these years,
25:52and then the other egg is the guy who comes round going,
25:54you're going to look after my egg.
25:55Otherwise I'm going to...
25:57Or you'll find a job for my boy.
25:58Yeah.
25:59You'll find them a job.
25:59You see this egg?
26:00You know what I'm going to do to this egg?
26:02If you go look after the other egg,
26:05and then he smacks and then he throws it out.
26:07Eventually,
26:07because it's evolution,
26:08they'll start spraying their own blue egg,
26:10that brown colour.
26:12Hey,
26:13someone's already done me, leave it.
26:15You're right.
26:16That's quite likely.
26:16Why haven't they evolved just to lay enough eggs
26:18so there's no gap?
26:21LAUGHTER
26:23LAUGHTER
26:23That's quite good.
26:26APPLAUSE
26:26Good point.
26:29You'd think they would, wouldn't you?
26:31Stop leaving a gap!
26:33Anyway,
26:34that's brown-headed cowbirds.
26:35Now,
26:36what starts with M
26:38and nearly destroyed the world
26:40470 million years ago?
26:43Magneto.
26:45LAUGHTER
26:46You try...
26:47I can feel us being led
26:49by this image.
26:51Yes.
26:52In a direction...
26:52You're right.
26:53I'm going to warn you.
26:53I'm in a good mood.
26:54Do not say meteor or meteorite.
26:56Don't say either of those.
26:57Looks like the logo for MasterChef.
27:00LAUGHTER
27:00Which is branding a pterodactyl.
27:03LAUGHTER
27:03A mirthquake.
27:05A mirthquake.
27:06LAUGHTER
27:07That's what we hope happens here every week.
27:10Is it mitochondria?
27:12Is it something like bacterial that...
27:13Well, it's a life form.
27:14You're absolutely right.
27:15It's a life form that destroyed all other life forms,
27:18virtually, on Earth.
27:19It was the Autovician-Silurian extinction event.
27:22But it begins with M, this particular life form.
27:25It got rid of all the oxygen.
27:26Mouse.
27:27Sorry?
27:27Mouse.
27:28It wasn't a mouse.
27:29You've got the right consonants.
27:31LAUGHTER
27:31Consonants?
27:32Right.
27:33M, m, m, m...
27:35M and a sir.
27:36M and a sir.
27:37M and a sir.
27:37It's wonderful how he's coming on, isn't it?
27:40LAUGHTER
27:44It's moss.
27:45Moss?
27:46Moss, yes.
27:47Moss is the answer.
27:48Oh, how boring.
27:49Yeah, hard to believe, moss.
27:50It was like a phage.
27:51It ate away at rocks.
27:53Right.
27:53Altering them chemically.
27:54There's an iceberg like your clitoris.
27:57You're nodding!
27:59You've just joined the show.
28:02LAUGHTER
28:02I can usually predict almost everything that's going to be said on the show, but...
28:07LAUGHTER
28:07There's an iceberg like your clitoris is a new one.
28:10LAUGHTER
28:10That's exactly what I was talking about.
28:12Don't just...
28:13Don't just work with what you see.
28:15No, yeah.
28:15You've got to work with more underneath it.
28:16You've got moss on it, is there?
28:17Yes, mate.
28:18Keep the moss on.
28:19What's wrong with you?
28:19You don't want to love a child.
28:21LAUGHTER
28:23Wear your moss and be proud, ladies.
28:25Yeah, right.
28:26Interestingly, you only get moss on the north side of a lady.
28:30LAUGHTER
28:32That seems fair.
28:34Oh, Lord.
28:35Depends how long she's been at the bus stop.
28:38LAUGHTER
28:39There's...there's types of moss that destroy other types of moss,
28:42but it takes, like, sort of, you know, hundreds of years.
28:44But if you were to watch it,
28:46you would see what is essentially a horrible war.
28:48There's moss that destroys itself, like cape moss.
28:51LAUGHTER
28:53No.
28:54Still.
28:55Yeah.
28:58Erm...
28:58This moss used to eat the rocks
29:00and it would create a chemical reaction with phosphorus
29:02which reacted with CO2, sucked it from the atmosphere.
29:04So it was a whole series of these reactions.
29:07And that used up almost all the oxygen,
29:09destroying life forms everywhere.
29:11It took about 35 million years for this process to work.
29:14And it was 470 million years ago.
29:18We should keep an eye on moss now.
29:19I think we should.
29:20Yeah.
29:21In case it ever gets an idea again to take over.
29:22I've always had my suspicions about moss.
29:24Have you?
29:28Bitching about litching.
29:30LAUGHTER
29:32Erm...
29:33APPLAUSE
29:34So there's the nasty moss that destroyed everything
29:37a long, long time ago.
29:38But there's...
29:39How many species do you think of moss?
29:41Two and two.
29:42Two, right.
29:43OK.
29:43It's like thousands.
29:45I'm going to give you the points.
29:46It's 14,000.
29:47And the rarest form of moss in the world...
29:51Extremely rare.
29:52And it's in Britain.
29:53It's in Derbyshire.
29:54And it's feather moss.
29:56And it's so rare, Derbyshire feather moss,
29:58that there's only a single yard of it
30:00in a stretch of river in the Peak District.
30:03What, there's one yard of that?
30:05Yeah.
30:05In the world?
30:06In the whole world.
30:07There's one yard of that horse?
30:08Yeah.
30:09And its location is secret.
30:10Have they at least put a little fence around it?
30:12LAUGHTER
30:13Well, the location is secret.
30:14How well guarded it is.
30:15I don't know if somebody crosses the river and accidentally stands there.
30:17Oh, they don't want to leave that to chance.
30:18They should put one of the little yellow things they have in the supermarket.
30:21LAUGHTER
30:22What do you mean?
30:24What if somebody stands on that?
30:25I know.
30:26It's amazing, isn't it?
30:27Absolutely incredible.
30:28There you are.
30:28Good old Derbyshire.
30:29Now, from moss to moths.
30:31Yes.
30:32Why would you want to blow up a moth's penis?
30:36LAUGHTER
30:36The question should be, why wouldn't you?
30:39You run out of balloons at a kids' children's party.
30:41LAUGHTER
30:42Blow it up, like destroy it, or...
30:45Blow it up in...
30:46Like with a flot on.
30:46Inflated, yeah.
30:48Using...
30:48Flotation device.
30:49It takes a certain kind of person to invent something
30:53to increase the size of a moth's penis.
30:55Yes, it does.
30:56It certainly does.
30:57It takes an Australian.
30:59LAUGHTER
30:59And it takes a device that they've invented called...
31:03Oh, look at your lips around that fella.
31:05LAUGHTER
31:06And it's called...
31:07We're going to have to float downstream or we'll die.
31:10LAUGHTER
31:11And it's called the Falloblaster.
31:14LAUGHTER
31:14And the Falloblaster is what...
31:17pumps up the penis of a moth.
31:20Come here, little fella.
31:21I'm just going to increase the size of your penis.
31:24LAUGHTER
31:24Shouldn't hurt.
31:25Did we answer the why...
31:27Why would you?
31:28Yeah, why, yeah, why?
31:29That's the point.
31:29I love the idea that they blow up the penis and then let it go
31:32and it goes...
31:33LAUGHTER
31:39There are a lot of species of insect that are impossible to determine
31:43the actual species except by an inspection of the genitalia.
31:47Right.
31:47Oh, really?
31:48Yeah.
31:50It's the only way I could find out if it was a man.
31:53So I blew it and now I know.
31:55LAUGHTER
31:55They used to be it.
31:58But otherwise I wasn't sure.
31:59Leave me alone, Mary.
32:01LAUGHTER
32:03I thought moths were just butterflies in the 70s.
32:06LAUGHTER
32:11So, forward, the Falloblaster uses a stream of pressurised alcohol
32:16to fill and inflate the insect's penis.
32:19LAUGHTER
32:19And if anyone knows about pressurised alcohol,
32:22it's an Australian...
32:24LAUGHTER
32:24LAUGHTER
32:24I don't think that's...
32:26Two streams of pressurised alcohol, please.
32:29LAUGHTER
32:29That's not a scientific experiment.
32:31That's an Australian stag do.
32:32It basically is.
32:33LAUGHTER
32:33When the alcohol evaporates, you see, it hardens the tissue.
32:36Yeah.
32:36And then you're left with one much larger hardened organ that...
32:41This is the sort of thing you should put in a kit for a teenager.
32:45LAUGHTER
32:45How do they do this?
32:46Because the thing is...
32:48Have we come onto the wire yet?
32:49LAUGHTER
32:50Do they hold the moth and then do it?
32:52Because, you know, when you hold moths, the gold stuff comes...
32:54comes off their wings and they can't fly any more
32:56and they have to walk home.
32:57LAUGHTER
32:59It explains why they're always trying to get to the moon, no?
33:01Yeah.
33:02Yeah.
33:02I'd be open to you as well.
33:03They've been told there's...
33:05spit our penises.
33:06I've had enough of this.
33:07I'm off.
33:09So...
33:09When you said I moth, it sounded like I...
33:12Moth.
33:13LAUGHTER
33:14Like a very thoughtful moth.
33:16Yeah, it said I moth.
33:18I moth.
33:18Do take the other moth.
33:20LAUGHTER
33:21I thought he was just talking Welsh.
33:22I moth.
33:23I moth.
33:24I moth.
33:24Well, it's Cowan Lush either way.
33:27LAUGHTER
33:27So, erm...
33:29I didn't see I speak well.
33:30LAUGHTER
33:31Now, this man invented toilet vinegar.
33:34What other bright ideas did he have?
33:37Waterproof fish and chips.
33:38LAUGHTER
33:40LAUGHTER
33:42The triple beard.
33:44Yes.
33:45LAUGHTER
33:47LAUGHTER
33:48LAUGHTER
33:48Is it Thomas Edison?
33:51It's not Thomas Edison.
33:52The light bulb.
33:53No.
33:53Bright idea, you see?
33:54No, you're right.
33:55Very clever.
33:56That was brilliant.
33:57Is it Jack Torch, inventor of the torch?
34:00LAUGHTER
34:01Is toilet vinegar science to do with cleaning?
34:03It's toilet vinegar in the sense of toilet water.
34:06Toilet water.
34:06It would be.
34:06But, in fact, it would work for cleaning.
34:08But, if I told you his name, you might guess what he invented.
34:11Which is in a related field.
34:13His name was Rimmel.
34:15Oh, did he invent...
34:16Oh, make-up.
34:16A particular kind?
34:17The lipstick?
34:18Not the lipstick, no.
34:20The blusher?
34:20Not the blusher.
34:21Mascara?
34:22Yes.
34:22Oh.
34:23Absolutely right.
34:24Mascara.
34:25Weren't things going off, then?
34:26If I'd said things, it would all have gone off.
34:29LAUGHTER
34:31Finally, you've worked out the pattern of everything.
34:34If you start guessing things, it goes off until it works.
34:40It's just that she's a girl.
34:42Oh, no.
34:43No, no.
34:44She's a girl who knew the right answer.
34:48LAUGHTER
34:48I can't believe it.
34:50There's an urban myth that mascara contains...
34:52Have you ever heard of it?
34:53Dogs.
34:55It's made of dogs.
34:56The French don't care, you know what they like, they're cruel.
34:58LAUGHTER
34:58No, some people think it's made of bat guano.
35:01Oh, my goodness.
35:03But it's because it has guanine in it, and guanine is made from fish.
35:07Robyn, take that and make some mascara.
35:10LAUGHTER
35:10It looks like...
35:12LAUGHTER
35:13Sleeve.
35:15You're trying...
35:16Is bat guano poisonous?
35:18Batman chip.
35:19LAUGHTER
35:21He was very much a perfumey sort of person.
35:23In clays in the Victorian era, as the curtain went up,
35:27there'd be a waft of perfume for each scene, different perfume,
35:29and he would be credited in the programme for perfume by Rimmel.
35:34But talking of inventors, you mentioned Edison,
35:36but actually John Logie Baird, who's best known for...
35:40Television.
35:40Television.
35:41His first invention...
35:42You can guess what it might have been.
35:43The chair.
35:43He didn't invent the chair.
35:45The chair did exist before him.
35:47The chair first, and then the television.
35:48LAUGHTER
35:50It's a perfect suite of inventions.
35:52The remote control.
35:53Not the television.
35:54TV listings.
35:55The TV listings.
35:56No.
35:58Anger.
35:58Jeremy Kyle.
35:59The invented Jeremy Kyle.
36:01Television first, and then anger.
36:03It's all shit!
36:05It was actually nothing to do with television.
36:07Toaster.
36:08No, it was...
36:09It's the hairdryer.
36:09It was a pair of socks...
36:11A pair of socks?
36:12...that went over the socks he already wore.
36:15I mean under, sorry.
36:16Extra socks.
36:17So you've got your socks, and then under them you've got these socks
36:19that are impregnated with borax to keep them dry.
36:23Right.
36:24So that the borax absorbs the moisture.
36:26So why did they go and draw over the other socks?
36:28Why didn't you just have those socks?
36:30LAUGHTER
36:31Why would they love socks that keep your feet dry?
36:35Because they're a very damp environment.
36:37Where did you have damp feet as a bad thing?
36:39In the river.
36:41LAUGHTER
36:43So you can get...
36:44In the trenches.
36:45In the trenches.
36:46In the trenches.
36:46In the trenches.
36:47It was for soldiers at the front.
36:48It was the one thing that kept morale high.
36:50Exactly.
36:51While their friends were being gassed and blown to pieces,
36:54they turned to me and said,
36:55mind you, my feet are dry.
36:58It's just borax, I've heard.
37:00It's wonderful.
37:01I haven't eaten for a week and Freddie's bought it,
37:03but my feet feel marble.
37:05LAUGHTER
37:05I love the officers.
37:07It's quite a leap to go from socks to television.
37:09It is, isn't it?
37:10That's why we thought it was interesting.
37:12And now it's time for us to leave the maelstrom of Miscellany
37:14and move into the murky waters of general ignorance.
37:16Fingers on mushroomoids.
37:18Ah.
37:19Who invented the motorway?
37:21Oh.
37:23Oh.
37:23Oh, my God.
37:24Oh, Mr Way.
37:25Oh.
37:26Oh.
37:27Oh.
37:28Is it someone like Diddy David Hamilton?
37:31It's someone well known.
37:32LAUGHTER
37:32Really was.
37:34Drawn out weirdly.
37:35From where?
37:36Which bottom drawer of the mind did he arrive?
37:39LAUGHTER
37:40I'm talking about which country.
37:41Oh.
37:42Which country first had a motorway?
37:43Germany.
37:44Germany.
37:45Not Germany.
37:46Almost.
37:48A lot of people might have thought it was Germany
37:50because the Nazis were famous for the autobahn.
37:52Yeah.
37:52Is it us, then?
37:53Is it the M1?
37:54It was actually America, the first one.
37:55It was called the Long Island Motor Parkway.
37:58Oh.
37:59And it was opened in 1908.
38:02They want to invent the thingy barrier quite quickly as well.
38:05Look at that.
38:06LAUGHTER
38:07No cat's eyes there.
38:09Originally, they used to bury the cat up to its neck.
38:12LAUGHTER
38:12It was.
38:13The first cat's eyes.
38:15The Victorians, when the ladies were going,
38:18Aaaaah!
38:19The cats were buried in the ground and the men were furious.
38:22Then they'd dig them up two years later and dance around with them.
38:24LAUGHTER
38:26It was.
38:27It's all knitting and fusing together.
38:29It was greeted on its opening with the headline,
38:31First of the motorways is open.
38:33So, I think it definitely counts.
38:34The first motorway in Europe wasn't German either.
38:36It was a toll road between Milan and the northern Italian lakes.
38:41It was built in 1924.
38:42It was pretty basic, though.
38:44Looks like a river.
38:45Yes.
38:47What is the definition of a motorway, then?
38:49Motor traffic only.
38:51It's got a welcome break.
38:52Yeah, it's got a welcome break.
38:54Ah, is that what it is, motor traffic only?
38:56Maybe, is that...
38:57Yeah.
38:57Is that the key, then?
38:58Yeah, no horses, no bicycles.
39:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:01The Nazis weren't even responsible for the first German motorway,
39:04in fact, which was built in 1932.
39:05What did the Nazis ever do for us?
39:08The motorway was invented in America or Italy, but not Nazi Germany.
39:12After you die, what's the last bit of your body to stop beating?
39:17The internal section of the cliff.
39:21LAUGHTER
39:22You see, the foot...
39:26APPLAUSE
39:28It's not like the foot, Alan, in mountaineering circles.
39:31The foothills and the cliffs.
39:32Oh, is it the shadow?
39:34Excuse me.
39:35LAUGHTER
39:39Officially weird.
39:41LAUGHTER
39:45APPLAUSE
39:45I think those iron filings have had any effect on it.
39:49Just imagine if you were lying in the coffin
39:51and your shadow was going,
39:52great, what am I going to do now?
39:54LAUGHTER
39:55Could be someone else's shadow.
39:57Do you know about the little pulsing, beating hairs we have in our body?
40:00Oh, in your digestive system?
40:02They're tiny. We have them all over the body.
40:03In the nose, not the nostril hairs, they're big, but they're tiny, tiny little...
40:08Like moss.
40:09LAUGHTER
40:10They're called cilia.
40:12What, the little hairs in your nose?
40:14No, not the visible one.
40:15I was going to say, I feel really guilty.
40:17I machined my nose this morning.
40:18LAUGHTER
40:18Hello, everyone.
40:19Hello, everyone.
40:20Hello, everyone.
40:20They collect mucus.
40:21Microscopic little bulrushes there.
40:23And they beat in waves to pass things backwards and forwards.
40:26You can test if you put saccharin in your nose.
40:29Yeah.
40:30I know that sounds suspicious.
40:32Are you trying to get us into trouble?
40:33No, officer, I'm trying something.
40:35LAUGHTER
40:36It's a QI thing.
40:38Oh, no, no, no, no.
40:39You put the A4 in...
40:40Saccharin!
40:41LAUGHTER
40:41Just dab saccharin on your nostrils.
40:44Right.
40:44And wait.
40:45Don't push it up or sniffle up or anything like that.
40:48Just wait until you can taste it in the back of the throat.
40:50Right.
40:51And that's the action of the cilia pulling it up.
40:53Like tiny elves passing to each other.
40:55LAUGHTER
40:55So, yeah, they studied 100 cadaver scientists
40:58and found not only did the cilia keep moving for up to 20 hours,
41:01but the beat of them slowed down at a consistent pace,
41:05regardless of external factors like temperature and so on.
41:07That is so sad.
41:08So, um, it could help forensic investigators, though,
41:10work out on the time of death.
41:11They kept trying to keep...
41:12Yeah, they kept trying to keep...
41:13Come on, now, just keep going, you might come back.
41:14Why are they...
41:14Why are they doing it, then?
41:15Why would they continue doing it?
41:16Because they weren't ready to let it go.
41:18LAUGHTER
41:25And they've helped propel sperm and waft eggs through the oviduct.
41:30That's...that's one for you.
41:31LAUGHTER
41:33I have ovaries.
41:35Just in case anyone who watched the programme didn't know
41:37that I had a clitoris, ovaries and a vulva,
41:40we've discussed mine this evening.
41:42Shall I get my rainbow out?
41:44Yes, please.
41:46You're, er...
41:47I've got a ferris wheel on my cot, so don't worry to me.
41:50We're both having a good time. Everyone relax.
41:52I wafted my eggs over to your ferris wheel.
41:54Yeah.
41:54Ooh-ooh!
41:56I would say, er, your matrimonial necessities
41:59have had a damn good airing.
42:01LAUGHTER
42:02They didn't need it.
42:03They definitely didn't need it.
42:04Well, that brings me to the matter of the scores
42:07and how fascinating they are.
42:09Oh, actually, really fantastic,
42:11because way out in the lead with a magnificent plus-eight
42:15is Cariad Lloyd!
42:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
42:21In a superb second-placed in plus-4,
42:25Noel Fielding!
42:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
42:30And no disgrace to me on minus-7,
42:33Rod Gilbert!
42:34CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
42:37And pretty good for him...
42:39..minus-29, Alan Davies!
42:42CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
42:48Well, that's all from Cariad, Rod, Noel, Alan and me,
42:51and I leave you with this quote about mystery
42:53from Sir Arthur Eddington, the great physicist.
42:56Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
43:00Good night.
43:01LAUGHTER
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