QI XL S22E01 - Voyaging
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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour
00:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:34Good evening, and welcome to QI,
00:37where tonight we'll be voyaging around the world.
00:41Let's meet our valiant venturers.
00:43Full steam ahead to her vacation venue, it's Lou Sanders.
00:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:51Setting sail on the vast ocean, it's Nabeel Abdul-Rashid.
00:55CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:59Riding the waves at great velocity, it's Joe Lycett.
01:02CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:06And he has itchy feet, but that might be the Verrucas.
01:09It's Alan Davis.
01:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:17Right, let's hear their songs of the sea.
01:19Lou goes...
01:25Nabeel goes...
01:27MUSIC PLAYS
01:31Joe goes...
01:37And poor Alan has missed the boat completely, so he goes...
01:48Now, for our first stop, here's an easy one.
01:51Where is this sign?
01:54Ah, Johnny Vegas's house.
01:58I'm going to give you a point for that. Where is it?
02:01It's in Las Vegas, obviously.
02:06OK, the three of you noted, right?
02:09Yes, he took one for the team.
02:11Yes. Yeah, what?
02:13My Nigerian senses are tingling.
02:15Oh.
02:17I would say that is outside Las Vegas.
02:23Is it because he said Las Vegas and it was wrong, and therefore...
02:26No, no, no, no, no, no.
02:29All I'm saying is, where do you have the welcome mat?
02:32Oh.
02:34Right next to me in the bed.
02:40That's so sweet of you, Wish.
02:42Wipe your feet.
02:47Has anybody been to Vegas? I've been to Vegas.
02:50And what's the bit that we all think of as Vegas?
02:52It's called the... The Strip. It's called the Strip.
02:54So it isn't in the city of Las Vegas.
02:57What? No, it's mostly outside the...
03:00He was right, then. Yes.
03:02My team-mate.
03:06It's mostly outside the city boundaries
03:08and it's in townships of Paradise and Winchester,
03:11which you can see on the maps there.
03:13So the early casinos were backed with mob money.
03:15That is the fact of it. And they were built...
03:17Allegedly. No, really.
03:20And so they were built just outside the city to avoid tax.
03:24And so the city of Las Vegas, they thought,
03:26what we'll do is we'll annex the Strip in 1950,
03:29but this was blocked by persuading county officials
03:32to create two new towns, Winchester and Paradise,
03:35and a city can't annex an official township,
03:38and so forever the Las Vegas taxman
03:41could not get to the money from the Strip.
03:43The photo that we had was taken in Paradise.
03:45I went to Las Vegas to make a documentary about Houdini.
03:48Oh, right.
03:49We went to a Japanese restaurant and a hotel, really nice.
03:52And they had all these chefs doing some of their preparation,
03:55weren't they? The chefing. In view.
03:57And I was eating my food and one of them got a lobster out
04:00and it was going like this.
04:02And he put it on its back and it was going like this.
04:05And then he went... No!
04:07Cut it in half and it fell like that
04:10and then it was just going like this.
04:12I mean, it's not a good story.
04:16Not for the lobster.
04:20There was a guy called Archie Karras who's famous in...
04:23Why do you think he might be famous?
04:25He's cleared the room. He's famous for body odour.
04:28He arrived with $50 in 1992.
04:31He came from Greece, he went to work in a restaurant,
04:34he learnt to play pool and gradually he was making more money
04:37playing pool and then he learnt to play cards.
04:39And over the next two and a half years, he made $40 million.
04:44I mean, it's extraordinary.
04:46It's known in gambling circles as The Run
04:48and it's the Guinness World Record's largest winning streak ever.
04:52He's worth $40 million? No longer.
04:55They always lose it. They always lose it. Yeah.
04:58He lost $30 million in three weeks in 1995
05:02and the remaining $10 million shortly afterwards.
05:05The thing is, it stayed alive even when it was cut in half.
05:16That's so weird.
05:18He still lives in Las Vegas but he is now banned from playing
05:21in all casinos. He's been banned since 2015
05:23because he was caught marking cards, which apparently is...
05:26Do they think he might have cheated to get it in the first place?
05:29Well, we don't know, do we?
05:32$40 million arriving with $50, that's pretty impressive.
05:35And then losing it all.
05:37That just sounds like the sort of thing Nigerian dads say to their kids,
05:40I came to this country. Yeah.
05:44I had nothing and now I'm a stand-up.
05:49I've still got nothing.
05:52There was a Londoner called Ashley Revel and in 2004,
05:55he sold his house, all his belongings, took the proceeds,
05:58so he'd got £76,840 and he took it to Vegas
06:01and he put the entire lot on red.
06:04There's a video of it. It's sort of terrifying.
06:06And it goes round and round and round and the ball landed on red seven.
06:09He doubled his money. He doubled his money to £153,780.
06:12And again, a terrible outfit.
06:14What are all these people spending their money on?
06:17He looks like he'd go past a girl and go,
06:19Ladies?
06:21The thing I like, I like the slot machines.
06:23There was a guy called Elmer Sherwin, this is unbelievable,
06:26so the odds of winning the megabucks jackpot are like one in 50 million
06:30and he won it twice.
06:33In 1989, he was 76 years old, he borrowed $20 from his ex-wife
06:38and he put it in the slot machine and he won $4.6 million.
06:42Did he give her her 20 back? No.
06:46I think the clue was when I said his ex-wife.
06:5016 years later, he won again and this time, his own money.
06:54This time, he won $21.1 million and he was 92 years old.
07:01Married the next day.
07:04And do you know what stopped him from winning a third time?
07:07Death.
07:09Tandy, I feel like I've won the lottery being here with you tonight.
07:16Wow, that's so creepy, I'm going to give the other three points.
07:20APPLAUSE
07:24Anybody else? A little bit of it, a little bit of...
07:27Anyway, if you go to Vegas, then you might lose your shirt,
07:31but why might Victoria's creamy white buttocks
07:35make you lose your shorts?
07:38What are the exact words you just said?
07:42Why might Victoria's creamy white buttocks
07:46make you lose your shorts?
07:48Just a bit slower.
07:54Looking to go viral tonight, Zambia.
07:57So, let's work out which Victoria I'm talking about.
07:59Queen Victoria.
08:01So, it's named after Queen Victoria.
08:03Victoria Falls. Yes, absolutely, the Victoria Falls.
08:06Where are we on the border between...? Zambia.
08:08And...? Germany.
08:12Is Zambia in Zimbabwe? Zambia in Zimbabwe, indeed it is.
08:15So, it's midway along the course of the Zambezi River
08:18and below the falls, there are a series of rapids,
08:21and this is one of the premier whitewater rafting destinations
08:24in the world, and I love the names.
08:26So, we start with Morning Glory, and who, you know...?
08:29Who doesn't? Yeah, who doesn't start?
08:31I mean, me, doesn't.
08:32Then we move on. Look, Stairway To Heaven,
08:34The Devil's Toilet Bowl,
08:36Commercial Suicide,
08:38The Overland Truck Eater,
08:40also known as Creamy White Buttocks.
08:45I'm also known as The Overland Truck Eater.
08:52So, people would go, like, bungee jumping at certain parts,
08:56and Morning Glory and Stairway To Heaven are safe,
08:59but The Devil's Toilet Bowl, believe it or not,
09:02is quite dangerous,
09:04and apparently some tourist hurt himself really badly.
09:08The Zambian Minister of Tourism decided to prove that it was safe,
09:13so he went bungee jumping, and he came out fine.
09:18Great.
09:19But I just thought, that's amazing that the politicians there would do that.
09:22Yeah.
09:23I was like, could you imagine, like, I don't know,
09:25someone getting Boris Johnson to get a night bus in Peckham or Croydon?
09:29LAUGHTER
09:31APPLAUSE
09:37As you can see, the South London Man Dem are bear-friendly.
09:42LAUGHTER
09:45Have you got my kidney, then?
09:47You know, that's an impersonation I thought I'd never see.
09:50LAUGHTER
09:52Absolute genius, I love that.
09:54It's neither the widest nor the highest waterfall.
09:56Anybody know where the highest waterfall is in the world?
09:59Is it Alton Towers?
10:01No, it's in Venezuela's Angel Falls.
10:03Yeah, I did know that, actually.
10:06Keeping it to yourself.
10:08I didn't want to come across as too threatening intellectually,
10:11so I kept that to myself.
10:12I mean, it's totally working.
10:14LAUGHTER
10:16One day, when you do the big reveal, it's going to be amazing.
10:19Oh, people won't believe it.
10:21I really want to, like, pour some shampoo off it as well.
10:25See what happens.
10:27Oh, did you know that bit in Manchester where they put the fountain?
10:30Yeah. Can you imagine? Bit of matey in there. Lovely.
10:34People just kept going and putting bubble bath in.
10:37Every weekend.
10:39I mean, the council were furious.
10:41But what can you say to people?
10:43It's not really a crime, is it? Soap.
10:48I love that. It was really bubbly.
10:52There's a golf course near Victoria Falls which I've actually played,
10:55it's called Elephant Hills, and what's extraordinary about it,
10:58you can come across warthog and impala, there's a warthog there.
11:01Crocodiles, even elephants on the fairways.
11:03The best thing is that they have special rules for it, right?
11:05So, if you're bald... Does it know the rules?
11:07LAUGHTER
11:16If you hit the warthog with your golf ball,
11:19you are allowed to continue, but there is a penalty of one shot.
11:25Hold on.
11:28I just hit that thing... Yeah.
11:31..with a shot with a golf ball. Yeah.
11:33And you expect my biggest worry to be a penalty?
11:36I mean, it's clear to me you don't play golf,
11:38because that would be your biggest worry, yes.
11:40Actually, well, I used to, my dad forced me.
11:45He said it would make me a gentleman.
11:49There are eight water hazards on the golf course,
11:52it is not recommended that you take your ball out of any of them.
11:55Crocodiles. Oh!
11:59Golf is famously boring, so it does spice it up a little bit.
12:03I've been chased by a crocodile. Have you? Have you?
12:06Yeah. Was that in Croydon?
12:10Close. I grew up in northern Nigeria,
12:13and my city is named Kaduna.
12:15Now, kada in the Hausa language means crocodile.
12:17Kaduna means bear crocodiles.
12:20There was a restaurant called the Jacaranda,
12:22which, again, jacaré in Portuguese means a crocodile.
12:25And you could go, you could have a meal,
12:27and there was, like, a little fence,
12:29and there were crocodiles just by the riverbed,
12:31and I looked at them, and as a kid,
12:34I was eight, nine, I was legally stupid.
12:40I thought they looked like they were smiling.
12:43And they looked slow, so I jumped over the fence.
12:47I took one step, it didn't do anything.
12:50I took two, it was fine.
12:52I took three, it said, that boy looks juicy.
12:57And I found out that big guys can move fast.
13:00So, yeah, I got chased, but them things are fast.
13:02But the good thing is, they can't take corners.
13:04So...
13:13I love this, they can't take corners.
13:16If you're running from a crocodile,
13:18do not run in a straight line.
13:19Run, like, take, run, and then take quick corners.
13:22They get confused.
13:24Oh, my God, I just know what's going to happen,
13:26is a crocodile will be after me, and I'll be thinking,
13:28maybe he'll tell me something.
13:31Yeah, I've been kissed by a lot of animals.
13:33Yeah.
13:34Maybe it's you.
13:39That is...
13:40That is idiot-blaming, and I will not have it.
13:46There is a place at Victoria Falls
13:48where the erosion has caused a sort of rock pool,
13:51it's called the Devil's Pool, and you can, if you go there,
13:54sit, like these people, on the very edge of the falls.
13:57Oh.
13:58The guide says there's no reason non-swimmers shouldn't do this,
14:01it's only waist-deep, it says.
14:03I can think of some reasons why a non-swimmer...
14:05Yeah, I think not being able to swim would be the least of your worries.
14:08Yeah.
14:09If you don't sort of look at the waterfall,
14:11it just sort of feels like Wales, doesn't it, really?
14:16They've got a wave machine in Bristol,
14:18so you don't really need to do that sort of stuff.
14:22Thanks. Thank you.
14:24The nearby rainforest is the only place in the world
14:26where you need an umbrella every single day,
14:28because the spray from the waterfall is so intense,
14:31it comes down as constant rain. Wow.
14:33Anyway, what's a really petty way to vex the French?
14:38Ah, they don't like when you do an impression of them and go...
14:45That's very like your Donald Duck.
14:48What is it to do with English wine or British wine?
14:51So, during the Second World War, the Americans had a naval base
14:54in Vanuatu, which is a group of 83 islands in Melanesia in the South Pacific.
14:58And at the time, it was jointly colonised by France and Britain, OK?
15:02And after the war, the Americans didn't have enough transport ships
15:05to bring back... You imagine, naval base, lots and lots of stuff.
15:08They didn't have enough ships to bring back all of this equipment,
15:11the furniture and thousands of bottles of Coca-Cola.
15:14So they said to France,
15:15we'll sell it to you, sell it to you, you can have it for six cents on the dollar.
15:18Unbelievably cheap.
15:19And the French thought, you know what, we're not going to pay,
15:21because they'll just have to leave it behind.
15:23We're not even going to give them six cents on the dollar.
15:25So the Americans decided, fine.
15:27They took every single item and dumped it in the sea.
15:30Anything that could not be carried away
15:33was pushed by bulldozer into the sea
15:36and the bulldozers were then driven into the sea...
15:39Wow. ..with rocks on the accelerators.
15:42No wonder the crocodiles are so fast.
15:45To the area? To get out of the sea, be driven...
15:47LAUGHTER
15:51High on caffeine from the Coca-Cola.
15:53Yeah, coked out their minds.
15:55It's now called Million Dollar Point
15:57and it's incredibly popular with scuba divers
15:59and if you go down there, you can still find
16:01bottles of Coca-Cola and all kinds of American kit.
16:04They just thought, fine, you're not paying for it,
16:06you're not having it either.
16:08The story that I like best about Manuatu,
16:10so they gained independence in 1980 and before that
16:12jointly shared between France and Britain
16:14and so there was a sort of hybrid of French and British rules
16:17but any new residents had a month to decide
16:20whether they wanted to come under British law
16:22or under French law.
16:24So there was one British judge and there was one French judge
16:27and the whole thing was overseen by a Belgian.
16:30But the thing about it is that because people were following
16:33different laws, until the 1920s,
16:35the British drove on the left-hand side.
16:38Yeah, and the French on the right.
16:41So this was fine when there were very few cars
16:44but after a while they thought, do you know what,
16:46we should pick a side.
16:47So they decided the very next vehicle that would arrive...
16:49Middle of the road.
16:51..could dictate which side it was.
16:53Anyway, it was a buggy ordered by a priest from the French territory
16:56and from then on, the entire country drove on the right.
16:59But here is one that Nabil will get.
17:01What sport originated in Manuatu?
17:04Look, no, no Crocodile Wrestling.
17:06No, not Crocodile Wrestling,
17:08but it is something you have talked about.
17:10Golf.
17:11Bungee jumping. Bungee jumping?
17:13They invented bungee jumping.
17:15Look at that.
17:16Wow, it doesn't look safe.
17:18I'm sure they had their reason.
17:20It's the Pentecost Island in Manuatu.
17:23It's known in English as land diving.
17:26So here's the legend.
17:27A woman was trying to escape from her husband
17:29and she ran into the forest.
17:31She climbed up a tree and he kept following.
17:33So she tied some vines around her ankles and she leapt to the ground
17:37and he did exactly the same,
17:39apart from the bit where he tied vines to his ankle.
17:43Yeah.
17:44And the women of the island took up this land diving
17:47out of respect for the wife and eventually it became a sport.
17:50But then the men decided that they didn't like women
17:52throwing themselves out of trees, so they stopped the women doing it
17:55and they started doing it.
17:56Sort of chivalrous.
17:57Has anyone done it? I've never done it.
17:59I did it because I'm a bit of a thrill seeker.
18:01Did you really?
18:03Yeah, in New Zealand.
18:04Why? Because I love to live, you know.
18:06It's nice to feel alive.
18:08And also, I was 23.
18:10Wow. So I wouldn't do it now.
18:12Anyway, it's now a rite of passage for boys.
18:14It's associated with a good yam harvest.
18:16It's over here because David Attenborough did a documentary in 1960
18:20and he showed it and the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club
18:23thought, we'll have a bit of that.
18:25So Attenborough brought it here.
18:26It's Attenborough's fault.
18:28Yeah.
18:29That's a good title for a new series.
18:31Yes.
18:32Attenborough's fault.
18:33Fault, yeah.
18:35Right.
18:36How many clowns can fit in two vans?
18:38Shoe.
18:39Well...
18:40One clown.
18:41Yes.
18:42What?
18:45Is the correct answer.
18:55I'm still confused.
18:56So what was it?
18:57One clown, because the vans...
18:59Shoes.
19:00Yeah.
19:01You know who used to wear vans all the time?
19:04Oh, no.
19:05The mum's favourite.
19:07And there was a shop that David Renwick put in,
19:10Jonathan Creek's washing machine,
19:12and in it were just about ten vans going round.
19:16What's the association with clowns is the question.
19:18The Vans Company made clown shoes for them.
19:20Oh, my God, you're on a roll, you're on a roll.
19:22Yes, they did, they made clown shoes.
19:24So in the 70s...
19:26They made clown shoes for 14 years in the...
19:28Did they? Yeah, in the 1970s and 80s.
19:30So the company is named after the Van Doren brothers,
19:33and they started a shoe company in California in 1966,
19:36and people could bring in any fabric they wanted
19:38and have a pair of shoes made.
19:40So you could bring in, I don't know, your old-school uniform
19:42or your mink coat, you could have that made into a pair of shoes.
19:44Wow.
19:45And they had a mascot called Squeaky the Clown,
19:47and they made their very first pair of clown shoes for him,
19:50and the word got round...
19:52..clown people.
19:54And soon they were selling...
19:56Communicate by...
20:01..clown car going, there's crocodiles, can't get to it.
20:07Yes, laugh at my drama.
20:13And each pair of the shoes had a pair of vans inside
20:16so that it was easier to walk in them,
20:18because actually... What?
20:20So what they would do is they would make a clown shoe,
20:22but inside they'd put a van shoe.
20:24Oh, I see. What size do you reckon it is?
20:26A shoe in a shoe. What size do I reckon it is?
20:28Why, do you think it might be your size?
20:30Probably.
20:31What, I've got big feet, what?
20:33Oh, my goodness.
20:34Yeah, they're real big, innit?
20:36Aren't they? Yeah.
20:43I mean, it's not normally the sort of thing I'm impressed by,
20:46but those are really...
20:48Three times I used to walk around, you know,
20:50snowy Canada and leave footprints just to...
20:53Show us your foot against the clown shoe, darling.
20:55Let's have a look.
20:58If anyone's got a foot fetish at home, yeah...
21:01Then this is the way to kill it.
21:03Whoa!
21:04Wow.
21:05Yes, that's...
21:07Hang on, just...
21:08Do that again, Nabil, sorry.
21:13There is a website called Wikifeet that, like,
21:16celebs' feet are on and you can get a score.
21:19Oh, do you?
21:20Because I've got 4.6 on Wikifeet.
21:24And I might beat it up a bit.
21:25So, what's out of ten? 4.6?
21:27No, it's out of five, babe.
21:28Whoa, OK.
21:29Joe?
21:30Yeah.
21:31I mean, I've no idea what my rating is.
21:33What's the criteria?
21:34Just, like, perverts rating your feet, I suppose.
21:37Just, I don't know what a pervert looks for in a foot.
21:40But, Nabil?
21:43Joe, the elves are just telling me that you've got 4.98 on Wikifeet.
21:47Whoa!
21:48CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
21:58You're keeping me away.
22:00Joe, get your foot out and let me see where...
22:024.98!
22:03Let me see where I've only got...
22:05I've only got...
22:06I've only got...
22:07I've only got socks on.
22:09Do you know what? I've got a lovely foot.
22:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
22:13I've got a lovely foot.
22:17How has that been marked down?
22:19It's perfect. Look at the arch.
22:21Look at the arch.
22:23I've got long finger toes.
22:26I can climb buildings with these.
22:30You'd struggle to climb buildings without them.
22:32What have I done?
22:39OK, do you have a rating on Wikifeet?
22:41I've no idea.
22:42How about Wikicock?
22:521.5.
22:56That sounds like a medical condition.
22:58I prefer it.
22:59You've got Wikicock.
23:01But what's interesting about clowns
23:03is that they really go back a very long way.
23:05So you find them in the fifth dynasty of Egypt.
23:08That's around 2400 BC.
23:10I mean, 4,500 years of clowns.
23:12Yes, the great Egyptian clown Boobus.
23:15Native Americans.
23:22It's mostly men, although there are some exceptions.
23:25The very first clown school in Europe
23:27was opened by a woman, Annie Fratellini, in 1975.
23:31Is that Liz Truss?
23:40There have been some female clowns, but not very many.
23:431890s, there was a woman called Lady Evetta,
23:45she was actually Josephine Williams,
23:47and she was dubbed the only lady clown.
23:49She used to perform in New York.
23:51She was one of 21 siblings.
23:53Did they all run out the mum like clowns run out cars?
23:56She once said,
23:57all my people laughed at me when I told them
23:59that I was going into the ring as a clown,
24:01but they do not laugh now.
24:05Which is a quote I first heard...
24:07Out of the mouth of Bob Monk.
24:09Extraordinary mind he had for jokes.
24:11The best, I think. Astonishing.
24:13Now, the word vermiform means worm-shaped,
24:17but why is it a bad idea to visit the world's heaviest worm?
24:26Um, I've just split up with him.
24:28So...
24:30It's foolish to go back.
24:34Is it at the bottom of the sea?
24:36It is at the bottom of the sea.
24:38You're on fire!
24:47I get stuck in rabbit holes on YouTube at two in the morning,
24:50like most sensible people do.
24:52And I know a bit about that there worm.
24:55Go, go.
24:56It's not just worms, there's crabs and stuff too,
24:58and at the bottom of the sea?
25:00Yeah.
25:01They're basically in volcanoes,
25:03and the pressure, that much water pressure of the sea,
25:06still doesn't kill them.
25:08Yeah.
25:09That worm can survive the heat of a volcano...
25:12Yeah.
25:13..and the water pressure...
25:15And these mad people still want to go down and visit.
25:19So they can be nine feet in length.
25:21I think they look like large lipsticks.
25:23They look like very large... Look.
25:25Oh, yeah. I think...
25:26I'm not thinking lipstick, actually.
25:32Look at that fish thingy at the back. Look at him.
25:34I know.
25:35He looks dodgy, bro.
25:37That's an underwater peeping tom. Look at him.
25:41He looks like a sea quagmire, just gigging.
25:45Well, it can be 350 degrees Celsius down there.
25:48There's little or no oxygen.
25:50They don't eat at all, right?
25:52They are enormous.
25:53But what they do is they have bacteria living in their body,
25:56and this bacteria takes sulphur, which erupts from the vents,
25:59and it converts it into energy. It's a symbiotic relationship.
26:02I think you're lying. I think it's all made up.
26:04You put some pepperami in a tube...
26:08How do they get the cameras down there, then,
26:11if you can't go down there?
26:13It's just me with my iPhone.
26:16Hey, worms, see that again?
26:18So, if you get an earthquake or an eruption under the sea,
26:21a whole colony can be destroyed.
26:23And yet, when new vents are opened up,
26:26there are the tube worms again, and we don't know how it works.
26:29Because these can't move, right? They're what's called sessile.
26:33And yet, somehow, a colony is destroyed and a new one starts again,
26:37and we genuinely have no idea how it works.
26:39We've only just discovered these hydrothermal vents.
26:42They were discovered in 1977.
26:44There's so many bizarre life forms.
26:46OK, there's a thing called a volcano snail,
26:49and it has a shell made of iron sulphides.
26:52And we have borrowed this from the Natural History Museum, OK?
26:57And this is what's called the hollow type.
26:59OK, so this is the very first specimen
27:02on which the name and description of the species is based.
27:06And I'm terrified that I'm going to drop it.
27:08Is that dead or alive?
27:10It's no longer with us.
27:11Well, it doesn't matter if we smash it.
27:14Little bit of garlic on there.
27:16Well, I tell you, you might be more tempted to drink it,
27:19because in order to store them, what do you think is in here?
27:22Alcohol. Yeah, it's 100% alcohol, because...
27:25Is that just coincidence that you shouted that?
27:28Alcohol!
27:31They have to be kept at 100% alcohol,
27:33because of the iron sulphides on the shell.
27:35If they weren't, they would literally rust.
27:38I know, I know, good noise.
27:40Anyway, I've been so terrified
27:42that I'm either going to drop it or drink it.
27:44One of those two.
27:45Down in one, down in one.
27:47So there's also something called a Pompeii worm.
27:50They're only about five inches long.
27:52They're tiny little things, and they...
27:54Look at that. Oh! I know!
27:56Nah, nah. No? Not a real thing?
27:59Not they're real, but nah.
28:02Don't like it? Nah, nah.
28:04You know why? Because clearly it can do corners.
28:07I mean, look at it.
28:15So they live right at the edge of the vent.
28:17Their bottoms can be at the temperature of 80 degrees Celsius,
28:20and their heads are at 14, and they're only five inches.
28:23I know that feeling.
28:27That was a very spicy tea, Sam.
28:29Very spicy tea.
28:33It does look like it's got fur,
28:35and in fact, that whole sort of fleece-like covering
28:38is made entirely of bacteria.
28:40I know.
28:42How disappointing some dates are up close.
28:46There's also something called a Yeti crab,
28:48which I love the look of, and they survive...
28:51Is that Liz Truss?
28:54They've got no eyes at all,
28:56but they sort of survive by using their furry claws
28:59to search for nutrients.
29:01One of the species is named the Hoff crab,
29:04after David Hasselhoff's hairy chest.
29:08Anyway, thank you very much to the Natural History Museum
29:10for lending us that fabulous prop. I think it was great.
29:18While we're at sea, how can you stop sailors being so vulgar?
29:22MUSIC
29:24Put him in a cellar with a hosepipe on him
29:26Put him in a cellar with a hosepipe on him
29:28Put him in a cellar with a hosepipe on him
29:30All night and the morning
29:31Wailer, wailer, do, do, do
29:36All day in the mornin'
29:38Way, hey, up she rises
29:39Way, hey, up she rises
29:41Way, hey, up she rises
29:43Put her to a break with her captain's daughter
29:45Put her to a break with her captain's daughter
29:49As long as we're going to get up and do the link-arm thing
29:51Do the link arm thing and go around in circles
30:14Now that's what you do if it's early in the morning in the evening I have no idea
30:21What was the question
30:24I did feel really masculine when I did it which is more masculine than semen
30:35Right
30:35We're moving to a completely different area. So this is a question on vexillology. Anybody know what vexillology is?
30:41Is it something to do with vulgarity? No, it's to stop vulgarity
30:43So it's the study of flags. Um, so flags used to communicate between sailors
30:47It used to be until really precise time 1856 that flags mostly stood for numbers rather than letters
30:54You sent a number and then people looked up and went. Oh, it's number eight. That means he wants the bad tie
30:59Well, whatever. I mean it was
31:01And then the British Commercial Code of Signals changed it and made the flag stand for letters and now they were very worried
31:07That the sailors might spell out
31:10naughty
31:12Words of doubtful propriety
31:14Basically, and so they had an ingenious solution. They left the vowels out. So you couldn't fucking swear
31:21That's each other and they were not added to the system until 1901
31:24So the original idea to keep sailors from being vulgar was that there were no vowels Sandy. Hmm, you know on a calculator. Yeah
31:34It boobs you've got it
31:37So
31:39Nelson's famous instruction at Trafalgar. Anybody remember what it was you can see there on the flags on the ship
31:46fire
31:47England expects that every man will do his duty
31:51Anyway, it took four minutes to send it as you got to put all the flags up in the right order
31:55So there you can see the order of the flags and that was a text and what has before text?
32:00Yeah, but in fact Nelson wanted something slightly longer
32:02He wanted England confides that every man will do his duty and there was a signaler called John Pascoe
32:08And he suggested they change it to the word expects because that word was in the signal book
32:13So he didn't have to spell out every single letter. Otherwise, he would have taken longer to send it
32:17Anybody know which flag in the world is considered alive alive?
32:23According to the US flag code the Stars and Stripes is considered a living thing and there are lots of things that you are not
32:28Allowed to do with it
32:31Like this you are not allowed to do this. Oh say can you see
32:37Advertising you can't use it on, you know, throw away napkins and of course all of these things are broken every single 4th of July
32:43It's seen as alive. Yes, it seems alive. It's a living thing and you're not allowed to mess with it
32:47The anthem is about the flag more so than the country
32:52I'm gonna take you to another a flag incident. Okay, 1936 Berlin Olympics the opening ceremony
32:59Lichtenstein and Haiti, what do you discover when they both turned up same flag exactly the same flag?
33:08It's before the Internet didn't know what the other country's flag was like it was this just this blue over a red band
33:15So they reached a compromise and Lichtenstein walked in with the flag upside down
33:19Lichtenstein then added a crown and Haiti added a crest motif and those are in fact flags today
33:26Kept what do you need to fly an EU flag in your garden in the UK?
33:33Depends which part of the UK you're in. I know we do you need planning permission
33:38You have to have planning permission to fly a flag in the UK, but certain categories of flag are exempt. Okay, so you can fly
33:45International organizations, but only if the UK is a member so you can no longer fly the EU flag in your garden quite, right
33:56Even though you can fly the flag of any actual country or region of the country
33:59Can you think of any uses for a rubber moose?
34:02Is it like a kind of moose contraceptive?
34:12Excuse me, just while I put this moves on my day
34:20Yes, I should imagine during the mating season they're quite boisterous so
34:26What you can do is make a bunch of rubber mooses that they can go home
34:30Yeah, so they don't have the cars and vegans and stuff
34:39To fight back
34:50I really want to see that
34:56I
35:02Actually letting her win and she's still
35:12I'm not resisting
35:14You
35:22Work closest with cars, okay
35:24I wonder in front of them they do they wander in front of them accident if you are in Sweden and you are driving
35:30You will come within a thousand feet of a moose every 23 seconds
35:35Not in Stockholm, but you know when you're out in the countryside
35:38So what you want to know is if your car did hit a moose you want to know
35:42What's going to happen to the car right drive into a rubber moose, yeah and see what the damage is
35:54So Volvo has a moose made of vulcanized rubber that's meant to be a moose is it
36:02We don't have a picture of that this is one made by another company
36:06But the Volvo one what they have is they've got a hundred and fourteen rubber discs on a steel frame
36:11And that is actually a size wise the relationship between the moose and a car
36:15The point is that you then make safety features on the car
36:17So Volvo are also credited with developing the three-point v-shaped seat belt
36:23and then they famously gave the patent away because they just wanted all car makers to have it for the good of humanity and it's
36:29Estimated to have saved a million lives in the first 40 years of its use
36:32I grew up in the United States and I remember when it was introduced and people used to cut them off
36:36It was so angry with the seat belts. It just didn't want to have them in the car
36:39Interesting thing about all that they launched a special concept car designed entirely by women for women
36:46So they had this theory if you meet the expectations of women, then you will exceed the expectations of men, which I quite like
36:55Every single decision in the car was designed by an all-female team. So hard to park
37:00Oh
37:07Can you guess any of the features of the woman-only car what kind of face for the bloody handbags, yes
37:17Compartment specifically for a handbag. What are the things that might be silent horn?
37:22Why instead of like a loud horn for road rage? It's quiet because they know what they did
37:31The bonnet and indeed who does so they decided that you could refill the wiper fluid through a little hole at the side
37:38There was a space in the headrest for a ponytail, which I quite like
37:43Interchangeable seat cover and carpet fabrics so you can just swap math
37:48Adjustable heel rest for the accelerator foot and lots of good ideas. Anyway, I'm doing like cushions and throws
37:54So actually some of it sounds sexist to start with but very practical suggestions
37:59They never did make the car but 22 of the features are now in current Volvo models
38:04Why didn't they make the car the team stopped talking to each other?
38:13Right, please fasten your v-shaped seatbelts, it's time for general ignorance fingers on buzzers, please. Where was the first Disneyland?
38:22Yeah, yeah Paris
38:30Anybody else ancient Greece
38:35Lincolnshire is the answer
38:39Ancestors hailed from a village in Lincolnshire called Norton Disney and
38:43Records show that the name of the estate they occupied during the 14th century was
38:47Disneyland the family originally comes from Normandy from a place called isn't a and so Disney is an anglicization of Disney
38:54so of isn't a and they came over to England with William the Conqueror 1066 and
39:00Then they took part in a failed rebellion in the 1600s fled to Ireland and then later on went to America
39:06But he visited Norton Disney where the family name comes from in 1949
39:10There is he was in the UK filming Treasure Island
39:13And if you go to the village hall
39:14You can see the place where he played dance
39:16He had a drink in the local pub and then he donated three prints sort of Pinocchio Snow White and one of the dwarfs
39:21I think which still hang in the village hall
39:23So there is a strong connection at the first Disneyland was in Lincolnshire. Perhaps Walt was inspired by Grimsby's fairy tales
39:32What's the safest way to make a phone call while driving Oh
39:39Not to take the call because I just did a speed awareness course
39:46The guy said that if you take a call
39:49It's the equivalent of having like three pints or something apparently
39:52Yeah
39:53so you shouldn't take a call whilst driving and you should definitely not do it whilst having a
39:56Oat latte and a cigarette from what's going on there
40:00I've got a thing in my car like where you press a button on the steering wheel and then you say cool
40:05So my friend was in the car and I said watch this
40:07I said I pressed a button and I say cool Adam Hess
40:10But it called this guy called Andy best instead and I can put the phone down and that's a man
40:14I slept with ten years ago
40:17I called him on his wedding day. Oh
40:23My god
40:25Who was running the speed awareness course said when you call somebody you sort of project yourself to where they are
40:31So that's the issue is that you're not in the car. You're where they are
40:33I said well, what if I ring someone who's on a speed awareness call?
40:39We visually picture what we're talking about as we speak and it makes our brain slow down
40:44We can't respond as well to images or hazards and things that are right in front of us
40:48So you're absolutely right here anyone anyway, if you've got your tape over you
40:54What about if you're in the passenger side
40:58Yes, then make as many calls to people on their wedding day
41:07When did electric cars become popular I
41:10Think I heard something about this go on then and that actually they invented it ages ago. You're absolutely right
41:16So at the moment the number of electric cars is about 14% right compared to petrol cars in
41:231900 in the USA over a third of all the cars were electric
41:26So you start getting electric carriages around the 1830s 1897 the best-selling car in the United States was electric
41:33It was called the Columbia motor carriage
41:35So basically by 1900 38% of all American cars were electric 40% was steam-powered and only 22%
41:42Were petrol-powered. In fact, Thomas Edison. He had several electric cars. So this is him in
41:471921 with a car by the Lansman company and it just was the way ahead the electric car and then lots of things happened
41:55So first we get the discovery of crude oil in Texas. And so they want to use the oil thing
42:00cyclists petitioned for better road services and suddenly you could go much further and
42:04Electric cars just couldn't go quite as far. They had a range of about 20 miles at about 15 miles per hour
42:10So then Henry Ford comes along he can suddenly produce a Model T Ford
42:15Which is a petrol car every 90 minutes the car becomes much much cheaper and really it's the kind of death knell of the electric
42:22Car, it didn't really reemerge as a viable alternative until the 1990s. What did they do about batteries in the older one?
42:29You couldn't recharge it yourself. You had to take it back to the manufacturer
42:32So there were lots of reasons why it wasn't really work so far you are better off with a horse
42:36Yeah, I would love to drive something that shape. Oh, I think like a hearse for a pig. I know
42:46It's trust
42:55All of which toing and froing brings us to the scores in last place tonight
43:02Titanic failure with minus 29. It's Joe
43:11All at sea with minus six it's Lou
43:16Well, it's been very close and it was a fantastic game for him but in second place, it's ship shape with zero it's Alan
43:27With four points
43:31A
43:38Big thank you to Luna Beal Joe and Alan and I leave you with this thought from Oscar Wilde's the importance of being earnest
43:45I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Thank you and
44:01You
44:20You