List of QI episodes (D series)
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This is a list of episodes of QI, the BBC comedy panel game television show hosted by Stephen Fry.
The first series started on 11 September 2003. Although most viewers did not notice at the time, all of the questions (with the exception of the final "general ignorance" round) were on subjects beginning with "A" (such as "arthropods", "Alans" and "astronomy"). A second series of 12 programmes started on 8 October 2004, with subjects beginning with the letter "B" (except in two special episodes, one about music and one about colour). The C series started on 30 September 2005 and the D series started on 29 September 2006.
The dates in the lists are those of the BBC Two broadcasts. The episodes were also broadcast on BBC Four, generally a week earlier (as soon as one episode finished on BBC Two, the next was shown on BBC Four). Aside from Alan Davies, there are five guests who have appeared in ten or more episodes (out of 48); they are Jo Brand (14), Rich Hall (14), Phill Jupitus (12), Bill Bailey (11), and Sean Lock (10). In total there have been 47 different guest panellists in the three series to date.
Disclaimer: Some facts stated during the series have since been found to be incorrect, in some cases due to a mistake and others by becoming outdated. Where possible these entries have been highlighted.
[edit] D series (2006)
Series commences on 29 September 2006
[edit] Episode 1 "Danger"
- Broadcast dates
- 29 September 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-19 points)
- Jo Brand (7 points) 11th appearance
- Jimmy Carr (0 points) 4th appearance
- Sean Lock (4 points) 9th appearance
- Theme
- The panels buzzers sound like things which are dangerous. Alan's buzzer sounds like a mosquito.
- Topics
- Dangerous accidents
- Dangerous jobs
- You are three times as likely to die at work than you are at war.
- Lumberjacks have the most dangerous jobs in America.
- The most dangerous job in the world is said to be an Alaskan crab fisherman.
- Tangent: Sean Lock was once arrested for knocking a security guard's hat off.
- Dangerous tactics
- The most dangerous military stratagem was organised by King Gou Jian of Yue in 496 BC. Convicted criminals were in the front line of his army and were forced to cut off their own heads.
- Decapitation - A story from the French Revolution says that two decapitated heads were put in the same basket, and one head bit the other so hard that they could not be separated.
- Tangent: If you cut off the legs of a duck, it can still swim.
- Dangerous sports and activities
- The most dangerous sport in the world is flying kites in Pakistan (the most dangerous country in the world) during Basant. You have to sever kite strings filled with glass and metal shards.
- The biggest kite in the world weighs nearly a tonne, measures 40 feet by 36 feet, has to be flown by 50 people, and has 200 strings.
- The most dangerous manager was Harry Colcord, manager of tightrope walker Charles Blondin.
- The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was Annie Edson Taylor.
- A pirate ship filled with animals was sent of Niagara Falls, only two geese lived. Two bears crawled out, and were shot.
- The most dangerous sporting activity for women is cheerleading.
- George W. Bush is the most famous cheerleader in America.
- Tangent: You can get a detached retina from bungee jumping. You can also get detached breast tissue if you bungee jump naked.
- Tangent: The Darwin Awards.
- General ignorance
- Poor air quality causes deep vein thrombosis on aeroplanes. (Forfeit: Sitting down for too long.)
- You should get 4-7 hours of sleep every night.
- Seismologists use the Moment magnitude scale (MMS) to measure the size of earthquakes. (Forfeit: The Richter Scale.)
- The most dangerous earthquake in America since European settlement was in either New Madrid, Missouri (1811-1812) or Prince William Sound, Alaska (1964). (Forfeit: San Francisco 1906.)
[edit] Episode 2 "Discoveries"
- Broadcast dates
- 29 September 2006 (BBC Four)
- 6 October 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (0 points)
- Clive Anderson (-7 points) 7th appearance
- Vic Reeves (16 points) 1st appearance
- Arthur Smith (-23 points) 3rd appearance
- Theme
- Nautical
- Each contestant has an unusual patent
- Topics
- Raining at weekends
- Babylonians first developed the seven day week
- Industrial activities over the week cause a seven day dust cycle
- The link between gelignite (invented by Alfred Nobel), saccharin, and the rings of Uranus. They were all serendipitous discoveries.
- Caffeine, Silly putty, the post-it note, penicillin, and the Americas were also serendipitous discoveries.
- Charles Darwin had Chagas disease, as do millions of South Americans. It was discovered by Carlos Chagas and is the only disease entirely described by one single researcher.
- Darwin was seen as a poor student who couldn't spell. He was a member of the Cambridge society of Gluttons and ate animals such as the Brown Owl. Many zoologists participate in a Phylum Feast on Darwin's birthday (12 February) where they eat as many different species as possible.
- Tangent: Disgusting foods: you drink the blood of the Cobra when eating its beating heart (a delicacy in China); this lead Alan to talk about eating ear wax.
- William Dampier was the first Englishman to set foot in Australia and invented the "wind over current" map. His A New Voyage Around the World was carried around by sailors for 100 years. He influenced the books Robinson Crusoe and Gullivers Travels.
- Jules Leotard's clothing invention, which he called the "maillot", was renamed after him when he died. He also invented the flying trapeze.
- Kangaroos do not pass wind, possibly because of various forms of bacteria in their stomach.
- General ignorance
- Queen Victoria wore a bustle that played music to mask the sound of her flatulence.
- One Brown Owl cannot make the "twit twoo" - the female goes "twit" and the male "twoo".
- Fernville Lord Digby was the name of the most famous Dulux dog
[edit] Episode 3 "Dogs"
- Broadcast dates
- 6 October 2006 (BBC Four)
- 13 October 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-36 points)
- Jeremy Clarkson (-13 points) 4th appearance
- Neil Mullarkey (winner with -5 points) 1st and only appearance
- Liza Tarbuck (-8 points) 1st and only appearance
- Theme
- The buzzers sound like dogs barking. Alan's buzzer had a dog barking the tune to "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"
Topics:
- Dogs are much more varied than cats, and more varied than any other species.
- When mating, dogs start in the Doggy position, then they turn so their backsides face each other, with the penis locked inside the vagina. The panel tried to demonstrate their answers using toy dogs. Alan was given a Scottie in tartan and a large Old English sheepdog.
- Tangent: Jeremy owns a labradoodle, the same kind of dog as Graham Norton. There is a type of dog called a Yorkiepoo, a cross between a Yorkshire terrier and a poodle.
- The most interesting thing dogs can smell is cancer. (Forfeit: Bottoms, bollocks.)
- Dogs from Liverpool and Scotland have different accents.
- The only kind of dog that lays eggs is a dogfish.
- Tangent: Sharks do not have to keep on moving in order to stay alive, though they do need water flowing through their gills.
- Tangent: The German for "Dog" is "Hund" as in the English word "Hound." No-one knows where the word "Dog" comes from. "Dogger" is said to come from a Dutch word meaning "A type of ship."
- Fisher comes before German Bight in the Shipping Forecast. (Forfeit: German bark)
- Tangent: The area before Fisher is Dogger. Viking is always the first to be read out. Alan used to call the shipping forecast the "Chicken forecast" because that is what it sounded like when he was a kid.
- Puffin Island and Bird Island are islands named after birds. (Forfeit: Canary Islands)
- The Canary Islands are named after the dogs, and Canaries are named after the island.
- Tangent: There is a sport called Canary Wrestling, similar to Sumo Wrestling.
- Tangent: La Palma has a volcano on it, which could cause a Tsunami that could wipe out the eastern American seaboard if it erupted.
- There is a martial art called Dog Kung Fu, mainly practiced by women, and invented by a Chinese nun. It is so called because you fight on all-fours.
- The Hurricane won the Battle of Britain. (Forfeit: Spitfire)
- Tangent: The first two planes shot down by Spitfires in World War II were Hurricanes.
- Dogfights first started in World War One, but when they first fought, they had no guns, so they threw bricks at each other.
- Tangent: Jeremy's favourite VC winner is Ferdinand West, a pilot from WWI. WWI pilots often had diarrhoea because bearings were lubricated with castor oil.
- General ignorance
- Gorillas sleep in nests. The scientific name for Gorillas is Gorilla gorilla. This is known as a tautonym. The same is true of Bison and Iguana.
- The scientific name for a rat is Rattus rattus.
- The scientific name for a Golden Oriole is Oriolus oriolus.
- The scientific name for a swan is Cygnus cygnus.
- The scientific name for a Manx shearwater is Puffinus puffinus. (Forfeit: Puffin)
[edit] Episode 4 "Dictionaries"
- Broadcast dates
- 13 October 2006 (BBC Four)
- 20 October 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-7 points)
- Ronni Ancona (13 points) 1st and only appearance
- Rory Bremner (-7 points) 1st and only appearance
- Phill Jupitus (-7 points) 8th appearance
- Theme
- The buzzers are in alphabetical order. Ronni's played a note in the key of A, Rory's was B, Phill's played C, and Alan's buzzer had a man going "Do-di-do-di-do".
- Topics
- Dictionary writers like to start at the letter "M". (Forfeit: A)
- The Long Years of Obscurity is a book about about Didcot.
- Tangent: Didcot Power Station was the third worst eyesore in the UK according to a poll by Country Life. Number one was Wind farms.
- Tangent: Ronni's odd story about the word "Obscurity".
- The Bubi people of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea cannot talk in the dark, as their language is mostly gesture. They cannot see what they are saying.
- Tangent: Diana Mosley.
- Tangent: Lord Elgin and Duncan.
- Tangent: Stephen's time in prison.
- When knighted, the Queen says nothing. (Forfeit: "Arise Sir Alan")
- The last public degradation in Britain happened in 1621 to Sir Francis Mitchell.
- A raindrop is spherical. (Forfeit: Pear-shaped.)
- The world's biggest drip is a stalactite in the Gruta Rei do Mato, Brazil.
- Tangent: Denier (measure) and tights.
- The world's biggest crashing bore is a tidal bore.
- The biggest thing in the solar system that can float in water is Saturn.
- General ignorance
- There are less than a quarter of plants than we first thought.
- There were several different countries fighting in the Battle of Culloden. There were more Scots fighting against Bonnie Prince Charlie than were fighting for him.
- Dolphins do not drink.
[edit] Episode 5 "Death" (Halloween Special)
- Broadcast dates
- 20 October 2006 (BBC Four)
- 27 October 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-15 points)
- Clive Anderson (-24 points) 8th appearance
- Sean Lock (-8 points) 10th appearance
- Andy Parsons (0 points) 1st and only appearance
- The Audience (2 points) First victory
(Despite announcing the audience as the winner, Andy Parsons is the official winner, making this the fourth consecutive week that a panellist has won on his/her debut)
- Theme
- The chairman and all the panellists are dressed in black
- There is a coffin in the centre of the set
- Topics
- The Black Death was caused by marmots.
- British doctors treat depression more than any other illness. (Forfeit: Cancer, Flu)
- The saddest song ever is Gloomy Sunday sung by Billie Holiday, also known as the "Hungarian suicide song".
- Tangent: People commiting suicide by throwing themselves off Beachy Head.
- The panel have to pick out which of four types of mushroom is safe to eat, out of the Death cap, Peppery milk cap, the Destroying angel and the Trumpet of death. The Trumpet of death is safe.
- The Nazis used Trumpets of Jericho in Stukas. (Forfeit: Destroying city walls)
- Tangent: Stephen's dislike of the United States Army, mainly generals wearing sunglasses.
- Extremophiles are the only things that lives in the Dead Sea.
- Lemmings do not commit suicide by jumping off cliffs. The myth was first noted in an encyclopaedia in 1908. (Forfeit: Myth invented by Disney)
- General ignorance
- There is no curse of Tutankhamun. (Forfeit: Death to all who enter here)
- Only five people died in the Great Fire of London.
- Ring a Ring O'Roses dates to 1881 in North America. (Forfeit: The Plague)
- Edward de Bono suggested using marmite to solve the Middle-East conflict.
[edit] Episode 6 "Drinking"
- Broadcast dates
- 27 October 2006 (BBC Four)
- 3 November 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (Winner with 10 points!) 2nd win
- Jimmy Carr (2 points) 5th appearance
- Phill Jupitus (-15 points) 9th appearance
- John Sessions (-3 points) 7th appearance
- Theme
- There is a drinks rack behind Stephen Fry
- Every panellist has a drink - Alan Davies has a martini, the other three have pints of lager
- Topics
- A House sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in Holland. (See Domino Day 2005 sparrow.)
- You are not allowed to drink whilst playing Darts. It was caused by a sketch from Not the Nine O'clock News which featured darts players drinking heavily, and it ruined the view of the game, so drinking was banned. You are also not allowed to wear a hat, unless you are a Sikh.
- Tangent: Darts commentator Sid Waddell's odd quotes.
- The connection between Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec, Degas, Manet, Strindberg, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Kylie Minogue is Absinthe.
- Tangent: Absinthe was banned in France in 1915 due to Wormwood being poisonous. It was relegalised in 1926 after they removed the wormwood. It has never been banned in Britain because it was never popular.
- The Great Binge (1870-1914) is a period in history given by social historians, due to Absinthe in Europe and other dangerous drugs such as heroin being commercially available. Heroin is a brand name.
- The vomit comet is used to train astronauts.
- The Great Stink occurred in 1858 when Parliament was trying to be held, but the smell of feces was so bad they had to stop. (Forfeit: He who smelt it, dealt it.)
- Tangent: The great-great-grandson of Joseph Bazalgette, who created London's sewage system after the great stink, now runs Endemol.
- Burnley drinks more Bénédictine than any other place in the world.
- DORA banned invisible ink and binoculars. It also brought in the Licensing hours and British Summer Time.
- Tangent: During World War II, Veronica Lake was forced to get her hair cut. She previously had her hair combed over one eye, and many women copied this style. However, the women then worked in munitions factories, and their hair got caught in the machinery.
- General ignorance
- A vomitorium is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre, through which the crowds could "spew out" at the end of a show. (Forfeit: A room which Romans used to vomit in.)
- The single largest man-made structure on the planet is the Fresh Kills Landfill. (Forfeit: The Great Wall of China.)
- You should not drink sea water if you are dehydrated. (Forfeit: Alcohol.)
- Alcohol does not kill brain cells.
[edit] Episode 7 "Differences"
- Broadcast dates
- 10 November 2006 (BBC Two)
- 3 November 2006 (BBC Four)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-144 points)
- Jo Brand (-17 points) 12th appearance
- Julian Clary (-8 points) 1st and only appearance
- Dara Ó Briain (3 points) 3rd appearance
- Topics
- The main difference between men and women is the chromosomes.
- Alcohol has a greater effect on men. (Forfeit: Women)
- Women get colder quicker, in order to keep the vital organs warm.
- Tangent: Dara not being married, and his fictional Filipino wife.
- Tangent: Inuit throat singing, and Alan's impression of Andy Kershaw.
- You cannot describe the difference between left and right.
- Deaf people applaud by waving their hands in the air. (Forfeit: Louder)
- Tangent: Alan does the British sign language for "bullshit" and "drunkeness".
- The similarity between herring and teenage boys is that they both communicate by farting.
- Tangent: Julian farting in front of the Queen backstage at the Royal Variety Performance and shitting himself.
- The only difference between brown eggs and white eggs is the colour.
- You would use cogs or Meccano to make a Difference engine.
- Tangent: Charles Babbage
- The difference between ping pong and table tennis is that "ping pong" is a brand name.
- Tangent: Table tennis was banned in Russia as it was thought it would affect people's eyesight.
- General ignorance
- Eskimos have 32 words for demonstrative pronouns. (Forfeit: Ice, Snow)
- The Moon smells of gunpowder. (Forfeit: Chesse)
- Twelve people have walked on the Moon.
- Gandhi's first name was Mohandas Karamchand. (Forfeit: Mahatma, Randy)
- Note: Alan Davies answered "Randy", and as a result was docked 150 points. The final scores were then revealed almost immediately afterwards, and Alan was on -144 points, a record lowest score in the show's history. However, without the 150 point penalty from the earlier question, Alan would have won with 6 points.
[edit] Episode 8 "Descendants"
Special Children in Need episode
- Broadcast dates
- 10 November 2006 (BBC Four)
- 17 November 2006/18 November 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-29,000,000 points)
- Jonathan Ross (Winner with 3,000,000 points) 1st and only appearance
- Rich Hall (2,000,000 points) 13th appearance
- Phill Jupitus (1,000,000 points) 10th appearance
(All scores in this game were multiplied by 1,000,000 as a generosity gesture from Stephen Fry, on account of it being for Children In Need. Therefore, the actual scores were -29, 3, 2, and 1.)
- Theme
- The show initially began with Pudsey Bear, the Children in Need mascot, in the place of Alan Davies, but Pudsey was replaced after all the panellists had demonstrated their buzzers.
- Each panellist has a Pudsey bear in front of them, however Rich Hall's Pudsey does not have one eye covered. This is because Rich Hall, being American and not aware of Pudsey's trademark, removed the eyepatch and bound his Pudsey's hands behind its back using the eyepatch before the recording of the episode began.
- Topics
- Babies have more bones than adults.
- The paradoxical frog grunts like a pig and has offspring three times its own size.
- Barbie could have been US President, is a trained scientist and has larger breasts than you might imagine. Her maiden name is "Roberts", has over a billion pairs of shoes and is only 11 inches tall. (Forfeit: Margaret Thatcher)
- A Spiderman comic was the inspiration for electronic tagging.
- Wonder Woman was the inspiration for the lie detector.
- Tangent: William Moulton Marston and his polyamorous relationship.
- A radio episode of Superman in which he fights the Ku Klux Klan caused the KKK recruitment rate to fall to zero within a few weeks of it being aired.
- Roald Dahl helped to invent the Wade-Dahl-Till valve.
- The Oompa-Loompas were originally black. (Forfeit: Orange)
- An episode of The Clangers called "Chicken" featured a scene when the voice actor says, (Through a swanne whistle) "Oh sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again."
- Bill and Ben speak "Oddle Poddle". (Forfeit: Flobadob)
- Tangent: Stephen reads out a letter from the son of Peter Hawkins, correcting an earlier mistake made on QI saying the language was flobadob.
- General ignorance
- The most listened tune in the world is the Gran Vals (Nokia tune) by Francisco Tárrega. (Forfeit: Crazy Frog)
- Ferns are poisonous, the second oldest plant after moss and pollinate by flinging their seeds.
- Tangent: Stephen's complete misunderstandings of Geordie slang.
- Terry Wogan is descended from the Welsh. (Forfeit: Ireland)
- 0% of money donated to Children in Need goes towards administration costs.
[edit] Episode 9 "Doves"
- Broadcast dates
- 17 November 2006 (BBC Four)
- 24 November 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (Winner with 54 points!) 3rd win
- Andy Hamilton (-8 points) 3rd appearance
- David Mitchell (-9 points) 2nd appearance
- John Sessions (-4 points) 8th appearance
- Topics
- The pigeon is the bravest species of animal, having won more Dickin medals than any other.
- A kamikaze pigeon unit was set up to use pigeons in missiles. See Project Pigeon.
- Tangent: The extinction of the Passenger pigeon
- The most influential piece of modern art (according to the Turner Prize committee) was Marcel Duchamp's Fountain.
- The dik-dik is able to hide, unlike the dodo.
- According to Moby Dick, a sperm whale's penis can be turned into an apron.
- Swift Nick Nevison rode from London to York in 15 hours. (Forfeit: Dick Turpin)
- Tangent: The life expectancy in some parts of America is lower than on Death Row.
- General ignorance
- Burke and Hare were convicted of murder. (Forfeit: Body-snatching)
- An underground fluffer cleans hair off the tracks in the London Underground.
- E Pluribus Unum is the motto of S.L. Benfica.
- E Pluribus Unum was originally used in a recipe for salad dressing. (See Moretum)[1].
- This was a bonus question for 50 points was supposed to subsequently asked, only for Fry to accidently provide the answer before asking the question. Alan Davies then answered the question regardless, and earned the 50 point bonus. As it turned out, he would still have won without the bonus had nobody else answered the question correctly.
[edit] Episode 10 "Divination"
Special episode without Alan Davies (he decided to watch Arsenal F.C. play in the UEFA Champions League Final instead). He did appear at the beginning of the show, and he buzzed in with answers to some of the questions while not physically being there, which explains his score.
- Broadcast dates
- 24 November 2006 (BBC Four)
- 1 December 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-70 points)
- Graeme Garden (7 points)1st and only appearance
- Phill Jupitus (6 points)11th appearance
- Johnny Vaughan (-19 points)1st and only appearance
- Theme
- Whoever managed to accurately predict their own score at the end would be rewarded with 666 bonus points. No-one managed to do so accurately with their own scores, but Vaughan correctly guessed Garden's score. The 666 points were not given because it had to be their own score they predicted.
- There is also a Doctor Who theme in this episode. For instance, when Alan Davies disappears, the dematerialisation noise of the TARDIS is heard, and when he calls in for the answer, the Doctor Who theme music is used as his "buzzer".
- Topics
- Fry interpretes the panel members' dreams, and comes to the conclusion they are all gay.
- Clever Hans the horse.
- If you see a dead donkey, you should jump over it three times for good luck.
- Tangent: If every mule was killed, by next year, they would be 10,000 mules, because they are hybrids.
- Donkey milk cannot be used to make cheese.
- A demonym is your people name.
- The Chinese language for "American" is "Lovely country person" in English. The Englishman is called a, "Hero country person" and a Frenchman is a "Lore country person".
- Robert Johnson and the death at the crossroads.
- Deeper Blue is now working for United Airlines as a reservations clerk.
- Tangent: Garry Kasparov accused IBM of cheating, after he planted a trap which he claimed that could only avoided by thinking creativly.
- General ignorance
- The number of the beast is 616. (Forfeit: 666)
- Thomas Midgley, Jr., inventor of CFCs and leaded petrol has done more damage to the environment that any other person in history. (Forfeits: George W. Bush, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Margaret Beckett)
- European witchcraft is known for causing harm to people by sticking pins into dolls. (Forfeit: Voodoo)
- A desire line is a name given by planners to paths made by people who wander. People who wander with really thinking are called Meanderthals.
[edit] Episode 11 "Deprivation"
- Broadcast dates
- 8 December 2006 (BBC Two)
- 1 December 2006 (BBC Four)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-39 points)
- Roger McGough (Joint winner with 1 point) 1st and only appearance
- Vic Reeves (Joint winner with 1 point) 2nd appearance
- Mark Steel (-6 points) 3rd appearance
- Theme
- The show was deprived of the normal set. Instead, Alan Davies and Mark Steel were sitting at school desks, Roger McGough and Vic Reeves had side tables and glasses of whisky and Stephen Fry sat at an auctioneer's stand with a gavel. The lighting director was "fired" so there was a lack of light. Some of the studio was lit by candles. The audience was forced to watch in the street. The buzzers were hand-cranked.
- The team were each given a tray, containing dental floss, chili powder, a potato and a green pen. The panellists had to find out how each item had been used in a prison escape.
- Green pen - Steven Russell coloured his shirt green, the same colour shirts as those of the prison doctors, and walked out of the prison.
- Dental floss - Vincenzo Curcio used floss to file down the bars.
- Chili powder - Five prisoners from Pakistan threw spice powder into the eyes of a warden and ran out of the prison.
- Potato - John Dillinger stole a raw potato, carved it into the shape of a gun, painted it black with boot polish and held up a warden with it.
- Topics
- According to Anna Freud, when children play with their food, they are really playing with their excrement.
- Tangent: Sigmund Freud's fear of the number 62.
- William Banting and the invention of diets.
- Hoover the talking seal.
- Tangent: A poem about Hoover the talking seal is written by Roger.
- The Bastille held only seven prisoners, one of whom thought he was Julius Caesar.
- Tangent: The Marquis de Sade's imprisonment in the Bastille, and the loss of his work.
- The Kray twins were imprisoned in the Tower of London due to desertion from National Service.
- Tangent: Ron Kray's homosexuality, and the twins' relationship with David Bailey.
- General ignorance
- The four main religions of India are Hinduism, Islam, Christian and Sikhism. (Forfeit: Buddhism)
- No-one milks a yak, because yaks are the male of the species. (Forfeit: Milkmen)
- Tangent: Yak hair is the longest of any animal.
- Crabs have 10 legs. (Forfeit: 8)
- Tangent: Crab lice have 6 legs.
- Tangent: A poem about crabs by Roger.
- George Washington did not cut down cherry trees. It was a myth invented by Parson Weems.
- The panel have to correctly identify a picture of the Yeomen of the Guard. (Forfeit: Beefeaters)
[edit] Episode 12 "Domesticity"
- Broadcast dates
- 8 December 2006 (BBC Four)
- 15 December 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-64 points)
- Jo Brand (-18 points) 13th appearance
- Phill Jupitus (-4 points) 12th appearance, 5th of series
- Jessica Stevenson (-3 points) 1st and only appearance
- Topics
- Dry cleaning involves solvents, so it is not really dry at all.
- Tangent: "Dry cleaning" is term used by spies to see if they are being followed or not.
- Raymond Davis Jr. used dry cleaning fluid when researching in neutrinos.
- The first vacuum cleaner was horse drawn.
- Tangent: Jo tries to guess her own quote: "How do you know if it's time to clean up? Take a look in your pants and if there's a penis there, it's not time."
- The first practical dish washer was invented to clean dishes more safely. (Forfeit: Quickly, Cleanly)
- The second greatest cause of death for women up to the year 1800 was cooking. Childbirth was the greatest cause. (Forfeit: Domestic violence)
- To create the impression that the house has been cleaned when you have not, spray furniture polish behind the radiator.
- Silk and spaghetti can both stick to brick walls.
- Rhubarb and brown sauce can be used to clean copper and silver.
- Tangent: Phill mocks Stephen for his mention of copper kettles and later mentions Stephen's Twinings adverts.
- Using your own saliva is the cheapest way of removing blood stains from your clothes.
- The bottom door hinge is placed higher because of the effect of foreshortening.
- Tangent: Stephen and Hugh Laurie's plasterers were Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse.
- General ignorance
- Pea soup and baked bean juice are drinks made from beans. (Forfeit: Coffee)
- "Have you ever slid down a banister?" No, because people slide down the balustrade. (Forfeit: Yes)
- William Wordsworth could not smell. He suffered from Anosmia. (Forfeit: Daffodils)
[edit] Episode 13 – Christmas special
- Broadcast dates
- 15 December 2006 (BBC Four)
- 22 December 2006 (BBC Two)
- Panellists
- Alan Davies (-53 points)
- Jo Brand 14th appearance (-17 points)
- Rich Hall 14th appearance (-9 points)
- Dara Ó Briain 4th appearance (2 points)
- Theme
- All the questions in General ignorance are themed on Saints.
- Topics
- Christmas is celebrated on 25 December because it is the birthday of the Roman God Mithras, who bears similarities with Jesus Christ. (Forfeit: Jesus's Birthday)
- The Queen, after Christmas lunch, watches herself doing Royal Christmas Message on television. (Forfeit: Goes for a walk)
- Tangent: What the Royals do on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Stephen being booed because he gets his Christmas Tree from the Sandringham Estate, as does the Queen.
- Photocopiers suffer the most at office Christmas parties, due to people photocopying their buttocks and inserting things into the machine.
- Champagne was invented by the English. (Forfeit: The French)
- Tangent: Jo attempts to make ginger beer and vodka, and Dara's time as a barman. He tells the correct way to serve a pint of Guinness.
- In Catalonia, there is a figure in the Nativity scene called a Caganer, which squats and defecates normally in the corner.
- Turkeys in Norfolk were given little leather boots for Christmas, when they were driven from Norfolk to London, and later to the New World.
- Tangent: In English, Turkeys are so called because the first merchants to sell them were from Turkey. Nearly all the other countries refer to them as Indian. See List of names for the Wild Turkey.
- General ignorance
- Saints from Ireland include Saint Conleth, Saint Brigid of Kildare and Saint Kevin of Glendalough (Forfeit: Saint Patrick)
- The pointing fingers on the The Creation of Adam were painted by an unknown Papal restorer, after the original fingers fell off. (Forfeit: Michelangelo)
- Tangent: Alan thinks he looks similar to Saint Bartholomew, but later thinks he looks like Saint Sebastian.
- A man called Father Christmas died in Essex on 30 May 1564. Christmas is a popular surname in Essex. (Forfeit: He's not dead)
- Tangent: Stephen tells of people who irritate Jesus College, Cambridge by ringing them up on Christmas Day and singing "Happy Birthday to You." Saint Nicholas himself was from Turkey.
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