QI (2003) s12e15 Episode Script
Long Lost
APPLAUSE Bon soir, guten abend, guten abend, guten abend, guten abend, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening and welcome, willkommen, vient de nous, nache a QI, where tonight, at long last, it's the Long Lost show.
Let's meet the long-trousered Jimmy Carr.
APPLAUSE The long-suffering Claudia O'Doherty.
The long-awaited Suggs.
And a lost cause, Alan Davies.
And now for some long-form buzzers.
Jimmy goes GONG That is long-form.
- I'm not finished.
- Thank you.
Claudia goes SUSTAINED ELECTRIC GUITAR NOTE It's going to be a very long show.
Sometimes we shorten the cues - you'd be surprised.
Suggs goes OUT OF TUNE TRUMPET PLAYS I thought as much.
HITS DEEP NOTE That's better.
And Alan goes FLY BUZZES LAUGHTER Ah, ooh, bitter, very bitter.
Now, we haven't been going long and already I've lost a lavatory, so if you spot it, let me know by playing your Spend a Penny.
Spend a Penny and if you're right TOILET FLUSHES .
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there'll be points.
If you're wrong, there may be deductions, it's up to me to decide.
But that's your joker.
So, how could living in a tiny flat stop you from losing your marbles? - CLAUDIA'S BUZZER - Yes, Claudia? If you had a very small house, you wouldn't be worried that there was a killer in the next room.
That's something that I worry about in my house.
- Do you? - Yes.
But if it was small, very small, one room, I would be fine, I wouldn't be scared at all.
- Wouldn't you need a Jodie Foster-style sort of safe? - A panic room.
- The panic room.
- Well, the whole house is the panic room.
- Oh, well, I guess it would be.
- If it's a small flat, yeah.
- I guess it is, isn't it? - Yes.
So how many points do I get for that? - I think you may have come in with a rather optimistic frame of mind here.
- OK, right.
Do you think you watched too many horror films where it's always the phone call came from in the house? - They're calling from inside the house.
- House.
- Yeah.
Well, if they're not in the house, they can't get you.
Your horror movies sound fine.
There's so many genres and sometimes - there's the cabin in the woods genre, high school ones, different kinds.
- There's camp ones.
- Camp ones, exactly.
I mean, not camp in the sense of - No, no.
But camp horror would be quite fun, wouldn't it - "Ooh! Ooh! Ooh, you gave me a start!" I think you've created a genre right there.
I think I may have done.
I think I may.
Oh, something just stabbed me in the back! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.
Behave, all of you.
Now, let's return to the question, which was, Suggs? It was why would you be less likely to lose your marbles in a small flat? Apart from the fact if you're playing marbles, - there's less distance for them to go.
- That's a very good thought.
It's actually, we're actually being figurative here.
It's a very common thing that happens, when you've gone into a room and you've forgotten what you've gone into it for.
You know.
I've had that inI had that at the Hammersmith Apollo once.
Walked out on stage and went, "What have I? Oh, jokes, right.
OK.
" Shit.
There was a study at Notre Dame, Notre Dame - as they call it in America - University, which discovered that the key thing that makes you forget is crossing a threshold.
In other words, going from one room to another.
If you have a one-room flat, it's unlikely to happen.
There's something that happens in the brain.
It may be an evolutionary thing when you move from one sort of landscape - from a thicket to open country as it were - the equivalent of a threshold, that for some reason, you no longer need the same tools to cope with that particular environment or habitat, and so you, you know, we somehow seem to forget it.
But I mean, for instance, if you were in B&Q, that's one big room, isn't it? I mean, you don't cross any thresholds.
But True, when you go in there, you do forget everything you were meant to - I meant to get those Rawlplugs and the other things - You forget the day.
- The butt plugs.
- The reason why you're alive.
- Where the car is, who you're married to.
Why you haven't killed yourself earlier.
Oh, Suggs, Suggs! Let's not go down there.
No, but I'm just saying, it is one big room.
I mean, it is a big room, isn't it? Yeah.
Well, yeah, crossing a threshold makes you lose your thread.
What's the world's longest living thing? SUGGS' BUZZER Suggs? A giant redwood.
Good answer.
Not correct, but good.
They do live a very, very long time.
And it's not a klaxon.
- There was a clam.
- A clam? A clam that some scientists killed last year, that was 500 years old.
- That some scientists killed? - Yeah, it was an accident.
But they were like, "Guys, great news, we've found the oldest thing in the world" "We killed it, but it's really old.
" And it was over 500 years old.
This is well over 500 years old.
Possibly immortal.
Is that picture a clue? There is some there, I think, well, you can see Shall we have a klaxon? Do you want a klaxon? What are you going to say? Brucie.
KLAXON The biggest thing in the world, got to have a bit of fun.
- Obviously if you're watching this - Love, respect, everything.
What a great man he was.
Yeah.
We loved you, Brucie.
And if you're still, if you're still hanging on, well - well done.
- Stop it! - Lichen.
- Yes, is the right answer.
Lichen.
But no Nothing to do with the lavatory, but we don't count that as playing it.
It is lichen, lichen, there it is.
How many forms of life make up lichen, as it were? Well, I don't even understand the question - how many forms of life? Well, you know, sometimes you get symbiosis, which creates what seems to be one thing but is in fact made up of other things.
- Okey-doke.
- Things living together, symbiotic.
And this is two organisms, it's fungus and algae.
- Fungus and algae.
- Yeah.
- Living together.
- Yeah, that's right.
- Is it, we're making the worst ever sitcom? - Well, one provides The fungus They're living together but they don't get on.
Oh, they're so very different.
Fungus the Bogeyman and Algy, Algy from Biggles.
I've got Ebony and Ivory in my head now.
- Fungus and Algae.
- Well, the fungus provides a cosy environment and the algae has the equipment to photosynthesise, and they live happily together on stones and in incredible environments.
- That's the oldest thing? - Well, there's a 9,000 years old one in Lapland, probably the world's oldest living thing, as far as we know.
They're everywhere.
They're the dominant vegetation on 8% of the world's surface.
Not just they exist there, they are the dominant vegetation.
They can be very tasty.
There's aPete Townshend, you know, you remember Pete Townshend.
- Indeed.
- No, I don't mean Pete Townshend.
That can't be right.
Go in another room, see if you can remember.
- Pete Waterman.
- Aha! Pete Waterman.
Two very different animals.
They are, very different.
That's a very different set of jokes in my head.
- I've got very little in that category.
- Neither of them are - acceptable.
- Dear, oh, dear! So, Pete Waterman, his hobbies.
Model railway collecting.
- Model railways, very good.
- Yes, yes.
- Where might you use lichen or? - All over his face.
No, sorry, no.
- I don't know what I thought there.
- There's a kind of lichen that's known as Caribou Moss, so it's a moss-like lichen.
And that's it there.
And it's used by model railway enthusiasts for what? - Grass.
- Oh, who put that - To create grass.
- Not grass.
- Bushes.
- Bushes and trees.
- And little furry green wigs.
Hang on a second, can we take a moment to look at that photo and ask what the hell is going on there? That feels to me like a zoo with an enclosure that's just gone Stick 'em in together.
There's been some budget cuts, they can work it out.
- It's gorgeous.
- You can't put them in with them! - It's so wonderful.
Yes, you can.
- A lot of those guys need water.
- Well, it's very near the coast, as you can see.
- How is that near the coast? It's slithering down, all the little waters running down to the sea.
Look at the poor fat fella at the back.
Look at him.
He's just stranded there going, well - It does look a bit odd - Hang on.
"Hello, this feels wrong.
Hello? "I shouldn't be in with the deer.
Hello?" The photographer is giving his usual lie, which is - "Just one more, just one more.
" "Hello? The deer have drunk all the water!" They are reindeer.
FAINT GROANS Come on, that's bloody good! "Rain-deer.
" But lichen, liken, litchen, however you want to say it.
There seems to be no clear consensus as to whether it is lichen.
But as the great performance poet Rory Motion put it, "You call it liken, I call it lichen, let's call the whole thing moss.
" AUDIENCE GROAN Now what's What's long, begins with L and gets you sleepy, horny and pregnant? - Suggsie.
- Lunch.
Well, that's pretty true.
How do you know the pet name I've got for my penis? That's just terrible.
Is it Larry? Is it Larry? - Is it Larry? - "Meet Larry.
" I would think it's probably Lancelot.
Oh, my goodness! Well, it's actually called Lancelot, because of all the boils.
AUDIENCE: Ooh! Hey, they booked me - what were they hoping for? So it's horny, sleepy.
Horny, sleepy, pregnant, yeah.
Is it, it sounds like Rohypnol.
No.
Lying down? Lying down would kind of make you feel all those things.
This is a foodstuff.
- That makes you pregnant.
- Leeks.
Leeks, good, good, you're in the right area, - you're in the vegetable garden.
That's where I want you to be.
- Legumes? - Lettuce.
- Lettuce.
- Lettuce is the right answer.
- What? - Lettuce.
Ooh, look at that.
Phwor! Oh, Stephen, oh! This is a family show, take it away.
Imagine if those Inuits were here now, eh - forget the lichen, - let me at that.
- What? I would ride that like a stolen bike.
You're bad.
Who gets horny looking at lettuce? Are you now pregnant? Hippocrates, the father of medicine - he described its opiate - qualities, as did Beatrix Potter, in Peter Rabbit.
- Soporific? - Soporific was exactly the word she used, very good.
- Indeed.
Yes.
- Points for that.
And they very nearly ended up in Mrs McGregor's rabbit pie as a result of falling asleep.
Anyway, yes, lettuce is slightly soporific-making.
However, it's been bred less and less so.
But wild lettuce in really strong quantities.
Rather than, Claudia, it making you feel sleepy, it makes you feel? Horny.
Horny.
Horny.
Horny and bouncy.
- Right.
We'll see.
- And therefore it's a kind of stimulant, which is tropane alkaloid, which is the same as is found in cocaine.
And so it can give you a bit of a kick.
I'm getting down the greengrocers.
Well, they did try and sell it in America under names like L'Opium, with an L, and an apostrophe - and Lettucene.
But most were made from ordinary garden lettuce.
It has to be wild lettuce that you find.
And it shouldn't be fed to rabbits, because it upsets their tummies, actually.
Victorian picnickers wrapped lettuce around what, for picnics? - Their penises.
- Meat? That's, if in doubt, it's going to be a knob.
- It is a knob.
The word knob is used with this substance.
- Butter? Yes! That's absolutely right.
They'd wrap it round butter to keep it cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, there it is.
- What do they wrap round their penises? - I don't know.
- Butter.
And don't new mothers put cabbage leaves in their bras to - cool their cracked, sore nipples? - Yep.
- I didn't know that, is that true? - Yeah.
- Is that the thing? Yeah.
Cracking Cracking of the nipple is not a laughing matter.
- No, I wouldn't want - Not a laughing matter.
- Oh, ouch.
And it doesn't make the baby any less hungry.
And is it any easier if you express into a machine, or is that worse? Well I don't know all the details.
No.
You agree to do two-thirds of the nappy work, quite a lot of the driving round in a car when it's screaming.
I just remember the "Argh, ooh, argh!" But it's a great way for new mums to express themselves.
Quite.
Anyway, lettuce is good for all sorts of things, except rabbits, apparently.
What's the world's longest experiment? QI.
That's certainly possibly the world's longest failed experiment.
I've definitely had a couple of double physics on a Wednesday afternoon that dragged.
Hmm, I know what you mean.
This is really quite long for one experiment.
If I tell you when it started, it may give you an idea of how old it is.
It was started in 1840, at least that's what we think.
It may actually have begun 15 years earlier than that.
And is it still, it's not still going? It's still going.
Yeah.
Is it on animals? I think they've got to just call a day on that, haven't they? Just, that homework is going to be late, is all we know for sure.
- Oh, is it curing the common cold? - No, if I said it was a pile, does that help you? Oh, is it? It's not like continental drift or something, is it? No, the word "pile" - what does it mean in French? Oh, pile.
Pile.
Yes, in English how would we say that? JIMMY DOES FRENCH IMPRESSION Yeah.
Battery, the French call the battery a pile, a pile, a heap, a stack.
And this one is in Oxford, in a scientific laboratory and has been there since 1840.
And as you can see, below it are two domes and a clanger.
And when one clanger hits a bell, it causes a charge to make it go and hit the other one.
It's rung ten billion times since it was started.
Oh, it's annoying for the neighbours, isn't it? Fortunately, it's incredibly quiet, because it's inside a double bell jar.
But the actual battery won't run out for 350 years, they think.
get in touch with Apple? Because my phone runs out like about every hour.
I don't think you need worry, there's some good scientists in Israel who've come up with an extraordinary, almost you might call biological battery, which they've demonstrated the concept by charging a phone in 45 seconds, fully charging it.
Really very impressive.
It will be ready to go to market in a couple of years.
I'm very impressed with 350 year battery life.
It is damn good but it's a tiny amount that's needed in order to operate.
They could have done something more interesting with it.
- I mean, say what you want about the Duracell bunny, it's fun to watch.
- You're right.
It has a lovely clang and it goes, you know, something.
So, that's the Clarendon Dry Pile, the world's longest scientific experiment.
It's been quietly ringing bells in the City of Dreaming Spires for 174 years.
What use is half a copy of the Daily Telegraph? That's a very pleasing photograph.
Makes your butt look good.
Look at that, that looks good.
Yes, it does, doesn't it? That is a fine, fine pair of nates.
Footballers used to put magazines down the back of their socks, in the days when you were allowed to tackle from behind.
Well, that's interesting.
So to stop them getting hacked.
Where they got kicked in the legs.
- Is it, well, they used to put newspaper, fish and chips were - Yes.
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sold in newspaper, and it was because it was the cheapest way to get a clean wrapper.
Absolutely, but I'll draw a line now, because you'll get it just by default.
It's the Spend A Penny question.
- The lavatorial answer.
- So half a copy of the - Daily Telegraph.
- Wow, that's a lot going on - I know what you're thinking of, you're immediately thinking of essuyage, of wiping, aren't you? That's not the answer.
It was used until the 1970s as a test, as an index, to test? - Oh, if it could flush away.
- Yes? - The length of time spent on - Not that, that's a very good - But if you put it down the toilet, flush that away - If you could flush it.
A lavatory had to be powerful enough to be able to flush down half a Daily Telegraph.
- That's quite a lot to flush away, isn't it? - Yeah.
- It's a lot to flush, isn't it? - It is, it is.
And it's Hell of a lot of shit in the Daily Telegraph.
Sometimes LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE - Very good.
- Boom, boom.
Ha, ha, nice one.
- Not a unanimous round of applause, I noticed.
- Not unanimous, no.
They now use a synthetic sludge stimulant.
- What, to read? - No! - Christ! - No, that would do it.
- Jesus! - It's in the Daily Mail.
- Yeah, that's the Daily Mail.
No, it's LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE It's synthetic sludge stimulant, a mixture of yeast, water, seed husks, peanut oil, miso paste and shredded tissue, otherwise known as fake poo.
Unilever developed it for their Domex Toilet Academy, which is in India.
They hope to be able to install for World Toilet Day, 2015.
It's a very important thing though, a third of the world's population don't have a flushing toilet.
Absolutely.
In India, a staggering but only 50% have flush loos.
Yeah.
Priorities, and it's all priorities.
According to insurance claims, a staggering 800,000 mobile phones - are accidentally flushed down the loo in Britain each year.
- At least they don't have that.
Quite, exactly.
- So - They just needed a packet of vegetarian sausages, take it from me.
- Really? - That would probably be the closest poo replica you can find.
- Yes.
- But they're absolutely delicious.
- I'm sure they are.
Anyway, what would you do with the world's longest corkscrew? Undo the world's most convivial bottle of wine.
- Well, exactly.
That's perfect.
- Obviously.
- I would make, I would make a sex toy for pigs.
Oh, that's very good.
- Because you know about the fact - The pig's got a little corkscrew - .
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a little curly corkscrew of a knoblet.
- Yes.
- Not just pigs as well.
- Oh, is it not for taking out plugs - Ducks.
LAUGHTER Have you been looking for someone who goes the other way? As it were.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Oh, dear.
- I love it when it's a genuine - I know! So, this is a helical structure.
It's not really a corkscrew, but it's the longest that occurs in nature.
And I have one.
I mean, I say I have one, I don't have one growing about my person, I have one on my person, as it were, now it's on my person.
I can't believe you're being so blase about this, you've killed a unicorn! - LAUGHTER - Yeah.
- You're a monster! - Oh, JK Rowling gave me permission.
Um, it's not a unicorn, though some believe the unicorn myth sprang from this - Is it the narwhal? - Narwhal! Absolutely right.
And - Very good.
- I'm pretty sure that's made up.
- Yeah.
- What is a narwhal? - This guy.
- There it is.
- What? - I know.
Isn't it astonishing? - No way! You think it's been glued on by someone at the Natural History Unit in Bristol, but it is a real creature.
It's a whale, and the word narwhal means dead body, 'Nar' in Norsk, because it's a rather grey, unappetising-looking flesh.
But what do you think it is? Do you think it's horn, or tooth, or what? - I imagine it's hair, always hair, isn't it? - In this case it isn't, - it is actually a tooth.
It's a tooth without enamel.
It is a single tooth that bursts out of it.
I mean, it's phenomenal.
And nobody quite knows, A, why it's corkscrewed and what it's for.
The assumption people make, because it's on the male, must be that it's for fighting other males for the right to mate.
But nobody's ever observed two Oh, well, hang on LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE No.
They rub them together as a bonding thing, it's not fighting, they don't hurt each other.
- Rub them together as a bonding sort of thing? - Yeah.
- That's right.
- They've been to private school.
Keep telling yourself that, Stephen, I don't know who you're fooling.
It's the only way they ever get to chew.
They get a grape between them and kind of - They're very much the Ken Dodd of the oceans.
- They are, aren't they? They actually eat their food by hoovering it up and just inhaling it, virtually.
They're not krill eaters, like a lot of the larger whales.
But it's fascinating that a creature like that, you know, we think we cover the world with our natural history documentaries there are whole channels devoted to it, and people go out in boats and they're quietly watching.
But we still just don't know what that's for.
That's, I think it's nice when there's a mystery about animals.
We're very grateful to Raff Fells, who leant us his snooker cue, and - Maybe they are just attractive to the female whales.
- It may be that.
- Yeah, it may just be that.
- It may be like, ooh, I like your one.
- Yeah.
Yes, anyway, what human endurance record - gets broken every eight months? - Pregnancy.
LAUGHTER Just stop and think now.
How is that an endurance record? Every eight months, on average, the world's oldest person - Dies.
Or something like that.
- Brilliant Claudia, absolutely right.
Every eight months on average, yeah, the world's oldest person dies.
At the moment they may be the oldest person in the world somewhere in, I don't know, Kazakhstan, or somewhere.
- There are certain places - It's normally Japan.
- Well, Japan is - It's always Japan.
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Japan, Costa Rica, nearly always near the sea.
Sardinia is another place.
- Bournemouth.
- Bournemouth, maybe.
- LAUGHTER Who's that? Do you remember her? She is a very extraordinary exception, who stayed the oldest person for a very long time.
She died in 1997, aged 122 and 164 days, so 122 and a third and the rest.
She was a smoker and she hogged pole position for more than two years.
She died in '97, she knew van Gogh.
And Bruce Forsyth.
- LAUGHTER - And Bruce Forsyth, of course, - absolutely.
She was a fabulous figure.
She said, "the only wrinkle I have, I'm sitting on.
" LAUGHTER But terrific, terrifically humorous and extraordinary woman and her name was Jeanne Calment.
And that's exactly where she lived, around Arles.
Extraordinary.
Lots of olive oil, obviously.
That seems to be good.
There are parts of the world where people seem to live unusually long, they're called "blue zones" and you can see them there.
Loma Linda, Nicoya, Costa Rica, Sardinia, Icaria, which is where Icarus is said to have dropped into the sea, and Okinawa.
All of them by the sea, so maybe seafood is a good thing, and omega three's which come from, sorry, am I in the way? - I'm just checking Australia.
- Oh, no, I'm afraid - Doesn't look good, does not look good.
- No luck there.
- I'll tell you where a great place to live is, the sea.
- Yes.
LAUGHTER - It really feels like - That's very blue.
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it really feels like you could last there.
- Yeah.
- Highly blue.
- Dry land seems to be holding us back.
So, anyway, there we are with age.
Someone breaks the world's oldest living person record every eight months, which brings us stumbling into the long lost land of General Ignorance.
Fingers on buzzers if you would please.
Now, what colour is the dark side of the moon? Well, you can't see it, Stephen, so no-one really knows.
Oh, that's not true at all.
The dark side of the moon is the part which is dark when it's That dreadful Pink Floyd album that won't go out of the charts.
- That lasted.
- That thing, yeah.
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a very long time, sold 50 million copies and counting.
But you can see a horned moon or a new moon, you can see the sliver and then the dark bit.
It reflects, what does it reflect? It is light, we'll show you a bit of horned moon here.
There's a horned moon and there's a shine on it that comes as a reflection of the Earth.
So, it's actually a kind of blue, but it's not really blue, it's turquoise, according to the Mauna Loa lab, the observatory in Hawaii.
So it has earth-shine, which is turquoise.
That's what the colour of the dark side of the moon is.
- In case you wanted to know.
- It's lovely.
- Very nice.
At least, I say "the moon," but how many moons does the earth have? - Oh, God! - Yeah - LAUGHTER - BUZZER - Most definitely only one.
- Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
- Of course.
- KLAXON SOUNDS - It had to be that.
- Of course.
- Yeah.
- It is the moon, I think I'm with him.
- Yeah.
- They've changed it.
- KLAXON SOUNDS - They call it LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE The one and only moon! - Well, there are moons around, around other planets - The moon in June, all them songs.
- They're all about "the moon.
" - There are lots of orbiting objects, aren't there? - Some of them are far away.
- Lots of orbiting objects, yes.
We gave an argument there were hundreds, last time, to confuse you, but there's another argument which seems compelling and interesting, which is that there are none.
Which is to say that the moon is not a moon.
- The moon actually qualifies - Christ! We've discovered it's turquoise and now it's not there.
- LAUGHTER - No, it's there, but it maybe qualifies as a planet.
A wanderer, a planet Well, the Clangers lived on it, didn't they? We know that.
- Soup Dragon and all that.
- That's true.
In order to be a planet, the International Astronomical Union, in 2006, laid down definitions.
These were the ones that booted out Pluto, I think.
- So, it has to orbit the sun - Right.
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it has to be massive enough for its own gravity to make it round.
It has to have cleared its neighbourhood of smaller objects.
The moon comfortably fulfils the first two.
On the third it makes more sense to say that the Earth and moon TOGETHER have cleared their neighbourhood.
The Earth certainly hasn't cleared the moon, so they are a binary system, like binary stars.
- Like lichen.
- Yeah, exactly, exactly.
So, there is a genuine possibility some people LAUGHTER And the sun's gravitational effect on the moon is more than twice that of the Earth's.
So we don't have nearly as much gravitational effect.
There is a good reason to suspect that we are actually in possession of a fellow planet.
It goes round the earth, though.
- The earth orbits the moon as well.
- What? - Yeah.
- Does it? - Hmm.
- I know.
Go use an astrolabe - LAUGHTER So we've been consistently inconsistent about this, but tonight we're saying that the Earth doesn't have a moon at all.
So there.
That was a slightly mean question to end on, so let's have a liquid lark.
I've got some liquid here in the form of our very own QI water, as you can see.
And what I'm going to do is pour some, I'm going to not use the sporty Oh, God, I can't even open it.
I'm going to have to use the sporty bit, there we go.
Mmm.
- There we go.
- That's as much exercise as you get, isn't it? LAUGHTER Oh, so sporty.
What we do is we flatten this card on it and we turn it upside down and I want you to try and do this if you can.
And, Oh, God, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work.
There you go, holds up.
Hurray.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE So you should, you should be able to try that.
Whoa.
- Terrific, terrific fun.
- Yeah.
This could not possibly end in tears.
- No, no, try it, honestly.
- It could go on and on.
You just, you just turn it over There you are you see, it does work! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hang on, so, hang on.
And - Yay! - Hurray! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Wey-hey! And do you want to know something really extraordinary about this? Watch.
This should work.
Oh, leave it out.
GASPING AND APPLAUSE Shut up! - Shut the front door.
Front door.
- How about that? - That's pretty amazing, isn't it? - You're actually made of magic.
LAUGHTER - Go on, let's have a look.
- Not bad, is it? SQUEALING AND APPLAUSE That's why we gave you these! Whoa! LAUGHTER - Well, hang on a second.
- Oh! - What happened there?! - I know you know JK Rowling, but how is that done? - So, on that water-bombshell, at long last .
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at long last it is time for the scores.
And it's pretty exciting.
- In first place, it's Claudia with plus nine.
- Oh, my goodness.
- WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE - Thank you.
In .
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second place, with minus eight, is Alan Davies! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you very much.
In third place, with minus 16, it's Suggs.
APPLAUSE Which means our runaway loser, with minus 37, is Jimmy Carr.
- And this is why! - APPLAUSE END OF SHOW JINGLE So, it's good night from Claudia, Jimmy, Suggs, Alan and me and I'll leave you with the last words of the great hotelier, Conrad Hilton: "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.
" Those were his dying words.
Good night.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE WHISTLING
Let's meet the long-trousered Jimmy Carr.
APPLAUSE The long-suffering Claudia O'Doherty.
The long-awaited Suggs.
And a lost cause, Alan Davies.
And now for some long-form buzzers.
Jimmy goes GONG That is long-form.
- I'm not finished.
- Thank you.
Claudia goes SUSTAINED ELECTRIC GUITAR NOTE It's going to be a very long show.
Sometimes we shorten the cues - you'd be surprised.
Suggs goes OUT OF TUNE TRUMPET PLAYS I thought as much.
HITS DEEP NOTE That's better.
And Alan goes FLY BUZZES LAUGHTER Ah, ooh, bitter, very bitter.
Now, we haven't been going long and already I've lost a lavatory, so if you spot it, let me know by playing your Spend a Penny.
Spend a Penny and if you're right TOILET FLUSHES .
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there'll be points.
If you're wrong, there may be deductions, it's up to me to decide.
But that's your joker.
So, how could living in a tiny flat stop you from losing your marbles? - CLAUDIA'S BUZZER - Yes, Claudia? If you had a very small house, you wouldn't be worried that there was a killer in the next room.
That's something that I worry about in my house.
- Do you? - Yes.
But if it was small, very small, one room, I would be fine, I wouldn't be scared at all.
- Wouldn't you need a Jodie Foster-style sort of safe? - A panic room.
- The panic room.
- Well, the whole house is the panic room.
- Oh, well, I guess it would be.
- If it's a small flat, yeah.
- I guess it is, isn't it? - Yes.
So how many points do I get for that? - I think you may have come in with a rather optimistic frame of mind here.
- OK, right.
Do you think you watched too many horror films where it's always the phone call came from in the house? - They're calling from inside the house.
- House.
- Yeah.
Well, if they're not in the house, they can't get you.
Your horror movies sound fine.
There's so many genres and sometimes - there's the cabin in the woods genre, high school ones, different kinds.
- There's camp ones.
- Camp ones, exactly.
I mean, not camp in the sense of - No, no.
But camp horror would be quite fun, wouldn't it - "Ooh! Ooh! Ooh, you gave me a start!" I think you've created a genre right there.
I think I may have done.
I think I may.
Oh, something just stabbed me in the back! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.
Behave, all of you.
Now, let's return to the question, which was, Suggs? It was why would you be less likely to lose your marbles in a small flat? Apart from the fact if you're playing marbles, - there's less distance for them to go.
- That's a very good thought.
It's actually, we're actually being figurative here.
It's a very common thing that happens, when you've gone into a room and you've forgotten what you've gone into it for.
You know.
I've had that inI had that at the Hammersmith Apollo once.
Walked out on stage and went, "What have I? Oh, jokes, right.
OK.
" Shit.
There was a study at Notre Dame, Notre Dame - as they call it in America - University, which discovered that the key thing that makes you forget is crossing a threshold.
In other words, going from one room to another.
If you have a one-room flat, it's unlikely to happen.
There's something that happens in the brain.
It may be an evolutionary thing when you move from one sort of landscape - from a thicket to open country as it were - the equivalent of a threshold, that for some reason, you no longer need the same tools to cope with that particular environment or habitat, and so you, you know, we somehow seem to forget it.
But I mean, for instance, if you were in B&Q, that's one big room, isn't it? I mean, you don't cross any thresholds.
But True, when you go in there, you do forget everything you were meant to - I meant to get those Rawlplugs and the other things - You forget the day.
- The butt plugs.
- The reason why you're alive.
- Where the car is, who you're married to.
Why you haven't killed yourself earlier.
Oh, Suggs, Suggs! Let's not go down there.
No, but I'm just saying, it is one big room.
I mean, it is a big room, isn't it? Yeah.
Well, yeah, crossing a threshold makes you lose your thread.
What's the world's longest living thing? SUGGS' BUZZER Suggs? A giant redwood.
Good answer.
Not correct, but good.
They do live a very, very long time.
And it's not a klaxon.
- There was a clam.
- A clam? A clam that some scientists killed last year, that was 500 years old.
- That some scientists killed? - Yeah, it was an accident.
But they were like, "Guys, great news, we've found the oldest thing in the world" "We killed it, but it's really old.
" And it was over 500 years old.
This is well over 500 years old.
Possibly immortal.
Is that picture a clue? There is some there, I think, well, you can see Shall we have a klaxon? Do you want a klaxon? What are you going to say? Brucie.
KLAXON The biggest thing in the world, got to have a bit of fun.
- Obviously if you're watching this - Love, respect, everything.
What a great man he was.
Yeah.
We loved you, Brucie.
And if you're still, if you're still hanging on, well - well done.
- Stop it! - Lichen.
- Yes, is the right answer.
Lichen.
But no Nothing to do with the lavatory, but we don't count that as playing it.
It is lichen, lichen, there it is.
How many forms of life make up lichen, as it were? Well, I don't even understand the question - how many forms of life? Well, you know, sometimes you get symbiosis, which creates what seems to be one thing but is in fact made up of other things.
- Okey-doke.
- Things living together, symbiotic.
And this is two organisms, it's fungus and algae.
- Fungus and algae.
- Yeah.
- Living together.
- Yeah, that's right.
- Is it, we're making the worst ever sitcom? - Well, one provides The fungus They're living together but they don't get on.
Oh, they're so very different.
Fungus the Bogeyman and Algy, Algy from Biggles.
I've got Ebony and Ivory in my head now.
- Fungus and Algae.
- Well, the fungus provides a cosy environment and the algae has the equipment to photosynthesise, and they live happily together on stones and in incredible environments.
- That's the oldest thing? - Well, there's a 9,000 years old one in Lapland, probably the world's oldest living thing, as far as we know.
They're everywhere.
They're the dominant vegetation on 8% of the world's surface.
Not just they exist there, they are the dominant vegetation.
They can be very tasty.
There's aPete Townshend, you know, you remember Pete Townshend.
- Indeed.
- No, I don't mean Pete Townshend.
That can't be right.
Go in another room, see if you can remember.
- Pete Waterman.
- Aha! Pete Waterman.
Two very different animals.
They are, very different.
That's a very different set of jokes in my head.
- I've got very little in that category.
- Neither of them are - acceptable.
- Dear, oh, dear! So, Pete Waterman, his hobbies.
Model railway collecting.
- Model railways, very good.
- Yes, yes.
- Where might you use lichen or? - All over his face.
No, sorry, no.
- I don't know what I thought there.
- There's a kind of lichen that's known as Caribou Moss, so it's a moss-like lichen.
And that's it there.
And it's used by model railway enthusiasts for what? - Grass.
- Oh, who put that - To create grass.
- Not grass.
- Bushes.
- Bushes and trees.
- And little furry green wigs.
Hang on a second, can we take a moment to look at that photo and ask what the hell is going on there? That feels to me like a zoo with an enclosure that's just gone Stick 'em in together.
There's been some budget cuts, they can work it out.
- It's gorgeous.
- You can't put them in with them! - It's so wonderful.
Yes, you can.
- A lot of those guys need water.
- Well, it's very near the coast, as you can see.
- How is that near the coast? It's slithering down, all the little waters running down to the sea.
Look at the poor fat fella at the back.
Look at him.
He's just stranded there going, well - It does look a bit odd - Hang on.
"Hello, this feels wrong.
Hello? "I shouldn't be in with the deer.
Hello?" The photographer is giving his usual lie, which is - "Just one more, just one more.
" "Hello? The deer have drunk all the water!" They are reindeer.
FAINT GROANS Come on, that's bloody good! "Rain-deer.
" But lichen, liken, litchen, however you want to say it.
There seems to be no clear consensus as to whether it is lichen.
But as the great performance poet Rory Motion put it, "You call it liken, I call it lichen, let's call the whole thing moss.
" AUDIENCE GROAN Now what's What's long, begins with L and gets you sleepy, horny and pregnant? - Suggsie.
- Lunch.
Well, that's pretty true.
How do you know the pet name I've got for my penis? That's just terrible.
Is it Larry? Is it Larry? - Is it Larry? - "Meet Larry.
" I would think it's probably Lancelot.
Oh, my goodness! Well, it's actually called Lancelot, because of all the boils.
AUDIENCE: Ooh! Hey, they booked me - what were they hoping for? So it's horny, sleepy.
Horny, sleepy, pregnant, yeah.
Is it, it sounds like Rohypnol.
No.
Lying down? Lying down would kind of make you feel all those things.
This is a foodstuff.
- That makes you pregnant.
- Leeks.
Leeks, good, good, you're in the right area, - you're in the vegetable garden.
That's where I want you to be.
- Legumes? - Lettuce.
- Lettuce.
- Lettuce is the right answer.
- What? - Lettuce.
Ooh, look at that.
Phwor! Oh, Stephen, oh! This is a family show, take it away.
Imagine if those Inuits were here now, eh - forget the lichen, - let me at that.
- What? I would ride that like a stolen bike.
You're bad.
Who gets horny looking at lettuce? Are you now pregnant? Hippocrates, the father of medicine - he described its opiate - qualities, as did Beatrix Potter, in Peter Rabbit.
- Soporific? - Soporific was exactly the word she used, very good.
- Indeed.
Yes.
- Points for that.
And they very nearly ended up in Mrs McGregor's rabbit pie as a result of falling asleep.
Anyway, yes, lettuce is slightly soporific-making.
However, it's been bred less and less so.
But wild lettuce in really strong quantities.
Rather than, Claudia, it making you feel sleepy, it makes you feel? Horny.
Horny.
Horny.
Horny and bouncy.
- Right.
We'll see.
- And therefore it's a kind of stimulant, which is tropane alkaloid, which is the same as is found in cocaine.
And so it can give you a bit of a kick.
I'm getting down the greengrocers.
Well, they did try and sell it in America under names like L'Opium, with an L, and an apostrophe - and Lettucene.
But most were made from ordinary garden lettuce.
It has to be wild lettuce that you find.
And it shouldn't be fed to rabbits, because it upsets their tummies, actually.
Victorian picnickers wrapped lettuce around what, for picnics? - Their penises.
- Meat? That's, if in doubt, it's going to be a knob.
- It is a knob.
The word knob is used with this substance.
- Butter? Yes! That's absolutely right.
They'd wrap it round butter to keep it cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, there it is.
- What do they wrap round their penises? - I don't know.
- Butter.
And don't new mothers put cabbage leaves in their bras to - cool their cracked, sore nipples? - Yep.
- I didn't know that, is that true? - Yeah.
- Is that the thing? Yeah.
Cracking Cracking of the nipple is not a laughing matter.
- No, I wouldn't want - Not a laughing matter.
- Oh, ouch.
And it doesn't make the baby any less hungry.
And is it any easier if you express into a machine, or is that worse? Well I don't know all the details.
No.
You agree to do two-thirds of the nappy work, quite a lot of the driving round in a car when it's screaming.
I just remember the "Argh, ooh, argh!" But it's a great way for new mums to express themselves.
Quite.
Anyway, lettuce is good for all sorts of things, except rabbits, apparently.
What's the world's longest experiment? QI.
That's certainly possibly the world's longest failed experiment.
I've definitely had a couple of double physics on a Wednesday afternoon that dragged.
Hmm, I know what you mean.
This is really quite long for one experiment.
If I tell you when it started, it may give you an idea of how old it is.
It was started in 1840, at least that's what we think.
It may actually have begun 15 years earlier than that.
And is it still, it's not still going? It's still going.
Yeah.
Is it on animals? I think they've got to just call a day on that, haven't they? Just, that homework is going to be late, is all we know for sure.
- Oh, is it curing the common cold? - No, if I said it was a pile, does that help you? Oh, is it? It's not like continental drift or something, is it? No, the word "pile" - what does it mean in French? Oh, pile.
Pile.
Yes, in English how would we say that? JIMMY DOES FRENCH IMPRESSION Yeah.
Battery, the French call the battery a pile, a pile, a heap, a stack.
And this one is in Oxford, in a scientific laboratory and has been there since 1840.
And as you can see, below it are two domes and a clanger.
And when one clanger hits a bell, it causes a charge to make it go and hit the other one.
It's rung ten billion times since it was started.
Oh, it's annoying for the neighbours, isn't it? Fortunately, it's incredibly quiet, because it's inside a double bell jar.
But the actual battery won't run out for 350 years, they think.
get in touch with Apple? Because my phone runs out like about every hour.
I don't think you need worry, there's some good scientists in Israel who've come up with an extraordinary, almost you might call biological battery, which they've demonstrated the concept by charging a phone in 45 seconds, fully charging it.
Really very impressive.
It will be ready to go to market in a couple of years.
I'm very impressed with 350 year battery life.
It is damn good but it's a tiny amount that's needed in order to operate.
They could have done something more interesting with it.
- I mean, say what you want about the Duracell bunny, it's fun to watch.
- You're right.
It has a lovely clang and it goes, you know, something.
So, that's the Clarendon Dry Pile, the world's longest scientific experiment.
It's been quietly ringing bells in the City of Dreaming Spires for 174 years.
What use is half a copy of the Daily Telegraph? That's a very pleasing photograph.
Makes your butt look good.
Look at that, that looks good.
Yes, it does, doesn't it? That is a fine, fine pair of nates.
Footballers used to put magazines down the back of their socks, in the days when you were allowed to tackle from behind.
Well, that's interesting.
So to stop them getting hacked.
Where they got kicked in the legs.
- Is it, well, they used to put newspaper, fish and chips were - Yes.
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sold in newspaper, and it was because it was the cheapest way to get a clean wrapper.
Absolutely, but I'll draw a line now, because you'll get it just by default.
It's the Spend A Penny question.
- The lavatorial answer.
- So half a copy of the - Daily Telegraph.
- Wow, that's a lot going on - I know what you're thinking of, you're immediately thinking of essuyage, of wiping, aren't you? That's not the answer.
It was used until the 1970s as a test, as an index, to test? - Oh, if it could flush away.
- Yes? - The length of time spent on - Not that, that's a very good - But if you put it down the toilet, flush that away - If you could flush it.
A lavatory had to be powerful enough to be able to flush down half a Daily Telegraph.
- That's quite a lot to flush away, isn't it? - Yeah.
- It's a lot to flush, isn't it? - It is, it is.
And it's Hell of a lot of shit in the Daily Telegraph.
Sometimes LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE - Very good.
- Boom, boom.
Ha, ha, nice one.
- Not a unanimous round of applause, I noticed.
- Not unanimous, no.
They now use a synthetic sludge stimulant.
- What, to read? - No! - Christ! - No, that would do it.
- Jesus! - It's in the Daily Mail.
- Yeah, that's the Daily Mail.
No, it's LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE It's synthetic sludge stimulant, a mixture of yeast, water, seed husks, peanut oil, miso paste and shredded tissue, otherwise known as fake poo.
Unilever developed it for their Domex Toilet Academy, which is in India.
They hope to be able to install for World Toilet Day, 2015.
It's a very important thing though, a third of the world's population don't have a flushing toilet.
Absolutely.
In India, a staggering but only 50% have flush loos.
Yeah.
Priorities, and it's all priorities.
According to insurance claims, a staggering 800,000 mobile phones - are accidentally flushed down the loo in Britain each year.
- At least they don't have that.
Quite, exactly.
- So - They just needed a packet of vegetarian sausages, take it from me.
- Really? - That would probably be the closest poo replica you can find.
- Yes.
- But they're absolutely delicious.
- I'm sure they are.
Anyway, what would you do with the world's longest corkscrew? Undo the world's most convivial bottle of wine.
- Well, exactly.
That's perfect.
- Obviously.
- I would make, I would make a sex toy for pigs.
Oh, that's very good.
- Because you know about the fact - The pig's got a little corkscrew - .
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a little curly corkscrew of a knoblet.
- Yes.
- Not just pigs as well.
- Oh, is it not for taking out plugs - Ducks.
LAUGHTER Have you been looking for someone who goes the other way? As it were.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Oh, dear.
- I love it when it's a genuine - I know! So, this is a helical structure.
It's not really a corkscrew, but it's the longest that occurs in nature.
And I have one.
I mean, I say I have one, I don't have one growing about my person, I have one on my person, as it were, now it's on my person.
I can't believe you're being so blase about this, you've killed a unicorn! - LAUGHTER - Yeah.
- You're a monster! - Oh, JK Rowling gave me permission.
Um, it's not a unicorn, though some believe the unicorn myth sprang from this - Is it the narwhal? - Narwhal! Absolutely right.
And - Very good.
- I'm pretty sure that's made up.
- Yeah.
- What is a narwhal? - This guy.
- There it is.
- What? - I know.
Isn't it astonishing? - No way! You think it's been glued on by someone at the Natural History Unit in Bristol, but it is a real creature.
It's a whale, and the word narwhal means dead body, 'Nar' in Norsk, because it's a rather grey, unappetising-looking flesh.
But what do you think it is? Do you think it's horn, or tooth, or what? - I imagine it's hair, always hair, isn't it? - In this case it isn't, - it is actually a tooth.
It's a tooth without enamel.
It is a single tooth that bursts out of it.
I mean, it's phenomenal.
And nobody quite knows, A, why it's corkscrewed and what it's for.
The assumption people make, because it's on the male, must be that it's for fighting other males for the right to mate.
But nobody's ever observed two Oh, well, hang on LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE No.
They rub them together as a bonding thing, it's not fighting, they don't hurt each other.
- Rub them together as a bonding sort of thing? - Yeah.
- That's right.
- They've been to private school.
Keep telling yourself that, Stephen, I don't know who you're fooling.
It's the only way they ever get to chew.
They get a grape between them and kind of - They're very much the Ken Dodd of the oceans.
- They are, aren't they? They actually eat their food by hoovering it up and just inhaling it, virtually.
They're not krill eaters, like a lot of the larger whales.
But it's fascinating that a creature like that, you know, we think we cover the world with our natural history documentaries there are whole channels devoted to it, and people go out in boats and they're quietly watching.
But we still just don't know what that's for.
That's, I think it's nice when there's a mystery about animals.
We're very grateful to Raff Fells, who leant us his snooker cue, and - Maybe they are just attractive to the female whales.
- It may be that.
- Yeah, it may just be that.
- It may be like, ooh, I like your one.
- Yeah.
Yes, anyway, what human endurance record - gets broken every eight months? - Pregnancy.
LAUGHTER Just stop and think now.
How is that an endurance record? Every eight months, on average, the world's oldest person - Dies.
Or something like that.
- Brilliant Claudia, absolutely right.
Every eight months on average, yeah, the world's oldest person dies.
At the moment they may be the oldest person in the world somewhere in, I don't know, Kazakhstan, or somewhere.
- There are certain places - It's normally Japan.
- Well, Japan is - It's always Japan.
- .
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Japan, Costa Rica, nearly always near the sea.
Sardinia is another place.
- Bournemouth.
- Bournemouth, maybe.
- LAUGHTER Who's that? Do you remember her? She is a very extraordinary exception, who stayed the oldest person for a very long time.
She died in 1997, aged 122 and 164 days, so 122 and a third and the rest.
She was a smoker and she hogged pole position for more than two years.
She died in '97, she knew van Gogh.
And Bruce Forsyth.
- LAUGHTER - And Bruce Forsyth, of course, - absolutely.
She was a fabulous figure.
She said, "the only wrinkle I have, I'm sitting on.
" LAUGHTER But terrific, terrifically humorous and extraordinary woman and her name was Jeanne Calment.
And that's exactly where she lived, around Arles.
Extraordinary.
Lots of olive oil, obviously.
That seems to be good.
There are parts of the world where people seem to live unusually long, they're called "blue zones" and you can see them there.
Loma Linda, Nicoya, Costa Rica, Sardinia, Icaria, which is where Icarus is said to have dropped into the sea, and Okinawa.
All of them by the sea, so maybe seafood is a good thing, and omega three's which come from, sorry, am I in the way? - I'm just checking Australia.
- Oh, no, I'm afraid - Doesn't look good, does not look good.
- No luck there.
- I'll tell you where a great place to live is, the sea.
- Yes.
LAUGHTER - It really feels like - That's very blue.
- .
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it really feels like you could last there.
- Yeah.
- Highly blue.
- Dry land seems to be holding us back.
So, anyway, there we are with age.
Someone breaks the world's oldest living person record every eight months, which brings us stumbling into the long lost land of General Ignorance.
Fingers on buzzers if you would please.
Now, what colour is the dark side of the moon? Well, you can't see it, Stephen, so no-one really knows.
Oh, that's not true at all.
The dark side of the moon is the part which is dark when it's That dreadful Pink Floyd album that won't go out of the charts.
- That lasted.
- That thing, yeah.
.
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a very long time, sold 50 million copies and counting.
But you can see a horned moon or a new moon, you can see the sliver and then the dark bit.
It reflects, what does it reflect? It is light, we'll show you a bit of horned moon here.
There's a horned moon and there's a shine on it that comes as a reflection of the Earth.
So, it's actually a kind of blue, but it's not really blue, it's turquoise, according to the Mauna Loa lab, the observatory in Hawaii.
So it has earth-shine, which is turquoise.
That's what the colour of the dark side of the moon is.
- In case you wanted to know.
- It's lovely.
- Very nice.
At least, I say "the moon," but how many moons does the earth have? - Oh, God! - Yeah - LAUGHTER - BUZZER - Most definitely only one.
- Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
- Of course.
- KLAXON SOUNDS - It had to be that.
- Of course.
- Yeah.
- It is the moon, I think I'm with him.
- Yeah.
- They've changed it.
- KLAXON SOUNDS - They call it LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE The one and only moon! - Well, there are moons around, around other planets - The moon in June, all them songs.
- They're all about "the moon.
" - There are lots of orbiting objects, aren't there? - Some of them are far away.
- Lots of orbiting objects, yes.
We gave an argument there were hundreds, last time, to confuse you, but there's another argument which seems compelling and interesting, which is that there are none.
Which is to say that the moon is not a moon.
- The moon actually qualifies - Christ! We've discovered it's turquoise and now it's not there.
- LAUGHTER - No, it's there, but it maybe qualifies as a planet.
A wanderer, a planet Well, the Clangers lived on it, didn't they? We know that.
- Soup Dragon and all that.
- That's true.
In order to be a planet, the International Astronomical Union, in 2006, laid down definitions.
These were the ones that booted out Pluto, I think.
- So, it has to orbit the sun - Right.
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it has to be massive enough for its own gravity to make it round.
It has to have cleared its neighbourhood of smaller objects.
The moon comfortably fulfils the first two.
On the third it makes more sense to say that the Earth and moon TOGETHER have cleared their neighbourhood.
The Earth certainly hasn't cleared the moon, so they are a binary system, like binary stars.
- Like lichen.
- Yeah, exactly, exactly.
So, there is a genuine possibility some people LAUGHTER And the sun's gravitational effect on the moon is more than twice that of the Earth's.
So we don't have nearly as much gravitational effect.
There is a good reason to suspect that we are actually in possession of a fellow planet.
It goes round the earth, though.
- The earth orbits the moon as well.
- What? - Yeah.
- Does it? - Hmm.
- I know.
Go use an astrolabe - LAUGHTER So we've been consistently inconsistent about this, but tonight we're saying that the Earth doesn't have a moon at all.
So there.
That was a slightly mean question to end on, so let's have a liquid lark.
I've got some liquid here in the form of our very own QI water, as you can see.
And what I'm going to do is pour some, I'm going to not use the sporty Oh, God, I can't even open it.
I'm going to have to use the sporty bit, there we go.
Mmm.
- There we go.
- That's as much exercise as you get, isn't it? LAUGHTER Oh, so sporty.
What we do is we flatten this card on it and we turn it upside down and I want you to try and do this if you can.
And, Oh, God, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work.
There you go, holds up.
Hurray.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE So you should, you should be able to try that.
Whoa.
- Terrific, terrific fun.
- Yeah.
This could not possibly end in tears.
- No, no, try it, honestly.
- It could go on and on.
You just, you just turn it over There you are you see, it does work! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hang on, so, hang on.
And - Yay! - Hurray! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Wey-hey! And do you want to know something really extraordinary about this? Watch.
This should work.
Oh, leave it out.
GASPING AND APPLAUSE Shut up! - Shut the front door.
Front door.
- How about that? - That's pretty amazing, isn't it? - You're actually made of magic.
LAUGHTER - Go on, let's have a look.
- Not bad, is it? SQUEALING AND APPLAUSE That's why we gave you these! Whoa! LAUGHTER - Well, hang on a second.
- Oh! - What happened there?! - I know you know JK Rowling, but how is that done? - So, on that water-bombshell, at long last .
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at long last it is time for the scores.
And it's pretty exciting.
- In first place, it's Claudia with plus nine.
- Oh, my goodness.
- WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE - Thank you.
In .
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second place, with minus eight, is Alan Davies! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you very much.
In third place, with minus 16, it's Suggs.
APPLAUSE Which means our runaway loser, with minus 37, is Jimmy Carr.
- And this is why! - APPLAUSE END OF SHOW JINGLE So, it's good night from Claudia, Jimmy, Suggs, Alan and me and I'll leave you with the last words of the great hotelier, Conrad Hilton: "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.
" Those were his dying words.
Good night.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE WHISTLING