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00:00APPLAUSE
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...
01:21MUSIC PLAYS
01:23Yeah, nice.
01:25Nabeel goes...
01:27MUSIC CONTINUES
01:31Joe goes...
01:33MUSIC CONTINUES
01:37And poor Alan has missed the boat completely, so he goes...
01:40MUSIC CONTINUES
01:48Now, for our first stop, here's an easy one.
01:51Where is this sign?
01:54Ah, Johnny Vegas's house.
01:57I'm going to give you a point for that.
01:59Where is it? It's in Las Vegas, obviously.
02:05OK, the three of you noted, right?
02:08Yes, he took one for the team.
02:10Yes. Yeah, what?
02:12My Nigerian senses are tingling.
02:14Oh.
02:16I would say that is outside Las Vegas.
02:22Is it because he said Las Vegas and it was wrong,
02:24and therefore...
02:26No, no, no, no, no, no.
02:28All I'm saying is, where do you have the welcome mat?
02:32Oh.
02:34Right next to me in the bed.
02:39That'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... Allegedly.
03:18No, really.
03:21And so they were built just outside the city to avoid tax,
03:24and so the city of Las Vegas 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.
03:49It went to a Japanese restaurant and a hotel, really nice.
03:52And they had all these chefs doing some of their preparation,
03:56weren't they? The chefing. In view.
03:58And I was eating my food, and one of them got a lobster out,
04:01and it was going like this.
04:03And he put it on its back, and it was going like this.
04:06And then he went... No!
04:08And he cut it in half, and it fell like that,
04:11and then it was just going like this.
04:14I mean, it's not a good story.
04:17Not for the lobster.
04:21There was a guy called Archie Karras, who's famous in...
04:24Why do you think he might be famous? He's cleared the room.
04:27He's famous for body odour.
04:29He arrived with $50 in 1992.
04:33He came from Greece, he went to work in a restaurant,
04:36he learned to play pool, and gradually he was making more money
04:39playing pool, and then he learned to play cards.
04:41And over the next two and a half years,
04:43he made $40 million.
04:46I mean, it's extraordinary.
04:48It's known in gambling circles as The Run,
04:50and it's the Guinness World Record's
04:52largest winning streak ever.
04:54He's worth $40 million? No longer.
04:57They always lose it. They always lose it. Yeah.
05:00He lost $30 million in three weeks in 1995. No!
05:04And the remaining $10 million shortly afterwards.
05:07The thing is, it stayed alive, even when it was cut in half.
05:13APPLAUSE
05:18That's so weird.
05:20He still lives in Las Vegas, but he is now banned
05:22from playing in all casinos. He's been banned since 2015
05:25because he was caught marking cards, which apparently is...
05:28Do they think he might have cheated to get it in the first place?
05:31Well, we don't know, do we?
05:33But $40 million, arriving with $50, that's pretty impressive.
05:36And then losing it all.
05:38I just saw something Nigerian dads say to their kids,
05:41Yeah.
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,
05:54and in 2004, he sold his house, all his belongings,
05:56took the proceeds, so he'd got £76,840,
06:00and he took it to Vegas, and 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.
06:09And he doubled his money.
06:11He doubled his money to £153,790.
06:13And again, a terrible outfit.
06:15What are all these people spending their money on?
06:18He looks like he'd go past a girl and go,
06:20Ladies!
06:22The thing I like, I like the slot machines.
06:24There was a guy called Elmer Sherwin.
06:26This is unbelievable.
06:27So the odds of winning the megabucks jackpot
06:30are, like, one in 50 million, and he won it twice.
06:33Whoa! OK?
06:34In 1989, he was 76 years old,
06:36he 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?
06:44No.
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,
06:58and he was 92 years old.
07:00Oh, wow. Married the next day.
07:02Yeah.
07:05And do you know what stopped him from winning a third time?
07:07Death. Yeah, death.
07:10Tandy, I feel like I've won the lottery being here with you tonight.
07:17Wow, that's so creepy, I'm going to give the other three points.
07:25Anybody else? A little bit of it, a little bit of...
07:28Anyway, if you go to Vegas, then you might lose your shirt,
07:32but why might Victoria's creamy white buttocks
07:36make you lose your shorts?
07:39What are the exact words you just said?
07:42Why might Victoria's creamy white buttocks
07:46make you lose your shorts?
07:49Just a bit slower.
07:55You're going to go viral tonight, Tandy.
07:58So, let's work out which Victoria I'm talking about.
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.
08:09And...? Germany.
08:13Is Zambia in Zimbabwe? Zambia in Zimbabwe, indeed it is.
08:16So, 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...
08:30Who doesn't? Yeah, who doesn't start? I mean, me, doesn't.
08:33Then we move on. Look, Stairway To Heaven,
08:35the Devil's Toilet Bowl,
08:37Commercial Suicide,
08:39the Overland Truck Eater,
08:41also known as creamy white buttocks.
08:46I'm also known as the Overland Truck Eater.
08:53So, people would go, like, bungee jumping at certain parts,
08:57and Morning Glory and Stairway To Heaven are safe,
09:00but the Devil's Toilet Bowl, believe it or not,
09:03is quite dangerous.
09:05And apparently, some tourist hurt himself really badly.
09:09The Zambian Minister of Tourism decided to prove that it was safe,
09:13so he went bungee jumping,
09:16and he came out fine.
09:18Great. But I just thought, that's amazing,
09:20that the politicians there would do that. Yeah.
09:23Because, like, could you imagine, like, I don't know,
09:25someone getting Boris Johnson to get a night bus in Peckham or Croydon?
09:37As you can see,
09:39the South London man-dem are bear-friendly.
09:45Me got my kitty-dem.
09:47Do you know that's an impersonation I thought I'd never seen?
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. It's Angel Falls.
10:03Yeah, I did know that, actually.
10:06Keeping it to yourself, are you?
10:08I didn't want to come across as too threatening intellectually,
10:11so I kept that to myself. I mean, it's totally working.
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.
10:25Just see 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 there.
10:37Every weekend.
10:39And I think 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.
11:00There's a warthog there. Crocodiles, even elephants on the fairways.
11:03The best thing is that they have special rules for it, right?
11:06Does it know the rules? Well...
11:16If you hit a warthog with your golf ball,
11:19you are allowed to continue but there is a penalty of one shot.
11:24Hold on.
11:27I just hit that thing... Yeah.
11:30..with a shot with a golf ball. Yeah.
11:32And 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.
11:41Actually, 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!
11:58But golf is famously boring, so it does spice it up a little bit.
12:03I've been chased by a crocodile. Have you? Have you? Yeah.
12:06Was that in Croydon?
12:10Close. I grew up in northern Nigeria.
12:13My 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.
12:24And you could go, you could have a meal,
12:26and there was, like, a little fence,
12:28and there were crocodiles just by the riverbed,
12:30and you could look at them.
12:31And as a kid...
12:34..I was eight, nine.
12:36I was legally stupid, and...
12:40..I thought they looked like they were smiling.
12:43And they looked slow, so I jumped over the fence...
12:46Oh!
12:47..I took one step, it didn't do anything.
12:49I took two, it was fine.
12:51I took three, it said,
12:53that boy looks juicy.
12:57And I found out that big guys can move fast.
12:59So, yeah, I got chased, but them things are fast.
13:01But the good thing is, they can't take corners, so...
13:13I love this, they can't take corners.
13:15Yeah, if you're running from a crocodile,
13:17do not run in a straight line.
13:19Run, like...
13:20Run and then take quick corners.
13:22They get confused.
13:24Oh, my God, I just know what's going to happen,
13:26there's a crocodile will be after me, and I'll be thinking,
13:28Nabil told me, Nabil told me something.
13:31Yeah, I've been chased 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 where the erosion
13:49has caused a sort of rock pool, it's called the Devil's Pool,
13:52and you can, if you go there, sit, like these people,
13:55on the very edge of the falls. No.
13:57The guide says there's no reason non-swimmers shouldn't do this,
14:00it's only waist deep, it says.
14:02I can think of some reasons why a non-swimmer...
14:04Yeah, I think not being able to swim would be the least of your worries.
14:07Yeah.
14:08If you don't sort of look at the waterfall,
14:10it 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.
14:21Thanks. 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.
14:33Wow.
14:34Anyway, what's a really petty way to vex the French?
14:39Ah, 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,
14:52the Americans had a naval base in Vanuatu,
14:55which 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,
15:23so we're not even going to give them six cents on the dollar.
15:25So the Americans decided, fine.
15:26They took every single item and dumped it in the sea.
15:29Anything that could not be carried away
15:32was pushed by bulldozer into the sea,
15:35and the bulldozers were then driven into the sea...
15:38Wow. ..with rocks on the accelerators.
15:41No wonder the crocodiles are so fast.
15:44To the areas... To get out of the sea, being driven...
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 bottles of Coca-Cola
16:02and all kinds of American kit.
16:04They just thought, fine, you're not paying for it,
16:06you're not having it either.
16:07There's a story that I like best about Vanuatu.
16:09So they gained independence in 1980,
16:11and before that, jointly 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
16:21whether they wanted to come under British law or 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,
16:32because people were following different laws,
16:34until the 1920s, the British drove on the left-hand side...
16:39Yeah, and the French... Oh, no! ..on the right.
16:42So 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...
16:50Middle of the road.
16:52..could dictate which side it was.
16:54Anyway, it was a buggy ordered by a priest from the French territory
16:57and from then on, the entire country drove on the right.
17:00But here is one that Nabil will get.
17:02What sport originated in Vanuatu?
17:04Look, no, no Crocodile Wrestling.
17:06No, not Crocodile Wrestling.
17:08But it is something you have talked about.
17:10Golf. Bungee jumping.
17:12Bungee jumping. They invented bungee jumping.
17:15Look at that. Wow, it doesn't look safe.
17:18I'm sure they had their reason.
17:20It's the Pentecost Island in Vanuatu.
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
17:35and 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.
17:56So chivalrous.
17:57Has anyone done it? I've never...
17:59I did it because I'm a bit of a thrill seeker.
18:01Did you really?
18:03Yeah, in New Zealand.
18:04Why?
18:05Because I love to live, you know.
18:06It's nice to feel alive.
18:08And also, I was 23.
18:10Wow.
18:11So 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
18:19in 1960 and he showed it,
18:21and 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.
18:34Yeah.
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.
18:54I'm still confused.
18:55So what was it?
18:56One clown, because the vans...
18:58Shoes.
18:59Yeah.
19:00You know who used to wear vans all the time?
19:02Jonathan Creek.
19:03Oh!
19:04Oh!
19:05The mum's favourite.
19:06And there was a shop that David Renwick put in
19:10of Jonathan 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...
19:25LAUGHTER
19:26They made clown shoes for 14 years in the...
19:28Did they?
19:29Yeah, 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...
19:57Quack, quack, quack, quack.
19:58LAUGHTER
20:01Clown car going as crocodiles can't get to it.
20:04LAUGHTER
20:07Yes, laugh at my trauma.
20:09LAUGHTER
20:13And each pair of the shoes had a pair of vans inside
20:16so that it was easier to walk in them, because actually...
20:18What?
20:19So what they would do is they would make a clown shoe,
20:22but inside they'd put a van shoe.
20:24Oh, I see.
20:25What size do you reckon it is? A shoe and a shoe.
20:27What size do I reckon it is? Why, 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.
20:37LAUGHTER
20:43I mean, it's not normally the sort of thing I'm impressed by,
20:45but those are really...
20:47The only time I used to walk around, you know,
20:50snowy Canada and leave footprints just to...
20:52LAUGHTER
20:55Show us your foot against the clown shoe, darling.
20:57Let's have a look.
20:59Urgh!
21:01If anyone's got a foot fetish at home...
21:03LAUGHTER
21:05Whoa!
21:07Wow! Yes, that's...
21:09Hang on, just...
21:11Do that again, Nabil, sorry.
21:13LAUGHTER
21:16There is a website called Wikifeet that, like,
21:19celebs' feet are on and you can get a score.
21:21How do you know?
21:22Because I've got 4.6 on Wikifeet.
21:24LAUGHTER
21:26And if I beat it up a bit...
21:27So, that's out of ten, 4.6?
21:29No, it's out of five, babe.
21:30Whoa, OK.
21:32Jo?
21:33Yeah.
21:34I mean, I've no idea what my rating is.
21:35What's the criteria?
21:36Just, like, perverts rating your feet, I suppose.
21:40Just, I don't know what a pervert looks for in a foot.
21:43Nabil?
21:44LAUGHTER
21:45Jo, the elves are just telling me
21:47that you've got 4.98 on Wikifeet.
21:50Whoa!
21:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
21:54Yes!
21:55CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
22:02Keeping me awake.
22:03Jo, get your foot out, let me see where...
22:054.98!
22:06Let me see where I've only got...
22:07I've only got...
22:08I've only got...
22:09LAUGHTER
22:10Do you know what? I've never got socks on.
22:12Do you know what? I've got lovely foot.
22:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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 fingertoes.
22:26I can climb buildings with these.
22:28LAUGHTER
22:30You'd struggle to climb buildings without them.
22:32What have I done?
22:33LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
22:39OK, do you have a rating on Wikifeet?
22:41I've no idea.
22:42No, and I'm very...
22:43I'm on Wikicock.
22:44LAUGHTER
22:45Yes, yes!
22:46LAUGHTER
22:521.5.
22:53LAUGHTER
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.
23:16LAUGHTER
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?
23:33LAUGHTER
23:35APPLAUSE
23:40There have been some female clowns, but not very many.
23:43In the 1990s, 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?
23:56LAUGHTER
23:57She once said,
23:58all my people laughed at me when I told them
24:00that I was going into the ring as a clown,
24:02but they do not laugh now.
24:03LAUGHTER
24:05Which is a quote I first heard...
24:07Out of the mouth of Bob Munker.
24:09Extraordinary mind he had for jokes.
24:11The best, I think.
24:12Astonishing.
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...
24:30He's foolish to go back.
24:32LAUGHTER
24:34Is it at the bottom of the sea?
24:36It is at the bottom of the sea.
24:38You're on fire!
24:40APPLAUSE
24:46Right.
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.
25:18LAUGHTER
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.
25:26I'm not thinking lipstick, actually.
25:28LAUGHTER
25:32Look at that fish thingy at the back. Look at him.
25:34I know.
25:35He looks dodgy, bro.
25:37That's the underwater Pee-Pee 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. It's all made up.
26:04You put some pepperami in a tube...
26:06LAUGHTER
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,
26:25there 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.
26:32They don't have any self-locomotion.
26:34Somehow, 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.
26:59So, 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? It's no longer with us.
27:11Well, I don't mind 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.
27:24Because... Is that just coincidence that you shouted that?
27:28No, that is... Buck a hop!
27:32They have to be kept at 100% alcohol,
27:34because of the iron sulphides on the shell.
27:36If they weren't, they would literally rust.
27:39I know. I know, good noise.
27:41Anyway, I've been so terrified that I'm either going to drop it
27:44or drink it. I was one of those two...
27:46Down in well, down in well.
27:48So, there's also something called a Pompeii worm.
27:51They're only about five inches long.
27:53They're tiny little things, and they...
27:55Look at that. Oh! Nah! I know! Nah, nah.
27:57No? Nah, nah. Not a real thing?
27:59Nah. Not a real, but nah. Nah.
28:02You don't like it? Nah, nah.
28:04You know why? Because clearly it can do corners.
28:07I mean, look at it. It's already...
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.
28:26That 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
28:37is made entirely of bacteria.
28:39Oh! I know.
28:41How disappointing some dates are up close.
28:45There's also something called a Yeti crab,
28:47which I love the look of, and they survive...
28:50Is that Liz Truss?
28:55They've got no eyes at all, but they sort of survive
28:58by using their furry claws to search for nutrients.
29:01One of the species is named the Hoff crab,
29:04after David Hasselhoff's hairy chest.
29:07Wow!
29:09Anyway, thank you very much to the Natural History Museum
29:11for lending us that fabulous prop. I think it's great.
29:19While we're at sea, how can you stop sailors being so vulgar?
29:24Put a Venezuela with a hosepipe on him
29:26Put a Venezuela with a hosepipe on him
29:28Put a Venezuela with a hosepipe on...
29:29Well, now in the morning
29:31indistinct
29:40This way, hey, up she rises
29:41This way, hey, up she rise
29:45Put a bit of break with the captains.
29:47I don't know where to get up and do the link arm thing and go around in circles.
29:54I'll do it.
29:55All right, let's go.
29:56Run, run, run.
29:57Rock and roll.
29:58Now that's what you do if it's early in the morning.
30:10In the evening, I have no idea.
30:19What was the question?
30:24I did feel really masculine when I did it.
30:27Yeah, Joe.
30:28I feel more masculine than sea men.
30:30Joe.
30:31Right.
30:32We're moving into a completely different area, so this is a question on
30:36vexillology.
30:37Anybody know what vexillology is?
30:39Is it something to do with vulgarity?
30:41No, it's to stop vulgarity, so it's the study of flags.
30:44So flags used to communicate between sailors.
30:47It used to be, until a really precise time, 1856, that flags mostly stood
30:51for numbers rather than letters.
30:53You sent a number and then people looked up and went,
30:55oh, it's the number eight, that means he wants the bad tie.
30:58Or whatever, do you know what I mean?
31:00And then the British Commercial Code of Signals changed it and made
31:03the flags stand for letters and now they were very worried that the
31:06sailors might spell out naughty words of doubtful propriety,
31:11basically.
31:12And so they had an ingenious solution, they left the vowels out,
31:16so you couldn't fucking swear at each other.
31:19And they were not added to the system until 1901,
31:22so the original idea to keep sailors from being vulgar was that there
31:25were no vowels.
31:26Sandy, you know on a calculator...
31:29Yeah.
31:31Is it boobs?
31:32You've got it.
31:35So, Nelson's famous instruction at Trafalgar,
31:37anybody remember what it was?
31:39You can see there on the flags on the ship.
31:42Fire.
31:43England expects that every man will do his duty.
31:47Anyway, it took four minutes to send it,
31:49because you've got to put all the flags up in the right order,
31:52so there you can see the order of the flags coming through.
31:54And that was for texts and what happened?
31:56But, in fact, Nelson wanted something slightly longer.
31:58He wanted,
31:59England confides that every man will do his duty.
32:02And there was a signaller called John Pascoe,
32:04and he suggested they change it to the word expects,
32:06because that word was in the signal book,
32:08so he didn't have to spell out every single letter.
32:10OK.
32:11Otherwise, it would have taken longer to send it.
32:13Anybody know which flag in the world is considered alive?
32:16Alive.
32:17Hmm.
32:18According to the US flag code, the stars and the moon,
32:21the sun and the moon,
32:23according to the US flag code,
32:25the stars and stripes is considered a living thing.
32:27And there are lots of things that you are not allowed to do with it.
32:31Like this, you are not allowed to do this.
32:33Oh, say, can you see...?
32:37You can't use it for advertising,
32:38you can't use it on, you know, throwaway napkins,
32:40and, of course, all of these things are broken
32:42every single 4th of July.
32:43It's seen as alive.
32:44Yes, it's seen as alive.
32:45It'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.
32:50Like, they really like that flag.
32:52They love that flag.
32:53I'm going to take you to another flag incident.
32:55OK, 1936 Berlin Olympics.
32:58The opening ceremony.
32:59Liechtenstein and Haiti.
33:01What did they discover when they both turned up?
33:04Same flag.
33:05Exactly the same flag, yes.
33:06But they must have known their own flag.
33:08It's before the internet.
33:10They didn't know what the other country's flag was like.
33:12It was this, just this, blue over a red band.
33:16So they reached a compromise
33:17and Liechtenstein walked in with the flag upside down.
33:19Liechtenstein then added a crown and Haiti added a crest motif
33:23and those are, in fact, the flags today.
33:26Those were kept.
33:27What do you need to fly an EU flag in your garden in the UK?
33:33Depends which part of the UK you're in.
33:35Oh, no, weirdly, you need planning permission.
33:38You have to have planning permission to fly a flag in the UK,
33:41but certain categories of flag are exempt, OK?
33:44So you can fly international organisations,
33:47but only if the UK is a member.
33:50So you can no longer fly the EU flag in your garden.
33:53Quite right.
33:57Even though you can fly the flag of any actual country
33:59or region of the country.
34:00Can you think of any uses for a rubber moose?
34:03Is it like a kind of moose contraceptive?
34:10Can you imagine going round to someone's house and saying,
34:14Oh, I mean, no, what do you think, I'm crazy?
34:18It's a contraceptive.
34:20Yeah, so, like, I should imagine during the mating season
34:23they're quite boisterous.
34:25So what you can do is make a bunch of rubber mooses
34:28that they can go hump.
34:30Oh!
34:31Yeah, so they don't hump cars and vegans and stuff.
34:38So vegans are less likely to fight back.
34:41How are you going to beat him?
34:43Exactly.
34:44Would you fight him?
34:46I could beat you in an arm wrestle.
34:48Actually, I couldn't.
34:50I'd really want to see that.
34:53I just need to...
35:02I'm actually letting her win and she's still...
35:11I'm not resisting.
35:16That's what he says.
35:18That's what he says.
35:22Right. You work closest with cars, OK?
35:25They wander in front of them. They do.
35:27They wander in front of them. Cause accidents.
35:29If you are in Sweden and you are driving,
35:31you will come within 1,000 feet of a moose every 23 seconds.
35:35Not in Stockholm, but, you know, when you're out in the countryside.
35:39So what you want to know is, if your car did hit a moose,
35:42you want to know what's going to happen to the car, right?
35:45Drive into a rubber moose. Yeah.
35:47And see what the damage is.
35:49What is wrong with you today? That is exactly right.
35:55So Volvo has a moose made of vulcanised rubber.
35:58That's meant to be a moose, is it?
36:02That is not the Volvo one. We don't have a picture of that.
36:04This is one made by another company.
36:06But the Volvo one, what they have is,
36:08they've got 114 rubber discs on a steel frame.
36:11And that is actually, size-wise,
36:13the relationship between the moose and a car.
36:15The point is that you then make safety features on the car.
36:18So Volvo are also credited with developing
36:20the three-point V-shaped seatbelt.
36:23And then they famously gave the patent away,
36:25because they just wanted all car makers to have it
36:27for the good of humanity.
36:29And it's estimated to have saved a million lives
36:31in the first 40 years of its use.
36:33I grew up in the United States and I remember when it was introduced
36:35and people used to cut them off.
36:36They were so angry with the seatbelts.
36:38They just didn't want to have them in the car.
36:40Interesting thing about Volvo, they launched a special concept car
36:43designed entirely by women for women.
36:46So they had this theory, if you meet the expectations of women,
36:49then you will exceed the expectations of men,
36:51which I quite like.
36:54I'm doubted.
36:55Every single decision in the car was designed by an all-female team.
36:59So... Is it hard to park?
37:05Oh!
37:07Can you guess any of the features of a woman-only car?
37:10What kind of features might...? Oh, space for the bloody handbags.
37:13Yes. Is it? Yes.
37:17Separate compartments, specifically for a handbag.
37:19What other things that might be good? A silent horn.
37:22Uh, why?
37:24Instead of, like, a loud horn for road rage,
37:26it's quiet, cos they know what they did.
37:30Women didn't want to open the bonnet, and indeed, who does?
37:33So they decided that you could refill the wiper fluid
37:36through a little hole at the side, and it's such a good idea, right?
37:39There was a space in the headrest for a ponytail,
37:41which I quite like.
37:43Interchangeable seat cover and carpet fabrics,
37:46so you can just swap them out if you get a bit bored.
37:48Adjustable heel rest for the accelerator foot,
37:50and lots of good ideas.
37:51Anyway... Scatter cushions and throws.
37:53Yes, very nice.
37:55So, actually, some of it sounds sexist to start with,
37:58but very practical suggestions.
38:00Gemma did make the car, but 22 of the features
38:03are now in current Volvo models.
38:05Why didn't they make the car?
38:06The team stopped talking to each other.
38:14Right, please, fasten your V-shaped seatbelts.
38:16It's time for General Ignorance.
38:17Fingers on buzzers, please.
38:19Where was the first Disneyland?
38:23Joe? Yeah? Yeah, um...
38:25Paris.
38:26BUZZER
38:30Anybody else?
38:31Ancient Greece.
38:35Lincolnshire is the answer.
38:36Oh, Lincolnshire!
38:38So, Walt Disney's ancestors hailed from a village in Lincolnshire
38:41called Norton Disney, and records show that the name
38:44of the estate they occupied during the 14th century
38:47was Disneyland.
38:48The family originally comes from Normandy,
38:50from a place called Isenay,
38:52and so Disney is an Anglicisation of Disenay, so of Isenay.
38:56And they came over to England with William the Conqueror, 1066,
38:59and then they took part in a failed rebellion in the 1600s,
39:03fled to Ireland and then later on went to America.
39:06But he visited Norton Disney, where the family name comes from,
39:09in 1949. There he is.
39:11He was in the UK filming Treasure Island.
39:13And if you go to the Village Hall, you can see the place
39:15where he played darts, he had a drink in the local pub,
39:17and then he donated three prints, sort of Pinocchio, Snow White
39:20and one of the dwarves, I think, which still hang in the Village Hall,
39:23so there is a strong connection.
39:25The first Disneyland was in Lincolnshire.
39:27Perhaps Walt was inspired by Grimsby's Fairy Tales.
39:32What's the safest way to make a phone call while driving?
39:35HE CHUCKLES
39:36Oh!
39:39Not to take the call,
39:41because I just did a speed awareness course and...
39:46..the guy said that if you take a call,
39:49it's the equivalent of having, like, three pints or something,
39:52apparently, so you shouldn't take a call whilst driving
39:55and you should definitely not do it whilst having a...
39:57..oat latte and a cigarette, from what's going on there.
40:00I've got a thing in my car,
40:02like, where you press a button on the steering wheel
40:04and then you say, call.
40:05So, my friend was in the car and I said, watch this.
40:07I pressed a button and I said, call Adam Hess,
40:10but it called this guy called Andy Best instead
40:12and I couldn't put the phone down,
40:14and that's a man I slept with ten years ago.
40:16LAUGHTER
40:17And I found out that I called him on his wedding day.
40:20Oh!
40:22Oh, my God.
40:24The guy who was running the speed awareness course said,
40:27when you call somebody, you sort of project yourself to where they are,
40:30so that's the issue, is that you're not in the car,
40:32you're where they are.
40:33And I said, well, what if I ring someone
40:35who's on a speed awareness course?
40:37When we have a conversation,
40:39we visually picture what we're talking about as we speak
40:42and it makes our brains slow down,
40:44we can't respond as well to images or hazards
40:46and things that are right in front of us.
40:48I can't really hear anyone anyway if you've got your tape over your ear.
40:51No, that's true.
40:54What about if you're in the passenger side?
40:58Yes, then make as many calls to people on their wedding day as you will.
41:02I didn't mean to say, I suppose, you've made a big mistake.
41:07When did electric cars become popular?
41:10I think I heard something about this.
41:12Go on, then.
41:13Actually, they invented it ages ago.
41:15You're absolutely right.
41:17So, at the moment, the number of electric cars is about 14%,
41:21compared to petrol cars.
41:23In 1900, in the USA, over a third of all the cars were electric.
41:27So, you start getting electric carriages around the 1830s.
41:301897, 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,
41:3940% were steam-powered and only 22% were petrol-powered.
41:43In fact, Thomas Edison, he had several electric cars.
41:46So, this is him in 1921 with a car by the Lansman Company.
41:51And it just was the way ahead, the electric car,
41:53and then lots of things happened.
41:55So, first of all, you get the discovery of crude oil in Texas,
41:58and so they want to use the oil for the thing.
42:00Cyclists petitioned for better road services
42:02and suddenly you could go much further
42:04and electric cars just couldn't go quite as far.
42:07They had a range of about 20 miles at about 15 miles per hour.
42:11So, then Henry Ford comes along.
42:13He can suddenly produce a Model T Ford, which is a petrol car,
42:16every 90 minutes, the car becomes much, much cheaper
42:19and really it's the kind of death knell of the electric car.
42:22It didn't really re-emerge as a viable alternative until the 1990s.
42:26What did they do about batteries in the older ones?
42:29You couldn't recharge it yourself,
42:30you had to take it back to the manufacturer. Oh, no.
42:32So, there were lots of reasons why it wasn't really working.
42:35So far, you are better off with a horse. Yeah.
42:37I would love to drive something that shape.
42:40I think... Like a hearse for a pig. I know.
42:44She looks a grumpy sod, doesn't she?
42:46Is it Liz Truss?
42:55All of which to-ing and fro-ing brings us to the scores.
42:59In last place tonight,
43:01a Titanic failure with minus 29,
43:05it's Joe!
43:10In third place, all at sea with minus six, it's Lou!
43:17Well, it's been very close and it was a fantastic game for him,
43:20but in second place, it's Ship Shape with zero,
43:23it's Alan!
43:26And our winner tonight with four points, Nabil!
43:29It's a big thank you to Lou, Nabil, Joe and Alan,
43:32and I leave you with this thought from Oscar Wilde's
43:35The Importance Of Being Earnest.
43:37I never travel without my diary.
43:39One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
43:43Thank you and bon voyage!
43:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE