The whole thing about oceans with Joe Lycett being so down to earth, then David Mitchell applying his overly stressed logic about custard. Then Alan just coming in innocently with “I like powdered custard :)” Absolute perfect comedic timing 😂
Imagine being that Antarctic team, thinking you'd be the first person to arrive at the pole, and there's a statue of Lenin already there when you arrive.
@@sternmg - to be fair, the kite is a mechanical form of propulsion. So in all honesty they didn't make it under their own power at all. But it was still a far harder task than anything I have bothered to do, so all the kudos to them still.
@@alliseburris566 keep watching some shows the things you learn are not needed but funny see the long sock bit it goes on for a while. I learned nothing educational from it. My fav is the parthanon and if i was learning anything i missed it giggling too hard 🤣
3:27 when Alan makes an intelligent joke but Stephen misses it (not picking up the Australian accent impression?) and anyone else who doesn't get it thinks he's an idiot 😐
The funny thing about the Lenin bust is that when the US expedition arrived there afterward, they turned it from pointing at Moscow to pointing at DC (kinda ominous tho, if you ask me) out of spite and later, a Russian expedition came back and turned it back toward Moscow. Truly bizarre (although I assume they didn't go simply for that purpose, lol).
No stranger than the 'war' over Hans Island: Both the Canadians and the Danes would replace the flag and leave a bottle of booze, (schnapps by the Danes, rye whiskey by the Canadians), for the next group.
I never realized how long QI has been on. Looking at the very young fresh faced Allen Davies it seemed forever. Either that or they have an amazing makeup artist.
At the point where it is revealed that the Earth likewise goes round the Moon, I felt as I heard Alan's brain break. I also feel that David Mitchell versus his six-year-old daughter must be an intellectual clash for the ages, since they both presumably apply such similar logic.
Eggs and such can evolve naturally from the Great Cosmic Chicken. However, Custard Powder would be proof of Intelligent Design. Personally, I prefer to accept the evolution of the Great Cosmic Chicken.
@@angrytedtalks One of the requirements was also that it has to be in a primary orbit around the sun. So no the moon is not a planet. And earths orbit around the moon is inside earths surface, so I don't know about that. It's like saying that the earth and the sun is a binary system, cause the sun jiggles a tiny bit when earth orbits it. QI is not really factual. Often someone reads something and runs with it till they can't see anything back.
@@wujekcientariposta The definition of a binary system is that its combined centre of mass lies between them. That is not true for the Earth and moon; the moon is just 1.2% of Earth's mass but 250,000km away, so the combined centre of mass is still below the Earth's crust. However, a highly accredited theory is that the Earth and moon were formed by a collision between two earlier planets, where much of the composition of one was absorbed by the other. Another theory is that the Earth had a cloud or ring around it which formed the moon in the very early stages of the solar system. Either way, the moon and Earth are composed of the same things, quite unlike any other planets in the solar system or their moons.
14:00 Has anyone read QI Elve Andrew Hunter Murray's book "The last day"? It's based on this exact premise Alen is chatting about. I wonder if Alan got some kind of writing credit because he deserves it
The mnemonic I learned at school - which incidentally was when Pluto was still a planet - was: 'Mister Victor Eats Marmalade Jam Sometimes Under Nelly's Protection', .... which now post-Pluto ends '.... Sometimes Under Nelly', which is much funnier.
Mine was similar but different: Mrs Vickers Eats My Jam Sandwich Under Netball Post I had the order of the planets memorised before ever hearing this mnemonic, but my younger brother used to say it so it's embedded in my memory.
Discussing planets, the moon was mentioned, if at 10:40 Stephen is right then at 00:20 Alan was right. As this episode was hosted by Sandi it was recorded after the Stephen one, I wonder then, which host got it right?
the host that said earth had 1 moon, because the episode with Stephen talking about other "moons" was incorrect because to be a moon of earth, the moon has to orbit around the earth, but his other "moons" didn't revolved around the earth, but around the sun, they just happened to go around the earth sometimes in their solar orbit. So as anyone who watches the show regularly, they get info totally incorrect all the time in order to try and make the show fun and unpredictable. But its incorrect unpredictable.
@@eolsunder Perhaps not totally "incorrect" -- it's just that different information becomes available, and they use that to "contradict" previous answers. Sometimes that contradiction is not so much a contradiction as a tangential view. They've done episodes where they've said there's only one moon, and then this one that says there's none, and at least one other where they say there are hundreds. They use different definitions of what a "moon" is. It's what makes this show so unutterably compelling. That, and the risque jokes:-)
@@SimonHume81 Wasn't that originally Space Family Robinson - until he was sued or ordered due to copyright to change its name to Have Space Suit, Will Travel?
@@SimonHume81 I know. Exact same story isn't it. LOL. Of course I read the anecdote decades ago and may have got it wrong, but that's what question marks are for. However Heinlein was first, if I'm right, and because we're discussing this, another memory has poked its nose out reminding me he wanted to call a book, The Rolling Stones ... until some two-minute wonder band nobody's hear of since showed up and spoiled those plans for him.
In second grade, we would sing a song: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza pies. And I was always upset because the extra word "pies" didn't correspond to an extra planet.
If the Earth stopped spinning (suddenly?) At 51⁰ North, London would be travelling at only 500mph. Still pretty devastating. Not even noticeable at the poles.
@@yaakhee you wouldn't even notice at the poles. Imagine you were in a playground sitting on a kids' roundabout that was rotating once per 24 hours. You wouldn't get dizzy.
"The Earth orbits the moon as well" Id argue no. The Barycenter (the point both objects orbit) is inside the Earth. Which is basically the point both objects pivet around. So the Earth is on both sides of the Barycenter cause it envelopes it. However Pluto and Charon's Barycenter is outside both objects.
Ahh, yes, I was ahem just about to say that very thing, kudos for beating me to it. I too was going to pontificate upon the......errr, epicenter of the, envelope?
Just a couple of questions - and I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be difficult - is the barycenter the only criterion on which orbits are determined? If the moon were to suddenly disappear, would the earth's orbit alter? I'm supposing in this context that orbit and gravitational pull are mutually exclusive? Anyone care to expand on that?
The UN international geographical year, was 1958. A New Zealander lead several David Brown Diesel tractors across Antarctica. Five years after climbing Mt Everest. Bit drunk one day and knocked over the the now forgotten bust of incoherence.
@@larapalma3744 By the same logic used to determine that Mercury is the closest planet to the Earth. According to the same research, Mercury spends more time closest to all the planets than any of the other planets do to each other, simply because of its rather short orbit.
tritium water would probably be more expensive than horse semen. after checking, the correct name for it is tritium oxyde or super heavy water. when dilute, it's called tritiated water
21:16 I would have said molten gold or molten platinum or something like that. I'd imagine a gallon of molten metals would be a more expensive liquid than the horse.
Mercury is the closest planet to *all* of the planets in our Solar System because of how the orbits meet. This is why it is called Mercury after the Olympian God who served as messenger to all other Gods
Umm, although it is true that they are all closest to Mercury, this is not why it is called that. They were named before we understood anything much of celestial mechanics
@@steviebudden3397 Thanks for reminding me! Since I have just learned something I didn't know I'd love to share! Marmalade is usually made with citrus peel suspended in jelly. It's the jelly part which is a surprise to me :)
@@steviebudden3397 Â bit late to the party here, but: Marmalade is derived from marmelo, which is portoguese for Quince. So technically authentic marmalade must be made from quince. Everything else is jam. Or jelly.
There is also in Antarctica the pole of wind circulation around which the wind obviously circulates. I know this because at college I won the science prize with which I bough a fantastic book on Antarctica.Way back in 1967.
14:18... More moth species are active during daylight than are at night. They are attracted to buddleia, lavender, sweetpea and honeysuckle, etc, the smellies, in other words, should you wish to observe them. True story.
Most moths are nocturnal and nearly all butterflies fly during the day. There are some day flying moths such as the Burnets (five and six spotted) and the Cinnabar, and there are also the clearwings (Burnet again) the tiger moth and the borers.
I always suspected Steven helped with triggering the screens a bit with going "ohhhh nooo..." and "uuuuuu..!" whenever Alan gave a wrong anwser, but did not care for it much.. 😶
The pole of inaccessibility got it's bust, of that murderous monster Lenon, in 1958, the international Geophysical Year, which also saw intrepid New Zealander, Sir Edmond Hillery, who in 1953, the corranation year, lead an band of doggard Kiwis, crossing the Antarctic in David Brown tractors. One of which resides in Christchurch Museum. It's one owner having only travelled ten thousand miles. Make an offer.
Well yeah the sun is closest in winter because its a nightmare to drive winter morning when the sun is low and clear and the road is wet and reflective.
He probably didn't hear it! That's the only problem with QI -- so many times I'm laughing so hard that I miss the next few quips. Or the audience is laughing, or some other distracting sound.
The questions are often asked in certain ways to elicit wrong responses or in some cases are purely incorrect. Example; "Which is the largest organ in the human body?" The answer was skin but the question asks for the largest organ IN the body instead of "Which is the body's largest organ?"
I think it's likely based on the research that's given to them, so if it's come from a country that uses metric, it'll be read out in the way it was intended. We're a metric country officially, but never fully committed in the 50-60 years since it was enacted. We still use imperial for a good number of things, especially for those of us who grew up only using it. The younger you are, the more likely you are to use metric day to day, but will still have to use imperial for travelling at the minimum.
wait, but the argument about the moon (luna) being a planet in a binary system with us, doesn't disqualify all our 100s of other moons does it? so the answer still wouldn't be zero
No, because the common astronomical definition of a binary planet is that the center of rotation of the two bodies (called the barycenter) has to lie in the space between them, and the Earth/Moon barycenter is about 1000 miles beneath the Earth's surface. The only binary planet in our Solar System is Pluto/Charon. The barycenter also means it's not a planet, because the official IAU definition of a planet requires it to orbit the Sun, not another planet. And while there are asteroids that orbit the Sun in the same period as the Earth, they don't have a barycenter with the Earth, so those are not moons either. The elves royally screwed up this question, and it still bugs the crap out of me that they offered several "right" answers, none of which were actually right other than the answer "one" for "How many moons does the Earth have?"
You know what I'm still sperging about this comment and I had to come back. The order of planets isn't based on their distance from the earth. The order of the planets is based on their distance from the SUN. The order is at all times basically correct in terms of the distance of the planets from the sun (well except for Neptune and Pluto sometimes but forget that for now.) But the planets DON'T all stay in a neat line, they orbit at different rates. Meaning that although Venus is next to earth in terms of the order of planets (or distance from the sun) it is NOT always neatly sitting next to earth in space. Furthermore, due to the fact that Venus is ALWAYS further away from the sun than Mercury is, that means that when Venus is on the opposite side of the sun from earth, it MUST be further away from earth than Mercury, no matter WHERE Mercury is in its orbit. For it to be closer to earth than Mercury while on the opposite side of the sun, Mercury would have to break out of its own orbit! Or, you know... just look at the diagram at 1:08
Mary’s virgin explanation made Joseph suspect upstairs neighbor; best nemonic ever!🤣🤣🤣
Mnemonic.
@@waynemarvin5661 Memorisation's not easy, memory often needs initial cues.
custard
How many people read that back...checking the planets 😂😂
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It's cute when Stephen gets so excited about trivia.
The whole thing about oceans with Joe Lycett being so down to earth, then David Mitchell applying his overly stressed logic about custard. Then Alan just coming in innocently with “I like powdered custard :)”
Absolute perfect comedic timing 😂
Absolute perfect editing 😉
Imagine being that Antarctic team, thinking you'd be the first person to arrive at the pole, and there's a statue of Lenin already there when you arrive.
They knew they weren't the first to arrive, they were just the first to do so on their own power.
Not to diminish from the team's amazing feat, but the kite skiing calls for an asterisk on "under their own power*".
@@sternmg - to be fair, the kite is a mechanical form of propulsion. So in all honesty they didn't make it under their own power at all. But it was still a far harder task than anything I have bothered to do, so all the kudos to them still.
Worse is the graffiti, "Bernie Sanders waz 'ere."
And below that it says, "No I wasn't."
Can't believe I just found out about this show. Nearly almost educational in an absolutely hilarious way. Huge fan now.
Search QI Xl to see the full show 😜
Very educational--not "nearly almost"! Keep watching. You'll learn a lot.
@@alliseburris566 keep watching some shows the things you learn are not needed but funny see the long sock bit it goes on for a while. I learned nothing educational from it. My fav is the parthanon and if i was learning anything i missed it giggling too hard 🤣
Sandi Toksvig was an absolute replacementfor Stephen
Welcome to the QI dark side Buzz - there is no escape now...
3:27 when Alan makes an intelligent joke but Stephen misses it (not picking up the Australian accent impression?) and anyone else who doesn't get it thinks he's an idiot 😐
In fairness, it took me until seeing your comment to realize "oh duh, because January in Australia is in Summer"
As an Australian, I got it right away!
@@zingzangspillip1 Despite his dreadful accent!
The funny thing about the Lenin bust is that when the US expedition arrived there afterward, they turned it from pointing at Moscow to pointing at DC (kinda ominous tho, if you ask me) out of spite and later, a Russian expedition came back and turned it back toward Moscow. Truly bizarre (although I assume they didn't go simply for that purpose, lol).
Lenin would be spinning in his grave.
Seems extremely petty but unfortunately not all that surprising.
No stranger than the 'war' over Hans Island: Both the Canadians and the Danes would replace the flag and leave a bottle of booze, (schnapps by the Danes, rye whiskey by the Canadians), for the next group.
@@chakatfirepaw At least that has now been settled. Kind of sad in a way, as it was such a uniquely friendly war.
Isn't it always just facing north, though?
I never realized how long QI has been on.
Looking at the very young fresh faced Allen Davies it seemed forever.
Either that or they have an amazing makeup artist.
They do one letter per year and we're up to R. That's a lot of letters.
@@shoredude2 its not a lot... compared to the Chinese alphabet. I raise you the Chinese alphabet.
@@aseemsharma4964 there is no Chinese alphabet.
Started in 2003, thanks to the genius that is Sir John Lloyd
When you're older, it will not seem forever - quite the opposite !
I love how please Alan Davies is with his mnemonic and Alice Levine's expression when hearing it.
To quote a great man "mercury is the closest the mostest" -CGP Grey
The mostest closest
“I like powdered custard” got me good! 😂
If I'd gone to all that trouble to get to the south pole, at least I'd have done Lennin up like Groucho Marx for the photo shoot.
Stephen's "Vladimir Ilych Lenin" accent comes straight out of "Teach Yourself Accents" by Sean Connery
At the point where it is revealed that the Earth likewise goes round the Moon, I felt as I heard Alan's brain break. I also feel that David Mitchell versus his six-year-old daughter must be an intellectual clash for the ages, since they both presumably apply such similar logic.
neither earth nor moon orbit each other
@@redirect_they both «orbit» a common barycenter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter_(astronomy)#/media/File:Orbit3.gif
gotta love the "i like powdered custard" line
Eggs and such can evolve naturally from the Great Cosmic Chicken. However, Custard Powder would be proof of Intelligent Design. Personally, I prefer to accept the evolution of the Great Cosmic Chicken.
It's up there with the line "I don't like sand"
I think if they had let that clip run on longer, we would have had Alan's lament for the loss of his Nan's trifle recipe.
The great Sean lock, bet he's got them laughing in heaven
Makes me sad to see his bits on the show.
Heaven?
Mercury is the closest planet to earth.
Few minutes later "the moon is a planet ".
shhh
Good point. But is the moon a dwarf planet?
Or does the Earth/Moon binary system only qualify as one?
@@angrytedtalks One of the requirements was also that it has to be in a primary orbit around the sun. So no the moon is not a planet. And earths orbit around the moon is inside earths surface, so I don't know about that. It's like saying that the earth and the sun is a binary system, cause the sun jiggles a tiny bit when earth orbits it.
QI is not really factual. Often someone reads something and runs with it till they can't see anything back.
@@wujekcientariposta The definition of a binary system is that its combined centre of mass lies between them. That is not true for the Earth and moon; the moon is just 1.2% of Earth's mass but 250,000km away, so the combined centre of mass is still below the Earth's crust.
However, a highly accredited theory is that the Earth and moon were formed by a collision between two earlier planets, where much of the composition of one was absorbed by the other. Another theory is that the Earth had a cloud or ring around it which formed the moon in the very early stages of the solar system.
Either way, the moon and Earth are composed of the same things, quite unlike any other planets in the solar system or their moons.
Welcome to "clips are not in chronological order, and facts decay"
14:00 Has anyone read QI Elve Andrew Hunter Murray's book "The last day"? It's based on this exact premise Alen is chatting about. I wonder if Alan got some kind of writing credit because he deserves it
I thought you might like to know that I thought your profile photo was a hair on my screen and tried to blow it off.
@@heatheradjacent7883 that’s 5secs off my life I won’t get back plus 15secs for writing this! 😂
The MOSTEST CLOSEST!!
-CGP grey
Literally my first thought 😂
Did that Lenin bust make anyone else think of “Ozymandius”?
Not until you mentioned it, because it appeared intact, but I can see where you are coming from. Especially stood on top of that pedestal.
@@Chafflives Don't be so literal
@@CrazyMazapan
I didn’t think I was. My comment was genuine. However, the word ‘crass,’ comes to mind upon reading yours.
I'm absolutely gutted that George Best #7 wasn't the one who realized why the tropics are hotter
Elw! Good evening sir,..if the moon is a planet then Alan was correct when he said the moon was the closest planet.❤❤❤
Oh, how I wish Bill Bailey had been there when they spoke about the Pole of Inaccessibility.
The mnemonic I learned at school - which incidentally was when Pluto was still a planet - was:
'Mister Victor Eats Marmalade Jam Sometimes Under Nelly's Protection',
.... which now post-Pluto ends '.... Sometimes Under Nelly', which is much funnier.
Mine was similar but different:
Mrs Vickers Eats My Jam Sandwich Under Netball Post
I had the order of the planets memorised before ever hearing this mnemonic, but my younger brother used to say it so it's embedded in my memory.
Find yourself a man that talks about you the way Steven Fry talks about bacteria.
The gut microbiome. Utube dr sten eckberg...pradip jamanjas
3:32 Davies making an Aussie joke
Discussing planets, the moon was mentioned, if at 10:40 Stephen is right then at 00:20 Alan was right.
As this episode was hosted by Sandi it was recorded after the Stephen one, I wonder then, which host got it right?
the host that said earth had 1 moon, because the episode with Stephen talking about other "moons" was incorrect because to be a moon of earth, the moon has to orbit around the earth, but his other "moons" didn't revolved around the earth, but around the sun, they just happened to go around the earth sometimes in their solar orbit. So as anyone who watches the show regularly, they get info totally incorrect all the time in order to try and make the show fun and unpredictable. But its incorrect unpredictable.
@@eolsunder Perhaps not totally "incorrect" -- it's just that different information becomes available, and they use that to "contradict" previous answers. Sometimes that contradiction is not so much a contradiction as a tangential view. They've done episodes where they've said there's only one moon, and then this one that says there's none, and at least one other where they say there are hundreds. They use different definitions of what a "moon" is. It's what makes this show so unutterably compelling. That, and the risque jokes:-)
Mother very thoughtfully made jam sandwiches under no protest!
Where T stands for “this one”
@@chockydog6960 Terra. Was from book by Heinlein, Robert A., Have Space Suit, Will Travel
@@SimonHume81 Wasn't that originally Space Family Robinson - until he was sued or ordered due to copyright to change its name to Have Space Suit, Will Travel?
@@CailenCambeul I had no idea! I'll have to look that up. Sounds like Lost in Space :)
@@SimonHume81 I know. Exact same story isn't it. LOL. Of course I read the anecdote decades ago and may have got it wrong, but that's what question marks are for. However Heinlein was first, if I'm right, and because we're discussing this, another memory has poked its nose out reminding me he wanted to call a book, The Rolling Stones ... until some two-minute wonder band nobody's hear of since showed up and spoiled those plans for him.
'My Very Earnest Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.' That was back in the my schooldays when Pluto was regarded as a planet.
In second grade, we would sing a song:
My Very Educated Mother
Just Served Us Nine Pizza pies.
And I was always upset because the extra word "pies" didn't correspond to an extra planet.
"PLUTO IS NOT A PLANET, IT'S A dwarf PLANET!" :P
Love Steven fry ,,class
If the Earth stopped spinning (suddenly?)
At 51⁰ North, London would be travelling at only 500mph. Still pretty devastating.
Not even noticeable at the poles.
Most of us would die. Anything that's not tied strongly enough to the ground would keep moving at that speed. Initially...
That's some g-force on a fragile human body.
What would happen at the poles? If you were standing there would you just sort of spin on the spot while your momentum decreased?
@@yaakhee you wouldn't even notice at the poles. Imagine you were in a playground sitting on a kids' roundabout that was rotating once per 24 hours. You wouldn't get dizzy.
the earth is bulged out along te equator, so the sea levels would change too. so much for that expensive beach front property
My very educated mother just showed us nine planets. Doesn't really work now that Pluto isn't a planet, but it's the one I remember.
Dang, just when I was about to hear about marmalade!
I could not agree more about it being really annoying to get to telford town centre, it is such an awkward walk there from personal experience
"The Earth orbits the moon as well"
Id argue no. The Barycenter (the point both objects orbit) is inside the Earth. Which is basically the point both objects pivet around. So the Earth is on both sides of the Barycenter cause it envelopes it.
However Pluto and Charon's Barycenter is outside both objects.
@@michaelsommers2356 Thanks, ive never read it, just heard it :)
Ahh, yes, I was ahem just about to say that very thing, kudos for beating me to it. I too was going to pontificate upon the......errr, epicenter of the, envelope?
It's QI, I just assume something that sounds dubious is exactly that.
Thanks for being able to explain what I was thinking. I was just going to say it was bs.
Just a couple of questions - and I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be difficult - is the barycenter the only criterion on which orbits are determined? If the moon were to suddenly disappear, would the earth's orbit alter? I'm supposing in this context that orbit and gravitational pull are mutually exclusive? Anyone care to expand on that?
I wonder how deep the base of that statue is?
Well, it's on top of a building, so...
The UN international geographical year, was 1958. A New Zealander lead several David Brown Diesel tractors across Antarctica. Five years after climbing Mt Everest. Bit drunk one day and knocked over the the now forgotten bust of incoherence.
Yes, but how many Poles does it take to move the sun to the center of the solar system?
One: Nicolaus Copernicus.
I think you get points for that.
Excellent
Milking scorpions? That's when kicking the bucket does become a real danger.
It’s originally from Portugal and was made from quince. 🤗😜👊🤘😎
Nice job on the audio levelling.
Sandi{ "You can get a gallon of LSD for a hundred and twenty thousand p..."
Phil: "Where?!"
Bahahahahaa
I found out this week Mercury is the closet planet to all of the planets on the solar system on average.
I still hope it's just closest to the sun .
😶🤘🏻✌🏻
Never a truer word spoken Alan 😂
1:22 that same logic applies to every planet. Mercury is technically the closest planet, on average, to every other planet in the solar system.
My Vicious Earthworm Might Just Swallow Us Now
I'm still waiting to hear what traditional marmalade is made from...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmalade Quinces, as the other lady panellist (not Jo Brand) said.
@@shojinryori Prue Leith -- Great British Bake Off. I would expect that she knows her marmalades🙂
Fun Fact: Mercury is also the closest planet to every other planet in the Solar System
The Mostest Closest, as GCPGrey put it :D
How the hell do the planets not run into each other?
Wut? Lol
@@larapalma3744 By the same logic used to determine that Mercury is the closest planet to the Earth. According to the same research, Mercury spends more time closest to all the planets than any of the other planets do to each other, simply because of its rather short orbit.
I can't believe nobody thought to simply say that it's closer *on average*.
Not me dying of laughter when the man said the moon is the closest planet to earth😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
No one laughing, because it annoying.
Well didn't they later say that the moon counts as a planet?
They're nuts.
@@QUEEN-yn5xq i mean technically it is. It's. Similar in size to planets like mercury and what's a planet besides a object in space
*Ayii Esha*
Unllike everything else in our solar system, the moon has the *exact* same composition as the earth!
Would you kindly write 02:05 down what he said?
Sorry missed that was busy under the nightie
The most expensive liquid on Earth is A-cr0m3
tritium water would probably be more expensive than horse semen. after checking, the correct name for it is tritium oxyde or super heavy water. when dilute, it's called tritiated water
i thought the same thing! surprised that it wasn't the answer
Or liquid anti-hydrogen. Valued in the quadrillions, I believe
21:16 I would have said molten gold or molten platinum or something like that. I'd imagine a gallon of molten metals would be a more expensive liquid than the horse.
"The closest on average" does by no means equate to "the closest to Earth".
It *can* do surely, there are multiple parameters you can choose to describe which planet is ‘closest’. Similarly for ‘biggest’, mass? Volume? etc.
Went there under their own power, including laxative power. Genius 😆
Mercury is the closest planet to *all* of the planets in our Solar System because of how the orbits meet. This is why it is called Mercury after the Olympian God who served as messenger to all other Gods
Some count the Moon as the nearest.
Umm, although it is true that they are all closest to Mercury, this is not why it is called that. They were named before we understood anything much of celestial mechanics
Great, now I have to look up marmalade ;)
Would you like to share your findings?
@@steviebudden3397 Thanks for reminding me! Since I have just learned something I didn't know I'd love to share! Marmalade is usually made with citrus peel suspended in jelly. It's the jelly part which is a surprise to me :)
@@SimonHume81 I’m eating marmalade with my sausages right now. Good to have the info though. Thx.
@@steviebudden3397 Â bit late to the party here, but: Marmalade is derived from marmelo, which is portoguese for Quince. So technically authentic marmalade must be made from quince. Everything else is jam. Or jelly.
Most, volcanoes, erupt, molten, jam,strawberry, usually, never, plum. I learnt this years before Pluto got demoted.
Mary's Virgin Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbor...PFFT!
***I'll just show myself out😁
Mercury is also on average the closest planet to every planet in the solar system.
Wait QI had the fact the moon is a planet
Someone tell me the answer to " what is traditional marmalade made from ?" 23:30
Patagonian goat’s droppings
Quinces. Called marmelos in Portuguese
Most vocanoes erupt molten jam strawberry usually never plum, was the one we learnt at school in 1969.
2.5k views says it's not boring.
Interesting facts but I'm here for the humor 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tee hee. Sean and Bill are (were) close friends, It really shows - they are merciless with each other.
There is also in Antarctica the pole of wind circulation around which the wind obviously circulates.
I know this because at college I won the science prize with which I bough a fantastic book on Antarctica.Way back in 1967.
I was taught it as:
My, Very, Educated, Mother,
Just, Served, Us, Nine, Pizzas
(Yeah, I'm old)
14:18...
More moth species are active during daylight than are at night.
They are attracted to buddleia, lavender, sweetpea and honeysuckle, etc, the smellies, in other words, should you wish to observe them.
True story.
Most moths are nocturnal and nearly all butterflies fly during the day. There are some day flying moths such as the Burnets (five and six spotted) and the Cinnabar, and there are also the clearwings (Burnet again) the tiger moth and the borers.
That's a rubbish mnemonic.
My Very Early Model Jaguar Still Uses Neptune's (Petrol)
pluto and its 'moon', Charon are similarly bianary. there been minor talk about calling them both dwarf planets.
Binary.
@@waynemarvin5661 yeah man?
Jimmy just committed battery on tv
What is traditional marmalade made from?
I always suspected Steven helped with triggering the screens a bit with going "ohhhh nooo..." and "uuuuuu..!" whenever Alan gave a wrong anwser, but did not care for it much..
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The pole of inaccessibility got it's bust, of that murderous monster Lenon, in 1958, the international Geophysical Year, which also saw intrepid New Zealander, Sir Edmond Hillery, who in 1953, the corranation year, lead an band of doggard Kiwis, crossing the Antarctic in David Brown tractors. One of which resides in Christchurch Museum. It's one owner having only travelled ten thousand miles. Make an offer.
Interesting facts.....BUT I'm here for the jokes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We learned "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas"
my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
To the last question about the most expensive liquid, Zolgensma is $1,462,545,751 per gallon
Well yeah the sun is closest in winter because its a nightmare to drive winter morning when the sun is low and clear and the road is wet and reflective.
I'll never know about marmalade.
Was that the guy who hung the Union jack back to front at the South Pole?
Mercury is the closest to every planet
Number 73
Do bacteria have hands (to win hands down)?
2:53 It's not a Mirage Alan, it just no longer fulfills the definition we've decided on for "planet."
Printer ink is the most expensive liquid (we all use).
If the moon is a planet then Alan was correct when he said the moon was the closest planet
Did The summer mate. With Alan’s Australian accent . Go over stephens head ? Or did they just cut it that way ?
He probably didn't hear it! That's the only problem with QI -- so many times I'm laughing so hard that I miss the next few quips. Or the audience is laughing, or some other distracting sound.
The questions are often asked in certain ways to elicit wrong responses or in some cases are purely incorrect. Example; "Which is the largest organ in the human body?" The answer was skin but the question asks for the largest organ IN the body instead of "Which is the body's largest organ?"
You've sussed out how QI questions work
Well done, have a biscuit.
*James Marshall*
'Ave a banana! 🍌😂
First time watching qi?
So The Moon is a planet yet mercury is the closed planet to earth on average, according to this compendium.
It's funny how they use kg and miles in the same show. Sometimes in the same sentence.
I think it's likely based on the research that's given to them, so if it's come from a country that uses metric, it'll be read out in the way it was intended.
We're a metric country officially, but never fully committed in the 50-60 years since it was enacted. We still use imperial for a good number of things, especially for those of us who grew up only using it. The younger you are, the more likely you are to use metric day to day, but will still have to use imperial for travelling at the minimum.
It was a misleading question, mercury might be the closest for a lengthier period but not the closest by distance on its eclipse.
That's where the evil QI elves catch you
@@toastedsandwich7947 nothing caught me
Joe was totally trying to say enceladus isntead of europa
wait, but the argument about the moon (luna) being a planet in a binary system with us, doesn't disqualify all our 100s of other moons does it? so the answer still wouldn't be zero
Also it would invalidate the closest planet to earth being mercury
No, because the common astronomical definition of a binary planet is that the center of rotation of the two bodies (called the barycenter) has to lie in the space between them, and the Earth/Moon barycenter is about 1000 miles beneath the Earth's surface. The only binary planet in our Solar System is Pluto/Charon. The barycenter also means it's not a planet, because the official IAU definition of a planet requires it to orbit the Sun, not another planet. And while there are asteroids that orbit the Sun in the same period as the Earth, they don't have a barycenter with the Earth, so those are not moons either.
The elves royally screwed up this question, and it still bugs the crap out of me that they offered several "right" answers, none of which were actually right other than the answer "one" for "How many moons does the Earth have?"
most expensive material - antimatter, due to the cost of producing it, or so I've heard d.
First 90 seconds - explains that we have the order of planets wrong
Next 90 seconds - how do we remember that wrong order again?
The first 90 seconds have nothing to do with the order of planets, though.
You misunderstood the explanation, even with a diagram and everything...
You know what I'm still sperging about this comment and I had to come back.
The order of planets isn't based on their distance from the earth. The order of the planets is based on their distance from the SUN. The order is at all times basically correct in terms of the distance of the planets from the sun (well except for Neptune and Pluto sometimes but forget that for now.) But the planets DON'T all stay in a neat line, they orbit at different rates. Meaning that although Venus is next to earth in terms of the order of planets (or distance from the sun) it is NOT always neatly sitting next to earth in space.
Furthermore, due to the fact that Venus is ALWAYS further away from the sun than Mercury is, that means that when Venus is on the opposite side of the sun from earth, it MUST be further away from earth than Mercury, no matter WHERE Mercury is in its orbit. For it to be closer to earth than Mercury while on the opposite side of the sun, Mercury would have to break out of its own orbit!
Or, you know... just look at the diagram at 1:08
I literally guessed that the most expensive liquid was horse semen. What a guess.
My very eager mother jumped suddenly under Neptune's porch
Jiimmy have done the town centre up now , it's got bars and food places and it's less chavy now
do you know who is the woman that Jimmy gives a thumb on 11:20?
@@matheusribeiro7080 Claudia O'Doherty (Series L, Ep. 15)