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  • @archstanton6102
    @archstanton6102 5 місяців тому +232

    Rob Brydon's welsh impression is superb.

    • @simontay4851
      @simontay4851 5 місяців тому +16

      But he IS welsh. Thats his normal voice.

    • @trowell200
      @trowell200 5 місяців тому +43

      I’ve got to assume this is sarcasm 😂

    • @highdownmartin
      @highdownmartin 5 місяців тому +9

      He’s absolutely nailed the Porth Talbot sound. Genius

    • @sanelushim
      @sanelushim 5 місяців тому +6

      @@simontay4851 After careful consideration, we're just not sure.

    • @CF0RD
      @CF0RD 5 місяців тому +12

      Not as good as his man trapped in a box

  • @aidanbeers8309
    @aidanbeers8309 5 місяців тому +118

    I thought it might be Antarctica because it receives so little precipitation but also has a massive amount of (frozen) water. Not technically wet, I know, but it's the sort of tomfoolery that I'd expect

    • @Zombie-lx3sh
      @Zombie-lx3sh 5 місяців тому +9

      It really should have been. The elves got this one wrong.

    • @trudimclaren4301
      @trudimclaren4301 5 місяців тому +4

      No, the dry valleys of Antarctica are agreed to be the driest places on earth. It's too cold for it to even snow there, so nothing to even form ice from (I have a whole book on it! Yes, I'm a nerd 😂)

    • @wretchagd4259
      @wretchagd4259 5 місяців тому +3

      from my limited reading, a desert is where this little or no rainfall and drinkable water.
      Antarctica, continent covered in ice and doesn't rain. desert?

    • @viclange3826
      @viclange3826 5 місяців тому +5

      @@wretchagd4259 Antarctica is a desert, it just isn't wet. I thought the answer would be an ocean, though.

    • @sarahjones8396
      @sarahjones8396 5 місяців тому

      I thought the same, although other commenters here beg to differ!!

  • @Elriuhilu
    @Elriuhilu 5 місяців тому +28

    It's more accurate to say the big salt lake is level instead of flat, although colloquially we all know what is meant either way. It is the same with large bodies of water that have a surface which curves with the shape of the Earth. They are not flat, strictly speaking, but their surface is perpendicular to the direction of gravity at all points, which means they are level. Level essentially means that if you were to put a ball down it wouldn't roll away by itself.

    • @ijobrien3
      @ijobrien3 4 місяці тому +1

      Well yeah, but everybody understands flat.

    • @Elriuhilu
      @Elriuhilu 4 місяці тому +5

      @@ijobrien3 There are some people who don't understand it like the rest of us do and have some pretty weird ideas about the shape of the Earth.

    • @Kyle-nm1kh
      @Kyle-nm1kh 4 місяці тому

      I thought flats is just a name like meadow, forest, canyon, etc

  • @angemaidment5640
    @angemaidment5640 5 місяців тому +53

    Bloody hell, I’ve never heard Rob Brydon sound so hectic 🤣🤣🤣

    • @sevenwatson5854
      @sevenwatson5854 5 місяців тому +1

      This was in 2009 so his early years 😂

  • @sarahbass6116
    @sarahbass6116 5 місяців тому +24

    Just LOVE Jo Brand - i could listen to her eye rolls and sarcastic whimsy all day.

    • @Ubique2927
      @Ubique2927 5 місяців тому +8

      One joke Brand is awful.

    • @lilymarinovic1644
      @lilymarinovic1644 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Ubique2927there is a reason why they always have her husband jokes on the klaxon - very predictable.

  • @nonnyena4267
    @nonnyena4267 5 місяців тому +28

    Had a friend who once set the land speed record in the carburetored gas engine class at the Salt Flats. He became a radiologist -- partly because it made him enough money to race his cars and it allowed his schedule to be Monday afternoon through Friday morning, so he had his weekends free to actual!y race them. We always thought it also offered the additional advantage of being able to read his own x-rays & MRIs after a crash -- something he's never done, so it's a moot point.

  • @ambergris5705
    @ambergris5705 5 місяців тому +18

    I thought it was going to be "the Moon" or something like that.
    Also, these past years the Bonneville Speed Week (the annual high speed event) had to be cancelled a few times, because of rainfall, and standing water in the Salt Flats. Made for gorgeous pictures, but impracticable running.

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 5 місяців тому

      What are you talking about, there is no moon!

    • @ripdbtpoo1441
      @ripdbtpoo1441 5 місяців тому

      ​@@dielaughing73 Quite right.

    • @ambergris5705
      @ambergris5705 5 місяців тому

      @@dielaughing73 no, that's not true, there are more than one

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 5 місяців тому +1

      @@ambergris5705 depends which season of QI we're talking about!

    • @Elriuhilu
      @Elriuhilu 5 місяців тому

      The Moon has zero atmosphere and no precipitation, it cannot be the answer because it is drier than any place on Earth.

  • @leoscheibelhut940
    @leoscheibelhut940 4 місяці тому +2

    Actually the wettest desert is in Antarctica and covers most of it. The snow has slowly accumulated over millions of years but never melts because of the cold.

  • @JamieMcJapan
    @JamieMcJapan 4 місяці тому +2

    Jimmy looking increasingly confused is great

  • @hancocki
    @hancocki 5 місяців тому +10

    When I clicked the video I thought the title said "wettest dessert". Naturally I thought what... a glass of sugar water?

  • @MikeDuddy-q2t
    @MikeDuddy-q2t 5 місяців тому +7

    As a person who lives in central California it's kinda hilarious to hear them talking about places like Sacramento and Sonora like they are these mystical foreign lands with great landscapes and beautiful landmarks. Sonora is nice but it's annoying to drive around. Sac is just Sac; not terrible but never the city I want to be in.

    • @Elriuhilu
      @Elriuhilu 5 місяців тому +3

      Well to them it is a foreign, distant place. I do get what you mean, though-I think the same when people talk about kangaroos as amazing and unbelievable but I just think of them as those carcasses that litter the side of the highway.

    • @atimholt
      @atimholt 5 місяців тому +5

      @@Elriuhilu I've lived in Alaska for over 3 years now, but moose are still impressive animals. We once had one immediately adjacent to our front window.

    • @richard6440
      @richard6440 4 місяці тому +3

      @@Elriuhilu I think the same when people talk about ' Californians ' as amazing and unbelievable but I just think of them as those carcasses that litter the side of the highway. Sorry , couldnt help it :))

  • @CarlosBenjamin
    @CarlosBenjamin 5 місяців тому +28

    The Sonoran is not in California. It is only in south central Arizona and Mexico. It is also the only place the iconic saguaro cactus grows.

    • @ADRgman
      @ADRgman 5 місяців тому

      I don’t remember opening my front door in Sacramento and seeing it

    • @LB-ge8ih
      @LB-ge8ih 5 місяців тому +8

      @@ADRgmanI’m a lifelong San Diegan, very familiar with the nearby portion of the Sonora desert just to our East. It is indeed in California, as well as Arizona and the Mexican states of Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora.

    • @LB-ge8ih
      @LB-ge8ih 5 місяців тому +2

      @@ADRgmanThe Sacramento portion of the question referred to the mountain range there, not the desert.

    • @CarlosBenjamin
      @CarlosBenjamin 5 місяців тому +2

      @@LB-ge8ih I stand corrected. I’d been told that when the saguaros stop, so does the Sonoran desert. I’ll have a word with the Arizona branch of armchair know-it-alls. Thanks.

    • @LB-ge8ih
      @LB-ge8ih 5 місяців тому +5

      @@CarlosBenjamin Funny fact, from KQED: “Our portion of this desert lies in eastern San Diego County and in Imperial County, along the Colorado River hence the name. This desert is exceptional to the rest of the Sonoran in that it does not have the saguaro cactus and most of the rainfall occurs in the winter, rather than the summer.” So the portion in California really IS different for the lack of saguaro. I didn’t know that, but since you mentioned saguaro I thought I’d see what I could find. I guess the California portion is just super odd - but then again, so are Californians. 😁

  • @AlanCanon2222
    @AlanCanon2222 5 місяців тому +1

    First time I visited the Sonora Desert it rained and snowed the first two days. Weird seeing those Saguaro cacti with snow on them. The canyons have warning signs to evacuate if you see clouds passing overhead, because floods can travel great distances very quickly.

  • @hopebgood
    @hopebgood 5 місяців тому +8

    0:33 I loved "The World's Fastest Indian". It was like Forrest Gump on a motorbike. 😀

    • @hedgehog1965uk
      @hedgehog1965uk Місяць тому

      Yes, great movie. When I saw the title, and even a fair way into the movie, I thought Anthony Hopkins was playing a native American, until I realised that the "Indian" was his motorbike (I don't know why Rob referred to it as a car).

  • @EverettWilson
    @EverettWilson 4 місяці тому +3

    Rob acting like he's at a job interview and is drastically underqualified.

    • @just-tess
      @just-tess 4 місяці тому

      spot on! or the teacher's pet who's not really a great student

  • @oh8wingman
    @oh8wingman 5 місяців тому +2

    Bonneville is still very much a lake. In the spring it floods and as the water evaporates the releveled salt pan is exposed which is why they can race on it. Having said that though, one must be very careful where they go on the salt pan because sometimes the water is only inches below the surface and you can easily penetrate the surface and become stuck. When you drive the highway across the lake you can see evidence of water all along side the road surface. You should also fuel up before crossing the lake because there are NO SERVICES on the lake except for a couple of tourist rest areas.
    Bin there, dun that........

  • @Rachel-art-and-design
    @Rachel-art-and-design 2 місяці тому

    The Sutter Buttes is north of Sutter which is 45 minutes north of Sacramento.

  • @just-tess
    @just-tess 4 місяці тому

    aww Jimmy such a good sport to pitch him his Hugh Grant! wonder if Rob could even do it without putting his hand to the back of his head

  • @artistjoh
    @artistjoh 5 місяців тому +2

    Rarely do QI questions about exotic or unusual places give me the ability to say "I have been there." In this case I have.

    • @Kyle-nm1kh
      @Kyle-nm1kh 4 місяці тому +1

      As someone who hasn't traveled, I've been to probably less than 1% of 1% of 1% of places

  • @RalphBrooker-gn9iv
    @RalphBrooker-gn9iv 4 місяці тому +1

    Salt Lake Apartments. 😂
    Should have got a better response 😊

  • @Grintock
    @Grintock 4 місяці тому +1

    By some definitions there are deserts underwater in the ocean. I thought they were going for that

  • @GuanoLad
    @GuanoLad 5 місяців тому +3

    Anthony Hopkins's accent in World's Fastest Indian was a bit odd because the character was from the region of Southland, which has a distinctive twang most people don't hear very often.

    • @MeppyMan
      @MeppyMan 5 місяців тому

      Yeah but it was still wrong a lot of the time. Not bad for an American but still a laugh.

    • @sarahjones8396
      @sarahjones8396 5 місяців тому +2

      @@MeppyManAre you referring to Anthony Hopkins as American? If so, I’m sorry to disappoint you but he’s actually Welsh and therefore from the British Isles! 😀

    • @richard6440
      @richard6440 4 місяці тому +1

      @@MeppyMan Anthony Hopkins was born in Margam , Port Albot , Wales.

  • @atakd
    @atakd 4 місяці тому +2

    A desert, geologically, is defined as a region where evaporation exceeds precipitation. This applies to the eastern Mediterranean sea which is the wettest desert. It's water level is only sustained by the Nile inflow.

  • @Eiandha
    @Eiandha 5 місяців тому +1

    🌎

  • @BARUtubbig
    @BARUtubbig 5 місяців тому +1

    Why not Uyuni then as a salt flat?

  • @James-kv6kb
    @James-kv6kb 4 місяці тому +1

    Something has to be done about us being terrorised by Temu ads its getting out of hand

  • @rainydaylady6596
    @rainydaylady6596 5 місяців тому +4

    I've never thought of monkeys when I think of Gilbralter. I think of the movie with David Niven. 🙂🖖💕😊

  • @jackielinde7568
    @jackielinde7568 5 місяців тому +27

    THE SONORAN DESERT IS NOT IN CALIFORNIA, DEAR STEPHEN! That's the Mojave Desert. Sonoran is in Arizona, New Mexico, and part of northern Mexico. You know how you can identify the difference between the two? Saguaro Cacti will only grow in the Sonoran Desert, not the Mohave. And the Saguaro are the cacti you see in all those westerns and cartoons to show that "you're in a desert." (It's the tall cacti with all the arms.)

    • @jnaneswarianandasaraswati23
      @jnaneswarianandasaraswati23 5 місяців тому +4

      The Sonoran dessert covers parts of Northern Mexico, but also extends into Southern United States, including California
      The Great Basin desert, The Mojave desert, and the Sonoran desert all have parts in California
      Each of these 3 desert regions have different climates and ecologies. When traveling from on desert regions to another, one can be quite shocked by the sudden change in the landscape

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat 5 місяців тому +5

      The Sonoran desert extends into California, but the wet part is in Arizona.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 5 місяців тому +2

      @@EebstertheGreat Hehehe... don't know if I should be happy, sad, or confused that I live in "the wet part." ;)

    • @starlinguk
      @starlinguk 5 місяців тому +2

      Stephen just reads the cards. You have to blame the QI elves.

  • @blueconversechucks
    @blueconversechucks 4 місяці тому +1

    Wait wait he never said the name of the mountain range in California.

    • @just-tess
      @just-tess 4 місяці тому

      yeah I kept waiting!

  • @nagranoth_
    @nagranoth_ 5 місяців тому

    ironically flat earthers use this lake as "evidence" the earth is flat.... while it's so big you can measure the curvature of earth on it....

  • @tutstut6909
    @tutstut6909 4 місяці тому +1

    Jimmy Carr looks so thin

  • @Zombie-lx3sh
    @Zombie-lx3sh 5 місяців тому +13

    Gotta disagree about the last one. The wettest desert is obviously Antartica. It's classified as a desert and is full of solid water, aka snow.

    • @aodhanmonaghan4664
      @aodhanmonaghan4664 5 місяців тому +9

      Actually Antarctica is considered the driest desert. Parts of the continent see less precipitation than the Atacama

    • @MeppyMan
      @MeppyMan 5 місяців тому +9

      Frozen water isn’t wet.

    • @trudimclaren4301
      @trudimclaren4301 5 місяців тому +3

      ​​@aodhanmonaghan4664 exactly! They're even called the dry valleys of Antarctica, and this is agreed to be the driest place on earth

    • @Kyle-nm1kh
      @Kyle-nm1kh 4 місяці тому

      While yes technically Antarctica is dry because the water is frozen, it does directly border with oceans. That means it's touching lots and lots of water and is indeed wet at the perimeter. So yes Antarctica should be the answer.

    • @aodhanmonaghan4664
      @aodhanmonaghan4664 4 місяці тому

      @Kyle-nm1kh
      Not at all
      Desert is measured by rainfall/precipitation rates.
      There's hot deserts like the Arabian, Saharan, Australian etc and cold deserts like the Gobi and Antarctica.
      Large parts of Antarctica have had no precipitation (rain, hail or snow) in thousands of years. That's what makes it one of the largest and driest deserts. Proximity to sea means nothing. Atacama desert is next to the Pacific ocean and yet parts have had no rain in over 10,000 years. The plants get moisture from fog which doesn't count as precipitation (which needs to fall not float)

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 5 місяців тому

    A part of me expected the Librarian to come along and clonk Rob on the head for saying "monkey"...
    (Referring to Discworld, in game form, from the 90s, where a young Brydon provided many voices!)

  • @noelchignell1048
    @noelchignell1048 5 місяців тому +4

    I would suggest that the wettest deserts are in the deep ocean which have almost no life but obviously are pretty wet. Depends how you define a desert: Is it lack of water or lack of life?

    • @gyroscope915
      @gyroscope915 5 місяців тому +6

      The definition of a desert is "an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year".
      ...it's never had anything to do with the amount of life, not sure why you think that

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat 5 місяців тому +2

      @@gyroscope915 That's a possible definition of a desert, but it isn't widely used. Typically people define deserts either by their aridity (which depends on precipitation, temperature, and insolation) or by their arid-adapted flora and fauna, or by both. A very hot, dry place can be a desert even if it gets 30 cm of rain a year, due to the huge potential evapotranspiration.

    • @gyroscope915
      @gyroscope915 5 місяців тому +4

      @EebstertheGreat right but neither of your definitions have anything to do with the lack of life either.

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat 5 місяців тому +3

      @@gyroscope915 Agreed, it's about a lack of water, not a lack of life.

  • @thunderbearcourage
    @thunderbearcourage 5 місяців тому

    Salt Lake Flats is also great for demonstrating that the Earth is flat. A lot of missing curvature.

    • @ajkgordon
      @ajkgordon 4 місяці тому +1

      Only because flat earthers don’t understand that 8” / mile^2 is a rough approximation used by 19th century mariners rather than a formula to describe earth’s curvature. This should be obvious to anyone with even the slightest education as a squared formula like that would result in a parabola, which is obviously not what a spherical earth is.

  • @joyl7842
    @joyl7842 5 місяців тому +1

    They're so bored without the impressions lol

  • @abes7901
    @abes7901 4 місяці тому

    I didn’t think we could see the curve from earth?

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 5 місяців тому

    I say that American plains are the wettest desert, because it goes through centuries long periods of thunderstorms and dust storms and no one knows why

    • @just-tess
      @just-tess 4 місяці тому

      well that's not a desert by any commonly shared definition but have fun with that

  • @mepatton
    @mepatton 5 місяців тому +2

    Back in the day, when Q.I. was actually "I," and watchable.

  • @danielburger1775
    @danielburger1775 5 місяців тому

    A "desert" is a place with no human settlements.
    A place with lots of flora and arable land could be called a desert, if no humans live there.

    • @just-tess
      @just-tess 4 місяці тому

      just... no. you can make up your own definitions of words, but they will be useless for communicating with anyone else.

    • @danielburger1775
      @danielburger1775 4 місяці тому

      @just-tess That's the original definition, it's a desert because it's deserted.

  • @rickwilliams967
    @rickwilliams967 4 місяці тому

    Your mom's pants?

  • @weston.weston
    @weston.weston 5 місяців тому

    This went completely over my head, not funny at all.

  • @nagranoth_
    @nagranoth_ 5 місяців тому +7

    ironically flat earthers use this lake as "evidence" the earth is flat.... while it's so big you can measure the curvature of earth on it....