Also "Tafel" is an older German word for table. Arthur's "Knights of the round TABLE" in german are the "Ritter der TAFELrunde". (there probably is some ethymological connection between "blackboard" and "table" in german) So Gary was more right than you thought. Also that mountain in german is also called "Tafelberg" ;)
If you think about it, I'm pretty sure we've encountered a non-sentient Tom Scott before. There was a video about replacing people with AI or some such...
Given that most animals and some plants rate as 'sentient', I'm not so sure that's true. On the other hand, a true AI would (usually) still not be sentient. It would, however, be sapient, and while some definitions of sapient allow for more than just humans to count, the list of sapient species (and others) is still very short. ... And I seem to recall the existence of an "AI" Tom Scott from one of his past videos...
Well yeah, he signs off all the time on these game shows as "I've been Tom Scott" Does he stop being Tom Scott? Does he go offline, or like, disconnect his consciousness? Do they destroy him and get a _new_ Tom Scott?
There _is_ a fan theory that Bikini Bottom is actually somewhere near Bikini Atoll, and the sentient sea creatures are the result of decades of mutation from the radioactivity.
I believe the part about it being near Bikini Atoll is not just theory but explicit intent of the show, with Bikini Bottom being destroyed by nuclear explosion in one of the episodes, and the part about them being result of mutations is explicitly wrong, as all sea creatures, including these outside of Bikini Bottom, are drawn exactly like them and also sentient, and also some of characters came into Bikini Bottom from other parts of the ocean and from land, and they are equally weird.
@@michaeldayman682 Matt's joke is basically using a template phrase what teenagers nowadays jokes about She's [something something funny word], till I came kinda like, [some word that include -er], I hardly know her and "loud noises" is to blurred out the last part of the jokes to what essentially the dirty part of the jokes 😂
As a Dutch speaker, "Tafelberg" had me laughing both because of how wrong Gary was, and also because that is the most English pronunciation of Tafelberg ever
Since you're from Scunthorpe, there is a question I have been wondering for a long time. What do to you CALL someone from Scunthorpe? I have assume that you're scunts.
I must say, along with some of the best entertainment om UA-cam, The Technical Difficulties has, hands down, the best subtitles on UA-cam. As someone who has spent the last 20 years going to gigs and playing in bands, I often struggle a bit with dialogue in TV/movies, and having good subtitles means I can have the volume at a wife-friendly level and still know what's going on. Subtiles on the older stuff is gold, but the color-coding added from Adventures onwards is just chef's kiss. Good work, chaps
It's a service called Caption+ by JS*/Jacob Star. Tom uses it for most of his videos, and some other youtubers in the sphere also (I know they're also used on Jet Lag The Game and maybe Wendover Productions main channel videos too? I know plenty of others but not off the top of my head, but yes. Caption+ is incredible, the colour coding and rich formatting, the context awareness, the way it all helps to match and convey as much of the intent of the audio track as possible, and also on other videos that use them they even dynamically change position if there's an overlay on screen, so for example if there's a scoreboard or bar at the bottom during a section the captions will move out of the way so that everything is readable! Truly the gold standard.
I love Tom and Chris’ new outfits. Gary brannan is still hoodie and bright shirt, and Matt will always be a supremely tacky, wonderful t-shirt, being the bounciest man on the internet.
Many cities in Germany end on "-burg", with "Burg" meaning "castle". Sometimes it is changed over time to "-berg", but sometimes "-berg" is actually derived form "Berg" meaning "mountain". So it is not always clear, why any German town name ends in "-berg".
And you see how a blackboard is pretty strongly table shaped. As are notice boards, road signs, departure boards and other things called 'Tafel' in German, 'Bord' in Dutch and 'Board' in English.
@@jeremydavis3631 Thanks a lot, I was unaware of that, although I should have known that much. Thank you for reminding me, if I ever knew it sometime before.
good afternoon from scunthorpe! Weird... on the day where geoGuesser gave me a location in my hometown, you greet me too! The internet is a crazy place!
Sorry to correct you, but Tafel _is_ German for table (though a little archaic/pompous). Still used in things like "Tafelwasser" or "Tafelapfel", things meant for consumption at the table (as opposed to baking the apples into pies). There is also the (Schul-)Tafel, the blackboard, yes, and that will be more in common use today. And "berg" is often found in city names because they're just close to a mountain. Nürnberg for example.
Oh and Tafelberg is not just the name of a specific mountain, it is the German word for any mountain with a pronounced flat top. Probably the same in Dutch, so that's where the one in Africa got its name.
That's funny. In Spanish, "mesa" means both table and a hill with a flat top. It makes me wonder how many languages had people look at flat-topped hills and go "I'll call it a table because it looks like one".
@@stevenreckling203 or perhaps the other way around, named the concept of what is essentially an artificial, miniature, flat-topped hill/mountain after? That's actually an interesting question indeed!
@@stevenreckling203 "mesa" is used in English to mean flat area of land as well, although not for tables. That is from the Spanish, which in turn gets it from Latin mensa, which means table or altar.
Also, bürger comes from middle latin burgus (people living in a town protected by walls and certain additional rights), and might have the same root as Burg (german for castle and the root for city names )
It's also a single word, and I'm pretty sure that Gary's correct about the pronunciation as a result of how English stress patterns work (Stress is to English what Pitch is to Japanese and Tone is to Mandarin, if you're not familiar with such things). If it was two words (bio pic), then Matt's pronuncation would be fine, but it's not. I might be wrong, but I don't think so.
@@laurencefraser I mean, it goes from "biographical picture" to "bio pic" to "biopic", and there's no real reason to change the stresses when english has absolute nonsense for pronunciation rules already.
@@laurencefraser It is about stress, but it is so weird that biographic and biography have a different stress pattern and hence different pronunciation of bio. In biopic you can choose whether or not to put stress on pic, so I guess either is valid. I much prefer to stress the two i-syllables though.
17:24 feels like that would be good gag. "Should we just spin a round robin?" Cut to Gary sitting in front of laptop continuing like nothing happened and Tom visibly perturbed that he doesn't have laptop anymore.
Other people have already mentioned the German issues, but I'll actually note: Bikini Bottom is both named because of the pun and because it is, iirc, supposed to be on the seafloor in the Bikini Atoll area.
I don't get how they managed to talk about both of those in the same sentence without noticing it. SpongeBob is about a radioactive sponge that gained "independence".
8:19 That's not even how the joke would go. It's "She zoro on my trope until I discover how horses work". Unless Matt is referencing a different snowclone template
German here, and I want to note that "Tafel" does also mean table. Particularly a loooooong one with lots of people around having a feast. (At least that's the image that enters my brain when I hear the word.) And "Burg" means castle, as in the fortress one, not the fancy one.
TechDiff are always excessively funny to watch as a non-British person, there's nothing better than hearing 5 minutes-long joke sequences and having absolutely no clue what the hell they're talking about
A little bit of citations: In German, you can use "Tafel" to describe a table as well. I never heard it out of the context of food being served, like if a table is set for lunch or dinner with all the food on it, there's some old saying calling it a Tafel, and I can't say I ever heard it being used in a normal setting. Also the round table of King Arthur is called the "Tafelrunde" That's why the type of mountain - mesas, mountians with a big plateau instead of a peak - are called Tafelberg in German in general as well, it's not just that one mountain.
potential questions for "weird al yankovic" * who married pinkie pie in "my little pony: friendship is magic" * who is one of the antagonists of the ms paint fan adventure "vast error"
11:37 Tom says that Tafel is not a german word for table, which is not completely true. Large tables with the primary function as a place to eat food at are also called Tafel.
We need to convince people that the other pronunciation is also a word spelled "biopic", but that one means "related to biopsies", and those films don't generally get shown in cinemas.
@@Bagofnowt I'm sorry, are you out here pronouncing it bye-aw-graphical? bffr Also, a quick Google search of "how to pronounce biopic" will support the "bio" half being pronounced the same as the established abbreviation.
I had nearly tuned out. The 'non-sentient' gag made me pay just enough attention to go 'Wait, did he just...?' and rewind to confirm that Tom did, in fact, fling the card away for no sensible reason. At least I hope there's no sensible reason.
You didn't get Tafel wrong. It does indeed also mean table in german, it's just an archaic version. Infact the "Knights of the Round Table" are referred to as "Ritter der Tafelrunde" in german.
So excited every time I see one of these come up, really hoping we get a season 2 someday because it is mildly sad to think there's only one of these left
"Burg" is German for castle. Like "Bürger", it is derived from Old High German "burga" which means protection. Also, "Tafel" can still mean table in German, as it is used to refer to elevated dinner tables.
To answer what Gary wanted to know about the -burg suffix in German place names, a "Burg" is a fortificated structure in German. So places ending in -burg got that suffix from their fortifications. "Citizen" is "Bürger" in German, with an ü, which does alter its pronounciation. Although having looked it up, apparently the etymology of it is that a Bürger is someone who is protected, so it actually is connected to "Burg" in a way.
13:00 The Spongegbob Bikini Bottom comes from the show being set at the bottom of the sea around the Bikini Atoll. And yes that was probably chosen for the swimwear joke.
17:46 - The previous record of 583 for Nordbergs in Nordberg would still stand today if it weren't for the fact that the citizens of the town were considered to be Nordbergers but not Nordbergs.
The fact that I'd been rewatching Numberwang clips lately, and Matt came out of left field and referenced it at 8:57 (tangentially, That's Numberwang!) caught my ass so off-guard
Also, can't believe this is the second time I remember "most common" and "secondmost common" surnames of Wales have made an appearance on Reverse Trivia (last time was in the Experiments era, namely Experiment 2 "Reverse Trivia, but this time with video") - it also had Chris solve the question
Buy o pick has been correct for decades. This isn't a discussion. It's a pic about a bio, it's not myopic. (Commenting lovingly for algorithm engagement)
more reverse trivia with the four guys! thanks technical difficulties! so much fun and chaos and trivia and information and facts and references and new pastimes to enjoy!
"Tafel" can be table in German, but usually in the sense of those grand banquet tables. "Bürger" for citizen come from "Burg" which is castle, because it originally referred to the people living in the area of the castle (I think)
4:42 - They don't have any "trombone" motorway intersections in the Los Angeles metro area. There, the highway interchanges (a.k.a. "spaghetti junctions" after the original one (Gravely Hill) in Birmingham England) are all not merely "French Horns" but are Triple-Key French Horns (which have more plumbing than a sky-scraper).
Yay! This time the show was entirely in tune with my form in the moment, as well as an excellent time to turn off the screen and head for the bedroom to catch som well needed zee-zees. 😄 edit: This week's episode seemed very on point and in tune to keep the spirits lifted. Very well done, good job. Thank you very much, folks! 😎👍
Minor point as to what Chris said about the Bikini Atoll, it was already an atoll before the nuclear testing, an atoll being a ring shaped island with a lagoon.
We are back with more Professionally Written Questions, and yet another small apology for our butchering of another language!
I suppose the format is that it alternates back and forth from trivia card deck to Professionally Written Questions every week?
@@arfansthename In all honesty the 2004 Trivial Pursuit questions were so badly written that we could barely use any.
I look forward to 20 more year of this show ^_^
@@MattGrayYES They were yes 😂
"apologies"? I thought that was the point of the show!
So a bit of clarification: in German, Berg is mountain, Burg is fortress, Bürger is indeed citizen
Mostly the same in Afrikaans (excluding fortress).
Also "Tafel" is an older German word for table. Arthur's "Knights of the round TABLE" in german are the "Ritter der TAFELrunde". (there probably is some ethymological connection between "blackboard" and "table" in german) So Gary was more right than you thought. Also that mountain in german is also called "Tafelberg" ;)
and I think Bürger is coming from "People living inside the Burg" as opposed to the peasants living outside of them.
@@gordonrichardson2972 In Dutch, those are berg, burg en burger, respectivelly
And Tafel is also table
"I've been non-sentient Tom Scott" is one of those sentences that just makes the brain do the equivalent of getting stuck in a boot loop.
absolutely stupendous ending bit. thanks chris
What, not "24 including the horses"?
That's just AI disclosure
If you think about it, I'm pretty sure we've encountered a non-sentient Tom Scott before. There was a video about replacing people with AI or some such...
@@laurencefraser the one where he had an android head built of him?
finally, after all these years, the wheel has once again spun and landed on france
We all know it's just a cardboard arrow that says France on it!
Ow
In France, they call the wheel a Brie.
LA FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNCEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@SamsaraTAS the wheel is 50% France, 50% everywhere else
“Non-sentient Tom Scott” implies the existence of a much more dangerous sentient Tom Scott
Given that most animals and some plants rate as 'sentient', I'm not so sure that's true.
On the other hand, a true AI would (usually) still not be sentient. It would, however, be sapient, and while some definitions of sapient allow for more than just humans to count, the list of sapient species (and others) is still very short.
...
And I seem to recall the existence of an "AI" Tom Scott from one of his past videos...
go watch MattColbo's cloning Tom Scott video
_Vordt of the Boreal Valley theme starts playing_
He's the one in the red shirt
Well yeah, he signs off all the time on these game shows as "I've been Tom Scott"
Does he stop being Tom Scott? Does he go offline, or like, disconnect his consciousness? Do they destroy him and get a _new_ Tom Scott?
Gary revealing the sheer fact-density of the trivia cards makes me even more desperate to be able to purchase a set
Seeing Gary with the cards has made me want another “The Tom’s Not In Charge Anymore Special” but with Brannan hosting instead.
There _is_ a fan theory that Bikini Bottom is actually somewhere near Bikini Atoll, and the sentient sea creatures are the result of decades of mutation from the radioactivity.
I heard Jimmy Neutron more or less confirmed it, having a seemingly-random pineapple undersea in an episode they were visiting bikini atoll
I believe the part about it being near Bikini Atoll is not just theory but explicit intent of the show, with Bikini Bottom being destroyed by nuclear explosion in one of the episodes, and the part about them being result of mutations is explicitly wrong, as all sea creatures, including these outside of Bikini Bottom, are drawn exactly like them and also sentient, and also some of characters came into Bikini Bottom from other parts of the ocean and from land, and they are equally weird.
I thought that was official
@@angieulaka I didn't watch that, but I don't think Jimmy Neutron counts as Spongebob canon.
@@SofosProject But Jimmy Neutron DID turn a scene of SpongeBob into puppets for a little bit one time, like, 20 years ago.
"Spread Bet on my Zoetrope 'til I *loud incorrect buzzer*."
[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]
Funny, I was kind of expecting the church-bell DONG! from the old TechDif podcast.
Too British for me. No idea what any of that meant in the original (english????)version.
@@borismatesin
[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT DONG 🔔]
@@michaeldayman682 Matt's joke is basically using a template phrase what teenagers nowadays jokes about
She's [something something funny word], till I came
kinda like,
[some word that include -er], I hardly know her
and "loud noises" is to blurred out the last part of the jokes to what essentially the dirty part of the jokes 😂
As a Dutch speaker, "Tafelberg" had me laughing both because of how wrong Gary was, and also because that is the most English pronunciation of Tafelberg ever
Teefelburgh
It's actually quite funny how confidentally wrong Tom was about literally everything he said about any German word here.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo including the bit Chris said about there not being a latin root for the word thats derived from the latin tabula almost directly
as one of the few viewer from Scunthorpe, thanks Gary
2nd that
3rd and 4th here!
I nearly turned the damn show off when we heard it. Proper freaked me out 😂
Since you're from Scunthorpe, there is a question I have been wondering for a long time.
What do to you CALL someone from Scunthorpe? I have assume that you're scunts.
I wonder if there is anyone from Peniston too here
7:37
Brannan: "There are feet"
Matt: "Nope"
Brannan: "Hooves"
Matt: "Yep"
Excellent
I must say, along with some of the best entertainment om UA-cam, The Technical Difficulties has, hands down, the best subtitles on UA-cam.
As someone who has spent the last 20 years going to gigs and playing in bands, I often struggle a bit with dialogue in TV/movies, and having good subtitles means I can have the volume at a wife-friendly level and still know what's going on.
Subtiles on the older stuff is gold, but the color-coding added from Adventures onwards is just chef's kiss.
Good work, chaps
To be fair, with their accents, it's sometimes hard to make out what they say, even for someone without hearing problems 😅
Also handy for we speakers of non-English English.
@@DogmaFaucet especially when they say names of things I'm not familiar with - I can look them up to see what they're on about!
Yep. Non-native speaker of English here, I'm often lost about their references even with the subtitles, let alone without them!
It's a service called Caption+ by JS*/Jacob Star. Tom uses it for most of his videos, and some other youtubers in the sphere also (I know they're also used on Jet Lag The Game and maybe Wendover Productions main channel videos too? I know plenty of others but not off the top of my head, but yes. Caption+ is incredible, the colour coding and rich formatting, the context awareness, the way it all helps to match and convey as much of the intent of the audio track as possible, and also on other videos that use them they even dynamically change position if there's an overlay on screen, so for example if there's a scoreboard or bar at the bottom during a section the captions will move out of the way so that everything is readable!
Truly the gold standard.
0:59 i can hear the mystery biscuit going off like a klaxon. BRING IT BACK, DAMMIT!
Miss Terry seems not to sell biscuits anymore :(
@@SymbioteMullet👏👍
If you can hear it, do you really need it?
I liked it when Gary became the host out of nowhere
I love Tom and Chris’ new outfits. Gary brannan is still hoodie and bright shirt, and Matt will always be a supremely tacky, wonderful t-shirt, being the bounciest man on the internet.
We really need Two of these People are lying to come back it's so fun to see you guys back together
Many cities in Germany end on "-burg", with "Burg" meaning "castle". Sometimes it is changed over time to "-berg", but sometimes "-berg" is actually derived form "Berg" meaning "mountain". So it is not always clear, why any German town name ends in "-berg".
Well, Tafel is also an old-time and fancy way to say table in german.
And you see how a blackboard is pretty strongly table shaped. As are notice boards, road signs, departure boards and other things called 'Tafel' in German, 'Bord' in Dutch and 'Board' in English.
That's why the mountain is called that. It looks like a giant's table, not like a chalkboard...
@@Deckzwabber In fact, in English "board" used to be a synonym for "table". That's why we have "board games", "board meetings", and "room and board".
@@jeremydavis3631 Thanks. I'm less familiar with English etymology than I am with Dutch and German.
@@jeremydavis3631 Thanks a lot, I was unaware of that, although I should have known that much. Thank you for reminding me, if I ever knew it sometime before.
Never seen a more consistently funny internet comedy troupe. I guess the periodical nature of the group keeps it fresh.
good afternoon from scunthorpe! Weird... on the day where geoGuesser gave me a location in my hometown, you greet me too! The internet is a crazy place!
Nothing proves Matt's strong connection to his inner youth like absolutely nailing that "Gen Z internet humour"
And the wheel spins and LANDS ON FRANCE!
it's not a wheel, it's just a bit of cardboard with FRANCE written on it!
Wake up to a new TechDiff reverse trivia contest? What a birthday present!
happy birthday 🎉
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! 🥳👉👉
Sorry to correct you, but Tafel _is_ German for table (though a little archaic/pompous). Still used in things like "Tafelwasser" or "Tafelapfel", things meant for consumption at the table (as opposed to baking the apples into pies). There is also the (Schul-)Tafel, the blackboard, yes, and that will be more in common use today.
And "berg" is often found in city names because they're just close to a mountain. Nürnberg for example.
Oh and Tafelberg is not just the name of a specific mountain, it is the German word for any mountain with a pronounced flat top. Probably the same in Dutch, so that's where the one in Africa got its name.
That's funny. In Spanish, "mesa" means both table and a hill with a flat top. It makes me wonder how many languages had people look at flat-topped hills and go "I'll call it a table because it looks like one".
@@stevenreckling203 or perhaps the other way around, named the concept of what is essentially an artificial, miniature, flat-topped hill/mountain after? That's actually an interesting question indeed!
@@stevenreckling203 "mesa" is used in English to mean flat area of land as well, although not for tables. That is from the Spanish, which in turn gets it from Latin mensa, which means table or altar.
Also, bürger comes from middle latin burgus (people living in a town protected by walls and certain additional rights), and might have the same root as Burg (german for castle and the root for city names )
To help soothe Gary's hurting brain -- "biopic" is a portmanteau of "biographical" and "moving picture". ;)
It's also a single word, and I'm pretty sure that Gary's correct about the pronunciation as a result of how English stress patterns work (Stress is to English what Pitch is to Japanese and Tone is to Mandarin, if you're not familiar with such things). If it was two words (bio pic), then Matt's pronuncation would be fine, but it's not.
I might be wrong, but I don't think so.
@@laurencefraser pretty sure it's pronounce as if it's two words instead of one...
@@laurencefraser I mean, it goes from "biographical picture" to "bio pic" to "biopic", and there's no real reason to change the stresses when english has absolute nonsense for pronunciation rules already.
@@laurencefraser It is about stress, but it is so weird that biographic and biography have a different stress pattern and hence different pronunciation of bio. In biopic you can choose whether or not to put stress on pic, so I guess either is valid. I much prefer to stress the two i-syllables though.
@@laurencefraser I think you're forgetting the fact that it's English, and pronunciation is just a crap shoot
With his internet-separated powers, Chris Joel turns the entire cast of TechDiff non-sentient. Soon, it'll be the world's turn.
I didn't realize the world used to be sentient...
Sentintly Devilish.
17:24 feels like that would be good gag.
"Should we just spin a round robin?"
Cut to Gary sitting in front of laptop continuing like nothing happened and Tom visibly perturbed that he doesn't have laptop anymore.
"Pi? That could be any number of things."
Usually 3.14.....😅
the classic lego toy line of the 2000s, biopicle
love your pun there
Always good to hear Scunthorpe acknowledged by my favourite Gary Brannan
Other people have already mentioned the German issues, but I'll actually note: Bikini Bottom is both named because of the pun and because it is, iirc, supposed to be on the seafloor in the Bikini Atoll area.
I don't get how they managed to talk about both of those in the same sentence without noticing it. SpongeBob is about a radioactive sponge that gained "independence".
It's been a theory for years, have the creators actually ever come out and confirmed that to be the case?
@@scottmcintyre2809 I heard Jimmy neutron at least lend credence to it.
For once, I'm not actually in Scunthorpe (i.e. at work) when watching this, and it gets a call out 😂
You should watch it again when you get back there
you're the *fourth* Scunthorpe person I find in 30s of scrolling down these comments
16:35 That's a mystery biscuit. Come on Tom. Bring it back!
I feel like Tom had to stop his own muscle memory from hitting the button for biscuits there!
8:19 That's not even how the joke would go. It's "She zoro on my trope until I discover how horses work". Unless Matt is referencing a different snowclone template
"She spread on my bet 'til I zoetrope?"
*confused incorrect buzzer*?
she bet on my zoetrope til I spread
German here, and I want to note that "Tafel" does also mean table. Particularly a loooooong one with lots of people around having a feast. (At least that's the image that enters my brain when I hear the word.)
And "Burg" means castle, as in the fortress one, not the fancy one.
there's probably one of those castles from back where there were a hundred duck-sized germanies that was most known for having a really nice table.
The gathering of Joneses not having Tom... it's not unusual.
🤦♂️
I would watch these guys play "Factwang"
You just did.
TechDiff are always excessively funny to watch as a non-British person, there's nothing better than hearing 5 minutes-long joke sequences and having absolutely no clue what the hell they're talking about
I keep forgetting it's Thursday until I see a little Tom Scott gem sitting in my sub box
A little bit of citations: In German, you can use "Tafel" to describe a table as well. I never heard it out of the context of food being served, like if a table is set for lunch or dinner with all the food on it, there's some old saying calling it a Tafel, and I can't say I ever heard it being used in a normal setting. Also the round table of King Arthur is called the "Tafelrunde"
That's why the type of mountain - mesas, mountians with a big plateau instead of a peak - are called Tafelberg in German in general as well, it's not just that one mountain.
potential questions for "weird al yankovic"
* who married pinkie pie in "my little pony: friendship is magic"
* who is one of the antagonists of the ms paint fan adventure "vast error"
Who is Wreck-Gar, the Transformer who dares to be stupid?
Who collaborated with Wendy Carlos on an adaptation of works by Prokofiev and Saint-Saëns?
11:37 Tom says that Tafel is not a german word for table, which is not completely true. Large tables with the primary function as a place to eat food at are also called Tafel.
Scunthorpe jumpsscare
I can only assume this isn't a Radio 4 programme because the contract wouldn't allow for enough knob gags. But this is top quality stuff you four.
"Biopic" stands for "Biographical Picture" so the way Matt pronounced it is correct
I believe there's a problem with the stress patterns in pronouncing it that way. That would be the correct readiong of 'bio pic' but not 'biopic'.
We need to convince people that the other pronunciation is also a word spelled "biopic", but that one means "related to biopsies", and those films don't generally get shown in cinemas.
And unless you call it a "bye-oh-graphical picture" then it's not correct
@@Bagofnowt I'm sorry, are you out here pronouncing it bye-aw-graphical? bffr
Also, a quick Google search of "how to pronounce biopic" will support the "bio" half being pronounced the same as the established abbreviation.
@@iabervon I think that depends entirely on what cinemas you go to.
Professionally written questions, unprofessional humour. This episode: Matt Unshackled.
Matt was on form for guessing the questions today!
As someone from Germany, I couldn't believe Matt claiming our very own HP Baxxter as British 😂
Please bring back Citation Needed! It was such a great show. ❤
Oh the end of this was just perfect, I'm in tears. What an excellent way to start my Thursday, goodness gracious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had nearly tuned out. The 'non-sentient' gag made me pay just enough attention to go 'Wait, did he just...?' and rewind to confirm that Tom did, in fact, fling the card away for no sensible reason. At least I hope there's no sensible reason.
Can't express how I happy I am to have this back in my life. You guys are awesome
It's so enjoyable watching four friends banter and rif off each other.
Love to see a return of Reverse Trivia. Hope to see another run of Citation Needed!
I'm sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again: I love the chemistry you lot have
You didn't get Tafel wrong. It does indeed also mean table in german, it's just an archaic version.
Infact the "Knights of the Round Table" are referred to as "Ritter der Tafelrunde" in german.
So excited every time I see one of these come up, really hoping we get a season 2 someday because it is mildly sad to think there's only one of these left
"Burg" is German for castle. Like "Bürger", it is derived from Old High German "burga" which means protection.
Also, "Tafel" can still mean table in German, as it is used to refer to elevated dinner tables.
To answer what Gary wanted to know about the -burg suffix in German place names, a "Burg" is a fortificated structure in German. So places ending in -burg got that suffix from their fortifications. "Citizen" is "Bürger" in German, with an ü, which does alter its pronounciation. Although having looked it up, apparently the etymology of it is that a Bürger is someone who is protected, so it actually is connected to "Burg" in a way.
13:00 The Spongegbob Bikini Bottom comes from the show being set at the bottom of the sea around the Bikini Atoll. And yes that was probably chosen for the swimwear joke.
Also for the 'radioactive fallout' creating all of these sapient sea-creatures.
17:46 - The previous record of 583 for Nordbergs in Nordberg would still stand today if it weren't for the fact that the citizens of the town were considered to be Nordbergers but not Nordbergs.
this show is the only thing helping me remember what day it is at the moment and i love it
UA-cam knows I rewatch Tech Dif videos so much that it’s ALREADY recommending I watch this one again 😂
i would really love another 2 of these people are lying. it’s my fav!!! love you guys!
Very much appreciated Gary's jab at Ian Levine there.
Love the coloured subtitles
Im so glad you 4 are still going
These are genuinely hilarious and feel very much like a proper british tv show like QI, you even have an elf now
Great to see these guys back together 🙏🙏
I loved the bit where gary yoinked the card
the wheel spins, and once again lands on France
In fairness, the wheel is something like 19/20ths "France."
Came home from work.
And here is a new episode of my favourite group.
I listened on the way to work.
Berg is mountain, Burg is Castle
The fact that I'd been rewatching Numberwang clips lately, and Matt came out of left field and referenced it at 8:57 (tangentially, That's Numberwang!) caught my ass so off-guard
Speaking of pie chart, apparently it is almost 100% French with a tiny bit landed on Germany.
I work in Cardiff Bay and I instantly thought of The Millennium Theatre 😂
Gary’s the winner for his correct pronunciation of biopic. Congrats Gary! ;)
Actually went to Scunthorpe today, just to say I've been there! Thanks for the greeting, Gary!
Also, can't believe this is the second time I remember "most common" and "secondmost common" surnames of Wales have made an appearance on Reverse Trivia (last time was in the Experiments era, namely Experiment 2 "Reverse Trivia, but this time with video") - it also had Chris solve the question
Buy o pick has been correct for decades. This isn't a discussion. It's a pic about a bio, it's not myopic.
(Commenting lovingly for algorithm engagement)
more reverse trivia with the four guys! thanks technical difficulties! so much fun and chaos and trivia and information and facts and references and new pastimes to enjoy!
Absolutely amazing episode, this one's my favourite of the season.
so a funeral is a postbiopic
"Tafel" can be table in German, but usually in the sense of those grand banquet tables. "Bürger" for citizen come from "Burg" which is castle, because it originally referred to the people living in the area of the castle (I think)
Definitely need to see more of Gary taking charge. When he took the card was incredible. :)
Love to you all ❤
I hope they bring back Tabletop Time Machine.
4:42 - They don't have any "trombone" motorway intersections in the Los Angeles metro area. There, the highway interchanges (a.k.a. "spaghetti junctions" after the original one (Gravely Hill) in Birmingham England) are all not merely "French Horns" but are Triple-Key French Horns (which have more plumbing than a sky-scraper).
Lot of quick ones this episode. Loving this so far!
So, so glad this show is back.
6:24 "If you're all arse and no legs... You're in my search history" still has my belly twitching a bit, holy hell that gave me a good laugh.
4:40 That'll be a trumpet interchange 😃 *zips up anorak*
Pointing and non-sentient bit 😱🤣 classic British insanity ❤ I'm so happy that America is downstream of this wit and humor and culture
We must construct additional pielands
Oh yeah, another hilarious episode with pies.
Best one of the series so far! Really good stuff lads
15:30 Can confirm that the Hubs is still there in Sheff as our students union and is as unfit for purpose as ever
good episode, liked the questions and the humour. good classic stuff
It's such a pleasure to see you guys back! Gary's card twist was like the 4th wall breakage. Fantastic!!
Yay! This time the show was entirely in tune with my form in the moment, as well as an excellent time to turn off the screen and head for the bedroom to catch som well needed zee-zees. 😄 edit: This week's episode seemed very on point and in tune to keep the spirits lifted. Very well done, good job. Thank you very much, folks! 😎👍
"It can be any number of things!"
My brain: "No, it's exactly the ratio between circumference and diameter..."
Minor point as to what Chris said about the Bikini Atoll, it was already an atoll before the nuclear testing, an atoll being a ring shaped island with a lagoon.