1 00:00:33,270 --> 00:00:38,150 Hello and welcome to QI. 2 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:42,390 Tonight we are up to our usual tricks and will be treating you 3 00:00:42,390 --> 00:00:45,030 to a show all about tricks and treats. 4 00:00:45,030 --> 00:00:47,670 And joining me are four absolute sweeties. 5 00:00:47,670 --> 00:00:50,590 A proper Smartie - it's Ria Lina. 6 00:00:55,150 --> 00:00:58,070 Getting their Snickers in a twist, it's Eshaan Akbar. 7 00:01:02,030 --> 00:01:04,350 Giving us all a Boost, it's Jimmy Carr. 8 00:01:07,990 --> 00:01:10,630 And always coming up smelling of Roses, 9 00:01:10,630 --> 00:01:12,070 it's Alan Davies. 10 00:01:17,350 --> 00:01:19,950 And their buzzers are four tasty treats. 11 00:01:19,950 --> 00:01:21,390 Ria goes... 12 00:01:21,390 --> 00:01:25,230 # Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey...# 13 00:01:25,230 --> 00:01:26,510 Eshaan goes... 14 00:01:26,510 --> 00:01:31,630 # Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...# 15 00:01:31,630 --> 00:01:34,110 Not if you're diabetic. 16 00:01:34,110 --> 00:01:36,350 Which I am. 17 00:01:36,350 --> 00:01:38,590 Oh, are you? 18 00:01:38,590 --> 00:01:39,910 I'm pre-diabetic. 19 00:01:43,350 --> 00:01:46,350 Is there a post-diabetic? 20 00:01:46,350 --> 00:01:48,030 Jimmy goes... 21 00:01:48,030 --> 00:01:51,270 # Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy 22 00:01:51,270 --> 00:01:53,830 # And I feel like I'm loving you. # 23 00:01:53,830 --> 00:01:55,550 And Alan goes... 24 00:01:55,550 --> 00:01:58,510 # Sweet Caroline 25 00:01:58,510 --> 00:02:00,390 # Ba ba ba 26 00:02:00,390 --> 00:02:03,870 # Good times never seemed so good 27 00:02:03,870 --> 00:02:06,510 # So good, so good. # 28 00:02:08,110 --> 00:02:09,950 Let's just do karaoke. 29 00:02:11,790 --> 00:02:14,030 All right. So I suppose the first question today has to be, 30 00:02:14,030 --> 00:02:15,390 trick or treat? 31 00:02:15,390 --> 00:02:16,870 Jimmy? A treat, please. 32 00:02:16,870 --> 00:02:17,870 You want a treat? 33 00:02:17,870 --> 00:02:19,510 Treat. Treat. 34 00:02:19,510 --> 00:02:23,070 Trick. Trick. 35 00:02:23,070 --> 00:02:25,590 OK, you two can have the chocolate cake that's just beside you. 36 00:02:25,590 --> 00:02:26,590 Oh, what? 37 00:02:28,230 --> 00:02:30,270 This is going very well. 38 00:02:31,790 --> 00:02:35,230 Has this show got dumbed down a bit? Because I remember the questions 39 00:02:35,230 --> 00:02:37,790 being a lot more difficult the last time I was on. 40 00:02:37,790 --> 00:02:39,190 Do you guys want a bit of cake, though? 41 00:02:39,190 --> 00:02:40,430 Oh, is there? Fine? 42 00:02:40,430 --> 00:02:42,870 But what I would have liked to have given you 43 00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:45,070 is German chocolate cake. 44 00:02:45,070 --> 00:02:46,910 Oh, no. Do you not like German... 45 00:02:46,910 --> 00:02:48,150 I don't like German chocolate cake. 46 00:02:48,150 --> 00:02:49,990 OK, why don't you like it? 47 00:02:49,990 --> 00:02:51,790 Well, hang on. Let's be clear. 48 00:02:51,790 --> 00:02:53,590 Do we mean chocolate cake from Germany 49 00:02:53,590 --> 00:02:55,230 or German chocolate cake? 50 00:02:55,230 --> 00:02:59,390 See, already you are going to probably get an extra point 51 00:02:59,390 --> 00:03:00,950 because my question is, 52 00:03:00,950 --> 00:03:02,990 where does German chocolate cake come from? 53 00:03:02,990 --> 00:03:04,190 Greggs. 54 00:03:08,510 --> 00:03:10,270 I know the answer to this. 55 00:03:10,270 --> 00:03:13,750 Well, there's a cake in America called German chocolate cake. 56 00:03:13,750 --> 00:03:16,950 And it's from a man called German, not from Germany. 57 00:03:16,950 --> 00:03:18,390 Exactly right. 58 00:03:18,390 --> 00:03:20,830 You get an extra point, that is entirely correct. 59 00:03:23,750 --> 00:03:25,750 I don't know if you've seen the show before. 60 00:03:25,750 --> 00:03:27,950 We could be out of here in 20 minutes. 61 00:03:27,950 --> 00:03:29,710 This is going to be terrific. 62 00:03:29,710 --> 00:03:32,430 You were supposed to say Black Forest. 63 00:03:37,310 --> 00:03:40,270 So there was a guy called Samuel German, and he developed 64 00:03:40,270 --> 00:03:43,110 a product in 1852 of baking chocolate that was already 65 00:03:43,110 --> 00:03:44,390 a little bit sweeter. 66 00:03:44,390 --> 00:03:46,630 So you had to put one less ingredient in your cake. 67 00:03:46,630 --> 00:03:49,470 And this was developed into a thing called German chocolate cake, 68 00:03:49,470 --> 00:03:51,510 and it became hugely successful. 69 00:03:51,510 --> 00:03:55,590 The thing about Samuel German is that he was an English American, 70 00:03:55,590 --> 00:03:59,990 so English, but German, I mean, a bit like the royal family. 71 00:03:59,990 --> 00:04:02,190 Funny name to have, isn't it? 72 00:04:02,190 --> 00:04:03,710 The Germans are coming round. 73 00:04:03,710 --> 00:04:05,110 Oh! 74 00:04:06,750 --> 00:04:09,390 German chocolate cake sounds like the kind of thing you would not 75 00:04:09,390 --> 00:04:10,830 put into Google at work. 76 00:04:12,870 --> 00:04:16,110 That could be something really dreadful. 77 00:04:16,110 --> 00:04:19,550 We couldn't have a German chocolate cake on the show in case one person 78 00:04:19,550 --> 00:04:21,750 in the audience had a nut allergy. 79 00:04:21,750 --> 00:04:23,430 I always thought a nut allergy 80 00:04:23,430 --> 00:04:25,510 was a very good euphemism for lesbian. 81 00:04:28,710 --> 00:04:30,230 What's Sandi like? 82 00:04:30,230 --> 00:04:31,950 You know, she's got a nut allergy. 83 00:04:36,670 --> 00:04:39,750 Can I just say as a hetero woman, you don't have to be a lesbian 84 00:04:39,750 --> 00:04:41,350 to have a nut allergy. 85 00:04:46,750 --> 00:04:50,550 I feel we're dividing into niche tribes straight away. 86 00:04:50,550 --> 00:04:55,510 Germans are coming around - that's a euphemism for something. 87 00:04:55,510 --> 00:04:58,710 But here is something very, very British. 88 00:04:58,710 --> 00:05:00,590 Anybody know what this is? 89 00:05:02,190 --> 00:05:04,310 Is it a dragonfly with an erection? 90 00:05:05,870 --> 00:05:06,990 Wow... 91 00:05:08,310 --> 00:05:11,550 You know, I hadn't seen that, and now that's all I can see. Right?! 92 00:05:11,550 --> 00:05:12,950 Actually... That's it. 93 00:05:12,950 --> 00:05:15,590 Festival Hall. Festival Hall. Festival of Britain. 94 00:05:15,590 --> 00:05:18,070 So it was the Festival of Britain and it was called the Skylon. 95 00:05:18,070 --> 00:05:20,510 It was the centrepiece of the Festival of Britain. 96 00:05:20,510 --> 00:05:23,150 It was 90 metres high... Whoa. Wow. 97 00:05:23,150 --> 00:05:25,310 ..and it was kept erect through tension. 98 00:05:25,310 --> 00:05:27,390 I'm sure everybody's been there. Oh. 99 00:05:27,390 --> 00:05:31,550 It was the largest object in the world supported by wires, 100 00:05:31,550 --> 00:05:34,910 and what's really a shame is that they didn't keep it because it was 101 00:05:34,910 --> 00:05:38,150 a remarkable construction, but it was pulled down a year later. 102 00:05:38,150 --> 00:05:40,430 They were going to take it to Scarborough, Morecambe, 103 00:05:40,430 --> 00:05:43,350 even the United States, but it was too expensive. 104 00:05:43,350 --> 00:05:45,870 They sold it to a scrap metal dealer in White City, 105 00:05:45,870 --> 00:05:47,990 probably right near where we are now. 106 00:05:47,990 --> 00:05:50,150 Wood Lane, White City - George Cohen and Sons. 107 00:05:50,150 --> 00:05:53,110 Were people meant to climb up this thing? What was the point of it? 108 00:05:53,110 --> 00:05:55,430 What was the point? It's right at the end, mate. 109 00:05:58,870 --> 00:06:00,470 It's quite a hazard to skydivers 110 00:06:00,470 --> 00:06:02,750 because I imagine you can't see it at all... 111 00:06:06,190 --> 00:06:08,430 Coming down, "Look at that view of the Thames..." 112 00:06:08,430 --> 00:06:09,590 MIMES RIPPING FABRIC 113 00:06:10,750 --> 00:06:13,390 There was a student who wanted to climb up it and hang a pair 114 00:06:13,390 --> 00:06:16,230 of knickers... Of course. ..at the top, at the official opening. 115 00:06:16,230 --> 00:06:17,750 He's called Philip Gordon. 116 00:06:17,750 --> 00:06:20,310 He was a student at the University of London's Air Squadron. 117 00:06:20,310 --> 00:06:23,350 He shimmied up at midnight, dressed as a workman, and his plan was 118 00:06:23,350 --> 00:06:25,430 to jump into the river to escape. 119 00:06:25,430 --> 00:06:28,630 I'm just going to say "90 metres" again to everybody... Wow. 120 00:06:28,630 --> 00:06:32,430 Anyway, bless his heart, he slightly bottled it and hung a scarf 121 00:06:32,430 --> 00:06:35,030 instead of a pair of knickers, because the King was coming. 122 00:06:35,030 --> 00:06:36,470 But he did get up there. 123 00:06:36,470 --> 00:06:39,110 No, he got there... He got up there. ..he couldn't bear to do pants. 124 00:06:39,110 --> 00:06:41,750 Or they were dirty because he bottled it. 125 00:06:43,390 --> 00:06:46,550 Yeah. He got to the top and soiled himself, that's what we've learned. 126 00:06:46,550 --> 00:06:49,270 But hang on - the plan to get down was initially to jump, 127 00:06:49,270 --> 00:06:51,630 and then he thought, "Do you know what?" Yeah... 128 00:06:51,630 --> 00:06:53,310 "I'm just going to shimmy." 129 00:06:53,310 --> 00:06:55,670 That's a good name for you - Shimmy Carr. I like that. 130 00:06:56,750 --> 00:06:59,990 Give us a shimmy. Yeah! Yeah! There we go. 131 00:06:59,990 --> 00:07:01,990 Lots of people didn't like it. 132 00:07:01,990 --> 00:07:05,390 The Sydney Morning Herald called it "phallic flippancy". 133 00:07:05,390 --> 00:07:07,590 I don't think if your phallus looks like that, 134 00:07:07,590 --> 00:07:09,870 you can afford to be flippant. No... 135 00:07:09,870 --> 00:07:12,150 Wonder if they'd be bothered by reviews, would they? 136 00:07:12,150 --> 00:07:14,430 I mean, who's looking at that, going, "Oh, well, 137 00:07:14,430 --> 00:07:17,110 "it wasn't well reviewed, I'll look over here"? Yeah. 138 00:07:18,310 --> 00:07:21,630 Some of it was used for rearmament in the Korean War, 139 00:07:21,630 --> 00:07:24,790 and some of it was made into commemorative letter openers. 140 00:07:24,790 --> 00:07:27,430 Oh, I feel bad for the guy that ended up in the Korean War 141 00:07:27,430 --> 00:07:28,870 with the letter opener. Yeah...! 142 00:07:32,110 --> 00:07:34,750 It's an example of something called "tensegrity". 143 00:07:34,750 --> 00:07:36,750 Tension and integrity. 144 00:07:36,750 --> 00:07:39,430 It's a word coined by the architect, Richard Buckmunster... 145 00:07:39,430 --> 00:07:41,030 Buckmis... Sorry. 146 00:07:41,030 --> 00:07:43,070 Richard Buckminster Fuller... Well said. 147 00:07:43,070 --> 00:07:45,590 I try not to get my Buckminster and my Fuller confused... 148 00:07:45,590 --> 00:07:48,230 You nearly said "buttmuncher" there. and you... Yeah, I know! 149 00:07:49,350 --> 00:07:51,830 Now, for a question about TREAT-ments. 150 00:07:51,830 --> 00:07:55,270 It's time for a round of What's The Treatment, Sandi? 151 00:08:01,030 --> 00:08:04,430 OK! What do we think the treatment is to stop snoring? 152 00:08:04,430 --> 00:08:05,750 Wake up. 153 00:08:08,150 --> 00:08:09,510 APPLAUSE 154 00:08:14,590 --> 00:08:16,590 I just read a book about this! Oh! 155 00:08:16,590 --> 00:08:19,070 A whole book about snoring? Yeah, well, it's called Breathe. 156 00:08:19,070 --> 00:08:22,070 It's quite a good book, and it's about how we developed, 157 00:08:22,070 --> 00:08:24,510 and basically, the whole book says, you've got to breathe 158 00:08:24,510 --> 00:08:26,790 through your nose, so put a bit of tape over your mouth, 159 00:08:26,790 --> 00:08:28,630 stop your snoring. Oh... 160 00:08:28,630 --> 00:08:30,830 Why did you read a whole book about breathing...? 161 00:08:32,030 --> 00:08:33,550 Well, I thought... "You know what? 162 00:08:33,550 --> 00:08:35,670 "Some people stop breathing and then..." Yeah. 163 00:08:36,830 --> 00:08:39,350 So you go... I want to get... This is the basics. Yeah. 164 00:08:39,350 --> 00:08:40,790 You want to nail this stuff. Good. 165 00:08:40,790 --> 00:08:42,630 I've been breathing the whole show. 166 00:08:44,630 --> 00:08:46,870 It is to do with breathing. 167 00:08:46,870 --> 00:08:49,910 Divorce is not the answer. Divorce is one way of doing it. 168 00:08:49,910 --> 00:08:52,950 But you might want to stop your own snoring and train yourself not to. 169 00:08:52,950 --> 00:08:54,470 ALAN: Oh, I do... 170 00:08:54,470 --> 00:08:56,590 Well, I snore a little bit and my girlfriend's got... 171 00:08:56,590 --> 00:08:58,630 She's got noise-cancelling fists. 172 00:09:03,030 --> 00:09:06,150 But you're in the right area, Jimmy, because what we really need to do 173 00:09:06,150 --> 00:09:08,590 is train the muscles of the upper airways to do what's called 174 00:09:08,590 --> 00:09:10,030 circular breathing. OK. 175 00:09:10,030 --> 00:09:11,630 So you need to inhale through 176 00:09:11,630 --> 00:09:13,070 the nose whilst blowing through... 177 00:09:15,310 --> 00:09:16,510 Is that right? 178 00:09:17,790 --> 00:09:20,430 It's that breathing in through the nose, out through the mouth, 179 00:09:20,430 --> 00:09:22,390 in through the nose and out through the mouth 180 00:09:22,390 --> 00:09:24,470 in a continuous circular movement. 181 00:09:24,470 --> 00:09:27,230 The best way is to take up an instrument. 182 00:09:27,230 --> 00:09:29,710 Which instrument might it be? I think trombone, isn't it? 183 00:09:29,710 --> 00:09:33,070 Nope. Anybody, any thoughts? Bagpipes. Xylophone. 184 00:09:33,070 --> 00:09:34,790 Flute. Xyl...?! 185 00:09:34,790 --> 00:09:37,110 Didgeridoo! Harmonica! Didgeridoo! 186 00:09:37,110 --> 00:09:40,470 Oh... It's the didgeridoo. Well done, Alan. Got to get a big... 187 00:09:40,470 --> 00:09:41,590 Yes. 188 00:09:41,590 --> 00:09:42,750 APPLAUSE 189 00:09:46,630 --> 00:09:48,830 And there I am with my didgeridoo! 190 00:09:48,830 --> 00:09:54,070 So, 2006, a group of scientists in Zurich decided, 191 00:09:54,070 --> 00:09:58,670 "Let's stop snoring by trying to get people to play the didgeridoo." 192 00:09:58,670 --> 00:10:02,230 So what they did was they got a group of snorers and they made them 193 00:10:02,230 --> 00:10:05,070 practise the didge, made them practise every day for four months, 194 00:10:05,070 --> 00:10:07,190 and then they had a control group who were told 195 00:10:07,190 --> 00:10:09,190 they were on the waiting list for lessons, OK? 196 00:10:09,190 --> 00:10:11,750 And they were told to do anything except play the didgeridoo. 197 00:10:11,750 --> 00:10:14,870 And those who played the didgeridoo, that does seem to work 198 00:10:14,870 --> 00:10:17,510 to help your snoring because it creates this circular breathing. 199 00:10:17,510 --> 00:10:18,630 Wow. Mm-hm! 200 00:10:18,630 --> 00:10:20,310 Anyway, moving on, 201 00:10:20,310 --> 00:10:23,950 what is this fly doing in this painting? 202 00:10:24,990 --> 00:10:28,030 Oh, the one by the plate? There's also one on her head. 203 00:10:28,030 --> 00:10:31,470 Oh, yes. Talking to the one by the plate? Yeah. 204 00:10:31,470 --> 00:10:33,270 "Come up here." "The food's HERE - 205 00:10:33,270 --> 00:10:34,710 "the food's down here!" 206 00:10:34,710 --> 00:10:36,870 "You can see for miles up here!" 207 00:10:38,550 --> 00:10:39,830 "They'll swat you!" 208 00:10:39,830 --> 00:10:42,470 "They won't... She won't swat herself in the head, will she?" 209 00:10:45,710 --> 00:10:49,070 It's called musca depicta - so "musca", Latin for "fly", 210 00:10:49,070 --> 00:10:51,910 and it was to show how skilful the artist is. 211 00:10:51,910 --> 00:10:55,430 It's a way of saying, "I can paint a fly that is so realistic, 212 00:10:55,430 --> 00:10:57,350 "an observer might just want to kind of..." 213 00:10:57,350 --> 00:11:00,750 Well, clearly not, because that's the world's biggest fly. 214 00:11:00,750 --> 00:11:04,150 So when you see the painting, you think, "There's a fly on it." 215 00:11:04,150 --> 00:11:06,830 Yeah... Exactly. "Oh!" "Oh, oh!" "God...!" 216 00:11:09,670 --> 00:11:11,110 "It's painted on?!" 217 00:11:12,630 --> 00:11:15,230 At the time it was painted, that was thought to be quite a thing, 218 00:11:15,230 --> 00:11:17,990 so it was a fairly new idea, the concept of "trompe-l'oeil", 219 00:11:17,990 --> 00:11:19,550 or "trick of the eye". 220 00:11:19,550 --> 00:11:21,870 That people go in trying to eat the beans. 221 00:11:21,870 --> 00:11:23,110 That - exactly that. 222 00:11:23,110 --> 00:11:25,070 "It's a painting! Oh, my God!" 223 00:11:26,270 --> 00:11:29,590 The very supposed first-ever use of the trompe-l'oeil 224 00:11:29,590 --> 00:11:32,630 was a painting competition in ancient Greece between the artists 225 00:11:32,630 --> 00:11:35,070 Zeuxis and Parrhasius. 226 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:37,230 And Zeuxis painted some realistic grapes 227 00:11:37,230 --> 00:11:39,910 that, apparently, the birds flew down and tried to take. 228 00:11:39,910 --> 00:11:43,190 And so, Parrhasius then painted a curtain that was so realistic 229 00:11:43,190 --> 00:11:46,430 that Zeuxis himself was fooled and tried to push it to one side. 230 00:11:46,430 --> 00:11:48,670 Do you think ALL of these stories from ancient Greece 231 00:11:48,670 --> 00:11:50,030 are just nonsense? 232 00:11:51,350 --> 00:11:53,150 Yes, let's not do that any more... 233 00:11:59,710 --> 00:12:01,030 I can't believe... 234 00:12:02,830 --> 00:12:04,710 This is so exciting to me. 235 00:12:04,710 --> 00:12:06,950 "Yes, rip it up! Rip it up!" Yes! 236 00:12:06,950 --> 00:12:08,550 "It's nonsense..." It's all nonsense. 237 00:12:08,550 --> 00:12:11,830 "..the bird flew down to the grapes... It did not! It's 2D! 238 00:12:11,830 --> 00:12:15,070 "The bird could've identified that, it's not seeing grapes..." 239 00:12:16,510 --> 00:12:19,230 "The curtains! They're real curtains. Bullshit! 240 00:12:19,230 --> 00:12:20,950 "The curtains are painted!" 241 00:12:20,950 --> 00:12:24,150 And the Greeks they just spread it about, you know, "That happened," 242 00:12:24,150 --> 00:12:26,950 and we... Thousands of years, we're still going, "Amazing, you know, 243 00:12:26,950 --> 00:12:28,630 "in ancient Greece..." 244 00:12:28,630 --> 00:12:31,350 The single... How've they convinced us of this utter non...?! 245 00:12:31,350 --> 00:12:32,870 I don't know! 246 00:12:32,870 --> 00:12:36,590 A single torn card, I've got rid of the whole of Greek mythology. 247 00:12:38,630 --> 00:12:40,670 Get out. Move that, Alan. 248 00:12:40,670 --> 00:12:42,990 So that... That is amazing. 249 00:12:42,990 --> 00:12:45,030 That was painted in 1658. 250 00:12:45,030 --> 00:12:47,790 That actually does look like a curtain. Isn't that incredible? 251 00:12:48,790 --> 00:12:50,630 In fairness, that is good though, ain't it? 252 00:12:50,630 --> 00:12:53,070 I mean, if the Greeks saw that, they'd shit themselves. 253 00:12:54,270 --> 00:12:56,510 Oh, you don't... You missed it, though. You missed it, 254 00:12:56,510 --> 00:12:57,950 because a bird just flew in, Alan. 255 00:12:59,270 --> 00:13:01,990 The flowers are terrible, the curtain's unbelievable. 256 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:04,430 Deliberately so, obviously deliberately so. 257 00:13:04,430 --> 00:13:06,470 It makes the curtain look more like a curtain 258 00:13:06,470 --> 00:13:08,150 if the flowers are shit. Can I...? 259 00:13:09,310 --> 00:13:11,870 Sorry, just two seconds, can I have some sellotape? 260 00:13:13,750 --> 00:13:15,190 Have you...? 261 00:13:15,190 --> 00:13:17,630 So, this was painted by a man, wasn't it? 262 00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:20,950 This was painted by Adriaen van der Spelt in 1650. 263 00:13:20,950 --> 00:13:23,110 Cos... Why is it? Why? Because it's not ironed. 264 00:13:25,630 --> 00:13:26,990 No, that's a fair point. 265 00:13:26,990 --> 00:13:29,070 I don't know a lot about him, Adriaen van der Spelt, 266 00:13:29,070 --> 00:13:31,030 I just know that he had a nasty third wife 267 00:13:31,030 --> 00:13:33,550 who drove him to his grave. That's literally all I've got. 268 00:13:33,550 --> 00:13:35,510 What, literally gave him a lift? Yeah. 269 00:13:36,750 --> 00:13:40,590 "Don't worry, you'll be there in a minute." "Where are we going? Agh!" 270 00:13:40,590 --> 00:13:42,750 Cos all she wanted him to do was iron the curtains 271 00:13:42,750 --> 00:13:44,230 and he kept painting them! 272 00:13:45,830 --> 00:13:47,110 Anyway, moving on... 273 00:13:47,110 --> 00:13:51,350 What trickery was this boat involved in? 274 00:13:51,350 --> 00:13:53,710 Is it a boat meant to be...look like something else? 275 00:13:53,710 --> 00:13:55,870 You are absolutely heading in the right direction. 276 00:13:55,870 --> 00:13:58,470 So this is a casemate ironclad boat. 277 00:13:58,470 --> 00:14:00,510 And this is something that fought in the Civil War... 278 00:14:00,510 --> 00:14:02,150 Civil War. American Civil War! 279 00:14:02,150 --> 00:14:04,790 American Civil War! 1860s. 1862. This particular picture. 280 00:14:04,790 --> 00:14:07,310 You get an extra point, Alan. This is rather frightening... 281 00:14:07,310 --> 00:14:09,470 HE GASPS, CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 282 00:14:11,270 --> 00:14:14,430 Little bit of good news for you - I read a book about the Civil War. 283 00:14:15,550 --> 00:14:16,830 What did you learn? 284 00:14:16,830 --> 00:14:19,470 The fact that I learned I found interesting was that the youngest 285 00:14:19,470 --> 00:14:23,270 you could be, legally, to be a soldier in the Civil War was nine. 286 00:14:23,270 --> 00:14:26,030 Wow. Because eight-year-old soldiers, that's crazy. 287 00:14:26,030 --> 00:14:27,310 Ridiculous. 288 00:14:27,310 --> 00:14:29,950 The other thing I learnt about, that I thought was interesting, 289 00:14:29,950 --> 00:14:31,990 was the biggest killer in the American Civil War? 290 00:14:31,990 --> 00:14:33,790 Diarrhoea. Yeah. AUDIENCE GROANS 291 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:35,230 Imagine being shot with that! 292 00:14:37,710 --> 00:14:38,910 But that is true. 293 00:14:38,910 --> 00:14:41,510 That is true, darling, in most of the old conflicts. 294 00:14:41,510 --> 00:14:43,950 So the Boer War - typhoid. It's those things... It's... 295 00:14:43,950 --> 00:14:46,350 It's your illnesses, your stomach-related illnesses 296 00:14:46,350 --> 00:14:49,030 that that kills more, quite often than... Oh, I know... 297 00:14:50,270 --> 00:14:51,910 Same with panel shows. 298 00:14:53,110 --> 00:14:56,150 Apparently, there was...a code of honour in the American Civil War 299 00:14:56,150 --> 00:14:57,990 where you couldn't shoot anyone 300 00:14:57,990 --> 00:14:59,990 if they were shitting. 301 00:14:59,990 --> 00:15:01,910 Which I think is quite a nice thing, which is... 302 00:15:01,910 --> 00:15:04,470 I would've spent the whole of the Civil War going, "Hang on!" 303 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:06,310 Have you got that the right way round? 304 00:15:06,310 --> 00:15:07,910 "You can't shit if you're shootin', 305 00:15:07,910 --> 00:15:10,830 "you can't shoot if you're shittin'... It's one of those!" 306 00:15:12,270 --> 00:15:13,790 APPLAUSE 307 00:15:13,790 --> 00:15:15,870 So a lot of the battles that took place 308 00:15:15,870 --> 00:15:19,030 between the Confederates in the South and the Unionists in the North 309 00:15:19,030 --> 00:15:21,270 took place on the Mississippi River. 310 00:15:21,270 --> 00:15:25,070 And these boats, these casement ironclads, were brand-new, 311 00:15:25,070 --> 00:15:26,830 they were like a sort of moving fort. 312 00:15:26,830 --> 00:15:29,030 And this boat belonged to the Unionists, 313 00:15:29,030 --> 00:15:31,510 but they had to, for various reasons, they had to abandon it, 314 00:15:31,510 --> 00:15:33,950 and the Confederates tried to salvage it. 315 00:15:33,950 --> 00:15:37,670 So in order to stop them salvaging it, the Unionists built 316 00:15:37,670 --> 00:15:40,030 a completely fake boat. 317 00:15:40,030 --> 00:15:43,670 It was made out of timber and tar and...and a toilet! 318 00:15:43,670 --> 00:15:45,190 It was called the Black Terror. 319 00:15:45,190 --> 00:15:48,710 It flew both the American flag and the skull and crossbones. 320 00:15:48,710 --> 00:15:51,750 It cost $8.63 to construct. 321 00:15:51,750 --> 00:15:54,510 It's about $208 today... $8?! 322 00:15:54,510 --> 00:15:56,270 $8 to construct! 323 00:15:56,270 --> 00:15:58,510 And they even lit a sort of tar fire, 324 00:15:58,510 --> 00:16:01,550 so it looked like engine smoke, and the Confederate salvagers, 325 00:16:01,550 --> 00:16:04,350 they destroyed the original gunboat, the Indianola, 326 00:16:04,350 --> 00:16:07,550 because they thought that the Unionists were coming to get it. 327 00:16:07,550 --> 00:16:11,470 And it made the Unionists cry and cry with laughter. 328 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:13,950 So they managed to use an entirely fake boat 329 00:16:13,950 --> 00:16:16,550 to get the others to destroy a very valuable one. 330 00:16:16,550 --> 00:16:19,430 There was a little bit of levity in the middle of all that slaughter. 331 00:16:21,630 --> 00:16:24,630 There's another excellent wartime dummy trick. 332 00:16:24,630 --> 00:16:27,030 So in World War I, a horse was killed 333 00:16:27,030 --> 00:16:28,910 in what was called No Man's Land. 334 00:16:28,910 --> 00:16:32,150 And somebody thought, "Ooh, I know, we'll turn it into a lookout." 335 00:16:32,150 --> 00:16:36,910 And under cover of night, French soldiers made a papier mache version 336 00:16:36,910 --> 00:16:39,950 of the horse, and a soldier then went in it 337 00:16:39,950 --> 00:16:41,390 and, apparently, 338 00:16:41,390 --> 00:16:43,830 used his anus as a gun port, 339 00:16:43,830 --> 00:16:45,630 which I think, you know... 340 00:16:45,630 --> 00:16:48,710 That's something I'm definitely going to Google later on. 341 00:16:48,710 --> 00:16:50,590 This is a gun port. 342 00:16:50,590 --> 00:16:52,150 The horse... It's the horse's anus. 343 00:16:52,150 --> 00:16:53,750 Yes, the horse... Yes. Thank God. 344 00:16:58,230 --> 00:17:00,750 Don't always understand everything first time. 345 00:17:00,750 --> 00:17:01,950 But then it rains and... 346 00:17:04,070 --> 00:17:06,150 Is there...? Is this going to be a follow-up story 347 00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:08,910 about the...greatest hero of that war was, of course, 348 00:17:08,910 --> 00:17:10,630 a pantomime horse? 349 00:17:10,630 --> 00:17:13,710 Well, they used papier-mache heads. I think you've got some. 350 00:17:13,710 --> 00:17:17,310 They used to use papier-mache heads on sticks to put up over the trench. 351 00:17:17,310 --> 00:17:20,070 Oh, hang on, look... Oh, no, I have got one, yeah. Look at this. 352 00:17:20,070 --> 00:17:21,630 RIA: Oh! ESHAAN: Oh, gosh. 353 00:17:21,630 --> 00:17:23,430 There wasn't much diversity then, was there? 354 00:17:23,430 --> 00:17:26,670 No, no, it's not wild on diversity. They all... 355 00:17:29,110 --> 00:17:30,230 Ours have found love. 356 00:17:47,630 --> 00:17:51,150 ALAN SINGS: # Yummy, yummy, yummy I got love in my tummy... # 357 00:17:55,230 --> 00:17:57,550 I'm always hungry after a blowjob. Yeah...! 358 00:17:59,110 --> 00:18:00,190 How dare you! 359 00:18:03,990 --> 00:18:05,390 Right. 360 00:18:05,390 --> 00:18:08,510 It's time for another game of What's The Treatment, Sandi? 361 00:18:12,190 --> 00:18:14,910 OK. How do you stop your toe from dropping off? 362 00:18:16,830 --> 00:18:19,470 Oh. Stop cutting your toenails with a Black & Decker? 363 00:18:20,510 --> 00:18:23,150 That's quite a good answer. Put them in the freezer or something? 364 00:18:23,150 --> 00:18:25,590 How would that work? Well... 365 00:18:25,590 --> 00:18:27,430 IN HIGH PITCH: All right, let me explain...! 366 00:18:27,430 --> 00:18:28,830 MOCKING HIGH PITCH: WHAT?! 367 00:18:30,110 --> 00:18:32,230 Now he's got to think of some logic. Yeah, I have...! 368 00:18:32,230 --> 00:18:33,910 So! You put your f... 369 00:18:33,910 --> 00:18:36,270 ..your toes in the freezer and as it defrosts, 370 00:18:36,270 --> 00:18:38,590 just before it completely defrosts, put it back in again. 371 00:18:39,670 --> 00:18:42,030 Well, why don't you just put a sock on? Just wear a sock! 372 00:18:43,510 --> 00:18:45,270 Socks can get cold. 373 00:18:45,270 --> 00:18:46,910 What?! What?! 374 00:18:47,950 --> 00:18:49,950 What did you...? What did you think Sandi asked? 375 00:18:51,350 --> 00:18:55,350 There is a condition called dactylolysis spontanea, 376 00:18:55,350 --> 00:18:57,510 or ainhum, which is much easier to say, 377 00:18:57,510 --> 00:19:00,310 and it's a very rare condition where the little toe, 378 00:19:00,310 --> 00:19:04,110 normally on both feet, atrophies and then falls off. 379 00:19:04,110 --> 00:19:05,190 JIMMY GASPS 380 00:19:05,190 --> 00:19:06,950 Well, it actually goes to market. 381 00:19:08,470 --> 00:19:10,070 APPLAUSE 382 00:19:16,150 --> 00:19:18,670 The constrictive ring of tissue forms at the base of the toe, 383 00:19:18,670 --> 00:19:20,990 and that just restricts oxygen. 384 00:19:20,990 --> 00:19:23,270 It can be caused by injury or infection, sometimes happens 385 00:19:23,270 --> 00:19:24,910 with no clear reason at all, 386 00:19:24,910 --> 00:19:28,350 primarily found in males of African descent. 387 00:19:28,350 --> 00:19:33,270 Probably the best thing to do is to cut it off pre-emptively, amputate. 388 00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:35,670 Or just put it in a freezer. Freezer! What then? 389 00:19:35,670 --> 00:19:36,870 So hang on, hang on. 390 00:19:36,870 --> 00:19:39,030 That is a worse answer than your answer, I think. 391 00:19:39,030 --> 00:19:42,350 The best way to stop your toes from falling off is to cut them off 392 00:19:42,350 --> 00:19:46,430 before they get a chance. "Don't give 'em the satisfaction!" 393 00:19:46,430 --> 00:19:47,830 Don't give them the satisfaction. 394 00:19:47,830 --> 00:19:49,670 You cut off your toes first. Apparently... 395 00:19:49,670 --> 00:19:52,190 If you're watching at home, get rid of them all! 396 00:19:52,190 --> 00:19:55,150 Apparently, with this particular condition, it is less painful 397 00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:57,190 to amputate it and you are less likely 398 00:19:57,190 --> 00:19:59,030 to have the wound become infected, 399 00:19:59,030 --> 00:20:02,870 so it is better, in this instance, to cut it off yourself. 400 00:20:02,870 --> 00:20:05,510 Well, I'm looking at the picture, I think he looks fine. Yeah. 401 00:20:06,630 --> 00:20:09,710 Right. I have treated myself to a new pair... 402 00:20:09,710 --> 00:20:11,550 ..of glasses, OK? 403 00:20:11,550 --> 00:20:14,270 So a little bit like Clark Kent, I'm going to put them on. 404 00:20:14,270 --> 00:20:16,630 OK. Here is the trick. As soon as I put them on, 405 00:20:16,630 --> 00:20:19,110 who do you think I look like now? 406 00:20:19,110 --> 00:20:20,550 AUDIENCE MEMBER: Prue Leith. 407 00:20:20,550 --> 00:20:21,990 Prue Leith is a right answer. 408 00:20:23,390 --> 00:20:24,830 It's somebody badass. 409 00:20:24,830 --> 00:20:27,270 It's a person who has killed more baddies on screen 410 00:20:27,270 --> 00:20:29,910 than any other actor. Oh... I'm going... 411 00:20:29,910 --> 00:20:31,510 I'm going John Wayne. 412 00:20:31,510 --> 00:20:33,990 It's Milla Jovovich! Oh... 413 00:20:33,990 --> 00:20:35,790 Look, do you not think? RIA: Really? 414 00:20:35,790 --> 00:20:36,790 ESHAAN: Yeah, yeah! 415 00:20:36,790 --> 00:20:38,230 THEY TALK VERY EACH OTHER 416 00:20:38,230 --> 00:20:39,430 Uncanny! Uncanny! 417 00:20:40,910 --> 00:20:42,470 She... What are we doing? 418 00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:46,150 What are we doing? What's going on here? 419 00:20:46,150 --> 00:20:48,470 What's going on? Yeah, OK. Do you know who she is? Yes. 420 00:20:48,470 --> 00:20:51,430 She's not even wearing glasses. You know that, right? No, so... 421 00:20:53,670 --> 00:20:57,470 She's the star of The Fifth Element, as well as the Resident Evil series, 422 00:20:57,470 --> 00:20:59,550 and she has killed a shed load of people. 423 00:20:59,550 --> 00:21:03,630 So this is how you fool facial recognition, OK? 424 00:21:03,630 --> 00:21:07,270 In 2016, the researchers at Carnegie Mellon University 425 00:21:07,270 --> 00:21:10,710 found that they could trick facial recognition software into 426 00:21:10,710 --> 00:21:14,190 mistaking their identity by using a pair of colourful glasses. OK? 427 00:21:14,190 --> 00:21:18,830 And they were able to have a middle-aged male researcher 428 00:21:18,830 --> 00:21:21,110 be mistaken by the software 429 00:21:21,110 --> 00:21:24,710 as Milla Jovovich, OK? And this is what the glasses look like... 430 00:21:24,710 --> 00:21:26,550 I think I slept with the wrong person. 431 00:21:29,430 --> 00:21:32,270 If it makes you feel any better, Jimmy, so do they. 432 00:21:34,030 --> 00:21:35,510 APPLAUSE 433 00:21:38,430 --> 00:21:41,590 The way facial recognition software works is it doesn't know 434 00:21:41,590 --> 00:21:44,150 if it's looking for a tiny image in a great big picture 435 00:21:44,150 --> 00:21:46,670 or it's looking for an image that's filling the entire picture. 436 00:21:46,670 --> 00:21:50,150 It's looking for little bits of specifics that then it says, 437 00:21:50,150 --> 00:21:51,430 "Yes, that's that person." 438 00:21:51,430 --> 00:21:53,870 So it looks for a particular shape of an eyebrow, 439 00:21:53,870 --> 00:21:55,830 it looks for a particular shape of a cheekbone. 440 00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:58,590 It is possible to compress all of that information 441 00:21:58,590 --> 00:22:02,630 down into a section of the frame of the glasses. 442 00:22:02,630 --> 00:22:04,750 And what'll happen is the computer will say, 443 00:22:04,750 --> 00:22:06,790 "Oh, I've found the things I'm looking for." Oh! 444 00:22:06,790 --> 00:22:11,270 It'll ignore, entirely, the face that is actually wearing the glasses 445 00:22:11,270 --> 00:22:14,510 because it feels it has already found the person. 446 00:22:14,510 --> 00:22:17,750 You don't have to do that Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible - 447 00:22:17,750 --> 00:22:19,790 where you peel your face off, any more? 448 00:22:19,790 --> 00:22:23,030 You just put on a ridiculous pair of glasses and get in anyway? 449 00:22:23,030 --> 00:22:26,510 So the spectacles could possibly trick facial recognition software 450 00:22:26,510 --> 00:22:28,750 into making them think you're somebody else. 451 00:22:28,750 --> 00:22:31,630 You probably couldn't open Milla's phone or her laptop, 452 00:22:31,630 --> 00:22:34,910 but you could certainly... I can definitely open Romesh's. 453 00:22:36,030 --> 00:22:37,670 APPLAUSE 454 00:22:40,190 --> 00:22:43,310 Now for one final round of What's The Treatment, Sandi? 455 00:22:43,310 --> 00:22:44,750 JAUNTY XYLOPHONE INTRO PLAYS 456 00:22:46,590 --> 00:22:47,870 Love this! 457 00:22:47,870 --> 00:22:50,830 What do you treat by shoving a piece of cloth up your nose 458 00:22:50,830 --> 00:22:52,070 and setting fire to it? 459 00:22:53,550 --> 00:22:56,750 If you're in certain parts of the US, that's how you cure Covid. 460 00:22:58,790 --> 00:23:00,470 APPLAUSE 461 00:23:01,470 --> 00:23:03,310 It's excessive sleeping. 462 00:23:03,310 --> 00:23:06,070 I mean, I have to say, it's an attempted cure. Wha...?! 463 00:23:06,070 --> 00:23:07,110 It... I know. Yeah! 464 00:23:07,110 --> 00:23:09,430 Stay awake because you'll be setting your face on fire! 465 00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:12,270 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah! So... Sleep through this...! 466 00:23:12,270 --> 00:23:13,630 Yeah. 467 00:23:13,630 --> 00:23:16,430 So we're going back a bit - 1738. We're going to France. 468 00:23:16,430 --> 00:23:18,670 There was a woman called Elizabeth Orion 469 00:23:18,670 --> 00:23:21,110 and she started sleeping 18 hours a day 470 00:23:21,110 --> 00:23:22,990 and literally nobody could wake her. 471 00:23:22,990 --> 00:23:25,750 And this went on for years and years and years until she was finally 472 00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:28,390 examined by a guy called Dr Brady, and he wanted to check out 473 00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:29,870 if she was faking it. 474 00:23:29,870 --> 00:23:32,190 So first he shouted really loudly at her. 475 00:23:32,190 --> 00:23:34,950 Then he stuck a pin in her flesh, right through to the bone and so on, 476 00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:38,190 and finally, he took a piece of cloth and he dipped it in alcohol, 477 00:23:38,190 --> 00:23:40,230 set fire to it, and shoved it up her nose. 478 00:23:40,230 --> 00:23:43,310 She slept through the whole thing 479 00:23:43,310 --> 00:23:46,430 and then eventually woke up completely naturally... 480 00:23:46,430 --> 00:23:49,510 I love this - "ate heartily and did some spinning." 481 00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:52,590 Was her nose or face not singed? 482 00:23:52,590 --> 00:23:53,870 Well, I don't really know 483 00:23:53,870 --> 00:23:55,870 because the villagers had done all sorts of things. 484 00:23:55,870 --> 00:23:58,390 They had, at one point, rubbed her back in honey 485 00:23:58,390 --> 00:24:01,350 and laid her in front of a beehive on a hot day. 486 00:24:03,350 --> 00:24:05,030 I mean, really?! 487 00:24:05,030 --> 00:24:07,430 Was there a fraternity? Yeah, why...?! 488 00:24:07,430 --> 00:24:09,350 They just hated her sleeping. 489 00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:11,310 And I don't know what the outcome was. 490 00:24:11,310 --> 00:24:13,070 I love these old cures, though. 491 00:24:13,070 --> 00:24:16,190 There was a 13th century physician called Bernard de Gordon, 492 00:24:16,190 --> 00:24:19,830 and his recommendation for jolting somebody out of a coma 493 00:24:19,830 --> 00:24:22,510 was to hold a squealing pig in their face. 494 00:24:24,110 --> 00:24:25,990 I mean, you could be tempted, couldn't you? 495 00:24:25,990 --> 00:24:28,870 I could see it happening. If that works, brilliant, you're a genius. 496 00:24:28,870 --> 00:24:31,590 If not, you're a doctor with a pig, going home. Yeah! Perfect. 497 00:24:31,590 --> 00:24:34,470 "I didn't manage to wake her, love, but we're having bacon tomorrow." 498 00:24:34,470 --> 00:24:37,430 Yeah. "Lend me a pig." "Wake up and smell the bacon!" Yeah. 499 00:24:37,430 --> 00:24:38,910 CHEERING 500 00:24:38,910 --> 00:24:41,710 Let's now treat ourselves to a round of General Ignorance. 501 00:24:41,710 --> 00:24:43,190 Fingers on buzzers, please. 502 00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:44,830 Which has most body fat - 503 00:24:44,830 --> 00:24:48,630 a human, a pig, a cow, a walrus or an elephant? 504 00:24:48,630 --> 00:24:50,870 Depends who you're talking about, really. 505 00:24:50,870 --> 00:24:52,750 Walrus. Oh... 506 00:24:52,750 --> 00:24:53,750 KLAXON BLARES 507 00:24:55,910 --> 00:24:58,030 Are we talking about as a percentage 508 00:24:58,030 --> 00:25:00,870 or actual quantity of fat? So, proportional to size, OK, 509 00:25:00,870 --> 00:25:03,750 it is the percentage of body fat content. 510 00:25:03,750 --> 00:25:07,070 A human? It is a human. It is absolutely a human. 511 00:25:07,070 --> 00:25:10,590 Most humans have higher body fat than an elephant. 512 00:25:10,590 --> 00:25:12,230 Well, I want to retract that forfeit 513 00:25:12,230 --> 00:25:14,430 because the question wasn't properly worded. 514 00:25:14,430 --> 00:25:16,110 APPLAUSE 515 00:25:16,110 --> 00:25:17,790 Worth a try! 516 00:25:21,990 --> 00:25:23,550 I've had a terrible day. 517 00:25:24,830 --> 00:25:27,510 If you're a professional athlete, it's different. If you're... 518 00:25:27,510 --> 00:25:29,510 What's he called, Ronaldo? Ronaldo. Yeah. 519 00:25:29,510 --> 00:25:31,910 Hungry, hungry Ronaldo, he's called. Yes. 520 00:25:31,910 --> 00:25:34,990 But he's very lean. He's about 7% body fat, so... 521 00:25:34,990 --> 00:25:37,030 He's always in a cryo chamber. Yeah. 522 00:25:37,030 --> 00:25:40,870 Freezing! He's got all his toes. Yeah. It works! Yeah, it works! 523 00:25:40,870 --> 00:25:43,870 Inflammation cannot exist at those temperatures. 524 00:25:43,870 --> 00:25:45,550 That's what I was told. Oh... 525 00:25:45,550 --> 00:25:46,950 OK, erm... 526 00:25:49,390 --> 00:25:51,590 I read a book about it! Yeah! 527 00:25:51,590 --> 00:25:54,790 What they were examining was low fertility in captive elephants, 528 00:25:54,790 --> 00:25:56,950 and they thought it might be something to do with diet 529 00:25:56,950 --> 00:25:59,150 and an obesity issue, but it isn't that. 530 00:25:59,150 --> 00:26:01,710 The animals are perfectly lean. Actually, it's stress. 531 00:26:01,710 --> 00:26:05,070 But humans are sometimes known as the fat primate, so our... 532 00:26:05,070 --> 00:26:06,910 Who's calling us that? 533 00:26:08,030 --> 00:26:10,470 That's one of us! That's one of our own, Sandi. 534 00:26:11,710 --> 00:26:13,990 That's got to... That's definitely not any of them. 535 00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:16,670 The cow didn't say that about us! I won't have it. 536 00:26:16,670 --> 00:26:18,230 One of us has turned on us. 537 00:26:19,870 --> 00:26:23,150 I think it's the bonobos - that's our nearest relative, the bonobos. 538 00:26:23,150 --> 00:26:25,950 The bonobos? "Here they come, the fat primate." Yeah... 539 00:26:27,470 --> 00:26:31,150 "Have a...banana, you fat so-and-so." 540 00:26:31,150 --> 00:26:33,070 What about blue whales? What do you reckon? 541 00:26:33,070 --> 00:26:34,910 There's barely an ounce of fat on them. 542 00:26:34,910 --> 00:26:37,070 They're lean and trim like Usain Bolt. 543 00:26:37,070 --> 00:26:40,030 No, they are fatter than us, way fatter. They're... 544 00:26:40,030 --> 00:26:42,230 They're hugely fat. Very, very fat. 545 00:26:44,270 --> 00:26:46,910 They could fill the dome of St Paul's Cathedral 546 00:26:46,910 --> 00:26:49,790 with the fat of a single whale bleu. This is one of those facts 547 00:26:49,790 --> 00:26:52,190 where you just go, this is weird, but it's quite interesting 548 00:26:52,190 --> 00:26:55,830 anyway - if you took all the fat in a sort of larger blue whale, 549 00:26:55,830 --> 00:26:58,510 it would weigh too much to be legally transported 550 00:26:58,510 --> 00:26:59,790 on British roads. 551 00:27:01,510 --> 00:27:03,950 Which is one of the reasons I don't do it any more. Yeah. 552 00:27:03,950 --> 00:27:07,110 It turns out humans are a lot fatter than most other animals. 553 00:27:07,110 --> 00:27:09,630 More than 150 years ago, which American holiday 554 00:27:09,630 --> 00:27:12,070 had people dressed in scary masks, 555 00:27:12,070 --> 00:27:15,750 giving candy to children and pulling pranks on unsuspecting passers? 556 00:27:15,750 --> 00:27:16,950 Halloween. 557 00:27:16,950 --> 00:27:18,150 KLAXON BLARES 558 00:27:22,030 --> 00:27:24,630 It is now, but it used to be Thanksgiving Masking 559 00:27:24,630 --> 00:27:27,350 and it comes from much older traditions which come from Europe. 560 00:27:27,350 --> 00:27:29,790 "Mumming", you every heard about mumming? 561 00:27:29,790 --> 00:27:31,510 Which is basically going door to door.. 562 00:27:31,510 --> 00:27:34,150 That's an internet search I don't want to tell you about. 563 00:27:34,150 --> 00:27:37,470 ..asking for food or money sometimes in exchange for a song. 564 00:27:37,470 --> 00:27:39,950 It's a very, very, very old tradition. 565 00:27:39,950 --> 00:27:43,470 Called mumming? Mumming? Yeah, probably named after Momus, 566 00:27:43,470 --> 00:27:45,990 this is back to your Greek mythology, so probably not true. 567 00:27:45,990 --> 00:27:48,190 Probably a lie... He was the persona... 568 00:27:48,190 --> 00:27:49,950 They never even had buckets! No... 569 00:27:54,350 --> 00:27:57,430 Which brings us nicely to the end of our Trick and Treat show. 570 00:27:57,430 --> 00:27:59,630 So let's see who's got a bucket of candy 571 00:27:59,630 --> 00:28:02,670 and who's going to be pelted with eggs. 572 00:28:02,670 --> 00:28:06,230 In last place, falling for every trick in the book with -26, 573 00:28:06,230 --> 00:28:07,950 it's Alan! Oh... 574 00:28:07,950 --> 00:28:10,190 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 575 00:28:10,190 --> 00:28:11,270 So rude! 576 00:28:12,390 --> 00:28:14,990 In third place with -9, Eshaan! 577 00:28:14,990 --> 00:28:16,230 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 578 00:28:18,910 --> 00:28:21,790 In second place with a very creditable plus three points, 579 00:28:21,790 --> 00:28:24,630 it's Jimmy. Look at that! Three! 580 00:28:24,630 --> 00:28:26,470 Three! Count 'em! Count 'em. 581 00:28:27,470 --> 00:28:30,110 One for every book I've read. 582 00:28:30,110 --> 00:28:32,190 And our winner, never missed a trick, 583 00:28:32,190 --> 00:28:34,950 it's Milla Jovovich...! No, it's Ria! 584 00:28:43,270 --> 00:28:46,150 And our thanks to Ria, Jimmy, Eshaan and Alan 585 00:28:46,150 --> 00:28:49,390 and I leave you with this trick to live by from WC Fields. 586 00:28:49,390 --> 00:28:52,830 "Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, 587 00:28:52,830 --> 00:28:54,310 "and furthermore, 588 00:28:54,310 --> 00:28:56,070 "always carry a small snake." 589 00:28:56,070 --> 00:28:57,910 Thank you. Goodnight.