1 00:00:33,470 --> 00:00:38,310 Hello and welcome to QI. 2 00:00:38,350 --> 00:00:42,550 Tonight we are up to our usual tricks and will be treating you 3 00:00:42,590 --> 00:00:45,190 to a show all about tricks and treats. 4 00:00:45,230 --> 00:00:47,830 And joining me are four absolute sweeties. 5 00:00:47,870 --> 00:00:50,750 A proper Smartie - it's Ria Lina. 6 00:00:55,350 --> 00:00:58,230 Getting their Snickers in a twist, it's Eshaan Akbar. 7 00:01:02,230 --> 00:01:04,510 Giving us all a Boost, it's Jimmy Carr. 8 00:01:08,190 --> 00:01:10,790 And always coming up smelling of Roses, 9 00:01:10,830 --> 00:01:12,230 it's Alan Davies. 10 00:01:17,550 --> 00:01:20,110 And their buzzers are four tasty treats. 11 00:01:20,150 --> 00:01:21,550 Ria goes... 12 00:01:21,590 --> 00:01:25,390 # Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey...# 13 00:01:25,430 --> 00:01:26,670 Eshaan goes... 14 00:01:26,710 --> 00:01:31,790 # Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...# 15 00:01:31,830 --> 00:01:34,270 Not if you're diabetic. 16 00:01:34,310 --> 00:01:36,510 Which I am. 17 00:01:36,550 --> 00:01:38,750 Oh, are you? 18 00:01:38,790 --> 00:01:40,070 I'm pre-diabetic. 19 00:01:43,550 --> 00:01:46,510 Is there a post-diabetic? 20 00:01:46,550 --> 00:01:48,190 Jimmy goes... 21 00:01:48,230 --> 00:01:51,430 # Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy 22 00:01:51,470 --> 00:01:53,990 # And I feel like I'm loving you. # 23 00:01:54,030 --> 00:01:55,710 And Alan goes... 24 00:01:55,750 --> 00:01:58,670 # Sweet Caroline 25 00:01:58,710 --> 00:02:00,550 # Ba ba ba 26 00:02:00,590 --> 00:02:04,030 # Good times never seemed so good 27 00:02:04,070 --> 00:02:06,670 # So good, so good. # 28 00:02:08,310 --> 00:02:10,110 Let's just do karaoke. 29 00:02:11,990 --> 00:02:14,190 All right. So I suppose the first question today has to be, 30 00:02:14,230 --> 00:02:15,550 trick or treat? 31 00:02:15,590 --> 00:02:17,030 Jimmy?A treat, please. 32 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:18,030 You want a treat? 33 00:02:18,070 --> 00:02:19,670 Treat. Treat. 34 00:02:19,710 --> 00:02:21,790 Trick. Trick. 35 00:02:21,830 --> 00:02:23,230 Trick. Trick. 36 00:02:23,270 --> 00:02:25,750 OK, you two can have the chocolate cake that's just beside you. 37 00:02:25,790 --> 00:02:26,750 Oh, what? 38 00:02:28,430 --> 00:02:30,430 This is going very well. 39 00:02:31,990 --> 00:02:35,390 Has this show got dumbed down a bit? Because I remember the questions 40 00:02:35,430 --> 00:02:37,950 being a lot more difficult the last time I was on. 41 00:02:37,990 --> 00:02:39,350 Do you guys want a bit of cake, though? 42 00:02:39,390 --> 00:02:40,590 Oh, is there? Fine? 43 00:02:40,630 --> 00:02:43,030 But what I would have liked to have given you 44 00:02:43,070 --> 00:02:45,230 is German chocolate cake. 45 00:02:45,270 --> 00:02:47,070 Oh, no. Do you not like German... 46 00:02:47,110 --> 00:02:48,310 I don't like German chocolate cake. 47 00:02:48,350 --> 00:02:50,150 OK, why don't you like it? 48 00:02:50,190 --> 00:02:51,950 Well, hang on. Let's be clear. 49 00:02:51,990 --> 00:02:53,750 Do we mean chocolate cake from Germany 50 00:02:53,790 --> 00:02:55,390 or German chocolate cake? 51 00:02:55,430 --> 00:02:59,550 See, already you are going to probably get an extra point 52 00:02:59,590 --> 00:03:01,110 because my question is, 53 00:03:01,150 --> 00:03:03,150 where does German chocolate cake come from? 54 00:03:03,190 --> 00:03:04,350 Greggs. 55 00:03:08,710 --> 00:03:10,430 I know the answer to this. 56 00:03:10,470 --> 00:03:13,910 Well, there's a cake in America called German chocolate cake. 57 00:03:13,950 --> 00:03:17,110 And it's from a man called German, not from Germany. 58 00:03:17,150 --> 00:03:18,550 Exactly right. 59 00:03:18,590 --> 00:03:20,990 You get an extra point, that is entirely correct. 60 00:03:23,950 --> 00:03:25,910 I don't know if you've seen the show before. 61 00:03:25,950 --> 00:03:28,110 We could be out of here in 20 minutes. 62 00:03:28,150 --> 00:03:29,870 This is going to be terrific. 63 00:03:29,910 --> 00:03:32,590 You were supposed to say Black Forest. 64 00:03:37,510 --> 00:03:40,430 So there was a guy called Samuel German, and he developed 65 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:43,270 a product in 1852 of baking chocolate that was already 66 00:03:43,310 --> 00:03:44,550 a little bit sweeter. 67 00:03:44,590 --> 00:03:46,790 So you had to put one less ingredient in your cake. 68 00:03:46,830 --> 00:03:49,630 And this was developed into a thing called German chocolate cake, 69 00:03:49,670 --> 00:03:51,670 and it became hugely successful. 70 00:03:51,710 --> 00:03:55,750 The thing about Samuel German is that he was an English American, 71 00:03:55,790 --> 00:04:00,150 so English, but German, I mean, a bit like the royal family. 72 00:04:00,190 --> 00:04:02,350 Funny name to have, isn't it? 73 00:04:02,390 --> 00:04:03,870 The Germans are coming round. 74 00:04:03,910 --> 00:04:05,270 Oh! 75 00:04:06,950 --> 00:04:09,550 German chocolate cake sounds like the kind of thing you would not 76 00:04:09,590 --> 00:04:10,990 put into Google at work. 77 00:04:13,070 --> 00:04:16,270 That could be something really dreadful. 78 00:04:16,310 --> 00:04:19,710 We couldn't have a German chocolate cake on the show in case one person 79 00:04:19,750 --> 00:04:21,910 in the audience had a nut allergy. 80 00:04:21,950 --> 00:04:23,590 I always thought a nut allergy 81 00:04:23,630 --> 00:04:25,670 was a very good euphemism for lesbian. 82 00:04:28,910 --> 00:04:30,390 What's Sandi like? 83 00:04:30,430 --> 00:04:32,110 You know, she's got a nut allergy. 84 00:04:36,870 --> 00:04:39,910 Can I just say as a hetero woman, you don't have to be a lesbian 85 00:04:39,950 --> 00:04:41,510 to have a nut allergy. 86 00:04:46,950 --> 00:04:50,710 I feel we're dividing into niche tribes straight away. 87 00:04:50,750 --> 00:04:55,670 Germans are coming around - that's a euphemism for something. 88 00:04:55,710 --> 00:04:58,870 But here is something very, very British. 89 00:04:58,910 --> 00:05:00,750 Anybody know what this is? 90 00:05:02,390 --> 00:05:04,470 {\an8}Is it a dragonfly with an erection? 91 00:05:06,070 --> 00:05:07,150 Wow... 92 00:05:08,510 --> 00:05:11,710 You know, I hadn't seen that, and now that's all I can see.Right?! 93 00:05:11,750 --> 00:05:13,110 Actually... That's it. 94 00:05:13,150 --> 00:05:15,750 Festival Hall. Festival Hall. Festival of Britain. 95 00:05:15,790 --> 00:05:18,230 So it was the Festival of Britain and it was called the Skylon. 96 00:05:18,270 --> 00:05:20,670 It was the centrepiece of the Festival of Britain. 97 00:05:20,710 --> 00:05:23,310 It was 90 metres high...Whoa. Wow. 98 00:05:23,350 --> 00:05:25,470 ..and it was kept erect through tension. 99 00:05:25,510 --> 00:05:27,550 I'm sure everybody's been there.Oh. 100 00:05:27,590 --> 00:05:31,710 It was the largest object in the world supported by wires, 101 00:05:31,750 --> 00:05:35,070 and what's really a shame is that they didn't keep it because it was 102 00:05:35,110 --> 00:05:38,310 a remarkable construction, but it was pulled down a year later. 103 00:05:38,350 --> 00:05:40,590 They were going to take it to Scarborough, Morecambe, 104 00:05:40,630 --> 00:05:43,510 even the United States, but it was too expensive. 105 00:05:43,550 --> 00:05:46,030 They sold it to a scrap metal dealer in White City, 106 00:05:46,070 --> 00:05:48,150 probably right near where we are now. 107 00:05:48,190 --> 00:05:50,310 Wood Lane, White City - George Cohen and Sons. 108 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:53,270 Were people meant to climb up this thing? What was the point of it? 109 00:05:53,310 --> 00:05:55,590 What was the point? It's right at the end, mate. 110 00:05:59,070 --> 00:06:00,630 It's quite a hazard to skydivers 111 00:06:00,670 --> 00:06:02,910 because I imagine you can't see it at all... 112 00:06:06,390 --> 00:06:08,590 Coming down, "Look at that view of the Thames..." 113 00:06:08,630 --> 00:06:09,750 MIMES RIPPING FABRIC 114 00:06:10,950 --> 00:06:13,550 There was a student who wanted to climb up it and hang a pair 115 00:06:13,590 --> 00:06:16,390 of knickers...Of course. ..at the top, at the official opening. 116 00:06:16,430 --> 00:06:17,910 He's called Philip Gordon. 117 00:06:17,950 --> 00:06:20,470 He was a student at the University of London's Air Squadron. 118 00:06:20,510 --> 00:06:23,510 He shimmied up at midnight, dressed as a workman, and his plan was 119 00:06:23,550 --> 00:06:25,590 to jump into the river to escape. 120 00:06:25,630 --> 00:06:28,790 I'm just going to say "90 metres" again to everybody...Wow. 121 00:06:28,830 --> 00:06:32,590 Anyway, bless his heart, he slightly bottled it and hung a scarf 122 00:06:32,630 --> 00:06:35,190 instead of a pair of knickers, because the King was coming. 123 00:06:35,230 --> 00:06:36,630 But he did get up there. 124 00:06:36,670 --> 00:06:39,270 No, he got there...He got up there. ..he couldn't bear to do pants. 125 00:06:39,310 --> 00:06:41,910 Or they were dirty because he bottled it. 126 00:06:43,590 --> 00:06:46,710 Yeah. He got to the top and soiled himself, that's what we've learned. 127 00:06:46,750 --> 00:06:49,430 But hang on - the plan to get down was initially to jump, 128 00:06:49,470 --> 00:06:51,790 and then he thought, "Do you know what?" Yeah... 129 00:06:51,830 --> 00:06:53,470 "I'm just going to shimmy." 130 00:06:53,510 --> 00:06:55,830 That's a good name for you - Shimmy Carr. I like that. 131 00:06:56,950 --> 00:07:00,150 Give us a shimmy.Yeah! Yeah! There we go. 132 00:07:00,190 --> 00:07:02,150 Lots of people didn't like it. 133 00:07:02,190 --> 00:07:05,550 The Sydney Morning Herald called it "phallic flippancy". 134 00:07:05,590 --> 00:07:07,750 I don't think if your phallus looks like that, 135 00:07:07,790 --> 00:07:10,030 you can afford to be flippant. No... 136 00:07:10,070 --> 00:07:12,310 Wonder if they'd be bothered by reviews, would they? 137 00:07:12,350 --> 00:07:14,590 I mean, who's looking at that, going, "Oh, well, 138 00:07:14,630 --> 00:07:17,270 "it wasn't well reviewed, I'll look over here"? Yeah. 139 00:07:18,510 --> 00:07:21,790 Some of it was used for rearmament in the Korean War, 140 00:07:21,830 --> 00:07:24,950 and some of it was made into commemorative letter openers. 141 00:07:24,990 --> 00:07:27,590 Oh, I feel bad for the guy that ended up in the Korean War 142 00:07:27,630 --> 00:07:29,030 with the letter opener. Yeah...! 143 00:07:32,310 --> 00:07:34,910 It's an example of something called "tensegrity". 144 00:07:34,950 --> 00:07:36,910 Tension and integrity. 145 00:07:36,950 --> 00:07:39,590 It's a word coined by the architect, Richard Buckmunster... 146 00:07:39,630 --> 00:07:41,190 Buckmis... Sorry. 147 00:07:41,230 --> 00:07:43,230 Richard Buckminster Fuller... Well said. 148 00:07:43,270 --> 00:07:45,750 I try not to get my Buckminster and my Fuller confused... 149 00:07:45,790 --> 00:07:48,390 You nearly said "buttmuncher" there. and you... Yeah, I know! 150 00:07:49,550 --> 00:07:51,990 Now, for a question about TREAT-ments. 151 00:07:52,030 --> 00:07:55,430 It's time for a round of What's The Treatment, Sandi? 152 00:08:01,230 --> 00:08:04,590 OK! What do we think the treatment is to stop snoring? 153 00:08:04,630 --> 00:08:05,910 Wake up. 154 00:08:08,350 --> 00:08:09,670 APPLAUSE 155 00:08:14,790 --> 00:08:16,750 I just read a book about this! Oh! 156 00:08:16,790 --> 00:08:19,230 A whole book about snoring? Yeah, well, it's called Breathe. 157 00:08:19,270 --> 00:08:22,230 It's quite a good book, and it's about how we developed, 158 00:08:22,270 --> 00:08:24,670 and basically, the whole book says, you've got to breathe 159 00:08:24,710 --> 00:08:26,950 through your nose, so put a bit of tape over your mouth, 160 00:08:26,990 --> 00:08:28,790 stop your snoring. Oh... 161 00:08:28,830 --> 00:08:30,990 Why did you read a whole book about breathing...? 162 00:08:32,230 --> 00:08:33,710 Well, I thought... "You know what? 163 00:08:33,750 --> 00:08:35,830 "Some people stop breathing and then..." Yeah. 164 00:08:37,030 --> 00:08:39,510 So you go... I want to get... This is the basics. Yeah. 165 00:08:39,550 --> 00:08:40,950 You want to nail this stuff. Good. 166 00:08:40,990 --> 00:08:42,790 I've been breathing the whole show. 167 00:08:44,830 --> 00:08:47,030 It is to do with breathing. 168 00:08:47,070 --> 00:08:50,070 Divorce is not the answer. Divorce is one way of doing it. 169 00:08:50,110 --> 00:08:53,110 But you might want to stop your own snoring and train yourself not to. 170 00:08:53,150 --> 00:08:54,630 ALAN:Oh, I do... 171 00:08:54,670 --> 00:08:56,750 Well, I snore a little bit and my girlfriend's got... 172 00:08:56,790 --> 00:08:58,790 She's got noise-cancelling fists. 173 00:09:03,230 --> 00:09:06,310 But you're in the right area, Jimmy, because what we really need to do 174 00:09:06,350 --> 00:09:08,750 is train the muscles of the upper airways to do what's called 175 00:09:08,790 --> 00:09:10,190 circular breathing. OK. 176 00:09:10,230 --> 00:09:11,790 So you need to inhale through 177 00:09:11,830 --> 00:09:13,230 the nose whilst blowing through... 178 00:09:15,510 --> 00:09:16,670 Is that right? 179 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:20,590 It's that breathing in through the nose, out through the mouth, 180 00:09:20,630 --> 00:09:22,550 in through the nose and out through the mouth 181 00:09:22,590 --> 00:09:24,630 in a continuous circular movement. 182 00:09:24,670 --> 00:09:27,390 The best way is to take up an instrument. 183 00:09:27,430 --> 00:09:29,870 Which instrument might it be? I think trombone, isn't it? 184 00:09:29,910 --> 00:09:33,230 Nope. Anybody, any thoughts? Bagpipes. Xylophone. 185 00:09:33,270 --> 00:09:34,950 Flute. Xyl...?! 186 00:09:34,990 --> 00:09:37,270 Didgeridoo! Harmonica! Didgeridoo! 187 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:40,630 Oh... It's the didgeridoo. Well done, Alan.Got to get a big... 188 00:09:40,670 --> 00:09:41,750 Yes. 189 00:09:41,790 --> 00:09:42,910 APPLAUSE 190 00:09:46,830 --> 00:09:48,990 And there I am with my didgeridoo! 191 00:09:49,030 --> 00:09:54,230 So, 2006, a group of scientists in Zurich decided, 192 00:09:54,270 --> 00:09:58,830 "Let's stop snoring by trying to get people to play the didgeridoo." 193 00:09:58,870 --> 00:10:02,390 So what they did was they got a group of snorers and they made them 194 00:10:02,430 --> 00:10:05,230 practise the didge, made them practise every day for four months, 195 00:10:05,270 --> 00:10:07,350 and then they had a control group who were told 196 00:10:07,390 --> 00:10:09,350 they were on the waiting list for lessons, OK? 197 00:10:09,390 --> 00:10:11,910 And they were told to do anything except play the didgeridoo. 198 00:10:11,950 --> 00:10:15,030 And those who played the didgeridoo, that does seem to work 199 00:10:15,070 --> 00:10:17,670 to help your snoring because it creates this circular breathing. 200 00:10:17,710 --> 00:10:18,790 Wow. Mm-hm! 201 00:10:18,830 --> 00:10:20,470 Anyway, moving on, 202 00:10:20,510 --> 00:10:24,110 what is this fly doing in this painting? 203 00:10:25,190 --> 00:10:28,190 Oh, the one by the plate? There's also one on her head. 204 00:10:28,230 --> 00:10:31,630 Oh, yes. Talking to the one by the plate? Yeah. 205 00:10:31,670 --> 00:10:33,430 "Come up here." "The food's HERE - 206 00:10:33,470 --> 00:10:34,870 "the food's down here!" 207 00:10:34,910 --> 00:10:37,030 "You can see for miles up here!" 208 00:10:38,750 --> 00:10:39,990 "They'll swat you!" 209 00:10:40,030 --> 00:10:42,630 "They won't... She won't swat herself in the head, will she?" 210 00:10:45,910 --> 00:10:49,230 It's called musca depicta - so "musca", Latin for "fly", 211 00:10:49,270 --> 00:10:52,070 and it was to show how skilful the artist is. 212 00:10:52,110 --> 00:10:55,590 It's a way of saying, "I can paint a fly that is so realistic, 213 00:10:55,630 --> 00:10:57,510 "an observer might just want to kind of..." 214 00:10:57,550 --> 00:11:00,910 Well, clearly not, because that's the world's biggest fly. 215 00:11:00,950 --> 00:11:04,310 So when you see the painting, you think, "There's a fly on it." 216 00:11:04,350 --> 00:11:06,990 Yeah... Exactly."Oh!" "Oh, oh!""God...!" 217 00:11:09,870 --> 00:11:11,270 "It's painted on?!" 218 00:11:12,830 --> 00:11:15,390 At the time it was painted, that was thought to be quite a thing, 219 00:11:15,430 --> 00:11:18,150 so it was a fairly new idea, the concept of "trompe-l'oeil", 220 00:11:18,190 --> 00:11:19,710 or "trick of the eye". 221 00:11:19,750 --> 00:11:22,030 That people go in trying to eat the beans. 222 00:11:22,070 --> 00:11:23,270 That - exactly that. 223 00:11:23,310 --> 00:11:25,230 "It's a painting! Oh, my God!" 224 00:11:26,470 --> 00:11:29,750 The very supposed first-ever use of the trompe-l'oeil 225 00:11:29,790 --> 00:11:32,790 was a painting competition in ancient Greece between the artists 226 00:11:32,830 --> 00:11:35,230 Zeuxis and Parrhasius. 227 00:11:35,270 --> 00:11:37,390 And Zeuxis painted some realistic grapes 228 00:11:37,430 --> 00:11:40,070 that, apparently, the birds flew down and tried to take. 229 00:11:40,110 --> 00:11:43,350 And so, Parrhasius then painted a curtain that was so realistic 230 00:11:43,390 --> 00:11:46,590 that Zeuxis himself was fooled and tried to push it to one side. 231 00:11:46,630 --> 00:11:48,830 Do you think ALL of these stories from ancient Greece 232 00:11:48,870 --> 00:11:50,190 are just nonsense? 233 00:11:51,550 --> 00:11:53,310 Yes, let's not do that any more... 234 00:11:59,910 --> 00:12:01,190 I can't believe... 235 00:12:03,030 --> 00:12:04,870 This is so exciting to me. 236 00:12:04,910 --> 00:12:07,110 "Yes, rip it up! Rip it up!" Yes! 237 00:12:07,150 --> 00:12:08,710 "It's nonsense..." It's all nonsense. 238 00:12:08,750 --> 00:12:11,990 "..the bird flew down to the grapes... It did not! It's 2D! 239 00:12:12,030 --> 00:12:15,230 "The bird could've identified that, it's not seeing grapes..." 240 00:12:16,710 --> 00:12:19,390 "The curtains! They're real curtains. Bullshit! 241 00:12:19,430 --> 00:12:21,110 "The curtains are painted!" 242 00:12:21,150 --> 00:12:24,310 And the Greeks they just spread it about, you know, "That happened," 243 00:12:24,350 --> 00:12:27,110 and we... Thousands of years, we're still going, "Amazing, you know, 244 00:12:27,150 --> 00:12:28,790 "in ancient Greece..." 245 00:12:28,830 --> 00:12:31,510 The single...How've they convinced us of this utter non...?! 246 00:12:31,550 --> 00:12:33,030 I don't know! 247 00:12:33,070 --> 00:12:36,750 A single torn card, I've got rid of the whole of Greek mythology. 248 00:12:38,830 --> 00:12:40,830 Get out. Move that, Alan. 249 00:12:40,870 --> 00:12:43,150 So that... That is amazing. 250 00:12:43,190 --> 00:12:45,190 That was painted in 1658. 251 00:12:45,230 --> 00:12:47,950 That actually does look like a curtain. Isn't that incredible? 252 00:12:48,990 --> 00:12:50,790 In fairness, that is good though, ain't it? 253 00:12:50,830 --> 00:12:53,230 I mean, if the Greeks saw that, they'd shit themselves. 254 00:12:54,470 --> 00:12:56,670 Oh, you don't... You missed it, though. You missed it, 255 00:12:56,710 --> 00:12:58,110 because a bird just flew in, Alan. 256 00:12:59,470 --> 00:13:02,150 The flowers are terrible, the curtain's unbelievable. 257 00:13:02,190 --> 00:13:04,590 Deliberately so, obviously deliberately so. 258 00:13:04,630 --> 00:13:06,630 It makes the curtain look more like a curtain 259 00:13:06,670 --> 00:13:08,310 if the flowers are shit. Can I...? 260 00:13:09,510 --> 00:13:12,030 Sorry, just two seconds, can I have some sellotape? 261 00:13:13,950 --> 00:13:15,350 Have you...? 262 00:13:15,390 --> 00:13:17,790 So, this was painted by a man, wasn't it? 263 00:13:17,830 --> 00:13:21,110 This was painted by Adriaen van der Spelt in 1650. 264 00:13:21,150 --> 00:13:23,270 Cos... Why is it? Why? Because it's not ironed. 265 00:13:25,830 --> 00:13:27,150 No, that's a fair point. 266 00:13:27,190 --> 00:13:29,230 I don't know a lot about him, Adriaen van der Spelt, 267 00:13:29,270 --> 00:13:31,190 I just know that he had a nasty third wife 268 00:13:31,230 --> 00:13:33,710 who drove him to his grave. That's literally all I've got. 269 00:13:33,750 --> 00:13:35,670 What, literally gave him a lift? Yeah. 270 00:13:36,950 --> 00:13:40,750 "Don't worry, you'll be there in a minute.""Where are we going? Agh!" 271 00:13:40,790 --> 00:13:42,910 Cos all she wanted him to do was iron the curtains 272 00:13:42,950 --> 00:13:44,390 and he kept painting them! 273 00:13:46,030 --> 00:13:47,270 Anyway, moving on... 274 00:13:47,310 --> 00:13:51,510 What trickery was this boat involved in? 275 00:13:51,550 --> 00:13:53,870 Is it a boat meant to be...look like something else? 276 00:13:53,910 --> 00:13:56,030 You are absolutely heading in the right direction. 277 00:13:56,070 --> 00:13:58,630 So this is a casemate ironclad boat. 278 00:13:58,670 --> 00:14:00,670 And this is something that fought in the Civil War... 279 00:14:00,710 --> 00:14:02,310 Civil War. American Civil War! 280 00:14:02,350 --> 00:14:04,950 American Civil War!1860s. 1862. This particular picture. 281 00:14:04,990 --> 00:14:07,470 You get an extra point, Alan. This is rather frightening... 282 00:14:07,510 --> 00:14:09,630 HE GASPS, CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 283 00:14:11,470 --> 00:14:14,590 Little bit of good news for you - I read a book about the Civil War. 284 00:14:15,750 --> 00:14:16,990 What did you learn? 285 00:14:17,030 --> 00:14:19,630 The fact that I learned I found interesting was that the youngest 286 00:14:19,670 --> 00:14:23,430 you could be, legally, to be a soldier in the Civil War was nine. 287 00:14:23,470 --> 00:14:26,190 Wow.Because eight-year-old soldiers, that's crazy. 288 00:14:26,230 --> 00:14:27,470 Ridiculous. 289 00:14:27,510 --> 00:14:30,110 The other thing I learnt about, that I thought was interesting, 290 00:14:30,150 --> 00:14:32,150 was the biggest killer in the American Civil War? 291 00:14:32,190 --> 00:14:33,950 Diarrhoea. Yeah. AUDIENCE GROANS 292 00:14:33,990 --> 00:14:35,390 Imagine being shot with that! 293 00:14:37,910 --> 00:14:39,070 But that is true. 294 00:14:39,110 --> 00:14:41,670 That is true, darling, in most of the old conflicts. 295 00:14:41,710 --> 00:14:44,110 So the Boer War - typhoid. It's those things... It's... 296 00:14:44,150 --> 00:14:46,510 It's your illnesses, your stomach-related illnesses 297 00:14:46,550 --> 00:14:49,190 that that kills more, quite often than...Oh, I know... 298 00:14:50,470 --> 00:14:52,070 Same with panel shows. 299 00:14:53,310 --> 00:14:56,310 Apparently, there was...a code of honour in the American Civil War 300 00:14:56,350 --> 00:14:58,150 where you couldn't shoot anyone 301 00:14:58,190 --> 00:15:00,150 if they were shitting. 302 00:15:00,190 --> 00:15:02,070 Which I think is quite a nice thing, which is... 303 00:15:02,110 --> 00:15:04,630 I would've spent the whole of the Civil War going, "Hang on!" 304 00:15:04,670 --> 00:15:06,470 Have you got that the right way round? 305 00:15:06,510 --> 00:15:08,070 "You can't shit if you're shootin', 306 00:15:08,110 --> 00:15:10,990 "you can't shoot if you're shittin'... It's one of those!" 307 00:15:12,470 --> 00:15:13,950 APPLAUSE 308 00:15:13,990 --> 00:15:16,030 So a lot of the battles that took place 309 00:15:16,070 --> 00:15:19,190 between the Confederates in the South and the Unionists in the North 310 00:15:19,230 --> 00:15:21,430 took place on the Mississippi River. 311 00:15:21,470 --> 00:15:25,230 And these boats, these casement ironclads, were brand-new, 312 00:15:25,270 --> 00:15:26,990 they were like a sort of moving fort. 313 00:15:27,030 --> 00:15:29,190 And this boat belonged to the Unionists, 314 00:15:29,230 --> 00:15:31,670 but they had to, for various reasons, they had to abandon it, 315 00:15:31,710 --> 00:15:34,110 and the Confederates tried to salvage it. 316 00:15:34,150 --> 00:15:37,830 So in order to stop them salvaging it, the Unionists built 317 00:15:37,870 --> 00:15:40,190 a completely fake boat. 318 00:15:40,230 --> 00:15:43,830 It was made out of timber and tar and...and a toilet! 319 00:15:43,870 --> 00:15:45,350 It was called the Black Terror. 320 00:15:45,390 --> 00:15:48,870 It flew both the American flag and the skull and crossbones. 321 00:15:48,910 --> 00:15:51,910 It cost $8.63 to construct. 322 00:15:51,950 --> 00:15:54,670 It's about $208 today...$8?! 323 00:15:54,710 --> 00:15:56,430 $8 to construct! 324 00:15:56,470 --> 00:15:58,670 And they even lit a sort of tar fire, 325 00:15:58,710 --> 00:16:01,710 so it looked like engine smoke, and the Confederate salvagers, 326 00:16:01,750 --> 00:16:04,510 they destroyed the original gunboat, the Indianola, 327 00:16:04,550 --> 00:16:07,710 because they thought that the Unionists were coming to get it. 328 00:16:07,750 --> 00:16:11,630 And it made the Unionists cry and cry with laughter. 329 00:16:11,670 --> 00:16:14,110 So they managed to use an entirely fake boat 330 00:16:14,150 --> 00:16:16,710 to get the others to destroy a very valuable one. 331 00:16:16,750 --> 00:16:19,590 There was a little bit of levity in the middle of all that slaughter. 332 00:16:21,830 --> 00:16:24,790 There's another excellent wartime dummy trick. 333 00:16:24,830 --> 00:16:27,190 So in World War I, a horse was killed 334 00:16:27,230 --> 00:16:29,070 in what was called No Man's Land. 335 00:16:29,110 --> 00:16:32,310 And somebody thought, "Ooh, I know, we'll turn it into a lookout." 336 00:16:32,350 --> 00:16:37,070 And under cover of night, French soldiers made a papier mache version 337 00:16:37,110 --> 00:16:40,110 of the horse, and a soldier then went in it 338 00:16:40,150 --> 00:16:41,550 and, apparently, 339 00:16:41,590 --> 00:16:43,990 used his anus as a gun port, 340 00:16:44,030 --> 00:16:45,790 which I think, you know... 341 00:16:45,830 --> 00:16:48,870 That's something I'm definitely going to Google later on. 342 00:16:48,910 --> 00:16:50,750 This is a gun port. 343 00:16:50,790 --> 00:16:52,310 The horse... It's the horse's anus. 344 00:16:52,350 --> 00:16:53,910 Yes, the horse... Yes.Thank God. 345 00:16:58,430 --> 00:17:00,910 Don't always understand everything first time. 346 00:17:00,950 --> 00:17:02,110 But then it rains and... 347 00:17:04,270 --> 00:17:06,310 Is there...? Is this going to be a follow-up story 348 00:17:06,350 --> 00:17:09,070 about the...greatest hero of that war was, of course, 349 00:17:09,110 --> 00:17:10,790 a pantomime horse? 350 00:17:10,830 --> 00:17:13,870 Well, they used papier-mache heads. I think you've got some. 351 00:17:13,910 --> 00:17:17,470 They used to use papier-mache heads on sticks to put up over the trench. 352 00:17:17,510 --> 00:17:20,230 Oh, hang on, look... Oh, no, I have got one, yeah. Look at this. 353 00:17:20,270 --> 00:17:21,790 RIA:Oh! ESHAAN:Oh, gosh. 354 00:17:21,830 --> 00:17:23,590 There wasn't much diversity then, was there? 355 00:17:23,630 --> 00:17:26,830 {\an8}No, no, it's not wild on diversity. They all... 356 00:17:29,310 --> 00:17:30,390 Ours have found love. 357 00:17:47,830 --> 00:17:51,310 ALAN SINGS:# Yummy, yummy, yummy I got love in my tummy... # 358 00:17:55,430 --> 00:17:57,710 I'm always hungry after a blowjob. Yeah...! 359 00:17:59,310 --> 00:18:00,350 How dare you! 360 00:18:04,190 --> 00:18:05,550 Right. 361 00:18:05,590 --> 00:18:08,670 It's time for another game of What's The Treatment, Sandi? 362 00:18:12,390 --> 00:18:15,070 OK. How do you stop your toe from dropping off? 363 00:18:17,030 --> 00:18:19,630 Oh. Stop cutting your toenails with a Black & Decker? 364 00:18:20,710 --> 00:18:23,310 That's quite a good answer.Put them in the freezer or something? 365 00:18:23,350 --> 00:18:25,750 How would that work?Well... 366 00:18:25,790 --> 00:18:27,590 IN HIGH PITCH:All right, let me explain...! 367 00:18:27,630 --> 00:18:28,990 MOCKING HIGH PITCH:WHAT?! 368 00:18:30,310 --> 00:18:32,390 Now he's got to think of some logic. Yeah, I have...! 369 00:18:32,430 --> 00:18:34,070 So! You put your f... 370 00:18:34,110 --> 00:18:36,430 ..your toes in the freezer and as it defrosts, 371 00:18:36,470 --> 00:18:38,750 just before it completely defrosts, put it back in again. 372 00:18:39,870 --> 00:18:42,190 Well, why don't you just put a sock on? Just wear a sock! 373 00:18:43,710 --> 00:18:45,430 Socks can get cold. 374 00:18:45,470 --> 00:18:47,070 What?! What?! 375 00:18:48,150 --> 00:18:50,110 What did you...? What did you think Sandi asked? 376 00:18:51,550 --> 00:18:55,510 There is a condition called dactylolysis spontanea, 377 00:18:55,550 --> 00:18:57,670 or ainhum, which is much easier to say, 378 00:18:57,710 --> 00:19:00,470 and it's a very rare condition where the little toe, 379 00:19:00,510 --> 00:19:04,270 normally on both feet, atrophies and then falls off. 380 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:05,350 JIMMY GASPS 381 00:19:05,390 --> 00:19:07,110 Well, it actually goes to market. 382 00:19:08,670 --> 00:19:10,230 APPLAUSE 383 00:19:16,350 --> 00:19:18,830 The constrictive ring of tissue forms at the base of the toe, 384 00:19:18,870 --> 00:19:21,150 and that just restricts oxygen. 385 00:19:21,190 --> 00:19:23,430 It can be caused by injury or infection, sometimes happens 386 00:19:23,470 --> 00:19:25,070 with no clear reason at all, 387 00:19:25,110 --> 00:19:28,510 primarily found in males of African descent. 388 00:19:28,550 --> 00:19:33,430 Probably the best thing to do is to cut it off pre-emptively, amputate. 389 00:19:33,470 --> 00:19:35,830 Or just put it in a freezer. Freezer! What then? 390 00:19:35,870 --> 00:19:37,030 So hang on, hang on. 391 00:19:37,070 --> 00:19:39,190 That is a worse answer than your answer, I think. 392 00:19:39,230 --> 00:19:42,510 The best way to stop your toes from falling off is to cut them off 393 00:19:42,550 --> 00:19:46,590 before they get a chance. "Don't give 'em the satisfaction!" 394 00:19:46,630 --> 00:19:47,990 Don't give them the satisfaction. 395 00:19:48,030 --> 00:19:49,830 You cut off your toes first. Apparently... 396 00:19:49,870 --> 00:19:52,350 If you're watching at home, get rid of them all! 397 00:19:52,390 --> 00:19:55,310 Apparently, with this particular condition, it is less painful 398 00:19:55,350 --> 00:19:57,350 to amputate it and you are less likely 399 00:19:57,390 --> 00:19:59,190 to have the wound become infected, 400 00:19:59,230 --> 00:20:03,030 so it is better, in this instance, to cut it off yourself. 401 00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:05,670 Well, I'm looking at the picture, I think he looks fine. Yeah. 402 00:20:06,830 --> 00:20:09,870 Right. I have treated myself to a new pair... 403 00:20:09,910 --> 00:20:11,710 ..of glasses, OK? 404 00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:14,430 So a little bit like Clark Kent, I'm going to put them on. 405 00:20:14,470 --> 00:20:16,790 OK. Here is the trick. As soon as I put them on, 406 00:20:16,830 --> 00:20:19,270 who do you think I look like now? 407 00:20:19,310 --> 00:20:20,710 AUDIENCE MEMBER:Prue Leith. 408 00:20:20,750 --> 00:20:22,150 Prue Leith is a right answer. 409 00:20:23,590 --> 00:20:24,990 It's somebody badass. 410 00:20:25,030 --> 00:20:27,430 It's a person who has killed more baddies on screen 411 00:20:27,470 --> 00:20:30,070 than any other actor. Oh... I'm going... 412 00:20:30,110 --> 00:20:31,670 I'm going John Wayne. 413 00:20:31,710 --> 00:20:34,150 It's Milla Jovovich!Oh... 414 00:20:34,190 --> 00:20:35,950 Look, do you not think? RIA:Really? 415 00:20:35,990 --> 00:20:36,950 ESHAAN:Yeah, yeah! 416 00:20:36,990 --> 00:20:38,390 THEY TALK VERY EACH OTHER 417 00:20:38,430 --> 00:20:39,590 Uncanny! Uncanny! 418 00:20:41,110 --> 00:20:42,630 She...What are we doing? 419 00:20:44,310 --> 00:20:46,310 What are we doing? What's going on here? 420 00:20:46,350 --> 00:20:48,630 What's going on? Yeah, OK. Do you know who she is?Yes. 421 00:20:48,670 --> 00:20:51,590 She's not even wearing glasses. You know that, right? No, so... 422 00:20:53,870 --> 00:20:57,630 She's the star of The Fifth Element, as well as the Resident Evil series, 423 00:20:57,670 --> 00:20:59,710 and she has killed a shed load of people. 424 00:20:59,750 --> 00:21:03,790 So this is how you fool facial recognition, OK? 425 00:21:03,830 --> 00:21:07,430 In 2016, the researchers at Carnegie Mellon University 426 00:21:07,470 --> 00:21:10,870 found that they could trick facial recognition software into 427 00:21:10,910 --> 00:21:14,350 mistaking their identity by using a pair of colourful glasses. OK? 428 00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:18,990 And they were able to have a middle-aged male researcher 429 00:21:19,030 --> 00:21:21,270 be mistaken by the software 430 00:21:21,310 --> 00:21:24,870 as Milla Jovovich, OK? And this is what the glasses look like... 431 00:21:24,910 --> 00:21:26,710 I think I slept with the wrong person. 432 00:21:29,630 --> 00:21:32,430 If it makes you feel any better, Jimmy, so do they. 433 00:21:34,230 --> 00:21:35,670 APPLAUSE 434 00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:41,750 The way facial recognition software works is it doesn't know 435 00:21:41,790 --> 00:21:44,310 if it's looking for a tiny image in a great big picture 436 00:21:44,350 --> 00:21:46,830 or it's looking for an image that's filling the entire picture. 437 00:21:46,870 --> 00:21:50,310 It's looking for little bits of specifics that then it says, 438 00:21:50,350 --> 00:21:51,590 "Yes, that's that person." 439 00:21:51,630 --> 00:21:54,030 So it looks for a particular shape of an eyebrow, 440 00:21:54,070 --> 00:21:55,990 it looks for a particular shape of a cheekbone. 441 00:21:56,030 --> 00:21:58,750 It is possible to compress all of that information 442 00:21:58,790 --> 00:22:02,790 down into a section of the frame of the glasses. 443 00:22:02,830 --> 00:22:04,910 And what'll happen is the computer will say, 444 00:22:04,950 --> 00:22:06,950 "Oh, I've found the things I'm looking for."Oh! 445 00:22:06,990 --> 00:22:11,430 It'll ignore, entirely, the face that is actually wearing the glasses 446 00:22:11,470 --> 00:22:14,670 because it feels it has already found the person. 447 00:22:14,710 --> 00:22:17,910 You don't have to do that Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible - 448 00:22:17,950 --> 00:22:19,950 where you peel your face off, any more? 449 00:22:19,990 --> 00:22:23,190 You just put on a ridiculous pair of glasses and get in anyway? 450 00:22:23,230 --> 00:22:26,670 So the spectacles could possibly trick facial recognition software 451 00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:28,910 into making them think you're somebody else. 452 00:22:28,950 --> 00:22:31,790 You probably couldn't open Milla's phone or her laptop, 453 00:22:31,830 --> 00:22:35,070 but you could certainly... I can definitely open Romesh's. 454 00:22:36,230 --> 00:22:37,830 APPLAUSE 455 00:22:40,390 --> 00:22:43,470 Now for one final round of What's The Treatment, Sandi? 456 00:22:43,510 --> 00:22:44,910 JAUNTY XYLOPHONE INTRO PLAYS 457 00:22:46,790 --> 00:22:48,030 Love this! 458 00:22:48,070 --> 00:22:50,990 What do you treat by shoving a piece of cloth up your nose 459 00:22:51,030 --> 00:22:52,230 and setting fire to it? 460 00:22:53,750 --> 00:22:56,910 If you're in certain parts of the US, that's how you cure Covid. 461 00:22:58,990 --> 00:23:00,630 APPLAUSE 462 00:23:01,670 --> 00:23:03,470 It's excessive sleeping. 463 00:23:03,510 --> 00:23:06,230 I mean, I have to say, it's an attempted cure.Wha...?! 464 00:23:06,270 --> 00:23:07,270 It... I know.Yeah! 465 00:23:07,310 --> 00:23:09,590 Stay awake because you'll be setting your face on fire! 466 00:23:09,630 --> 00:23:12,430 Yeah. Yeah.Yeah! So... Sleep through this...! 467 00:23:12,470 --> 00:23:13,790 Yeah. 468 00:23:13,830 --> 00:23:16,590 So we're going back a bit - 1738. We're going to France. 469 00:23:16,630 --> 00:23:18,830 There was a woman called Elizabeth Orion 470 00:23:18,870 --> 00:23:21,270 and she started sleeping 18 hours a day 471 00:23:21,310 --> 00:23:23,150 and literally nobody could wake her. 472 00:23:23,190 --> 00:23:25,910 And this went on for years and years and years until she was finally 473 00:23:25,950 --> 00:23:28,550 examined by a guy called Dr Brady, and he wanted to check out 474 00:23:28,590 --> 00:23:30,030 if she was faking it. 475 00:23:30,070 --> 00:23:32,350 So first he shouted really loudly at her. 476 00:23:32,390 --> 00:23:35,110 Then he stuck a pin in her flesh, right through to the bone and so on, 477 00:23:35,150 --> 00:23:38,350 and finally, he took a piece of cloth and he dipped it in alcohol, 478 00:23:38,390 --> 00:23:40,390 set fire to it, and shoved it up her nose. 479 00:23:40,430 --> 00:23:43,470 She slept through the whole thing 480 00:23:43,510 --> 00:23:46,590 and then eventually woke up completely naturally... 481 00:23:46,630 --> 00:23:49,670 I love this - "ate heartily and did some spinning." 482 00:23:50,830 --> 00:23:52,750 Was her nose or face not singed? 483 00:23:52,790 --> 00:23:54,030 Well, I don't really know 484 00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:56,030 because the villagers had done all sorts of things. 485 00:23:56,070 --> 00:23:58,550 They had, at one point, rubbed her back in honey 486 00:23:58,590 --> 00:24:01,510 and laid her in front of a beehive on a hot day. 487 00:24:03,550 --> 00:24:05,190 I mean, really?! 488 00:24:05,230 --> 00:24:07,590 Was there a fraternity? Yeah, why...?! 489 00:24:07,630 --> 00:24:09,510 They just hated her sleeping. 490 00:24:09,550 --> 00:24:11,470 And I don't know what the outcome was. 491 00:24:11,510 --> 00:24:13,230 I love these old cures, though. 492 00:24:13,270 --> 00:24:16,350 There was a 13th century physician called Bernard de Gordon, 493 00:24:16,390 --> 00:24:19,990 and his recommendation for jolting somebody out of a coma 494 00:24:20,030 --> 00:24:22,670 was to hold a squealing pig in their face. 495 00:24:24,310 --> 00:24:26,150 I mean, you could be tempted, couldn't you? 496 00:24:26,190 --> 00:24:29,030 I could see it happening.If that works, brilliant, you're a genius. 497 00:24:29,070 --> 00:24:31,750 If not, you're a doctor with a pig, going home. Yeah! Perfect. 498 00:24:31,790 --> 00:24:34,630 "I didn't manage to wake her, love, but we're having bacon tomorrow." 499 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:37,590 Yeah. "Lend me a pig." "Wake up and smell the bacon!" Yeah. 500 00:24:37,630 --> 00:24:39,070 CHEERING 501 00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:41,870 Let's now treat ourselves to a round of General Ignorance. 502 00:24:41,910 --> 00:24:43,350 Fingers on buzzers, please. 503 00:24:43,390 --> 00:24:44,990 Which has most body fat - 504 00:24:45,030 --> 00:24:48,790 a human, a pig, a cow, a walrus or an elephant? 505 00:24:48,830 --> 00:24:51,030 Depends who you're talking about, really. 506 00:24:51,070 --> 00:24:52,910 Walrus. Oh... 507 00:24:52,950 --> 00:24:53,910 KLAXON BLARES 508 00:24:56,110 --> 00:24:58,190 Are we talking about as a percentage 509 00:24:58,230 --> 00:25:01,030 or actual quantity of fat? So, proportional to size, OK, 510 00:25:01,070 --> 00:25:03,910 it is the percentage of body fat content. 511 00:25:03,950 --> 00:25:07,230 A human? It is a human. It is absolutely a human. 512 00:25:07,270 --> 00:25:10,750 Most humans have higher body fat than an elephant. 513 00:25:10,790 --> 00:25:12,390 Well, I want to retract that forfeit 514 00:25:12,430 --> 00:25:14,590 because the question wasn't properly worded. 515 00:25:14,630 --> 00:25:16,270 APPLAUSE 516 00:25:16,310 --> 00:25:17,950 Worth a try! 517 00:25:22,190 --> 00:25:23,710 I've had a terrible day. 518 00:25:25,030 --> 00:25:27,670 If you're a professional athlete, it's different. If you're... 519 00:25:27,710 --> 00:25:29,670 What's he called, Ronaldo? Ronaldo. Yeah. 520 00:25:29,710 --> 00:25:32,070 Hungry, hungry Ronaldo, he's called. Yes. 521 00:25:32,110 --> 00:25:35,150 But he's very lean. He's about 7% body fat, so... 522 00:25:35,190 --> 00:25:37,190 He's always in a cryo chamber. Yeah. 523 00:25:37,230 --> 00:25:41,030 Freezing! He's got all his toes. Yeah.It works! Yeah, it works! 524 00:25:41,070 --> 00:25:44,030 Inflammation cannot exist at those temperatures. 525 00:25:44,070 --> 00:25:45,710 That's what I was told. Oh... 526 00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:47,110 OK, erm... 527 00:25:49,590 --> 00:25:51,750 I read a book about it! Yeah! 528 00:25:51,790 --> 00:25:54,950 What they were examining was low fertility in captive elephants, 529 00:25:54,990 --> 00:25:57,110 and they thought it might be something to do with diet 530 00:25:57,150 --> 00:25:59,310 and an obesity issue, but it isn't that. 531 00:25:59,350 --> 00:26:01,870 The animals are perfectly lean. Actually, it's stress. 532 00:26:01,910 --> 00:26:05,230 But humans are sometimes known as the fat primate, so our... 533 00:26:05,270 --> 00:26:07,070 Who's calling us that? 534 00:26:08,230 --> 00:26:10,630 That's one of us! That's one of our own, Sandi. 535 00:26:11,910 --> 00:26:14,150 That's got to... That's definitely not any of them. 536 00:26:14,190 --> 00:26:16,830 The cow didn't say that about us! I won't have it. 537 00:26:16,870 --> 00:26:18,390 One of us has turned on us. 538 00:26:20,070 --> 00:26:23,310 I think it's the bonobos - that's our nearest relative, the bonobos. 539 00:26:23,350 --> 00:26:26,110 The bonobos? "Here they come, the fat primate." Yeah... 540 00:26:27,670 --> 00:26:31,310 "Have a...banana, you fat so-and-so." 541 00:26:31,350 --> 00:26:33,230 What about blue whales? What do you reckon? 542 00:26:33,270 --> 00:26:35,070 There's barely an ounce of fat on them. 543 00:26:35,110 --> 00:26:37,230 They're lean and trim like Usain Bolt. 544 00:26:37,270 --> 00:26:40,190 No, they are fatter than us, way fatter. They're... 545 00:26:40,230 --> 00:26:42,390 They're hugely fat. Very, very fat. 546 00:26:44,470 --> 00:26:47,070 They could fill the dome of St Paul's Cathedral 547 00:26:47,110 --> 00:26:49,950 with the fat of a single whale bleu. This is one of those facts 548 00:26:49,990 --> 00:26:52,350 where you just go, this is weird, but it's quite interesting 549 00:26:52,390 --> 00:26:55,990 anyway - if you took all the fat in a sort of larger blue whale, 550 00:26:56,030 --> 00:26:58,670 it would weigh too much to be legally transported 551 00:26:58,710 --> 00:26:59,950 on British roads. 552 00:27:01,710 --> 00:27:04,110 Which is one of the reasons I don't do it any more. Yeah. 553 00:27:04,150 --> 00:27:07,270 It turns out humans are a lot fatter than most other animals. 554 00:27:07,310 --> 00:27:09,790 More than 150 years ago, which American holiday 555 00:27:09,830 --> 00:27:12,230 had people dressed in scary masks, 556 00:27:12,270 --> 00:27:15,910 giving candy to children and pulling pranks on unsuspecting passers? 557 00:27:15,950 --> 00:27:17,110 Halloween. 558 00:27:17,150 --> 00:27:18,310 KLAXON BLARES 559 00:27:22,230 --> 00:27:24,790 It is now, but it used to be Thanksgiving Masking 560 00:27:24,830 --> 00:27:27,510 and it comes from much older traditions which come from Europe. 561 00:27:27,550 --> 00:27:29,950 "Mumming", you every heard about mumming? 562 00:27:29,990 --> 00:27:31,670 Which is basically going door to door.. 563 00:27:31,710 --> 00:27:34,310 That's an internet search I don't want to tell you about. 564 00:27:34,350 --> 00:27:37,630 ..asking for food or money sometimes in exchange for a song. 565 00:27:37,670 --> 00:27:40,110 It's a very, very, very old tradition. 566 00:27:40,150 --> 00:27:43,630 Called mumming? Mumming? Yeah, probably named after Momus, 567 00:27:43,670 --> 00:27:46,150 this is back to your Greek mythology, so probably not true. 568 00:27:46,190 --> 00:27:48,350 Probably a lie... He was the persona... 569 00:27:48,390 --> 00:27:50,110 They never even had buckets! No... 570 00:27:54,550 --> 00:27:57,590 Which brings us nicely to the end of our Trick and Treat show. 571 00:27:57,630 --> 00:27:59,790 So let's see who's got a bucket of candy 572 00:27:59,830 --> 00:28:02,830 and who's going to be pelted with eggs. 573 00:28:02,870 --> 00:28:06,390 In last place, falling for every trick in the book with -26, 574 00:28:06,430 --> 00:28:08,110 it's Alan!Oh... 575 00:28:08,150 --> 00:28:10,350 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 576 00:28:10,390 --> 00:28:11,430 So rude! 577 00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:15,150 In third place with -9, Eshaan! 578 00:28:15,190 --> 00:28:16,390 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 579 00:28:19,110 --> 00:28:21,950 In second place with a very creditable plus three points, 580 00:28:21,990 --> 00:28:24,790 it's Jimmy.Look at that! Three! 581 00:28:24,830 --> 00:28:26,630 Three! Count 'em! Count 'em. 582 00:28:27,670 --> 00:28:30,270 One for every book I've read. 583 00:28:30,310 --> 00:28:32,350 And our winner, never missed a trick, 584 00:28:32,390 --> 00:28:35,110 it's Milla Jovovich...! No, it's Ria! 585 00:28:43,470 --> 00:28:46,310 And our thanks to Ria, Jimmy, Eshaan and Alan 586 00:28:46,350 --> 00:28:49,550 and I leave you with this trick to live by from WC Fields. 587 00:28:49,590 --> 00:28:52,990 "Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, 588 00:28:53,030 --> 00:28:54,470 "and furthermore, 589 00:28:54,510 --> 00:28:56,230 "always carry a small snake." 590 00:28:56,270 --> 00:28:58,070 Thank you. Goodnight.