Playing Trivial Pursuit With A Self-Proclaimed EXPERT!

[@LittleGinner]

smith getting high and mighty but he thought the sun gave us our gravity

[@RedSntDK]

Earth is flat and the sun is the center of the universe, so why wouldn't it pull is down? 🤔

[@laylamctavish8122]

Its obviously the moon

[@LeFoothunter]

I don't understand how Smith gets so many questions right on a completely wrong basis :D

[@frognibbler]

LeFoothunter yeah for the prime meridian using his own logic he should have picked Asia yet he chose Europe and got the question right

[@panner11]

@@frognibbler when you're wrong about being wrong, you're right

[@joshDsho]

Chris "Russia's not that big" Trott

[@VoynichArchitect]

Its bigger in area than fucking pluto

[@KarstenOkk]

He's right that it's not as big as most maps portray it, ie. the Mercator-ish maps, but it's indeed still the biggest country by far.

[@ryanthomas9633]

Aka "I've never heard of an heptagon" Trott

[@Ghostiaz]

I want that to be Trotts nickname in the next poker game he plays on stream

[@ahayward38]

@@KarstenOkk But he was comparing it to Greenland, which is on the same latitude. So the Mercator effect is exactly the same.

[@ActivationComplete]

Sips has let himself go

[@alexbutler9442]

Thought I’d clicked on a Stewart Lee video for a moment there.

[@isaac5771]

Mike looks better than Sips though

[@lewis6590]

Sips let himself go a loooong time ago

[@davidfinsen]

did smiffy actually say "is gmt latitude or longitude"?!? i am flabbergasted

[@frognibbler]

David Finsén a man of culture

[@lordvulcanos5003]

they're very similar words that have pretty similar meanings

[@calummcguire7506]

Chris trott thinks Russia is just a little bigger than Greenland let that sink in

[@BanthaBoi]

Russia is 17 million Square kilometres and Greenland is 2. Only a tad bigger

[@SuperThest]

Are time zones latitude or longitude??? Come on Smith...

[@positronalpha]

Peak ignorance.

[@lewis6590]

"I always think to myself, where IS Big Ben?"

[@sirBrouwer]

forgetting that they are on the time zone it self. it former name is bases on a observatory in the UK

[@klaxoncow]

@@sirBrouwer What do you mean "former name"? It's still called the Greenwich Meridian and GMT. (The UK does have daylight savings time, though, so "BST" - British Standard Time - is used to denote GMT + daylight savings adjustment. But GMT itself doesn't change, as that's the reference point for all time zones.)

[@sirBrouwer]

@@klaxoncow O i got confused with UTC. (not a real difference they use the same time as the base.)

[@Jared-lv7hp]

Trott, Russia is the biggest country in the world

[@Mgrow]

Yes and nearly twice the size of the next largest (Canada). I think he means that the 2D map we're all most accustomed to unnaturally inflates the countries in the Northern Hemisphere. Just not to the degree he expects.

[@ozon100]

it also is a gas giant

[@croissantpower]

OzonCZ The moon is the only gas planet you idiot😒

[@hellomynameisjim]

As soon as he said that, I paused the video and took a trip to the comments section looking for someone to insult Trott's intelligence; I'm glad I found this comment almost immediately.

[@NotHarpoGroucho]

Mgrow China is the next largest then the US and THEN Canada, and its over 2 million km^2 less then twice the size of Canada. Where did you get your info? lol

[@tylertracey7182]

Trott literally doesn't know his shapes

[@shearer9999]

Ah yes, the famous European Taj Mahal.

[@laylamctavish8122]

There is a taj in brighton

[@shearer9999]

@@laylamctavish8122 Isn't it called The Royal Pavilion?

[@laylamctavish8122]

No clue

[@canwehit100subswithoutavid5]

Mike is one of those guys who has a gulp of water every time he gets a question right on a game show.

[@erikvern]

Might be time to visit the prime meridian centre at Greenwich guys.. Learn about latitude and longitude and whatnot

[@stanleydodds9]

"is GMT latitude or longitude?" ranks up there as one of the dumbest things they've said in this game so far. Smith does know what time zones are, right? Right???

[@Xanthanarium]

As we know, the northern axis of Earth centers on Mexico.

[@sirBrouwer]

@@Xanthanarium Mexico? no Ecuador why do you think it got it's name?

[@bobtillich8306]

right up there with trott saying russia isn't that big

[@sirBrouwer]

@@bobtillich8306 it isn't Russia is only as big as my hand on this beach ball.

[@willbeazer9730]

Merch Mike, when can we expect some top hats?

[@gelatothegreat4906]

I wanna like so bad, but you're on 69 likes :'(

[@totallyAud]

^^asking the real questions. I'll buy 10

[@Zelmel]

"It's stupid! That was a low for me!" -Alex "Venus is a gas giant" Smith

[@MrJ158n]

Please bring sjinfacts sjin on. You need the subs anyways

[@Geek-x]

J158n cant do that anymore

[@SolstaceWinters]

How can I watch this without Trott screaming "MY CAT!"?

[@SniperWalrus]

Thank you for announcing questions and categories. It makes this a lot more fun to listen to.

[@snickers10m]

Alex: *barely beats Mike by one question* Also Alex: “Mike I thought you said you were good at this game?”

[@jasonschuler2256]

It's called banter. He knows he only barely beat him, but Mike talked such a big game at the start.

[@camerontjoe5535]

Come on guys, she came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge. What an iconic song

[@RunderCaster]

Smith still thinks aluminium doesn't conduct 22:28

[@Bennetherway]

Ooh love a bit of Mike

[@Bird0fPrey]

On this weeks episode of alsmiffy pretends to know the answer

[@bapo224]

I like how Trott berates Smith for picking Russia since it's so far North that it's size is out of proportion when he himself picked Canada which has even more oversized bits.

[@worfin7766]

6:50 they also haven't acknowledged the fact that the Chinese made a printing press more than 500 years before Gutenberg

[@nikeeweston]

Bless trott he isn’t the brightest bulb in the Hat.

[@JDBD13]

High-Tea also known as Haiti to some.

[@geraldvanlaar]

To be fair in some languages (Spanish for example) it's Haití which is pronounced similarly

[@PiousMoltar]

As a kid I always heard it said like "hai-ii-ti" but lately I just hear "hay-ti"

[@bensonweaver6803]

The Egyptians made capacitors not batteries.

[@edwardpiper2749]

Brynx why would they need either as electricity wasn’t discovered for another 2 thousand years or so

[@HiringHamblin]

However, batteries made from vases have been unearthed in modern day Iraq that pre-dated Gutenberg by centuries. Maybe thats what Smith was thinking of and Hasbro neglected to remember?

[@ThHuSu]

@@HiringHamblin Well what they think MAY have been a battery, but it's very unlikely that it was.

[@sirBrouwer]

​@@edwardpiper2749 they did know that electricity was a thing they didn't know exact what it was but they will have known about it. Especially static electricity. they also known that if you did it wright it could be used as a spark for a fire. it was most likey that they saw electricity as a kind of fire.

[@14vienna]

Relating to this same question, the ancient Greeks made, what could be considered, a computer. The Antikythera Mechanism automatically tracked the movements of celestial bodies in our solar system and could even predict eclipses. It was lost when it was being transported and the ship it was on sunk. I think the question should read; "Which of these inventions was patented the earliest?"

[@BrendanGeormer]

Props to Mike for actually knowing a significant amount of this stuff.

[@F7INN]

My boy Merch Mike

[@Alex-ik8pr]

17:00 Yeah the sun goes over the poles Smith, that's why they're melting *GET YA HATTS ON!*

[@ivarkristinsson5510]

"Is GMT latitude or longitude?" -AlexSmith 2019

[@a007j007]

17:00 "Is GMT Latitude or Longitude?" -Alex Smith

[@olaf6999]

Smith is so insecure aha

[@Ghostiaz]

Trott: Russia's not that big Me: Fun fact Russia is the same area as the surface area of Pluto

[@nikbol43below]

Smith [shoving his own foot into his mouth]: gosh, I'm smart

[@deedumdumb]

Trott not knowing what a heptagon is, if only he counted the sides to a 50 pence piece and a 20 pence piece.

[@TheDarksamus227]

If only he counted the sides in ancient greek

[@nocturne9257]

‘Is GMT latitude or longitude?’ I think smith needs a quick refresher on how time zones work.

[@linussaxvik25]

''Russia is deceptively big" - Chris Trott

[@cadesmith569]

Whenever I feel stupid, I watch these videos to feel smart

[@ringosis]

Aluminium doesn't conduct electricity was pretty bad. But lets not forget "The strength of gravity is determined by a planets proximity to the Sun"

[@Odinh]

the question about the monkey was a dead gibbonway

[@thomasoring]

Always go for the pun when gibbon the opportunity.

[@TheDandef]

"Russia is actually not that big" Russia: 17.100.000 km² Europe: 10.180.000 km²

[@ThisIsGoobly]

You can genuinely hear the bassy rumble of Smith's fart lmao

[@1001Bastiano]

5:25 Here in New Zealand we say it "ci cay da" lol, so it sounds funny to me how you are saying it

[@OddMobileWatcher]

Excuse me? 6:53 Sliced bread was invented since bread and knives existed, do you think the medieval peasants just ripped bread in to halves with their bare hands?

[@FlukierJupiter]

come on smith, are time zones latitude or longitude? really...

[@kantina4765]

Flukier Jupiter It's a valid question considering time zones are globehead propaganda

[@Geek-x]

The one with the USSR’s countries, everyone went straight to the ones they took over lol

[@bencaswell1956]

So for those who give a damn, a league varies in length depending on where you are in the world, but in general it's about 3 miles. It's based on how far a person can walk in an hour.

[@BlasterAdreis]

Interestingly enough, to my knowledge there was a Chinese printing press far before Gutenburg's, but he refined the process

[@Shanemain1991]

I wanna see some bouphe!!! Hello my fellow scrubscribers.

[@weavilunderwood2385]

Said no one ever.

[@cerperalpurpose]

weavil underwood you know the only time you can legally say the n word is in this circumstance? Do not insult boof.

[@hoathanatos6179]

The ancient Egyptians did effectively create a battery, however they didn't use it as a battery and used the technology to electroplate instead. They didn't understand that they could have harnessed the electrons released in the chemical reaction as a form of energy, so it's debatable to say whether they actually invented the battery since it was never used as such.

[@FreshlyBakedLePain]

Not an Egyptian battery, it was Persian and people don't think it was a battery any more anyway.

[@PlokgiH]

The Egyptian battery thing was an urban myth, I think

[@Pjs-ge7gk]

I've kissed the Blarney stone, my lips dissolved soon after.

[@Echo.7]

Cicada, at least in midwest America, is pronounced like "sic-kay-da"

[@mattymerr701]

Those Egyptian vases were capacitors I am pretty sure. Not batteries

[@melancholymedia]

the real lord michael of merchtown i cant believe it

[@HeliusSlayer]

professional outro

[@TheAppeyes]

Tbh the only reason I knew the answer to the Common People question was from the citizenship test Lewis and Simon did all them years ago.

[@charliehlcy5367]

cicada is pronounced sick-aid-ah :D

[@BlasterAdreis]

Also is no one talking about Ross and Trott thinking there were penguins in the Arctic

[@panner11]

yeah seems like something even preschoolers would know

[@OlGilly]

Si-KAY-DUH is Cicada, at least in America anyway, lmao

[@XRaptor7]

Fruit juice is often pasteurised as well, so it counts too...

[@DawnfireGalinndan]

You all *LIVE* by the Prime Meridian.

[@TarotNathers]

Pretty sure it’s Sih-KAY-duh

[@leavy]

apparently either one is acceptable, despite only ever hearing it with a long A emphasis

[@shakeyshapeshifter]

Don't skip ads on hatfilm videos

[@Gamidronn]

Russia is the largest country in the world.....

[@JamieLand7]

Smith 'I thought aluminium conducts' Hes still not getting it guys.

[@tcrime]

Not the curry house, Trott.

[@kaitlynw4366]

Alex "Europe is crossed by the equator" Smith

[@KyleDB150]

"is gmt latitude or longitude?" - Smith, 2019

[@Sam-ni5lb]

How did they fuck up the inventions question so much, I swear they know the whole Betty White is older than sliced bread thing. Not one of them knew about Gutenberg

[@sirBrouwer]

where is the meridian time zone 0? was the question. You would think someone living in the UK would know that they live at the meridian it goes trade true the UK.

[@froggie488]

the question about insect lifespans was also incorrect. some queen ants can live over 30 years.

[@Nasuth]

It's the Baghdad Battery, not the Egyptian battery, there's no evidence it was ever used in ancient Egypt.

[@TreVotheJoke]

Ooooooo the pursuit of things that are trivial

[@sparkypeeps]

I think Ross offered me some of that chilli pepper at i60 when I met them, either I accept and end up in a video, or i refuse and am allowed to enjoy the rest of the convention without a burning mouth. I took the biting option :/

[@SionKin67]

Ahhh the good old Taj mahal in Europe..

[@goestah]

"is gmt longitude or latitude" holy fucking shit Smith

[@LyngQ]

"buy the new hat films hoodie" he said as if I havent already bought 2! It's the merch goblin all over again!

[@notsoyoungneilyoung5963]

Trott... Haiti =/= High Tea lol

[@gruntslayer3524]

Was smith actually asking if time zones go horizontal or vertical?

[@kflash17]

I'll be straight with ya'll. Mike really let me down. He dropped the ball. He really made a fool of us all. Tragic.

[@Bird0fPrey]

The country of Heidi

[@WhiteCheddr]

Bring Sips to play!

[@Emperorhirohito19272]

Jesus Christ the Antarctic is an entire fucking continent of ice!

[@krissybaglin9206]

Russia is huge. The largest country in the world

[@Kodiakplaysgames]

Did Alex think their was timezones that ran horizontal around the earth?

[@zonic773]

OMG ITS MERCH MIKE POGCHAMP

[@craigrowan4001]

Smith said "Is GMT latitude or longitude", and no one gave him s**t for it, I'm disappointed :)

[@ThePuddleOfDoom]

someone finally let Mike out the back

[@jamesbaskerville9180]

It’s not true that no one started slicing bread before computers were made

[@awesomeaartvark]

LIES!! Mike is clearly superior at trivia games, I demand a (potentially physical boardgame) rematch! hahaha Also, welp, Mike's got me sold, haha, gotta buy that hoodie at some point this week!!

[@Pratalax]

that's gotta be a barry spesh

[@GoodwinGhost]

yessss trivia pursooooooot!!!

[@ellisday98]

Hey it's merch mike

[@d-rekwhite-knees6858]

"Russia's not that big" literally the biggest country in the world

[@tristanreynolds522]

Russia is nearly as big as Pluto, so yes, it is very big.

[@tigerhatestobi2890]

Merch “almost the trivia god” Mike