QI XL Full Episode: Quizmas | With Sara Pascoe, Johnny Vegas & Josh Widdicombe

[@Tastiest-of-Cakes]

The Blue Whale Bonus was incredibly adorable.

[@triplec8375]

Qi: What's the most you've ever spent on a bottle of good wine? Me; Oh... about 15 minutes.

[@ghomerhust]

those are rookie numbers. you gotta pump those numbers up!

[@highlandoutsider]

14:40 so jealous! I have a feeling getting a hug from Sandi would be the warmest your heart could get before it straight up melts 🥰

[@wonky_shoebox7514]

Got so nostalgic... I've a close bond with my mum as she basically raised us on her own. I was born in early 80s so lots of Irish men went overseas at the time to work, dad included. He'd be gone for 6 months at a time. I remember as a baby my mom singing songs including how much is that doggy and reading me books as I'm legally blind. At Christmas, dad would be home. He'd chew the carrot to make me think rudolph ate it

[@ghomerhust]

my parents were divorced when i was 9, and my mother worked 70-80 hours a week cleaning homes and small businesses to keep our house and keep us fed. i am autistic and was quite a pain for my mother until i graduated in the late 1990s and went into the military. she's my hero, strongest human ive ever known.

[@spadebraithwaite1762]

Cute Story. My dad just drank the brandy we left out for Santa.

[@ritageorge8748]

That s really sweet my gran's friend's hubby traveling job-she'd be over 120(I'm a bit younger)

[@vivienneoneill5400]

​@ghomerhust your mum was great, well done you.❤❤❤❤❤

[@meifestonature]

I love the moments Johnny just goes off. But he looks good nowadays

[@ghomerhust]

yep, he looks like he's doing great! and we're the better for it! he's such a gem

[@thisravenhasflown010]

35:54 "All their washing..."😂😂 oh Alan! After that snow to rain act me thinks Alan is probably a great dad😊😂 Johnny is a blast to enjoy😊😂😂 oh 38:13 lmao if mommy says yes

[@stevengoodloe3893]

A man is never lost. He's merely exploring.

[@petersmafield3474]

Men are never lost they are merely exploring unknown territory.

[@churrothiev8387]

That don't exist

[@GustavoFernandesKing]

That's why I like being gay, I just know how it works.

[@samiam619]

We prefer “taking the scenic route”.

[@gljames24]

Other people scare me and when I ask for directions I immediately forget what they said. Thank goodness for map apps.

[@csjrogerson2377]

Men are never lost. Just temporarily unsure of their position.

[@sfshinz]

I’m always amazed when Josh wins anything, which made Taskmaster (and Taskmaster: Champion of Champions) so surprising.

[@rybavresu9917]

Alan blossomed with Sandi.

[@ghomerhust]

the sibling style relationship they have is absolutely adorable. and it makes the show feel "comfortable" and "relatable." i find it incredibly endearing.

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

You can put it like that if you wish, but even if he deferred to Stephen, so did everyone ! And there were more rude jokes in those days, too...😊

[@Metonymy1979]

Quizzing glass guy definitely would have been a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race

[@davidhill2020]

5:30 The clavicle's not the shoulder, it's the collarbone. The scapula's the shoulder (at least the shoulder blade).

[@riakeinert]

Clavicle and scapula are part of the shoulder "girdle"

[@ghomerhust]

correct, it's a whole "assembly." i broke my scapula in a car crash a few years ago. but my clavicles are all intact!

[@mloxard]

6:00 I really can see that happening :DD I'm not sure why I find that so wholesome

[@rebeccscreasman3293]

We figured flying reindeer had a special diet, so we left nothing for them. Santa, however, got wine and cheese…

[@susie9893]

I was voting wombat

[@jeffl.9633]

*S17E09* Quizmas Sandi Toksvig hosts the seasonal quizmas quiz, with Alan Davies, Sara Pascoe, Johnny Vegas, and Josh Widdicombe. _February 15, 2020_

[@ghomerhust]

pandemic times. dates didnt carry any meaning then. im voting for removing the birthdays i supposedly had during that time. im only 41, really i am!! haha

[@jeffl.9633]

@@ghomerhust Heh, nice idea, but my total is still too high doing that. Now if I were to use Jack Benny's method....

[@treyaldridge1757]

31:20, pressure is why water is below the freezing point but still liquid. Phase of a substance (solid, liquid, gas) is dependent on both pressure and temperature. Using this, you can look up the phase diagram of a chemical and predict what phase that chemical will be in for any temp and pressure

[@ghomerhust]

this effect is where the "instant freezing" happens in a bottle of water that has been more widely documented since social media took off. when a bottle goes from liquid to slush in seconds.

[@angrymeowngi]

​@@ghomerhustto be fair this is one of the science concepts that is really fun to experience on a regular day. Have accidentally just made it happen with different drinks from beer to some sodas and it was always a treat. One of the few "virals" that I was happy to see in social media.

[@angrymeowngi]

And amazingly how those whisky ice shaper works (the device where you put ice cubes and when clamped turns into a perfect sphere). Although, watching a japanese bartender carves an ice into a sphere is more interesting to watch.

[@DreamBelief]

When I was involved in planning and running a not-for-profit trivia night we had the deal that anyone wanting to challenge an answer had to give a donation each time. It stopped many arguments and raised extra cash

[@outistynnanyt5153]

Thats such a great way to do that!

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

I used to be an excellent cup stacker. We all had to do it in gym class, and I was the best in my primary school. Only “sport” I ever excelled at, lol.

[@MarrockV]

If you see someone stealing food... no, you didn't.

[@wonderrob3225]

My brother and I were amateur magicians as children. He is a professional performer now. No one ever caught us getting our dinner. Often times, "magic" was the only way we could

[@ghomerhust]

@@smellslikelayne walmart has theft insurance, but force their workers to try to stop theft, even with the shitty pay they get. it's disgusting.

[@ghomerhust]

food or diapers, i just look the other way. or i help them load their car... america has the highest rate of child starvation of all "developed" nations. as a disabled vet, this DISGUSTS me.

[@rovanderby759]

I want to have a quizzing glass too! 🧐

[@susie9893]

That snow fact explains to me exactly why, when in Britain and it rains, the temperature drops several degrees; but in most regions in Australia when it rains, the temperature actually rises a couple of degrees. This has always puzzled me 🤔

[@oliviahafnermunichteaching957]

Josh's brazen cheating gave me the big belly laugh I've been needing for a while 😂😂😂😂😂

[@susie9893]

He's such a cutie is our Josh

[@MEdisonCatt]

Totally depressed I missed out on the One Herd tshirt!!😢😢😢

[@HitSid]

Sarah looks like a gift ready for Christmas. 🎄🎁🎄

[@hannahjoy4857]

Sometimes Alan will say some ridiculous thing and I'll go, "Oh that's interesting that the British say it that way" until the whole cast looks at him in shock. 😂

[@charmio]

I'd love a pallet of chocolate! I didn't realise you could just buy those bars for two fiddy at woolies, thought it'd be an online only kinda deal.

[@kevinw712]

how is nobody talking about how Sandi managed to pick out the only person in the entire audience that was already mic'd up? now that's a christmas miracle!!

[@lesetroete]

It was plannend that he Tell his story

[@OP-1000]

@@lesetroete No! 😱

[@lexigrimhaive]

@@lesetroetewhooosh…

[@drsherifff]

Does anyone know what the song from the buzzers is? Is it carol of the bell?

[@SteveCrozier]

Yes. Well, Carol of the Bells

[@susie9893]

The Muppets did a great version back in 2010 😂

[@juliearaiza3465]

The objects have different masses and you move according to the ratio between the two objects that colide

[@sleepynoodlesromi]

Never heard of leaving out a carrot for a reindeer. We used to make "reindeer food" at school during xmas but it was just birdseed and glitter and you pour it in the garden for the "reindeer"

[@dodobean7620]

what're the odds i'd watch this TODAY - the day that i - for the first tme in my life - saw a baby morning dove!?? (it was about 3-4 inches tall by my guess - seeing it from 20 ft away) i was so excited i ran into the house to grab my phone to get a pic, but it was gone by the time i came back :( 100% true story :)

[@BainesAdam]

Finally we can all rest easy,

[@copasetic1]

Johnny is right about Dumbo. Dumbo’s center of lift is far forward of their center of gravity. Even if the ears could generate enough lift, Dumbo would fly heels over head in backwards flips.

[@Stop_Pre-Ordering_Video_Games]

It still boggles my mind that Sara Pascoe is in her early 40s… She looks 30 in this episode

[@Isrjisoneavalable]

I love Sara’s outfit but do wonder if she got given a different dress code memo from the other guests. The guys are all in fairly simple Christmas T-shirts while’s she’s gone full Christmas-tree-glam. She looks fantastic

[@susie9893]

Yes she does, but knowing Sara, she just showed up in that simple green dress and wardrobe tut tutted and ta da

[@readwriteteach]

How is it that people fail to watch this? I can't...

[@ghomerhust]

because youtube tries to block it in different regions because of greedy assholes....

[@RIXRADvidz]

ICE : the Ionic Free-for-all loose fit electrons free wheeling surface particulate

[@ghomerhust]

AKA: bury your foot and hold on, this is gonna be FUN!

[@hy78an]

well sara is georgeus

[@barryschwarz5960]

Gravity doesn't go away, you're just in freefall, at least you are if you're in orbit.

[@KillingJoke3030]

Sara is absolutely gorgeous here

[@professorworm3426]

That was my first thought on this episode. My mind wanted to make a MILF on the Shelf joke, sticking with the holiday theme, but then I hated myself for how creepy that sounded. Brains betray us.

[@ghomerhust]

AKA: a female on the show has a low cut dress. ooo, i must oogle and comment on it. you do realize that most women DONT like comments like this about them? they consider it "creepy"

[@Isrjisoneavalable]

Agreed. But there’s such a difference between the effort she’s put into her outfit and the guys Christmas shirts!

[@seancherry8821]

Ja, then she speaks.

[@seancherry8821]

​@ghomerhust the comment wasnt for her, it was for us.

[@nunyanunya4147]

THREE hairdressers to come up with the Josh Widdicombe?

[@frizbeek7858]

At first I thought the video name was referencing Camila Cabello

[@amystone7407]

I envy British Television Viewers. They get to hear every person they've ever seen on TV eventually say "fuck".

[@welcome_back_to_1972]

Seriously, the explanation for ice being slippery was a fancy way of saying top ice is semi-liquid.

[@susie9893]

I thought it was that Mickey Mouse doesn't have it all together after all

[@danesorensen1775]

If I'd got the "entertainers from Denmark" question, I'd've said Lars Ulrich and King Diamond and then been unable to think of a third.

[@susie9893]

I would have thought this was Hamlet

[@thrilhous]

Big fan of Johnny's insult monocle 🧐

[@susie9893]

Almost as good as Bill Bailey's pipe

[@FrontalBeep]

Ok so on the elephant and mouse question. I don't know anything about science so can someone explain how if the mouse and the elephant have different mass (even if the difference is inconsequential compared to the Earth) they become weightless at the same time? I thought gravity was just to masses attracting each other, so if Earth is constant, their distance from Earth's center of mass is constant, then the thing that definitely different is their own mass, right?

[@FitzFarseer96]

I'm going purely off basic logic, I'm not an actual scientist and can't provide a definite answer. However my guess would be to view gravity's falling off in percentages. So as they rise into space gravity will have 1% less effect, then 2%, and on and on. And both the mouse and the elephant will reach 100% less gravity at exactly the same moment. So although at 99% the mouse and elephant's weight will be very different, they will both be affected by no gravity at the same moment.

[@csjrogerson2377]

Objects that exist have mass. They only have weight when gravity (g) is applied. Lack of g means they are weightless, therefore mass becomes irrelevant. Your error in logic was the constant distance from the Earth's gravitation influence. They are in space, so there is very little g from earth. Hope that helps.

[@chrissherer2047]

gravity does not go away. weightlessness exists in free-fall. so imagine sky diving next to a mouse and an elephant without factoring in terminal velocity and everything falls at the same rate. now, if someone pushes the elephant, it would slowly start moving towards you while the person who shoved it would be moving away from the elephant faster than the elephant is moving towards you. also, if someone pushed the mouse towards you (all things being equal to the first situation...mass of person, strength of shove) the mouse would be travelling towards you much faster and the shovey person would be moving away from the original position of the mouse very slowly. however, the force of the mouse and the elephant hitting you is still just the amount of energy in the shove that started the animals' motion.

[@chrissherer2047]

the elephant and the mouse would also be attracted to each other and yourself because of gravity

[@ghomerhust]

@@csjrogerson2377 the lack of weight vs the gravitational pull of earth is due to ORBIT. the moon is 225k miles from earth and is held in it's orbit by gravity. to not feel "gravity" from earth, when NOT in an orbit, just straight on, you'd have to be WAAAAAAAY farther out than the moon. inertia in orbit counteracts the effects of gravity when in that orbit. but the orbit is all that keeps you from actually succumbing to the gravitational pull.

[@ManuTheGreat79]

About the mouse and elephant being weightless in space at the same time... Reaching space altitude (100km above earth surface) doesn't make you weightless. At all!!!. Gravity is almost the same as it is here. It's reaching orbit that makes you weightless. That means you move horizontally at a speed of 1 earth revolution in about 90 minutes.

[@ghomerhust]

technically there is no "weightlessness" location in our known universe. some celestial body will be exerting its gravity on you, even if it is infinitesimal. you have SOME weight to SOME planet or asteroid or star. mass equates to weight when floating in space.

[@ConstantChaos1]

Elephants arent especially scared of mice

[@ghomerhust]

they arent scared of mice per-sey, they are scared of pretty much all tiny moving objects that are similar sized to mice.

[@ConstantChaos1]

@ghomerhust no, not really, they don't give a shit I worked with elephants they don't care. And I live in an agricultural state so there is no shortage of mice

[@communitycollegegenius9684]

A part time job as a mouse. boom

[@khriss867]

Why is ice slippery: low friction.

[@gryphonberlin]

that song is much better, mainly because it sounds like fun for a boisterous crowd to join in with - singing and shouting Fight... shame really.

[@ArmageddonAfterparty]

20:03 I see heaps of baby birds every year, fallen from their nests in the rain-gutter of the house next to me, because sparrows aren't the brightest.

[@marloesk9753]

Santa is Sinterklaas and he has a horse that eats carrots

[@happivaras]

@marloesk9753 And fictional.

[@susie9893]

​@@happivarasnever say so (well, not anywhere Mum & Dad can hear you!)

[@MilotheShrike]

Im a dwarf who is four foot four... im the same size as the worlds biggest rabbit

[@harz632]

No the mouse would feel fuzzy and the elephant would feel leathery when it hits you.

[@RIXRADvidz]

Self check in the grocery store, means you're working for the grocery store, you are doing the job of a cashier, you should be getting the employee discount. But they'd rather take the loss in shrink than employ a person to prevent shrink . Greed. GREED. Corporate Greed. Greed is destroying your world, cooperation and equality are your only salvation.

[@magichands135]

Don't forget about Jesus.

[@catlover-fp5ig]

You can still go to a cashier. Also, of course businesses will try and save money where they can, it doesn't justify stealing.

[@venoxidae]

@@catlover-fp5ig well, we know what YOU think about...

[@catlover-fp5ig]

@@venoxidae ?

[@ghomerhust]

@@catlover-fp5ig many of our big chain stores will ONLY have self-checks open, other than the cigarette isle. and often that isle is closed. so you are required to go through self check to go out. (walmart in case you were wondering, the one who also has theft insurance so they lose very very very little money vs what is actually stolen)

[@murmurrrr]

I miss Steven

[@marknugent9851]

*Stephen... Steven with a V is a Moon Knight alter. (Me too, sorry, had to)

[@ghomerhust]

i wish i could "miss" him. but youtube and some greedy copyright bastards in the UK are blocking ALL of the Fry versions of Qi from the US. it's stupid. Fry is fantastic.

[@fonzdevries4575]

Gambling adds !? Really 👎👎👎👎

[@marvelbrooklyn99n3rd2]

Twas the night before Christmas and Rudolph was fed up he had always been bullied for his little red lump So that night he decided that enough was enough And he knew that now he had to had to play rough So he grabbed santas shotgun without a fuss He snuck into their room He shot Santa in the head Mrs Claus screamed and in a second she was dead He marched down to the stables his fur covered in red And as Vixen slept he chopped off his head He saw dancer and prancer tucked up in bed and decided to turn the hay blood red So he shot and he shot the entire whole lot until the elves woke up when they started feeling hot It turns out Rudolph had burned down their plot They yelled and they screamed until they were shot Rudolph had a gleam that frighted the whole lot He would trot and would trot with a smile on his face As the elves would have a final family embrace As they knew they were about to be shot in the face By -- .

[@mrzeegrr]

Sara Pascoe...*Sigh*...she's so pretty.

[@ghomerhust]

sara pascoe *sigh* shes not an object to be swooned over. shes an intelligent and talented woman who deserves respect instead of horny people grabbing their crotch at her.

[@susie9893]

Can you believe that for many years her family tried to pressure her into getting breast reduction surgery??

[@dianemcewen6484]

I wish that subtitles were available- I do miss a joke or two, due to Brits not opening their mouths wide enough to ac enunciate…

[@shakesfirst2443]

Sandi has done these singalongs more than once now, and they're always so cringeworthy. The one with the James Bond theme was worse than this one.

[@Brinta3]

Sandi is a terrible singer.

[@beenaplumber8379]

Yeah, it's a good thing her job is to make me laugh 🙂

[@ghomerhust]

good thing she's an intellectual and comic, right? i dont know any comedians that are actually good singers.

[@Brinta3]

@@ghomerhust Rob Brydon?

[@megaflux7144]

when did sara go from "attractive" or "lovely" to smoking fucking hot?!

[@ghomerhust]

when did it become ok to openly oogle and comment on a human being? nearly all women on earth think that is creepy. cat-calling is a form of sexual assault in most cultures.

[@megaflux7144]

@@ghomerhust im thinking around the dawn of man. just because youre a limp dicked soy boy doesnt mean the rest of us have to be AT ALL. prove to me that "cat calling" is considered sexual assault anywhere much less "most cultures". youre full of shit mr softey.

[@stevevasta]

​@@ghomerhustWhen did it become beyond the pale simply to say that someone looks hot? I've commented on one or two of the men on several occasions: was that also "creepy," "cat-calling," and "s*xual assault"? For heaven's sake, get over yourselves!

[@bettneyskye]

pretty sure it's only FLYING reindeer that eat carrots.

[@ghomerhust]

can confirm. the land-bound ones aren't fans of carrots.