WHAT WHAT WHAT?! 5 Questions You WON'T Know The Answers To! QI With Stephen Fry

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[@dasamont8274]

A funny fact about the Canary Islands is that there are no canaries there, despite the name. Yet funnily enough, the same holds true for the Virgin Islands, there are no canaries there either.

[@SaarlaneKretiin]

PERFECT EXAMPLE OF BRITISH COMEDY LOL

[@martyheresniak5203]

So well written.

[@VestigialHead]

This was one of Stephens sign off jokes on this very show. Maybe even on the episode we just saw about Canary Islands.

[@DerekHartley]

That's because the name has nothing to do with canaries. Canarias means Isle of the Dogs.

[@martyheresniak5203]

@@DerekHartley So does that mean Cannery Row is really Dog Street?

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

The penguin "We're all the same!" was just incredible 😆

[@BonJody]

My dad had cancer and thought he was in remission when his dogs kept insisting on sleeping on his stomach, my mom said that she was worried the cancer had returned. Unfortunately she was right. His next scans showed that the tumors had returned right in the same spot the dogs were laying. He passed away 6 months later, we were able to set it up for him to be at home and the dogs were there the whole time.

[@mariestreeting4213]

So sorry. It’s never easy when we lose a parent. God bless.

[@impact0r]

Since the dog was able to pinpoint the spot by sleeping on it, it had to be a chihuahua.

[@Nickelodeon81]

proof that dogs cause cancer

[@joskimengstrom2853]

Pffffft. Too easy. I knew them all because I've seen all of the clips multiple times.

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

Then it's time to go get a life.

[@joskimengstrom2853]

@@Hithere-ek4qt I mean, you might have a point (nah), but if you tell people in the KZbin comment section to "get a life" you might want to take a hard look in the mirror.

[@minavanderleest9493]

Got to admitt it is a great show. Funny. And get to know some obscure fact.

[@Ash-ey9oy]

@@minavanderleest9493 same here lot of interesting facts

[@aidangriffiths5075]

Exactly, jokes on them right? 😂

[@danbev8542]

I think penguins are adorable because they walk like human toddlers and their tuxedos.

[@Ixaglet]

In Chinese a penguin is a "business goose"

[@jonatanrullman]

Toddler tuxedos walk?

[@kenlieck7756]

@@jonatanrullman Not til they get a formal education…

[@woopimagpie]

Funny to hear Stephen talking about the La Palma volcano given the events of this year.

[@ladyi7609]

Fun fact about the Canary Islands: people from that island chain were the ones who set up the first residential community in what is now my birthplace and hometown, San Antonio, TX! In fact, we've got a preserved version of that first settlement as a downtown tourist attraction called "La Villita", and it's why some parts of downtown have a Spanish colonial feel to them.

[@TheScouseassassin]

True, but as always with American states Native Indians inhabited the area before the European usurpers turned up, in the case of San Antonio I believe they were Payaya Indians.

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@@TheScouseassassin True, but inhabiting somewhere is not the same as setting up a residential community.

[@LaSorciereFeuillue]

@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies my guess is you have to be white to do that? Oh please?

[@kenlieck7756]

Funnier fact: Y’all in S.A. have an elementary school named after my great-grandpappy, who built the first one-room schoolhouse thereabouts. (Fully racially integrated it was, too!)

[@anniejenkins8511]

Now looking forward to that nifty side effect of the Las Palmas volcano

[@darkcenturion5735]

Since debunked:)

[@anniejenkins8511]

@@darkcenturion5735 dammit! :D

[@meatballg8655]

i actually knew about that one with the walls of benin, one of those random facts you pick up but when the time comes to flex your knowledge you can never remember the name and i always end up saying walls of benadryl

[@Karma-qt4ji]

Gotta admit, the walls of benadryl are pretty damn big too.

[@TheHighSpaceWizard]

I swear I have read this comment before somewhere.

[@kenlieck7756]

@@Karma-qt4ji Well, they have a lot to encapsulate…

[@Tiresias55]

1:36 A penguin Pirate, love it. and 2:52 pick up a penguin pick up site is hilarious.

[@leitmotif4me]

Whistling at the end sounded like the Clangers!

[@Gormathius]

"The line between clever and stupid is so, so thin..." is just the middle class version of "Well that was a swing and a miss."

[@minxythemerciless]

There have been 11 births in Antarctica. Each and every baby is, therefore, a native Antarctican and is considerably larger than any midge.

[@bgrigg07]

Do they live there all year round? That was part of the question.

[@alisaurus4224]

Antarctica is the only continent with a 0% infant mortality rate, because all 11 of them lived

[@no_peace]

Species ain't native

[@irrelevant_noob]

@@no_peace the question asked about land animals, not about species, tho. :-B

[@emilybarclay8831]

They aren’t native because they aren’t permanent residents and Antarctica isn’t a nation and has no laws on how they define citizenship. Also to be considered ‘native’ a species must have become a part of the ecosystem via a natural process. So humans can’t be considered native by any current working definition. And no, I’m not fun at parties. No one invites me because I’m a nerd :((

[@astridbirgittevern7902]

Phil Jupitus always cracks me up!

[@charlesbadoola535]

I think you're part of a very small group. I find him incredibly irritating, terribly unfunny but he tries so hard that it's almost painful to watch.

[@kiwimike31]

Yes as you say he is crap if he is on qi I don't watch the show.The same applies that guy with the long hair.

[@Nickelodeon81]

I love him.

[@tucosalamanca5194]

@@charlesbadoola535 he can be funny but sometimes he goes to far and it becomes slightly cringey

[@Chimera_Photography]

I knew Alan was going to say something like “fart” from the look in his eye lol

[@wordreet]

Well we all get that look when we do, don't we?

[@grandtheftmanualv945]

I knew Alan was gonna make a fart joke when I saw it was a QI clip!

[@ruthgiles8926]

To be fair, he always has that look in his eye.

[@sourcescience]

The whistling reminds me of the Clangers. Love that cartoon.

[@SamuelBlack84]

So does the Master

[@vasp99]

Joanna Lumley visited a Greek island where the few locals left also communicate via whistling . It was mainly elderly women.

[@kenlieck7756]

Turned out they thought she was a young man!

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

My cat told me one of my surgical wounds was infected. She just kept bunting my side, over and over. Normally she was very careful around the wounds, but this time she just wouldn't stop. So, I went to the doctor, who ordered a swab and what do you know? An infection was brewing.

[@kenlieck7756]

My pet bird got up early to tell me I had worms…

[@Codex7777]

Those whistling Canary Islanders sounded like the Clangers! :)

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Oh bless, Tiny Clanger❤️

[@asterix7842]

One of my favorite trivia questions is “Which continent has the most mosquitos per capita?” The answer, of course, is Antarctica because there are so few humans there, but no one ever guesses that.

[@rupeshkanth]

There is NO mosquito in antartica.

[@asterix7842]

@@rupeshkanth Hmmm, you are correct. I guess I need to research better the "trivia" I hear. Although it's more accurate to say that there are no NATIVE mosquitos in Antarctica. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKbOpoRunM-NaKc

[@stargazer7644]

How are there mosquitoes in Antarctica? The record high temp is barely warm enough for them to survive?

[@samdherring]

If there aren't any native to Antarctica, Australia could be the correct answer because it has the lowest population density.

[@Maya_Pinion]

@@samdherring and,if u view Enoch the vet in Australia,on utube,dang,u know that's where 🦟 are.....especially hovering over the cow,bull 💩...

[@kenlyneham4105]

The last whistle said in Spanish, "Domingo esta enfermo". Meaning, 'Domingo is sick'.

[@Tapio86]

Well, in the UK 'sick' would mean 'puking'. 'Domingo' also means 'Sunday'

[@callum9999]

@@Tapio86 Who told you that? It's general meaning is just "ill", and people rarely use it to meant vomit without clarifying it. And Domingo does mean Sunday, but you don't necessarily translate names.

[@holliswilliams8426]

*Domingo está enfermo

[@kenlyneham4105]

@@holliswilliams8426 Without going to a LOT of trouble, my keyboard doesn't have the ability to put in stresses.

[@DrakeN-ow1im]

@@kenlyneham4105 It is there if you care to find it ;)

[@andrew_owens7680]

Alan has perfectly encapsulated British history. It's amusing that we don't know about any human achievements that didn't take place in Europe. It's a small tragedy if we destroyed it.

[@DomWeasel]

And the Ancient Astronauts theory first came about as way for Europeans to explain how Non-European cultures could have been building monuments like the Great Pyramids while Europeans were still living in huts.

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

That one seems kind of dubious to me. There aren’t really any photos of this wall or any significant ruins. Seems like maybe an archeologist with a very ambitious theory. I can’t imagine the British investing huge time and effort to completely dismantle thousands of miles of earthworks, makes no sense.

[@ibux]

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat because everything the british do makes sense and its impossible for africans to build amazing structures right?

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

​@@ibux You don't think it's even a tiny bit of a stretch that there were supposedly NINE THOUSAND MILES of walls in Nigeria and you've never heard of them or seen them because supposedly the British went around systematically and utterly destroying them all entirely into nothing but dust for no reason?

[@ibux]

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat first of all, you've never heard of something until you hear of it, doesn't mean it never existed. Secondly, the british have a history of destroying stuff there's not always a reason they just do it cos they can. Whether you believer or not its been proven and the history is there, fight with your keyboard

[@ErmenBlankenberg]

3:13 Mycrotch, the not so well-remembered third brother of the Holmes siblings.

[@kenlieck7756]

“But how did you know, Holmes?” “I could smell him, Watson!”

[@OB1canblowme]

"WHAT WHAT WHAT?!" I thought this was about Kyle's mom in South Park

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

I think I enjoy Stephen's reaction to an impending klaxon than the klaxon itself

[@YukiNoSikrit]

I lke how he said "They are whistling, its in spanish"

[@davidwalter2002]

That whistling language sounded like Harpo Marx trying to tell Chico something important.

[@bananaboatcharlie]

*whistling and frantic gesturing* Oh! Issa snake! *curvy gesturing and suggestive whistling* No, thatsa no snake!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

the second whistle sounded more like the Clangers to me!

[@CaptHayfever]

@@bananaboatcharlie: A Peek-at-the-Knees dog in Bee-Twist's room.

[@FenceThis]

Make it 12 hard boiled eggs

[@lucbuydens1783]

A tsunami engulfing the eastern seaboard. Sounds like something that might happen in 2020.

[@erinbenny1653]

Don’t jinx it!

[@luapslev5826]

It's not expected to happen for at least 1000 years though.

[@jonathangarmuth8975]

We are drilling in Yellowstone again because Trump wants to be the last President. It would make him famous.

[@jackstransport]

*(softly)* Don’t

[@andrewbrown1712]

Luc Buydens That’s Ipswich and Norwich gone then?

[@blanchybaby]

6:28 Alan 🤣

[@johnmonk66]

My sister's dog became very gentle around me for weeks before I got sick, then I almost died of cancer.

[@captaincrash9286]

I had a similar experience with my friends' Huskies.. the female became very protective of me, guarding me from her boisterous brother. I hope you're ok now?

[@billysteinmann772]

I have a feeling that I will know the answers by the end of this video.

[@waynemarvin5661]

Probably not.

[@jonnaughton]

I’m not surprised that Jeremy recognised the Seychelles. He’s probably a resident for tax purposes..... 🤣

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

No he lives in Chipping Norton.

[@julianshepherd2038]

He's trying to sink them

[@kenlieck7756]

@@julianshepherd2038 Or sell them by the seashore…

[@THESAMMANCAN]

The whistling one just sounds like the clangers

[@vangroover1903]

5:30 It's shocking how long it took them to come up with Africa, given how big a country it is.

[@gordonlee6631]

I assume you are joking?

[@vangroover1903]

@@gordonlee6631 Oh, very muchly. Thanks

[@SpeccyMan]

Africa is a continent, not a country!!! Let me guess, you're an American.

[@markrowland1366]

Recently an Englishman enquired of an Edo gentleman, as to what purpose such a system of walls might serve. Try farming amongst Elephants? He answered.

[@swissington8472]

The volcano is actually going off as right now, has been for a while, no tsunami yet though!!

[@amandadonegan2137]

Yesss...l knew 3 of these and l hadnt watched it before 😃😃😁😎

[@CubicSpline7713]

Well luckily, that volcano didn't do anything as bad as Mr Fry suggested.

[@litterpicker1431]

Yet.

[@darkcenturion5735]

@@litterpicker1431 it won't. It was debunked

[@glebealyth]

That is the Soup Dragon calling the Clangers to lunch!

[@khulhucthulhu9952]

Well the volcano on La Palma did go off, just not with a giant tsunami to go along with it

[@Bo55Fatwod]

The first 5 secconds were the best

[@Lord_Skeptic]

1:20 there are 2 there. That is why it looks like they have got more than 6 legs.

[@nosuchthingasshould4175]

They specifically must have chosen a photo with the midges banging, and a panel of comedians missed it.

[@markrowland1366]

On the island of Phonpei in the, FSM are some 260 million tons of basalt hexagonal collumes, built into a city and harbour. They came from other islands.

[@wordreet]

There's Albatross island off New Zealand, though I haven't looked it up, I just saw it mentioned in a KZbin video. But how come no one made any Clanger jokes in the last clip? Alan dropped a Major Clanger there!

[@davidcundy]

Heron Island is off the coast of Queensland.

[@GamerJV]

Is that a young Alan Davies and young Lisa Tarbuck?

[@jacobl6714]

Love Clarkson so much, still pleasantly surprised when I see clips of him on qi : )

[@joncarthy2370]

Just for context, a quadrillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000 - a thousand trillions in a quadrillion

[@chrismanuel9768]

Yep, just look to the lead-in. Bi, tri, quad, quint. A quadrillion is the next step up from trillion. And then a quintillion is a thousand quadrillions. Though I'm still not sure why a million is called a million. I have no idea what the root is.

[@Dranok1]

@@chrismanuel9768 That's because you don't understand that the American (actually French) "short-form" number system is -mucked up and wrong!- Sorry, "different" from the rest of the English-speaking world and the whole of Europe ;-) So, brace yourself for a tiny bit of history: the original ("long-form") mathematical/scientific system was based on powers of a million. M=mono in the context (not really but it's easier to understand if we take it as that) =1 power of a million 1,000,000; Bi=2 powers billion= 1,000,000,000,000; tri=3 powers of a million 1,000,000, 000,000, 000,000. The number that the Americas call a billion is in fact a milliard, and some European languages still use it or its translated equivalent. Why does the whole world now use the "short-form" number system? Money! Of course, everything comes down to money, but in this instance the USA dominance of the financial markets in the mid-20th-century, just at the time that economies for the first time in human history routinely reported normal figures (not just entire GDPs) reaching into 10^9+, meant that we in Europe started hearing reports of budgets allocating "billions of dollars" or companies being worth that much. On our news they used to repeatedly translate that to "thousands of millions actually" but eventually everyone got to understand that *in financial matters* a billion is a milliard in the rest of human endeavour. Throughout my childhood we were more and more having to ask or confirm in conversation weather a person was talking "American billions", and in science matters it was still assumed that "real" counting was being used and "financial billions" were different and of no interest. I remember vividly an episode of The Sky At Night when Patrick Moore was talking to his guest a famous American astronomer who was describing a point of interest as "x billion of light years away" and Sir Patrick had to correct him "you mean thousands of millions", "oh yes" came the polite reply! It wasn't until the late 80s in my experience that everyone in the scientific and "grammar pedant" communities gave up and accepted that "financial" counting, because it had been in common use in every stock exchange and thus every newspaper report, was now the "new normal." So now young people in various languages that don't learn English by default as a second language, are confused why they have *and use* two words for 10^9: milliard and billion! Nobody truly understands why the Americas went a different way with such a basic mathematical notation that shouldn't change between languages, other than the "conspiracy theory" that it was the system (apparently) that the French used and they wanted to be more friendly to the French than the English in a large part of the 1800s: "well the English do it like this, so let us do it differently!" (If you give credence to that sort of old story -- the trouble is that type of story is often wrong, like "why the Americas changed the spelling of various English words" when it wasn't them it was us! But that's a different story;-)

[@nickynockyknackynoo2346]

Wrong... I recognised immediately the Lagomera whistle translation error... "It's not John milked the goats" it is "Just got a blinkin' BBC copyright claim over imitating 'The Clangers' in the '70's.. Heck, Blue String Pudding people, that's cruel"..... :-)

[@markrowland1366]

Micronesia, Narn Modal, Ponphe, has a series of hexagonal basalt structures, brought from afar, which reportedly weigh some 600 000 000 tonnes. Engravings are identified as similar to the natives of Islands north of Japan.

[@patriciaapetrone]

Stephen once called showed a picture of the Washington Monument and called it Grant's Tomb. I couldn't sleep that night! I never expected such blatant fallibility out of him. I still shudder when I think of it!

[@JasperJanssen]

His sense of humor apparently eludes you!

[@no_peace]

Lol

[@HotelPapa100]

2:25 going by that argument, penguins are too. They raise their young on land, so during the three month period they are on Antarctica.

[@TheJackdaw77]

That volcano went off...

[@dondoodat]

I would imagine that the largest manmade structure would be marshes we have drained. Maybe even The Netherlands, as without dykes it would be the sea.

[@PeakyBlinder]

11:15 sounds more like the clangers.

[@runswithcows]

So, if I have got this right, the clangers didn't have their own moon.

[@ollieb9875]

They were notorious pirates and interlopers, feared throughout the galaxy for their brutality and fearlessness. 😅

[@babboon5764]

Domingo, the Canary islander famously adopted by Clangers.

[@Skraeling1000]

He spent every lunch break with el dragón de sopa.

[@ArtyMars]

Alan looks so cute in that Yellow Shirt

[@SceneArtisan]

9:30 - Alan,.. nailed it. LOL!! 😂😂

[@paulashe7460]

Great Auk?

[@dougmcmuffin]

“Midge” is pronounced “Midgie” in Scotland

[@iananderson3799]

No. "Midge" is pronounced midge. "Midgie" is the one pronounced midgie.

[@wordreet]

@@iananderson3799 😀🤔

[@ladyi7609]

Except when one Mr. James Ure of Glasgow's family refer to him by his stage name.

[@iananderson3799]

@@ladyi7609 This means nothing to me.

[@geoffsecombe]

@@iananderson3799 increasingly obscure Ultravox reference.

[@herecomesnanna]

Dogs and cats can also smell blood clots. Both smelled something in my leg that disturbed them. I went to the doctor and found I had a mass. It took 15 months to clear. Thanks to my dog and cat.

[@rooty]

Imagine your dog biting your leg and you go to the doctor instead of the vet

[@maryjackson1194]

I'm sure "lick your own forehead" is a euphemism.

[@scottythedawg]

Looks like that information about the volcano was slightly over blown.

[@SpeccyMan]

So the idea for "The Clangers" originated in the Canary Islands. 😁

[@sjorsvanrijswijk358]

Well, the volcano went off, quite fierce, no tsunami though.

[@helenrichmond6373]

Dont forget that that sunami will devastate all of The Caribbean first.

[@susanjames1227]

I absolutely love Phil Jupitus. One of my favourite comedians of all time.

[@SuperSpatman]

"Antarctinder" I'll go now

[@tucosalamanca5194]

Don't come back

[@howardsix9708]

stangely enough, i found this piece of QI quite interesting apart from the usual drivel the series puts us to deat with..................h6...................merry xmas.....................

[@philsheppard532]

That was not a call for Domingo, it was a calling out for the soup dragon.

[@paulgill2042]

I think you mean midgee!

[@rob-art936]

I can’t believe there’s midges in Antarctic, as if it wasn’t bad enough

[@VRDejaVu]

10:50 Azores... cmon!

[@johndaugherty7465]

RE: Antarctica What about the former inhabitants of R'lyeh?

[@trooperdgb9722]

Actually 11 babies have been born in Antarctica...the first in 1978. It all started as a result of a feud between Chile and Argentina...both were trying to claim primacy IN Antarctica..and concluded that having citizens BORN THERE would strengthen their case. The first was born to an Argentinian military captain and his wife.. (she was sent to join him there when 7 months pregnant) Chile responded..Argentina responded and so on... So..January 7, 1978 the birth of Emilio Marcos Palma...first native human " Antarctican " (Hmm..there must be a better word available...lol) All 11 survived BTW.

[@Eccleswaslegendary]

The Clangers are from the Canaries?

[@Kders]

1:11 I think they prefer dwa

[@journeyintococo6996]

Unfortunately, the La Palma volcano prediction didn't come true.

[@zebo-the-fat]

.....yet!

[@chrislongstay]

Some dodgy maths going on there...

[@townview5322]

Apparently, dogs can also smell when a diabetic person in going into seizure - a change in their breath

[@gwaptiva]

Largest man-made structure surely is The Netherlands...

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Not a structure but a system

[@oderalon]

12:16 well, about that...

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

Is a ditch really a structure, though?

[@craigcorson3036]

Stephen, you surprise me. A penguin is an animal, it is larger than a midge by far, and it is native to Antarctica. Where they spend most of their time is irrelevant, they are still native to the land, having hatched there. I spend most of my time in Wisconsin, but I am and shall always be a native of Minnesota, its neighbor to the west.

[@KitagumaIgen]

But crucially not a _land_ animal.

[@craigcorson3036]

@@KitagumaIgen "they are still native to the land, having hatched there."

[@KitagumaIgen]

@@craigcorson3036 Yes, but the question was "what's the biggest native land animal?" Obviously you are correct when you change the question.

[@leonardoferrari4852]

They are marine birds not land animals. Land animals are animals that either live predominantly or entirely on land

[@craigcorson3036]

Science disagrees with you.@@leonardoferrari4852

[@getmetoine]

La Palma did have a volcanic eruption. No Tsunami.

[@MarkLewis...]

Human babies HAVE been born in Antarctica. The first was in 1978, so, the largest land animal (at the time of this taping) native to Antarctica, found all year round... IS humans. Most people differentiate longest from largest.

[@sk31370n]

a volcano in la palma you say?

[@sk31370n]

2:08 there was tinder in prehistoric times?

[@markrowland1366]

Local Benine farmer say, try farming amongst Elephants.

[@Gupp1s]

I wonder how those earthworks, and structures like the great wall of China or the pyramids of Giza, compare in amount of material used/moved to something like the Canadian Pacific Railway or Route 66 in America.

[@josephrankin9406]

It's MIDGIES ... one midgie - lots of midgies.

[@vonn4017]

i live on the eastern seaboard of the USA. im ready....send the wave. my surfboard is waxed

[@savagegardenrox]

Alcatraz is named for birds. And no, this is not a "jailbird" joke.

[@Maya_Pinion]

MyCrotch? Wasn't that the name of Sherlock's brother

[@MikeSmith-ye9ho]

If the couple, but had a date in Antarctica had a baby that was born there, that would probably be the first citizen there is an interesting thought. Perhaps they ought to get busy and make history

[@Dibs1978]

So sad that they were guessing Antarctica before they mentioned Africa.

[@carolynworthington8996]

Dogs can smell COVID-19 too.

[@ems7623]

If trained.

[@Paul7mac]

The original clangers