QI - Wikiquote. QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game shown on BBC Two and BBC Four and was hosted by Stephen Fry, until Series M, now hosted by Sandi Toksvig with permanent panellist Alan Davies. Series One . Geneticists have established that every woman in the world shares a single female ancestor who lived a hundred and fifty thousand years ago. Scientists actually call her . It's also been established, however, that Adam was born eighty thousand years after Eve. So the world before him was one of heavy to industrial- strength lesbianism, one assumes. This is actually true, the researchers were writing this down with great excitement about Burma, only to discover in the end that Burma turned out to be the name of a poodle belonging to the author of the website. Stephen Fry: Now, why..
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Hugh? Hugh Laurie: Yes? Stephen Fry: Why does the actor Edward Woodward have 4 Ds in his name?
What are you doing? John Sessions: I’m sorry! Hugh Laurie: What are you doing? John Sessions: I’m sorry. It was a spasm. Hugh Laurie: He can’t do that! John Sessions: I’ll put it out.
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Just carry on. Alan Davies: Did you know, this is quite interesting.. Stephen Fry: Yes, good.
That’s what we’re here for. Alan Davies: Did you know, kiwi fruit uses more than its own weight in aviation fuel to get from New Zealand to Europe? Stephen Fry: Another 5 points. It sounds mad, but is of course true. Absolutely. Alan Davies: And regarding the Edward Woodward.. Stephen Fry: Yes? Alan Davies: That’s how you spell it!
Stephen Fry: Oh, no, let Hugh.. Poor Hugh. Hugh Laurie: No really, that’s fine. I was gonna say exactly that. It’s got that many Ds in it, cos that’s his name! If you took the Ds out, it would be a different name. Alan Davies: Ewar Woowar! Hugh Laurie: Ewar Woowar.
Stephen Fry: Exactly. It would be Ewar Woowar. It’s a sort of structural device, like a joist, which stops his name collapsing into the sort of spongey mass of Ewar Woowar. Stephen Fry: What would you do with a pencil and a lesser anteater? Alan Davies: Oh, hours of fun. Episode A. 0. 2 ? Jeremy? Jeremy Hardy: Ikea.
Jeremy Hardy: You're basing all this on what Stephen Hawking says, and the fact is, he's subject to interference from minicabs. Alan Davies: I nearly injured myself the other day. Stephen Fry: Oh yes? Alan Davies: I was standing.. Stephen Fry: This is a not quite interesting?
Alan Davies: I was standing at the urinal and it was so high I had to stand on tip toe, and I nearly pulled a muscle in the hamstring area. It must have been a really really lanky plumber who put it up. Stephen Fry: It must have been. Bill Bailey: You were in a giant’s toilet.
Alan Davies: Stumbled into a giant’s loo. Jeremy Hardy: Might have been a fountain. Bill Bailey: It was a font in a church. Alan Davies: It was outdoors..
I resent that. Bill Bailey: I baptise you.. Disgusting. Stephen Fry: How many moons does the earth have? Alan Davies: It has.. I rest my case.? So you're telling me there's a second moon? Stephen Fry: There.. I am! Jeremy Hardy: .
Have they? Alan Davies: Bryan Adams wrote one. Stephen Fry: Oh, please! Bill Bailey: . Not the right answer, another forfeit of 1. I’m afraid. I’m afraid the answer is actually eight. Alan Davies: I’m gonna write them down.
You carry on. Stephen Fry: Alright. Okay. Alan Davies: Mars. Stephen Fry: Yes, Mars is one. Alan Davies: Pluto. Stephen Fry: No.!
It was discovered in the 1. It was the most recent planet to be discovered. Stephen Fry: It was discovered by Clive Tombaugh in 1.
Bill Bailey: It’s a collection of gasses, it’s not actually.. Stephen Fry: It’s not a planet. By no criterion by which planets are judged could Pluto be said.. Alan Davies: It’s really, really big and it goes around the sun! Stephen Fry: Yes, but it’s not really that big at all. It’s tiny. Alan Davies: Well, that’s why it took so long to find!
Don’t be hard on it cos it’s small! Alan Davies: Pluto and Bangkok don’t exist. I’m scared to go out. Alan Davies: Is gay whispers like Chinese whispers. Stephen Fry: Much more fun, I assure you, much more fun. Episode A. 0. 3 . Think about how many people you kill by doing that.
You might just as well go around with a pillow and just clamp them to old lady’s faces. You bastard. Episode A. He was butch, like me! Episode A. 0. 5 ? Disney has the fourth largest flotilla in the world.
Stephen Fry: Good God. They'll be making films next! Alan Davies: How do you spell ribbit? Oh, like that. Stephen Fry: That’s apparently how you spell it. Alan Davies: No, that’s rabbit in New Zealand.
Episode A. 0. 7 . She went to have a smear test and the doctor said, . You've got some precancerous cells, but they're only in one of your vaginas. But it’s more fun to call them redskins.
Stephen Fry: Yes. I wouldn’t try it though, in America. Alan Davies: No. Stephen Fry: You’d have your balls turned into a small purse. Alan Davies: A very big purse, I think you’ll find.
Stephen Fry: What am I thinking? Alan Davies: I’ll have my balls turned into a rucksack. Jackie Clune: It is actually possible for the ball sack to be stretched beyond recognition. Jimmy Carr: By a woman scorned? Alan Davies: I know that the stingray sucks food up from the sea bed.
Stephen Fry: Yeah, it’s more of a fish than an insect. Alan Davies: It can locate and suck up food from a foot below the surface of the sea bed. Stephen Fry: It’s what we in the gay community call a bottom feeder. Alan Davies: Can I be in the gay community?
Stephen Fry: Oh, very well. Alan Davies: Can I be an arthropod and in the gay community? Stephen Fry: It’s a specialist area, but I’m sure there are many websites devoted to it.
Alan Davies: The gay arthropods. Stephen Fry: The gay arthropods. Episode A. 0. 8 . I travelled to Colombia and went to a banana plantation and I was admiring this banana tree said ! They walk up to 4. Stephen Fry: You should read the books. Alan Davies: I don’t have time to read the books.
I haven’t read all yours yet. Stephen Fry: It’s full of interesting stuff. For instance, Bond has these strange ideas, he has this idea that homosexuals can’t whistle, for example.
Alan Davies: Its cos they’ve got cock in their mouth.? Because there's some German chewing gum called Spunk, and, um, you do have to be careful you don't swallow it—but in fact, I actually talked about that chewing gum on Clive James's show with you ! Do you remember? Seriously! Alan Davies: . You've got to sort these out.
Stephen Fry: Who are the Lords of Shouting? Jo Brand and Alan Davies: ? Answer - The Financial Times crossword. Alan Davies: An old lady gave me a Kit Kat recently, and it tasted exactly like old lady’s cupboards. And I looked on the sell by date and it was 1.
Stephen Fry: Oh, bless. Dave Gorman: Are you using the phrase . I beg its appallingly insignificant pardon. Peter Serafinowicz: I never saw American History X, because I didn't see any of the first nine. Stephen Fry: There’s a little bit of Alan in me.
Is there any Alan in you? Rich Hall: No. No. Alan Davies: Do you want some? Episode A. 1. 1 ?
They probably don't even carry donor cards! Stephen Fry: It's in the Bible ? What did you do? Alan Davies: Well, I was fairly stupid about it, because I saw an ant, I thought . And the next day I saw an ant and I thought . They went, . Hoovered them. Hoovered the lot of them. Stephen Fry: No. Episode A.
Now, what did this village provide the whole world with for almost 1. Christmases? Sean Lock: War criminals. Stephen Fry: Oh, dear. Sean Lock: . With a glass of sherry.. Oh, Lord. Sean Lock: Compliments of the season!
Stephen Fry: Did they.. Sean Lock: ? None of them!
I don't sound like that—bahahaaa, bahahaaa ! Coleopterists. I'll give you five points for that.
Alan Davies: Press him on how the hell he knows that. Bill Bailey: Well, when I was a child, I—Stephen Fry: In Alan's world, knowing something is a kind of freakish, weird thing. Bill Bailey: Welcome to my world of knowing! The wonderful world of looking up things in books! Stephen Fry: . She was just very miffed at not being able to marry. Sean Lock: You sound like you’re in a school play then. Well, it has to wrap it round its brain and the back of its eye sockets.
Funnily enough, woodpeckers are very popular on creationist websites, because they argue that this is such an extraordinary creature designed so fit for its purpose, and so on, that only a designer could have made it, it couldn't have evolved. Apart from everything else, when it moves, sometimes up to fifteen or sixteen times a second it beats the wood to make a hole, which is incredibly fast and generates immense forces—two hundred and fifty times more forces than an astronaut is subjected to.
It's a thousand Gs. And it has these extraordinary kind of little muscles and cartilages around its brain to stop it from shattering. Can I be on that? Jo Brand: When I was a teenager, someone I knew gave their dog LSD .
The next Norwegian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest? Best to avoid that one. Stephen Fry: This brings us neatly to our General Ignorance round, in which we ask Alan, is this a rhetorical question? Alan Davies: ? Have you ever met one? Jeremy Clarkson: No it's too complicated, there's three syllables.
Jeremy Clarkson: I went into a brothel on Saturday. Stephen Fry: You heard it here first, folks. Jeremy Clarkson: It's exactly like a motorway service station lavatory. Alan Davies: Bet that was a welcome break. Jeremy Clarkson: Every single one of the 2.
Internet is wrong. Episode B. 0. 5 . I often go to my fridge, . I say, mother, where's the milk? Oh, hello, what have you got here? Jimmy Carr: . That is absolutely wonderful.
He’s used all his letters. Alan Davies: That is unbe- fucking- lievable. It makes sense. They would walk like a robot. It’s an idea. It’s like giving people an idea.
Bill Bailey: It puts this completely to shame. It’s a lovely way to spend an afternoon. Episode B. 0. 6 ? They do sound the same . There have been three more discovered. Alan Davies: Oh, shut up! Episode B. 0. 7 ?
What its derivation is? Coffee cup accompaniment. Stephen Fry: ? Tell the ladies and gentlemen what that is.