I
Was which is quite appropriate as I have four guests or you know five if I include myself on the one hand here's
Aisling be two ways about it. It's David Mitchell
Sixes and sevens Alan Davis their buzzers for Aisling goes
David goes into that thing. That was someone singing five. Okay
And Alan goes one is about quadrupeds name a quadruped that can't swim my mom
From any thoughts about Nish's mother being on all four
Appreciate it. So quadrupeds now Sandy. I feel like this relies on everybody knowing what that word means. So quad
for and ped
Hello
Four feet you totally knew it and your mother has four feet. I'm four feet
Is that the answer so we're more in the animal world people we're not in the Kumar household at all
They all float don't they well when they're dead
Yeah, they're floating to the surface eventually when all the stomach juices start to decompose
Bob up then but is that really swimming?
David cheerful Mitchell
Float because of the air in their life. It's only when the lungs fill with water
So unless you can't keep your breathing passages above the wall, you're right. What might not be an elephant
All the animals probably the most likely to be able to inbuilt snorkel
It could so easily been a blue whale had it had any feet at all
So the elephant is rather a brilliantly evolved in fact to be able to swim because it possibly that was a snorkel the trunk
Yeah, that's that's someone got excited in the pool
Giraffe is exactly the right answer that way
Nobody has ever seen a giraffe swim
but there were two academics called Darren Nish and Don Henderson and they decided by careful computer modeling to test out whether a giraffe can
Swim and they concluded that giraffes would float but not swim and actually if they did swim they'd be particularly bad at it
So look at this
So here's the problem is that giraffes have these really heavy bony heads
So if all four legs of a giraffe were to leave the bottom of the river the giraffes hips would float
Higher than the shoulders and they would float downwards. So now what's going to happen with the head?
Yeah, it's gonna go under the water. So it's got to crick its neck back like this
So a giraffe to be able to swim would have to be in this position
So the conclusion by the scientists is
Giraffes would be very poor swimmers and that it might be assumed they would avoid this activity if at all possible
Could it not do a backstroke?
I think that's worse probably
So now you're having to be like this
Oh wow
You like the look of that Nish
Goodness me, listen, if you've got a long neck use it
It looks like me when I was a teenager
The other creatures that have difficulties with giraffes
The other creatures that have difficulties with me are apes, how do they know apes have difficulties with planet of the apes films
Is one way you never see them never say I'm sorry planet of the apes
Scientists were not sure if apes could swim. So they just dropped them in water
There was a guy called William Hornaday
He was the founder of Bronx Zoo and he had an orangutan pet which he called old man
and he just dropped it in some water and he said I watched him sink and go stiff and
There was an American animal behaviorist called Robert Yerkes. He similarly submerged young chimpanzees to see what happened
He says without exception they struggled excitedly and quickly sank. Oh my god
I know that's why you have moats around the enclosure with the apes because they don't want to swim
What about camels anybody? What are the humps gonna do? Are they gonna be buoyant?
Probably camels are the descendants of giraffes who learned to swim
Because their lungs went up their back and their heads started to go like this
They bring me on here for the big
Series of blue planet to be presented by you
Giraffes are just camels
Some camels come there's an Indian breed called Karai as soon as the swimming camel of Gujarat hippos
More bounce than swim imagine that this is now a hippo and they go like this along
Along the bottom and they can stay underwater for about five minutes. They kill a lot of people don't they hippos?
Yeah, it goes are hungry hungry
I'm gonna give you the giraffe as a prize
I went to the zoo once in India and I had two white tigers very spectacular sight
And they had a moat around them and then a fence and we thought well, thank goodness there's a moat
Yeah savage and then they both got in and swam across the moat
Don't think of cats as being swimmers, but all domestic cats can swim just mostly can't be bothered. Well, they don't like it
No, they don't like it. My cats hated it in the bar
Well, they fell in
I
Still like the bar for hours as it was against the wall
So the side of the bath on my right was very very slim ledge
Really for a sea bird or something
One of the cats could go along that ledge in the little paw work and the other cat just couldn't do that
One day decided he was gonna give it a go
And I'll say to don't you can't do that just get back
And he went like that and then he just fell straight in
He clawed up my legs
Then there was this blood and fur in the bar
And I've got out to see if he was all right and all of his fur had gone down
Then he's just a tiny skeleton with wet fur on the massive eyes
I
Put him in a towel and put him on top of a radiator I
Absolutely love the idea that you talk to your cats like that and they reply in your voice
You don't want to do that. I'll give it a go
Babies do babies have an innate ability to swim. What do we reckon? No, what's the audience think?
No, they drown can I just say do not do this it is not true a lot of people say it though
Because we're all evolved from fishes
You still sort of think you're a fish. So it's all fine
I think this Nirvana album had a lot of responsibility for this idea. It's not true babies
Do naturally hold their breath but do not put them in the water. They do not have an innate ability
Giraffes would find swimming a pain in the neck, but are elephants any good at drawing?
Yeah, there was that elephant who could pain. Yes that him
Yeah, yeah, well actually that is an elephant with a paintbrush stuck up its nose
There's an art gallery in Thailand that features a permanent display of paintings by elephants
But this is actually about another sense of drawing. Is it pulling along? It is pulling along exactly right?
It's a pulling along a chariot a Roman general's triumph involved his riding in a quadriga
So a quadriga anybody know what a quadriga is for a four-wheeled
Chariot one elephant. Okay, so it's four creatures pulling a quadriga
So usually it was four horses and they would pull them through a triumphal gate an archway of some kind
So Pompey the Great's first triumph 79 BC. He thought totally gonna overshadow everybody
I'm gonna have four elephants to pull my quadriga to reflect the fact that his victory was in Africa
He got to a Kate. What was the problem too wide? Yeah, couldn't get through
He had the embarrassment of having to get down while they swapped the elephants over for horses
They have one of those things, you know when they say no lorry is over
But the quadriga is an amazing it was kind of the formula one car if you like of its day
I remember the film Ben Herr Oh for in a line. Yeah for in a line. It's a wonderful film
It's a 1959 has some of the most outstanding anachronisms in movie history
There are modern books despite the fact that binding was about a thousand years away
There's a shot of the Sistine Chapel
About fifteen hundred years before it was painted
Also, I'd like a lot of films of that era
Jesus was a white guy. Yeah, yeah as opposed to somebody looks like me
Nike the winged goddess of victory is not normally depicted riding a quadriga her famous phrase was just do it
Why was important for women the quadriga to have four horses? It's a really interesting part of sporting history
What do we know about the early Olympics and women there weren't any there weren't any women were not allowed
except in the capacity of horse owners or trainers the very first female Olympic winner was a Spartan princess called
Siniska and she won the quadriga races in
396 and 392 BC women were not allowed to participate
They weren't even allowed to watch but as a trainer she was the winner
She's the very first female Olympian why but she probably never saw the race. My mother is a retired jockey
That's not a joke
Yeah, I grew up in a like a really horsey town where everyone is a jockey or a stable hand
I got together with Nisha's mother who goes around
She is gonna be like this is one of the few programs I do she watches anyway, she's gonna be absolutely livid
She's honored new
She always says that when she won they'd say the horse was very fast and if she lost they say well
You shouldn't put women on horses in the first place Wow
Anybody think of statues of quadriga that we see on modern-day monuments anywhere around one down near Westminster Bridge with
Boudicca on it. I don't think it's a quadriga. I think it's just two horses that one the Wellington arch at Hyde Park corner
So there we are Wellington arch the Act of Triumph and the Brandenburg gate all have quadriga on top of them
And where might you see the only one which survives from antiquity?
I'm gonna take a shot in the dark here Rome
Venice st. Mark's Basilica not the one that you see outside. It's actually inside but that is the only one there's this thing of it
When Venice
Basically attacked Constantinople. It was supposed to be a crusade to go and attack the Holy Land
But in fact the crusade attacked Constantinople instead and took a lot of
Constantinople's goodies back to Venice and I think a couple of things were from the big chariot racing
Circus Maximus place. Well quadriga racing was such a huge deal in Roman times. So circus maximums
150,000 spectators. So Alan how big is Wembley? 90,000
Yeah, so nice that you'd imagine you'd think how big Wembley is and you think of those people who went along to the quadriga
Racing you have to understand it's quite long the Circus Maximus, isn't it? Yeah, it's longer than this
Right, I love the detail Circus Maximus was bigger than that
Closest thing to a chariot race these days. There is one famous race that takes place. Actually, it's twice a year the wheelbarrow
All right, but we're not going past my mother's
It's in Siena it is the paleo horse race in Siena they go through the town
Unbelievably exciting. It's around the central square of this historic city
And it's very like quadriga racing because it is de rigueur for the riders to hinder each other to bribe the opponents
Pretty much as they please the whips. They're made of dried distended bulls penises
And they use them not just on the horses, but on each other
And the winner is the first horse over the line whether or not the jockey has come with him
I think that would be an interesting take on the Grand National because quite often a horse
unhampered by a human being
Sort of thing in many ways we're holding them back
Let them run
Look like jockeys except the guy in the blue in the middle. Yeah, who looks like he's the victim of a drunken prank
He was on a stag do and then he's just woken up and gone
And there's no saddles so they're going bareback, yeah
It's a bit like the Amish in that they limit the technology they're allowed. They're not allowed the whips
They've got to be bulls penises. They can't be and I mean got a dick slapping each other
Whips
Some old Italian man
Whittling away at like a big knob until he gets his town. Well, I do this for a long time a long time
It's my only job once a year. I'm important in the town. I make a little dick whips
Is it honest there's leaving
You're like the sort of the rogue fifth member of the dolmio family
The length of the which is dependent on the weather depends on how many sexing cows of
Dispute the fact that these bulls penises would still display aroused
And dried I'm sure mine wouldn't
Never know David as we were
Barely functioning and it's still attached
Okay, let's move on
They're a lot tamer here. The only people who race around the square in this country are students on foot
You know like that scene in Chariots of Fire where they race around the square in the middle of the college, you know
Oh, yeah, come on audience
Quad okay
I believe you fell for that. Yeah
Audience you guys suck
It's a curiosity about Cambridge all quadrangles are called courts
Apart from the court of Downing College, which is a quad and the race depicted that one in Chariots of Fire
It takes place annually around anybody know which court is it?
Cambridge College
It's quad the event they're depicting suppose it takes place at Trinity College, but they filmed it at Eaton
They did film it at Eaton and a quadrangle at Eaton is not called a quad either it's called a yard
And these are the people who will one day be in charge of the government interesting
So the real-life race is against the clock
It's a 370 meter course and they have to get around in the time
It takes the clock to strike 12 depending on when it was last wound could be 43 could be 44 seconds
There used to be a similar tradition that MPs and House of Commons staff would attempt to run across Westminster Bridge at noon
During the time it took Big Ben to strike 12, so that's 353 meters
They have to do it in less than 46 seconds
The very first person to do it was a Commons tea room worker called Florence
I lot on April the 14th 1934. She was aged 20. There she is. Oh, wow
I love this picture because Big Ben is still got scaffolding
The speed required is it's only about 17 miles per hour as opposed to modern championship sprint speed
Which is about 28 miles per hour, but she completed the feat with time to spare
She actually made it by the 10th chime and I am delighted to tell you that her son and grandson are with us in the
Spot it was astonishing because her 400 meter time. It wasn't far off the world record at the time
Is that right? Well, apparently yeah, we don't really know quite where she started and where she finished
But she was pretty bloody fast by the looks of it
Just carry on like it has commons or what happened to her she was an amateur runner
That's what she did in a spare time and she met her future husband
My granddad his dad while running but it was amateur days, of course
So they didn't make any money out of it. They've been prizes canteens of cutlery and things like that
That would be fine on this show
This is nothing to do with anything but you and I have worked together have we not yes
I was a question setter on 15 to 1 you set about 2,000 questions for me a bastard
I
Happened when the quadra punctate Gribble went to the seaside
Is quadra punctate Gribble one of the more obscure Harry Potter character?
Certainly sounds like it belongs in an Edward Leopold doesn't it? Yeah doctor's use book now come on quadra punctate
So just break it down punctate would be a work of art done by a punk
Yes
Four punk four essentially, it's just sprayed no
But I love your thinking so it is a wood boring creature and a big
It's horrible. And basically when it went to the seaside it at Yarmouth Pier
It has four holes or punctures in its thorax it is apparently well known to
Colleopterists what our collieopterists people who study absolutely disgusting shit
Some people like to call them beetle specialists
There is also thing called a try punk date and they're easily confused with the quadra punctate because they sometimes have a rogue
Fourth hole, but they're not actually quite. I mean, I'm sorry
Never get it the other way around you never get a quadra punctate with only three holes
I mean, this is extraordinary right how much I know about this
I
Was the one that try punk tape try punk that occasionally has four holes. It's a rogue for rogue trying about it's
Pretending to be a quadra punctate. What is the difference?
once we
Between a rogue try punctate. Yes, and a true quadra punctate. Why does anyone think it matters?
I
Said in this quadra punctate cost the Isle of Wight over four hundred thousand pounds because but not just the one there were lots of them
Yeah, it y'all must be it's not a English
The voice of brexit Britain
They were brought here on ships from other countries, oh fuck
Let's have a look at some other quads and quins. What do you think this quintet of words mean?
Pick any one at random
Well a Quincy if a onesie is a one outfit a Quincy must be five outfits on at once
You can choose any five pieces randomly and you've got yourself a Quincy
I would have two gloves two socks and a little hat on my knob
Temporary accommodation if I'm completely frank with you a tent it's a sort of igloo
But what you do is you make it by simply a hollowing snow out an actual igloo is in the most astonishing architectural feat
Because it's the only domed building in the world
Which is built without a structure to support it during its construction
Um, but sometimes you don't need long-term accommodation
You just need to protect yourself and what you do is you hollow out snow and that is called a Quincy
The word is actually an indigenous word from northwestern Canada and Alaska, but that is a Quincy
Let's go back to our list Nish, want to pick one out darling?
Quincunks it's to do with die or dice a five-sided dice
So it's the layout of the five on the dice one in each corner and one in the middle
Often used actually as a pattern for planting trees in an orchard Quincunks. Looks like it's a shape modeled on my Quincy
I'm not saying the scale is the same just the general pattern
Yeah, what's upsetting is every time I play with dice now, that is what I'm getting
We've got a four and I've got a David Mitchell
Let's go back to our list quid nunk quid nunk, what do you reckon quid money nunk none
Bankruptcy, I am quid nunk sadly
Well, it is a word that was used particularly in the 18th century it describes an unnecessarily inquisitive person it's Latin for what now
It's really a gossip for quid nunk, but it's good. It's good expression. Isn't it? What have we got left?
Alan Quinn at or it's a five-legged
Five-horned it is exactly right is a five-horned
Deleted scene from the shape of water
Five-horned aquatic monster was supposed to be the father of Merovich who was the founder of the Frankish Merovingian
Dynasty only mentioned once in all of history. He is punching above his waist
There was a guy called Frigar who wrote a history of the francs in the seventh century ad
But otherwise this particular character is entirely lost to history. So it seems to have been this guy's entire fantasy
I love how sort of like oh
What now the fisher?
That's fish all over isn't it though? Yeah, have you ever seen a fish really look impressed?
I've never seen a fish point something out in wonder. No, they're so fucking blase
Okay, well and that's your q vocabulary, uh suitably quintupled
But which do you fancy being quartered with your grandparents or impaled with your other half?
What you reckon is it a family tree question sort of why do you say that well because you've got four grandparents
It's to do with heraldry is the truth of it heraldic convention if you're going to create your own symbol
Yeah, do it in combination with your other half or
With your family exactly that you're on fire today. Whoa
I thought it was going to be something to do with torture
Like would you like to be quartered with your grandparents like a form of old torture?
Like game of thrones ease or something like that game of thrones ease game of thrones
That's what I would
Learning oh
Oh my god something happened and go that's gonna be a gif
So
It's a heraldic convention quartering whereby arms inherited from different ancestral lines are combined into a single coat of arms
This is the one like in the royal coat of arms. It's divided into quarters
It implies that it's divided into four
But there's no theoretical limit to the number of quarters that you can display if you have enough what's called armiderous forebears
It is possible to have all of the elements of your family put into one shield
So in the 18th century the marquis of buckingham he achieved 719 quarters on a single
Shield, I mean looks like a mosaic doesn't it is absolutely looks like a magic eye picture
So the fourth thing that you're talking about darling when it's split into four quadrants
They are called quarters and the arms they contained are called quarterings
But a shield can have as many quarterings as you can quarter it and quarter it and quarter it as you are entitled to
So impalement which was the other one is when a married couple's coat of arms are displayed side by side on a single shield
And by convention the husband's side is the dexter side anybody know which side that is dexter the right it is the right
But it is from the point of view of the knight. It's exactly my darling
Yes extra points to you. It is entirely on the point of view of the person who is actually holding it
Does anybody know what the one on the right might be? Why might you have one that looks like that?
When you've got a couple of wives exactly, right? Is that right? Yes
Oh
At the same time first wife goes on top
Always always
Cause the shots in the bedroom and the grave
So did henry the eighth have one with the stripes why just stripes on the air stripes all the way through
Hanging off it
The college of arms have now updated it and they have same-sex married couples shields as well
It's all a very modern did it all come from having to show what?
The team in the army you were from
Again, that's probably uh terminology. You're not okay with but it's definitely real and nice
Okay
Well, I have the very person who can answer this question for us. We have in the audience the clarenceau king of arms
patrick dickinson
Patrick, thank you so very much for coming in. Why why did it start? Why do we have?
Actually, it's absolutely right
It's because if knights were in armor and you couldn't see who they were the shield told you right and how many are you though?
The kings of arms three in england one in scotland, right four all together
No, there are people who say this is an extraordinary waste of public funds
Do you mind me asking how much you get paid to be the clarenceau king of arms?
And we're not supporting public funds at all. Fantastic. We get salaries from the crown, right which were last increased in 1620
I
Am paid 20 pounds 25 pence by the queen and that is the level to which it was reduced
By william the fourth in the 1830s. You haven't had a pay rise since no
What's like your daily like you get up have your coffee
Check your emails put on your arms like what's your day?
Then do I put on all that kit? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah nice set about designing coats of arms tracing family trees
What's the weirdest thing you've had as a request?
Go on is it by any chance from a d mitchell and it's a penis with a hat on it
It's a urinal on a 60 but a urinal in the sense of a doctor's
Flask and footballs footballs have appeared. I I put one in elton john's coat of arms. That's fantastic
Yeah, it is a real honor to have had the clarenceau king of arms here
Now since we're talking about quads and queens here's a question on multiple births
What's the best way to avoid paying income tax in hungary?
Don't work in hungary
It is in general the most fail-safe way of avoiding income tax avoid income. Yeah
Look at that building, isn't it stunning? It's the parliament in budapest
But the quickest way at present to achieve income tax exemption is to have quadruplets
What I know so february 2019 the prime minister victor auburn announced that women who have four or more children
Will be permanently exempted from income tax. Why might he decide to do this?
I feel like there's probably a not particularly fun answer to this that it's about getting more and more hungarians
It's about immigration. They don't want immigrants. Yeah, they're trying to repopulate with real hungarians. Isn't that a thing?
Essentially encouraging breeding as an act of racism. Yeah
I don't think if I moved to hungary and managed to produce four kids, he'd be thrilled. He wouldn't be delighted
You don't have to have them all at the same time, which is good because having quads
What's like winning the lottery in humans the odds against having twins in a natural birth are 89 to 1 for triplets
It's seven thousand nine hundred and twenty one to one. So 89 squared for quads. It's
704 thousand nine hundred sixty nine to one so it's 89 cubed doesn't the likelihood go up
Through ivf and stuff like that. Yeah, this is a sort of rule of thumb. It's called helen's law
It is just to do with the natural childbirth and natural conception. So looking at that
The best route would be just not to declare all of your income
Can I just say that having quadruplets so much easier for the boy have a look at this picture
She's had four children and he's having a cigar
That's stephen fry
So while we're on the subject what was the toronto stork derby
Is it a race with stalks delivering babies? Yes. Yes
So this was a multi-birth contest in ontario in 1936
It was described by the province's premier mitchell hepburn as the most revolting and disgusting exhibition ever put on
In a civilized country what happened was there was a great guy I think called charles miller
He was a lawyer was a financier
He was a practical joker and he had nobody to leave his money to and so he stated in his will
That whoever could have the most babies in 10 years could have his money
Um, great. Yeah, it attracted a huge amount of interest because some of his investments made a lot of money
It was a huge fortune his $100,000 estate turned into a
$750,000 fortune by the end of the race and mothers went crazy
You could you only have 10 maxo surely or like 10 and one on the way
No, if you have multiples if you have twins, you could have six two, but it's 10 times you got 60
So that woman who looks frankly exhausted
Was one of the contestants who had 13 children five women had 56 babies between them
We don't know how many of those were multiple births and in the end the pot was eventually split four ways
With two consolation prizes for women who had been disqualified
Women who've been what what did they get disqualified for maybe they'd adopted
I've adopted 700
Some of the babies were illegitimate and so disqualified
What yeah, that's harsh. He was a great prankster charles miller
He left brewery shares to a prohibitionist campaigning group
On condition that they actually ran the business
Race course shares to anti-gambling clerics
And he left a holiday home in jamaica to three men who hated each other on condition. They all lived in it together indefinitely
The toronto stalk derby the most disgusting exhibition ever well until now it's time for general ignorance
What's your normal temperature?
Isn't it lower if you're a woman than a man slightly higher for a woman slightly higher. Yeah, it was one of the other wasn't it?
Yes
Because you know, there's that stereotype of like turn up the heating but i'm too hot babes
It is an issue that office temperatures are set to male averages. Yeah, supposed to female averages
Do you know a fact about christine lagarde who's ahead? I don't know any facts about christine lagarde
Well, you're about to bloody get one sunday, let's swap chairs
Do you want some cards? Yeah, no, that's got all the answers on here
Of course the interesting about christine lagarde that she used to do was um
I'm trying to get through the fact
She went she'd go into business meetings would put on a lot of layers for the meeting
And turn down the heating so it'd be freezing cold and they'd all be shivering so they'd make a deal quicker
Yes, or sometimes she'd turn up the heating really hot and she'd come in in like a a small dress
And the men would get really sweaty and then they'd they'd try and hurry
It has often been said 98.6 is a sort of normal temperature
If you're
97.6 is most recently dead
Uh, it turns out there's no single value for normal
There was a study in 1868 by a german doctor with the wonderful name of carl reinhold august vanderleck
He had a thermometer that was a foot long
Put it on a people's armpits and it took 20 god
It took 20 minutes to actually assess what the temperature was and it turns out his the thermometer
Which has been recently retested had been calibrated wrong
And it ran about three degrees higher in fahrenheit than a modern thermometer
And the fact that he took it under the arm which produces readings that are lower and less reliable than temperatures taken orally
Uh, so he was working with errors in both directions basically. It's no wonder he settled entirely on the wrong answer
So there he is there is a picture of an idiot
Well actually you you were inadvertently possibly closest the average actually comes out at about 97.7
You said 97.6. So I think you should get another point with that
So you've each got a way of measuring temperature beside you there so
Let's see which one we think is the most
Reliable niche. What have you got?
I've got a i've got a i've got a sort of piece of paper
Yeah, do you know how those work that was that up the butt?
Well, good luck with that
They're all happy to wait
Does it go on the good on the forehead now? Yeah, why might that not be ideal?
Oh because heat rises to the top. So your head's the hottest part of you
No
I genuinely thought you were going to go. Yes, everyone's gonna go. Ooh
And it just didn't happen at all
So here's the thing. It's measuring the temperature of your skin and not your body
So similarly if you put it on your scrotum, that would be wrong
The reason men have a scrotum is it's deliberately to keep the balls a bit cooler than the rest of the body
Yes
I did not know that a better way would be to design
Testicles in a way that it can be at the same temperature as the rest of the body
But it was in some way fudged
I know it's fine to have them in a disgusting flesh bag
That's workable for a few hundreds of thousands of years
I love that we've agreed on disgusting flesh bag
You know, the isle of white is only 7 000 years old
Are you saying
Are you saying it's like the scrotum of english
Below kept slightly cooler by the water. I wouldn't like to say that to the people on the island
Come back
Uh actually what have you got darling? I have one of these little lads. Where would you put that ear?
No, it would go under your tongue. Why do I go under the tongue over the tongue underneath?
The tongue is full of blood vessels. It's almost as accurate as your rectal area
Listen sometimes it pays to get here early
It's the first time i've heard a rectal area described as accurate
I've got this it's your ear. Yeah, i've accidentally turned it on. It currently says 35.5 which seems very high for the air
That's just it's hot in here. I said, oh, I thought it was just my age
Shall I pop it in? Yes, go see what your temperature is. You can hear the sea apparently as well
yours my darling is actually a garden thermometer, but um
We couldn't get rectal thermometers because they don't really allow them anymore. Why might that be
too fun
Very dangerous you forget you put it in then you sit down and it reappears out of your mouth
Shards of glass when they break mercury
Unbelievable, what is your temperature? It says 36.1 which considering it's 35.5 in the room
Pretty cool. Here's the easiest question ever. What city are we looking at here?
here
Westminster
Uh, yes
The city of westminster, uh, there's also another city in london. What is the other city in london london?
It is the city of london. So the yes
Wow good to be that excited
We have the city of london, which is the financial district but greater london is actually a ceremonial county
Rather than a city and so the conurbation which we call london it contains two cities. It is not itself
Officially a city. Uh, what is the difference however between a city and a town?
Well, it used to be that cities had cathedrals
There's somebody obviously in the gallery can't hear the phrase it used to be
The city has a multiplex and anandos
Anandos
It's a purely honorific thing it's granted by the sovereign by lettuce payton
Um, and it has nothing to do with whether you have a cathedral there are now 18 cities without a cathedral
There are 16 towns that have cathedrals, um, but are not cities
And lastly here's a quadrilateral is this shape?
a
a square
a rectangle and an oblong or b
A square and a rectangle but not an oblong
Or c an oblong and a square but not a rectangle or d a triangle
Who's whispering in the audience
B
She sounds like she knows
Yeah, you like that. Yeah your surname you want to go with it. Yeah, i'm bling b please b please is absolutely right
Well done to the audience. Oh what?
Is defined as a quadrilateral with four right angles and a square complies with that definition
So a square is a rectangle. I mean, it's a special kind of rectangle. It has four sides of the same length
But an oblong is defined as a rectangle, which is specifically not a square
So the square in our picture is a square and a rectangle but not an oblong
Well, I think strictly speaking that point ought to go to the audience. Yeah
Which brings me to the quinquadrily business of the scores. Let's see what kind of shape they are in
In first place the winner fair and square with minus four is david
The second place with minus five alan
And seven ashley
With minus eight the audience
And in last place i'm afraid it's back to square one with minus 18 nish
And that exhausts the possibilities of quads and queens for tonight
So it's thanks to ashling nish david and alan and I leave you with this quote about quads
In 1851 charles calverley was showing some visitors around balial college oxford
This is balial college he announced as he led them through the front quad
This is the master's lodgings. He continued waving at the building
He then bent down picked a stone from the path and held it through a nearby window
And that he said pointing to the man screaming at them through the shattered glass is the master himself