HOW? WHO WHY? WHAT?!? Funny QI Questions And FACTS You May NOT KNOW With Stephen Fry 

5:43 for anybody who wants the timestamp

Well it’s all the Toblerones they make

i realize I am kind of off topic but does anybody know a good site to stream newly released movies online ?

@@TrueNubinator Toblerone is supposed to look like the Alps not pyramids

@@realnoahsimpson what is a pyramid if not a smooth mountain?

love it again... ❤

It's possibly my favourite QI segment. How flustered Stephen gets is hilarious.

Smith yeah, I love this one, and the giant tortoise one

Sounds like advice for people who won't wear a mask during a pandemic. "Interferes with your hobby of smelling farts, does it? Go fart in a jar."

@@WalkaCrookedLine You're onto something, I'm sure. Those beaked plague masks from way back when was mostly for social distancing too, wish I had one of those now.

@@basstrammel1322 Funny you should mention this. In college I studied education and languages (German and French, though French I eventually dropped because I didn’t have time) but a big part of our uni’s language curriculum was medieval history, culture, and literature. My friend from the French program was so obsessed with those masks that he bought himself a replica of the entire costume. He wore it once at the beginning of COVID jokingly, back before we knew just how serious and bad it was going to get.

@@simsandsurgery1 I have one myself now, got it as a gag gift for christmas. Not onlo does one look frightening, but I can see how it would help. Like a half-mask, so to speak.

I was overthinking it and thought maybe he meant financial pyramid schemes or something ...

I lived and worked in Bern in Switzerland in the 1980s just a few minutes away from the Toblerone factory and my first flat was shaped like a Toblerone. It followed the contours of the building which made it triangular. At one end was quite a big lounge/bedroom. In the next part of the triangle was a small kitchen, and at the end (at the point of the triangle) was a tiny toilet and sit up bath. Everyone who saw the flat immediately said "Toblerone!" 😁 When I saw the episode with JImmy Carr it took me back a few years.

Aw, I think he does a good job keeping out of the entertainment world people who think they can perform but can't.

@@rosiefay7283 he’d do well to keep himself out then. He’s responsible for some of the worst groups and acts out there

My guess, is that it's such a bizarre, and obviously wrong, answer.

Another unfortunate one: Genetics has an enormous number of genes and proteins they need to keep tabs on, so names get silly sometimes and it generally doesn't matter. Except that one codes a protein that is implicated in quite a range of cancers, tooth and tissue development called 'Sonic Hedgehog' Two related proteins are called indian hedgehog and desert hedgehog, but neither are nearly as important as the vidya nom de plume.

@@Ravaxr unfortunate?

@@diogeneticist3585 It means doctors have to talk about a range of cancers, which are very heavy, serious conversations shortly after what can easily be the worst news in someone's life. When they inevitably have to talk genetics, they find out that the gene that is involved is called the 'sonic hedgehog' gene. Leads to thoughts about the doctor being flippant or joking about what really is serious. There have been talks about changing the name.

Me too! May I ask; do you also loath Sandi, and despise every second she spoils with her pathetic presence? 🤣

scientists name things after pop culture all the time. Theres a species of parasitoid wasp called Xenomorphia named after the xenomorph (from Alien) as well, due to similar life cycle lets say

The thagomizer is named after the late Thag Simmons, isn't it?

These are perfectly cromulent words.

@@0ldFrittenfett poor Thag. He will be missed

Created on The Simpsons ? But they're both perfectly cromulent words.

Wrong. I'm pretty sure that those words predate The Simpsons. Wasn't it Jabidah Springfield who said, 'the noblest spirit embiggens the smallest man' back in the 1700s?

laughter is the best medicine after all

Me to! lol

Wow, you re a superhuman!

No you can't, you just didn't have your other finger flat enough down.

Absolutely!! If your comment wasn't here, I would have made one. The collective noun for baboons is a troop of baboons.

Thanks for this piece of information. So they were supposed to say 'skeletal muscle' instead?

But don't move the fingers.....yeah thanks boffin. For nothing

Skilled pianists have independent strength in every finger. As a teenager, I was shown the exercises for improving finger strength for piano. Unfortunately, I was too lazy to do them.

@@marvinmeeker5765 you are strengthening muscles but doesnt mean they have to be in the finger

There’s no evidence that pyramids were used as tombs apart from the pyramid texts, which name the king buried inside the pyramid and describe what he should do in the afterlife. Oh, and the occasional sarcophagus with mummy remnants inside. Look up Saqqara and the Pyramid of Unas for more information.

@@MsWonderBunny that’s the problem with text, you can never tell whether someone is expressing sarcasm or not

no the same guests, and some guests are not so interesting and just play the ol' gay/ethnic card often without much success at humour. There are loads of stephans guests i wonder what happened to them richard hull, some short guy with a beard

You also can't curl your pinky without also moving your ring finger due to interconnected tendons.

@@RavaxrI’m learning so much about my own fingers today

You're a wizard, Harry

I can independently move my ring fingers as well and I have pretty significant arthritis. Typists do this all the time.

@@dianahockins717 And pianists and those who play wind instruments.

I think he probably meant in general, like if you were to try in an experiment. But yes you're right that is an instance of water being compressed.

We have them in our own languages...

I couldn’t agree more

I never found it annoying, quite the opposite

His laugh is annoying and I don’t find him funny either, so for me there’s not much left with him.

Oh yeah, it’s totally forced and unnatural. I don’t usually have a problem with him otherwise though.

@@MerkhVision Yes. Sometimes he laughs naturally and it's pretty much a normal laugh.

If no one used it correctly, everyone was actually using it correctly. Language is defined by usage.

They didn't remove it. They just updated its definition. And that was in 2011.

But at the time it’s not isolated like how was demonstrated. So it’s not rubbish at all.

It's true, go back to bed.

My mum always said I was anything but average...

Red dragon? Oh jeez! Ruuuuuun!

uncle jemima ....of Cawdor? There’s a Tarzan joke in there somewhere too

That is how it's pronounced tho

Who cares really....its a pronunciation of a word... both are right.

All of those and more have been used and are accepted.

No.....jesus

No. Why would we?

@@DerekHartley Because the abbreviation "meth" is derived from "methane", which you pronounce "meethane".

Well no, meth is short for methamphetamine which is certainly not pronounced meeth-amphetamine.

@@DerekHartley The prefix meth comes from methyl, an alkyl radical CH3 derived from methane.

Well lucky for you we invented the English language so it seems you are uneducated :)

Oh look, somebody thinks they are clever. How jolly. Shame they appear ignorant of the fact that the pronunciation of many words differ from country to country and even region to region, and these different pronunciations are neither (ooh, that's a good word with two ways of saying it!) incorrect or correct, and are based on a complex interplay between etymology, chance and tradition, rather than rigid rules. However, if this is truly their first awakening to this curious phenomenon, all I can say is buckle up, kid, you're in for a wild ride.

He left of his own volition and isn't coming back. No matter how many times you make the same comment on this compilation.

@@decodolly1535 Bring Stephen back!

Zeh-bra is how it is pronounced. It's how the word is pronounced in Africa. North America's is the incorrect pronunciation.

Not our fault you guys can't speak properly.

@@JoRiver11 In “Africa”? 🙄 Because the entire continent’s people all speak the same language

@@78625amginE When English is being spoken. Get over yourself.

I mean I love QI. It's a great show.

😛😜😝

No, it's a 'troop'

It's the producers of this show..

I would have thought it's brain dead and evil liberals

Ben Williams ‘evil’, you sound ridiculous. I swear conservatives sound like cartoon villains and village idiots...

Delicate do you want to make another comment on this video about how much you hate it, or have you decided to do something more productive with you boring life?

Stephen went because he didn't like doing it anymore.. Why do you want to make him unhappy?

Sandi > Stephen X2

I would like to see Stephen as a panellist during an entire episode. Would he come in first place? We may never know.