I got the “add water” one with just that first Mogwai clue. 5 points. I can die happy. EDIT: Oh my God I got the Romeo and Juliet one by the first clue as well. Finally, I’m getting something after so many episodes of just staring dumbly at the screen.
Only ever got 2 five pointers on Rd 1 - one was about Pugachev's Cobra and the other was Green North (Belfast's Westminster's seats). Elsewise I'd be pointless. . . . .
So am I, just shows history was not a subject any of them took serious at school. I was 27 years old when I saw this episode air in 2012 and I knew it was King George VI straight away. Daisy saying she thinks it was Monty in their conferring made be wince.
@@johnking5174 they made a film about his stammer and how he got through his infliction to make speeches, what more do the people need to learn something today.
@@653j521 That was epically rubbish, I agree. The only mitigation I can offer is that people were more used to seeing him face-on, with his rather distinctively bulging eyes...
It's a ball game played on a table, where you hit a white ball, the cue, with the intention of pocketing reds (worth 1 point) followed by a colour until all the reds are gone and then you pot the colours in sequence. Yellow is worth 2, green 3, brown 4, blue 5, pink 6, black seven. If you pot read black consistently you get the 147 'perfect break' score, i.e. the highest score attainable
The deaths of Romeo and Juliet occur in a sequence of compounding stages: first, Juliet drinks a potion that makes her appear dead. Thinking her dead, Romeo then drinks a poison that actually kills him. Seeing him dead, Juliet stabs herself through the heart with a dagger. Sorry for being pedantic.
We're not used to words ending in _ku,_, in the English language, I suppose? Everything tends to be: Casino, Bingo, Yoyo, Domino, Lotto, Polo. English speaking people also get the _stress_ wrong - it's a long stressed first syllable, and then a short second and third: _SOO_ -do-ku
"The Washington Post" (Sousa march) is named for Washington, DC -- not the State of Washington. Granted, the solution was "States of the U.S." and not, strictly speaking, "Songs about States of the U.S." Still bugs me.
The state of Washington is in the pacific north west and includes the great city of Seattle, a beautiful city to go to. Also right next to the border with Canada, with the city of Vancouver not far. Washington DC is on the west coast and is part of the District of Columbia
Prince Philip 'gaffe': "You went to Papua New Guinea and you managed not to get eaten." But.... this is true of the Korowai tribe... so why is this a 'gaffe'?
Only Connect was not made or broadcast in HD quality in 2012, in fact they only revamped their production in 2014 when they moved from BBC 4 to BBC 2. They also moved studios at the same time, with improved picture quality and a rebuilt set.
Difference between V Corren And Stephen Fry, Corren thinks she is clever cos she has the answers (like she knew it already) S Fry DID know the answers and MORE
As Alan Davies once said about QI, "Stephen has a card with the answers, a teleprompter and an earpiece for people telling him things." And as Stephen himself has said that he gets to the studio hours before QI is recorded and goes through the questions and answers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0B1kiUzkcto.html
Stephen Fry has told stories as though he was present, when they are in books I read decades before. I would bet he had read them, too. One was the QI story about a Cockney saying, I'm not antiseptic (anti Yank), but... He quoted it pretty well word for word, but said he had been talking to a cheeky chappie. It is a bit disappointing, because he has actually had huge opportunities to meet so many history makers, but now I am a bit cynical of everything he claims. He may know the facts, but his claims to have hobnobbed and chatted with history makers, observed quirks amongst interesting characters... and really, it seems so oddly insecure. If it was just once... but it is repeated. But now, I am permanently dubious.
It's impossibly difficult but I do like the missing vowels round. Coren gives the impression she knows the answers, but WE know she just reads the cards. I do wish she'd just get on with it and cease her attempts at trying (and failing) to be witty.
Carol Lake yes because every other quiz show host can answer the questions, especially on University Challenge. What exactly is your point? A woman seeming clever is anathema?
