Before the recording of every QI episode, Sandi plays a fiendish quiz with the audience to find out who is the Cleverest Person In The Room. Let us know how far you got in the comments!
This is what I love about UK personalities. For the most part they all seem to stay so grounded and don't let the fame get to them. Such a nice thing to do for members of the audience. Sure Sandi and crew will forget these people but the audience members will remember it for a lifetime.
Sandi could have easily turned this over to a P.A., but did it herself. Wait... August?! Ah, well, I guess we've got No Such Thing As A Fish' 'til then.
Indeed. In the meantime, along with No Such Thing as a Fish, may I recommend Because News, a podcast from Canada (CBC). It's wry as all heck. www.cbc.ca/radio/becausenews
They've actually been doing this for a while, the elves have been tweeting the same questions before each episode airs. But I believe this is the first time we're actually seeing it
So jealous of Ben! Would be fantastic to sit in Stephen and Sandi's chair, be hugged by Sandi, and be told by her you are the cleverest person in the room :)
It is illegal in all fifty states to buy alcohol younger than 21, but actually drinking it is a different story, and the details vary. Even at a restaurant, it is legal in many states for a minor to drink alcohol with a parent or legal guardian present. (That doesn't mean the restaurant will let you do it.)
I’ve lived in Texas all my life (20+ years) and there’s no doubt in my mind the majority of Texans including the rest of Americans would have gotten the first question wrong. For all practical reasons though the drinking age is very much 21 in Texas.
I went to filming early 2 series back in May 2016 series and they always do warm up games like this with the crowd they just don't air it. Shame really as it is quite amusing?
"Pft! What would you know about snow! You're Danish." -An Norwegian "Pft! What would you know about snow! You live at the coast" -An in land Norwegian.
I have this odd fantasy that the winner and the runner up meet after the show to introduce themselves, and fall for each other, culminating in a long and happy relationship. I think that would make both Sandy and Stephen quite happy.
That last question's answer should have been false as it was in china not south Korea as Sandy stated. As she did in the Scotish wine question , 2015 as apposed to 2014.
That first question is bothering me a lot.. I'm american, and it is generally known you can drink alcohol within your own home at any age. They have this for personal/religious purposes but regardless the law is in fact 21 when you go anywhere or are anywhere besides your own home.
I’m British and I was under the impression you couldn’t even drink in someone’s home in the US if you were under 21. I watched a RU-vid video that filmed at a house party where someone’s old teacher was invited and she asked « everyone here’s over 21 right!? » which gave me the impression it would be illegal if they weren’t.
American here. I suppose it's legal to drink indoors when you are not 21, because who would know. However, if a house party gets broken up and there is underage drinking, they can write the owner of the house citations for providing alcohol to minors. The law just means that a kid could have a drink or a sip of alcohol for religious or celebratory events. However, the reason these crazy laws exist is because the facts are often misleading, from specific court cases, or just dated and unenforced rules. For example, a way they mislead would be if there was a reasonably strict law in a town that protected a tree because it was rare or held historical value, then if someone cut down that tree they could serve serious jail time. However the fact would be presented like "Cutting down a tree in (name state) can carry a 50 year sentence." The other technique is to take specific rulings from specific court cases because they technically set precedent and are considered law. So there may have been a case where a person threw a party and had streamers, confetti, and glitter all littered in their neighbors lawn. Say the neighbor couldn't get the confetti and glitter clean and had to call in a landscaper or something. Neighbor takes host of part to court to get him to pay for cleanup. Court rules neighbor to pay. Then people say "There is a law in (state name) where glitter is illegal." The last factor is that there are just old unenforced ordinances in some towns that just never technically got revoked. All that being said America has a lot of odd rules because there are 50 little governments inside the country with even smaller governments inside those all creating their own laws and ordinances. So bringing this all back to the original fact about Texas. That may be a rule written down, but I guarantee the kid or parent would face consequences if they were caught allowing their child to get drunk.
When a dane calls themselves "Scandinavians" just to belittle the british lack of snow. Sorry Sandy, the pitiful excuse for snow danes get is not enough to warrant "I know SNOW because I am from the rugged north" points. -sincerly, a swede.
The producers seem obsessed with US trivia... 5 of the questions were about things happening in the US. The show seems to have veered in that direction as well. I wonder if they're purposefully targeting the American audience hoping to generate another Top Gear success, or if they're just Yankophiles...?
What Lolli Dragon said. You are also forgetting that these segments never make it to the TV airings of the show, all shows do this to warm up the audience for applause, clapping and cheering. At the very best, it comes up as a spinoff clip on this channel, or on a box set.
yaseen reza also a lot easier to do research for, because if you go googling for “trivia questions” you’re gonna end up with a lot of US centric stuff.
compilations of "stupid american laws" are easy to find online. the researchers are probably busy looking for (quite interesting) facts for the actual show, and go the easy route for these.
I don't think this has any bearing on cleverness. If you had a room of 256 people and gave them questions with 2 possible answers then 1 person on average would get 8 consecutive answers correct even if nobody in the room heard the questions!!
Sandi didn't really explain the trick question about drinking age very well. It's not really that Texas is unique in having some wacky law, the fact is the minimum age at which you can purchase alcohol is 21 in all states, but some states have exemptions for drinking for religious or family purposes. However, you still can't buy it until you're 21, and the adult who supplies alcohol to a minor even in those exempted circumstances is sometimes still breaking the law
To be fair it was a tough act to follow. And Fry was also rather preoccupied with his (orientation anyway). I think she does a great job and is putting her own mark on the show.
