QI lives off the wrong guesses and anecdotes of the panelists, so if everyone knew the answers it would be fairly boring. Guess thats why he hesitated.
@@paulm3952 i guess he had to read up on some things, his time at hogwards was not the best time for learning ancient wizardry. But honestly he was great, that episode is golden
@@Wabajak13 Who's Susie? Do you mean Sandi? I've watched QI since the 1st series, and there is a reason Sandi was asked to take over from Steven...and that she is just as intelligent as he is. The number of times she has come up with the correct answer to random and quite bizarre questions is amazing. I would love to see them both being guests to see which of them was the most intelligent. That would be Quite Interesting. :)
Interesting bit of trivia about that line, The actor was suppose to say this comedically long name but he forgot it so he just said "Tim" and they decided to keep it. The way I heard it the name was suppose to go on for a "uncomfortably long time".
That Debbie McGee joke was brilliant, and what made it even funnier was how Lee misread the room and had to walk it back. When Stephen mentioned that hieroglyphs had no consonants and he said Rameses, I thought his punchline was going to be "Remiss".
@Eric Burkheimer I once tripped on the stairs at a theatre and the gentleman who caught me was Gyles Brandreth so I'll vote for him being a decent chap. (If politically misguided) He could easily have stepped aside and watched me bounce all the way down to the foyer.......
Deco Dolly So in your opinion, the purpose of a good polititian is helping people that are tripped on the stairs? How does that qualify anyone for any job? Imagine a paralel world where these are the exams 😂😂😂
@@livelifeincolour in the video, watch the magicians left hand holding the bird. He conceals its head under his finger and the “head” he pulls off is a fake one in his other hand, the rest is all a bit of showmanship. So how the old magician managed to hide an ox’s head is miraculous
I was actually expecting the magician to restore the head of something bigger than a dove. Like a goose, I was thinking an ox but that would be hard to film in the studio for like 20 seconds
Honestly I'd really like to see it done with an ox. I feel like sleight of hand becomes a lot more impressive when the object in question can't actually fit in your hand. Or how you'd hide the real head of the ox since not only is an ox head relatively large (whereas birds... not so much) before we even start considering the horns. And most oxen don't even have wings, so there's not a lot of hiding places. It's of course possible that the ancient scroll wasn't *entirely* factual.
After watching in slow mo, I can reveal that "Scott" pushed the dove's head forward with a finger so it looked decapitated while gripping hard so the bird seemed dead. He pulled a fake head out of his sleeve.
So you mean to say that in the thousands of years Egypt ruled the area not one lower kingdom sent them a jackal as a gift for tribute? Got to love how science works now a days.
I've figured out how he did the trick at the end! He's got a fake head palmed in his right hand with the bird. Then he picks up the bird with the other hand and pushes its head under, while one finger holds onto the rubber band on the fake head. Then when he throws it back he actually palms it and let's the bird go with his left hand
Not to diss the magician but you can see him tucking the birds head under his left thumb and taking the white cotton ball out from his right hand... Bad camera angles for shooting a magic trick...
I noticed that they switched cameras then very quickly switched right back. Someone on the production team said "did we just do that?" To a chorus of "noooooooooos"😄
This probably wasn't intentional, but Sandi said "a saw," they did a close up of the symbol for feather. It kind of looks like a saw, so I'm not sure if I should give the BBC the benefit of the doubt.
the QI guys gotta find a way to equalize the audio on this... I'll watch 4 "best of" in a row, with my headphones, and have to change the volume with every episode. Last episode (best of planets) was quiet, had to turn my headphones up. This one right near deafened me.
@JamesGiantPeach I'm going to refrain from taking advice on what is or isn't humor when the person dispensing that advice has no idea how proper diction and grammar works.
Camera: focuses on hieroglyphs depicting water and feathers Sandi: It could be a saw of some kind. And of course you can write without vowels. Hebrews and Arabs got by without them for centuries, and Jews still read from the Torah without them. This is because Hebrew, like all Semitic languages, forms words from consonant-based roots -- usually of 3 consonants -- with shades of meaning indicated by the vowels. (There are also affixes and particles that can affect the meaning as well.) This means that, in writing systems designed for such languages, all related words will be spelled similarly. It was the fact that this was not the case in Babylonian cuneiform that clued historians to the idea that cuneiform had not been designed for their Semitic language. This led to the discovery and decipherment of Sumerian.
You caught exactly what I was thinking. It could be a coincidence she said "saw." We also can guess the vowels from other context clues, but with sound shifts, they might change. Some reconstructions aren't anywhere near what we expect.
It's a shame that trick was ruined on camera although maybe it looked better irl I really can't bring myself to properly appreciate "magic" tbh especially when you can easily see what's really going on
I could understand palming a goose or duck head, and having the animal tuck their head around under your hand or armpit. But how the world does one palm an ox's head?
It's probably a similar type of misdirection, if not the same exact thing. An ox could probably be trained to do something on command which, from the right angle and with the right effect, could look like its head was separated from its body. Magicians are clever.
