QUIZ YOURSELF! QUESTIONS ABOUT EARTH! Answers By QI With Stephen Fry & Sandi Toksvig 

Mnemonic.

@@waynemarvin5661 Memorisation's not easy, memory often needs initial cues.

custard

How many people read that back...checking the planets 😂😂

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Absolute perfect editing 😉

They knew they weren't the first to arrive, they were just the first to do so on their own power.

Not to diminish from the team's amazing feat, but the kite skiing calls for an asterisk on "under their own power*".

@@sternmg - to be fair, the kite is a mechanical form of propulsion. So in all honesty they didn't make it under their own power at all. But it was still a far harder task than anything I have bothered to do, so all the kudos to them still.

Worse is the graffiti, "Bernie Sanders waz 'ere."

And below that it says, "No I wasn't."

The mostest closest

In fairness, it took me until seeing your comment to realize "oh duh, because January in Australia is in Summer"

As an Australian, I got it right away!

@@zingzangspillip1 Despite his dreadful accent!

Search QI Xl to see the full show 😜

Very educational--not "nearly almost"! Keep watching. You'll learn a lot.

@@alliseburris566 keep watching some shows the things you learn are not needed but funny see the long sock bit it goes on for a while. I learned nothing educational from it. My fav is the parthanon and if i was learning anything i missed it giggling too hard 🤣

Sandi Toksvig was an absolute replacementfor Stephen

Welcome to the QI dark side Buzz - there is no escape now...

Lenin would be spinning in his grave.

Seems extremely petty but unfortunately not all that surprising.

No stranger than the 'war' over Hans Island: Both the Canadians and the Danes would replace the flag and leave a bottle of booze, (schnapps by the Danes, rye whiskey by the Canadians), for the next group.

@@chakatfirepaw At least that has now been settled. Kind of sad in a way, as it was such a uniquely friendly war.

Isn't it always just facing north, though?

They do one letter per year and we're up to R. That's a lot of letters.

@@shoredude2 its not a lot... compared to the Chinese alphabet. I raise you the Chinese alphabet.

@@aseemsharma4964 there is no Chinese alphabet.

Started in 2003, thanks to the genius that is Sir John Lloyd

When you're older, it will not seem forever - quite the opposite !

neither earth nor moon orbit each other

@@redirect_they both «orbit» a common barycenter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter_(astronomy)#/media/File:Orbit3.gif

Eggs and such can evolve naturally from the Great Cosmic Chicken. However, Custard Powder would be proof of Intelligent Design. Personally, I prefer to accept the evolution of the Great Cosmic Chicken.

It's up there with the line "I don't like sand"

I think if they had let that clip run on longer, we would have had Alan's lament for the loss of his Nan's trifle recipe.

Not until you mentioned it, because it appeared intact, but I can see where you are coming from. Especially stood on top of that pedestal.

I thought you might like to know that I thought your profile photo was a hair on my screen and tried to blow it off.

@@heatheradjacent7883 that’s 5secs off my life I won’t get back plus 15secs for writing this! 😂

Literally my first thought 😂

shhh

Good point. But is the moon a dwarf planet? Or does the Earth/Moon binary system only qualify as one?

@@angrytedtalks One of the requirements was also that it has to be in a primary orbit around the sun. So no the moon is not a planet. And earths orbit around the moon is inside earths surface, so I don't know about that. It's like saying that the earth and the sun is a binary system, cause the sun jiggles a tiny bit when earth orbits it. QI is not really factual. Often someone reads something and runs with it till they can't see anything back.

@@wujekcientariposta The definition of a binary system is that its combined centre of mass lies between them. That is not true for the Earth and moon; the moon is just 1.2% of Earth's mass but 250,000km away, so the combined centre of mass is still below the Earth's crust. However, a highly accredited theory is that the Earth and moon were formed by a collision between two earlier planets, where much of the composition of one was absorbed by the other. Another theory is that the Earth had a cloud or ring around it which formed the moon in the very early stages of the solar system. Either way, the moon and Earth are composed of the same things, quite unlike any other planets in the solar system or their moons.

Welcome to "clips are not in chronological order, and facts decay"

Makes me sad to see his bits on the show.

Heaven?

The gut microbiome. Utube dr sten eckberg...pradip jamanjas

I think you get points for that.

Excellent

@@michaelsommers2356 Thanks, ive never read it, just heard it :)

Ahh, yes, I was ahem just about to say that very thing, kudos for beating me to it. I too was going to pontificate upon the......errr, epicenter of the, envelope?

It's QI, I just assume something that sounds dubious is exactly that.

Thanks for being able to explain what I was thinking. I was just going to say it was bs.

Just a couple of questions - and I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be difficult - is the barycenter the only criterion on which orbits are determined? If the moon were to suddenly disappear, would the earth's orbit alter? I'm supposing in this context that orbit and gravitational pull are mutually exclusive? Anyone care to expand on that?

Mine was similar but different: Mrs Vickers Eats My Jam Sandwich Under Netball Post I had the order of the planets memorised before ever hearing this mnemonic, but my younger brother used to say it so it's embedded in my memory.

the host that said earth had 1 moon, because the episode with Stephen talking about other "moons" was incorrect because to be a moon of earth, the moon has to orbit around the earth, but his other "moons" didn't revolved around the earth, but around the sun, they just happened to go around the earth sometimes in their solar orbit. So as anyone who watches the show regularly, they get info totally incorrect all the time in order to try and make the show fun and unpredictable. But its incorrect unpredictable.

@@eolsunder Perhaps not totally "incorrect" -- it's just that different information becomes available, and they use that to "contradict" previous answers. Sometimes that contradiction is not so much a contradiction as a tangential view. They've done episodes where they've said there's only one moon, and then this one that says there's none, and at least one other where they say there are hundreds. They use different definitions of what a "moon" is. It's what makes this show so unutterably compelling. That, and the risque jokes:-)

Where T stands for “this one”

@@chockydog6960 Terra. Was from book by Heinlein, Robert A., Have Space Suit, Will Travel

@@SimonHume81 Wasn't that originally Space Family Robinson - until he was sued or ordered due to copyright to change its name to Have Space Suit, Will Travel?

@@CailenCambeul I had no idea! I'll have to look that up. Sounds like Lost in Space :)

@@SimonHume81 I know. Exact same story isn't it. LOL. Of course I read the anecdote decades ago and may have got it wrong, but that's what question marks are for. However Heinlein was first, if I'm right, and because we're discussing this, another memory has poked its nose out reminding me he wanted to call a book, The Rolling Stones ... until some two-minute wonder band nobody's hear of since showed up and spoiled those plans for him.

Most of us would die. Anything that's not tied strongly enough to the ground would keep moving at that speed. Initially...

That's some g-force on a fragile human body.

What would happen at the poles? If you were standing there would you just sort of spin on the spot while your momentum decreased?

@@yaakhee you wouldn't even notice at the poles. Imagine you were in a playground sitting on a kids' roundabout that was rotating once per 24 hours. You wouldn't get dizzy.

the earth is bulged out along te equator, so the sea levels would change too. so much for that expensive beach front property

In second grade, we would sing a song: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza pies. And I was always upset because the extra word "pies" didn't correspond to an extra planet.

I still hope it's just closest to the sun . 😶🤘🏻✌🏻

Well, it's on top of a building, so...

Would you like to share your findings?

@@steviebudden3397 Thanks for reminding me! Since I have just learned something I didn't know I'd love to share! Marmalade is usually made with citrus peel suspended in jelly. It's the jelly part which is a surprise to me :)

@@SimonHume81 I’m eating marmalade with my sausages right now. Good to have the info though. Thx.

@@steviebudden3397 Â bit late to the party here, but: Marmalade is derived from marmelo, which is portoguese for Quince. So technically authentic marmalade must be made from quince. Everything else is jam. Or jelly.

i thought the same thing! surprised that it wasn't the answer

Or liquid anti-hydrogen. Valued in the quadrillions, I believe

That's where the evil QI elves catch you

@@toastedsandwich7947 nothing caught me

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmalade Quinces, as the other lady panellist (not Jo Brand) said.

@@shojinryori Prue Leith -- Great British Bake Off. I would expect that she knows her marmalades🙂

Most moths are nocturnal and nearly all butterflies fly during the day. There are some day flying moths such as the Burnets (five and six spotted) and the Cinnabar, and there are also the clearwings (Burnet again) the tiger moth and the borers.

That's a rubbish mnemonic.

The Mostest Closest, as GCPGrey put it :D

How the hell do the planets not run into each other?

Wut? Lol

@@larapalma3744 By the same logic used to determine that Mercury is the closest planet to the Earth. According to the same research, Mercury spends more time closest to all the planets than any of the other planets do to each other, simply because of its rather short orbit.

I can't believe nobody thought to simply say that it's closer *on average*.

It *can* do surely, there are multiple parameters you can choose to describe which planet is ‘closest’. Similarly for ‘biggest’, mass? Volume? etc.

Mary's Virgin Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbor...PFFT! ***I'll just show myself out😁

Binary.

@@waynemarvin5661 yeah man?

Sorry missed that was busy under the nightie

Patagonian goat’s droppings

Quinces. Called marmelos in Portuguese

Some count the Moon as the nearest.

Umm, although it is true that they are all closest to Mercury, this is not why it is called that. They were named before we understood anything much of celestial mechanics

He probably didn't hear it! That's the only problem with QI -- so many times I'm laughing so hard that I miss the next few quips. Or the audience is laughing, or some other distracting sound.

Also it would invalidate the closest planet to earth being mercury

No, because the common astronomical definition of a binary planet is that the center of rotation of the two bodies (called the barycenter) has to lie in the space between them, and the Earth/Moon barycenter is about 1000 miles beneath the Earth's surface. The only binary planet in our Solar System is Pluto/Charon. The barycenter also means it's not a planet, because the official IAU definition of a planet requires it to orbit the Sun, not another planet. And while there are asteroids that orbit the Sun in the same period as the Earth, they don't have a barycenter with the Earth, so those are not moons either. The elves royally screwed up this question, and it still bugs the crap out of me that they offered several "right" answers, none of which were actually right other than the answer "one" for "How many moons does the Earth have?"

do you know who is the woman that Jimmy gives a thumb on 11:20?

@@matheusribeiro7080 Claudia O'Doherty (Series L, Ep. 15)

She's referring to the symbiosis of bearded lichen. I think folk were laughing because they found the comparison to the moon totally off the wall and possibly thought she threw it in just for a laugh, unaware of her genuine reference.

She was referring back to something earlier in that particular episode, (which of course is not in this compilation).

One, over and over.

No one laughing, because it annoying.

Well didn't they later say that the moon counts as a planet?

They're nuts.

@@QUEEN-yn5xq i mean technically it is. It's. Similar in size to planets like mercury and what's a planet besides a object in space

*Ayii Esha* Unllike everything else in our solar system, the moon has the *exact* same composition as the earth!