Ranavalona reduced her population from 5 million to 2. When she started killing Christians, people got angry and in she repelled an Anglo-French invasion. She had the heads of the invaders' corpses placed on poles and erected along the beach to bid farewell to the retreating British and French ships. The actual answer to the question was that in the 18th century, it was common to keep squirrels as pets and they were often walked around with their owners.
However, the reason why this question is interesting is because it is a question asked to the New York Public Library, as before the internet people went to libraries to answer unusual questions.
The New York Public Library has a collection of questions asked since the s which are available to access, and this squirrel question is one of them. There was a follow-up question to it, which was; "How did they tame them so they wouldn't bite the painter? I thought I could introduce the natural enemy into the pool area. They were once asked: "Could you tell me the thickness of a US postage stamp with the glue on it? Why don't you try the post office? Nish claims that the question he is most commonly asked is: "Are you sure you're not Romesh?
The British wanted to call it "Waterloo", despite the fact it did not take place there. Waterloo was actually where Wellington had his HQ. The French wanted to call it "Mont-Saint-Jean", which is the ridge where Wellington drew up his forces. The Prussians wanted to name it "La Belle Alliane", the pub where Wellington and Blucher met up near the end of the battle. This is common with many battles. Agincourt was originally called the "Battle in Picardy", Bosworth didn't get its name for 25 years, and some battles have different names given by different sides.
There were children called "Belgium" and "Calais", while girls had names like "Sommeria", "Verdunia" and "Dardanella". Richard Burton's brother was called "Verdun". After the war there were children named "Peace" and "Armistice". The RSPB say that feeding it honey is a short-term solution. Honey contains spores of bacteria and it is possible the bee might pick up the bacteria and infect the entire hive. Sugar meanwhile can block up the bee's proboscis.
Normally you should either leave the bee to rest, or leave it alone so it will be encouraged to go and pollinate. Otherwise, the bee might just be dying. The best thing to do is to have more bee-friendly flowers in your garden. Forfeit: Honey; Sugar. Alan jokes that there is also a sort of bee that makes milk: boo-bees. Bees can also drink a lot of alcohol. Scientists have fed them pure ethanol, and they can drink the human equivalent of ten litres of wine in a single sitting.
A few species go into a deep sleep, known as a torpor, but this is not hibernation. An animal that hibernates will not wake up despite loud noises or being touched. Bears in torpor will wake really easily. Also, the body temperature of hibernating animals drops a lot, while in bears it only goes down a little bit in torpor. The only British mammals which truly hibernate are things like hedgehogs, dormice and bats.
Also, bears do not defecate during winter, because they make faecal plug called a tappen which stops them from needing to excrete. The sequence is: "1, 2, 4, 8, 16, This is because while the sequence is wrong if the answer was that each number is being doubled every time, the sequence is correct if the answer is the number of regions in a circle being divided by the lines connecting a number of points.
Such tasks have included a drawing contest,[21] or spotting an item within a question and waving a "joker" card e. In a number of series, the task reoccurred throughout a series' run. In the E series, for example, a task named "The Elephant in the Room" was featured in every episode, where panellists could play a themed joker card if they thought the answer to a question involved elephants.
In the I series, the task was called "Nobody Knows", and the joker card for it was to be played when a question without a known answer was asked.
In series L, the "Spend a Penny" joker card could be invoked where an answer was related to toilets. In addition to tasks, Stephen Fry has also performed scientific experiments or demonstrations during an episode. He often did so once an episode in the J, K and L series, where they were called "Jolly Japes", "Knick-Knakes" and "Lab Larks", respectively, and usually occurred towards the end of the episode.
Such experiments either used simple objects, various chemical compounds, odd contraptions, or a mixture of all. If an experiment's outcome was too fast to be seen, a short "replay" of it was shown, sometimes with multiple angles to reveal precisely what happened. Heggessey passed on the format, opting to commission a similar panel game called Class War which was never made.
When Fincham became controller of BBC One, Lloyd pitched it to him, only to be turned down by his former collaborator. In October , it was announced that Fry would be stepping down as host after series M and would be replaced by Sandi Toksvig.
Toksvig said that "QI is my favourite television programme both to watch and to be on". Recordings usually take place over a few weeks in May or June at The London Studios; three episodes are typically filmed per week and sixteen are filmed for each series. In the morning on the day of recording, the studio has to be set up.
Seven cameras are used to record QI. Fry, who has been given the list of questions roughly an hour beforehand,[14] hosts the second technical rehearsal at 2pm. For earlier series, warm-up comedians were used before recording began, frequently Stephen Grant, credited as the Audience Wrangler. Stephen Fry records and tweets audience AudioBoos and introduces the guests before the show. By 10pm, recording has usually finished and the set has been disassembled.
The makers of the show insist that the answers are not given to the panellists beforehand. In an interview with the Radio Times regarding the current state of the BBC, Fry revealed one of the regular panellists insists on seeing the questions before they appear in the show.
I won't tell you his or her name," he said. In fact, one day, I'll make sure that person is given a list from another programme because they don't need them. Following this comment people asked Fry to come out and say who it was, with several people posting their suggestions as to who it was.
Fry later posted on his Twitter account that it was neither Davies nor Rob Brydon. The title is taken from an entry into the "Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life", which was used on the show. The audio from the first episode in which they discuss how they found this fact is used as an introduction. Dan is the host of the show. The theme song is "Wasps" from the band Emperor Yes, which is based on a fact about bees which was used on QI.
The song is written as an exchange between the bees, as they defend their hive from attacking wasps by swarming the wasp, and using their body heat to boil the wasps.
The theme tune was composed by Howard Goodall, who has twice appeared as a panellist on the show. The music was planned to be and for the unbroadcast pilot actually was "Wonderful World" by Herman's Hermits. However, the producers were unable to gain clearance to use the song and the DVD edition of the pilot now features Goodall's composition. Different instrumentation occasionally reflects the topic of a particular programme. For example, the Christmas Specials include sleigh bells and have Jingle Bells as a counter-melody, Halloween-themed episodes feature spooky sound effects, and the "France" episode uses accordion music.
In the 8th episode of series "M", "Merriment, it was revealed that the theme tune contained the Morse code for www. In QI, every series takes its theme from a different letter of the alphabet, starting with the letter "A". Series are referred to by letter rather than number. The first series started on 11 September , and consisted of topics beginning with A. The second series consisted of topics beginning with "B" and also saw the first attempts to pay attention to a particular theme throughout one episode, e.
The only exceptions to the alphabet system have been the Christmas specials, where the topics are often just of a Yuletide nature and do not necessarily correspond to that series' letter although greater attempts have been made to do so since series D. Series D was the first to see all the episodes focus upon a single topic or theme, beginning with the series letter i. This trend has continued with each subsequent series; episodes from previous series were retroactively given titles.
A video podcast featuring the best moments with some out-takes was planned to accompany series E, but this was instead turned into a set of "Quickies" featured on the QI homepage of the BBC's website. As this decision was not reached until after recording though, they are still referred to as "vodcasts" by whoever is introducing them usually Fry but occasionally a panellist or even the audience. The audience's win in "Greeks" was only announced during the XL broadcast as their contribution was cut out of the main broadcast.
In contrast, the audience lost the 5th episode of series E, "Europe", receiving a forfeit of when they incorrectly sang the first stanza of the German national anthem. A special stand-alone episode was filmed between 1 and 2 am GMT on 6 March as part of Comic Relief's special 24 Hour Panel People featuring David Walliams, who appeared in various old and new panel game shows throughout a hour period.
The shows were streamed live on the Red Nose Day website, and parts of each show were shown during five half-hour specials on Comic Relief. Davies admitted through Twitter that he was asked to host the episode when it was not certain if Fry would be available, but Davies declined. Once Fry confirmed his participation, Davies did not hear back from the production team.
The following have all appeared multiple times as one of the guest panellists on the show, including any as-yet unbroadcast episodes of Series N as of 7 June This list only includes 'canonical' episodes of the BBC show.
It does not include the unbroadcast pilot, nor the special editions for the Comic Relief and Sport Relief telethons, nor any live stage editions.
Richard Coles Reginald D. Jo Brand, Jimmy Carr and Phill Jupitus are the only remaining guests to have appeared in every series to date. Rich Hall has the highest number of guest appearances in a single series—6 times in series B half of the episodes that year —as well as the highest number of wins by a guest panellist, with As of July , it currently screens repeats every weekday at pm on ABC1 and new episodes on Wednesdays at 8pm.
The programme was first broadcast on 20 October after the surprise ratings success of Stephen Fry in America. There have been several attempts to broadcast QI in the United States. Show creator and producer John Lloyd said that one factor in the failure to get the show broadcast is due to the cost. As QI features several images during each episode there are copyright issues.
Lloyd said in an interview with TV Squad that: "No country in the world has bought the original show and this is partly a matter of cost. The pictures in the background of the show are only cleared for UK usage, so until the show is bought by a Stateside TV company and the rights cleared for World, the programme is unaffordable by smaller countries. Davies has criticised QI being repeated so often, saying "QI being in a soup of shows on one of these repeat channels Davies thought the show would gain more viewers when a new series aired if channels "[made] an audience wait for a couple of months".
Also called QI, the Dutch version of the show aired for the first time on 27 December and was hosted by the writer Arthur Japin with the comedian Thomas van Luyn taking the role of regular panellist. The series was discontinued after only 6 episodes.
Comedian Johan Wester is hosting Intresseklubben, and Anders Jansson is featured as the regular panellist. Some of the answers on the show have been disputed and shown to be incorrect. For example, in Series A, the show claimed that the longest animal in the world was the lion's mane jellyfish,[65] but this was later corrected in Series C, saying that the longest animal in the world is the bootlace worm.
Members of the public and members of the QI website contact the show to correct information. The error that has attracted the most complaints to date was made in Series B, when it was claimed that the Welsh language has no word for blue.
In fact it is glas. Another episode in Series B claimed that the language spoken by children's TV characters Bill and Ben was called "Flobbadob" and was named after the onomatopoeic phrase that creator Hilda Brabban's younger brothers after whom the characters were named gave to their bath farts during their early childhood.
The fart-in-the-bath story was trotted out last year in an episode of Stephen Fry's otherwise admirable quiz show QI.
It the story first appeared some twenty years ago in a newspaper article, to which my father immediately wrote a rebuttal. This was obviously ferreted out by some BBC researcher. It may be quite interesting, but in this case, it just isn't true. Fry then apologised and corrected the error, saying "Their language is called 'Oddle poddle'.
Various other retractions are made by the producers of the show on the special features of the DVD releases. The origin of the error may also be explained. Information contributed by a panellist during a discussion, but which has since been found to be false, is also corrected here. For instance, Fry made a mistake when explaining why helium makes your voice higher, in the series B Christmas special. He claimed that the gas only affected the frequency, but not the pitch, despite them being the same thing; in actuality, the timbre is affected.
The "Knowledge" episode in Series K included point refunds for the three panellists who had appeared previously; it was explained that many facts on the show are later shown to be incorrect. The largest refund went to Davies, who received in excess of seven hundred wrongly deducted points.
More recently, the online forum now includes a "QI Qibbles" blog, which aims to rectify further mistakes in the series. QI has stated it follows a philosophy: everything in the world, even that which appears to be the most boring, is "quite interesting" if looked at in the right way. The website states that:. We live, they say, in The Information Age, yet almost none of the information we think we possess is true. Eskimos do not rub noses.
The rickshaw was invented by an American. Joan of Arc was not French. Lenin was not Russian. The world is not solid, it is made of empty space and energy, and neither haggis, whisky, porridge, clan tartans or kilts are Scottish. So we stand, silent, on a peak in Darien a vast, rolling, teeming, untrodden territory before us.
QI country. Whatever is interesting we are interested in. Whatever is not interesting, we are even more interested in. Everything is interesting if looked at in the right way. At one extreme, QI is serious, intensely scientific, deeply mystical; at the other it is hilarious, silly and frothy enough to please the most indolent couch-potato.
Celebaelin Mon Feb 13, am I thought he said the intern-net. Jenny Mon Feb 13, am Nah, that was Clinton. Mon Feb 13, am Well he didn't do a very good job of managing it then. Tas Mon Feb 13, am The interface system kept going down, apparently Mon Feb 13, am Celebaelin wrote: I thought he said the intern-net.
Yes, and George Bush pluralised it, so it is now known as 'the internets' or more properly 'teh intarnets'. TCP, or Transmission Control Protocol, is a method for transmitting information across networks, while IP, or Internet Protocol, is a different layer concerned with how to find a route across the network to make sure the information gets delivered to where it needs to go.
On top of that or possibly underneath it depending on how you draw the diagram is the actual hardware that the network runs on.
True enough you could probably implement the internet on some wet string and bell wire or even carrier pigeons , but there have been great advances in the reliability and speed of hardware communications that have made the internet the viable proposition it is today. It's much easier to point to individual applications email, world wide web, etc. Caradoc Sat Feb 18, pm dr.
Thu Dec 03, pm This is quite an old thread four years old in fact , but I have searched through the forum and can't find any mention of Theodore Holm Nelson , who is a rather interesting fellow, working with hypertext. He has an extremely large vision, following from Vannevar Bush's, describing a huge system of interlinking pages not unlike the Internet, but with certain variations including an ability to see all. At any rate, H ypertextuality can be quite good for H. Janet H Fri Dec 04, am dr.
Yes, it's a bit like saying "who invented the radio" or "who invented the car".
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