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The first series started on 11 September 2003. Although most viewers did not notice at the time, all of the questions (with the exception of the final "general ignorance" round) were on subjects beginning with "a" (such as "arthropods", "Alans" and "astronomy"). A second series of 12 programmes started on 8 October 2004, with subjects beginning with the letter 'B' (except in two special episodes, one about music and one about colour). The C series started on 30 September 2005 and the D series started on 29 September 2006. September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (282nd in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The dates in the lists are those of the BBC Two broadcasts. The episodes were also broadcast on BBC Four, generally a week earlier (as soon as one episode finished on BBC Two, the next was shown on BBC Four). Aside from Alan Davies, there are five guests that have appeared ten or more episodes (out of 48), they are Jo Brand (14), Rich Hall (14), Phill Jupitus (12), Bill Bailey (11), and Sean Lock (10). In total there have been 47 different guest panellists in the three series to date. Joanne Brand was born 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. ... Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Mark Bill Bailey (born 1964, Bath, England) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI: Quite Interesting and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. ... Sean Lock (born 1963) is an English comedian. ...

Disclaimer: Some facts stated during the series have since been found to be incorrect, in some cases due to a mistake and others by becoming outdated. Where possible these entries have been highlighted.

A series (2003)

Episode 1

Broadcast date

• 11 September 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-5 points)
• Danny Baker (Winner with 18 points) 1st appearance
• Hugh Laurie (11 points) 1st and only appearance
• John Sessions (10 points) 1st appearance

Topics

• Adam's navel and the Archbishop of Canterbury's left ear are both purely decorative. The Creation of Adam was painted by Michelangelo. God allowed Noah to eat animals, a right he had previously denied to Adam and Eve.
• Andrew Graham Dixon discovered that Caravaggio accidentally killed Ranuccio Tomassoni on a tennis court... he was merely attempting to cut off his testicles. (Forfeit: "New balls please")

Tangent: Sheep are castrated without breaking the skin.

Tangent: Discussion of Prince Albert's libido and the Prince Albert piercing.

• Finocchio (fennel) is Italian street slang for a homosexual.
• Andrew Marshall's writings on Burma in The Trouser People describe Burmese idioms and quote from the diary of Victorian adventurer Sir George Scott.
• Edward Woodward has four 'd's in his name to prevent it becoming 'Ewar Woowar'.

Tangent: Kiwi fruit use up more than their own weight in aviation fuel getting from New Zealand to Europe.

• Actor John Barrymore regretted not being able to see himself perform on stage.

Tangent: A drunken Peter O'Toole once went to see a play, having forgotten that he was supposed to be in it.

• Young Giant anteaters indulge in 'bluff charging'. Their claws are sharp enough to eviscerate a human. Anteaters have sixteen-inch tongues, but mouths as narrow as a pencil. Dwarf anteaters are the size of squirrels and are a delicacy in parts of South America.

Tangent: The average graphite pencil can write for thirty-five miles.

General ignorance

• The country with the highest suicide rate is Lithuania. (Forfeit: Sweden)

Tangent: A ship's captain cannot marry people, and lemmings do not jump over cliffs: both are urban myths concocted by the film industry.

• Caravaggio's real name was Michelangelo.
• The steam engine was invented by Hero of Alexandria, and was named the aeolipile. The railway was invented seven hundred years earlier by Periander of Corinth. The modern steam engine was invented by Richard Trevithick. When Stephenson's Rocket was introduced, people were concerned that travelling at such high speeds could cause irreparable brain damage.

Tangent: The Romans believed that buggery caused earthquakes.

• The twenty-third tallest tree in the world is a Giant sequoia called 'Adam'.

September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Danny Baker (born June 22, 1957, Deptford, London, England) is a British comedy writer, radio presenter and former television presenter. ... James Hugh Calum Laurie, widely known as Hugh Laurie, (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian and writer. ... John Sessions (born January 11, 1953 in Largs, North Ayrshire) is a gay Scottish actor best known for his comedy work in improvisation shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?. A gifted impressionist, he worked on Spitting Image and later the surreal celeb soap opera Stella Street. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Adam and Eve. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Douglas Williams, DPhil, DD, FBA, (born 14 June 1950) is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, metropolitan of the province of Canterbury, Primate of All England and head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... Bat ears come in different sizes and shapes The ear is the sense organ that detects sound. ... The Creation of Adam prior to the 1980 restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511. ... Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect and poet. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... Noahs Ark, Französischer Meister (The French Master), Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera Subregnum Eumetazoa Placozoa Orthonectida Rhombozoa Radiata (unranked) Ctenophora Cnidaria Bilateria (unranked) Acoelomorpha Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata Hemichordata Echinodermata Chaetognatha Superphylum Ecdysozoa Kinorhyncha Loricifera Priapulida Nematoda Nematomorpha Onychophora Tardigrada Arthropoda Superphylum Platyzoa Platyhelminthes Gastrotricha Rotifera Acanthocephala Gnathostomulida Micrognathozoa Cycliophora Superphylum Lophotrochozoa Sipuncula Nemertea Phoronida Bryozoa Entoprocta Brachiopoda... It has been suggested that Adam be merged into this article or section. ... Andrew Graham Dixon is a renowned art critic who has written several books and made several arts documentaries for the BBC , most recently a programme about the Elgin Marbles for BBC2. ... Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. ... Empty tennis courts. ... The testicles, or testes (singular testis), are the male generative glands in animals. ... Species See text. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (in full Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel) (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... A Prince Albert piercing The Prince Albert piercing (PA) is a common form of male genital piercing. ... Binomial name Foeniculum vulgare Mill. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... Edward Woodward (born June 1, 1930) is an English actor born in Croydon, Surrey. ... Species About 94; see text. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the six inhabited continents of the Earth. ... John Barrymore (aged 40) on the set of the silent film Sherlock Holmes (1922) John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (born: February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – died :May 29, 1942 in Los Angeles, California), was an American actor. ... Peter Seamus OToole (born August 2, 1932 as Peter James OToole) is an Irish actor. ... Binomial name Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Anteater The Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, is the largest species of anteater. ... Families Cyclopedidae Myrmecophagidae Anteaters are the 4 mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua commonly known for eating ants and termites. ... Binomial name Cyclopes didactylus (Linnaeus, 1758) Silky Anteater or Pygmy Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) is a species of anteater from Central and South America ranging from extreme southern Mexico south to Brazil and, possibly, Paraguay. ... Genera Many, see the article Sciuridae. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... A selection of colored pencils. ... Genera Dicrostonyx Lemmus Synaptomys Myopus  * Incomplete listing: see vole Lemmings are small rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic. ... Urban Legend is also the name of a 1998 movie. ... Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. ... // The term steam engine may also refer to an entire railroad steam locomotive. ... Heros aeolipile Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. ... A modern replica of Heros aeolipile An illustration of Heros aeolipile A classroom model of an aeolipile An aeolipile is a device consisting of an air-tight chamber (usually a sphere or cylinder) with bent or curved pipes projecting from it, through which steam is expelled. ... Periander Periander (Greek: Περίανδρος) was the second tyrant of Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC. He was the son of the first tyrant, Cypselus. ... 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Episode 2

Broadcast date

• 18 September 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-30 points)
• Bill Bailey (5 points) 1st appearance
• Rich Hall (Joint winner with 20 points) 1st appearance
• Jeremy Hardy (Joint winner with 20 points) 1st appearance

Topics

• The number of people killed by sharks since records began is equal to just five per cent of the number of toilet-related injuries in the USA in 1996. Both tigers and weasels (the national animal of Croatia) make a 'fuff' sound.
• The best way to escape from a polar bear is to remove one's clothing, leaving items of clothing on the ground while backing away.
• An alligator can be rendered helpless by placing a rubber band over its jaws.
• 3753 Cruithne is an asteroid sometimes described as Earth's second moon. (Forfeit: The Earth has one moon)
• Ninety per cent of the Universe is unaccounted for; it is believed to be made of dark matter.

Tangent: Claims that Ikea stores have no windows to decrease customers' awareness of the passage of time.

• The colour of the Universe is beige. See Cosmic latte.
• Pluto does not meet the usual criteria for classification as a planet. (Forfeit: There are nine planets in the Solar System)

Tangent: William James' exchange with a woman who believed the Earth was balanced on top of a giant turtle.

General ignorance

• Krung Thep is the proper name for the capital of Thailand. (Forfeit: The capital of Thailand is Bangkok)
• Brides do not walk down the aisle of a church; they walk down the central passageway.
• The earliest known soup is made from hippopotamus.
• The Great Wall of China cannot be seen from the Moon, nor can any man-made object. Even the Earth's continents are difficult to make out from the Moon.

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Orders Carcharhiniformes Heterodontiformes Hexanchiformes Lamniformes Orectolobiformes Pristiophoriformes Squaliformes Squatiniformes Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton[1] and a streamlined body. ... Toilets can be the cause or location of many injuries and deaths There are many toilet-related injuries and some toilet-related deaths throughout history and in urban legends. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Binomial name Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) Distribution of tigers in 1900 (red) and 1990 (green) Synonyms Felis tigris Linnaeus, 1758 Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858 Tigris regalis Gray, 1867 Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four big cats in the Panthera genus. ... Species Mustela africana Mustela altaica Mustela erminea Mustela eversmannii Mustela felipei Mustela frenata Mustela kathiah Mustela lutreola Mustela lutreolina Mustela nigripes Mustela nivalis Mustela nudipes Mustela putorius Mustela sibirica Mustela strigidorsa Mustela vison Weasels are mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family. ... Binomial name Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 The polar bear (Ursus maritimus), also known as the white bear, northern bear, or sea bear, is a large bear native to the Arctic. ... Species Alligator mississippiensis Alligator sinensis An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. ... A bunch of rubber bands A rubber band (in some regions known as a binder, elastic or lacker band or gumband (Aus. ... 3753 Cruithne (English crew-een-ya; Modern Irish crih-na) is an asteroid in orbit around the Sun. ... 253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. ... 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Episode 3

Broadcast date

• 25 September 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-20 points)
• Clive Anderson (Winner with 26 points) 1st appearance
• Bill Bailey (10 points) 2nd appearance
• Meera Syal (19 points) 1st and only appearance

Topics

• The longest animal is a Lion's Mane Jellyfish, as described in the Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. (Forfeit: A blue whale)

Tangent: Baron Mackay of Clashfern and his apparent meanness with honey.

• Blue whales have small throats and can swallow nothing larger than a grapefruit. Their diet consists of krill.
• An octopus can be taught to unscrew the lids of jars and bottles.
• The continent of Antarctica has six seas and no bees.
• AmIAnnoying.com ranks Clive Anderson as seventeen percent less annoying than Antarctica. Unlike Hans Christian Andersen, Gillian Anderson and Pamela Anderson, he is not a vegetarian.
• John Henry Anderson, the Great Wizard of the North, was the first magician to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
• Both Hans Christian Andersen and Joseph Stalin were the sons of a cobbler and a washerwoman.

General ignorance

• In Greek mythology, Atlas carried the sky. (Forfeit: He carried the Earth}
• Over fifty percent of the world's oxygen is provided by algae. (Forfeit: Trees)
• The driest place on Earth is the Dry Valleys Region of Antarctica. (Forfeit: The Sahara desert)
• The length of a day is not exactly 24 hours. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service is responsible for adding on occasional leap seconds.

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Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Paget, in The Strand magazine. ... The Adventure of the Lions Mane, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. ... Binomial name Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) Blue Whale range The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. ... The Right Honourable James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, KT, PC (born 2 July 1927) is a Scottish advocate and former Lord Chancellor (1987–1997). ... A jar of honey, shown with a wooden honey server and scones. ... Binomial name Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) Blue Whale range The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. ... Binomial name Citrus paradisi Macfad. ... 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Episode 4

Broadcast date

• 2 October 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-24 points)
• Jo Brand (Winner with 36 points) 1st appearance
• Howard Goodall (13 points) 1st appearance
• Jeremy Hardy (7 points) 2nd appearance

Topics

• The main component of air is nitrogen. (Forfeit: Oxygen)
• The most boring place in Great Britain is a field outside Ousefleet, near Scunthorpe, according to the Ordnance Survey map. It is the blankest square kilometre in the country.

Tangent: Charles Dickens despised Chelmsford, describing it as "the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth." He also invented the word 'boredom'.

• Barbara Cartland holds the record for the most novels written in one year. She was buried in a cardboard coffin beneath an oak tree planted by Queen Elizabeth I.
• The ozone layer is fifteen miles above the Earth's surface. Ozone smells faintly of geraniums.
• Film critic John Simon described Walter Matthau as resembling "a half-melted rubber bulldog".
• Atoms contain mostly empty space. Ernest Rutherford described the centre of an atom as "like a few flies in a cathedral".
• A hydrogen atom has more frequencies than a grand piano has notes.

General ignorance

• King Henry VIII technically had either three or four wives, depending on the source. His marriage to Anne of Cleves was annulled, the Pope declared his marriage with Anne Boleyn to be void as he was still married to Catherine of Aragon, and the marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared void by Henry himself as it was illegal to marry the widow of one's brother (Catherine had previously been married to Henry's older brother Arthur). After his death, the king's body swelled in the heat and exploded. (Forfeit: Henry VIII had six wives)

Hans Holbein the Younger painted various royal portraits. His painting 'The Ambassadors' contains the image of a human skull, which can only be seen properly when viewed from an angle.

• The world silver rhymes with 'chilver'. (Forfeit: Nothing rhymes with silver)
• All diamonds are created beneath the Earth's surface, and brought to the surface in volcanoes. Diamonds and graphite are both made of pure carbon, but appear at opposite ends of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. (Forfeit: All diamonds are from South Africa)
• When travelling through sodium at -270 degrees, light slows to 38 miles per hour. The speed of light is only constant in a vacuum.
• A chameleon changes colour depending on its mood. Their eyes can swivel independently, and it was once believed that they lived on air. (Forfeit: A chameleon changes colour to match its environment)

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Statistics Population: 110,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TL705065 Administration Borough: Chelmsford Shire county: Essex Region: East of England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Essex Historic county: Essex Services Police force: Essex Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East of England Post office and... Boredom is a state of mind in which one interprets ones environment as dull, tedious, and lacking stimuli. ... Autographed portrait photograph of Dame Barbara Cartland, 1992 Dame Barbara Cartland DBE (July 9, 1901 – May 21, 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time, specializing in historical love themes. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... Cardboard is a lay term used to describe a variety of heavy wood-based types of paper, notable for their stiffness and durability. ... 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Genera Erodium Geranium Hypseocharis Monsonia Pelargonium Rhynchotheca Sarcocaulon Geraniaceae is a family of flowering plants. ... John Simon (born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925, in Subotica, Serbia, in what would later become Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-American author and literary, theater, and film critic. ... Walter Matthau Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award winning American comedy actor. ... Properties In chemistry and physics, an atom (Greek ἄτομος or átomos meaning indivisible) is the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), was a nuclear physicist from New Zealand. ... depiction of a hydrogen-1 atom showing the Van der Waals radius and the proton nucleus. ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the bottom waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... A grand piano from Schiedmayer & Söhne, Stuttgart. ... For the play, see Henry VIII (play). ... Catherine of Aragon The wives (queens consort) of Henry VIII of England were: 1. ... Anne of Cleves, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger Queen Anne of England née Anne of Cleves (September 22, 1515–July 16, 1557) also known as The Flanders Mare (see below)—was the fourth queen consort of Henry VIII of England from January 6, 1540 to July 9, 1540. ... The current Pope is Benedict XVI (born Joseph Alois Ratzinger), who was elected at the age of 78 on 19 April 2005. ... A portrait of Anne Boleyn painted some years after her death. ... The recently-widowed young Catherine of Aragon, by Henry VIIs court painter, Michael Sittow, c. ... Arthur Tudor (20 September 1486 St Swithins Priory, Winchester– 2 April 1502 Ludlow Castle) was the eldest son of Henry VII of England. ... A 1543 portrait miniature of Hans Holbein the Younger by Lucas Horenbout Holbeins 1533 painting The Ambassadors Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ... The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery, London. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... // A scattering of round-brilliant cut diamonds shows off the many reflecting facets. ... Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ... Volcano 1. ... Graphite (named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789, from the Greek γραφειν: to draw/write, for its use in pencils) is one of the allotropes of carbon. ... Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch a softer material. ... General Name, Symbol, Number sodium, Na, 11 Chemical series alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1, 3, s Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 22. ... Prism splitting light Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye (visible light) or, in a technical or scientific context, electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength [citation needed]. The elementary particle that defines light is the photon. ... The speed of light in a vacuum is an important physical constant denoted by the letter c for constant or the Latin word celeritas meaning swiftness. It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum, not just visible light. ... Look up Vacuum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Genera Bradypodion Calumma Chamaeleo Furcifer Brookesia Rhampholeon Chameleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are squamates that belong to one of the best-known lizard families. ... AIR is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: The Annals of Improbable Research, a monthly magazine devoted to scientific humour All India Radio - Indias Government Radio service AIR, a popular electronica band from France. ...

Episode 5

Broadcast date

• 9 October 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (15 points)
• Gyles Brandreth (Winner with 54 points) 1st and only appearance
• Rob Brydon (17 points) 1st appearance
• Rich Hall (35 points) 2nd appearance

Topics

• Gerber baby food was poorly marketed in Africa, leading customers to believe that it contained babies. The tins bore a picture of the baby Ann Turner Cook, later a famous mystery author.

Tangent: Strand cigarettes' "You're never alone with a Strand" advertising campaign was a spectacular failure. Queen Victoria smoked when in Scotland, in order to keep the midges away.

Tangent: The chief architect of the London Eye shares a birthday with Gustave Eiffel.

• The Toyota MR2 provoked muck amusement in France, as "MR2" sounds like merde. The Ford Pinto is equally amusing to Brazilians, as "pinto" is Brazilian slang for a small penis.
• Playwright Brendan Behan was asked to devise an advertising slogan for Guinness. He came up with "Guinness makes you drunk." (Forfeit: "Guinness is good for you"—actually written by Dorothy L. Sayers)

Tangent: Alec Guinness allegedy predicted James Dean's death.

• The Ancient Greeks believed that otters killed crocodiles by running into their open mouths and eating their entrails. Raphanizein was an Ancient Greek punishment for adultery that involved inserting a radish into the anus.
• Plato's real name was Aristocles. He taught Aristotle.
• Aristotle believed that buzzards had three testicles.

Tangent: Subbuteo was named after the Latin word for 'hobby'.

Tangent: Discussion of the (legendary) Pope Joan.

• The Ancient Greeks used blackberries as a cure for piles.
• Ancient Greeks voted for their leaders until they were invaded by Macedonia.

Tangent: Michael Portillo's exploits as a young Conservative candidate.

General ignorance

• A centipede has between 30 and 382 legs. None has ever been found with 100 legs.
• In 1994, 35,000 Americans insured themselves against alien abduction.
• Purple rhymes with 'hirple' and 'curple'. (Forfeit: Nothing rhymes with purple)

October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born March 8, 1948 in Germany) is a celebrity, author and politician in the United Kingdom. ... Rob Brydon (born Robert Jones, May 3, 1965, Swansea) is a Welsh actor and comedian most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and The Keith Barret Show. ... Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. ... Gerber baby Gerber Products Company is perhaps the most well-known purveyor of baby food and baby products in the world. ... Baby food is any food that is made specifically for infants, roughly between the ages of six months to two years. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa. ... Ann Turner Cook, the Gerber baby Ann Turner Cook is a mystery author and former high school English literature and writing teacher. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death in 1901. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen of the UK Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification... Midges on a car Midges are small, two-winged flying insects. ... The London Eye at twilight The British Airways London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, opened in 1999 and is the largest observation wheel in the world (a type of Ferris wheel). ... Subscript text Gustave Eiffel. ... The Toyota MR2 was a two-seat, mid-engined, rear wheel drive sports car produced by Toyota from 1984 to 2005, in three different design series. ... The Ford Pinto was an American subcompact car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company, first introduced in 1971, and built through the 1980 model year. ... Brendan Francis Behan (Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin) (February 9, 1923 - March 20, 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. ... Guinness logo World War II era advert. ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ... Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Oscar-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ... James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor who epitomized youthful angst. ... The Ancient Greek world, circa 550 BC Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history which lasted for around one thousand years and was extinguished by the newly-powerful Christianity. ... Genera Amblonyx Aonyx Enhydra Lontra Lutra Lutrogale Pteronura The aquatic (sometimes marine) carnivorous mammals known as otters form part of the large and diverse family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others. ... Genera Mecistops Crocodylus Osteolaemus See full taxonomy. ... Adultery is generally defined as consensual sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than his or her lawful spouse. ... Binomial name Raphanus sativus L. bunch of radishes The radish is a root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family. ... Female Human Anatomy Male Human Anatomy Anal redirects here. ... For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation). ... Aristotle (Greek: AristotélÄ“s) (384 BCE – March 7, 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. ... Aristotle (Greek: AristotélÄ“s) (384 BCE – March 7, 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. ... A buzzard is one of several large birds, but there are a number of meanings as detailed below. ... Human male anatomy The testicles, known medically as testes (singular testis), are the male generative glands in animals. ... Subbuteo is a set of board games simulating team sports such as football, cricket, both codes of Rugby and hockey, although many people associate the name Subbuteo exclusively with the football version. ... The Papess, a Marseilles tarot card of the 18th century, depicts a female Pope. ... The Ancient Greek world, circa 550 BC Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history which lasted for around one thousand years and was extinguished by the newly-powerful Christianity. ... The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. ... Hemorrhoids (also known as haemorrhoids, emerods, or piles) are varicosities or swelling and inflammation of veins in the rectum and anus. ... The Ancient Greek world, circa 550 BC Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history which lasted for around one thousand years and was extinguished by the newly-powerful Christianity. ... Voting is a method of decision making wherein a group such as a meeting or an electorate attempts to gauge its opinion—usually as a final step following discussions or debates. ... The Right Honourable Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative & Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), and the largest in terms of public membership. ... Orders Geophilomorpha Lithobiomorpha Scolopendromorpha Scutigeromorpha Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are fast-moving venomous, predatory, terrestrial arthropods that have long bodies and many jointed legs. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... The abduction phenomenon is an umbrella term used to describe a number of hypotheses, claims or assertions stating that non-human creatures kidnap individuals—sometimes called abductees—usually for medical testing or for sexual reproduction procedures. ... The term purple in its widest sense refers to a wide variety of shades of color occurring between blue and red. ...

Episode 6

Broadcast date

• 16 October 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (8 points)
• Danny Baker (Winner with 19 points) 2nd appearance
• Jo Brand (13 points) 2nd appearance
• Howard Goodall (17 points) 2nd appearance

Topics

• Physicist Niels Bohr hung a horseshoe on his wall as "I understand it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not".

Tangent: Edith Evans purchased a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and hung it low down behind a curtain simply because "there was a hook" there.

Tangent: Discussion of the Schrödinger's cat problem.

• Barbara Cartland, when asked whether British class barriers had broken down, replied "Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you". She also invented the aeroplane-towed glider.
• When asked if he forgave his enemies, the dying Spanish Captain-General Ramon Blanco y Erenas said "I have no enemies, I've had them all shot".
• Pliny the Elder:
  • believed that epilepsy could be cured by eating the heart of a black jackass, outside on the second day of the moon. Alternatively, lightly poached bear testes, a dried camel brain with honey, or gladiator blood.
  • suggested incontinence could be cured by touching the tips of the genitals with linen or papyrus. Alternatively, drinking a glass of wine mixed with the ash of a pig's penis, then urinating in your (or your neighbour's) dog's bed.
  • also suggested haemorrhoids could be cured with a cream made with pig lard and the rust from chariot wheels. Alternatively, swan's fat or the urine of a female goat.
  • thought that headaches were supposedly cured by a fox's genitals tied to the forehead.

  Tangent: British bees died out after World War I – new bees were introduced from Mexico.

  • claimed that choking on a piece of bread could be cured by placing pieces of the same loaf in the ears.
  • died investigating the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
• Twenty four people every year are murdered by the Swiss Army, due to the relatively free availability of handguns.
• During the Vietnam War, the US Military prevented wounded soldiers from swallowing their tongues by pinning the tongue to the cheek. More soldiers committed suicide after Vietnam than died in combat.
• Costa Rica has no army: it was disbanded in 1949. The constitution now specifically forbids the country from having an army.
• Alsatians are forbidden from serving in the Spanish Army, as they have an IQ of 60: an IQ of 70 is the minimum required.

General ignorance

• The Goliath frog of Cameroon is mute. (Forfeit: "Ribbit") The only frog to go "ribbit" is the Pacific Tree Frog, the species native to Hollywood and thus sampled for use on hundreds of movie soundtracks.
• An acre is 40 poles long and 4 poles wide. (Forfeit: The Polish Army)
• The Chicago World's Fair in 1933 was opened by light from Arcturus.

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Autographed portrait photograph of Dame Barbara Cartland, 1992 Dame Barbara Cartland DBE (July 9, 1901 – May 21, 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time, specializing in historical love themes. ... An Air France Boeing 777, a modern passenger jet. ... Gliders or Sailplanes are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... Genera Ailuropoda Ailurus Helarctos Melursus Ursus Tremarctos Arctodus (extinct) A bear is a large mammal in the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora. ... Species Camelus bactrianus Camelus dromedarius Camels are even-toed ungulates in the genus Camelus. ... A jar of honey, shown with a wooden honey server and scones. ... This article is about the Roman professional fighter. ... Look up incontinence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Linum usitatissimum L. - Flax Torn linen cloth, recovered from the Dead Sea Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. ... Papyrus plant Cyperus papyrus at Kew Gardens, London Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that grows to 5 meters (15 ft) in height and was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt. ... Species Sus barbatus Sus bucculentus Sus cebifrons Sus celebensis Sus domesticus Sus heureni Sus philippensis Sus salvanius Sus scrofa Sus timoriensis Sus verrucosus Pigs are ungulates native to Eurasia collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae family. ... A blacksmith removing rust with sand prior to welding Rust damage in automobiles can create hidden dangers. ... Hittite chariot (drawing of an Egyptian relief) Approximate historical map of the spread of the chariot, 2000 –500 BC. A chariot is a two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle. ... Genera and species Cygnus Bechstein 1803 C. cygnus C. buccinator C. columbianus C. (c. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Species See Species and subspecies The goat is a mammal in the genus Capra, which consists of nine species: the Ibex, the West Caucasian Tur, the East Caucasian Tur, the Markhor, and the Wild Goat. ... A headache is a condition of mild to severe pain in the head; sometimes upper back or neck pain may also be interpreted as a headache. ... A fox is a member of any of 27 species of small omnivorous canids. ... Families Andrenidae Apidae Colletidae Halictidae Megachilidae Melittidae Stenotritidae Bee collecting pollen Bees (a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila) are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul... This article is about the mountain in Italy. ... In a railway station, a young Swiss militia soldier returning to duty after a week-end break The military of Switzerland, officially known as the Swiss Armed Forces, is a unique institution somewhere between a militia and a regular army. ... A handgun is a firearm small enough to be carried and used in one hand. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... The military of the United States, officially known as the United States Armed Forces, is structured into five branches consisting of the: United States Army United States Marine Corps United States Navy United States Air Force United States Coast Guard (recently converted to reporting to the Department of Homeland Security... Alsatian can refer to: A person from Alsace, France The Alsatian language A German Shepherd Dog This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Civil Guard, Coastal Civil Guard Military manpower - military age: 20 years of age Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 10,569,785 (2000 est. ... IQ redirects here; for other uses of that term, see IQ (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Conraua goliath (Boulenger, 1906) The Goliath frog is an African frog of genus Conraua. ... Binomial name Pseudacris regilla (Baird & Girard, 1852) Synonyms Hyla regilla The Pacific Tree Frog (Pseudacris regilla formerly Hyla regilla) is a small (2. ... ... An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, The City of Big Shoulders Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area    - City 606. ... A Worlds Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid-19th century. ... Arcturus (α Boo / α Boötis / Alpha Boötis) is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, and the third brightest star in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of −0. ...

Episode 7

Broadcast date

• 23 October 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (0 points)
• Jo Brand (-38 points) 3rd appearance
• Jimmy Carr (-1 point) 1st appearance
• Jackie Clune (winner with 5 points) 1st and only appearance

Topics

• Discovery of Australia by the Chinese (forfeit: James Cook)
• Aborigines - the term comes from the Latin meaning "from the origin" and was first used to describe a pre-Roman people

Tangents: the scrotum and sperm

• Meaning of the word Kangaroo (forfeit: "I don't know")
• Evolution of human beings (forfeit: apes)
• Name of the Hehe tribe

Tangents: stupid answers given in trivia games

• Quite interesting facts about Swaziland and its king
• How King Henry VIII wiped his bottom - using someone else's hand
• The Oxford English Dictionary
• Arthropods - the male European earwig has a spare penis
• Bug - an insect with piercing and sucking mouth parts.
• How many legs millipedes have (forfeit: 1000)

General Ignorance

• The colour of water - blue (forfeit: clear)
• More people have been killed by ducks than by atomic bombs, as they were responsible for the 1918 outbreak of the Spanish flu
• The ostrich does not bury its head in the sand (forfeit)
• Who invented rubber boots - Amazonian Indians, and Charles Goodyear with his invention of vulcanised rubber (forfeit: the Duke of Wellington)

October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Joanne Brand was born 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. ... dsadsadsadsda ... female comedy cabaret performer/writer and broadcaster. ... James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... See also, List of Indigenous Australian group names Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... In some male mammals, the scrotum is a bag of skin and muscle containing the testicles. ... The signifier sperm can refer to: (mass noun, from Greek sperma = seed) a substance which consists of spermatozoa and which is a component of semen (mass noun) semen itself (informally, count noun with plural sperm or sperms) a single spermatozoon (= sperm cell) sperma ceti (Latin ceti, genitive of cetus = whale... Species Macropus rufus Macropus giganteus Macropus fuliginosus A kangaroo is any of several large macropods (the marsupial family that also includes the wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and the Quokka: 63 species in all). ... In 1832, while traveling on the Beagle, naturalist Charles Darwin collected giant fossils in South America. ... Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. ... Families Hylobatidae Hominidae Apes are the members of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, including humans. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up Trivia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mswati III (born Makhosetive on April 19, 1968) of Swaziland is the king of Swaziland, and head of the Swazi Royal Family. ... For the play, see Henry VIII (play). ... The Groom of the Stool was someone who had the task of cleaning King Henry VIIIs rear after a bowel movement. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is generally regarded as the most comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Families Suborder Archidermaptera extinct Suborder Forficulina Pygidicranidae Diplatyidae Anisolabididae Labiduridae Apachyidae Spongiphoridae Chelisochidae Forficulidae Suborder Hemimerina Hemimeridae Suborder Arixenina Arixeniidae Earwig is the common name given to the insect order Dermaptera characterized by membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings (hence the literal name of the order - skin wings). The... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... Invertebrate is a term coined by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck to describe any animal without a spinal column. ... Orders See taxonomy Insects are invertebrates that are taxonomically referred to as the class Insecta. ... In an extended sense, a leg is any part of an object that supports it off the ground. ... This page is about the creature known as the millipede. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... Water is a tasteless, odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent. ... The term Blue may refer any of a number of similar colors. ... The word duck was also used as slang for the WWII amphibious vehicle called a DUKW. It is also a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero; see golden duck. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Public Notice The Spanish Flu Pandemic (less misleadingly called the 1918 flu pandemic) was a pandemic in 1918 and 1919 caused by an unusually severe and deadly strain of the subtype H1N1 of the species Influenza A virus (which apparently killed via cytokine storm, explaining the severe nature and unusual... Binomial name Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 The ostrich (Struthio camelus) is a flightless bird native to Africa. ... A pair of classic black leather Dr. Martens. ... Charles Goodyear, as illustrated in an 1891 Scientific American article Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber,a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ...

Episode 8 (incomplete)

Broadcast date

• 30 October 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies
• Clive Anderson 2nd appearance
• Sean Lock 1st appearance
• Linda Smith 1st appearance

October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Clive Anderson Clive Anderson (10 December 1952) is a former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned television presenter from the United Kingdom. ... Sean Lock (born 1963) is an English comedian. ... Linda Smith Linda Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English stand-up comic and comedy writer. ...

Episode 9

Broadcast date

• 6 November 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (10 points)
• Jo Brand (15 points) 4th appearance
• Dave Gorman (20 points) 1st and only appearance
• Jeremy Hardy (15 points) 3rd appearance

Topics

• A bongo is a rare type of antelope

Tangent: Syllogisms, Queen Elizabeth and Kylie Minogue; the bongo-player of T. Rex was Steve Peregrin Took; Marc Bolan was dyslexic but obsessed with The Lord of the Rings novels

• Kudu dung spitting
• Alexander the Great:
  • was a "short, left-handed, epileptic, bisexual Albanian"
  • introduced to Europe the banana, crucifixion, cotton and the Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • washed his hair in saffron
  • was embalmed in honey
• Aristotle taught that flies have four legs, that mucus was brain-matter

Tangent: the common cold

• Auricle is another name for the outer part of the ear
  • Vincent van Gogh, after cutting off half of his own ear, presented it to the prostitute that had spurned his affection
  • Snakes do not have ears
  • The okapi can clean its own ears with its tongue
  • Galileo Galilei discovered "ear-like growths" – the rings of Saturn

General ignorance

• The first King of England was Athelstan from 924 to 939
• Aristotle claimed that hedgehogs had sexual intercourse face-to-face (forfeit: carefully)
• The most dangerous creature in history is the mosquito, having killed half of the people on Earth
• The lords of shouting are angels that sing to God every morning, according to the Jewish faith
• Samson's hair was cut off by a servant of Delilah and not Delilah herself

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Episode 10 (incomplete)

Broadcast date

• 13 November 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (Winner with 23 points!)
• Rich Hall (3 points) 3rd appearance
• Julia Morris (9 points) 1st and only appearance
• Peter Serafinowicz (-5 points) 1st and only appearance

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Episode 11 (incomplete)

Broadcast date

• 20 November 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies
• Bill Bailey 3rd appearance
• Richard E. Grant 1st and only appearance
• Linda Smith 2nd appearance

November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Mark Bill Bailey (born 1964, Bath, England) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI: Quite Interesting and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. ... Richard E. Grant depicted as the unofficial Ninth Doctor. ... Linda Smith Linda Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English stand-up comic and comedy writer. ...

Episode 12 – Christmas special

Broadcast date

• 23 December 2003 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-6 points)
• Phill Jupitus (5 points) 1st appearance
• Sean Lock (7 points) 2nd appearance
• John Sessions (28 points) 2nd appearance

Theme

• The general theme of all the questions was Christmas, with the panellists asked to draw a Christmas tree. Alan Davies drew a traditional childlike portrayal of a Christmas tree – a triangular style tree showing (incorrectly) that the branches point downwards.

Topics

• A gripple is a gripping device made in Sheffield. Thousands of gripples hold together the Dingo Fence, the worlds longest fence.
• One of the first domesticated animal was the reindeer.
• Another common name for a reindeer (in North America) is caribou.
• Santa's reindeers must be either female or castrated – male reindeer lose their antlers during winter.
• In "days of yore" Yorkshiremen would gather around their beehives during Christmas because they believed that the bees would start humming at midnight (the time of Christ's birth), even when the calendars changed.
• Mince pies were banned by Oliver Cromwell because they symbolised Catholicism.
• From 1814 to the start of World War I, the German village of Lauscha in Thuringia provided the world with baubles, with 90% of US houses.
• The 1908 ban of candles on Christmas trees.

Tangent: Insurance companies and their avoidance of paying out

• During the 1870 siege of Paris by the Prussians the Parisians ran out of food and so one restaurant used rats in their cooking.

General ignorance

• Christmas Island includes Paris, London, Poland and Banana.
• It is only illegal for a child to drink alcohol in a bar, nowhere else.
• Santa Claus comes from Turkey
• The image of Santa Claus was originally noted in the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas

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B series (2004)

Episode 1

Broadcast dates

• 8 October 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-22 points)
• Bill Bailey (7 points) 4th appearance
• Jo Brand (-20 points) 5th appearance
• Sean Lock (17 points) 3rd appearance

Topics

• The Ancient Greeks had no word for blue
• Rainbows happen when the sun reflects off the back of a rain drop at 42 degrees
• Urine used to be the third largest export from Newcastle after coal and beer – it was used as a dye
• Crushed insects are used in food colouring: Red E120 (cochineal) is made from bugs not beetles

Tangent: the difference between bugs and beetles is that bugs have sucking mandibles

• There are around 2000 coleopterists in the world, and 10 million different species of beetle – around two thirds of all insects are beetles

General ignorance

• What rhymes with "orange" (forfeit: "nothing")
  • Blorenge, a town in Wales
  • Gorringe, a surname

Tangent: Stephen Fry's school's tailor, who was named Gorringe

• What colour is Mars? (forfeit: "red")
  • Brown
  • Recent NASA images were tweaked using filters to make it appear red
• What prevented Henry the 8th from marrying Lord Pembroke? (forfeit: "gay marriages were illegal")
  • Nothing – Lord Pembroke was Anne Boleyn
• There are no green mammals
• In ancient Greece dildos were made from bread

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Episode 2

Broadcast date

• 15 October 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-40 points)
• Jo Brand (-8 points) 6th appearance
• Rich Hall (Winner with 3 points) 4th appearance
• Phil Kay (1 point) 1st appearance

Task

• At the start the panel were asked to draw a kiwi, paying particular attention to the position of the nostrils. Alan correctly drew its nostrils at the end of the beak.

Topics

• David Livingstone couldn't distinguish between the roar of an ostrich and the roar of a lion.

Tangent: Johnny Cash was attacked ferociously by an ostrich.

• The tongue of a woodpecker can extend to 2/3rds of its body-length, and has an ear at the end of it.
• Since they have only 20-30 taste-buds, birds can't distinguish the taste of chocolate, which is toxic to them anyway.

Tangent: The lethal dose of chocolate for a human is about 22lbs

Tangent: Fry once kicked a hamster-ball through a friend's window. The rodent survived.

• Skin, the largest organ in the body, weighs 6lbs and covers 18 square feet on average. A person will get through around 900 'skins' in a lifetime.
• Sperm can 'smell' the aroma of lily of the valley.
• Chang and Eng Bunker were siamese twins. Chang was once convicted of general assault on a member of the audience during one of the twins' variety acts. However, the judge in the case could not hold Eng in prison as well, so he set them both free.

General ignorance

• The loudest thing in the ocean is a "shrimp layer" (Forfeit: Blue Whale)
• Statistically in the UK, one is more likely to be killed by an asteroid than by lightning.
• Camels originated from the continent of America, 20 million years ago. (Forfeits: Asia, Africa)
• Despite being pink, the Flamingo eats blue-green algae. (Forfeit: shrimp)

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Episode 3

Broadcast date

• 22 October 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-4 points)
• Clive Anderson (1 points) 3rd appearance
• Rich Hall (2 points) 5th appearance
• Phill Jupitus (Winner with 4 points) 2nd appearance

Topics

• In World War II the American forces planned to equip Mexican free-tail bats with napalm-filled 'waistcoats' so they could blow up Japanese towns. In testing, however, the wind changed and the bats instead flamed a US army base.
• Zeppo Marx contributed to the design of release clamps used to hold the Hiroshima bomb inside the Enola Gay
• Russian forces trained dogs with bombs attached to hide under tanks in order to blow them up.
• The first postcard sent from Antarctica featured a penguin being serenaded by a bagpiper.

Tangent: 50% of bagpipers suffer from RSI

• The common name for Ursus arctos is grizzly bear. (Forfeit: Polar bear)

Tangent: Arctos is from the ancient Greek word for bear. The Arctic region gets its name from the constellations of the Great Bear and Little Bear.

• Polar bears do not disguise themselves by covering their noses!

General Ignorance

• Is this a rhetorical question? (No!)
• Technically there are only 46 states in the USA, because Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are commonwealths.

Tangent: Hawaii is the only state not to have a straight line along one of its borders.

• During World War II, the only six Americans to lose their lives on home soil did so on a church picnic in Bly, Oregon. They were killed by Japanese fugos - balloon bombs.

Tangent: Not to be confsued with the Fugu fish.

Tangent: 800 Americans die in a McDonald's every year.

• Penguins will live near the magnetic north pole in the event of a magnetic pole shift.

Tangent: Polar bears and penguins never meet in the wild.

• The Boy Scout salute is almost identical to that of the Polish army.

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Geoffroy, 1824) The Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium sized bat. ... Herbert Marx (February 25, 1901 – November 29, 1979) is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers. ... For other uses, see Hiroshima (disambiguation). ... Colonel Paul Tibbets waving from Enola Gays cockpit after the bombing of Hiroshima. ... Modern Genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For extinct genera, see Systematics Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. ... A bagpipe performer in Amsterdam. ... 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Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 160 miles (255 km)  - Length 280 miles (455 km)  - % water 2. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers, and should be edited to rectify this. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bly is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, about 44 miles east of Klamath Falls. ... 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Episode 4

Broadcast date

• 29 October 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-6 points)
• Jeremy Clarkson (Winner with 5 points) 1st appearance
• Barry Cryer (-6 points) 1st and only appearance
• Jeremy Hardy (3 points) 4th appearance

Topics

• There are only 15 professional ventriloquists left in Britain.

Tangent: There are 280,000 heroin addicts in Britain, 10,000 practising Druids and 50,000 practitioners of alternative medicine.

Tangent: The rulebook for Dutch prostitutes is about an inch thick.

• A Birmingham screwdriver is slang for a hammer. (Forfeit: a drink)
• The kingdom of Bhutan, having no television or cars, has the least use for Jeremy Clarkson.

Tangent: India has no speed limits, and every car bought there will be involved in a fatal road accident within 5 years.

Tangent: Britain and Finland are the only two democracies to have declared war on each other.

• According to the book of Leviticus, Jews are permitted to eat grasshoppers but not cuckoos, ferrets or camels
• Leaders of Russia have alternated between being hairy and bald

General ignorance

• The English Civil War resulted in the highest proportion of British soldiers dying (85,000 on the battlefield, another 100,000 of wounds subsequently - 10% of the adult population)

Tangent: 90% of British people cannot name a battle in the English Civil War, 80% do not know which English king was executed by Parliament, and 67% of schoolchildren have never heard of Oliver Cromwell.

• Less than 0.02% of the Earth is water. (Forfeit: two-thirds)
• Andy Warhol always wore green underwear.
• Robert Burns never wore a kilt, since kilt-wearing was illegal at the time.

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Episode 5

Broadcast date

• 5 November 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-35 points)
• Bill Bailey (-5 points) 5th appearance
• Jo Brand (8 points) 7th appearance
• Jimmy Carr (Winner with 15 points) 2nd appearance

Tasks

• The panel's "QI Brainteaser" was to make interesting phrases from a collection of fridge-magnet letters. Answers included:
  • QI Is A Queer Idea (Fry)
  • Vagina Doom (Davies)
  • I Love A Fryup (Brand)
  • Frodo Lap Shame (Bill)
  • Sit Look Rub Panda (Alan)
  • Put Smarties Tubes On Cats Legs Make Them Walk Like A Robot (Jimmy)
  • Gay Elf Romp (Bill)
  • Tiberius Can Look Mad (Alan)

Topics

• Koalas make a kind of soup from their faeces for their young.

Tangent: Wombats have cubical faeces.

• Bears do not defaecate anywhere in the winter, since it's during hibernation (Forfeit: In the woods)
• Toothpaste makes bears go crazy with desire
• The animal with huge teeth and only one facial expression is the Giant Panda. (Forfeit: Janet Street-Porter)

Tangent: A panda's penis points backwards

• Bamboo has a tensile strength greater than steel and can grow up to 4 foot a day. It is also a grass.
• Thomas Edison believed that 15 tiny people lived within the human mind. He did not invent the light bulb, although one of his letters contains the first written reference of the word hello.

Tangent: Due to government regulations, Stephen Fry will probably be the last official pipe-smoker of the year.

General Ignorance

• Dinosaurs beginning with 'b' include the brachiosaurus, Barney and the bambiraptor. (Forfeit: brontosaurus)
• Mike the headless chicken lived for two years without a head.
• Penicillin was discovered by Ernest Duchesne. (Forfeit: Alexander Fleming)
• Arthur Conan Doyle played in goal for Portsmouth, Niels Bohr played for the University of Copenhagen 1sts soccer team, Albert Camus was goalkeeper for the University of Algiers team, but Shostakovich was a qualified soccer referee.

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Genera and Species Vombatus Vombatus ursinus Lasiorhinus Lasiorhinus latifrons Lasiorhinus krefftii †Rhizophascolomus †Phascolonus †Warendja †Ramasayia Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately one metre (3 feet) in length and with a very short tail. ... Genera Ailuropoda Ailurus Helarctos Melursus Ursus Tremarctos Arctodus (extinct) A bear is a large mammal in the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora. ... Modern toothpaste gel Toothpaste is a paste or gel used to clean and improve the aesthetic appearance and health of teeth. ... Binomial name Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David, 1869) Giant Panda range Subspecies A. melanoleuca melanoleuca A. melanoleuca qinlingensis The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca black-and-white cat-foot) is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central and southern China. ... Janet Street-Porter (born December 27, 1946) is an outspoken media personality in the United Kingdom. ... Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ... The old Steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon content between 0. ... An area of grass-like plants Grass generally describes a monocotyledonous green plant in the family Poaceae, botanically regarded as true grasses. ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. ... The light bulb is one of the most significant inventions in the history of the human race, illuminating the darkness of the evening and bringing light indoors at all times in order focus on the task at hand. ... Look up hello in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Species (type) ?B. (Giraffatitan) brancai Brachiosaurus //, meaning Arm Lizard, from the Greek brachion/βραχιων meaning arm and sauros/σαυρος meaning lizard, was a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Jurassic Period. ... Barney may refer to: Fictional characters: Barney & Friends, a childrens TV show (about Barney, a dinosaur) Barney Calhoun, a character in the computer games Half-Life and Half-Life 2 Barney Fife, a character from The Andy Griffith Show Barney Gumble, a character from The Simpsons Barney Rubble, a... Binomial name Bambiraptor feinbergi Burnham , 2000 Bambiraptor is a 75 million year old bird-like dinosaur discovered by scientists at the University of Kansas, Yale University, and the University of New Orleans. ... Brontosaurus (pronounced ), meaning thunder lizard (from the Greek brontē/βροντη meaning thunder and sauros/σαυρος meaning lizard), is a deprecated genus of sauropod dinosaurs. ... Mike and his head, together for the last time. ... 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Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. ... The University of Copenhagen (Danish: Københavns Universitet) is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Albert Camus (pronounced ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a Algerian-French author and philosopher. ... The University of Algiers Benyoucef Benkhedda (Arabic جــامــــــعة الجـــــــزائر بن يوسف بن خـدة) is a university located in Algiers, Algeria. ... Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian: , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906–August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ...

Episode 6

Broadcast date

• 12 November 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-18 points)
• Bill Bailey (6 points) 6th appearance
• Sean Lock (-18 points) 4th appearance
• Anneka Rice (Winner with 7 points) 1st and only appearance

Topics

• The Pope could eat beaver on a Friday as it is designated as a fish

Tangent:Beavers excrete castorium, which is used to make aspirin

• If aliens were looking to abduct Earth's most successful inhabitants, they would look to bacteria. There are 40,000 species in a gram of soil

Tangent: There is a named phoebia of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth (Arachibutyrophobia)

Tangent: Every phobia has an opposite philia (a love of something, e.g. arachnophilia is the love of spiders)

• Bulges: In the Battle of the Bulge, the 'stomach division' were the soldiers with illnesses not deemed severe enough to prevent them fighting in battle

Tangent: German for diarrhoea = Durchfall literally "through fall"

Tangent: At one Paralympics the Spanish national basketball team pretended to be mentally ill so they could compete. They won the gold medal.

• The Earth bulges by up to 20cm twice a day.

Tangent: To explain to Alan how the Moon causes the tides

General ignorance

• The Earth has either 1 or 5 moons. (Forfeit: Two) Since the discovery of Cruithne in 1997, three more 'moons' have been discovered: (54509) 2000 PH₅, (85770) 1998 UP₁ and 2002 AA₂₉. (If Cruithne is classed as a moon, then so must the others. Otherwise, Earth only has one moon.)

Tangent: No evidence of lunacy being related to the full Moon

• Since 2003, only 11 points are required to win at table tennis. (Forfeit: 21 points)
• Also in 2003, the regulation size of a table tennis ball was increased to make it slower and easier to watch on television
• A kangaroo has three vaginas, but only two wombs.

Tangent:The clitoris is the only organ designed purely for pleasure

• Julius Caesar was not born by caesarean section. (Forfiet: he was) The phrase is derived from the Latin word for cut.

Tangent: Roman statues' eyes are blank because they were later painted

Tangent: Most common death row prisoner's last meal : Cheeseburger, Fries and Coke (A Happy Meal)

• There are no offence for which you can be put to death in the UK. (Forfeits: Arson in the royal dockyards, treason)
• Dead bodies are eaten by bacteria. (Forfeit: Worms)

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Episode 7 (incomplete)

Broadcast date

• 19 November 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies
• Rich Hall 6th appearance
• Dara Ó Briain 1st appearance (winner - however, second on appearance discovered that he should not have won, and as a forfeit had points deducted from his score on the second show to make up for his win on this show)
• Arthur Smith 1st appearance

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. ... Dara Ó Briain (//) (born February 4, 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter. ... This article is about the British comedian. ...

Episode 8 (incomplete)

Broadcast date

• 26 November 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies
• Rich Hall 7th appearance
• Jo Brand 8th appearance
• Fred MacAulay

November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. ... Joanne Brand was born 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. ... Fred MacAulay (December 29, 1956) is a Scottish comedian. ...

Episode 9

Broadcast dates

• 3 December 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-72 points)
• Rich Hall (4 points) 8th appearance
• Josie Lawrence (4 points)
• John Sessions (-14 points) 3rd appearance

Topics

• Moth larvae eat clothes, not moths

Tangent: Leopards take their dead prey up a tree and leave it for days, often returning and eating the rotting animal carcass

• Butterflies are an evolution from moths – they came out during the daytime to avoid being eaten by bats (see also difference between a butterfly and a moth)
• Bats use sonar, shown in an experiment using bells: a pitch black room with bells hung from the ceiling and bats flying around created no noise, but owls did run into the bells.
• Batology is the study of brambles and blackberries, chiroptology is the study of bats
• Batophobia is the fear of being close to tall buildings
• Battology means pointlessly repeating the same thing over again
• In Sweden on 1 January 1994 there was the same number of 8 year old girls (112,521) as there were 9 year old girls on 1 January 1995, with no migration or death
• The biggest tourist attraction in Canada between 1934 and 1943 was the Dionne quintuplets. (Forfeit: Niagara Falls)
• The first recorded Olympic Games in 776 BC did not include discus, javelin, the hammer throw or the 200m (all forfeits) – the only event was the 192m (600 ft) sprint, which was won by Koroibos
• The length of the marathon (26 miles) was dictated by the one run at 1908 Olympic Games

General ignorance

• First modern Olympic Games were held in 1850 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England (forfeits: Athens, Greece) and arranged by William Penny Brookes
• Charles XIV of Sweden had a tattoo saying "Death to kings"
• Harold I of Denmark was the source of the name of Bluetooth technology
• St. Bernard dogs do not carry barrels of brandy, but have carried barrels of milk

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Episode 10 (incomplete)

Broadcast date

• 10 December 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies
• Phil Kay 2nd appearance
• Clive Anderson 4th appearance
• John Sessions 4th appearance

December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Phil Kay Phil Kay is a Scottish stand-up comedian. ... Clive Anderson Clive Anderson (10 December 1952) is a former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned television presenter from the United Kingdom. ... John Sessions (born January 11, 1953 in Largs, North Ayrshire) is a gay Scottish actor best known for his comedy work in improvisation shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?. A gifted impressionist, he worked on Spitting Image and later the surreal celeb soap opera Stella Street. ...

Episode 11 (incomplete)

Broadcast date

• 17 December 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies
• Sean Lock 5th appearance
• Linda Smith 3rd appearance
• Mark Gatiss

December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Sean Lock (born 1963) is an English comedian. ... Linda Smith Linda Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English stand-up comic and comedy writer. ... Mark Gatiss (born October 17, 1966 in Sedgefield, County Durham, England) is an English actor and writer. ...

Episode 12 – Christmas special

Broadcast dates

• 26 December 2004 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-52 points)
• Rich Hall (7 points) 9th appearance
• Mark Steel (2 points) 1st appearance
• Phill Jupitus (-3 points) 3rd appearance
• Stephen Fry (-56 points)

Topics

• Helium alters the timbre not the pitch of the voice – sound travels faster through helium

Tangent: Health & Safety will not allow a demonstration

• The link between Santa Claus and Emperor Penguins is that they "come once a year"

Tangent: Aristotle believed that having sex while facing northwards led to stronger and healthier babies

• People who smoke shorten their life expectancy by 5 years, while cutting off the testicles adds 13 years
• Barbers did castrations as the practice was illegal – they explained it as an accident; castratos are people that sing in a high pitch because they have been castrated
• There were no animals present at birth of Jesus
• The bible does not state that there were three magi (or kings), nor that they were wise or even male; it just said that there were three gifts

Tangent: Fry talks about his interview with the president of Uganda (and David Frost)

• The name of Herod's wife was Doris
• In the Middle Ages the church simultaneously recognised seven different heads said to have been that of Saint Anne (Jesus' grandmother)
• Water bears can die and come back to life after three days of being dead

Tangent: what special powers would panellist have?

• The coldest place in the universe is in Louisiana – scientists took the temperature down to a fraction above absolute zero

General ignorance

Davies and Fry change place, Davies asks the questions

• "Who plays in goal for Aston Villa?"
• Mozart's middle name was not Amadeus (Fry receives the forfeit) – it was Wolfgang
• There are six different states of matter (Fry's forfeit: Four)
• In the southern hemisphere water drains in whichever direction you choose
• Penguins do not, as often humorously depicted, fall backwards as they watch jets pass (Fry's forfeit)
• The cow is not a sacred animal in India

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C series (2005)

Episode 1

Broadcast dates

• 30 September 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-25 points)
• Bill Bailey (-5 points) 7th appearance
• Rob Brydon (-16 points) 2nd appearance
• Rich Hall (winner with 8 points) 10th appearance

Topics

• Cartography: The full Ordnance Survey of 2002, the most detailed map of Great Britain, sells for £30,000 for every town, or £4,099,000 for the whole country
• The etymology of the word map – from mappa, Latin for napkin
• Campanology – there are 720 different possible "changes" in the traditional British line-up of six bells
• The Isle of Wight – the last place in Britain to convert to Christianity in 686AD (100 point question asked to Alan Davies)

Tangent: The gray squirrel has not made its way to the Isle of Wight

• Custard can support a person walking on top of it because it is a non-Newtonian fluid
• There is no evidence that any Christians were thrown to the lions in a colosseum
• Christopher Columbus believed the world to be pear shaped, while most people throughout history believed it to be spherical (Forfeit: Most people thought it was flat)

General ignorance

• Taffy Pull (forfeit: Welsh chat-up line) – a form of toffee

Tangent: Salt water taffy isn't actually made from salt water

• The number of sheep on Noah's Ark (forfeit: two) – the number of clean animals onboard the Ark is seven, with two of each unclean animal
• The archbishop murdered by Henry II (forfeit: Thomas A Becket) – the name is Thomas Becket, with the "A" being a mistake

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Episode 2

Broadcast dates

• 7 October 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-4 points)
• Andy Hamilton (winner with 5 points) 1st appearance
• Doon Mackichan (-2 points) 1st and only appearance
• Arthur Smith (-6 points) 2nd appearance

Theme

• Opera - a 50 point bonus was offered to any contestant who could break a wine glass using only the power of their voice. It is almost impossible to achieve.

Topics

• Doon swam the channel in 1998; Captain Webb was the first man to do so in 1875, smothered in goose-fat in order to insulate himself.

Tangent: Captain Webb died in 1883 attempting to swim across the river at the foot of the Niagara Falls

• Cummingtonite is a mineral discovered at Cummington, Massachusetts. Other comedy compounds include Penguinone, Arsole and Moronic acid.
• Deep-fried Mars bars do exist and are not an urban myth. The deep-fried pork sausage kebab, found in Glasgow, contains 1000 calories and 46g of fat.

Tangent: Fry's various anecdotes on the Scottish accent

• Ordeal by bean is an (outlawed) Nigerian tribal custom whereby accused individuals are forced to eat a lethal strain of bean.(Forfeit: anything to do with Mr Bean)
• Big Beard Wang was the name of the hairdresser to Chairman Mao (Mao in Chinese meaning cat)
• According to one survey, the age people would most like to be is 17. From a man's point of view, a woman's perfect age is said to be half his own plus seven.

General ignorance

• A platypus, technically speaking, is a genus of beetle, not to be confused with a duck-billed platypus. The latter has no nipples, but instead sweats milk.
• A dialogue does not require only 2 people to take part.
• The Queen's handbag contains some money, a comb, a handkerchief, a small gold compact and some lipstick.

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Episode 3

Broadcast dates

• 14 October 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-9 points)
• Jimmy Carr (-12 points) 3rd appearance
• Sean Lock (0 points) 6th appearance
• Rory McGrath (winner with 88 points) 1st appearance

Theme

• "Common knowledge"

Topics

• The commonest bird in the world is the domesticated chicken.

Tangent: according to the Kinsey report, 1 out of 6 men in Iowa has had sex with a chicken.

• John Napier, inventor of the decimal point, kept a black cockerel which he used as a ploy to catch a thieving servant.
• A chevin, or chavender, is a type of carp (forfeit: a chav called Kevin; a chav in Eastenders).
• Fry stated that marsupials are not mammals, however this is incorrect.
• The fingerprints of a koala are indistinguishable from those of a human.
• 'Dermatoglyphics' and 'uncopyrightable' are the longest words in English language with no repetition of a letter.

Tangent: The Finnish word saippuakuppinippukauppias is one of the longest palindromes in the world.

• The commonest metal in the human body is calcium ("Genius" award - 100 points). (Forfeit: iron, mercury).

Tangent: Rory's knowledge of all the atomic numbers.

• The "first" Prime Minister was Henry Campbell-Bannerman; prior to this the official title was First Lord of the Treasury. (Forfeit: Walpole, Pitt)

General ignorance

• Another name for the common cormorant is the seacrow. (Forfeit: shag)

Tangent: Rory and Stephen discuss Latin bird names.

• The Queen's corgis are of the Pembroke variety, not the Cardigan.
• Tweed used to be fixed with stale urine.
• Mr Chicken was the last private resident of 10 Downing Street.

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Episode 4

Broadcast dates

• 21 October 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-52 points)
• Alexander Armstrong (93 points) 1st appearance
• Jeremy Clarkson (0 points) 2nd appearance
• John Sessions (-10 points) 5th appearance

Tasks

• The panelists were asked to keep their own scores. An extra 100 points would be awarded for any contestant who recorded their score absolutely accurately.

Topics

• Cheating - the 'winner' of the marathon at the 1904 Olympics, Frederick Lorz, went most of the way by car. Fourth place was awarded to a Cuban postman named Felix Carvajal, despite falling ill to apples he ate from an orchard en route. Len Tau, one of the first black African competitors in the Olympic Games, finished 9th despite being chased a mile or so off course by a large dog.

Tangent: George Eyser won six gymnastic medals at the 1904 games despite his left leg being made of wood.

Tangent: Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics

• Many riders competing in the 1904 Tour de France were disqualified because of receiving illegal tows from motor vehicles during night races. Maurice Garin was disqualified for taking a train through part of the route.
• Challenger, Tornado, Typhoon, Mustang, Hurricane, Starquest, Buccaneer, Jetstream, Superstorm, and Cobra are all makes of caravan. (Forfeit: tanks, jet-fighters, helicopters).
• Patriot, Gladiator, Dagger, Javelin, Archer, Arrow, White King, Excalibur and Merlin are all variants of parsnip. (Forfeit: missiles).

Tangent: Boris Pasternak's surname means parsnip in Russian.

• The first creature to be sent into space was a fruitfly. (Forfeit: monkey, dog).

Tangent: 65% of diseases found in humans are paralleled in the fruitfly.

• The fruitfly has the largest sperm of any organism, with an uncoiled size of around 20 times its own length (5.8cm).

Tangent: The sperm is the smallest cell in the human body, and the ovum is the largest.

• Tonya Harding's attempt to eliminate the competition of Nancy Kerrigan at figure skating, and Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan's transcontinental flights.

General ignorance

• Since Germany was only reunified in 1990, the Second World War only officially ended that year.
• Swiss inventions include velcro, milk chocolate, cellophane, rayon and the Swiss army knife.(Forfeit: cuckoo clocks)
• 1792 - the year the guillotine was first used, the birth of the inventor of the computer and the death of the inventor of the sandwich and Cambridge University introduced the concept of examinations judged on a written rather than oral basis.

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Episode 5

Broadcast dates

• 28 October 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-18 points)
• Rich Hall (3 points) 11th appearance
• Sean Lock (12 points) 7th appearance
• Jo Brand (-28 points) 9th appearance

Topics

• Women have been shown to be able to "smell fear". Animals can smell the fear of each other but not of another species.
• "Cats-eyes" Cunningham shot down the very first plane by night in 1940 because he had airborne radar. (Forfeit: carrots).

Tangent: the tiny carrot museum in Berlotte, Belgium. [1]

Tangent: why children aged around 2 go off vegetables.

• The curious sounds that can be heard in the desert.

Tangent: there are more molecules in a glass of water than there are grains of sand in the entire world.

• Pliny the Elder and others believed that a giraffe was the result of a cross between a camel and a leopard.
• A centenarian in the UK receives a 'telemessage' from the Queen, but only on application from the Anniversaries' Secretary at Buckingham Palace.

Tangent: Stephen gave Prince Charles for his wedding present coffee made from Cambodian weasel vomit.

• A centurion was in charge of around 83 men. (Forfeit: 100)
• Nero never literally "fiddled while Rome burned". He blamed Christians for the great fire of Rome.
• Elephants used to be caught by Ethiopian elephant catchers who would capture one, disable it and use it as a breeding animal. Methods used to frighten elephants included setting fire to oil-covered pigs and setting them at the elephants.
• The memory of the goldfish has been shown to be far longer than the oft-believed three seconds.

General ignorance

• The Myoclonic jerk
• The largest lake entirely within Canada is the Great Bear Lake. (Forfeit: who cares?).
• Botts' dots is the name for "cat's eyes" in North America.

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Episode 6

Broadcast dates

• 4 November 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-19 points)
• Phill Jupitus (-12 points) 4th appearance
• Bill Bailey (3 points) 8th appearance
• Rory McGrath (-1 points) 2nd appearance

Theme

• Cockney rhyming slang

Topics

• Criminals originally used cockney rhyming slang to obfuscate what they were planning when they thought they could be heard
• "Cockney" means "cock's egg"
• A catfish has thousands of taste buds all over its body
• In the Cherokee language word for Cherokee is "ah-ni-yv-wi-ya"
• Giant Sequoias have bark 4 foot thick and need forest fires to clear the ground for them to breed
• Kudzu is the only plant measured in mph in its growth
• Coal is not present in toothpaste but is part of a toothbrush (in the nylon bristles)

Tangent: the work "nylon" is not a combination of New York (ny) and London (lon), contrary to popular myth

• The Laughing Cavalier was painted on cannabis (or more precisely, hemp) – the word "canvas" originates from the word "cannabis"
• Chelmsford:
  • was the capital of England for 5 days
  • is the only British town named after Julius Caesar
  • has the largest burns unit in Europe
  • called "the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the earth" by Charles Dickens

General ignorance

• Babies in the womb are covered in hair (lanugo) – it then sheds this hair, eats it, and then excretes it as meconium
• Painting the entire body in gold, as per the James Bond film Goldfinger, is not fatal
• Humans have more than five senses
• The oldest man in the Bible is Enoch (ancestor of Noah), as he "the Lord took him" and he is therefore not dead (forfeit: Methuselah)

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Episode 7 (incomplete)

Broadcast dates

• 11 November 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-18 points)
• Sean Lock (3 points) 8th appearance
• Rich Hall (2 points) 12th appearance
• Jeremy Clarkson (winner with 5 points) 3rd appearance

November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Sean Lock (born 1963) is an English comedian. ... Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. ... Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born April 11, 1960, in Doncaster) is a British writer and broadcaster who specialises in motoring. ...

Episode 8

Broadcast dates

• 18 November 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-40 points)
• Phill Jupitus (-9 points) 5th appearance
• David Mitchell (winner with 0 points) 1st appearance
• Bill Bailey (-8 points) 9th appearance

Theme

• Chinese

Topics

• The panellists' names in Chinese and their meanings
• Inventions from Corby (forfeit: trouser press)
• NASA's obsession with Corby since the first moon landing, during which a conversation about the world's porridge-eating championship in Corby was recorded
• Mars and its Craters

Non sequitur: Stephen presents Alan with an Alan Potato Head

• Houses in China that are built from stones out of the Great Wall (forfeit: bamboo)
• Thomas Crapper - possible example of nominative determinism (forfeit: inventor of the flush toilet, which was in fact invented in China)
• Chinese and non-Chinese inventions

Tangent: MSG and umami

• The Dalmatian that discovered China - Marco Polo
• The Croatians who invented the tie (forfeit: Corby trouser press)
• Coffee tights

General ignorance

• The Angel of Christian Charity (forfeit: Eros), a memorial to Lord Shaftesbury, and the first statue in the world to be made of aluminium
• Origin of the name "America" - possibly the Welshman Richard Amerike (forfeit:Amerigo Vespucci)
• The first President of the America (forfeit: George Washington, who was the first president of the independent United States) - Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress. The second was John Hancock, whose name became an American term for a signature.

November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... David Mitchell (born July 14, 1974) is an English comedian, actor and writer. ... Mark Bill Bailey (born 1964, Bath, England) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI: Quite Interesting and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. ... In music, an invention is a short composition with two or three part counterpoint. ... Shown within Northamptonshire Geography Status: Borough Region: East Midlands Admin. ... NASA Insignia Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... The historical plaque on the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle, still remaining on the moon. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... There are hundreds of thousands of craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and filmmaker. ... Mr. ... The Great Wall in the winter The Great Wall of China (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally The long wall of 10,000 Li (里)¹) is a Chinese fortification built from the 5th century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, in order to protect... Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ... Thomas Crapper. ... Nominative Determinism, henceforth ND, is a term popularized by the magazine New Scientist. ... Flush toilet A flush toilet or water closet (WC) is a toilet that disposes of the waste products by using water to send them through a drainpipe to another location. ... In music, an invention is a short composition with two or three part counterpoint. ... Chemical structure of monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate, sodium glutamate, flavour enhancer 621, EU food additive code: E621, HS code: 29224220 (IUPAC names: 2-aminopentanedioic acid, 2-aminoglutaric acid, 1-aminopropane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid), commonly known as MSG, Ajinomoto or Vetsin, is a sodium salt of glutamic acid. ... The basic tastes are the commonly recognized types of taste sensed by humans. ... Map of Dalmatia, in present day Croatia highlighted Dalmatia (Croatian: Dalmacija, Italian: Dalmazia) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Gulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska) in the southeast. ... Marco Polo (September 15, 1254 – January 8, 1324) was a Venetian trader and explorer (presumably of noble origins from Sebenico and Curzola in Dalmatia) who, together with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo, was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China (which he called... Blue necktie. ... A cup of coffee // Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. ... Three women wearing different styles of tights Tights are a type of leg coverings fabric extending from the waist to feet. ... Piccadilly Circus memorial fountain The Angel of Christian Charity, popularly referred to as Eros, one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium. ... Eros, a god in Greek mythology Eros can also refer to: The Greek word Eros, which means sexual love 433 Eros, an asteroid EROS, the Extremely Reliable Operating System Pjur Eros, a premium latex-safe personal lubricant Eros, the life instinct postulated by Freudian psychology, standing in opposition to Thanatos... Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801–1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was an English politician and philanthropist, one of the best-known of the Victorian era. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English and Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area  - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² NUTS... Richard Amerike (Ameryk or ap Meryk) (c. ... Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1451 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. ... Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) The majority of this article is about heads of states. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and was later elected the first President of the United States. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... Peyton Randolph (September, 1721 – October 21, 1775) was the first President of the Continental Congress. ... The President of the Continental Congress was the presiding officer of the Continental Congress. ... John Hancock (January 12, 1737 (O.S.) – October 8, 1793 (N.S.)) was President of the Second Continental Congress and of the Congress of the Confederation; first Governor of Massachusetts; and the first person to sign the United States Declaration of Independence. ... John Hancocks signature is one of the most prominent on the United States Declaration of Independence. ...

Episode 9

Broadcast dates

• 25 November 2005 (BBC Two)
• 9 March 2006 (BBC Four)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (15 points)
• Bill Bailey (-20 points) 10th appearance
• Andy Hamilton (22 points) 2nd appearance
• Helen Atkinson-Wood (winner with 200 points) 1st and only appearance

Theme

• Animals/zoo
• Difficult question bonus - one question is deemed "so impossible" that a correct answer would be rewarded with 200 points.
• Spot the cuttlefish - concealed somewhere in the show there would be a cuttlefish or part of a cuttlefish.

Topics

• Chromosomes - the C-value paradox and the number of chromosomes in different species. Also a claim that every species must normally have an even number of chromosomes, however this is false - the banana has 11 chromosomes [2]. Within the animal kingdom, there is the male T. nitidum wasps with 15 chromosomes [3].
• Pygmy chimpanzees, or bonobos - highly sexual apes
• Swimming through treacle
• Gypsum - the material used in schools to write on blackboards (forfeit: chalk)
• C₆H₁₂O₆(S) + 6O₂(g) -> 6CO₂(g) + 6H₂O(g), described as an "explosion in a custard factory"; it is the oxidisation of glucose. (This question was worth 200 points and was answered correctly by Helen.)
• Custard
• Canines - the New Guinea Singing Dog
• Octopuses - pretending to be coconuts (forfeit: cuttlefish); the plural of octopus
• Marie Curie - winner of two Nobel Prizes; discovered radium together with her husband Pierre.

This is also where part of the cuttlefish was hidden: Marie Curie's photo appeared on the screens in sepia tone, which was originally created using a pigment coming from cuttlefish. The Italian word for cuttlefish is sepia. However, this was not spotted by the panellists

General ignorance

• Inventor of the pie chart - Florence Nightingale

Cuttlefish prize - Alan shouts out "cuttlefish" when the picture of Florence Nightingale appears in sepia tone

• Most tigers in the world are in private hands in the United States (forfeit: asia, zoos)
• Silly, Billy, Chilly, Pussy, Pissy, Corny, Punchy, Misery, Messy and Prat - French place names (forfeit: Dwarves)

November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Mark Bill Bailey (born 1964, Bath, England) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI: Quite Interesting and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. ... Andy Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panelist, director and comedy scriptwriter for television and radio. ... Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955 in Cheadle Hulme) is an English actress and comedian. ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera Subregnum Eumetazoa Placozoa Orthonectida Rhombozoa Radiata (unranked) Ctenophora Cnidaria Bilateria (unranked) Acoelomorpha Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata Hemichordata Echinodermata Chaetognatha Superphylum Ecdysozoa Kinorhyncha Loricifera Priapulida Nematoda Nematomorpha Onychophora Tardigrada Arthropoda Superphylum Platyzoa Platyhelminthes Gastrotricha Rotifera Acanthocephala Gnathostomulida Micrognathozoa Cycliophora Superphylum Lophotrochozoa Sipuncula Nemertea Phoronida Bryozoa Entoprocta Brachiopoda... Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo Zoo redirects here. ... http://en. ... This article is about the biological chromosome. ... // Definition The C-value paradox is a term used to describe the discrepancy between nuclear genome size and the number of genes among eukaryotic species. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Binomial name Pan paniscus Schwarz, 1929 Bonobo distribution The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan. ... Treacle is an obsolete pharmaceutical term for a medicinal salve, usually given for snakebites, poisons, and various diseases. ... Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. // Heating gypsum to between 100°C and 150°C (302°F) partially dehydrates the mineral by driving off exactly 75% of the water contained in its chemical structure. ... A chalkboard, with multiple colors of chalk Blackboard Chalk A quadruple chalkboard at the Helsinki University of Technology A chalkboard or blackboard (and similar colour based names for the same thing) is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with chalk or other erasable markers. ... The Needles, part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ... Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar), is the most important carbohydrate in biology. ... Custard is a range of preparations based on milk and eggs, thickened with heat. ... Genera Alopex Atelocynus Canis Cerdocyon Chrysocyon Cuon Dusicyon Fennecus Lycalopex Lycaon Nyctereutes Otocyon Pseudalopex Speothos Urocyon Vulpes Canidae is the family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals commonly known as canines. ... The New Guinea Singing Dog (NGSD, New Guinea Highland Dog, or Singer) is a relative of the Australian Dingo that is native to New Guinea. ... Families 14 in two suborders, see text The octopus is a cephalopod of the order Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the ocean, especially coral reefs. ... Binomial name Cocos nucifera L.. The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera L.), is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). ... http://en. ... Marie Skłodowska-Curie (French: Maria Curie, born Maria Skłodowska, also widely known as Madame Curie, November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a Polish (and later also French as a citizen) physicist and chemist. ... General Name, Symbol, Number radium, Ra, 88 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 7, s Appearance silvery white metallic Atomic mass (226) g/mol Electron configuration [Rn] 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ... Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859, Paris – April 19, 1906, Paris) was a French physicist and a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. ... http://en. ... Sepia tone is a type of monochrome photographic image in which the picture appears in shades of brown as opposed to greyscale as in a black-and-white image. ... Sepia may refer to any of the following: The genus Sepia of cephalopod, a grouping of cuttlefish. ... A pie chart is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating relative magnitudes or frequencies. ... Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing, and a noted statistician. ... Binomial name Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family, one of four big cats that belong to the Panthera genus. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... Giraffes in Sydneys Taronga Zoo Zoo redirects here. ... Snow White in her coffin, Theodor Hosemann, 1867. ...

Episode 10

Broadcast dates

• 2 December 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-84 points)
• John Sessions (-16 points) 6th appearance
• Clive Anderson (-28 points) 5th appearance
• Mark Steel (winner with 2 points) 2nd appearance

Theme

• Secret Agents buzzers

Topics

• C (of the SIS)

Tangents around the table: one-leggedness

• Cleve Crudgington - inventor of the champagne cork opener
• Champagne
• What makes carbonated beverages bubbly?

Luvvie Alarm: Stephen starts telling a story about his Champagne allergy at a party given by the Duke and Duchess of Westminster

• Torpenhow Hill and Mount Fujiyama - tautological place names
• Scottish inventions
• Cat - The origin of the word; cataglottism; the origin of the word "Pussy"; the sound of the word "cat"
• Vowel sounds in English and other languages

General ignorance

• Bootlace worm - the longest animal in the world (forfeit: blue whale, giant squid, Lion's Mane jellyfish)
• Berries (forfeit: blackberry, strawberry, raspberry)
• The second actor to portray James Bond - Barry Nelson (forfeit: Sean Connery, David Niven)
• "According to Buddha, a person should wander lonely as a..." - Rhinoceros (forfeit: cloud)

December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... John Sessions (born January 11, 1953 in Largs, North Ayrshire) is a gay Scottish actor best known for his comedy work in improvisation shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?. A gifted impressionist, he worked on Spitting Image and later the surreal celeb soap opera Stella Street. ... Clive Anderson Clive Anderson (10 December 1952) is a former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned television presenter from the United Kingdom. ... Mark Steel (born 1961) is an English socialist columnist and comedian. ... Secret agent may refer to: A spy. ... Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming RN (April 1, 1859 - June 14, 1923) was the first director of what would become MI6. ... The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the United Kingdoms external intelligence agency. ... Champagne is often consumed as part of a celebration Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of wine to effect carbonation. ... Carbonated beverages are beverages which contain dissolved carbon dioxide. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and filmmaker. ... Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, OBE (born December 22, 1951) married Natalia Ayesha Phillips in 1978. ... Torpenhow Hill is a hill about 200 metres above sea level in Cumbria in north west England on the side of which the village of Torpenhow is situated, close to the A595 between Cockermouth and Carlisle. ... Mount Fuji (富士山 Fuji-san, IPA: ) is the highest mountain in Japan. ... A place name is tautological if two parts of it are synonymous. ... John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor of television. ... Look up CAT, cat, Cat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... // Pussy can mean:- With the u pronounced as in book: see below:- An affectionate term for a cat, and used to call a cat. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Binomial name Lineus longissimus (Gunnerus, 1770) The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) is in the phylum Nemertea or ribbon worms. ... Binomial name Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) Blue Whale range The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. ... Species Architeuthis dux ?Architeuthis hartingii ?Architeuthis japonica ?Architeuthis kirkii Architeuthis martensi ?Architeuthis physeteris Architeuthis sanctipauli ?Architeuthis stockii Giant squid, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis. ... Several types of berries from the market, but of those shown, only blueberries are true berries. ... The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. ... Species 20+ species; see text This article is about the strawberry plant. ... Binomial name Rubus idaeus L. The Raspberry or Red Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) is a plant that produces a tart, sweet, red composite fruit in summer or early autumn. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, codenamed 007, is a fictional British agent (the Bond character is usually referred to as a spy, but was actually a counter-agent and a professional assassin) created by writer Ian Fleming in 1952. ... Barry Nelson (born April 16, 1920 in San Francisco, California), born Robert Haakon Nielson, is an American film, stage and television actor. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery KBE (born August 25, 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an Oscar-winning Scottish actor and producer who is best known for his portrayal of James Bond. ... David Niven portrayed the original Sir James Bond in the 007 spoof Casino Royale James David Graham Niven (David Niven) (March 1, 1910 – July 29, 1983), was an Academy Award-winning English actor. ... Media:Example. ... Genera Ceratotherium Dicerorhinus Diceros Rhinoceros Coelodonta (extinct) Elasmotherium (extinct) Height Comparison of Extant Rhinoceros Species. ... Cumulonimbus capillatus incus floating over Swifts Creek, Victoria in Australia A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. ...

Episode 11

Broadcast dates

• 9 December 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-26 points)
• Clive Anderson (winner with 0 points) 6th appearance
• Jo Brand (-23 points) 10th appearance
• Phill Jupitus (-23 points) 6th appearance

Theme

• Party/circus
• One answer involved squirrels – if a panellist identified it correctly they would receive 50 points, with 10 points taken away for a miscall

Topics

• Swazzle
• Phobia & fears (including coulrophobia, the fear of clowns)
• Cuckoo, the Greek for coccyx
• Greek frocks (forfeit: Demis Roussos)
• Greek army kilts
• Coconut crabs
• Cheeselogs

Tangent by Clive Anderson: Woodland Trust

• Asbestos

General ignorance

• Hawthorne
• Cocks and cockfighting
• The unusual death of Aeschylus, killed by a falling tortoise

Tangent by Jo Brand: Croesus

• The colour of Robin Hood's tights (forfeit: green)
• Cinderella's slippers (made of squirrel fur; this is itself disputed)

December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Clive Anderson Clive Anderson (10 December 1952) is a former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned television presenter from the United Kingdom. ... Joanne Brand was born 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Traditional hat toss celebration at a graduation ceremony at the United States Naval Academy A party is a social gathering intended primarily for celebration and recreation. ... The Big Top of Billy Smarts Circus Cambridge 2004. ... Genera Many, see the article Sciuridae. ... A swazzle (swatchel) is a device made of two strips of metal bound around a cotton tape reed. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Fear is a basic emotional sensation and response system (feeling) initiated by an aversion to some perceived risk or threat. ... Coulrophobia is a mental condition concerning the fear of clowns. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The coccyx is formed of four fused vertebrae. ... Demis Roussos in his 40s Artemios (Demis) Ventouris Roussos (born June 15, 1946) is a Greek singer. ... The armed forces of Greece consist of the Hellenic Army Hellenic Air Force Hellenic Coast Guard The civilian authority for the Greek military is the Ministry of National Defence. ... Binomial name Birgus latro Linnaeus, 1767 Coconut crab distribution The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. ... Infraorders and Families Infraorder Tylomorpha Tylidae Infraorder Ligiamorpha Ligiidae Mesoniscidae Superfamily Trichoniscoidea Buddelundiellidae Trichoniscidae Superfamily Styloniscoidea Schoebliidae Styloniscidae Titaniidae Tunanoniscidae Superfamily Oniscoidea Bathytropidae Berytoniscidae Detonidae Halophilosciidae Olibrinidae Oniscidae Philosciidae Platyarthridae Pudeoniscidae Rhyscotidae Scyphacidae Speleoniscidae Sphaeroniscidae Stenoniscidae Tendosphaeridae Superfamily Armadilloidea Actaeciidae Armadillidae Armadillidiidae Atlantidiidae Balloniscidae Cylisticidae Eubelidae Periscyphicidae Porcellionidae Trachelipodidae incertae... The woodland trust logo The Woodland Trust, founded in Devon in 1972, and now based in Grantham, Lincolnshire, is a conservation charity in the United Kingdom concerned with the protection and sympathetic management of native woodland heritage. ... Fibrous asbestos on muscovite Asbestos Asbestos Asbestos (a misapplication of Latin: asbestos quicklime from Greek : a, not and sbestos, extinguishable) describes any of a group of minerals that can be fibrous, many of which are metamorphic and are hydrous magnesium silicates. ... Hawthorne is the name of several places in the United States of America: Hawthorne, California Hawthorne, Florida Hawthorne, Minneapolis, Minnesota Hawthorne, Nevada Hawthorne, New Jersey Hawthorne, New York Hawthorne, Portland, Oregon Hawthorne, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hawthorne, Washington, D.C. Hawthorne is also a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland Australia. ... Look up cock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This is a list of unusual deaths – unique causes or extremely rare circumstances – recorded throughout history. ... Bust of Aeschylus from the Capitoline Museums, Rome Aeschylus (525 BC—456 BC; Greek: Ασχύλος) was a playwright of Ancient Greece. ... Genera Chersina Dipsochelys Furculachelys Geochelone Gopherus Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus Manouria Psammobates Pyxis Testudo A tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile of the order Testudines. ... Croesus Croesus (IPA pronunciation: , CREE-sus) was the king of Lydia from 560/561 BC until his defeat by the Persians in about 547 BC. The English name Croesus come from the Latin transliteration of the Greek , in Arabic and Persian قارون, Qârun. ... Robin Hood memorial statue in Nottingham. ... Three women wearing different styles of tights Tights are a type of leg coverings fabric extending from the waist to feet. ... Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation). ... Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation). ...

Episode 12

Broadcast dates

• 16 December 2005 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-47 points)
• Bill Bailey (winner with 3 points) 11th appearance
• Dara Ó Briain (-8 points) 2nd appearance
• Phill Jupitus (-18 points) 7th appearance

Theme

• One fact would be incorrect – the "doubt card" can be shown by any player when they think they have spotted it

Topics

• Mosquito attack on Amiens Prison
• The Duff-Gordons and the alleged bribing of a lifeboat crew after the sinking of the RMS Titanic
• The difference between an Able Seaman and an Ordinary Seaman
• Spontaneously combustible pistachios, walnuts and other non-botanical nuts, and how coconuts cause 150 deaths every year (though numerous studies have debunked this [4])
• Rolls-Royce aircraft engine tested for the effects of birdstrikes with chickens fired from a cannon
• Human cannonballs
• The speed of light
• The first theory of relativity as described by Gallileo and known as Galilean invariance
• Witchcraft and the lack of evidence that a large number were burnt at the stake

Side swipe by Fry at the The Da Vinci Code

• Peter Cushing (a former resident of Whitstable), Christopher Lee; the film Witchfinder General and Vincent Price

General ignorance

• Balsa wood, one of the softest of woods, is not a softwood but Pine is
• Contrary to popular belief if you cut an earthworm in two is does not become two living worms, it becomes two halves of a dead worm – the confusion is due to the length of their death throes.
• The debunking of the theory that Americans spent millions developing the Space pen while the Russians relied upon pencils
• Neil Armstrong and the Mr Gorski story – told as a fact but then shown to be fictional
• The triple point of water is actually 0.01 degrees centigrade – a correction from a previous episode as pointed out by viewers. Apparently those viewers forgot to explain that "centigrade" had been thrown out back in 1948 (six years before the triple point was fixed at 0.01 °C) along with "centesimal" in favour of the third name in use then, "degrees Celsius".

December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Mark Bill Bailey (born 1964, Bath, England) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI: Quite Interesting and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. ... Dara Ó Briain (//) (born February 4, 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... The de Havilland Mosquito (The Wooden Wonder, also known as The Timber Terror) was a British combat aircraft that excelled in a number of roles during the Second World War. ... Amiens Prison during the raid Operation Jericho was a low-level attack on Amiens Prison in Nazi-occupied France undertaken by 19 Mosquito Mk. ... Lady Duff Gordon (Lucile) with a model in her New York salon, 1916 (photo: Arnold Genthe) Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon (June 13, 1863 – April 20, 1935) was a leading fashion designer in the late C19th and first decades of the C20th. ... RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912. ... In the Royal Navy in the middle of the 18th century, the term Able Seaman referred to a seaman with at least two years experience at sea. ... Ordinary Seaman is the lowest normal grade of sailor. ... Spontaneous combustion can have several meanings: The self-ignition, or apparent self-ignition, and burning of any mass; often of highly flammable materials, such as a pile of oily rags; see combustion. ... Binomial name Pistacia vera L. The Pistachio (Pistacia vera, Anacardiaceae; sometimes placed in Pistaciaceae) is a small tree up to 10 m tall, native to mountainous regions of central Asia such as the Kopet Dag mountains of Turkmenistan. ... Species See text The walnuts (genus Juglans) are plants in the walnut family Juglandaceae. ... Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel Chestnut Carya ovata nut anatomy A nut is a seed of a plant. ... Binomial name Cocos nucifera L. The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). ... Rolls-Royce plc is the second-largest aircraft engine maker in the world, behind General Electric Aviation. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... F16 after a bird strike Bird strike (sometimes birdstrike, bird hit, or BASH (bird aircraft strike hazard)) is an aviation term for when there is a collision between an airborne animal (most often birds, but also sometimes other species) and a man made vehicle, especially aircraft. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The speed of light in a vacuum is an important physical constant denoted by the letter c for constant or the Latin word celeritas meaning swiftness. It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum, not just visible light. ... Two-dimensional analogy of space-time distortion described in General Relativity. ... Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (Pisa, February 15, 1564 – Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. ... Galilean invariance is a principle which states that the fundamental laws of physics are the same in all inertial (uniform-velocity) frames of reference. ... Witchcraft, in various historical, religious and mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of alleged supernatural or magical powers. ... Burning of two sodomites at the stake (execution of individuals by fire. ... This article is about the novel. ... 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Species About 115 species Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. ... Families   Acanthodrilidae   Ailoscolecidae   Alluroididae   Almidae   Biwadrilidae   Eudrilidae   Exxidae   Glossoscolecidae   Lumbricidae   Lutodrilidae   Megascolecidae   Microchaetidae   Ocnerodrilidae   Octochaetidae   Sparganophilidae Earthworm is the common name for the larger members of the Oligochaeta (which is either a class or subclass depending on the author) in the phylum Annelida. ... The Space Pen, which term generally refers to those marketed by Fisher Space Pen Co. ... A selection of colored pencils. ... Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, and Naval Aviator, and was the first human to set foot on the Moon. ... A number of memorabilia, urban myths and incidental stories surround the Apollo 11 mission, including controversy of who actually stepped on the moon first, and a replica of the footprint. ... In physics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance may coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. ... Water is a tasteless, odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent. ...

D series (2006)

Series commences on 29 September 2006 September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Episode 1 "Danger"

Broadcast dates

• 29 September 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-19 points)
• Jo Brand (7 points) 11th appearance
• Jimmy Carr (0 points) 4th appearance
• Sean Lock (4 points) 9th appearance

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Joanne Brand was born 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. ... dsadsadsadsda ... Sean Lock (born 1963) is an English comedian. ...

Episode 2 "Discoveries"

Broadcast dates

• 29 September 2006 (BBC Four)
• 6 October 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (0 points)
• Clive Anderson (-7 points) 7th appearance
• Vic Reeves (16 points) 1st appearance
• Arthur Smith (-23 points) 3rd appearance

Theme

• Nautical
• Each contestant has an unusual patent

Topics

• Raining at weekends
  • Babylonians first developed the seven day week
  • Industrial activities over the week cause a seven day dust cycle
• The link between gelignite (invented by Alfred Nobel), saccharin, and the rings of Uranus. They were all serendipitous inventions.
  • Caffeine, Silly putty, the post-it note, penicillin, and the Americas were also serendipitous discoveries.
• Charles Darwin had Chagas disease, as do millions of South Americans. It was discovered by Carlos Chagas and is the only disease entirely described by one single researcher.
• Darwin was seen as a poor student who couldn't spell. He was a member of the Cambridge society of Gluttons and ate animals such as the Brown Owl. Many zoologists participate in a Phyllum Feast on Darwins birthday (12 February) where they eat as many different species as possible.

Tangent: You drink the blood of the Cobra when eating its beating heart - a delicacy in China. Then eating ear wax.

• William Dampier was the first Englishman to set foot in Australia and invented the "wind over current" map. His A New Voyage Around the World was carried around by sailors for 100 years. He influenced the books Robinson Crusoe and Gullivers Travels.
• Jules Leotard's clothing invention, which he called the "maillot", was renamed after him when he died. He also invented the flying trapeze.
• Kangaroos do not pass wind, possibly because of various forms of bacteria in their stomach.

General ignorance

• Queen Victoria wore a bustle that played music to mask the sound of her flatulence.
• One Brown Owl cannot make the "twit twoo" - the female goes "twit" and the male "twoo".
• Fernville Lord Digby was the name of the Dulux dog

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Clive Anderson Clive Anderson (10 December 1952) is a former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned television presenter from the United Kingdom. ... James Jim Roderick Moir, more commonly known by the pseudonym Vic Reeves, (born January 24, 1959) is an English comedian, best known through his double act with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob). ... This article is about the British comedian. ...   (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden—December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. ... Look up Serendipity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For other uses, see Serendipity (disambiguation). ... Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist [1] who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change, at the same time proposing the scientific theory that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs. ... Carlos Chagas Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas (born July 9, 1879, Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; died November 8, 1934, Rio de Janeiro), was a Brazilian physician. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... William Dampier (1652 – March, 1715) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. ... Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday by Carl Offterdinger Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard (1839? - 1870), was the man who inspired the 1867 song The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (with lyrics by George Leybourne). ... An image of Jules Léotard in the garment that bears his name A leotard is a skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso and body but leaves the legs free. ... An act involving two trapezes: the catchers bar and the fly bar. ... Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819&#8211;22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death. ... The ladys dress in this 1880s fashion plate is supported by a bustle. ... A Dulux paint can Dulux is a brand of paint available and widely used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, produced by Imperial Chemical Industries. ...

Episode 3 "Dogs"

Broadcast dates

• 6 October 2006 (BBC Four)
• 13 October 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-36 points)
• Jeremy Clarkson (-13 points) 4th appearance
• Neil Mullarkey (winner with -5 points) 1st and only appearance
• Liza Tarbuck (-8 points) 1st and only appearance

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born April 11, 1960, in Doncaster) is a British writer and broadcaster who specialises in motoring. ... Neil Mullarkey is a British actor, writer, and comedian. ... Liza Tarbuck (born 21 November 1964) is a British actress and television presenter, and daughter of Jimmy Tarbuck. ...

Episode 4 "Dictionaries"

Broadcast dates

• 13 October 2006 (BBC Four)
• 20 October 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-7 points)
• Ronni Ancona (13 points) 1st and only appearance
• Rory Bremner (-7 points) 1st and only appearance
• Phill Jupitus (-7 points) 8th appearance

October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Ronni Ancona Ronni Ancona (born 1968 in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland) is an impressionist who has become one of the most popular and well known entertainers in the UK. She is of Sephardic Jewish origin. ... Rory Bremner Rory Bremner FKC (born April 6, 1961, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a British impressionist and comedian, noted for his political satire and is widely regarded as being the master of impressionist comedy. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ...

Episode 5 "Death" (Halloween Special)

Broadcast dates

• 20 October 2006 (BBC Four)
• 27 October 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-15 points)
• Clive Anderson (-24 points) 8th appearance
• Sean Lock (-8 points) 10th appearance
• Andy Parsons (0 points) 1st and only appearance
• The Audience (2 points) First victory

(Despite announcing the audience as the winner, Andy Parsons is the official winner, making this the fourth consecutive week that a panellist has won on his/her debut) October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Clive Anderson Clive Anderson (10 December 1952) is a former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned television presenter from the United Kingdom. ... Sean Lock (born 1963) is an English comedian. ... Andy Parsons (right) with Henry Naylor Andy Parsons is a British comedian and writer, best known for his work with comedy partner Henry Naylor. ... An audience is a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ...

Theme

• The chairman and all the panellists are dressed in black
• There is a coffin in the centre of the set

Episode 6 "Drinking"

Broadcast dates

• 27 October 2006 (BBC Four)
• 3 November 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (Winner with 10 points!)2nd win
• Jimmy Carr (2 points)5th appearance
• Phill Jupitus (-15 points)9th appearance
• John Sessions (-3 points)7th appearance

Theme

• There is a drinks rack behind Stephen Fry
• Every panellist has a drink - Alan Davies has a martini, the other three have pints of lager

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... dsadsadsadsda ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... John Sessions (born January 11, 1953 in Largs, North Ayrshire) is a gay Scottish actor best known for his comedy work in improvisation shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?. A gifted impressionist, he worked on Spitting Image and later the surreal celeb soap opera Stella Street. ...

Episode 7 "Differences"

Broadcast dates

• 10 November 2006 (BBC Two)
• 3 November 2006 (BBC Four)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-144 points)
• Jo Brand (-17 points) 12th appearance
• Julian Clary (-8 points) 1st and only appearance
• Dara Ó Briain (3 points) 3rd appearance

(The last question of the show was "What was Gandhi's first name?" Alan Davies answered "Randy", and as a result is docked 150 points. The final scores are then revealed almost immediately afterwards, and Alan is on -144 points, a record lowest score in the show's history. However, without the 150 point penalty from the earlier question, Alan would have won with 6 points. The correct answer was Mohandas Karamchand.) November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Joanne Brand was born 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Dara Ó Briain (//) (born February 4, 1972) is an Irish comedian and television presenter. ...

Episode 8 "Descendants"

Special Children in Need episode Pudsey is the teddy bear logo of Children in Need, created by designer Joanna Ball and named after Balls home town, Pudsey, in West Yorkshire, England. ...

Broadcast dates

• 10 November 2006 (BBC Four)
• 17 November 2006/18 November 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-29,000,000 points)
• Jonathan Ross (Winner with 3,000,000 points) 1st and only appearance
• Rich Hall (2,000,000 points) 13th appearance
• Phill Jupitus (1,000,000 points) 10th appearance

(All scores in this game were multiplied by 1,000,000 as a generosity gesture from Stephen Fry, on account of it being for Children In Need. Therefore, the actual scores were -29, 3, 2, and 1.) November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rich Hall (born 1954 in Waxhaw, North Carolina) is an American comedian and writer. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ...

The show initially began with Pudsey Bear, the Children in Need mascot, in the place of Alan Davies, but Pudsey was replaced after all the panellists had demonstrated their buzzers.

Each panellist has a Pudsey bear in front of them, however Rich Hall's Pudsey does not have one eye covered. This is because Rich Hall, being American and not aware of Pudsey's trademark, removed the eyepatch and bound his Pudsey's hands behind its back using the eyepatch before the recording of the episode began.

Episode 9 "Doves"

Broadcast dates

• 17 November 2006 (BBC Four)
• 24 November 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (Winner with 54 points!) 3rd win
• Andy Hamilton (-8 points) 3rd appearance
• David Mitchell (-9 points) 2nd appearance
• John Sessions (-4 points) 8th appearance

General ignorance

• The last question of the General Ignorance round was 'Whose motto is "E Pluribus Unum"?' A bonus question for 50 points was supposed to subsequently asked, regarding the origins of the phrase (a poem about salad, Moretum[5], sometimes attributed to Virgil), only for Fry to accidently provide the answer before asking the question. Alan Davies then answered the question regardless, and earned the 50 point bonus. As it turned out, he would still have won without the bonus had nobody else answered the question correctly.

17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Andy Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panelist, director and comedy scriptwriter for television and radio. ... David Mitchell (born July 14, 1974) is an English comedian, actor and writer. ... John Sessions (born January 11, 1953 in Largs, North Ayrshire) is a gay Scottish actor best known for his comedy work in improvisation shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?. A gifted impressionist, he worked on Spitting Image and later the surreal celeb soap opera Stella Street. ... E pluribus unum is includeds in the Great Seal of the United States E pluribus unum was one of the first national mottos of the United States of America. ... Moretum is a sort of Ancient Roman dish. ... A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. For other uses, see Virgil (disambiguation). ...

Episode 10 "Divination"

Special episode without Alan Davies (he decided to watch Arsenal play in the UEFA Champions League Final instead). He did appear at the beginning of the show, and he buzzed in with answers to some of the questions while not physically being there, which explains his score. Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. ... 2006 Champions League Final The 2006 UEFA Champions League Final took place at the Stade de France in Paris on 17 May 2006. ...

Broadcast dates

• 24 November 2006 (BBC Four)
• 1 December 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-70 points)
• Graeme Garden (7 points)1st and only appearance
• Phill Jupitus (6 points)11th appearance
• Johnny Vaughan (-19 points)1st and only appearance

Theme: November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British comedy writer and performer. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Johnny Randall Vaughan (born July 16, 1966) is a British writer and broadcaster. ...

• Whoever managed to accurately predict their own score at the end would be rewarded with 666 bonus points. No-one managed to do so accurately with their own scores, but Vaughan correctly guess Garden's score. The 666 points where not given because it had to be their own score they predicted.
• There is also a Doctor Who theme in this episode. For instance, when Alan Davies disappears, the dematerialisation noise of the TARDIS is heard, and when he calls in for the answer, the Doctor Who theme music is used as his 'buzzer'

Topics

General ignorance

• The number of the beast is 616. (Forfeit: 666)
• Thomas Midgley, Jr., inventor of CFCs and leaded petrol has done more damage to the planet that any other person in history. (Forfeits: George W. Bush, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Margaret Beckett)

This article is becoming very long. ... The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS in the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space. ... The Doctor Who theme music was created in 1963, composed by Ron Grainer and realised with electronics by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. ... The Number of the Beast is a concept from the Book of Revelation of the Christian New Testament. ... Thomas Midgley, Jr. ... For other uses, see CFC (disambiguation). ... Tetra-ethyl lead (also known as TEL, lead tetraethyl and tetraethyllead) is a toxic organometallic chemical compound, with formula (CH3CH2)4Pb, which was once used as a gasoline (petrol) additive. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: &#1048;&#1086;&#1089;&#1080;&#1092; &#1042;&#1080;&#1089;&#1089;&#1072;&#1088;&#1080;&#1086;&#1085;&#1086;&#1074;&#1080;&#1095; &#1057;&#1090;&#1072;&#1083;&#1080;&#1085;), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: &#4312;&#4317;&#4321;&#4308;&#4305; &#4335;&#4323;&#4326;&#4304;&#4328;&#4309;&#4312;&#4314... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 &#8211; April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Mao redirects here. ... The Rt Hon. ...

Episode 11 "Deprivation"

Broadcast dates

• 8 December 2006 (BBC Two)
• 1 December 2006 (BBC Four)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-39 points)
• Roger McGough (Joint winner with 1 point) 1st and only appearance
• Vic Reeves (Joint winner with 1 points) 2nd appearance
• Mark Steel (-6 points) 3rd appearance

Theme

• The show was deprived of the normal set. Instead, Alan and Mark where sitting at school desks, Roger and Vic had side tables and glasses of whisky and Stephen sat at an auctionner's stand with a gavel. The lighting director was fired so there was a lack of light. Some of the studio was lit by candles. The audience was forced to watch in the street. The buzzers where hand-cranked.
• The team where each given a tray, containing dental floss, curry powder, a potato and a green pen. The panellists had to find out how each item had been used in a prison escape.
  • Green pen - Steven Russell coloured his shirt green, the same colour shirts as those of the prison doctors, and walked out of the prison.
  • Dental floss - Vincenzo Curcio used floss to file down the bars.
  • Spice powder - Five prisoners from Pakistan threw spice powder into the eyes of a warden and ran out of the prison.
  • Potato - John Dillinger stole a raw potato, carved it into the shape of a gun, painted it black with boot polish and held up a warden with it.

Topics

General ignorance

December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Front cover of the 1983 revised edition of The Mersey Sound Roger McGough CBE (born November 9, 1937) is a well-known British performance poet. ... James Jim Roderick Moir, more commonly known by the pseudonym Vic Reeves, (born January 24, 1959) is an English comedian, best known through his double act with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob). ... Mark Steel (born 1961) is an English socialist columnist and comedian. ... Whisky (or whiskey) is the name for a broad category of alcoholic beverages distilled from grains, that are subsequently aged in oak casks. ... An auctioneer and her assistants scan the crowd for bidders An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. ... A gavel is a hammer-like instrument used by judges and presiding officers. ... A collection of lit candles on ornate candlesticks A close-up image of a candle showing the wick and the various regions of the flame. ... Dental floss is a bundle of thin nylon filaments or a plastic (teflon or polyethylene ) ribbon used to remove food and plaque from teeth. ... Curry Powder in a jar Curry powder is a mixture of spices of widely varying composition developed by the British during their colonial rule of India as a means of approximating the taste of Indian cuisine at home. ... Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, commonly grown for its starchy tuber. ... Green is a color with many different shades, all within a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm. ... A ballpoint pen A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to a surface, paper. ... Steven Jay Russell (b. ... Townsend Darcey John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized him as a latter-day Robin Hood. ...

Episode 12 "Domesticity"

Broadcast dates

• 8 December 2006 (BBC Four)
• 15 December 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies (-64 points)
• Jo Brand (-18 points) 13th appearance
• Phill Jupitus (-4 points) 12th appearance, 5th of series
• Jessica Stevenson (-3 points) 1st and only appearance

December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series. ... Joanne Brand was born 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Jessica Stevenson is an English actress and writer, most renowned as one of the creators of the sitcom Spaced. ...

Episode 13 – Christmas special (not yet broadcast)

Christmas special

Broadcast dates

• 22 December 2006 (BBC Two)

Panellists

• Alan Davies
• Jo Brand 14th appearance
• Rich Hall 14th appearance
• Dara Ó Briain 4th appearance