“They say of the Acropolis…” is just like “hardtack” on Tasting History. It does not and will never get old!!! 😂😂😂

QI is the greatest show ever made. Stephen, Bill, Alan, Sean and Rich were the funniest panel 😅

Rob’s exhalation of relief after sounding his buzzer 8:02 Priceless.

Who agrees that the Olympics would be far more interesting if they included an regular person to compete alongside the professionals to compare against. It would be far more fun.

I am enjoying all all the great QI shows.❤❤❤

I'm retired now, and the job I had necessitated that I travel extensively, mostly in Europe but not exclusively, which I did for over 40 years. I am Scottish and from the Isle of Skye originally, and when I was first hired for the job I was told by my manager to lose my Jock accent when abroad as I would not be taken seriously or be understood with my broad Scottish accent. This was the early 80s you understand when PC was not a thing yet, I thankfully ignored his advice after a short time and found to my pleasant surprise that I was greeted with far more friendliness when I spoke naturally to people in my "Jock accent" than in some unnatural enunciation that resembled Mrs Doubtfire.

Keep these videos coming. Class

42:39 i love how you can hear an audience member shout “NO” when Stephen says the edge of a record spins faster than the centre

19:49: Oh yeah, hoping that was in this series. "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is..."

The communicating as explorers and native Americans is pure IQ gold

NIce to see Jimmy Carr when he looked liked Jimmy Carr. This was a great compilation too.

I knew what General Sedgewick said. That was great.

I have to say the guys look damn dapper during the Queen Victoria/ 34:30 Mr Bean section. Sean was dashing with that helmet. When one side of my family came over having the last name "Johnson" at a time when so many were entering America with the same last name... they were advised to change their last name. So they did. I think it was brilliant

I’m so relieved to know that there are no smashed badgers in house dust. Thank you Jeremy.

They say of the acropolis where the Parthenon is! What do they say what do they say!

If you, can, find the footage of Eric the Eel at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The crowd went wild, cheering him on. On a TV interview, one spectator said that he thought he might have to jump in and save him.

But what do they say about the akropolis?

For my friends across the pond, Hiram Ulysses Grant was his given name. The guy signing him into West Point got it wrong, and Grant was too shy to correct him. It is often given as 'Simpson', but that was a retro fit.

"A second arse"!!! Epic!!!

11:17 - 11:23 *current* of 6600 *V* ? I know I saw that episode probably multiple times before and I don't think I've noticed that error before.

Regarding the spies stealing documents used as toilet paper... ... I first heard of that in the Dennis Potter series - "Lipstick On Your Collar"... Where Ewan McGregor's character (and his characters' colleagues) has to translate Russian documents that have come to the MOD precisely in the manner described here.

48:36 Bill Bailey's Spice Girls reference there, fantastic 😂😂

When i drove trains for British Rail, they were fitted with "Westinghouse" brakes.

57:03 Who the devil worked on the aspect ratios here!?

Just watching this , when trying to polish the glass dome… I’ve recently played around with engraving on glass and apparently a rubber or silicone burr will polish back to a clear (er) finish .. love that find though👍

Those polar explorers technically didn't use only their own power during that trip: If you define an "external power" to be anything beyond what sheer human effort can do, and I doubt that definition would be even remotely controversial. One of the forms of skiing they used was "kite skiing", which is basically what it sounds like: If you have a tailwind, you can fly a kite ahead of you, a bit like the sport of "kite-surfing". Which is basically flying a large "power kite" while standing on a surfboard, which generates enough force to propel the board and rider across the water at respectable speeds. This can even lift the board and rider several metres up into the air if the wind speed is high enough. Anyway, if you can fly a power kite of similar size and design while on skis, the same force generated by the kite can propel at least one skier to similar speeds, or can even propel the whole group if they can tether themselves together, albeit at lower speeds. So if they were using the kite skiing technique (which Rupert Lonsdon explicitly told us that they did), that would have been a supplementary power source. Which could arguably be described as a mechanical power source, since it did provide a propulsive force - it just so happens that the energy source to make it work is one of the best known renewable sources - the wind.

43:40 Sean is the goat ❤

10:32~10:38 Topsy was an animal rights activist, a fallen hero😢

12:48 -- 15:14.... there's a better ironic death than any of those... strange it was not included.. or discovered by the research team... The guy that "coined the term" ""Organic ""was on live tv one day doing an interview at age 70- something and life longevity was raised as a topic... and the guy says... something like..... "You know, I never thought I'd live as long as 70?(something)... (his interview age)... but now I am here.... I have never felt better in my life and I have decided I am going to live until I am 100! " they laugh.... interview wraps up.... he walks off set.... has a heart attack and dies 😮 still in the studio lol... CRAZY!!!

It’s very wrong of me I know, but living on beer and meat sounds wonderful. I’d probably crave veggies thought. Maybe add potatoes and gravy?

The photo of the railway workers is not period correct as the first railways were narrow gauge and that photo is standard wide gauge!

57:05 - someone forgot to right-click fit to comp size.

Eton is near Slough?! One area two worlds.

4:42: Great Train Robbery FOILED

Why'd you cut out the rabbit bit in the Winterval clip? They showed it in the QI Christmas Compliation.

@31:28 I was 16 when I visited Mademoiselle Liberté- the day Reagan got shot.

The word 'Funniest' followed by the Topsie The Elephant story is just....

Strange that no one mentions the subliminal game Stephen plays when introducing the pilgrims and what they said ,,,he makes a grand pause and says HOW did they first communicate? No one fell for it and it gets forgotten…

The girl behind the ice guy is effing cute.

Why do we so little of Phil Jupitus these days.? He will always be Billy Bragg's roadie to me

14:38 Did I just hear the same laugh in this episode that plagued the most recent episode, Series U episode 7: Ufology?..

They laugh at hanging an elephant but it happened here in Tennessee.

Any ideas out of robert heinlien

This caused Jimmy Carr

Who is the guy with glasses at 1:24:38?

You in the effort to shrink the image, but left in the end of video clip. Why?

Why would you put clips from the same episode out of order?

Why is there no grass on the highest mountain? Everest double grazing!

Dude seriously at 1:01:15 seconds, Steven introduced us the moon sex the first time

for anyone that thinks the potential Russian names are weird.. remember we name our kids after emotions and the Japanese call them after stations like Hime or Princess. Yoshi, a boys name means joy. So it's not as weird as one might think.

I'm glad the American on the panel knew that Squanto spoke English.

Slough is in Berkshire not Buckinghamshire !

53:25 Is David Mitchel predicting the "Miracle on the Hudon" plane crash?

What is at the end of the earth... _Telford Town Centre_ That is the most random thing I've ever heard.. And being from Telford, its even weirder 👀 @25:45

Correction. 40:20

any new videos out soon

Is that how pub songs are made?

Surely the first animals to be herded for food would have been mammoths..?

And zebras!

As much as I love Eddie the Eagle's spirit and determination, I do think the Olympics should belong to athletes who've trained extensively and are of the elite. It might not be quite as entertaining, but when it comes to athletics, I think most viewers want to see the best of the best.

Stephen confuses Ulysses Simpson Grant (né Hiram Ulysses Grant) with Harry S Truman.

Nikola Tesla should have been mentioned here.

Where a wearby Barky

Space lift: how many moving parts? It works maybe if nothing got broken. But it will. Then just a disaster.

The reason they have seat belts on some flights is so. In case there is an accident, they can identify your body!

Love the way you did this podcast n your words. I can see also in other times, you try to be as constructive as you can in your comments. You try to be fair n I appreciate that abt you. Love watching your podcasts! Keep it going, ignore the bad comments. ❤

3:09 Oh the humanity!

Did Rhoal Dahl get the idea of the chocolate river from French sewers?

1:09:20 La Cote D'Ivorie. I don't know how to type the "o" with a circomflex.

There is a stuffed dog on thè platform àt slough

THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD IS MAONA KEA

I want to find someone who looks at me the way the girl behind the South Pole explorer looks at him

52:00 well that came back to bite them in the ass didn't it. Because it very much was. Def here in Belgium. Not aloud even to call it a Christmas market or anything. O sure you can, you won't get a fine. No one gives a crap. But that is what the government is doing tho. And according to the polls. The UK now has more and more immigrants that would like Christmas band as a holiday XD

Who here's watching without a TV license?

The sound is uneven. Any chance of fixing that?

9:33 From all the anecdotes I've heard, Edison was a complete prick. 50:14 IINM, the same is true with dogs, cats and pigs (and I guess any mammal with patterned fur).

Stephen looks like an old woman in that thumbnail.

I miss Fry. Better with him. Sandi's ok.

I enjoyed that. I really think you need to ditch the RP route and choose a location. Your speech sounds like the "proper" English taught in European schools and and such most encounters with that speech are with such individuals. RP has left most media these days so the average audience on Omegle will not have been exposed to it much. That and the non flowing speech pattern that you worked on were the two give away to my ears. That and maybe clothing etc and environmentally didn't scream British

what olympics? no such thing

I really would like to know why Jimmy Carr irritates me so, just with his presence.

Chubby little Jimmy Carr

Pretty sad watching all the “EU making us do straight bananas and hairnets for fisherman” things today

They put the elephant to death? :| Yuck

Too many ads, not watching.

Can my girlfriend and I get married on youe train please Sir Stephen?

Still using the same brocken video file as last time you psoted this brocken collection I see.

Pretty ironic that the British invented the railways and now they have one of the worst rail service. All you had to do is to privatize them! Isn't capitalism wonderful? (insert trainloads of sarcasm here)

Is QI still being made? If so where is it shown, and also Alan the only man in the world that seems to have no talent and yet seems to be always on this show and so not funny or of much use is he still on QI or have they got rid of this idiot? This was such a good show as long as you can ignore Alan. I have missed it.

They should've got rid of Davies years ago..!!And that fuckin klaxon!!!!

QI was much better before Sandi "Toxic"!

Can't stand that person.

God, I can't fucking stand Alan Davies. It would be a much better show without him, he's desperate.

Back when nearly all of the guests were fantastic! (And male, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.)