1. Good evening, good evening,
good evening, good evening,
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2. and dare I say again,
good evening and welcome to QI,
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3. which tonight features
Jack and Jill,
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4. and indeed John, James, Johannes,
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5. or anybody else whose name
begins with J.
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6. Let's meet every man Jack of 'em.
Jack the Lad, Sue Perkins.
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7. Jack the Giant Killer, Katy Brand.
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8. Mad Jack McMad, winner of last
year's Mr Madman competition,
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9. David Mitchell.
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10. And someone who doesn't know Jack.
It's Alan Davies.
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11. So, buzzer-wise, let's hear it for
the girls. Katy goes...
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12. I worship that woman. Sue goes...
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13. Happy with that.
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14. Good. David goes...
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15. Awww. And Alan goes...
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16. "Jessica"
by The Allman Brothers Band
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17. Ah!
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18. Ah, now do you know,
that's the theme for Top Gear.
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19. Top Gear! And what's the name
of that piece of music?
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20. It's hard to think that the most
testosterone-driven programme
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21. in television history
is introduced by Jessica.
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22. That's the name of that song. It is.
Jessica by the Allman Brothers.
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23. And that's the most interesting
fact... in the world.
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24. So, don't forget, we are looking
for names beginning with J.
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25. Who dies if they don't
have sex for a year?
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26. Is it Russell Brand?
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27. Goodnight! Bye-bye!
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28. I fear we were there before you,
Sue. Yeah, you were.
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29. He so doesn't begin with a J.
Jo Brand does, but she may die,
I don't know.
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30. No, it's two years
before Jo Brand dies.
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31. Yeah, exactly.
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32. I suspect it's not a human.
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33. Correctly correctington.
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34. It's something other...
It is from the animal kingdom.
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35. I actually conducted an experiment
many years ago to see
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36. if you could survive a year
without having sex,
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37. and I'm happy to tell you
that yes, you can.
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38. I was worried your experiment was
going to be that you'd had sex
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39. with a variety of animals to see.
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40. It wasn't clear to me
that it was you,
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41. it sounded to me like you had
someone in a room locked up
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42. for a year just to see
if they would die without sex.
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43. They were the control.
They were the control, yeah.
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44. While you were freely roaming.
Yes, yeah. And as it turned out,
neither of us had sex.
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45. Could you not have saved each
other by having sex with one another?
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46. I think if you put someone in a room
and then you have sex with them,
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47. that's a crime.
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48. So it's an animal and it's going
to begin with a J?
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49. Well, yes, though the species of
animal doesn't begin with J.
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50. Right. It's just that the particular
gender begins with a J.
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51. It's a furry mammal often
kept as a pet. And the male...
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52. Cat, dog, rabbit, hamster, gerbil...
Cow?
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53. Cat! Gerbil.
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54. No, you were closer with gerbil.
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55. A ferret. A ferret. Ferret.
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56. Now, what's a male ferret called?
Jeff.
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57. He might be.
They're actually, they begin with H.
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58. They're called a hob.
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59. A hob? The female is called a...
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60. Jenny?
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61. Not a Jenny, but it might as well
be, almost. Julia. Jennifer. No.
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62. A June. Judy.
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63. It's not Jolene.
That would be so pleasing. Jane.
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64. No, it's a Jill.
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65. How did we not get Jill? A hob
and a Jill. Who knows why these...?
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66. A hob and a Jill. That doesn't go.
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67. These are medieval assignations.
It's extraordinary.
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68. It sounds like a dance.
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69. And what happens on, is it literally
on day 365 they just explode?
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70. It's a leap year! Come on!
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71. In mid-summer they become oestrus,
they're on heat.
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72. The poor Jill,
the poor female ferret. Jill Ferret.
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73. Jill Ferret, yeah,
and if she hasn't had sex,
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74. she carries on producing oestrogen,
she gets aplastic anaemia and dies.
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75. So she basically
boils to death of heat.
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76. Yeah, kind of.
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77. So what you have to do
if you have a pet female ferret,
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78. is either spay her...
Shag it. Sleep with her.
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79. No...
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80. Treat her nice.
It would be the ultimate sacrifice.
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81. Find a hob for her. Find a hob
for her, you don't shag her, Katy.
And then cook her on the hob, yeah.
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82. Well, you can give injections.
You can give injections.
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83. It's easier to have sex with her,
really.
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84. It's going to take away some
of the pride in the conquest
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85. from the male ferret, isn't it? You
know, towards the end of the summer.
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86. The male ferret is very ferocious.
They have a hooked penis.
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87. Do they have a bone in there?
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88. They don't, like a badger, that's
good, though. It's a hook, really.
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89. And so it's up to the male then to
unhook himself when he's satisfied.
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90. He also bites the back of the neck
of the female. It sounds like fun.
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91. It sounds like Russell Brand!
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92. "Come 'ere, love!"
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93. So yeah, there's your ferret.
And it comes from the Latin,
"furritus", which means?
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94. Have sex with me or die.
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95. It means, actually, "little thief".
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96. Oh. They're always nicking things.
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97. That ferret looks very sweet there
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98. and doesn't look like the sort
of ferret that would hook you
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99. with a bone in its penis.
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100. But that's how they get you in,
isn't it?
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101. Exactly. They get you with the eyes,
the soft eyes.
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102. Yeah, they look so loveable.
Then comes the boomerang cock.
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103. Apparently, flatworms fight
with their penises like swords.
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104. And the one that loses gets stabbed
and becomes a girl.
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105. That's a brilliant system.
So they do these fights, and they've
both got penises, fight, fight, argh!
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106. It's like fencing, but when the
rapier goes in, it becomes a lady
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107. and has to give birth.
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108. But that's win-win
for the victorious one,
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109. because they win and then
they get to have a shag... Yeah.
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110. .. with the newly formed female.
Because the loser gets hurt
and then suddenly develops breasts.
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111. - And violated.
- Feels violated and then has a baby.
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112. Let's not get all women's
lib about this.
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113. Let's leave that.
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114. Anyway, what made Mad Jack so mad?
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115. Something he ate, I expect.
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116. Had he been on holiday? That's a mad
Jack, that's a very familiar...
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117. People are always eating things,
or there's stuff in paint,
that makes you mad, doesn't it?
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118. But no, it's really, where does
the phrase Mad Jack come from?
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119. Why Mad Jack?
The original Mad Jack.
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120. They go back quite a long way.
It's basically applied to anybody,
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121. whether they're named John or Jack
or not. They're just called Mad
Jack, and no-one quite knows why.
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122. Who was the first Mad Jack? Very hard
to trace. Very hard to trace.
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123. There was Mad Jack Mytton,
who was a very eccentric aristocrat,
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124. who paid £10 to a thousand
of the constituents of Shrewsbury
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125. for their vote, which is
the equivalent of £750,000
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126. in today's money.
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127. That was in 1819 and he was elected
to be the member for Shrewsbury.
No shit!
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128. Sounds broadly similar
to our current system.
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129. And also similar
to our current system is,
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130. he found debating
incredibly boring,
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131. he only attended one session of
parliament, for 30 minutes,
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132. having paid £750,000
for the privilege.
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133. And stood down in the next year,
1820.
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134. It's a hobby.
If you're an aristocrat,
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135. you're eccentric, aren't you?
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136. But if you're poor, you're just mad
and you're a loony. I know.
And you end up in an asylum.
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137. Though he did end his days
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138. in a debtors' prison,
he lost all his money.
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139. He used to... he once set fire to
his night shirt to cure his hiccups.
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140. That would probably work, but
it's not actually a shock, is it?
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141. No, it's not.
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142. If you can get someone else
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143. to do it when you're not
expecting it, then that's a shock.
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144. Although it could end up in a sort
of Clouseau-Cato scenario,
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to explain to someone
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146. that it's no longer necessary
for them to find a moment
to set fire to your pyjamas.
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147. If you wake up in the burns unit
and go...
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148. Oh!
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149. Oh!
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150. He also liked to get
up in the middle of the night
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151. and shoot ducks while he was naked.
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152. Naked duck shooting. Was there
any reason for the nudity?
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153. He probably thought, "They're naked,
why shouldn't I be?"
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154. Is it wrong to be starting to
slightly fall in love with this man?
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155. I know what you mean.
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156. You might fall in love
with Charles Howard,
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157. who was the 20th Earl of Suffolk.
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158. And during the war,
he went into Nazi-occupied Paris
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159. and he rescued $10 million worth
of industrial diamonds,
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160. and all the heavy water
that the Germans had.
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161. But he also managed to bring back
50 nuclear scientists from Paris.
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162. This is all during the time
the Nazis were occupying.
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163. So he was described by
Harold Macmillan as a kind of cross
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164. between Francis Drake
and the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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165. He was a very brave man.
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166. And he then trained himself
to be able to defuse bombs
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167. and had his own bomb disposal unit,
which was his secretary,
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168. Eileen, and his chauffeur, Fred.
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169. When you say he trained himself,
that's quite hardcore.
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170. It is. There's only one way to go
if you get it wrong. Yeah.
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171. Well, he did unfortunately
get it wrong, on his...
I think his 35th bomb,
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172. aged 34, 35 or something,
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173. so he was, he was a good Mad Jack.
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174. There was Mad Jack Churchill
as well, in the Second World War.
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175. And he was the only soldier
known to have gone into battle
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176. in the Second World War armed with,
what weapon of choice?
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177. Teapot.
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178. A dessert spoon.
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179. Sorry, cosy. Tea cosy.
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180. A tea cosy!A cheese slicer.
A bow and arrow.
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181. Did he know what decade
or even what century he was in?
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182. He was a gallant, chivalrous man.
"Marvellous stuff!"
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183. And also, he would have a sword
on the battlefield.
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184. That's even stupider, isn't it?
Because if you've got
a bow and arrow,
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185. you can't use a sword
at the same time.
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186. He thought no gentleman was dressed
for battle unless they had a sword.
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187. And he also said that
if you smile at the enemy,
they're less likely to shoot you.
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188. And he was...
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189. I wonder how he died!
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190. No, he was taken prisoner, in fact.
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191. Because he was so charming.
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192. Who is that devastating man
with the lovely smile?
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193. He was actually
housed at Sachsenhausen,
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194. which was the VIP prison camp.
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195. The Germans thought
he was related to Winston Churchill,
which he wasn't.
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196. Mad Jack Churchill.
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197. Anyway, Mad Jack Churchill
didn't die until 1996, so he had
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198. a more fortunate life than Charles
Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk.
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199. There's a load of Jacks.
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200. But how did Queen Jenga
arrange her harem?
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201. Oh, was it like that
and then that and then that.
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202. Three rows that way
and then three rows...
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203. For you!
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204. You're being so kind. She was quite
a piece of work, Queen Jenga.
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205. Bow and arrow and sword, apparently.
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206. And sword, exactly.
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207. He didn't think of the bells,
though.
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208. No, the bells...
That would have clinched it for him.
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209. That would have been a good...
That's just to make people look up.
Ding ding ding! Who is it?
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of the Royal Family of...
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211. Well, she killed her brother,
who was called Ngola,
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Angola is named,
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213. supposedly her nephew as well,
and ate his heart.
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214. And she liked men to fight each
other to death and the winner
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and then be killed in the morning.
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216. So she was...
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enter the competition?
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218. You're killed either way,
so it's whether you get a shag
or you're killed without one.
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you're going to get murdered?
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221. I mean, that is one tense coitus.
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222. I think Mr Tiggy would probably be
a bit shrivelly, wouldn't he?
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223. Yes, Mr Tiggy would.
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226. Too much Mr Tiggy information.
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of a reprieve.
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228. Well, you'd think if you were
really, really good.
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229. "If you really please me,
I will not kill you with my bells."
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230. "Or my sword or my big bag."
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232. Is that to just give
somebody tinnitus
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233. before they're eviscerated,
or something? Room service.
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it must be said.
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237. Describe the best ever
game of royal hide and seek.
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238. Well, I presume the Hampton Court
maze is involved.
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239. Well, no, actually. That's
just sort of giving an example.
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240. Oh, no.
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241. Up the tree. The Royal Oak.
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242. That's certainly, that was pretty
good. That was, I mean, he hid.
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243. The princes in the Tower,
and they hid so well
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244. that it was hundreds of years
and then they were skeletons?
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245. Is it any game of hide and seek
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Prince Edward again?
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247. No. Remember,
we're in the world of Js.
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250. No, Charles I had two sons.
There's a J in it.
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252. And James... Who became?
James I.
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253. No. James II.
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The Second was their surname
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255. and they were brothers.
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256. That's what, yeah.
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257. They're like the boys
from the band Blue.
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258. There's Duncan from Blue, and there's
Simon from Blue. Yeah.
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259. They're all related as well,
aren't they?
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260. Well, James was
imprisoned at St James's Palace.
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261. Named not after him,
but the saint, of course.
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262. Oh, what an ordeal
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263. Yeah, I know. He used to play hide
and seek and he was so good at it
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264. that the servants would spend hours
looking for him and...
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265. Oh, they wouldn't look for him
at all.
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266. He'd be hiding and they'd go
and have lunch.
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267. "Another game of hide and seek?"
"Yes."
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268. "Oh, we couldn't find you, sir."
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269. It was all part of his plan,
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270. because one day he managed to get
hold of the gardener's key,
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271. and while playing hide and seek
he actually escaped from the Palace
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272. and met up with a Colonel
Blumpstead, or some similar name,
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273. who was a royalist, as you would be
if you were call Blumpstead.
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274. "Oh, Blumpstead, Blumpstead!"
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275. And he escaped to Holland,
where he lived a happy life.
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not Blumpstead.
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277. But still,
"Bampfield" is clearly a royalist.
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278. So are you saying the hide
and seek prowess was sort of all
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or that was just a happy...?
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280. Yeah, preparing for an escape.
Oh, I see. At the age of 12.
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281. It's like the Shawshank Redemption.
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282. Yeah, except he was 12,
which is impressive.
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283. He was 12? He was 12,
so it's quite impressive.
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284. He was only 12. Brilliant.
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285. How does he come into contact
with Major Bampfield?
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286. I guess secret messages were
passed in some way...
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287. I'd dread to think,
now I know he's 12.
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288. You've got to be careful as a boy,
running away with a random colonel.
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290. You can't be sure. I mean, he might
be a royalist, or...
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291. Especially to Amsterdam, yes, quite.
No, you're right.
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292. "Come with me,
it's going to be such fun."
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293. "No, really,
I am seriously a colonel."
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of King Jameses,
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crowned the next king of England.
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Not inconceivable.
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297. Not inconceivable in the strange
world in which we live.
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as the official says it?
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301. Well, it would be
different in England from Scotland.
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302. No, there's just one UK,
so it would be the same in both,
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307. No, because what happened was,
when Elizabeth was crowned,
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308. 60 years ago, she was of course
called Queen Elizabeth II.
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309. But in Scotland, there
was a bit of an outcry.
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Queen Elizabeth in Scotland,
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was on the throne.
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314. So a few early E II R pillar boxes
were trashed in Scotland
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315. and there was a big fuss.
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316. And Winston Churchill,
who was Prime Minister in 1953,
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memories on these things.
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a convention whereby UK monarchs
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according to either an English
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whichever was higher.
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was James the..?
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So James II was James VII,
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326. so if there were another James,
he would be called James VIII.
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327. That would be the procedure.
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328. Princess Anne looks a lot like my
daughter in that picture,
quite disturbingly.
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329. Gosh! She's very young there,
isn't she?
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330. I feel sorry for all the other
finalists to be Queen.
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331. There is also unresolved controversy
over the naming of the QEII.
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was named after Queen Elizabeth II,
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called Queen Elizabeth? Yes.
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336. Because there's a Queen Mary II.
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337. Exactly. The second vessel of the
Cunard line to be called Queen Mary.
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338. And opinion is divided, but a lot
of people think it was literally
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Queen Elizabeth.
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when launching it, saying,
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Queen Elizabeth II"
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342. so Cunard had to rename it,
basically, because she had done it.
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343. Anyway, who's this?
What are they doing?
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344. "I thought it would be
ten times as exciting
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345. "as a swing boat
at the fair, but it wasn't.
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346. "There was no sensation,
just a lot of noise and wind.
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347. "My hair was blown
into a tangled mess
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348. "which couldn't be combed out
for days."
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349. The inventor of the hairdryer.
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350. Is it Brian May on the latest
Thorpe Park ride?
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351. Well, we're with a transport
experience and this person
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352. was famous for their achievement
in it, but the first time
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353. they tried it, they found it
horrible, noisy, windy.
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355. Amy Johnson is the right answer!
Very good.
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356. It's a J, it's a J.
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358. That's the J.
And what was her great feat?
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360. No, that was Alcock and Brown.
Flew across America.
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361. No, she flew from...
Flew to the moon.
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362. She flew from Britain to Australia.
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363. To Australia?
Yeah. Heck of a flight.
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365. Yes, she certainly did, and when
she came back she landed at what
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which was Croydon Airport,
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367. and there were 200,000 people
there to meet her.
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369. No, it was a sensation of the age.
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going on as well?
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371. No. There was... She had a 12 mile
parade through London.
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372. So she was describing when she
first got into an aeroplane,
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377. I want you all to do
a jolly jape now,
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378. which is make a dart, a paper dart,
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379. and see the person who can throw it
the furthest wins.
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381. There are various kinds you can do,
just try the type you did at school.
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382. Oh, I've totally forgotten now to do
this.
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383. And obviously take your time,
as quickly as you can.
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384. Thing is, I'm going to make
one in the way we used to make them
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385. at school, knowing full well
that they didn't fly very well.
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386. Well, some people were good at it
and some people weren't.
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387. Interesting to see how well
you're doing.
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mine, is that all right, and a tail.
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392. You seem to be ready, who's ready?
David, have a go.
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394. Not bad.
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395. Should you throw or should you
cast like a bowler?
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396. Ah. Well, it's up to you.
Look at that.
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397. Yours looks great, I have to say.
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398. It went up because of the flaps.
Yeah. Your flaps.
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399. Corrugated roof tiles.
Flaps gave it lift.
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400. Watch out in the back row,
this is going to be lethal.
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401. It's one of those stealth ones,
you won't be able to see it,
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"It's got our name on it."
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406. Impossible.
It defies all laws of physics.
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407. I thought it was acrobatics.
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409. I don't think it's going to happen.
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of Amy Johnson...
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411. But would you be surprised to know
that the paper aeroplane
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looks like this?
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Yeah, that's a bracelet.
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415. What do you do?
You just scrunch it up and chuck it.
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good at throwing it.
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417. I've practised a bit, but the world
record is 200 yards.
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I'm not kidding you.
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419. Straight down.
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420. You're supposed to twist it and
that's why I'm not good at it,
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football - that's what you do it
in the style of.
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designed like that?
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Forti, whose father worked for NASA.
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430. Yes, it's a short plastic cylinder,
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edge and that's as simple as that.
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433. which some purists would say doesn't
make it a proper aeroplane,
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434. because it has to be slightly
heavier in the front.
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435. You would not imagine that was
so aerodynamic a shape as a dart,
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436. which just to our eyes looks right,
doesn't it?
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438. Darts, the future of darts.
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440. They're going to evolve into kind of
cylindrical, little beaks at the top.
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441. Yeah, birds everywhere are watching
this programme going,
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442. "What have we been doing all
these..."
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443. "All this.
We should have just done that!"
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What have we been doing?"
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earlier about Amy Johnson,
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446. almost gave up flying because it
made such a mess of her hair.
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the first dictionary in English?
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448. Oh, yes. Johnson.
Samuel Johnson.
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450. No, it wasn't Samuel Johnson.
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and spanked you.
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the whole dictionary tonight!"
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written in the earlier part
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by, well there was...
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Weren't there lots?
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in the 16th century,
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in fact.
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461. And indeed, invented refereeing
and the idea of football teams,
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462. but he wrote Elementary in 1582,
which was the first to gather
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463. "all the words which we use
in our English tung, out of all
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into one dictionarie."
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465. But he didn't give definitions.
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466. He just listed all the words
that he thought there existed.
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467. But Robert Cawdrey's Table
Alphabeticall, of 1604,
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but gave definitions, so it was
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in the sense that we know it.
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as he called them,
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had how many entries?
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473. At around the time there about
275,000 or 300,000 words.
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475. Oh, you were so close. 42,000.
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477. That was really close. 42,773.
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478. But we've got some Johnson words
that have gone out of use.
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they mean.
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482. Mouth-friend. Don't we all
need a mouth-friend?
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483. Sometimes we certainly do need
a tonguepad and a mouth-friend.
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487. Yeah. We've all been frigorifick
in our time.
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491. You can get those in, yeah,
Starbucks.
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492. It's not "depu-kela-tay,"
it's depucelate.
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isn't it?
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494. Yes. If you're meeting
a mouth-friend.
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495. You get a bit tonguepad.
Slip of the old shapesmith.
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496. Is a shapesmith just a rubbish
blacksmith?
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497. No, a shapesmith is basically what
we... "I've done a thing."
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499. You did a shapesmith.
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500. It sort of looks like a doorknob,
though.
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jewellery in some way.
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all that crap. Yes.
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we would call a personal trainer.
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shape.
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508. It's a shapesmith. Time for that
word to come back. Exactly.
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shapesmith."
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someone who natters all the time.
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Gossip?
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a friend to your face,
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Oh, God, I know a few of those.
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516. Yeah, a few mouth-friends,
pretends to be your friend.
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to bereave of virginity.
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Boy might say, but what is frig...?
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We should pronounce - yes, cold -
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"frijorifick", probably.
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frigorifick causes cold.
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just a little bit lazy.
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put between the foot and the shoe."
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diction...
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had been just of hard words.
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knows what a sock is!"
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then I can't help you.
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Scots in his one on oats, didn't he?
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which in England
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in Scotland supports the people."
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nobody knows what, under his tongue,
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nobody knows why, from running mad."
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Wasn't a scientist then.
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543. He was one of our greatest
men of letters.
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because it's time for the scores.
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545. It's all we've got time for.
Let's see who's hit the jackpot.
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in last place, with minus 12.
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up for Alan,
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with minus seven.
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552. And having been depucelated,
QI-wise,
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virginity with minus three, Katy.
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clear winner on plus five,
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we jack it all in and say that's all
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Goodnight.
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