QI (2003–…): Season 18, Episode 11 - Roaming - full transcript

Good evening and welcome to QI,

where tonight we are
Roaming around the world,

taking in a remarkable range of
people and places beginning with the
letter R.

Joining me tonight are,
riding the rails,

it's Benjamin Zephaniah.

Roving the roads,
it's Josh Widdicombe.

Racing down the rapids,
it's Sara Pascoe.

And running to the restroom,

it's Alan Davies.

And let's go round the horns.

Benjamin goes...



Josh goes...

Sara goes...

Butch.

And Alan goes...

Fair enough.

Right, let's start with
a really riveting question.

Who is this woman
and what can she do?

She looks like my
primary school teacher.

Terrifying. She's beautiful.

Does the audience know who it is?

Rosie the Riveter.

Oh, no, you're on minus points
already, audience. I know.

It's a common misconception. So
she was a poster girl, apparently,

for women's contribution to the war
effort in the Second World War,



that's what it is commonly thought.

The poster does date, in fact,
from 1943,

but it was actually used
only for ten days

in the American
Westinghouse Factories.

But it was part of a series
of 42 posters,

and the idea was to
halt union activity.

It was to prevent strike action.

Then what happened was the poster
was rediscovered in the 1980s

and it was given a sort of
new lease of life.

The real Rosie the Riveter

is based on somebody that you might
have heard of.

So that is the real
Rosie the Riveter.

Who do you think it looks like?

Is it Roseanne Barr?

I think it looks like Jo Brand.

It does look a little
bit like Jo Brand.

Do you not think? Yeah.

But it is based on somebody famous.

It's painted by Norman Rockwell
and he based it

on the Prophet Isaiah from
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.

Oh, wow. I know.

You wouldn't think it.
That's rather cool, isn't it? Yeah.

I know, it's absolutely marvellous.

So when you say we might recognise
them because it's someone we know...

No, I said it was based on somebody
famous. So... How famous is he?

Isaiah? Isaiah? Yeah.

I reckon they'd book him
for this show.

Yeah.

So Rosie is eating a ham sandwich,
you can't quite see it

in this picture, but her foot is
crushing a copy of Mein Kampf.

It was actually based on
a 19-year-old telephone operator

called Mary Doyle Keefe.

She was paid $10
and she wasn't a riveter at all.

But the image of actual Rosie
the Riveter fell out of use

due to copyright restrictions,

and the gap in the market
was sort of filled

by the "We Can Do It" version
that we saw earlier.

The real name, Rosie the Riveter,
came from a song

and we think we can have
a listen to it.

# Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage

# Sitting up there on the fuselage

# That little frail can do
more than a male can do

# Rosie the Riveter. #

I love that. "That little frail
can do more than a male." Yeah.

It makes you feel good about
yourself, doesn't it?

On the subject of QI panellist
resemblances,

I said how much I thought
that poster looked like Jo Brand,

in July 2018, there's a Twitter user
called Sam Jordan,

and he tweeted the following,

"Going through some old photos,
a welcome surprise..."

Oh, yeah!

"..to find my great grandmother
is, in fact, Alan Davies."

Wow!

Can you stand up next to it, Alan?
Let's have a look.

Well, I think she's gorgeous.

Oh, yeah. JOSH: Oh, wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, for a bit of Randy Scandi.

Here are some words
of Scandinavian origin.

To be more specific,
they're of Norwegian origin,

since the Danes would
never use such stupid words.

Who can tell me what they mean?
Have a look at some of these.

Crotching is obvious.
Yes? What, is it?

What Michael Jackson does.

Oh, yes, like a bit of a move,
a crotching move. "Ooh!"

Oh, I thought you were
thinking of a very different thing
there.

You're thinking of flushbunking.
Yeah.

I saw something the other day
online...

I don't know if I can talk about
this, cos it's really dirty.

Come on, come on. Darling,

you've already gone down to Michael
Jackson's crotch, help yourself.

No, it was... these people who,
they're kind of pranksters I guess,

and they literally lick toilets.

What?! What? Yeah.

As a... as a hobby,
like a sort of niche hobby?

I guess they get lots of likes
and views on YouTube,
and stuff like that.

Wow. I mean, I've been worrying
about shaking hands, but...

And you think that's flushbunking?

Sounds like a whiffswiddle to me.
Yeah.

Well, I can tell you that
biffsquiggled means confused.

Flushbunking actually means
making no sense.

Whiffswiddle is something that
happens or moves very, very fast.

And all of these words were
invented by one person.

Who do we think that might be?

A Norwegian person?
Norwegian person?

Well, of Norwegian origin.
Is it a footballer?

No, it isn't. I'm out.

It was for the BFG. Oh, Roald Dahl.
It is Roald Dahl.

His parents were
Norwegian immigrants.

Roald Dahl is actually
a very interesting fellow.

He was a spy, briefly.

He was a spy for the
sort of covert operation

set up by MI6 to
spy in the United States.

But he used his spy experiences
to write screenplays.

He wrote two Ian Fleming
screenplays.

He wrote the James Bond film
You Only Live Twice,

and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
as well. Oh. Wow.

But he made up over 500
words in BFG. Yeah.

Scrumdiddlyumptious.

Snozzcumber? Snozzcumber, yeah.

Snozzcumber, yes, which was?

It was like a kind of bitter
cucumber, wasn't it? Yeah,

a black and white striped cucumber.
With little knobbles on the outside.

I wish James Bond had eaten one of
those instead of having a Martini.

"I'll have a Snozzcumber, please."

"Sliced."
"Yeah, if you wouldn't mind."

That is an incredible book,
published in 1982,

it has sold over 40 million copies.

Amazing. It sells another million
every year.

I know, right? The BFG does?

Yeah, The BFG, yeah.

One of the dreams in one of the jars
is that a book sells so well

that even footballers on the pitch,

that everyone in the world
is reading the book.

And it kind of is like that, isn't
it? Everyone's read The BFG.

Not footballers.

Dahl, when he was buried,
I love this,

he was buried with his snooker cues,
some very good Burgundy,

chocolates, HB pencils
and a power saw.

Which I just think is...
What's he planning? I don't know.

What would you be buried with, Alan?

What would, if you were to
choose the bits and pieces?

I was just going to say my children!

Ladies and gentlemen,
dad of the year!

Yeah, no, I don't think
that's appropriate.

No, it's not.

What about you, Josh? Um...

Oh, ah...

I completed a jigsaw for
the first time this week.

Two piece or one? Yeah, how many...?

I'll tell you how many pieces
it was meant to be, 1,000. Yeah.

And it was 999 pieces. Yeah.

So you didn't complete a jigsaw. No.

Just so proud about something
you failed at.

I didn't fail, but...
You did, darling,

because when you say you completed
a jigsaw, that is not what happened.

You didn't complete it.
Yeah. Thank you.

All right, I want to be buried
with the final piece of the jigsaw.

Anybody else?
In Birmingham Museum... Yeah?

..one of the exhibits
is my first typewriter,

and it's a typewriter that's almost
100 years old. I was a little kid...

Wow, you've aged well!

I was a little kid and this
bloke looked at me and he went,

"What do you want to do when you
grow up?" And I said, "I want to be
a poet."

And he went, "Well, here's a
typewriter." And it's a beautiful
piece.

And I'd like to be buried with that,
so that...

..when I'm decomposing
I'm still composing, basically.

Oh, I think that's lovely!
Ah, that's nice.

That is really nice.
That's very nice. That is so nice.

But I am a little bit worried

that the Birmingham Museum
is going to be empty.

What else have they got? Yeah.

They've got Jasper Carrott's
stool.

Oh, that's gone off by now, surely.
Not his stool... Oh, I see!

I mean, sweet of him
to offer it, but...

Ah, this is the
weirdest show I've ever been on.

Where am I?

I met Jasper Carrott

and I asked him about why
he's called Jasper Carrott,

and he said it's cos
his real name is Davis,

and it's so boring.

His name is Bob Davis.

Is that right?

Yeah, and that's the name
of my middle child.

Who you want to buried with. Yeah!

Now, onto the Romans.
What did they ever do for us?

I know what they didn't do.
What did they not do?

Cos I've seen this
programme before. Yeah.

They didn't build roads.

No, they really did, darling.
They did. They did.

In Monty Python's Life Of Brian
they ask,

"All right, but apart from, you
know, the sanitation, the medicine,

"education, wine, public order,
irrigation, roads,

"a fresh water system
and public health,

"what have the Romans
ever done for us?"

In fact, most of those items
on the list already existed.

They were improved upon,
rather than invented by the Romans.

So they didn't invent roads,
but they did certainly make them.

Did they invent aqueducts?

No, they did not
invent aqueducts either.

They were used by the
Egyptians and the Babylonians

for hundreds of years before the
Romans. Underfloor heating?

I mean, again, there is underfloor
heating in other parts of the world.

Really? Yes, I'm afraid so.

Pasta. Pasta, they invented pasta,
absolutely.

No, all sorts of things
that we think, so for example,

straight roads is one of the
things that we think,

but we know straight roads
existed in Ireland,

which the Romans didn't even reach.

And they didn't even
invent paved roads.

The world's oldest paved road,
which this is part of...

It looks like one of Josh's puzzles.

It's probably four and a half
thousand years ago

that this road was laid down.
It's in Egypt. So it was laid down

in order to build the monuments
at Giza along the Nile.

There is something the Romans
did give us,

which is the wicker man.

So, the very first evidence
that we have

of the wicker man style of pagan
sacrifice comes from Julius Caesar.

He claimed that the Druids burned
people alive inside wicker cages.

Oh, wow. The thing is,
he's thought to have invented it,

because he wanted to show how
barbaric everybody was in Britain.

Although maybe
the wicker man has not...

..we have no evidence of it,
because...

Cos they took it apart to make some
cool chairs in the '80s.

Does anybody want to see
a Peter Rabbit wicker man?

Yeah. Oh... Yes, please. Always.
OK, well...

So, in 2016 they made a 40 foot,
there it is,

straw statue of Peter Rabbit.

It was created to celebrate the
150th anniversary of Beatrix...

And it's full of rabbits.

Well, it was set alight
by arsonists.

Aww.

Or Mr McGregor, which
is the one I'm voting for!

We had a picture of it on fire,
but I couldn't bear to show it.

Oh. Show it! No.

Show it! Show it! Show it! Show it!

It's too, no! Show it!

Come on, you lot,
what sort of rabble are you?

I'm trying to rouse you!

You want to see the burning rabbit,
don't you?

No! AUDIENCE: Yes!

Have you got it?
What is wrong with you?!

It's not a real rabbit,
it's just a picture of a fire!

I'm not showing Peter Rabbit
on fire.

It's not happening.
Aw. Yeah.

And so was it supposed to...?

Boo! Boo! Don't boo Sandi!
Don't boo Sandi!

Wow! I'm being nice for
the odd child who watches.

It's not happening.

Be a very odd child,
watching this show.

But welfare, the idea of welfare
is a Roman concept.

So they had something a bit like
a sort of corn dole,

so if the poor were
really suffering,

they would give out
and look after the needy,

and that is a concept that
hadn't existed before.

I think there are some
African scholars

that would really
disagree with that,

cos there's lots of evidence
that African villages

used to share and they would never
let anybody go poor.

There's a Jamaican word
called paadna.

It's like partner, but paadna,

where people put money
into a kitty in the village

and it's to make sure that
no-one goes poor.

I think there's a serious issue
in history

that probably a lot of that
stuff that happened

was not written down,
and so it has been lost. Yeah.

Well, you know, this...

I'm going to talk about what
I teach at university,

but I teach the oral tradition.

And so a lot of it is handed
down word to mouth. Yeah. Mm.

And a lot of western scholarship
just missed it,

because it wasn't written down.
No, you're absolutely right.

Now, who would be the worst person
to borrow a glove from?

OJ Simpson?

True, it's true.

The guy that gave me a strip search
at Heathrow Airport.

I wouldn't want to borrow a glove
from him.

Did they do the whole...? Yeah.
The whole...?

I don't know why I'm doing that,
that's... Really?

I imagine there's not that much
movement in it, actually.

Yeah, you're not changing a light
bulb up there, Sandi. Yeah.

I was coming from a particular
part of the world

which is known as a source
of narcotics,

and I look suspicious.

Was it Kensington?

And they gave me a strip search.
That's horrible. Sounds awful. Yeah.

What did they find?
It's my worst nightmare.

Two kilos of cocaine,
but that's not the point!

They found nothing, I am innocent,
I'm a good boy. Quite right.

I haven't broken the law
for... months. A while!

So I'm going to give you a clue,

the worst person to
borrow a glove from,

he was Russian, he was romantic.

Oh. His name begins with Ra, Ra...

Rasputin. Rasputin. Rasputin.

Oh!

That was a trick of
the highest order, Sandi.

That's so much fun!

Rachmaninoff.

Oh. Oh. Oh.

Sergei Rachmaninoff.

He had huge hands.

You should have keyboards.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So if you have a look
at the keyboards,

he could span 12 keys.

So that is Rachmaninoff's hand
that you have there.

So put it up against your hand.

He could span 12 notes.

How many can you span
with a single hand?

Oh, I've got really small hands.

I'm on ten. You can do ten.

Nine, just about. Just about nine.
Yeah.

And Sara, what about you?

Using all five fingers.

15! Yeah!

So there is an argument that some
of the virtuoso pieces on piano

are inherently sexist, because
women simply can't manage.

This is impossible!

So there is an issue for women
playing piano pieces,

because if you want to play
large chords and so on,

you really need a span of at least
eight and a half inches,

and that eliminates 24% of men.

Does it really?
87% of women.

But there's very few women
in virtuoso piano playing.

I didn't know that. And it's partly
to do with the span of the hands.

The world record for biggest hands,

held by an American,
Robert Pershing Wadlow, this is...

I know, this is, look at the hands!
Wow!

It is faintly astonishing, isn't it?

His hands measured 12.75 inches,

so 32.3 centimetres from the wrist
to the top of the middle finger.

He's also the tallest man on record.

OK, that's good, yeah. I was just
going to say, is it to scale?

Is it...? Yeah.
He was 8 foot, 11.1 inches.

I mean he was astonishing.
Oh, yeah. Whoa!

You sometimes see a model of him

outside the Ripley Believe It Or Not
museums. Yeah, yeah.

Poor man. And really sadly,
he died quite young. Yeah.

He was still growing by the time he
died, and his ankle brace chafed him

and he got an infection
and he died because... Oh. Oh.

I know, it is really sad. Yeah.

Right, moving on. What could
this man do in 28 seconds?

That's a silly laugh, there!
28 seconds...

Who was sniggering at the
back of the class?

He's Scottish,
his name is Robert Liston.

19th century.

19th century... He was a surgeon.

He could amputate a leg
in 28 seconds.

Whoa! That's too quick. Yeah.

Yeah, I reckon I could do it
quicker, actually.

Look, what's that, half a second?

No, but you have to tie all
the veins together.

Oh, you've got to finish the job.
Yeah. You've got to finish it off.

His catchphrase was
"Time me, gentlemen." So... I know.

In those days, theatres
were called that for a reason,

because people sold tickets
and there were spectators. Yeah.

So what happened on this
one particular occasion,

it did not go all that well,
one time he accidentally chopped off

a patient's testicles along
with his leg. Oh, no!

Too high up the leg!
I know, right?

He's gone too high.

On one occasion,
he was doing the amputation...

So you have to imagine, he has to
be fast, cos there's no anaesthetic.

He brought the knife down,

he managed to severe three of
his assistant's fingers. Ooh!

And as he brought it back up,
he slashed the cloak of a spectator.

The patient and the assistant
both died later of gangrene,

their wounds became infected.

And the story is that the
spectator died of fright,

because he thought
he had been stabbed.

It is the only operation on record
with a 300% mortality rate.

So... Did he lose his licence?

No, darling,
people queued up to see him.

They absolutely did.

Because his mortality rate
was one in seven, and...

One in seven?! Well, the average
was one in four. So, you know...

But the idea that people
don't make mistakes now,

ha-ha, let me tell you,

in 2019, a hospital in Leicester
paid out £20,000

to a man they had circumcised
by mistake.

He'd gone in for a procedure
on his bladder.

No!

He said he got distracted chatting
to the nurses. What? Yeah.

So he didn't notice he was having
the wrong operation
until it was too late.

Oh, no. He described it
as "a real surprise.".

20 grand, though.

I'd take it.

What was the biggest revelation
in Bridget Hitler's diaries?

Hold on, is there...?

Is there really somebody called
Bridget Hitler? Yes.

You don't really hear much about
any other Hitlers. No.

Yeah, I always thought that...

Just change your name to Carrott,
it's much easier.

Can I just point out that

we're not suggesting that Renee
Zellweger is a Nazi, can I just...?

I think she's... You have to do that

at the start of every show,
don't you? Yes, I do. It's...

Just, once again, Renee Zellweger
is not a Nazi.

At the time of recording. Yeah.

But there was really
a Bridget Hitler. - OK.

She was married to Hitler's
half-brother, Alois, in 1910,

and they lived in Liverpool.

And that is Bridget, right there,

and she wrote about her life
with Hitler's half-brother.

She claimed in her diaries that
Hitler came and stayed with them.

But academics dispute this,
I have to tell you.

But the thing that she revealed,
which I really love,

is that if Hitler won the war,
what he wanted to do

was to take Rochdale Town Hall,
brick by brick, back to Germany.

That was... What?! Yes.

And that's what it was all about?
Yeah.

Why Rochdale?

Well, it is very beautiful,
isn't it? Yeah.

It does look beautiful.

And the Luftwaffe did
use it as a landmark,

so it was saved during the war.
Oh, was it?

Ironically, the Luftwaffe destroyed
Bridget Hitler's house.

Maybe Adolf Hitler didn't
have a nice time

when he stayed with her. Yeah.

"Just go for Bridget's house,
it's the third one from the end."

It's just the most fantastic
Victorian Gothic architecture.

Beautiful. Yeah. It contains
a toilet that has never been used,

because it was built
for Queen Victoria,

and as she didn't use it,
nobody else has either.

They definitely have, Sandi. Yeah.

Yes. Of course they have!

Whoever's got the key...
Yeah. Yeah.

But the idea of moving,
you could have done this,

you could have taken Rochdale Town
Hall down and moved it to Germany.

And there are lots of historic
examples

of big buildings being moved.

Anybody remember when
London Bridge was moved?

Anybody know where it went?

United States. To Arizona. Yeah.

1976, it was put up for auction
and was won by a man

called Robert McCulloch
and he moved it to Arizona.

It is now the second largest
tourist attraction in Arizona,

after the Grand Canyon.

Anyway, he paid two and a half
million dollars for it

and it has certainly paid itself
back, and he's sold lots of

residential property on the back
of it, and all that kind of thing.

And the other one is Rosa Parks'
house.

So Rosa Parks, famously...?

On the bus. On the bus.

Refused to give up her
seat on the bus. Yeah.

That was in December 1st, 1955.

She later moved to Detroit
to live with her brother,

and that house,
which was a tiny house...

They lifted it on
a huge bunch of balloons.

No, it's in Berlin. Oh. Oh. Berlin?

I know! Isn't that the
strangest thing? Yeah.

It was an artist called
Ryan Mendoza.

They were going to demolish it
and he couldn't bear it,

so he bought it and he rebuilt it
in Berlin,

and he does sort of
sound performances.

You can't go in it,
apparently, it's not safe.

Is it a tourist attraction?

Well, he does sort of,
he's a performance artist,

so he does performances
in and around it.

The strangest tourist attraction
I've ever been to

was Hotel Lorraine,
or Lorraine Hotel.

It's the hotel where
Martin Luther King was shot.

And I think they don't do this now,
but when I was there,

you could stand on the balcony
where Martin Luther King was shot.

And they literally
had his footprints,

so you could stand in them.
Oh, wow!

And a laser would shoot you...
No! Wow!

..as if you were being shot,

just like Martin Luther King was
shot. Oh, my God, that's terrible!

There's an amount of time,
like in...

..for the anniversary of the
Titanic, to go full circle,

there was a theme park ride
that opened in Japan

of the Titanic sinking.

And actually, there's an amount
of time where it just,

it becomes a historical fact and the
kind of empathy disappears. Yeah.

But I think it's really weird now,
that, you know, you have

tourist attractions and pubs and
things called Jack The Ripper.

Yeah. Yeah. I always find that
really weird. Well, that...

That, again, there's a whole
cultural conversation now

that's so much more
about the women...

Number one, poverty in London,

the women who were in danger,
sex work at the time,

the history of London, and it isn't
just about... yeah, a psychopathic
killer.

There's a new biography recently
released, isn't there?

It's about the five women.
The five, yeah. About the victims.

No, it is very, very good.

And now we've roamed way off course
and right into the twilight zone

of General Ignorance.
Fingers on buzzers, please.

Which is the British lake
with the greatest deep-ness?

I'm going to give you a hint,

its depth is absolutely monstrous.

Oh, come on!

Windermere.

Good playing of the game!

Extra point for playing
the game well.

So it is not, it's not...?

Loch Ness.

Oh, no, it's not fair!

That is not fair!

I said it's not. It's not Loch Ness.
I'm getting the hang of this!

The deepest lake in the UK
is Scotland's Lake Morar.

It is 310 metres deep.
Really?

And Loch Ness is 247.5.

There is, however, in Loch Morar,

a cryptozoological monster that
rivals the Loch Ness Monster.

It's called Morag. Aww.

Which is so cute.

It was last spotted in 2013,

and the new theory about Loch Ness,
actually,

cos there was a team of researchers
from New Zealand in 2019

and they analysed water samples,
they think there may be

several giant eels that
are living in the lake.

Loch Ness gets its name from an
old Scottish legend that featured

the Gaelic lines, "Tha loch
'nis ann, tha loch 'nis ann."

Just means, "There's a loch now,
there's a loch now."

So, who knows?

Loch Morar is deeper than Loch Ness
and has its own monster to boot.

Here's someone who's
absolutely full of herself,

but where was this doll invented?

Oh... It's... Ukraine.

Yes, Josh? Um...

Minsk.

Good answer! Yeah, very good.
Good answer, yeah, really specific.

It's specific and it's wrong.
Oh, not Minsk.

But we hadn't thought of it.

They're called matryoshki,

but it started its life in China...
Oh...!

..so more than a thousand years ago
and then to Japan.

But then in the 19th century,

a Moscow workshop called Children's
Upbringing took this idea,

and they created their own versions
of these nesting dolls.

I've got one at home. Yeah?
And it's got me,

and then my wife
and then my three children.

And the likenesses of everybody
are pretty good,

apart from me,
I look a bit ridiculous.

We've done this one,
which we think looks like you.

It's got the shirt on,
got the shirt on. Yes, yeah.

And then if we open it up,
inside...

Aw!

Let me see
if I can get them all out.

So then we've got Benjamin,
and then we've got you...

Oh, we all live in Alan.
We've got... Yeah.

And where's Josh?
Josh... Unbelievable.

There you are.

And even smaller,
even smaller than Josh...

Is that you, Sandi?
..is me inside.

And what's inside the...?
Who's inside you?

Oh, it's a blue whale.

We should try and do that
after the show. Yeah!

Now, where is the biggest
rainforest in the world?

Ah, well... Is it Brazil?

Oh, here we go.

Yeah, I know, I know. Someone
had to do it. Someone had to.

So there are two types
of rainforest -

there is tropical,
and there is temperate.

Temperate? Temperate? Temperate.
Isn't that just a forest?

What is the thing
that classifies a rainforest?

The amount of rainfall?
The rain, yeah, absolutely.

So the largest one is in Alaska.

It's the Tongass National Forest,
it covers 17 million acres...

Whoa! ..and is breathtaking.
That's big.

But you also find them in Australia,
in Japan, in Iceland,

and indeed in the UK,

so Snowdonia, Devon, Cumbria,
Northern Ireland,

the west coast of Scotland,
they're all temperate rainforests.

It's about 6% of the Earth's
land surface area,

but it's amazing, because it's home

to 50% of the species
of flora and fauna.

The Amazon alone
is home to 10% of all species,

including this,
which is one of my favourite things,

the South American
Goliath birdeater spider.

It's the size of a puppy.

Oh, no, thank you!

Each...

Each of its legs is one foot long.

What?! Yeah, yeah.

Oh, you've ruined my dreams
for, like, a week.

That... And you like that, Sandi?

You wouldn't show us
a rabbit on fire,

and you're...

..and you're doing this to us!

I have got a friend who went
to the world's largest rainforest,

so if you want to know what
it's like, "Alaska".

OK, we've run out of time.
Lovely stuff.

As our voyage draws to a close,

let's take a look
at the range of scores.

In last place tonight,
rambling in the Rotherham rain,

with minus 23...

..it's Sara!

Yay!

In fourth place, with minus 19,
it's Alan.

Thank you so much.

In third place, with minus seven,

it's the audience!

The audience!

With minus six, beating the audience
into second place, it's Josh!

Yeah! Losers, losers!

Losers.

And our winner tonight,
relaxing in a romantic resort

with three points, it's Benjamin!

I'm so happy to be here,
and I want to thank my mother...

Anyway, it's thanks...

..it's thanks to Sara,
Benjamin, Josh and Alan,

and I leave you with this holiday
reminiscence from Henny Youngman.

"This hotel I once visited
was incredible.

"The towels were so fluffy
I could hardly close my suitcase."

That's all from QI this time.
Goodnight.