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Am Dutch. Can confirm swaffelen means to club something with your willie. Not necessarily the Taj Mahal, but that is simply the most famous swaffeling in history.
In QI (stands for "quite interesting"), you get points for having interesting answers, even if they're wrong. They have a handful of predictable answers pre-loaded in their graphics and if you answer one of the predictable ones, you lose points.
Predictable Incorrect answers (or joke answers too)
@christopherbowers7236do you actually think you've corrected something?
Are you a Yank? Coz repeating was someone smarter said then pretending you know something is very Yankee
They can’t beat our Richard. A licking is an overwhelming defeat.
"Lick" in English is slang for getting a beating or getting into a fight. So the unslanged version of the slogan would be "They can't beat Richard."
You’re actually a breath of fresh air. An educated, curious American reactor. Very much enjoy your reactions 🇬🇧
Feels like he has a British sense of humour.... unlike many USA'ers
I totally agree @LPR579, I came to the comments section to say the same thing, clearly an intelligent guy.
@Danny_71_84Connor is from New England or New Hampshire, so I they are amongst the most regionally genealogical & culturally similar to British of the US populational demographic.
the text flashing at the back is the mistakes they expected the contestants to make, which can be quite funny
Please watch a couple of whole episodes - they don't have to be reactions although I'd love that - so that you really get the concept
the alarm going off is for words the show expected you to say but not the answer they are looking for
In New Zealand there is a brand of soft serve ice cream . Their slogan is: "Often licked ,never beaten"
Frosty Boy!
Best response in The Battle of the Bulge was David Niven, who had returned from Hollywood to rejoin his regiment and was a Colonel. He was asked a question about baseball. He said I've no idea but I once starred in a movie with Ginger Rogers.
When you see a title and hear a claxon, that means the contestant has points deducted for a wrong answer.
For a boring obvious answer
@conallmclaughlin4545not boring, just the obvious one.
@conallmclaughlin4545 It has to be a wrong answer, and usually it's one that is commonly thought to be true. They don't deduct points for correct answers no matter how boring or obvious they are.
When I lived in UK I didn't watch much TV but QI was one of my favourites.
The "Lick" phrase is in response to losing. Like in a fight if you beat the crap out of the other guy, you could say "He took a good licking, but survived" so that phrase means " You cant win against richard"
And the Klaxon sound and answers flashing up on screen are predetermined. Although occasionally the QI elves will type up an answer really quickly and fire it off when a contestant tries to be a smart ass or says a really stupid answer.
no its "you got licked/you lost"
I first heard that phrase when I read the book, "Tom Sawyer", where he threatened to "lick" someone. I read that book in the 1960's, it's by an American author, and as I had never, and still have never (60 years later), heard a Brit use that expression seriously, I've always assumed it was an American expression, so was very surprised that an American didn't know what it meant..... 🤷🏼♂️
My favourite US reaction guy. I like your intelligence
Rhode Island to Maine - loads of decent educated folk, including my nephews and niece from Deighton.
I like him more and more. He is kind of nerd.
Why is it that Roosevelt got a thrid term? Because of WW2. You can't elect a new president when you're at war. So my next question is: Why can 'Zelensky get a second term? The same! Because his country 8s at war! Is Trump that stupid? YES! We in The Netherlands never forgot MH17. And wecl will support Ukraine not matter what the cost is. Slava Ukraine!
Yes, although I believe it was also that there wasn't technically a limit, a tradition that most presidents followed yes, but not a strict rule, until they amended the constitution.
And speaking of constitutions you're entirely correct, Zelenskyy can't even decide to call an election now as the Ukrainian constitution forbids elections during martial law.
Roosevelt got a third term simply because he ran for president a third time and was elected a third time. In fact, four years later, he ran for president a fourth time and was elected a fourth time, but then died a couple of months into his fourth presidency, and automatically succeeded by his vice president Truman.
Roosevelt wasn't elected to a third term while the US was at war. He was elected two years before joined WW2.
Not since 1850? Trump: a brain (allegedly?!)
Roosevelt was elected to 4 terms not 3. His fourth election was on November 7, 1944 whilst the US was at war with both Germany and Japan.
For an example of the use of 'lick' to mean 'beaten', look no further than the classic slogan for Timex watches: "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking."
The klaxon goes off if you give an obvious or incorrect answer, NOT a correct one.
"you can't LICK" means " you can't BEAT".
Impressive Connor - Harrison knowledge 👍
Alan Davis always makes me laugh. I started watching British TV after seeing Jonathan Creek. And now I usually watch Brit box or Acorn and don't need captions anymore.
oh but trump does have a pet in the white house... its called elon
Trump is the pet now
👏🏻
My sisters name is Wednesday and her married surname is adams. She was born before the Addams family.
The alarm words are predetermined.
Lick used to mean beat.
Oh you've returned to my feed! I've been subscribed for ever, and this is the first time in ages you've popped up! So glad to hear you again.
Please continue this soon at it was a great video
"To lick" can mean "to beat", so it does make sense. ;-)
Always a thumbs up from me, regards from Liverpool 👍
4:20 I think it's safe to say there's no petting in the White House between the current president and first lady.
Maybe between first lady trump and president musk
At 14 I had pneumonia that almost killed me....that lasted almost 3 months before i got the correct treatment.
There are 'QI elves' behind the scenes who, usually, very quickly react to the participants. They are the ones who research and produce the information.
They also have a fantastic podcast called No Such Thing A Fish.
Buzzers are not written on the fly though, they are predetermined
And they’ve appeared on Only Connect a couple of times
"decency" flashed up as a sort of weekly mystery word.
True, President is a good name for a pet as long as you toilet train it cos the last thing you wanna hear is ‘that damn president has just shat on the lawn again!’
"Diaper Don" perchance ? 🤔😎
So you did learn something at school, Connor!
We have not changed much in over 200 years when it comes to humour. We thought it funny when we burnt the Whitehouse down in 1812.
Is darn not a form of damn? In the UK we darn socks (well 50 years ago we did!). Is there not a saying "dang", which presumably is the same?
The word lick also means to beat badly.
I often 'beat' my lick badly... 😎
You are going to have to look up Petting!
Is heavy petting a weighty experience?
@12:55 The former host of the show, Stephen Fry, is famously homosexual (hence the ... off-color joke)
Also, the premise of the show is every question is a trick: if you guess the obvious but wrong answer the claxon blares and the answer appears behind you; if you guess the right answer you get a few points, and if you get an answer that is wrong but judged more interesting than the right answer you get more points.
Sandi Toksvig's homosexuality isn't exactly a secret either.
Weirdly I was just commenting on another one of Jibbins QI reactions when this popped up.
I urged him to react to a full episode from somewhere around the c-h seasons.
I urge you to do so also.
There are other explanations for OK around.
9:12 To lick something can mean to beat something in a fight (archaic expression)
aaah the good old days when the biggest joke comming out of the us was sarah palin....i miss em sooo much.
Keep well.
I recall reading about hyenas being used as "persuaders" by debt collectors in Nigeria instead of the tough dogs you might see over here. Apparently people pay up pretty quickly.
8:24 Absolutely, there are some brilliant examples of this!
On QI those are predetermined answers. I'm glad you're making Americans aware of what their real reputation is around the world. It's not so flattering.
as another example of lick meaning beat, at i think shiloh, grant got the worst end of the battle and sherman found grant sheltering under a tree that night and said 'we've had the devil's own day haven't we?' and grant simply said 'yes. lick 'em tomorrow though' because he expected Don Carlos Buell to reinforce. and Grant was right they won the battle and forced the enemy to retreat (i think also because Johnston the confederate commander was killed).
With all those animals it’s a good job Teddy’s term lasted longer than William Harrison’s! Imagine bringing all of them in, getting a nice area for them all then a few weeks later they gotta go
Funniest episode of a television show I've seen for a long time. "Would I lie to You" the episode with Kevin Bridges about a horse. British show, two teams, one person in each team of three is given a statement to read out and the other team have to decide if the statement, and the explanation about it is true or a lie. Very, very funny.
The first episode of the newest season was hysterically funny. And it's on RUclips.
I can repeatedly watch the Kevin Bridges episode and every time I hurt from laughing so much.
QI always good!
in qi there are predetermend "common but wrong awnsers" if youa ccidentaly hit one the clackson goes off and you loose points, think of it as minesweeper with words.
blue whale the most common to go off
@jonathanpringle8238 but has been a correct answer on occasion. 😃
@jjc5407 If I remember correctly Alan Davies didn't get it until he was prompted.
FDR had a dog called President? "Come here, President, come here, come on, come here President... no, not you! Get back in your wheelchair!" :)
They antisipate guests answers before the show.That is why they are so quick on the buzzer.
Bravo squire, good show.
well done, defo worth completing this though
This was good😊
I’m a Brit who uses gosh a lot
i wonder what happend to the incarseration part.....
That is actually a good question.. Yes.. They actually DID realize someone MAY use the phrase decency and then it became a "klaxon".. BUT! they also do sometimes type things in order to place it on a klaxon BUT that is usually when someone decides to try to "challenge" the Klaxon.. So IF someone is DIRECTING their comments to the Klaxon and tries to argue against them.. they MAY use their knowledge of what the INTENDED answer (that is the problem with QI if you think of it as a way to learn things.. someone was being a besserwisser and had an intended answer that they defined as right and then defined all other interpretations as "wrong" like IF a question is AIMED at the original interpretation of something then anything that is how things are interpreted today is pr definition "wrong" BUT if they instead found some NEW science that proved something new and they wanted THAT answer then anything relating to what USED to be defined as true is pr definition wrong.. so.. language change.. and when you look at QI's klaxons on things that relates to definitions of words- like "what is a fish" or "how many moons do the earth have" they just made up what answer they are AIMING for and defined all others as wrong.. but if they were looking at the ORIGINAL meaning of a word then what is the current meaning is ALSO wrong).
It's.. not a place to learn science.. they aren't automatcially wrong in what they say, but what they defined as correct or wrong IS dubious... at best.
Like.. How many moons does the earth have.. the correct answer is (and was every time they asked the question) one.. but.. they were looking at different things and made up different answers.. and then decided to claim that anyone saying anything else than what they WANTED to say (two, more than two, none).. as wrong... if you know science AND know what they were talking about.. you'd realize that they were always wrong EXCEPT when they said.. one.
good content connor
Friends of mine named their daughter Siri two years before Apple....
I knew someone back in school named Alexandra but everyone called her Alexa.
I wonder if she has problems today… 🧐
I recommend Phil Jupitus best bits on QI.
For anyone who doesn't know..the QI "Elves" (researchers) have a podcast called No Such Thing As A Fish
8:59 lick = beat!
Well there IS a Pet in the WH. and it is Elon's..
Nah, I'm fairly certain it's Putin's
Glad we don't assign PMs numbers in Britain, or try to memorize their names. We've had about 40 since the Duke of Wellington, and there were more than 20 before him. Remembering all the wives of just one of our kings is a struggle for me, and of course how each one progressed in life....
1:53 Robert Hueller?
4:10 oh no back then they wouldn’t forget remember he’s a celebrity in his own right forgetting his name is like forgetting Kermit the Frog or Elmo the red monster.
Lick means beat or surpassed.
They can't beat our Richard.
I don't want to beat anyone's Richard bar my own.
My father in law said that he never saw an American at the battle of the bulge.
Juneau is on the North American mainland and is still only accessible by air or sea.
There is a bridge to Douglas on Douglas island
We are SO different on so many levels.
UK here.
We noticed ;-) !
French guy here.
But....wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same?
@ By different I mean like a wise old Father looking on at his young foolish Son acting stupidly…
That's why this US citizen loves British TV.
As mome have mentioned the klaxon isfor an incorrect or predicted answer usually after the questions are set byt before recording the host and the elves (the research team) will go through the questions cumming up with answers they expect will be given each time a panelist guves o e if these answers they lose ponts however there is domeone st the control who can add little messages ir if theres a recurring joke add that as a klaxon (joe lycett was one ut and every time someone picture came up hed ask if that was domeone (cant remember who he kept asking ifit was) but they caught on and the next time he said it it set of the klaxon)
12:49 Clarkson: "Not now Stephen's gone"
You seemed to miss that one (Stephen Fry is gay)
Yes, my uncle Alfred had that problem. The short form of that name is Alf, then a US comedy with an Alien Life Form ( ALF ) with an appetite for cats became a hit, lol... 😂
About the Kermit thing. I once knew a man called Donald Duck, obviously named before the Disney Duck came along
I knew a guy called Ronald McDonald. I believe here in Scotland there used to be loads of them. I imagine that after the burger company took the name, people called McDonald stopped calling their sons Ronald.
@grahamlive
I heard a rumour that Donald McDiaper is Melania's 'pet' name for Trump...! 🤔
@StewedFishProductions My pet name for him is the Marmalade Mussolini.
@PotatoRadius
I recently heard DT described as the "mango monster" ... (I might've gotten the "monster" part wrong, but if so, it's only because I can only remember the "mango" part, sorry)
I grew up thinking 'lick' was a U.S. synonym for 'beat' as in, to better or best someone or something. So that slogan makes sense to me, maybe it hasn't been used for a few generations? Similar to 'swell', meaning very good or great, that seems to have disappeared too.
0:52 can be both, but this one seems predetermined (the quickly types usually take a little longer)
I'm Dutch and Yes swaffelen is the correct word. And yes we have a most beautiful cloured swearlanguae 😄🤩we are not narrow minded as so many other country's
I was once scolded by policemen in Amsterdam for British tabloid newspapers having pictures of naked breasts in as if it was my personal fault. There was a lot more nudity to see where I'd strolled past the day before!
So, given the relationship between the Dutch language and the English one, both being West Germanic and the language being, like the country, halfway between German and English, so to speak, I think I've found a new insult to use against the sort of idiotic ignorant man who just _has_ to insult women by belittling, or _trying_ to belittle or speak down to, us, just because we are who we are ie female. A word for a more aggressive version of mansplaining, if you like.
'Why are you such a swaffeller?'
'Will you stop your constant swaffelling and just listen/let me get on with the job/leave them alone?'
'Do you really think your swaffelling will get you anywhere with me?'
'I don't need your swaffelling, _thank_ you very much.'
@Sine-gl9ly I don't think you've quite understood the meaning of the word though.
is "taj mahal" a synonym for "face" though ?
@Danny_71_84 Nope Taj Mahal has nothing to do with it, just happened to be a location some Dutch bloke swaffled and did it aganst the building and got arrested for it which went viral.
That's exactly what Gosh is for, it's called a minced oath
The word 'Lick' used to mean defeat.
To beat.
More words - increased vocabulary yay!!
I'm in favour of lots of bloody swear words but far less appreciative of gosh, darn, dang, frickin', etc, which I think is mere 'baby talk' and not at all suited for adult usage!!
QI was a good show, always had a laugh or two when that was on. Cheers Jibbin.
QI is on BBC Nordic every day. 🇩🇰 Love how we’re entertained and educated at the same time ❤ Do you have shows like this in the US?
@christelekelund7066 Yes, I'm a Brit so I watched when it was on tv fairly often :)
TBH: You write in the 'past tense' (as if QI is finished), whereas new episodes (for 2025) are actually, currently being shown!? Not sure if you meant to or you didn't know?
glad it's still going
I was going to say Stormy Danniels!
Trump has a pet ..,.Elon musk 😂
Take the 'F' off the word felon and there, hidden in plain sight is 'another' -(f)- elon... 😎🤣🤣🤣
Kermit Roosevelt got killed during WW1 and now has a round of lectures named after him (I think).
May eat you? and laugh while doing it.
John Hancock was president of the Continental Congress before Washington. The term President was chosen as a temporary name until a better name was agreed on. The term stuck and became an honored title and the world copied it as new Republics were declared and also used the name.
In the UK we've had many non-consecutive Prime Ministerial terms. Fortunately, we're not obsessed with numbering them! Pretty unimportant IMHO.
I used to work years ago with a Donald Duck. He was pretty old, and older than the cartoon Donald Duck.
What state you from Mc Jibbin ?
Please bring back Stephen ❤
Toto was a Cairn terrier similar type of dog but a brindled colour the other similar one you see a lot of is a West Highland White terrier. A Cairn, a Westie and a Scottie
Trivial factlet: Scottish terriers used to be called Aberdeen terriers (one of the female characters in the Jeeves and Wooster stories had one). Don't know when the name changed.
you do know as well that they att come under the term Ske terriers and apart from those there is another one that looks as though its athe reult of a cross between one of them with a daschund peculiar long bodied terrir called a Dandy Dinmot my next door neighbour inKinloss had one called, funnily enough, , Dandy He was a brindle
9:12 This was a term very much used in America in the past.........The term "lick" is an informal term that can mean to defeat someone or something, or to hit or beat someone. For example, you might say "We licked the other team on Sunday!". Welcome to your past!
Petting! No reactions. You dont now what petting is?
I picked 'gosh' 😅
For me it's the fact that you have the whole numbering presidents that seems weird, rather than having them count twice for non consecutive terms. Why refer to them by number at all? It isn't something other countries do, or indeed other jobs. Sure we have numbers for kings, but only if they have the same name to tell them apart.
6:36 WTF is the Skåne flag doing there lol
My uncle was British and called Michael Jackson. The amount of times people would hang up on him, thinking that he was taking the piss. I'm glad my parents were married otherwise I would be called Michael Jackson also.
The beer hunter?
I agree with you in disagreeing with David Mitchell. Cleveland couldn’t have been the 22nd (?) then be the 22nd president again when he returned! If that’s what DM meant. But nice video Connor!
Your face when they talked about petting told me you didn't understood the joke/meaning of the word.
Presidents take the Oath at the beginning of each term of office, whether it is consecutive or not, Obama was a two term President and so was Cleveland (it's just that there was a gap between Cleveland's terms of Office). David Mitchell's logic is sound.
the president thing makes sense
if i sell you my car then buy it back, i was the first and the third owner
if i sell it to myself then its still mine
According to this other video (see link below), the origin of the word OK is not quite as reported by QI. It's supposedly because there was a trend of intentionally miss-spelling words and abbreviating the miss-spellings to sound cool. So, "All Correct" (used to denoted passing of some quality control process) would be assumed to be written as "Oll Korrect" and was therefore abbreviated to OK.
ruclips.net/video/1UnIDL-eHOs/video.html
You mean like Micheal Myres the actor being named before Halloween was released?
Do you not think the Muppet might have been named after the President's son?