QI - Weighing Your Head REACTION

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @Fwhole
    @Fwhole 11 месяцев назад +35

    Youre pretty much right - the siren goes off when someone gives a wrong answer, that the production team predicted would be givven by someone.

    • @liamcorrigan3158
      @liamcorrigan3158 11 месяцев назад +5

      Or an answer that’s right but really obvious. Or sometimes just because it’s Alan.

    • @ethelmini
      @ethelmini 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@liamcorrigan3158 Blue Whale

  • @jackhagens8964
    @jackhagens8964 11 месяцев назад +34

    The guy in the pink tie, sat with Alan Davies, is John Lloyd, who is the creator of the show. I think he was only a panellist because someone else cancelled at the last minute

    • @richardscratcher6075
      @richardscratcher6075 11 месяцев назад +4

      His other creations/contributions and productions include:
      Not the Nine O'Clock News
      The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
      Spitting Image
      Blackadder

  • @TheycallmeMrWonka
    @TheycallmeMrWonka 11 месяцев назад +23

    The red light and alarm has multiple triggers. It's originally for someone saying the answer that most think of as the truth (but isn't) and it also serves as a way for the production to predict what wrong answers the guests will say, or humorous comments they will make.

  • @jackabalas
    @jackabalas 11 месяцев назад +12

    A rare sighting of the lesser spotted hatless Nick

  • @Uatu-the-Watcher
    @Uatu-the-Watcher 11 месяцев назад +6

    “His wife carried his head around in a velvet bag.”
    The man with that factual nugget is John Lloyd, the creator of QI.
    :-)

  • @user-bf8ud9vt5b
    @user-bf8ud9vt5b 11 месяцев назад +43

    Being worried about sun damage in the UK is the mark of a supreme optimist. 😄

    • @AdeboFunkyVoodoo
      @AdeboFunkyVoodoo 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yet skin cancer is still a major issue in the UK.

    • @cahan557
      @cahan557 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@AdeboFunkyVoodooironically, its because we get so little sunny days that people completely underestimate sun exposure on clear and slightly cloudy days thinking that you can only get sunburnt on really sunny and hot days

  • @rkw2917
    @rkw2917 11 месяцев назад +15

    The head probably smelled better than the London air at the time lol

  • @grabtharshammer
    @grabtharshammer 11 месяцев назад +2

    Water displacement - read up on Archimedes on bath night. - The programme is "Quite Interesting" they are expecting interesting answers from the guests. If you give an answer that is obvious, or a common phallacy, wrong, or your name is Alan Davies, then the claxon is likely to go off, and you will lose points. The person sat next to Alan Davies answering questions on this episode is actually John Lloyd, the producer who came up with this game in the first instance and was responsible for bringing Davies and Fry together 21 years ago

  • @paulbromley6687
    @paulbromley6687 11 месяцев назад +1

    We learned in school the theory of displacement by using a can with a funnel drain off then you fill it with water up until it drains off at the funnel then you put a small weight in until it drains off the liquid equivalent of the weight. I think it was called a ureka can or vessel, This gave you volume of the weight displaced.

  • @gamortie
    @gamortie 10 месяцев назад

    10:45 fill bucket with water. Weigh bucket. Put head in bucket to displace water. Reweigh bucket, and subtract from first number = weight of head.

  • @zaphodbeeblebrox6627
    @zaphodbeeblebrox6627 11 месяцев назад +4

    Sir Walter Rayleigh died in October 1618 by beheading.
    His head was embalmed and at some point after that was given to his grieving wife…
    I bet THAT cheered her up!
    Anyhow, that’s how she became the custodian of her husbands head which she carried about in a velvet bag for the next 29 years.
    Presumably it didn’t whiff too much as it had been embalmed.
    As a side note:-
    His body was originally interred in a church in Beddington, Surrey, but later moved to St Margaret’s Westminster where it lies today.
    After his wife’s death the Head was also interred at St Margaret’s Westminster too.

  • @DavidSmith-cx8dg
    @DavidSmith-cx8dg 11 месяцев назад +3

    I like to wear hats a warm wooly one in winter and a cap on summer .The 'elves ' who set the questions think of the most predictable answers and the klaxon sounds when a panellists comes up with it - minus five points .Alan is always on the panel and occasionally takes a hit when the others are stumped or stalling which is why the scores at the end are mainly negative and he often comes last

  • @stephenhall8850
    @stephenhall8850 11 месяцев назад +1

    The head-weighing technique is really very straightforward. First make a hole in the water with your head, then fill the hole with plaster. When the plaster has set, use it to create a replica head out of - say - lead or gold, then weigh the replica. Simple! My own weighs about 93lbs. 😊

  • @davidabaxter
    @davidabaxter 11 месяцев назад +2

    The guy to Alan's right is the guy who created QI. His name is John Lloyd. He also produced all four series of Blackadder

  • @ndboulton
    @ndboulton 11 месяцев назад +4

    hahah I've literally never heard that as a british stereotype, that we 'don't really wear hats' so your 'when in rome' comment made me chuckle 😆

    • @karlmortoniv2951
      @karlmortoniv2951 11 месяцев назад +2

      Isn’t it more like Americans nearly always wear baseball caps so they’re easy to spot in the wilds of London?

    • @jonenih
      @jonenih 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@karlmortoniv2951also most restaurants,bars, shops will say no hats or hoodies. For CCTV I guess. And style generally tho

  • @danielkarlsson258
    @danielkarlsson258 11 месяцев назад

    Love your QI reactions! Keep them coming, please!

  • @ennesshay5040
    @ennesshay5040 11 месяцев назад

    Displacement: Weigh the water in the bucket [ eg. 20 pounds ] Stick your head in = Some water is forced out / displaced by your head. Weigh the water in the bucket again. The difference will give the weight of your head ! Archimedes - ''Eureka !!!'' - after seeing the water in his bath displaced by the weight of his body.

  • @dalbhuie_youtubeaddedanumber
    @dalbhuie_youtubeaddedanumber 11 месяцев назад +4

    The Klaxon you have heard sound twice and the words flashing up on the screen are a result of what a panelist has said. In the first series Stephan used to have a stack of printed cards, that he would show, which evolved into this. The words/phrase come up on the screens and the sound made when a predicted answer is given. For example, should Stephan or Sandi ask Whos is the most hated person in all time? and a pannelist to be humourous answers, Piers Morgan, or The Prime Minister or such like, If the Qi Elves ( which is what they call the folk who research and set the questions ), have predicted that someone will give that answer, then the alarm goes off and the phrase flashes up on screen.

  • @christinestromberg4057
    @christinestromberg4057 3 месяца назад

    The klaxon goes off if someone comes up with a wrong answer that the question setters have anticipated. Sometimes the panellist will say something they hadn't anticipated, so they quickly add that and sound the klaxon anyway. Sandi is a fascinating person, Danish-British, raised in the US and Britain. She read law, archaeology and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree and receiving two prizes for outstanding achievement. She was there at the same time as Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery and Emma Thompson, and wrote additional material for the Perrier award-winning Cambridge Footlights Revue. She was also a member of the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society. So she was an obvious choice to step into Stephen Fry's shoes when he moved on.

  • @jackabalas
    @jackabalas 11 месяцев назад

    You’re right about the flashing klaxon. It’s a points deduction for saying something obvious or a common misconception.

  • @AdeboFunkyVoodoo
    @AdeboFunkyVoodoo 11 месяцев назад

    Given that in the 17th Century, we still crapped out of the window into the street below, a severed head was probably the least stinky thing you'd encounter on a day to day basis.

  • @WaltonPete
    @WaltonPete 11 месяцев назад

    Put the bucket on the scales, fill it with water to the brim and weigh it. Put your head in up to your neck, displacing the same amount of water by volume as your head. Weigh the leftover water and subtract it from the original reading to get your answer.
    If you use a bucket with a calibrated scale you can do it without the scales as each millilitre of water weighs one gramme, so every litre weighs a kilogramme. Just calculate the displaced volume of water and convert to kilogrammes for the answer. 👍

  • @MikeSmith-ye9ho
    @MikeSmith-ye9ho 11 месяцев назад +2

    I’ve always watch QI it seems much easier to learn these facts when they’re mixed with comedy
    They stick in your memory then. The buzzer is there for when you get the wrong answer you then lose points.

  • @lynnelang3184
    @lynnelang3184 11 месяцев назад +1

    Kia ora from New Zealand! I've wondered what you looked like without a hat, very nice!! Have you watched any of Joe Lycett, John Bishop, Greg Davies or Sean Locke's stand up etc?

  • @tomfoolery9749
    @tomfoolery9749 11 месяцев назад

    The siren goes off if an obvious answer is said and then you loose points. If you were to do full episodes you'd see Alan usually ending with -50 points or less. As for the bucket, you fill it to the brim, weigh it, stick your head in it, without hat, and then the water comes out due to displacement and then you weigh the bucket again, subtract the second weight from the original and there's the weight of your head. Also John Lloyd the smart guy on the panel is the creator of the show.

  • @Paul_Allaker8450
    @Paul_Allaker8450 11 месяцев назад

    Qi is awesome, it's like a continuation of school. The alarm goes off when a player has stumbled into an 'answer trap' ie, the production team knew someone what come up with that wrong or not entirely true answer.
    Great reaction guys. 👍🏻

  • @ElaineMalkin
    @ElaineMalkin 11 месяцев назад

    Really enjoy your QI reactions, so funny and interesting, more please ❤❤

  • @FrowningIke
    @FrowningIke 3 месяца назад

    1:18
    OK. In the next few seconds you two clearly have a fart-off! 😂

  • @Handle_with_care5
    @Handle_with_care5 11 месяцев назад

    Can you do a full episode please love these

  • @andrewhill8301
    @andrewhill8301 11 месяцев назад

    It's more than quite interesting. The klaxon blares out when a contestant gives an obvious answer and they lose 10 points

  • @watchreadplayretro
    @watchreadplayretro 11 месяцев назад

    Great reaction! Thank yous!

  • @jrswinhoe58
    @jrswinhoe58 11 месяцев назад

    I believe there is a special cut of QI outside of the UK on RUclips, called QIxs.

  • @joshtaylor8520
    @joshtaylor8520 11 месяцев назад +2

    Nick looks great

  • @Bullseye39
    @Bullseye39 11 месяцев назад +1

    For the klaxon, It’s minus 10 points to anyone who suggests an obvious or conventional answer which the show goes on to prove is not true (or at least not fully true). Every contestant gets a a score at the end of the show and usually most of them have negative points. Sometimes the winner will have like minus 15 points

  • @geoffsbakingblog
    @geoffsbakingblog 11 месяцев назад +1

    The idea is that you weigh the amount of water it takes to fill the bucket. Then, when you put your head in an amount of water overflows out of the bucket. Then you weigh the amount of water remaining. The difference between the starting weight and the remaining weight is the weight of your head. I think.

    • @mauricestanley5763
      @mauricestanley5763 11 месяцев назад

      Eureka

    • @johnhewett9483
      @johnhewett9483 11 месяцев назад

      Yes i agree except that in order to be true it would have to be of equal density. Eg a lump of metal and a cricket ball the same size would weigh the same by this theory, which is not true

    • @geoffsbakingblog
      @geoffsbakingblog 11 месяцев назад

      @@johnhewett9483 Yes though Stephen Fry did say that the head has the same density as water.

    • @johnhewett9483
      @johnhewett9483 11 месяцев назад

      @@geoffsbakingblog yes he did, well similar. Just making the 👉

  • @js0988
    @js0988 11 месяцев назад

    Victoria Coren-Mitchell is absolutely brilliant on this show, highly recommended.

  • @kevinty7
    @kevinty7 11 месяцев назад

    Enjoyed that👍🏽🫶🏽thank you both ❤️❤️

  • @36814
    @36814 11 месяцев назад

    Same technique used to weigh breasts - used by plastic surgeons to establish how much tissue to remove.

  • @mancuniangamecat8288
    @mancuniangamecat8288 11 месяцев назад +1

    The klaxon is fro obvious wrong answers that some people think is true.David Mitchell argues about the naming of world war 1is a good example of this, short clip but hilarious.

  • @Allan-d5s
    @Allan-d5s 11 месяцев назад

    A few years ago (1984) I had a hip replacement and kept the ball from the femur. After a few days it started to stink so placed it in the oven and roasted it for a while, problem solved. The smell was delicious.

  • @maggieellison1017
    @maggieellison1017 11 месяцев назад

    Water has weight. Pit your head in a bucket with a bowl underneath to catch the water. Weigh this displaced water. The water weight will equal your head weight. As the meerkat says - simples.

  • @artao5
    @artao5 11 месяцев назад

    My guess prior to watching: Measure an empty tub of water. Immerse yourself in it up to your neck and measure it. Then fully immerse with your head then measure again. Then your head's weight can be worked out via water displacement.

  • @richardhague801
    @richardhague801 11 месяцев назад

    10:29 using water for weight is very simple. it's called the Metric System (1 cubic meter = 1 liter of water = 1 kilogram) although in this case it works because the human head has a similar density to water. i hate to think how complicated it would be to calculate in the US

  • @AJD09FB
    @AJD09FB 11 месяцев назад

    9:30 - I wonder if this is part of the reason why men have dominated the sciences for so long: their willingness to do silly experiments ("blue skies research") that have no obvious applications at the time, but later turn out to be useful. It is one of the realms where an almost "childish" sense of curiosity serves you well.

  • @hiiamandi
    @hiiamandi 11 месяцев назад

    She carried the head as she never got over his death, it’s like people who stuff their pets! In Victorian times it was quite common to photograph dead bodies as if they were still alive and have the picture on your mantle! As seen in the horror the others!

  • @ma.7583
    @ma.7583 11 месяцев назад

    Depending how much water is displaced you can work out the weight.
    If it displaced for example 2 litres of water that would mean your head weighs 2 kilos.
    1 litre of water weighs exactly 1 kilogramme.

  • @MARKSTRINGFELLOW1
    @MARKSTRINGFELLOW1 11 месяцев назад +4

    Silver fox !!

  • @dallasgrant
    @dallasgrant 11 месяцев назад +1

    Johnny Vegas is hilarious, be cool if you could react to some things with him in it.

  • @bashab3098
    @bashab3098 11 месяцев назад

    The siren goes off for answers which are popular misconceptions

  • @pauldavies7746
    @pauldavies7746 11 месяцев назад +3

    The klaxon sound is there to highlight a predictable and obvious answer that is actually wrong.

  • @Bobmeanstreak
    @Bobmeanstreak 11 месяцев назад +1

    Sandy is a feminist lesbian. She's become more vocal about it on the show as she progresses. It's not really a problem, but sometimes the I'm a lesbian comments get a bit boring and repetitive. Generally though quite funny, but very dependent on the panelists...

  • @vilebrequin6923
    @vilebrequin6923 11 месяцев назад

    Sir Walter's head was of the non-stinky variety, as Lady Raleigh boiled it up for meat stock, before beginning her peregrinations....😊

  • @cliffordwaterton3543
    @cliffordwaterton3543 11 месяцев назад

    surely you can just lie down on the floor and rest your head on scales? I so wish i had a bathroom scale so i could now try this but i don't. the siren goes off when someone comes up with a cliched or predictable wrong answer - I am now wondering whether that would have happened with my suggestion. I have often thought that this show is like chatting with my mates down the pub after a couple of pints.

  • @jackchisnall9316
    @jackchisnall9316 11 месяцев назад +1

    you've got to do 8 out of 10 cats Carrot in a box

  • @mauricestanley5763
    @mauricestanley5763 11 месяцев назад +1

    Smell, don’t forget the flies.

  • @andrewchelsea1930
    @andrewchelsea1930 11 месяцев назад

    If the head displaces 5 litres of water and 5 litres of water is 5kg and we know the head is approximately the same weight as water. We can deduce the the head weighs approximately 5kg.

  • @vernonallen3370
    @vernonallen3370 11 месяцев назад

    The red light and siren goes off when an old generally debunked answer is given ,such as an old myth that many people regard as being true but has been superseded by better understanding and advances in science and discovery.

  • @cherryblossom3046
    @cherryblossom3046 5 месяцев назад

    She could have baked/cooked the head, before carrying it around as a handy snack source, getting lighter by the bite!! The show is intelligently great. Archimedes principle does apply to weighing heads or any other body bits you may wish to weigh😂😂

  • @Wang_Monkey
    @Wang_Monkey 11 месяцев назад

    Woah, Nick has hair! xD

  • @kalysto
    @kalysto 11 месяцев назад

    Pfft, I'm from the UK, and realistically, the only time I'm not wearing a hat is when I'm in the office... Loads of folks wear hats here; whether it's a beanie, a snapback, a flat cap, a cowboy hat - we all have our poison of choice!

  • @fenderburn1st
    @fenderburn1st 11 месяцев назад

    without the hat,Nick looks like Titus Welliver.

  • @4Kandlez
    @4Kandlez 11 месяцев назад

    No Nick, you weigh the full bucket of water first then stick your head in slowly which displaces some of water and weigh the bucket again with the water that's left, so then you know the weight of the water that was displaced

  • @jrswinhoe58
    @jrswinhoe58 11 месяцев назад

    Put a bucket of water in a empty bowl which you previously weighed. Stick your head in bucket, the bowl catches the displaced water, remove head from bucket then the bucket from the bowl. Now weigh the bowl with the displaced water in ,subtract first weight now you have your head weight.
    Sirens are for obvious but wrong answer. 😃

  • @bobblaze8250
    @bobblaze8250 11 месяцев назад

    Omg....put the hat back on ....lol

  • @Uatu-the-Watcher
    @Uatu-the-Watcher 11 месяцев назад

    Sandi is a friend of Dorothy.

  • @Pterodactylus548
    @Pterodactylus548 11 месяцев назад

    And still waiting the apple split beginning of your reaction! Bet Jody does it b4 Nick😁

  • @irreverend_
    @irreverend_ 11 месяцев назад

    You need to get a flat cap, i think that'd suit you

  • @ethelmini
    @ethelmini 11 месяцев назад +1

    Sandi Toksvig founded a feminist political party, don't think you could get much more feminist.

  • @Obi-J
    @Obi-J 11 месяцев назад

    The shows researchers(aka the QI elves) set the questions and predict the obvious(but not necessarily wrong) answers(or jokes) the panelists might give, they also operate the klaxon which goes off when a panelist falls into one of their traps and they do the scores(the rules and scoring system have never been fully explained as far as I know as it's quite arbitrary and mostly irrelevant), all we really know is that panelists lose 10pts if they set the klaxon off and that Alan doesn't win very often, particularly in the early series when he almost never won(which they kinda played up for comedic effect).

    • @Obi-J
      @Obi-J 11 месяцев назад

      Negative scores are the norm and positive scores into double figures are rare.

  • @darrellpowell6042
    @darrellpowell6042 11 месяцев назад

    Please dont stick your head in a bucket of water on your own...obviously..
    But do place a 2nd bowl to catcg the displaced water from the 1st bowl, then weight the 2nd bowl of water or convert the fluid ounces into weight of your choice.

  • @94trotter
    @94trotter 11 месяцев назад

    the klaxon is set off when someone gives an obvious or cliche answer but it's actually wrong. if you set off the klaxon you lose a point and if you watch a full episode you'll see it is not uncommon for people to end with a negative score.

  • @philhallbrook7008
    @philhallbrook7008 11 месяцев назад +2

    Another ace reaction guys.
    Sandi is 'a bit feminist' because she is staunchly & famously gay.

    • @bod3103
      @bod3103 11 месяцев назад

      Staunchly??? It sounds like she makes a determined effort to be gay.

  • @mlee6050
    @mlee6050 10 месяцев назад

    4.5-5kg
    Shephen "well it close to 12lb"
    I'm unsure how close have to be, 4.5kg = 9.9lb, 5kg = 11lb

  • @jimross623
    @jimross623 4 месяца назад

    You get -10 points if the klaxon goes off.

  • @Thisandthat8908
    @Thisandthat8908 11 месяцев назад

    Sandy Toksvig was always pretty good as a guest. I think she usually won.
    But on a serious note: with "who really cares" we would likely still live in caves. Imagine how people laughed at the person who had just invented the wheel... You'll never know.

  • @lekarzkto
    @lekarzkto 9 месяцев назад

    The claxon is when you say the obvious answer that is wrong.

  • @ethelmini
    @ethelmini 11 месяцев назад

    Walter Raleigh's head could have been preserved. See Jeremy Bentham....
    you really can, even though he died in 1832.

  • @jimross623
    @jimross623 4 месяца назад

    Nick, you look much more like George Clooney without a hat! Lucky man.
    But even so, you won’t look as good as your missus. 😉

  • @Tony2438
    @Tony2438 5 месяцев назад

    If it was not popular you wouldn't be watching it on RUclips it started in 2003 I don't think a telly show would be running that long if it was not popular?

  • @bashab3098
    @bashab3098 11 месяцев назад

    It’s bs because you could push any less dense head shape object into the bucket and displace the same amount of water

  • @mikelheron20
    @mikelheron20 6 месяцев назад

    I'm not sure that you could easily weigh your head using Archimedes' Principle with a American heads. Americans tend to be pretty dense as this video proves.

  • @FrancesThompson-e3m
    @FrancesThompson-e3m 11 месяцев назад

    Nobody understands the noises going off. It has actually been debated and discussed but no one has come to a conclusion!

  • @stevenredmond7455
    @stevenredmond7455 11 месяцев назад

    You are teachers yes? Weigh a bucket of water, place your head in said bucket of water & don’t drink it. Hold one’s breath for a few seconds & once all the water leaving the said bucket leaves, then take out one’s head & weigh said bucket again. The difference between the full bucket & less full bucket will approximate the weight of your head. Get me! 🇬🇧😎🤣

  • @anthonyg4671
    @anthonyg4671 11 месяцев назад

    How to get food poisoning, wash your poultry 🐔

  • @ericj166
    @ericj166 11 месяцев назад

    Haircut 100

  • @helenwood8482
    @helenwood8482 11 месяцев назад

    Brits do wear a lot of hats. You are confusing us with Europeans. Never do that. 😅

  • @grahamduffey7004
    @grahamduffey7004 11 месяцев назад

    Urgghhh. Sandi Toksvig is insufferable.