The QI Quiz Thread

*assumes guise of halibut*
why would butter-fingered women not get married in ancient greece?

 

Surely the answer for this is against the TOS?!!!

 

Remember that when the awards come round at the end of the year

Just a guess, were the women the hunters? And if they were butter-fingered, they would not be able to catch their prey well, and the families would starve?

 

It'll have to survive that long first

 

All I can think is that it's do to with the plate breaking tradition, which was originally done to ward off evil spirits, but if a wife to be was good at dropping plates (ie butter fingered) then surely that was a good thing? El Greco Buffy the evil spirit slayer!

 

They wouldn't get married because the Greeks didn't use butter, so women couldn't be butter fingered?

Or am I think waaaaaaaaay outside of the box?

 

Lol! Yes and no, it was a trick question kinda ("butter fingered" also means clumsy). And to think Google came up with the fact there was no butter in ancient Greece and I didn't bite!

Hal, back to your sanity please

 

Which animal should humans fear more than any other?

 

One of them dogs that humps your leg.

 

Humans

 

LOL @ Jon. Not right, but you don't lose any points.

Richie on the other hand. Shame on you. Shame, shame, and thrice shame. A huge minus ten for that blantently obvious answer.

 

I was gonna say Other Humans too.

 

I tried

 

Dinosaurs.

Or Mosquitos

 

Would it be limpets because when you walking amongst seaside rocks they are a danger to bare feet?

Or monkeys that stalk you in packs when on holiday and rain nuts and sticks down upon you?

Or Koala bears because the spend all their time sleeping/plotting to take over the world.

 

How can humans fear Dinosaurs...they're extinct

the only animal I fear apart from Moths would be a Colossal Squid

I mean, look at the size of them in relation to people

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It's not Apes is it?

 

Dinosaurs? Minus ten. Humans and Dinosaurs never lived at the same time. D'oh!

Mosquitoes? Very well done! Yes, it's the humble mosquito. Mosquitos have killed more people than any other animal, including black rats, and humans. They are in a league of their own when it comes to picking us off, and they are by far and away our most dangerous predator.

Who invented the telephone?

 

Alexander Graham Bell.

 

Philipp Reis in 1863

 

Antonio Meucci?

 

Aww no, not again, Jon! Minus ten points I'm afraid

 

The dinosaur thing was a joke based on films, and my idea that I will bring them back. I actually knew it was Mosquitoes, as I remember it from an episode of QI.

 

Well done to Richie, it was indeed Mr Reis who actually invented what we consider to be the modern telephone.

Unfortunately his idea and schematics fell into the hands of Mr Bell who managed to get to the patent office before his German counterpart.

Now, to think of another question

 

I just counted. So far I'm on -75 points.

 

Well here is something interesting - Hello only became used as a greeting when the telephone was introduced, but Bell actually perfered to use 'Ahoy', which is referenced in the Simpsons, when Mr Burns answers the phone he uses this greeting to show his age.