No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill is the 128th episode ofNo Such Thing As A Fish, the 24th episode of the third year, and the 35th episode of 2016. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Alex discuss glow-in-the-dark fungi, presidential putters and reasons for spying your neighbours.
Facts[]
- The controls in the world's first combat submarine were lit up with glowing mushrooms. (Bell)
- While he was president, Woodrow Wilson played more than 1,200 rounds of golf. (Harkin)
- When Percy Shelley and Lord Byron went on a writer's retreat to Lake Geneva in 1816, the hotel opposite them hired out telescopes to their guests so that they could spy on them. (Schreiber)
- Famous historical games of Go include the blood-vomiting game, the ear-reddening game, the famous killing game, and the atomic bomb go game. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- Regular presenter Andrew Hunter Murray is absent, doing his Edinburgh Fringe show Andrew Hunter Murray: Round One.
- Alex Bell guests, making his seventeenth appearance, and his second in a row.
- Harkin's phobia of mushrooms is again discussed.
- Dan mentions Jim Lovell of Apollo 13, the film of which he claimed was his favourite of all time in Episode 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive.
- Ptaszynski's favourite US President is Jimmy Carter, again mentioned in Episode 182: No Such Thing As An Auction For Auction School and Episode 200: No Such Thing As A Jigsaw For The Queen.