No Such Thing As An Ant On Its Gap Year is the 187th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 31st episode of the fourth year, and the 42nd episode of 2017. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Alex Bell. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
| SPOILER WARNING
This episode contains spoilers for the following work: the film The Sound of Music (1965) |
Description[]
Andy, James, Anna and Alex discuss how to get ants drunk, the stolen cities in China, and The Sound Of Julie Andrews Being Blown Over By A Helicopter.
Facts[]
- When a Prince in the Byzantine Empire was ready to marry, court officials would walk around the land with an imperial shoe that they used to check the foot size of potential princesses.[1] (Harkin)
- China has built an exact replica of an Austrian village so that tourists don't have to fly all the way to Austria.[2] (Ptaszynski)
- Ants have self-control.[3] (Murray)
- When filming the famous hill scene at the beginning of The Sound of Music, the helicopter downdraft would knock Julie Andrews over after each take.[4] (Bell)
Trivia[]
- Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent for the third episode in a row.
- In his absence, Andrew Hunter Murray hosts.
- Alex Bell guests.
- Anna and James discuss various methods of selecting concubines for Emperors, which is a headline topic in Episode 255.
Notes[]
- ↑ OUPblog: Nine things you didn’t know about love and marriage in Byzantium
- ↑ Wikipedia: Hallstatt (China)
- ↑ "Individual ant workers show self-control" by Stephanie Wendt, Tomer J. Czaczkes. (article)
- ↑ ABC: Journey to the Meadow: How They Filmed the Opening Scene of 'The Sound of Music'