No Such Thing As EastEnders, The Opera is the 307th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 47th episode of the sixth year, and the 6th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the never-ending opera, whether worms are carbon neutral, and how Edgar Allan Poe helped to create Scrabble.
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Facts[]
- After being stuck at an opera that went on twice as long as the scheduled running time, Emperor Joseph II of Austria banned encores. (Ptaszynski)
- Humans have transported European earthworms to every continent on the planet except Antarctica, in a process some experts are calling 'global worming'. (Harkin)
- The most popular street name in America is 'Second Street'. The second most popular is 'Third Street', and the third most popular is 'First Street'. (Schreiber)
- The game of Scrabble is partly thanks to Edgar Allen Poe. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- Murray's first novel, The Last Day, is promoted.
- Harkin mentions Murray's character "Old John the Poo Smuggler" from Episode 281: No Such Thing As A Chatty Cow.
- Schreiber mentions Nigel Richards, who was a headline fact in Episode 79: No Such Thing As A Sad High-Five.