No Such Thing As The Kevin Olympics is the 37th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 37th episode of the first year, and the 52nd episode of 2014. 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 (@schreiberland), James (@eggshaped), Andy (@andrewhunterm) and Anna (#getannaontwitter) discuss volcano cremation, the world's oldest spider web, prison newspapers, the emergency Olympic Games, and what happens if you kill the pope.
Facts[]
- In 1874, there was a plan to transport dead bodies from all over Europe to Mount Vesuvius and throw them in. (Ptaszynski)
- In 2010, an abandoned waste-water treatment plant in Baltimore was found to be home to an estimated 107,000,000 spiders. (Harkin)
- According to Vatican City's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the greatest pop album of all time is Revolver by The Beatles. (Schreiber)
- For the first fifty years of the Ancient Olympic Games, the only event was the 200 metres (or, to be precise, 192 metres). (Murray)
Trivia[]
- TBA