No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong is the 4th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 4th episode of the first year, and the 4th 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[]
Episode 4: This week in the QI Office Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski (@nosuchthing) and Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) discuss cavemen, spiders, fictitious mountains and immortal souls.
Facts[]
- 30 million Chinese people live in caves.[1][2] (Schreiber)
- There is a banker in Latvia who will lend you money using your immortal soul as security.[3] (Harkin)
- For 100 years, almost all the maps we had of Africa contained a mountain range that didn't exist.[4] (Ptaszynski)
- Male Pennsylvania grass spiders are much more likely to approach a female for sex if she has recently killed and eaten another male.[5] (Murray)
Trivia[]
- Dan discusses China's "secret wheelbarrows", which are mentioned again in Episode 181.
- Anna is discussed as "not being on Twitter, but buckling quickly".
Notes[]
- ↑ Los Angeles Times: In China, millions make themselves at home in caves
- ↑ Wikipedia: Yaodong
- ↑ Reuters: Would you pledge your soul as loan collateral?
- ↑ Wikipedia: Mountains of Kong
- ↑ New Scientist: Zoologger: Female spider kills male to attract a mate