69: No Such Thing As The Pamplona Guinea Pig Run

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Alex discuss less famous Last Suppers, a guinea pig gynaecologist, and a crime writer who can't read.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:15.8	to you from the QI offices.
0:17.6	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:18.6	I'm sitting here with Alex Bell, Andy Murray and Aniches Innski.
0:22.4	Once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last
0:26.0	seven days and in an particular order here we go.
0:30.2	Starting with you, Andy Murray.
0:32.4	My fact is that in Peru, depictions of the last supper show Jesus and His disciples eating
0:37.1	a guinea pig.
0:39.7	That's what they do, that's what is there.
0:42.9	This is one particular famous painting by a guy called Markos Zapata who painted in 1755
0:49.2	a very large painting, fresco, whatever it is of the last supper and Jesus and His disciples
0:54.9	were all sitting around a guinea pig which has been char grilled and barbecued.
0:58.8	Is there any chance that they would have eaten a guinea pig back then?
1:01.9	Was that food back then?
1:02.9	Yeah.
1:03.9	Well not in the Middle East, I didn't think.
1:05.7	Do they come from the Middle East?
1:06.7	Oh sorry, in the Middle East, sorry I thought you meant were they taking it to South America
1:09.8	and because they ate guinea pigs in South America, which they did.
1:12.5	Which they did, okay.
1:13.5	And they still do, they're really popular.
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