The CrowdScience quiz of the year

CrowdScience

BBC

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4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In 2025, the crack team of intrepid presenters here on CrowdScience have been on some incredible adventures. They’ve wondered whether water is wet, and gone a hunt for a missing tangerine. They’ve wondered why animals swallow rocks, imagined what would happen if the earth spun backwards and pondered whether atoms are immortal.

But, as the year draws to a close, Anand Jagatia is wondering… have they REALLY been paying attention? Time to put them to the test!

In this special programme, Anand gathers the other four presenters into a studio together – Caroline, Alex, Marnie and Chhavi, for an end-of-year quiz – and you can join in at home!

Presenters: Anand Jagatia, Caroline Steel, Alex Lathbridge, Marnie Chesterton and Chhavi Sachdev

Producer: Emily Knight

Editor: Ben Motley

(Photo: CrowdScience presenters in the studio with purple background Credit: BBC)

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, Greg Jenner here, host of You're Dead to Me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:13.4	This Christmas, forget about socks. We've got the best present of all.
0:17.2	Dead people!
0:18.2	All that sounds like zombies. Sorry, it's not zombies. Let me start again.
0:21.6	In our new family-friendly podcast series, Dead Funny History, historical figures come back to life,
0:26.6	but just long enough to argue with me, tell their life stories and sometimes get on my nerves.
0:31.6	You're dead to me, Dead Funny History.
0:33.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:38.6	Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Crowd Science, the show that goes on a quest
0:43.8	every week to find the answers to your science questions. At least that's how it normally
0:48.6	works. You, the listeners, do the asking, and we hopefully provide the answers. But we're flipping
0:53.8	that around this week, because it's the end of the year. the answers. But we're flipping that around this week
0:54.8	because it's the end of the year. So to celebrate everything we've achieved over the last 12
0:59.3	months, we're turning our final episode of 2025 into the crowd science quiz of the year.
1:10.0	I am your game show host, Anna and Jagatia,
1:13.0	and here to play along in the studio are some fabulous minor celebrity guests.
1:18.9	The proud science presenter team, hello team.
1:21.6	Hello.
1:22.9	Our first contestant has a magnetic personality and nerves of a carbon iron alloy.
1:28.6	It is, of course, Caroline Steele.
1:30.7	Woo-hoo!
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