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The Numberphile Podcast

The Parker Quiz - with Matt Parker

The Numberphile Podcast

Brady Haran

Science & Medicine, Social Sciences, Education, Educational Technology, Natural Sciences

4.9621 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, something different today.

0:06.2

Our guest is Matt Parker.

0:07.9

He's one of the most familiar faces in our videos.

0:10.8

Now, Matt's been on the podcast before, talking about his life, his career, and you can go back

0:15.6

earlier in your feeds and find that episode.

0:18.2

But today, I invited Matt here with seemingly no plan. Then I surprised him

0:23.3

with a lockdown quiz that I'd prepared in secret. Now it's supposed to be fun just a chance to joke

0:28.9

around during these strange days, but I'd invite you all to play along, maybe grab a scrap

0:33.9

a paper to keep score. We'd certainly love to hear how you do. But please do,

0:38.6

bear in mind, many of the questions are supposed to be like fun, more messing around than truly

0:45.3

a test of knowledge all the time. So, Matt, the world has been in lockdown. You, of all people, as someone who I think of as being everywhere and doing a million things at once and you're quite a flighty bird, I can't imagine how it's been sort of being a caged bird for you.

1:04.0

Both, like, very comforting and satisfying and very surreal.

1:10.4

So you're absolutely correct. I'm normally

1:12.0

traveling a ridiculous amount and I should have done a UK tour during the lockdown. I had

1:19.5

a run of maybe 10 or 12, like due to adequate demand extra tour dates on my humble pie tour.

1:26.4

And they all got cancelled and postponed. Yeah.

1:29.0

And so I think Lucy, my wife and I have set a new, definitely marriage record, potentially

1:37.4

relationship record of number of consecutive nights spent in the same place. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

1:45.8

I don't know.

1:47.3

We've actually put in the diary, mid-next month, we will have 100 consecutive nights spent

1:52.4

in the same bed together.

1:53.5

Wow.

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