The Parker Quiz - with Matt Parker
The Numberphile Podcast
Brady Haran
4.9 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Matt Parker takes a quiz prepared by Brady. The YouTube version of this quiz contains a few visuals.
Many of the links below contain QUIZ SPOILERS.
Matt Parker is standupmaths - his website has links to most stuff
Matt's first appearance on this podcast
Good Will Hunting which is directed by Gus Van Sant
Two Numberphile videos about Good Will Hunting are here and here - featuring James Grime
Newton, Euler, Gauss, Ramanujan, and Turing
Newton videos from Brady's Objectivity channel
Festival of The Spoken Nerd, featuring Matt with Steve Mould and Helen Arney
Steve and Matt's YouTube channels
The video which created the Parker Square legend
Latin/Euler Squares on Numberphile
West Coast Eagles win the 1992 AFL Grand Final
With thanks to MSRI
Transcript
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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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