h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Haven't read whole thread, but stab in the dark here at Russian Doctor in 1928 - Mendeleev - NO don't be daft he was Periodic Table not Physician, who do I mean?

The one who switched dogs heads over, lived for a bit then they died.... Was on QI... No doesn't sound likely would have mentioned testicles then....

No it was Joseph Mengeler who I have been thinking about - and he was German wasn't he...

Picking up on "Long Lived" - was this an anti aging (rejuvenating) treatment - a bit like Stookie Glands in Judge Dredd, which was, I think, based on using Monkey Glands in a similar way.... But that's Chinese isn't it? And we're talking Human "glands", which would be better at a guess if you can get them...

Not Mendeleev.

Or Mengeler.


>>Picking up on "Long Lived" - was this an anti aging (rejuvenating) treatment - a bit like Stookie Glands in Judge Dredd, which was, I think, based on using Monkey Glands in a similar way.... But that's Chinese isn't it? And we're talking Human "glands", which would be better at a guess if you can get them...<<

All sort of true, excepting for the fact that most of those had already been solved.

I've not been back to mark this thread as I've just been thinking about other things and not focussed on QI at all.

I'll try and regain some focus and be back to write up the explanation and score the thread

Ok, answering from my android, so forgive if it a0 rambles, b) looks odd...

Silent Film link - film on similar theme - living a long time maybe - Nosferatu, or another incarnation of dracula... metropolis - future utopia

what else happens in silent films - scene setting or dialog written on screen, music played by orchestra while they are being shown...

A film of the island of dr moreau (sp?)

Vatican - dr was excommunicated because of his work "going against god"...
Is there a famouse picture or sculpture, or something featuring a man with three testicles?

Russian dr.... tried a few already, so here goes a few more: serge bulgakov (sp?) - dog head transplanter... actually can' thinlk of any more russian names... excspt stalin now...

Btw do we know where the experiments happened/where the doctor ended up having his clinic?

I take it that it wasn't Russia or the uk, maybe: usa, france, germany, italy (maybe in the vatican, but no...)

actually thyat gives me a bit of a possible link - castratos, much loved by the vatican, had their knackers removed....


Protestors: anti-vivisectionists (yup)
Two to find... vegetarians, other doctors with competing rejuvenating products, the church, the sufragettes...

Silent Film link - film on similar theme - living a long time maybe - Nosferatu, or another incarnation of dracula... metropolis - future utopia


Nope - it's more of a cultural reference, a cross-pollination of an idea....


>what else happens in silent films - scene setting or dialog written on screen, music played by orchestra while they are being shown...<

Good thinking... keep going....



>A film of the island of dr moreau (sp?)<

I should have klaxoned that! Nope.

>Vatican - dr was excommunicated because of his work "going against god"... <

Quite the contrary..... DGI +1



>Is there a famouse picture or sculpture, or something featuring a man with three testicles?<

Well Michelangelo did have a thing for the boys, but such a rare treasure has thus far eluded art historians to the best of my knowledge


>Russian dr.... tried a few already, so here goes a few more: serge bulgakov (sp?) - dog head transplanter... actually can' thinlk of any more russian names... excspt stalin now...<

Nope.

>do we know where the experiments happened/where the doctor ended up having his clinic?<

Transplants were performed all over the world, I've got sources for operations being performed in France, Naples, Rome, Switzerland, Chicago, Kansas and, of course, San Quentin.

I take it that it wasn't Russia or the uk, maybe: usa, france, germany, italy (maybe in the vatican, but no...)

>actually thyat gives me a bit of a possible link - castratos, much loved by the vatican, had their knackers removed....<


The Castrati have already been `nd gone and earnt I think Taff a Klaxon.

If you can argon read the backlog - it''ll help,.

I know, difficult on a handheld....

Silent films...
What else happened when showing silent films....

Wurlitzer organ...
Actors/actresses doing voice overs? (Not that i,ve heard of)

Silent films were all b&w ... maybe something to do with makeup...

Palying records at the movies ... transplant of technology from one area to another...

So the doc was made into a saint, or became a priest...

I take it is wasn't Voronoff as he only did monkey glands didn't he

Actors/actresses doing voice overs? (

DGI +1

Playing records at the movies ... transplant of technology from one area to another...

DGI +1

I take it is wasn't Voronoff as he only did monkey glands didn't he

That was his speciality - and indeed it is he who is the subject of this QI - well done!

+3

Huh?

But Voronoff was French/based in France ...

Mmmh, I can see a comics pattern here... The Voronov Plot, 14th installment of the adventures of Blake and Mortimer:
http://www.neuvieme-art.com/images/encyclo/albums/La-Machination-Voronov.jpg

Voronof was born in Russia in 1866, moving to Paris age 18.

A quick fact check shows he became a French citizen in 1895, so I concede the point.

Voronoff was French QI +6


Well I've been away from QI for the last few weeks - shall I call a halt to this and write it up?

I'll take that deafening silence as as "yes" - points and an explanation to be forthcoming shortly.

Right I've just marked the thread, couple of corrections to make

I've rescinded the DGI I gave for "the 1920s was the decade of.." as it seems to me now, that this was hardly an original contribution but was evident if you read the backlog.

Likewise I'm rescinding Argon's QI bonus for the same reason; I already disclosed Voronoff's nationality earlier in the thread.

Right this'un's gonna take me a while to type out, so reversing the normal order points first...

QI - Run for your life
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Correct (+3)
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HD (94) - "Experiments on Prisoners"
Toybox (103) - "Transplants"
HD (119) - "Testicles"
Taff (128) - "Monkeynuts."
Taff (136) - "John Pearson had three testicles."
Taff (144) - "Goats"
Gandalf's Twin (155) - "Executed prisoners were donors"
Feisor (181) - "John Pearson was the oldest contestant."
Feisor (185) - "Testicle transplants were thought to restore youth."
Keith (192) - Anti-vivesectionists were one of three groups that lobbied to prevent the Russian surgeon popularising the movement from obtaining a licence to practice in Britain."
Agon (225) - The Russian surgeon was called Voronoff."


QI Bonus (+6)
------------------------

None Awarded.


DGI Bonus (+1)
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Pebble (30) - "This has nothing to do with atheletics"
Keith (81) - "The legacy of War"
HD (88) - "Finding The Cure for Something."
HD (94) - "eugenics"
HD (131) - "John Pearson had an odd-number of testicles."
Feisor (166) - "Wasn't there a Russian Doctor?"
Feisor (179) - "Ground testicles."
Pebble. (184) - "Nothing perks you up like a new set of testicles."
Feisor (185) - "Lilly Pons"
Feisor (185) - "Sandra Bernherdt"
Argon (223) - "Excommunicated for going against god..... NOT!"


Klaxon (-5)
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Pebble (4) - "Prison yard was only 49 feet long."
Pebble (4) - "pole-vault over the fence"
Pebble (5) - "they were professional Athletes"
Pebble (6) - "All executed a week later"
Pebble (6) - They all wore leg-shackles."
Taff (20) - "They filmed it."
HD (24) - "Turkey Thanksgiving."
HD (78) - "Conditional sentencing"
HD (80) - "John Pearson had only 1 leg."
Taff (123) - "No balls."
Taff (147) - Catholic Castrati
Pebble (184) - "The Vatican"



Elf Bonus (+2)
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Clive

SPECIAL BONUS (+12)
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Argon - Transplanting voices into silent films.


Total to be added or subtracted.
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Argon +16
Feisor +10
Keith +5
Toybox +3
Gandalf's Twin +3
Clive +2
Hygienic Dispenser - 6
Taff - 6
Pebble - 28

Skipping across the finish line with a beaming smile and a twinkle in his eye, and a lunch-box to match; with a gigantic lead over the breathless and tired inmates of the rest of the QI Penitentiary - it's Argon with +16

Making fools of us all, and plenty of money to boot, it's the con-man who knows how to work a crowd with promises of vitality and freshly harvested testicles of goat, Feisor raking it in with +10

Keith: one of Fesior's donor-goats. Enjoy the hay while it lasts, you poor creature. +5

But currently being given the last rites before being strung out and then having his two chaps shaven and sliced off, it's Convict 769342 -Pebble, sentenced to -28 on Death Row - as a fellow warden once said "Put your faith in the Lord. Your balls belongs to me." *pulls lever*

A correction to the above:


QI - Run for your life
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Klaxon (-5)
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Pedro (5) - "they were professional Athletes"

Total to be added or subtracted.
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Pedro -5
Pebble - 23


I misattributed a klaxon.