every night to cram in as much learning as possible
i read a book while simultaneously listening to a completely different audio book david's team
okay what was the last book and audiobook simultaneously you read and listened to it was
trevor montague's eighth is the book trevor montague's a to z of everything which is the
absolute bible of general knowledge and it was the guinness book of records audiobook but not
for this year but they do they do every year since 1956 when it was founded and i have an obsession
with 1984. why why do you do two together why and can you actually feed and retain the information
well can you is is the question i can't really answer because general knowledge
is basically about learning as many facts as possible and then hoping they come up but i only
really do this into two to three weeks before any major general knowledge quiz because you're a big
quizzer i'm a big i'm the fifth ranked quiz in the united kingdom which is all right all
they listen to one read one and they've got one on braille as well
i can ask you a question yes can you give me three guinness world records from 1984 please
i'll give you one that still stands well robert pershing wardlow's the tallest man
of all time eight feet eleven three quarters i know that doesn't stand that was stood in 84
is the previous year calvin smith broke the world record for the hundred meters just
before the world athletics championships with nine point nine i didn't understand
uh and the third one is in 1984 ronald reagan beat walter mondell in the largest percentage
of the vote something like 73.6 percent of the vote is actually when he beat walter mondale
in the u.s presidential election i i don't know i'm very flattered that you think i know about
american elections in that much statistical detail who was number one in the charts november 1984
harmonica by stevie wonder wrapped by melly mel written by prince
chaka khan i feel for you is number one in november 1984.
this is no evidence if that's true
stewart song was a number one in 1984. do you mean baby j in 1983 yes i do
i'll tell you what i really feel like must you but i couldn't add two and one
where do you do this paul well i only live in a two bed flap there's not many choices you do
it at home you don't i don't oh yeah i'll do it absolutely at home all right he said there was
two bedrooms not many choices i think you'll find there's not many options there's only one choice
i feel like someone in the pub is trying to fight someone's a bit bigger than they are
what was the other book again a trevor montague's a to z of everything if one's allowed to uh
advertise on a bbc tv show it's uh it was well i think we should say other
impenetrably boring books
well i believe him i do i just think it sounds very boring
and i don't think you are um so therefore i think it's the truth
i think he's lying i think he's coming at me with facts to confuse me
this is what they do i'm gonna go lie you're gonna say it's a lie
paul were you lying or were you telling the truth it was a lie
you