Later research reveals that it's actually the "Sweating Column". We probably don't need to issue an actual correction for that. [And an update in response to comments: nope, somehow "Hagia Sophia" is a gap in my knowledge. I've never played Civilisation. If I recognise the topic, we pick a new one and reshoot.] -- Tom
@Mistish
4 жыл бұрын
Woa ive never been this early
@Skaro_20
4 жыл бұрын
@@Mistish Me too. Haha.
@staberas
4 жыл бұрын
its called Ah-gee-ah sophia
@timothyrosenvall1496
4 жыл бұрын
@@staberas is that Ah jee ah or Ah ghee ah?
@DrZaius3141
4 жыл бұрын
So many people commenting on how Tom should've known the Hagia Sophia... and they're right. Well I guess it's something you might not have known.
@JabberJay705
4 жыл бұрын
Genuinely surprised Tom didn't know what the Hagia Sophia is.
@ShinyMajor
4 жыл бұрын
@@felixc543 It's just one of those things everyone sort of vaguely knows of, like the Louvre in France, or the Eiffel tower, or Venice
@MasterEnsis
4 жыл бұрын
@@felixc543 I know about it because of Civilization V
@JabberJay705
4 жыл бұрын
@@felixc543 Personally, I probably know it from playing civ, but it's a very famous building, so it seems like the type of thing Tom would know.
@pietandersen6120
4 жыл бұрын
Felix C the Civilization games, or the severely underrated Age of Empires 3
@ScottishRebel
4 жыл бұрын
@@felixc543 most gamers know it from assasins creed medieval 2 or civ V
@O2CP
4 жыл бұрын
... it's like seeing Tom flip up a card naming "Big Ben" and nobody flinches. And Gary would be describing it as a government building known for its "mechanical curiosities"!!
@sundhaug92
4 жыл бұрын
Big Ben is the clock, the tower is the Elizabeth tower
@ScottishRebel
4 жыл бұрын
@@sundhaug92 yea but everyone just refers to it by its clock name i hope your not the sort to say oh im going to see the elizabeth tower because if you are its pretentious
@McChes
4 жыл бұрын
sundhaug92 Big Ben is the bell...
@nullynull1483
4 жыл бұрын
Big Ben is the nickname for the bell, ackthually.
@tomkenning5482
4 жыл бұрын
Big ben's the whole tower, tomatoes are a vegetable. If enough people believe a lie and it's not a massive one that fundamentally is a gap in education then let's just make that the truth
@DoctorWhoFan224
4 жыл бұрын
I’m shocked that Tom of all people didn’t immediately recognise the Hagia Sophia, it’s not exactly a hidden gem, it’s the most iconic building of Istanbul!
@Dezomm
4 жыл бұрын
I would even go as far as to say it's one of the most iconic buildings in the world!
@lassius5464
4 жыл бұрын
Love W I I would say that it is not. Never heard of it and i would say that atleast as a europian something like eiffel tower is more famous.
@grymkaft
4 жыл бұрын
@@lassius5464 More famous sure. But that might be THE most famous building in Europe so...
@borischung01
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah but it's also in Istanbul
@ABaumstumpf
4 жыл бұрын
@@Dezomm Nah, well known, with a lot better reasons to be known, but Eiffel-Tower, ElizabethTower (holding big ben), Golden Gate bridge, Statue of liberty, Taj Mahal - there are quit a few buildings i would say are more iconic.
@TMThesaurus
4 жыл бұрын
I love that even knowing that Gary was telling the truth about the Hagia Sophia, I still found him incredibly untrustworthy.
@yuvalne
3 жыл бұрын
That's Gary's whole charm, isn't it?
@chrinschbro
2 жыл бұрын
Tbh. That is just the way Gary plays this game...
@ZeldaTheSwordsman
Жыл бұрын
It's a combination of having trouble remembering from a quick read of the article, and trying to forcibly project sounding confidence in what he's saying even as he clearly struggles to recall.
@Jacob-yg7lz
3 жыл бұрын
Tom: "Allright guys, today we're doing 'The Eiffel Tower'. Any idea what that is?" Gary: "A park in france with an elevator in it" Chris: "A copyrighted light display" Matt: "A book about conquering mount everest"
@kf10147
3 жыл бұрын
Literally this is how weird him not knowing what the Hagia Sophia is
@Quintinohthree
2 жыл бұрын
These are exactly the sort of responses they'd give.
@StichyWichy21
2 жыл бұрын
The… Ay-feel? Ee-fl? Matt, how do you pronounce that?
@ellinikoptero7355
2 жыл бұрын
@@StichyWichy21 It’s iee-fille
@danielfisher898
2 жыл бұрын
@@kf10147 ikr! It’s literally one of the most famous religious/cultural sites in the world! It was built by Justinian! It’s also called the blue mosque, and in order to describe how beautiful it is, we invented a new color (turquoise-as in Turkish).
@Onio_Saiyan
4 жыл бұрын
Honestly I'm surprised Tom doesn't know what the Hagia Sophia is.
@cogitoergoludo
4 жыл бұрын
Same really
@cycklist
4 жыл бұрын
Me too! It's world famous, and Tom is not exactly ignorant about these things usually.
@timothyreineke5691
4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised he hasn't done a video there yet.
@rubylandau-pincus5490
4 жыл бұрын
yeah! was about to comment this
@Mritunes89
4 жыл бұрын
Thank Civ 5 for teaching this to me
@sundhaug92
4 жыл бұрын
Series-name: "Two of these people are lying" Hagia Sofia: "Two of these people are covering the same thing truthfully"
@amsyarzero
4 жыл бұрын
@crsmit Ah, don't worry, people won't get it straight away
@scarylion1roar
4 жыл бұрын
I don't understand how Tom didn't know what the Hagia Sophia is.
@ABaumstumpf
4 жыл бұрын
To be fair i do not think that most people would think about the viking Graffiti when hearing about it.
@snowfloofcathug
4 жыл бұрын
ABaumstumpf I knew about the viking graffiti but didn’t remember where it was, nor can I say I knew about Hagia Sophia (though I’ve probably encountered it and just forgotten)
@rmsgrey
4 жыл бұрын
At least as of right now (or a few minutes ago by the time this comment posts) the "Halfdan was here" graffiti is only referred to indirectly in the Hagia Sophia article on Wikipedia; Halfdan himself is only mentioned in the article "Runic inscriptions in Hagia Sophia". So, technically, Chris was lying because he wasn't discussing the content of the Hagia Sophia article, but rather the content of a linked article...
@TheVergile
4 жыл бұрын
Justinian I, emperor of the holy eastern roman empire: “this shall be our monument to the world - an epitaph for the greatest empire the world has ever known. generations to come will look at this dome and fall silent in awe. so they will never forget we existed” Gary: “its a museum and it has some very nice doors.” tom scott: its a folk band, isnt it?” Gary: “it has a sweaty column”
@beth12svist
Жыл бұрын
I think that's the best take on "How come Tom Scott doesn't know what the Hagia Sofia is?!" :D
@JonatasAdoM
Ай бұрын
Chris: "Halfdam has been here."
@GuatemalanJedi
4 жыл бұрын
I want Tom to do a 'Things you might not know' at the Hagia Sophia now.
@KyunaCookies
4 жыл бұрын
perhaps not TURKEY ISNT THE BEST PLACE TO GO RIGHT NOW
@vincethod
4 жыл бұрын
...and call it "Things I might not know"
@whyyousobudu
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing places - The Sweaty Column of the Hagia Sofia
@57thorns
4 жыл бұрын
@Öğrenci Sarp Eren Hangişi it is not about being safe, it is about supporting a regime that just happen to enjoy a bit of invasion and genocide. And if that seems familiar, practically every super power have done that.
@carmastrikes
4 жыл бұрын
@Öğrenci Sarp Eren Hangişi Yes I believe you friend.
@rachelle10
2 жыл бұрын
This episode perfectly displays the weird coverage of Tom's knowledge. Doesn't know the Hagia Sophia, but knows everything about the shortest rivers in the world.
@mewmew8932
11 ай бұрын
trivia in a nutshell
@kurotoruk
8 ай бұрын
Tom doesn't make videos about well-known landmarks, though. ... just the small rivers.
@SomeThingOrMaybeAnother
5 ай бұрын
To be fair, people who know often only know it because of Civ.
@Ms.Pronounced_Name
2 ай бұрын
100% that's the only reason I know of it. Tom has said at various times that he didn't/doesn't play a lot of video games @SomeThingOrMaybeAnother
@AA_21861
2 жыл бұрын
I'm howling at how ridiculous Gary's description of the Hagia Sophia sounds despite being completely accurate.
@hamishd8659
Жыл бұрын
gary just sounds like hes talking bollocks all the time
@peachierose3356
Жыл бұрын
@@hamishd8659 ironic how he's the archivist :)
@cerebrummaximus3762
Жыл бұрын
Gary is fairly decent at lying, but when he states the truth, he is so bad at it everyone thinks he's lying. That's why it's so easy to spot when Gary is saying the truth, because he makes it sound absurd every time
@anttibjorklund1869
4 жыл бұрын
*Hagia Sofia* Chris speaks. Gary speaks. Me: wait a minute...
@hebl47
4 жыл бұрын
I honestly thought they were all telling the truth and they set a trap for Tom.
@johnkeefer8760
2 жыл бұрын
@@hebl47 yeah because it’s possible someone also named their band after The Hagia Sophia
@dittervancrook1735
4 жыл бұрын
This series has become “Tom Scott vs Finland”
@johntauren
4 жыл бұрын
I knew immediately that Gary was in trouble when he went for the shortest river. Also I have the exact same pen as Tom.
@Cathowl
4 жыл бұрын
As soon as he said that I was like "wait, did Tom already do the research for his river video before they recorded this?" And yup.
@dallasrover5515
4 жыл бұрын
Weird: I was just thinking that I hadn't seen a pen like that since I was a kid.
@MrMarkb68
4 жыл бұрын
They're good pens. I've got them too.
@thelastcube.
4 жыл бұрын
@@MrMarkb68 which pen? Is that a jetstream?
@MrMarkb68
4 жыл бұрын
@@thelastcube. Papermate Flexgrip Ultra
@ze_rubenator
4 жыл бұрын
I'm perplexed that Tom didn't already know about the Hagia Sofia. Most of the things in this show are extremely obscure, so something so famous popping up took me by surprise.
@ca-ke9493
4 жыл бұрын
I mean, whats obscure or not is really subjective. The Ghost Festival last episode is really common to many people living in Asian countries and South China, but its obscure enough to Tom to not know about. I heard it and immediately got confused as to how its obscure its a major month long festival for us (though I didn't know the translation of the name was quite this literal).
@panda4247
4 жыл бұрын
@@ca-ke9493 Well, I mean, I was sure, Gary's Chinese festival was real or based on real Chinese traditions, but does it have that name and was it the article? Although Matt's pronunciation of the supposedly Croatian festival was complete bollocks, so I was like 75% Garry, 20% Chris, 5% Matt misspelled the name of the Croatian festival...
@shutout951
3 жыл бұрын
I think he thought that there was also a folk band
@Wter-oy1dh
3 жыл бұрын
@@ca-ke9493 to be fair Gary’s really good at sounding *untrustworthy* rather than trustworthy
@Cthulhus_Mum
2 жыл бұрын
I mean, he also didn’t know what a ute muster was, soooo… *shrug*
@FoxDren
4 жыл бұрын
I honestly would have thought Tom would have known about the Hagia Sophia
@GerackSerack
4 жыл бұрын
Why should we? It's only one of the most important and famous religious structures in the whole world.
@timothymclean
4 жыл бұрын
@@GerackSerack "Important" is hard to gauge, especially with the number of Asian, African, and Native American religious structures I know I know little about...but it's definitely among the most famous. Not "Vatican City" famous, but definitely in the top ten. There's a reason it's consistently been a wonder in Civilization despite that game's superficial and inconsistent portrayal of history.
@TheRenegade...
4 жыл бұрын
I need him to do a sweaty column now
@Khronogi
4 жыл бұрын
@@timothymclean Its pretty Vatican City famous.
@tomstech4390
4 жыл бұрын
Second gary went from "a river" to "a tiny river" I just thought......No Gary don't go there!
@CantSniff
4 жыл бұрын
Ever since this series began I always though “what if someone picks an article the others know about” and then instantly ruled that thought out as I thought that the chances for that to happen were so slim it pretty much couldn’t happen. Thank you Halfdan, for proving me wrong.
@jocax188723
4 жыл бұрын
The Hagia Sofia is pretty famous. I was honestly surprised Tom didn't know about it. Everybody who played Assassin's Creed Revelations probably immediately snorted. Also, Chris...may have just invented the metagame...for this game.
@marcusalm7350
4 жыл бұрын
Or played Civ
@JeremiahFrye
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah my immediate thought was "oh, hey, I've climbed on that building.'
@chesssoldier
4 жыл бұрын
I've played Revelations ages ago, so I was just mildly confused because I didn't know where I've heard it before
@adeliciousbutterydong7664
4 жыл бұрын
I've played Revelations twice in the past 5 years and I had no clue what it was lmao
@octopus44445
4 жыл бұрын
@@marcusalm7350 yup. Thank you Civilization IV.
@seanc6128
4 жыл бұрын
It'd be hard to fake not knowing anything about Hagia Sophia so points for everyone.
@seanc6128
4 жыл бұрын
Honestly I would be sad to discover that none of these guys play Civilization.
@michael_betts
4 жыл бұрын
Its at the point where as a liar I would give actual facts but with the wrong years/names.
@AlRoderick
4 жыл бұрын
That's KIND OF what Chris was doing.
@willsterjohnson
Жыл бұрын
@@seanc6128 apparently Tom doesn't play Civ or know anything about the site (prior to recording at least), and evidently Matt either doesn't either or just chose something unrelated because he didn't want to get in the way of whoever's article it was.
@felixc543
4 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the upcoming sequel to this game: "all of these people are lying"
@Septimus_ii
4 жыл бұрын
An unspecified number of these people are lying
@ishashka
4 жыл бұрын
Also, none of these people are lying.
@benjaminmiddaugh2729
4 жыл бұрын
All of these people are only pretending to lie.
@pldl10
4 жыл бұрын
Would be interesting as a twist. Instead of three, there would be four. So a 25% chance that everyone is lying.
@iLikeTheUDK
4 жыл бұрын
@@Septimus_ii 3.14159265359 of these people are lying
@will3346
4 жыл бұрын
Clearly Tom has never played Civilization.
@iande78
4 жыл бұрын
Or AC Revelations
@addityasinghal897
4 жыл бұрын
Yup :p
@MatikTheSeventh
4 жыл бұрын
Or CK2
@teologen
4 жыл бұрын
Or simply paid attention in history class.
@sbs5130
4 жыл бұрын
Let's face it, the outro has become "We still don't have an outro. Byeee!"
@snowfloofcathug
4 жыл бұрын
VooDooTrois Like WarOwl’s “I still have no closer”
@hamzahsajjad7952
4 жыл бұрын
Well the hagia Sophia is relatively famous for this show
@Ingestedbanjo
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone who plays the Civ games... TBH even before I'd played Civ I'd heard of it. Very strange that Tom's not heard of it given that he travels so much. I guess he's spent so long learning about other interesting things that he's had no time for this one.
@longislandlegoboy
4 жыл бұрын
It’s world famous really like probably as famous as the arc de triomphe
@Andrew-zm8gh
4 жыл бұрын
How didn't you know immediately what the Hagia Sofia was? Its one of the most famous buildings in the world.
@AstolfoGayming
4 жыл бұрын
I'm honestly surprised Tom didn't know it..
@JimCullen
4 жыл бұрын
Legitimately, I made casual reference to it just two days ago and I safely assumed the person I was talking with would know what it was. Very surprised Tom wouldn't know it...
@shanematthews1985
4 жыл бұрын
So famous that most people in the world have probably never heard of it
@ThesisAED
4 жыл бұрын
@@shanematthews1985 To be fair, I'd say the majority of people haven't heard of the majority of famous things.
@smgibb
4 жыл бұрын
I honestly got confused for a minute b/c they were both saying true things. I figured one of them had worded it oddly to be technically false, but I couldn't pick out the lie.
@frederf3227
4 жыл бұрын
"You'd have been glassed by now." Then they'd have to bury you and no one deserves to be Glastonbury'd.
@simeondermaats
4 жыл бұрын
Eeeeyy... cue the mournful pun laughter
@joshuahadams
4 жыл бұрын
Well, better than what happened to Reach.
@JesperDramsch
4 жыл бұрын
Genuinely loved how Chris just flexed on Tom in this one.
@TonksMoriarty
4 жыл бұрын
As penance for not knowing what the Hagia Sophia is, Tom now must do a video on the Varangian Guard - the elite guard of the Byzantine Emperors that were primarily made up of VIKINGS!
@addityasinghal897
4 жыл бұрын
As soon as Gary mentioned the 3 feet river, I remembered tom's video on it and I knew he messed up
@BronzeManul
4 жыл бұрын
How the hell does Hagia Sofia work for this show?? It's a very very famous world landmark...?
@jackielinde7568
4 жыл бұрын
Apparently, Tom didn't know about it. Not everyone does. Although, this is unusual for Tom, seeing he's well traveled and well read. Just goes to show you how really big and wonderful our small blue marble truly is.
@c182SkylaneRG
4 жыл бұрын
I dropped down into the comments and immediately realized I'm in good company. Seems like everyone who watches Tom's channel already knows about Hagia Sophia from one source or another (oddly, mostly from video games, which might actually explain why Tom didn't immediately recognize it. In my case: Age of Empires II. It's the Byzantine Wonder).
@jackielinde7568
4 жыл бұрын
More people played the Sid Meier's Civilization games than Age of Empires. But, yeah, for once we have proof that games can be informative and/or educational and fun at the same time. As for me, I read about it in random articles, but most of my knowledge came from the Extra Credit's videos on Justinian.
@mmilcz833
2 жыл бұрын
It’s strange to me that most people know it from video games because I learned about it in history class. I guess British people have enough domestic history that they can’t fit that in.
@c182SkylaneRG
2 жыл бұрын
@@mmilcz833 I think the fact that I was playing that game in Middle School helped. It beat my History Classes to the punch. :)
@CheyenneRose
Жыл бұрын
For me it was growing up watching James Burke's Connections. The Hagia Sophia is regularly featured in Connections 2, especially the New Harmony episode. An absolute must watch bunch of series. :-)
@dbseamz
Жыл бұрын
@@mmilcz833 In my case it was an online Humanities class (yes, during Covid) that consisted of quizzes based on informational videos. And the quiz questions were all like, multiple choice where all the answers are plausible but only one is worded the way the video worded it, meaning you had to watch the video AND take detailed notes if you wanted to get the right answers.
@girv98
4 жыл бұрын
I genuinely thought the Hagia Sophia thing was a joke, but it kept going
@VoicelessRabbit
4 жыл бұрын
At this point, "We still don't have an outro" is the outro.
@PerMortensen
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's the joke.
@Yorie1234
4 жыл бұрын
it is like how Adam Savages, (and others) podcast is called "still untitled - the Adam Savage project" because the hosts couldn't pick a name.
@yugytomm
4 жыл бұрын
The change of the T-shirt was a huge mistake, Tom lost his powers and now he doesn't even know what Hagia Sophia is.
@kilmorgancastle
4 жыл бұрын
Honestly the pure joy of LOBBO has cheered me up no end
@Tarantio1983
4 жыл бұрын
But does he have an outline of 4x tinnies in his shadow?!
@ebiljebus
4 жыл бұрын
@@Tarantio1983 His raring body is there for two purposes only: tourism, and keeping tinnies cool in his enormous clawed shadow.
@keda1981
2 жыл бұрын
...drive through pie shop?
@krtwood
4 жыл бұрын
I believe Gary believes the goal of the game is to get to rub it in Tom's face when he is telling the truth but Tom doesn't pick him.
@EmilyExplosion27
4 жыл бұрын
When I saw "Hagia Sophia" I was like "Oh it's another Green Monster situation where something has the same name as another much more famous thing." But nope. Actual Hagia Sophia. So interesting since it's like taught to 11-year-olds as curriculum here...
@Lantalia
4 жыл бұрын
I'll echo being stunned that Tom didn't know about this, that said, is Gary trying to throw this? Because seriously, I have trouble thinking of how you could have described the Hagia Sophia worse than he did
@willsterjohnson
Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Gary's self-assigned role in this game is chaos, points don't matter, the confusion and frustration on Tom's face does.
@desertsoftime
4 жыл бұрын
Genuinely shocked tom didn't know what Hagia Sofia is.
@maxresdefault_
4 жыл бұрын
Gary: the shortest river in the country is 3ft Tom: you sure about that?
@columbus8myhw
4 жыл бұрын
Er, river?
@Darilon12
Жыл бұрын
This is one of the quintessential episodes. Gary convincing Tom it's not his article no matter if it is. Chris bullshitting expertly. Matt being clueless but somehow Tom still chose him.
@gsurfer04
4 жыл бұрын
How did the world traveller Tom Scott not know what the Hagia Sophia is?
@amezification
4 жыл бұрын
that's right tell Gary never stop calling us readers, it makes me feel classy
@Dappdude
4 жыл бұрын
We're in the comments section now, that makes us readers doesn't it!
@twistedtachyon5877
3 жыл бұрын
@@Dappdude i read this in Gary's voice.
@dbseamz
Жыл бұрын
It's also subtle (and well-deserved!) praise for the person writing the subtitles.
@ltjgambrose
4 жыл бұрын
1:55 Didn't Tom go to a Library of Rare Colors on his main channel? How is he so surprised that there's a color museum?
@ltjgambrose
4 жыл бұрын
@@Shinela I mean, he released that video six months ago. Is this footage well over six months old?
@carolyngolden6681
4 жыл бұрын
@@ltjgambrose Maybe. If the color stuff needed less editing, as it's single person direct to camera interspersed with shots of objects. I imagine these take quite a bit of editing effort.
@pip5718
4 жыл бұрын
I have no idea how tom has never heard of the Hagia Sofia
@stephencody6088
4 жыл бұрын
It just goes to show you that even really Smart people have gaps in their knowledge.
@angelbear_og
4 жыл бұрын
After seeing all these comments, I have no idea how *I* have never heard of it! Not saying I'm all that smart, just the sheer numbers, hahaha! (Although, as soon as Gary started his description I thought, yeah I can see that.)
@yorktown99
3 жыл бұрын
I am gradually becoming more and more impressed at Tom Scott's skill at designing games / panel shows. He has not only re-created much of the premise of "Would I Lie To You?", he has successfully developed a unique twist on the format.
@michaelocyoung
9 ай бұрын
Two caveats: 1) it's more like Call My Bluff in that it's 3 definitions, only one of which is true (in WILTY only the guest section "This is My...." reflects that); and 2) I think it stems from Matt's idea in the TechDif Experiments Format Laboratory for "The Tail Wagging The Dog", hence why I think he's given the role of explaining the rules for this game in this series.
@ByteMe619
4 жыл бұрын
I struck Chris out when he said “named for the battle low”. I’ve read a lot about place name etymology
@saricella
4 жыл бұрын
Batlow Me, lives in Australia: s'where we get our apples from
@MF-fd2ug
Жыл бұрын
i love how the subtitles give chris a question mark after every sentence when he describes batlow
@elkudos6262
4 жыл бұрын
The fudge?! Such a well-traveled man as Tom surely would know what Hagia Sophia is!
@Onio_Saiyan
4 жыл бұрын
One thing I like about this series is that it's something that we can do at home with friends.
@rzeka
4 жыл бұрын
I did a couple rounds with my friends, it's a lot of fun.
@peterfireflylund
11 ай бұрын
Gotta do it in Matt’s kitchen. Integral part of the concept.
@arjaxlarjax
4 жыл бұрын
Me, a New South Welshman, watching this, with a batlow pink lady apple sat in front of me, I think I had a heart palpitation.
@Schm1tty
4 жыл бұрын
When Matt said "folk music festival on Thursday" I knew he was lying. A festival on a Thursday? Dead obvious
@beth12svist
Жыл бұрын
I pictured a festival going from Thursday till Sunday, though. There's a folklore festival in Czechia that basically goes like that; although most of the public events are on the weekend, there are concerts and stuff in the villages around the village where it takes place on weekday evenings.
@michaelocyoung
9 ай бұрын
Also Thursdays are now really popular for events in general because either the upper middle class can afford to take Friday off or have flexi time, or it's aimed at older retirees.@@beth12svist
@route2070
4 жыл бұрын
The Hagia Sofia, this is a great format for trying to remember something you've heard of, but can't remember what it is.
@genk2732
3 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha ikr, I vaguely knew it was some important structure in Europe
@thatstupidguy7688
4 жыл бұрын
I love how Garry seems more confident when lying
@sourcererseven3858
2 жыл бұрын
And for anyone else wondering why Matt mentioned LOBBO! for seemingly no reason: Batlow has a Big Apple, which is bigger than the trees surrounding it. (guess this part was cut from the final edit. I can see why they kept the LOBBO!! part in though 😁)
@michaelkeogh7722
4 жыл бұрын
And Garry suffers the theatrical “swoosh” of the pen, yet again.
@marcusalm7350
4 жыл бұрын
Ouch, that's an unlucky curveball from Garry in the second half!
@michael_betts
4 жыл бұрын
"Solomon, I have outdone thee" - Justinian, proclaiming that his church (the Hagia Sophia) is better than temple designed by GOD.
@Septimus_ii
4 жыл бұрын
It's some wee church in the Near East, innit
@TheSimmr001
4 жыл бұрын
to be fair, Adonai probably gave a design that solomon could do, as opposed to what Jehovah's design for Justinian
@Loweene_Ancalimon
2 жыл бұрын
Hah ! Having distant family growing apples in Batlow, and being very aware of what the Hagia Sophia is (and very surprised Tom didn't know), this ep was a lot of fun !
@RidgwayBrandon
4 жыл бұрын
Well, technically now it's 3 of these people are lying as the Hagia Sofia is now a mosque again
@Senny_V
3 жыл бұрын
F
@sitas9827
4 жыл бұрын
Everyone is the comments crediting games for their knowledge of Hagia Sophia and I'm here like those Dan Brown books weren't for nothing!
@karlkastor
4 жыл бұрын
These books had a lot of interesting facts in them. I impressed my teacher by knowing about the Council of Nicaea
@qwertyTRiG
4 жыл бұрын
Whereas I've been there.
@suorastas1
4 жыл бұрын
Karl Kastor To be fair if you based your knowledge of the council of Nicaea on Dan Brown you didn’t really know anything about it. Not to be a dick but that book had so many historical inaccuracies it’s not even funny.
@sitas9827
4 жыл бұрын
@@qwertyTRiG lucky!
@qwertyTRiG
3 жыл бұрын
@@sitas9827 It is truly impressive.
@MW-qt9ts
4 жыл бұрын
Halfdan carved these runes is one of my favorite viking graffiti. There are many.
@catfish552
4 жыл бұрын
So Tom's heard of the name of where Disney World is, but not of the Hagia Sophia... although in fairness, he's made a video about one and not the other ("Disney Could Go Nuclear If They Wanted To", 2014).
@TheOfficialCzex
4 жыл бұрын
Gregory made my column moist, so I had to fit it through Sophia's nice door.
@lamarhenderson8058
4 жыл бұрын
I'm really surprised that you aren't familiar with the Hagia Sophia, which is one of the great cultural sites of the world.
@hannahbrown2728
Жыл бұрын
I love how absolutely unconvincing Gary was about Hagia Sophia
@TheRealGirlWeeb
4 жыл бұрын
That's it ... I'm binging Citation Needed ... for the third time ...
@qwertyTRiG
3 жыл бұрын
Starting with drive-through booze.
@AAARRRGGGHHHHHH
4 жыл бұрын
“Careful, Icarus.” I see Gary is a Craig Ferguson aficionado.
@progamer500088
3 жыл бұрын
Best Geoff Peterson impression: "Careful, Icarus"
@witerabid
4 жыл бұрын
I have recently come up with a very stupid dad-joke ("My body is a temple - the Hagia Sophia", referring to my belly being the giant dome) and so far literally nobody I've told it to has gotten the reference without me explaining what the Hagia Sophia is. This apparently is a much less well known topic than I thought...
@TheTaleForge
4 жыл бұрын
"Halfdan" is an old Norse name meaning "half-Dane."
@TOJPFC
4 жыл бұрын
There’s that damn cushion again behind Tom and Chris…
@Kraigon42
4 жыл бұрын
I freaking love these. I actually learned about the Haiga Sophia in Art History class some ten years ago, so I knew enough to tell it was obviously Gary by the way he mentioned the dome and all, but I genuinely didn't know any of the things either he or Chris talked about inside it.
@AlRoderick
4 жыл бұрын
Everyone else in here talking about Civ and I'm thinking "I climbed that in Assassin's Creed Revelations!"
@dbseamz
Жыл бұрын
I was laughing my head off through the whole Hagia Sophia bit because I knew what it was and that both Chris and Gary were correct. So far, as I watch these videos in order, this is the only article they've picked that I definitely recognized.
@JudithOpdebeeck
3 жыл бұрын
i love how Tom had a 2/3 chance to get it right, and still got it wrong
@headforthehillsuk
4 жыл бұрын
Love them trying to put Gary off by throwing out lyric clips of Buck Rogers by Feeder.
@jhfdhgvnbjm75
3 жыл бұрын
Hagia Sophia has NOW changed from a museum back to a mosque but you can still enter it as a museum.
@JonTheGeek
4 жыл бұрын
I like how Garry's batlow river thing is something Tom talked about, the whole how short is the shortest river thing. Oh wow Tom *said that too.*
@lensy6
4 жыл бұрын
been all around the world, Didn't immediately know the hagia sophia, idgi
@CardboardMoose
4 жыл бұрын
It's nice to know that the Varangian Guard are still messing with people a thousand years later.
@dbseamz
Жыл бұрын
The source that I learned about that graffiti from said that people thought the inscriptions were sacred until someone finally translated them, which is even funnier
@thany3
4 жыл бұрын
The Hagia Sophia now deserves a place in the "Things you might not know" series.
@kaiforward7843
4 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for the color museum, my childhood was a wild ride
@Actinjsh
4 жыл бұрын
No one: Civilization players: How does Tom not know about Hagia Sophia
@kaya_y.
2 жыл бұрын
I am very surprised that Tom Scott of all people didn't know about the Hagia Sophia. I'm lucky enough to have heard just as much about it as Chris, so that segment had a hilarious dramatic irony to it.
@Lou-Lou.
4 жыл бұрын
" it flows with cider into another larger lemon" XD im literally crying!
@CptStahlsworth
4 жыл бұрын
Rewatching the Lobster episode, and Chris looks like he was still in High School
@milohdd
2 жыл бұрын
You can always tell when it's Garys article because there's sparse but specific details
@hummusmold
5 ай бұрын
8:04 one of my favorite TechDiff moments. The way Matt just renders Gary's train of thought completely useless for a brief moment makes me laugh every time.
@saber1epee0
8 ай бұрын
In this episode, TOM DOESNT KNOW ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
@harveyhj7099
4 жыл бұрын
While i did enjoy citation needed a bit more this series definitely serves as a viable replacement. You guys are hilarious 👍
@sanderstrahl1351
4 жыл бұрын
I've never seen Tom so confused as he does at 6:06
@michael5549
4 жыл бұрын
Batlow was a town that was greatly affected by the bushfires in December & January. The town was evacuated, many properties lost and a man lost his life.
@ZeldaTheSwordsman
8 ай бұрын
Gary was having a "....Nail bar?...." moment when trying to describe the Hagia Sophia.
@joaovitormatos8147
4 жыл бұрын
all these comments about people surprised with Tom not knowing the Hagia Sophia, and I'm just mad about Chris being allowed to do that
@AlexanderPavel
4 жыл бұрын
I'm extremely surprised Tom didn't know what the Hagia Sophia is...
@yondie491
4 жыл бұрын
Scrolled down to see if anyone had mentioned that they were the surprised that Tom didn't know what the Hagia Sophia is.
@aidanclark196
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love that at the mention of the big lobster "Lobbo!" Was exclaimed with the same gusto as it was when it was first uttered nearly a decade ago
@thomilo44
4 жыл бұрын
Very confused on how Tom doesn't know the Hagia Sophia ??
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