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{{quote| '''[[Stephen Fry]]:''' What you need is [[Accidental Innuendo|length and thickness]]...<br />

 

{{quote| '''[[Stephen Fry]]:''' [''with both hands on his hips''] Do you know that rhyme? "I'm a little teapot, short and stout, here's my handle... oh bugger, I'm a sugar bowl."}}

'''David Mitchell''': Well... this is an easy one. The enclave actually only exists theoretically, because it's a sort of sand bank, which was once farmed but was flooded in the 14th century, and it exists between Denmark and Germany in the Heligoland Bight, but it's sort of been an anomaly in diplomatic law ever since then, because there were arguments over who owned it theoretically even though no one could go there. And so the 5732 provisions are... actually it's a provision for each of the former states of the Holy Roman Empire, before it was dissolved by Napoleon.<br />

'''Audience''': ''(begins to applaud)''<br />

 

{{quote| [''Having correctly answered a question about what will happen if a shoal of piranhas meet a dolphin by saying that the dolphin will eat the piranhas'']<br />