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EUREKA! THE BIG BANG QUERY

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Comedy and Science collide in this brand new science comedy quiz hosted Neil Delamere.  Each week team captains, PJ Gallagher and Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin and their teams of comedians and science personalities are put through their paces as our tenacious panel attempt to answer some of humanity’s most pressing questions like:

Is it possible to have sex in space?

What does cheese made with PJ and Aoibhinn’s own bacteria taste like?

Is a zombie apocalypse scientifically possible?

Each show sees host Neil  risk life and limb to celebrate the greatest ‘Eureka Moments’ of our time.  Over the course of the series he’ll channel 4 million volts of electricity and shoot lightning out of his fingertips (and a couple of other places while he’s at it), he’ll create an earthquake in Westmeath, undergo astronaut training in a human centrifuge, be blasted by hurricane force winds, master weightlessness aboard a zero gravity flight and go free-diving in a freezing quarry – all in the name of scientific discovery.

Each week PJ and Aoibhinn go head to head in a science-themed “Team Captain Challenge” where they’ll fight robots, try to keep their lunch down during a spin on a virtual reality rollercoaster and dunk their faces into freezing water to test their mammalian diving reflex.  Expect vicious competition, much swearing, victory dances and some falling down.

Episode 7

Dermot Whelan (Hey Ho, Let’s Go! – RTÉ, Dermot& Dave, Today FM) and Susan Calman (Bad Language, The News Quiz) return to Aoibhinn’S team to help her vie for victory against PJ Gallagher, Prof Luke O’Neill and Helen Arney (Outrageous Acts of Science, Stewart Lee’s Alternative Comedy Experience) all under the watchful eye of host, Neil Delamere.

Neil takes a short break from his role as quiz-master extraordinaire to plummet down a mountain at 120kmh in a bobsled – while wearing a delightful skin-tight suit – to celebrate one of the most fundamental forces: friction.

Back in studio, no scientific stone is left unturned as the teams debate whether or not birds can achieve orgasm from sitting on power lines; if flying cars and hoverboards have moved from science fiction to science fact and they also try to name the four new elements of the periodic table – while Susan Calman discovers a brand new element, in her bellybutton of all places.

The Team Captain Challenge sees both teams try to pull two interleaved phonebooks apart, but are they stronger than the laws of friction?

Eureka! The Big Bang Query, Monday April 25th at 22:25 on RTÉ 2.