Eureka! The Big Bang Query

In the opening edition, the guests are stand-ups Colin Murphy and Lucy Porter, biochemist Luke O'Neill and physicist Shane Bergin

Comedy quiz hosted by Neil Delamere in which team captains PJ Gallagher and Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin and a panel of comedians and scientists attempt to answer some of humanity's most pressing questions.

This week Neil has some pressing questions for the teams, like can pigeons be trained to spot cancer and are men more attracted to women with higher body weights when they’re hungry? He also takes a break from his quizmaster duties to take to the skies and endure a gut-wrenching aerobatic flight – doing loop the loops, rolls and corkscrews in a tiny plane to demonstrate Quaternions: complex numbers discovered by Irishman William Rowan Hamilton.

This week Neil quizzes the teams on the physics of having sex in space and the science behind Star Wars. He also dabbles in some astronaut training experiencing more than 5Gs in a human centrifuge, a device which astronauts have called the most ‘sadistic’ part of their training.

Neil sticks it to Isaac Newton this week as he experiences ‘Zero Gravity’ on a parabolic flight! The simple action of allowing a jumbo jet to plummet towards the earth, allows Neil to float around like Neil Armstrong in Lunar Gravity and then soar through the air in some manoeuvres that would make Chris Hadfield proud.

This week Neil’s ‘eureka moment’ takes him diving without a breathing apparatus in a freezing cold quarry on a winter’s day all in the name of Robert Boyle, the Irishman known as a founding father of chemistry – definitely NOT one to try at home.

Dermot Whelan, Susan Calman and Helen Arney join regulars PJ Gallagher, Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin and Luke O'Neill on the comedy science quiz hosted by Neil Delamere.

Andrew Maxwell, Sara Pascoe and Jonathan McCrea join regulars PJ Gallagher, Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin and Luke O'Neill on the comedy science quiz hosted by Neil Delamere.

Quizmaster Neil Delamere is dishing out the points and when he’s not doing that he takes a perilous journey across a rickety walkway, 500ft above the largest radio telescope in the world – a journey that puts him – and his underpants – in mortal danger. This week he’s celebrating Belfast born astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell who discovered Pulsars – the lighthouses of the universe.

Andrew Maxwell, Colin Murphy and Aoife McLysaght join regulars PJ Gallagher, Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin and Luke O'Neill on the comedy science quiz hosted by Neil Delamere. Last in the series. This week Neil has 4 million volts of electricity sent through him and shoots lightning from his fingertips.