W and it can't be confused with any other sign from the back or if it's partly covered. Thankfully no major country have had the bad but typical idea of doing their own thing, with confused People everywhere as a result. Yet.

stop signs can also be red or yellow triangles inside a circle.

lol. the can also be triangles inside circles, and no country does "their own thing" because of the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Conference on Road Traffic in 1968

James may could give you the exact dimensions of the sign, angles and all

@meaturama You aren't serious right? Anyhow, James May (A.K.A. Captain Slow) is a colleague of Jeremy Clarkson. They've worked together on Top Gear and now work together on The Grand Tour.

Cliff Hanley Obviously you’ve not read the full comment. Safe to say you’re a bit shite.

first time ever felt not so nervous when watching this. quite marvel plan to make him the host. ITV also shit the BBC with one of their former elite host lol

Mithras id watch this religiously

You're right why did they get a racist, uptight, grumpy old man to present it is beyond me typical itv

he has a loose mouth, that's it. he up rise conflicting not to be a racist, uptight, grumpy, not to be one of these, just to make his point. and after all, what he argued most about most is not race,nationalism what so ever, but the Brits. He is a jerk, but everyone loves some jerk like him. Never has a fired host got a painted recon tank protesting outside BBC office for his leaving ever, never, ever, that tells a lot.

Belittling women and minorities to appease insecure bigoted little boys up and down the country.... Classic Jeremy....

Michael Farrell get your head out of your arse and laugh you sensitive manchild

Michael Farrell how does that make any sense?

He worked in top gear for 9 years and still doesnt know

SGG and? my dad has been a car mechanic for the past 30 years and he doesn’t know, besides back then they didn’t even have theory tests and even now the theory tests don’t ask “how many sides are on the stop sign”, you look at the sign and you fucking stop that’s all, you don’t look and count how many sides are on it.

from what i read. if this week goes well and people like it. theres a high chance it will come back fully with clarkson

That would be awesome!

You mean a 'weak thing'.

Same here. I want it to continue!

Cliff Hanley shut the fuck up

Unfortunately I CAN 😂😂😂😂

When stakes are high, people even verify if 1+1 = 2 with a calculator

Like Clarkson said, he often drives too fast to notice them, it's also probably part of code not to reveal the correct answer explicitly.

I’m learning to drive in the UK and I see a lot of stop signs

Don't know where you go driving, but in the UK they're very common.

They are not uncommon. The fact people notice them more than usual signs because of their shape. Originally from the USA. Adopted by most countries.

@@QPRTokyo hello I’m from the United States so I can’t tell you if the stop sign is uncommon or not I cannot be part of that conversation, but I do remember that in elementary school we learned that the sign was an octagon. And this is coming from someone who has really bad vision.

Luquid 😂😂😂😂

And now the top gear song is in my head

*IN JAMES MAYS VOICE* "Hello"

Aprilion Orange 😂

You've read that in Jeremy's voice, didn't you? lol

Luckily the public (viewers figures) have spoken and now he is on his 5th or 6th season.

All other UK signs follow the convention: oblong - informatory triangular - advisory circular - obligatory

its cos you got a booster under your right peg ;)

@Ramboghini Balboni there is a "go" sign... This one autoskola-ispiti.com/images/C08.png

@Ramboghini Balboni World would be a better place if we had some Mario Kart boost pads. Preferably in a tight corner, or maybe a roundabout.

@@otterspocket2826 But some of the triangular ones could lead to death if you ignore them... Like sharp turns ones ^^

Gus TV He is an annoying fuck. Far too full of himself. And these plump jobs keep going to these few tired old faces.

AminTheMystic And Chris Tarrant wasn't?

Parker Productions yeah exactly! 😂

Gus TV *programme

James Ch true I’m bad at spelling 😂

thefreakinjoker I. Why?

how can people not know the shape of a stop sign? thats like not knowing how many sides a speed limit sign has or what shape a yield sign is.

Ben Werli a speed limit sign in the UK is round

we know the shape of a stop sign but we didn't know what shape it was.

ManiPlays YT/Fates Ecoz what? Lol

Yes, he did actually. "more than five" and "even number"

google

He couldn't google, he was in a room in the show I'm pretty sure. Watch that part again

thedeadfish i have a stop sign out side of my house and i thought it had six lmfao

Which is weird because in our local version of WWTBAM they explicitly state that your friends can just google it. Also what's this about asking the host? The UK version is strange.

Josh Martley who the fuck is jack black?

Only the greatest Rockstar ever

... according to Jack Black.

He wrote the greatest song in the world... Then forgot it

a tribute to the greatest song in the world

UzumakiPavel One word: Octagon!

8 fantastic sides

And eight awesome angles

*" A S T O P S I G N I S A N O C T A G O N ! "*

Did you just assume that stop signs gen... shape!

Joseph Marsh what?

😂😂😂😂

HOW ELMO HOW

And on something a typical 15 year old could answer instantly.

@@MatthewWilliams-lc1qw try younger than that. I remember learning about this in elementary school.

@@blindbookworm8019 yeah and then you forget it all once you've left school

@@AFGuidesHD Yes but that is something that you learn and remember. It’s basi shapes.

@@blindbookworm8019 well its also a matter of remembering or misremembering the shape of a stop sign

Exactly, it just boggles my mind how such a simple question can bring so much problems. Once can even easily figure it out. Just imagine the stop sign and count the sides? Isn't it the most recognisable road sign?

My point exactly, if one can't immediately picture a stop sign and know how many sides it has then they shouldn't even be driving. Even a child knows how many sides has a stop sign...

Some countries/towns don't have stop signs.

Guarantee you a child doesn't. What a weird thing to get so worked up about.

t0nito well it’s something we see everyday so we don’t really put that much attention to it Bc it’s not really necessary for us to know. Like for example which hand is used for the stop light. We have all seen one but we don’t really Pat attention for that specific detail since it isn’t important for the task of recognizing if it’s safe to walk or not

not tru....in tonights episode he told one of them the answer straight off

no, he didnt say that at all. he said hes not sure so he was hesitant to give a cast iron answer because he didnt want to be responsible for the loss of £15000. ease up on the conspiracy theories chief

J Anything what was it doing in your bath?

J Anything I've never seen one before other than off Google

J Anything how'd you see it in the bath?

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I guess geography isnt your strong point Mgooy

Still no excuse for Clarkson who has done a lot of driving all over the world where stop signs are very common.

Yeah it isn't

Wouldn't that be an American stop sign, though?

UK stop sign is an octagon too

Lord Twaddle Ah fuck, yeah. Now I remember the Jack Black little butterfly song!

There aren't meny of them about here in the UK.

970357ers pull out your phone and look it up

todd brown did you watch the video, the host just said that there is a producer with the friend to make sure he doesnt just google it.

todd brown tru

thats what its for you chip idiot

Nguyễn Việt Thái don’t worry he’s just a moron

Omg you idiots he means cutting the long part out

He used 3 lifelines on this question.

god we have all gotten as thick as planks

Tbh though, even though I got it right it's something that can so easily be overlooked. I've had a scar in my eyebrow (leaving a slit there) since 4 years old, people I've gone to school with for many years didn't even notice until a very later date.

Aizen Kazama A stop sign is one of the easiest and yet most important things you learn when driving and you see it nearly everywhere

ArsenalThom Yes but you missed the part where I said it can be overlooked. Plus doing things from memory is harder when you can't see it in front of you, hence when people take longer or are unsure on spelling a word in their head, as opposed to writing it down.

Circle 25 Clarkson doesn’t read road signs, unless it says Poweerrrrrr.

Circle 25 It's one of those things that the more you think about it, the less sure you are

Jalinco TV When I took my permit test one of the questions was what shape is a stop sign. You get tested for that.

it'a an anniversary

Jake Or perhaps you missed the connection

Jake I know but I'm allowed to make a humorous link to my teams 1st European cup victory if I want to. Free world my brother enjoy it x

Who’s Charles Ingraham?

There's plenty in the UK just in weird hidden places

Capt'n why do you need to know how many sides the sign has? Surely just reading STOP is good enough?

Neat it is one of the most common signs in traffic. If you can't tell what shape it is, you simply do not pay enough attention or you have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Even my twelve year old brother knows how it looks like.

Capt'n Yep it’s common. Also I’ve never been in a RTA (road traffic accident) so yeah it also is irrelevant information

I love my cars and I honestly didnt know how many sides it had. Dont really care, all I need to know is that its red and says STOP. Irrelevent to how someone drives.

It's all about how the brain evaluates the information it receives and how it weighs up its importance in the situation it is presented in. For objects that are frequently seen and interacted with every day the brain will have determined important details and details that are irrelevant about that object. Important stuff about a stop sign, what it reads and its colour. The brain will recognise these things and they will be taken into consideration when making choices regarding them such as slowing the car down to stop at the junction. The shape is used to make a distinction from other road signs and their purposes but as someone becomes more accustomed to them through their driving career the shape becomes less relevant and in many will be forgotten as the brain can by that stage automatically recognise what it means and initiate the decisions that a new driver would have to consciously think about on approaching a stop sign, but with experience has become an unconscious response. I'm awful at explaining things but can you get what I'm trying to describe? There are youtube videos that explain the effect much better. This is the third comment I've seen about this. I copy and pasted the block of text above from my reply to another comment. Anyway, as a result new drivers or even those who don't drive are in some cases more likely to know the shape of the sign than an experienced driver or car enthusiast who have become so familiar with the sign that the shape is no longer a detail they can recall off the top of their head. If Neat, Zootopia96 or myself were shown a selection of pictures of stop signs slightly varying in shape, with text and colour identical, just the shape is different for each one, like the shapes in the question, I would be pretty certain that we would all immediately choose the octagon without being told a stop sign is an octagon. We all know it, it's just not deemed relevant information to our brains anymore. The more common the sign, the more likely for this to be the case. the only time the shapes are used is when you're learning what different signs mean.

No cause they probably have taste.

+J.J. Tasteful dipshits maybe

No, cos they've just watched Tipping Point and need an hours lie-down for their brains to recover.

The Chase is one of the best gameshows this country has ever produced. Tipping Point...is not. Pointless is also excellent, but for me nothing beats The Chase.

Alan Herbert it's an extra lifeline, it wasn't in the old 1 but they added it to this

Dave O Brien the host can give them a fake answer

When you're first learning the shape is important so that you can recognise it from other signs but once you start driving your brain begins to automatically recognise signs and what they mean. The important part of a stop sign is the colour and what is says. Something like the shape is disregarded by the brain as that's not the important part of what it's seeing so is 'forgotten'. If the question showed pictures of the sign but in each shape it would have been much easier and any somewhat experienced driver would instantly go for the octagon as that's what the brain recognises on the road and then in the question. It can be different for different people, but there is a point where it will happen in most people's brains. In this instance it's not quite directly showing how easy people forget it but that is unfortunately true for some, important details and all.

Ramboghini Balboni The anti - normal guy or me?

Aye. I have an awful memory for stuff apart from cars for some reason. Makes sense with pluto.

I didn’t know the answer and I got 100% on my theory test.

carlcepillo01 unless there’s a stop sign with one extra or one less side which means a completely different thing, then I think in this instance it doesn’t really matter whether you can remember if it’s a heptagon or an octagon, as long as you can remember it’s one of the ‘gon shapes you’ll be fine.

When it refers to the highway code it's specifically the UK's road sign design, though the contestant's time spent in Ethiopia could have caused them to doubt themselves if signage on their travels was different.

it's one of those things without the words and colour you will still recognise and know what sign it is, but just having the word 'Octagon' isn't something you'll associate with the sign.

I don't.

Then give back your driving license.

You need to know it here too, but they seem to have forgotten

There are not many stop signs in the UK

Stop signs are near enough non-existent in the UK. I've never seen one in person.

why RU knechtel it's not over here (U.K.)

David hasn't done his driving test though, so that would explain it?

But you are though, right? lol

Ben Roberts - How'd you work that one out?

Being clever and knowing something random off-hand arent the same thing.

That question has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. You don't have to do any calculations to work out the answer, it's just a fairly pointless piece of general knowledge you either have stored away somewhere or don't.

arnold kamau no their not.theirs an old saying I like " the thing about common sense is its not very common "

That usually happens when the " ask the host" lifeline is used, it's still a good effect.

Pax Malmer Really? I quite liked that he had some good banter with Clarkson.

everyone has to bitch about something nowadays. he's fine mate

*Thomas Wilcox* Imo I think he had no sense of humour

No sense of humour? During the useless phone-a-friend the friend doesn't know the answer so he changes the subject to ask how his day has been, I thought that was pretty funny. Also at one point during the show he joked about Clarkson being subject to maybe a little bit of controversy in the past, which was funny. Either way, I think that contestant has been the most memorable on this series so far!

*Thomas Wilcox* He was just annoying. He just wouldnt shut up.