QI: The Book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition (53 page)

Cabot, John
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Caernavon, Lord
1

Caesar, Augustus
1

Caesar, Julius
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Caesar Salad
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Caesarean section
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,
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caesium
1
,
2

caffeine
1
,
2

Californian redwoods
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Caligula
1

Calment, Jeanne
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Calpurnius Siculus
1

camels
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,
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Camm, Sydney
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Camos, Canon Vincent
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Campbell-Bannerman, Henry
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Canada
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Eskimos in
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largest lake in
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canaries
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Canary Islands
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,
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cannibals, cooking habits of
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Cardini, Cesar
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Carr, Jimmy
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carrier pigeons, bravery of
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Carroll, Lewis
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carrots

colour of
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jam
1

night vision and
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Carson, Johnny
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Carter, Howard
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,
2

Cartwright, Alexander
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Carver, Robin
1

Caspian Sea
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tigers around
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Castilla, Rámon
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Castro, Fidel
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Catherine of Aragon
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Catherine the Great
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Catholic Church
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cats

and earthquakes
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brave
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meat of
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sounds of
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in space
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terminal velocity of
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and violin strings
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,
2

and Wagner’s slur on Brahms
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years equal to one human year of
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cccc
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,
2

Celts, use of term
1

centipedes, number of legs of
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CFCs
1

chameleons
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,
2

champagne
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as British invention
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cause of its fizz
1

Treaties
1

Charles II, King
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,
2

chastity belts, uses for
1

Chaucer, Geoffrey
1

Chekhov, Anton
1

Cher
1

Cherokees, language of
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,
2

chicken tikka masala (CTM),

origins of
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chickens

ability to see red in
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as most common bird
1

reproduction
1

survival after decapitation of
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chihuahua (dog)
1

Chihuahua (state)
1

Chile
1
,
2

Great Chilean Earthquake
1

chillies, hottest part of
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China
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2
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cave dwellers in
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discovery of Australia
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dwarfing animals and plants
1

Great Wall of
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guano imports
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inventions from
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sound of frogs in
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suicide rate in
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version of Cinderella
1

cholera
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,
2

Christianity
1
,
2
,
3

Christophe, Eugène
1

Church of England
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,
2

Churchill, Winston
1

Cicero, Marcus Tullius
1

Cinderella, slippers of
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cinemas, in USSR
1

cirrus clouds
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,
2

cities, largest
1

citrus fruit, and scurvy
1

Civil War (English), bloodiness of
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Civil War (US)
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,
2

use of teeth
1

Clarke, Arthur C.
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Clerc, Laurent
1

Clerke, Charles
1

cloud nine, height of
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cobras
1
,
2

Coca-Cola
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,
2
,
3

Cochran, Josephine Garis
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cock fighting
1

Cockie, Isabel
1

cockroaches
1

coconuts, water of
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Cody, William Frederick ‘Buffalo Bill’
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,
2
,
3

coffee

beans of, as seeds
1

grown in US
1

as non-diuretic
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,
2

vs tea, caffeine in
1

Cold War
1

Colley, Richard
1

Colombia
1

colours, naming of
1

Columba, Saint
1

Columbus, Christopher
1
,
2
,
3

commandments, number in Bible
1

‘Conan the Bacterium’
1

Conan Doyle, Arthur
1

concentration camp, Britain’s

invention of
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,
2

Confucius
1

Connery, Sean
1

Constable, John
1

Cook, James
1
,
2
,
3

scurvy cures of
1

Cook, Robin
1

coolest places
1

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
1

Copernicus, Nicolaus
1
,
2
,
3

copper
1

Corelli, Marie
1

Coriolis effect
1

Coubertin, Baron
1

Courtenay, Gabrielle
1

cows
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,
2
,
3

Coyle, Dan
1

Crapper, Thomas, inventions of
1

Crimean War
1
,
2

Croatia
1

invention of neck tie
1

crocodiles
1

crocuses
1

Cromwell, Oliver
1

Cruithne
1

Cuba
1
,
2

Culloden, Battle of
1

Cumberland, Duke of
1

cumulonimbus clouds
1

Cunningham, John
1

cyclists

fuelling of
1

leg shaving of
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Cyrus the Great, King of Persia
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,
2

Dahl, Roald
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,
2
,
3

Dalai Lama
1

Dampier, William
1

Darién, isthmus of
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Darwin, Charles
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,
2

gastronomical habits of
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Darwin, Francis
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date, unluckiest
1

Davidson, Alan
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,
2

Davidson, Jim
1

Davidson, Richard
1

day, length of
1

deaf sign languages
1

death, causes of
1

Defoe, Daniel
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dehydration

fluids that exacerbate
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and Jacob’s Crackers
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Denmark
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,
2

depression

answer to
1

commonest illness in Britain
1

swimming with dolphins and
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Desaga, Peter
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,
2

Descartes, René
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Dev, Nanak
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Devon, Earl of
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Dewar, James
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diamonds
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2
,
3
,
4

Dickens, Charles
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Dickin, Maria
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Diderot, Denis
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digestive biscuits
1

fishy taste of
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Dio Chrysostom
1

Diolkos
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Dionysus, virgin birth of
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diseases

AIDS
1
,
2
,
3

and anti-bacterial agents,
1

argyria
1

bubonic plague
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

cholera
1
,
2

dengue fever
1

diarrhoea
1
,
2

elephantiasis
1

encephalitis
1

in English Civil War
1

filariasis
1

herpes
1

kuru
1

leprosy
1

malaria
1
,
2
,
3

pneumonia
1
,
2

scurvy
1
,
2

smallpox
1
,
2

syphilis
1

tetanus
1

tuberculosis
1

yellow fever
1
,
2

dishwasher, invention of
1

Disney, Walt
1

Dixon, Joseph
1

Dockwra, William
1

dodo, extinction of
1

dogs

brave
1

Canary Islands named after
1

colour perception
1

domestication
1

and earthquakes
1

evolution of
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Isle of (London)
1

kneeling on corgis
1

mating habits of
1

meat of
1

St Bernards
1

smallest
1
,
2

sounds of
1

in space
1

and violin strings
1

years equal to one human year of
1

dolphins
1

drinking habits of
1

smartness of
1

swimming with
1

use by military
1

Doubleday, Abner
1

Druids
1
,
2

Dubois, Raphael
1

Duchenne, Guillaume
1

Duchesne, Ernest
1

Duckworth, Frank
1

Duckworth scale
1

Dunning, Edwin Harris
1

Dvo
ř
ák, Antonín
1

dwarf planets
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,
2