QI: The Book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition (55 page)

Gagarin, Yuri
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Galapagos Islands
1

galaxies, visible
1

Galen
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,
2

Galileo Galilei
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,
2

gallium
1

Gallivan, Britney
1

Gandhi, Mahatma
1

Garber, Peter
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,
2

Garfield, James
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Garin, Maurice
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Garrett, Pat
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Gaskill, Malcolm
1

geese and barnacles
1

bonding with Wellington boots
1

George, Saint
1

George I, King of the Hellenes
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George IV, King
1

George V, King
1

Gere, Richard Tiffany
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Germany
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,
2
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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army of, and champagne
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and concentration camps
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,
2

cuckoo clock invented in
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and end of World War II
1

guillotine in
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hailstorm in
1

and La Marseillaise
1

torture equipment from
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uniforms from nettles
1

Gérôme, Jean-Léon
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Geronimo
1

Gessner, Konrad
1

Giant Sequoias
1

giant tortoises
1

Giblin, Alfred
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Gilbert, Alfred
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,
2

giraffes
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,
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,
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,
4

gladiators
1

glass

invention of
1

state of
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transparent
1

glia
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,
2

Gobbler’s Knob
1

Godwin, William
1

Godwinson, Harold
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Goethe, J. W. von
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goldcrests
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,
2

goldfish, memory of
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Gomeran Whistle
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,
2

Goodyear, Charles
1

gorillas

and the appendix
1

beds of
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Gorringe
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,
2

Gorringes, distinguished
1

Gould, Stephen Jay
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 Grant, Alexander
1

graphite, in pencils
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Great Britain
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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accidents in
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baseball invented in
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cannibalism in
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cave paintings in
1

celluloid first manufactured in
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Celts in
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,
2

champagne invented in
1

chicken eaten in
1

dental hygiene in
1

depression in
1

earthquakes in
1

first modern Olympics held in
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first Prime Minister
1

guillotine invented in
1

hokey-cokey, as dance
1

hottest chili from
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invention of concentration

camp by
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,
2

lightning in
1
,
2

love of Marmite
1

most deadly war for
1

nettle eating in
1

obesity in
1

Panama hats in
1

Penny Post
1

popularity of CTM in
1

royal telemessages
1

rugby invented in
1

sleep clinics in
1

smallest bird from
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,
2
,
3

smallest dog from
1
,
2

turkeys in
1

VAT on chocolate biscuits
1

witches in
1

Great Fire of London
1

 Great Pyramid
1

Great St Bernard Pass
1

Great Wall of China
1
,

Greater Rheas
1

Greece, ancient and modern

carrots as aphrodisiacs
1

Haggis in
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log cabins in
1

meaning of
panthera
1

modern Olympics
1

naked wrestling
1

as our necessary precondition
1

perception of colours in
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Periander’s Diolkos
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Pheidippides’ run
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protective effigies in
1

running-with-a-ball game
1

sound of dogs in
1

virgin-birth myths
1

Greenland
1
,
2

Greenwood, John
1

grey matter
1

grey wolves
1

Grimm, Brothers
1

Guanches people
1

guano, as commodity
1

Guess, Nathaniel
1

Guillotin, Joseph Ignace
1

guillotine
1
,
2

guinea pigs, uses for
1

Gutenberg, Beno
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Guthrum
1

gypsum, uses for
1

Haakon VII, King of Norway
1

haggis, origins of
1

Hagiwara, Makato
1

hailstorms
1

hair, post-mortem growth of
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and ruefulness
1

Haiti
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Hamilton, Emma
1
,
2

Hancock, John
1

Hancock, Thomas
1

Hancock, Tony
1

hands (human)

engineering of
1

fingers, and muscles
1

Hanks, Tom (seismologist)
1

Hardmuth, Josef
1

Hardy, Thomas (naval officer)
1

hares
1

Harington, John
1

Harris, Joel Chandler
1

Harteswood, Richard
1

Haselbacher, René
1

hashish
1

Hassan-i Sabbah
1

Hawaii
1
,
2
,
3

Hawker Hurricane
1

hawthorn, associations of
1

heliocentric orbit of earth, first claim of
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helium
1

‘hello’

as expression of surprise
1

first use of, on delegates’ badges
1

first written use of
1

Hendrix, Jimi
1

Henry II, King
1

Henry IV, King
1

Henry V, King
1

Henry VII, King
1

Henry VIII, King
1
,
2

commitment problems
1

number of wives of
1

Henry the Black
1

Henry of Trastamara
1

Herero people
1

Herodotus
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,
2
,
3
,
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,
5

Heron (Hero)
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,
2

 Heywood, John
1

Hibbler, Winston
1

Hicks, Charles
1

Hill, Rowland
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,
2

Himalaya
1
,
2

hippopotamuses
1

colour-blindness of
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Washington’s false teeth
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,
2
,
3

Hitler, Adolf, vegetarianism of
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Hobson, Mary
1

hokey-cokey, origin of
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Homer
1

Horsefield’s tortoise
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horses
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Horseshoe Bend, Battle of
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Horus, virgin birth of
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Houghton, Joel
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Howard, Catherine
1

Howard, Luke
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Hubble Space Telescope
1

Hubert, Robert
1

Hulagu Khan
1

human beings

appendix, evolution of
1

bonding process in
1

brain colour of
1

constipation
1

dissection of
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dolphins as smarter than
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evolved from
1

hands, engineering of
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lacking
baculi
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longevity in
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,
2

muscles of
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,
2

number of nostrils of
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penisrelationship
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percentage of brain used by
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post-mortem hair growth
1

 resembling running ostriches
1

senses of
1

see also
diseases; man-made objects

Hungary
1
,
2

Hurricane Katrina
1

Huxley, Aldous
1