QI: The Book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition (56 page)

Ice Age, most recent
1
,
2

ice cream, inventor of
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Iceland
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,
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,
3
,
4

igloos
1

iguanas
1

Immaculate Conception
1

India
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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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,
8

bubonic plague in
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concentration of tigers in
1

lucky numbers in
1

sound of frogs in
1

suicide rate in
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Indonesia
1

infrared vision
1

Innocent III, Pope
1

insects

ants
1

bees
1

bugs
1

centipede’s legs
1

cockcroaches
1

fruit flies
1

and Giant Sequoia bark
1

navigation of
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in space
1

total number of
1

Inuit
1

Ionian Sea
1

Iranaeus of Lyon, Saint
1

Iraq
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,
2
,
3

Ireland

caid
1

Celts in
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,
2

 Cromwell’s expedition to
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goose eating
1

kilts invented in
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Marco O’Polo from
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saints from
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,
2

troops at Culloden
1

Wellington’s origins
1

whisky distilled in
1

iridium
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,
2

Irving, Washington
1

Isle of Man, curry in
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Israel
1

Italy
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,
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,
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,
9

Izumi, Shigechiyo
1

Jackson, Andrew
1

Jaffa Cakes
1

jaguars
1

James I, King
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,
2

James II, King
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Japan
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invention of rickshaw
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sound of frogs in
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Java, tigers in
1

Jayden, as popular name
1

Jesus Christ
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,
2
,
3

jobs, most dangerous
1

Johnson, Charles K.
1

Johnson, Samuel
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,
2

Jordemaine, Margery
1

Joyce, James
1

Judaism
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,
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,
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,
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,
5

Jupiter
1
,
2

Kagan, Lord
1

Kanamori, Hiroo
1

kangaroo, Aboriginal meaning of
1

Keller, Helen
1
 

Kennedy, Jimmy
1

Kenya
1

Western Highlands of
1

William Wallace from
1

Ketterle, Wolfgang
1

Kevin, Saint
1

Khan, Arif
1

killer, biggest
1

kilts, origins of
1

kings of England
1

Kirchoff, Gustav
1
,
2

kiwi (bird)
1

Knight-Bruce, Rory
1

knighting, practice of
1

Knox (anatomist)
1

Koch, Robert
1

Korea
1

Korean War
1

Kouros, Yannis
1

krill
1

Kripke, Daniel
1

Krung Thep
1

Kuwait
1

Kyeser, Konrad
1

Laika (dog)
1

lakes, largest in Canada
1

Landseer, Edwin
1

Landy, John
1

Lapland
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,
2
,
3

Laprise, Larry
1

Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
1

lateral line
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,
2

Lawrence, D. H.
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,
2

Le Carré, John
1

Leasor, James
1

Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van
1

lemmings, death of
1

Lennie, Peter
1

Lennon, John
1

Lennon, Julian
1

Leonardo da Vinci
1

 leopards
1

Lesotho
1

Lesser Rheas
1

‘let them eat cake’, said by
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Lichfield, Lord
1

light, speed of
1

lightning

and Giant Sequoias
1

vs asteroid, most likely to be killed by
1

lily of the valley
1

Lincoln, Abraham
1

Lind, James
1

Lindon, Richard
1

Linnaeus, Carl
1
,
2

lion’s mane jellyfish
1

lions
1
,
2
,
3

Lisle, Claude Rouget de
1

Lithuania, suicide rate in
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,
2

Little Ice Age
1

Live Oak
1

Lloyd George, David
1

Lluyd, Edward
1

Locusta
1

log cabin, invention of
1

loofahs, origins of
1

Lorenz, Conrad
1

Loud, John J.
1

Louis, Antoine
1

Louis XIII, King of France
1

Louis XIV, King of France
1
,
2

Louis XVI, King of France
1
,
2

Lowell, Paul
1

Luckner, Count Nikolaus Graf von
1

lumberjacks
1

Lutyens, Mary
1

Lyly, John
1

McCarty, Catherine
1

Macintosh, Charles
1
 

Mackay, Charles
1

McVitie’s
1

Madagascar
1

Magellan, Ferdinand
1
,
2

magnetoception
1

Malachy, Saint
1

malaria
1
,
2
,
3

Malaya
1

Malaysia
1

Malheur National Forest
1

Mandeville, Sir John
1

Manhattan Project
1

man-made objects

largest
1

visibility from the moon of
1

Manson, Patrick
1

Maori
1
,
2

marathons, reason for length of
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Marie Antoinette, Queen of

France
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,
2
,
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,
4

Marie-Thérèse, Queen of France
1

Mark II computer
1

Markham, Gervase
1

Marmite
1

Marmontel, Jean François
1

marmots

as killers
1

Vancouver Island
1

Mars
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,
2
,
3
,
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,
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,
6

colour of
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Marseillaise, La
1

Marshall, Barry
1

Martens, Conrad
1

Marx, Karl
1

Mary I, Queen
1

Mary, Virgin
1

Mason, Francis K.
1

materials, most common
1

mathematics

equals sign
1

and neck ties
1

matter, states of
1

Maughan, Ron
1

Mauna Kea
1

Mauritius
1

May, gathering nuts in
1

May, Robert
1

Mayan civilization
1

Mee, Arthur
1

Mediterranean spur-thighed

tortoise
1

Melville, Herman
1

Mendeleev, Dmitri
1
,
2

Menzies, Gavin
1

Mercator, Gerard
1

mercury
1

Mesopotamia
1

metals

best conductor
1

Bunsen’s isolation of
1

detectors
1

liquid state of
1

Methuselah
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,
2

Meucci, Antonio
1

Mexico
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,
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,
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,
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,
5

Michaud, Joy and Michael
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Midgely, Thomas
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,
2

Milky Way
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,
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,
3

Millais, John Everett
1

Miranda, Carmen
1

Mitchell, Francis
1

Mithra, virgin birth of
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Moment Magnitude Scale
(MMS)
1

Mongolia
1

Mongols
1

Mons Olympus (Mars)
1

Montalembert, Count de
1

Moon

artefacts visible from
1

cheese and
1

orbit of
1

size of
1

smell of
1

Moore, Clement Clarke
1

Morgan, T. H.
1

Morris, Desmond
1

Mortensen, Christian
1

mosquitoes
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,
2
,
3

moths

flames and
1

stimulating
1

mountains

highest
1

tallest
1

Mount Augustus
1

Mount Chimborazo
1

Mount Conner
1

Mount Everest
1

and asthmatics
1

Mount Kilimanjaro
1

Mount Olga
1

Mozart, middle name of
1

Mumford, Louis
1

Murray, George
1

muscles

strongest in human beings
1

use of, in smiling and

frowning
1

mushroom, as largest organism
1

music

La Marseillaise
1

Nero’s instruments
1

‘ring-a-ring o’ roses’
1

and snake charming
1