QI: The Book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition (57 page)

nacre
1

Naismith, James
1

Namaqua people
1

names of boys, most popular
1

Namibia
1
,
2

NASA
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

Nast, Thomas
1

‘Near Earth’ Asteroids (NEAs)
1

Near Earth Object (NEO)
1

neck ties
1

Nelson, Horatio
1

eye-patch
1

funeral
1

last words
1

preservation in brandy
1

and ventriloquism
1

Nepal
1

Neptune
1
,
2

Nero
1
,
2

Netherlands
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

nettles

World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship
1

WWI German uniforms made from
1

neurons
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

New Zealand
1
,
2

Newton, Isaac
1

newts
1
,
2

Nicholas, Saint
1

Nicot, Jean
1
,
2

nicotine

colour of
1

etymology
1

toxicity
1

Nile, river
1

‘Night before Christmas, The’ (Moore)
1

nitrogen
1

Noah
1
,
2

Noah’s Ark, sheep on
1

nociception
1

Nome, Alaska, naming of
1

North America, camels from
1

Norway
1
,
2

nuclear war, most likely survivor 

of
1

numbers, unlucky
1

nuts, definition of
1

Oates, Titus
1

ocean, loudest noise in
1

Olazowa Cave
1

Olbers, Heinrich
1

Olbers’ Paradox
1

Old English Game fowl
1

Olsen, Lloyd
1

Olympics, modern
1
,
2

Olympus Mons,
see
Mount Olympus

Oompa-Loompas

orange
1

original,
1

orang utans
1

orange, words rhyming with
1

Orkney, polar bear in
1

osmium
1

ostriches
1
,
2

owls

on the Ark
1

colour-blindness of
1

eaten by Darwin
1

eyes of
1

sounds of
1

oysters
1

ozone
1
,
2
,
3

Palin, Michael
1

Panama
1
,
2

Panama hats, origins of
1

panthers, colour of
1

papacy
1

paper, possible number of folds in
1

paper clip, invention of
1

Papua New Guinea

cannibalism in
1
,
2

lack of colour words
1

 Parker, David
1

Parker, Hyde
1

Parkes, Alexander
1

Parr, Catherine
1

Parton, Dolly
1

Pascal, Blaise
1

Pasteur, Louis
1

Paterson, William
1

Patrick, Saint
1

Paul, Saint
1

Paul I, Czar of Russia
1
,
2

peanuts
1

pearls, middle of
1

Pedro, King of Castile
1

pencils, consequences of sucking on
1

penicillin, discovery of
1

penises

baculi
1

barnacles
1

in the Bible
1

blue whales
1
,
2

European earwigs
1

length of, related to shoe size
1

replaced by sandwich
1

Penn, William
1

Penny Post, invention of
1

Pepys, Samuel
1

Perey, Marguerite
1

Periander
1

Pérignon, Dom
1

Perovski, Count Lev
1

perovskite
1

Perrault, Charles
1
,
2

Perseus, virgin birth of
1

Peru
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Peter the Great
1

Pheidippides
1

philtrum
1

phorids
1

Piccadilly Circus, name of statue
1

Pierce, Franklin
1

pineapples
1

Pinker, Stephen
1

Pisa, Rustichello da
1

pistachios
1

planets

naming of
1

number of
1

plaster of Paris
1

naming of
1

Pliny the Elder
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,
7

Plunket, Saint Oliver
1

Plunkett, Roy
1

Plutarch
1

Pluto
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Poe, Edgar Allan
1

poisons

antitdote to arsenic
1

ethyl gasoline
1

and Nero
1

and newts
1

and snakes
1

in tobacco
1

Poland
1
,
2
,
3

polar bears
1
,
2
,
3

Polo, Marco
1
,
2

‘pom’, as nickname
1

pomegranate
1
,
2

Pony Express
1

porridge, origins of
1

Portugal
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

potatoes

evolutionary path of
1

introduction of
1
,
2

nicotine in
1
,
2

Potemkin, Grigori Alexandrovich
1

Procopius
1

proprioception
1

Prozac
1

Prussia
1

Ptolemy II
1

Puerto Rico
1
,
2

puma
1
,
2

punctuation
1

Punxsutawney Phil
1

Pythagoras
1

Quaker Oats, creation of
1

Quinion, Michael
1

rabbits
1
,
2

raindrops, shape of
1

Raleigh, Walter
1

Rama I, King of Thailand
1

Randolph, Peyton
1

raspberries
1

rats, colour-blindness of
1

Recorde, Robert
1

Red Jungle Fowl, chickens

descended from
1

Redi, Francesco
1

Reed, Carol
1

reindeer

antler loss in
1

domestication of
1

speed of
1

Remarque, Erich Maria
1

Reyburn, Wallace
1
,
2

rhinoceroses, horns of
1

Richardson, Lucy
1

Richter, Charles
1

Richter scale
1

rickshaw, invention of
1

‘ring-a-ring o’ roses’, origin of
1

Roberts, Brushy Bill
1

Robin Hood
1

rock, biggest
1

Romania
1

Rome, ancient

Britons considered cannibals
1

carrots as aphrodisiacs
1

fashions in dress
1

gladiators in
1

names for British
1

naming conventions
1

Nero and the fire
1

and number thirteen
1

postal service
1

running-with-a-ball game
1

vomitoria
1

Roosevelt, Robert
1

Roosevelt, Theodore
1
,
2

Ross, Ronald
1

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
1
,
2

Rowbotham, Samuel Birley
1

Royal Society
1

rubber boots, invention of
1

rubidium
1
,
2

Rudolph the Red-nosed

Reindeer, gender of
1

rugby
1

Rugby School
1
,
2

Rumsey, H. J.
1

Ruskin, Effie
1

Ruskin, John
1

Russia
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

Russian Roulette
1