QI: The Book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition (58 page)

Sahara
1
,
2

sailors, biggest sea battle killer of
1

Sa’im al-dahr
1

St Bernards, uses for
1

St John’s Wort
1

St Vincent, Earl
1

Salmon, William
1

Sandwich, Earl of
1

Santa Claus, origins of
1

Santorini, Giovanni
1

Schiaparelli, Giovanni
1

Schönbein, Christian
1
,
2

Scobie, Jonathan
1

Scotland
1

arrival of whisky in
1

Celts in
1
,
2

Eskimos in
1

inventions from
1

Jacobite rebellion in
1

last country invaded by
1

Scott, Dr
1

Scott, Ridley
1

Scott, Walter
1

Scoville, William L.
1

Scoville Scale
1

Selkirk, Alexander
1

Sellers, Isaiah
1
,
2

Seltzer, David
1

Semmelweiss, Ignaz
1

Seneca the Younger
1

September
1
, 2001
2
,
3

Sequoyah
1
,
2

serial killer, history’s first
1

Seychelles sheath-tailed bat
1

Shaftesbury,
1
th Earl of
2

Shakespeare, William
1

sharks
1

sheep
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

and violin strings
1

Shenton, Samuel
1

Shistov, Lev
1

shistovite
1

shoes, the fitting of
1

shrimps, noise of
1

Silk Road
1

silver, as best metal conductor
1

Sinbad the Sailor
1

Skinner, B. F.
1

sleep, healthy amount of
1

sloths

as most dangerous animal
1

metabolism of
1

three-toed
1

two-toed
1
,
2

Slovakia, smallest dog from
1

smallpox
1
,
2

smoking
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

snakes

charming of
1

poisonous, not venomous
1

probability of a bite
1

rattlesnakes on 1970s TV
1

tolerant of poison
1

snow, Eskimo words for
1

soccer
1

Solanges, Comte de
1

solanine
1

sound barrier, first invention to break
1

South Africa
1
,
2
,
3

South America
1
,
2
,
3

cannibalism in
1

flamingos in
1

guinea pigs in
1

peanuts in
1

Spanish pronunciation in
1

South China tigers
1
,
2

Spain
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9

cannibalism in
1

pronunciation in, and the ‘lisp’
1

Spam
1

Spears, Britney
1

Spencer, Herbert
1

sperm

and division of labour
1

of dogs
1

sensitivity to scents
1

sperm whales
1

Sphinx
1

spiders
1
,
2
,
3

spirulina
1

Spitfire
1

‘sport of kings’
1

squirrels, fur of
1

stamps
1

stars

Boomerang Nebula
1

names of constellations
1

Olbers’ paradox
1

shape of
1

visible
1

steam engine, inventor of
1

stomach ulcers, cause of
1

Stone Age peoples, habitats of
1

strawberries
1

Strutt, William John, Lord Rayleigh
1

Stuart, Gilbert
1

Suetonius
1

suicide rate, highest
1

Sundblom, Haddon
1
,
2

superconductors
1
,
2

superstitions, and pragmatism
1

‘survival of the fittest’, coining of term
1

Sweden
1
,
2
,
3

suicide rate in
1

Swiss Family Robinson, surname of
1

Switzerland

biscuits in
1

inventions of
1

St Bernards
1

Swiss rolls
1

synaesthesia
1

Tammann, Gustav
1

Tanzania
1

tartans, origins of
1

Taylor, David
1

Taylor, Montague
1

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
1

tea
1
,
2
,
3

teeth

celluloid
1
,
2

decay of, and bacteria
1

dental statistics (modern)
1

Washington’s false teeth
1
,
2
,
3

‘Waterloo teeth’
1

Teflon, discovery of
1

telephone, inventor of
1

television, effects on health
1

Tennant, Smithson
1

Thailand
1
,
2

capital of
1

chicken ancestor in
1

Theory of Relativity, inventor of
1

thermoception
1

Thom, Charles
1

Thoreau, Henry David
1

Thule
1

Tibet
1

tigers
1

age of, when dangerous
1

highest concentration of
1

see also
South China tigers

tobacco
1

chemicals in
1

introduced to England
1

as a medicine
1

unusual fertilisers for
1

as world’s biggest killer
1

togas
1

Tokyo
1

toothpaste, bears and
1

Tour de France
1

Toynbee, Arnold
1

Trafalgar, Battle of
1

transport

car accidents
1
,
2

hydrofoil
1

railways
1

rickshaws
1

Treaty of Madrid
1

Treaty of Versailles
1

trees ‘anti-greenhouse effect’
1

and loofahs
1

ozone released from
1

role of forest fires
1

in thunderstorms
1
,
2

world’s most useful
1

Truman, Harry S.
1

tsunamis
1
,
2

tulips, origins of
1

tungsten
1

Turkey
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

turkeys

farming techniques
1

origins of
1

Turner, Herbert Hall
1

Turner, J. M. W.
1
,
2

Tutankhamun, curse of
1

Twain, Mark
1

Tyson, Mike
1