QI: The Book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition (59 page)

United Nations
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United States
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advertising in
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banning of Inuit
1

baseball in
1

basketball invented in
1

bison in
1

bra-burning legend
1

bubonic plague in
1

champagne and
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,
2

cockfighting in
1

concentration of tigers in
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declarations of war
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depression in
1

earthquakes in
1

egg industry in
1

first president
1

forest management in
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founding of New York
1

guano-snatching
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gypsum in homes
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hailstorms in
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Hokey Pokey, as dance
1

log cabins in
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loofahs in
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Mike the chicken in
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military use of dolphins
1

most dangerous American
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,
2

names for citizens of
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national motto
1

Native American languages
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,
2

nature of ‘biscuits’ in
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number of states in
1

number thirteen in
1

sign language
1

suicide rate in
1

tall buildings (nineteenth century)
1

television watching in
1

see also
Civil War (US)

universe

colour of
1

storage space in
1

Ursa Major
1

USSR

cinemas in
1

Cold War
1

Vaaler, Johann
1

Van Gelder, Lindsay
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Vatican
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,
2

Venezuela
1

venom
1
,
2

ventriloquism
1

Vesalius, Andreas
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Vespucci, Amerigo
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Victoria, Queen
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videocassettes, rival formats
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Vietnam War
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,
2

Vikings
1

violin strings
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,
2

Viotti, Giovanni Battista
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Virgil
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,
2

viruses, as distinct from bacteria
1

vitamin C
1

Vitruvius
1

volcanoes
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,
2
,
3

Voltaire
1
,
2

vomitoria
1

voodoo dolls
1

V-sign, origins of
1

Vulovi
ć
, Vesna
1

Wagner, Richard
1

Waldseemüller, Martin
1

Wales
1
,
2

Celts in
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,
2

equals sign from
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Wallace, Lew
1

Wallace, William
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Walpole, Robert
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Warren, Robin
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Washington, George
1

false teeth of
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,
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water

colour of
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direction down the drain of
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and Earth’s mass
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as electrical conductor
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fresh water as ice
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sterilised by silver
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Waterloo, Battle of
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,
2

Webb, Jane Loudon
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weightlessness, and flies
1

Welles, Orson
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Wellington, Duke of
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nationality of
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whales
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,
2
,
3

see also
blue whales;

sperm whales

Wharton, Drs
1

whau
tree
1

whips
1

whisky, origins of
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white matter
1

Whyte, Major
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Wilde, Oscar
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,
2

Wilhelm II, Kaiser
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William, Prince
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William the Conqueror, name of
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Wilson, Woodrow
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wind speeds
1

Wise Men
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witchcraft
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Wolfe, Tom
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wood

cannon ball splinters from
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lightest
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strongest
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World Trade Center
1

World War I
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,
2

acronyms from
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battlecruisers
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,
2

landing on aircraft carriers
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uniforms made of nettles
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World War II
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,
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,
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carrier pigeons in
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carrots as disinformation
1

Hawker Hurricane in
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paperclips as resistance symbol
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popularity of Spam
1

silence regarding
1

thumbs-up signal
1

year of its ending
1

worms
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,
2

as longest animal
1

in pearls
1

survive amputation
1

survive Shuttle disaster
1

wrens
1

wrestling, naked
1

Wright, Steven
1
,
2

Wyss, father and sons
1

Yeager, Chuck
1

yellow fever
1

Yemen
1

Yorkshire terrier
1
,
2

zenzizenzizenzic
, as failed neologism
1

Zeus
1

Zheng He
1

Zoloft
1

Zoroastrianism
1