by John Lloyd
discover world’s roundness 1
Belgium 1
Belize 1
Bell, Alexander Graham 1, 2
Bellsye, Dr 1
Belushi, John 1
Benedict XVI, Pope 1
Benfica, motto of 1
Bering Sea and Strait 1, 2, 3
Berlioz, Hector 1
berries, definition of 1
Berthier, Alexandre 1
Bett, Henry 1
Bible
and animals on Ark 1
birth of Jesus in 1
on eating of chameleons 1
and Immaculate Conception 1
number of commandments in 1
oldest man in 1, 2
Bich, Marcel 1
big-eyed wolf spider, blindness of 1
Billington, Isabella 1
Billy the Kid 1
bird eggs, smallest 1
birds
fighting 1
guano, as commodity 1
largest 1
milk production in 1
most common 1
neck bones of 1
smallest in Britain 1
Biró, György 1
Biró, László 1
bison 1
Black Death see bubonic plague
Black Sea 1
blackberries 1
blackboard, writing implement for 1
Blake, Quentin 1
Blorenge 1
Bludworth, Thomas 1
blueberries 1
blue-green algae 1, 2
blue whales 1
as loudest individual animal 1
penises of 1, 2
size of 1
Boer War 1, 2, 3
Boisbaudran, Lecoq de 1
Boleyn, Anne 1
Bonaparte, Napoleon 1, 2, 3, 4
Bond, James 1
Bonnie Prince Charlie 1
Boomerang Nebula 1
boomerangs, uses for 1
bootlace worm 1
Bose, Satyendra Nath 1
Bose-Einstein condensate 1, 2, 3
Brahms, Johannes 1
brandy, Nelson preserved in 1
Brazil nuts 1
Brendan, Saint 1
Brer Rabbit 1
Brett, Dorothy 1
Bridget, Saint 1, 2
Britain, Battle of 1
Brontë sisters 1
Brooke, Rupert Chawney 1
Brookes, W. P. 1
Brown, Dan 1
brown bear 1
Brunty, Patrick 1
Bryson, Bill 1, 2
bubonic plague 1, 2, 3
and groin region 1–2
buffaloes 1
bug, origins of dual meaning of 1
Bugs Bunny 1
Bulgaria 1
bulls, colour-blindness of 1
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm,
inventions of 1, 2, 3
Bunsen burner 1, 2, 3
Burney, Venetia 1
Burke and Hare murders 1
Buteo, Johannes 1
Cabot, John 1
Caernavon, Lord 1
Caesar, Augustus 1
Caesar, Julius 1, 2, 3
Caesar Salad 1
Caesarean section 1, 2
caesium 1, 2
caffeine 1, 2
Californian redwoods 1
Caligula 1
Calment, Jeanne 1
Calpurnius Siculus 1
camels 1, 2, 3
Camm, Sydney 1
Camos, Canon Vincent 1
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry 1
Canada 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Eskimos in 1, 2
largest lake in 1
canaries 1
Canary Islands 1, 2, 3, 4
cannibals, cooking habits of 1
Cardini, Cesar 1
Carr, Jimmy 1
carrier pigeons, bravery of 1
Carroll, Lewis 1
carrots
colour of 1
jam 1
night vision and 1
Carson, Johnny 1
Carter, Howard 1, 2
Cartwright, Alexander 1
Carver, Robin 1
Caspian Sea 1
tigers around 1
Castilla, Rámon 1
Castro, Fidel 1
Catherine of Aragon 1
Catherine the Great 1
Catholic Church 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
cats
and earthquakes 1
brave 1
meat of 1
sounds of 1
in space 1
terminal velocity of 1
and violin strings 1, 2
and Wagner’s slur on Brahms 1
years equal to one human year of 1
cccc 1, 2
Celts, use of term 1
centipedes, number of legs of 1
CFCs 1
chameleons 1, 2
champagne 1
as British invention 1
cause of its fizz 1
Treaties 1
Charles II, King 1, 2
chastity belts, uses for 1
Chaucer, Geoffrey 1
Chekhov, Anton 1
Cher 1
Cherokees, language of 1, 2
chicken tikka masala (CTM),
origins of 1
chickens
ability to see red in 1
as most common bird 1
reproduction 1
survival after decapitation of 1
chihuahua (dog) 1
Chihuahua (state) 1
Chile 1, 2
Great Chilean Earthquake 1
chillies, hottest part of 1
China 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
cave dwellers in 1
discovery of Australia 1
dwarfing animals and plants 1
Great Wall of 1
guano imports 1
inventions from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
sound of frogs in 1
suicide rate in 1
version of Cinderella 1
cholera 1, 2
Christianity 1, 2, 3
Christophe, Eugène 1
Church of England 1, 2
Churchill, Winston 1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1
Cinderella, slippers of 1
cinemas, in USSR 1
cirrus clouds 1, 2
cities, largest 1
citrus fruit, and scurvy 1
Civil War (English), bloodiness of 1
Civil War (US) 1, 2
use of teeth 1
Clarke, Arthur C. 1
Clerc, Laurent 1
Clerke, Charles 1
cloud nine, height of 1
cobras 1, 2
Coca-Cola 1, 2, 3
Cochran, Josephine Garis 1
cock fighting 1
Cockie, Isabel 1
cockroaches 1
coconuts, water of 1
Cody, William Frederick ‘Buffalo Bill’ 1, 2, 3
coffee
beans of, as seeds 1
grown in US 1
as non-diuretic 1, 2
vs tea, caffeine in 1
Cold War 1
Colley, Richard 1
Colombia 1
colours, naming of 1
Columba, Saint 1
Columbus, Christopher 1, 2, 3
commandments, number in Bible 1
‘Conan the Bacterium’ 1
Conan Doyle, Arthur 1
concentration camp, Britain’s
invention of 1, 2
Confucius 1
Connery, Sean 1
Constable, John 1
Cook, James 1, 2, 3
scurvy cures of 1
Cook, Robin 1
coolest places 1
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) 1
Copernicus, Nicolaus 1, 2, 3
copper 1
Corelli, Marie 1
Coriolis effect 1
Coubertin, Baron 1
Courtenay, Gabrielle 1
cows 1,
2, 3
Coyle, Dan 1
Crapper, Thomas, inventions of 1
Crimean War 1, 2
Croatia 1
invention of neck tie 1
crocodiles 1
crocuses 1
Cromwell, Oliver 1
Cruithne 1
Cuba 1, 2
Culloden, Battle of 1
Cumberland, Duke of 1
cumulonimbus clouds 1
Cunningham, John 1
cyclists
fuelling of 1
leg shaving of 1
Cyrus the Great, King of Persia 1, 2
Dahl, Roald 1, 2, 3
Dalai Lama 1
Dampier, William 1
Darién, isthmus of 1
Darwin, Charles 1, 2
gastronomical habits of 1
Darwin, Francis 1
date, unluckiest 1
Davidson, Alan 1, 2
Davidson, Jim 1
Davidson, Richard 1
day, length of 1
deaf sign languages 1
death, causes of 1
Defoe, Daniel 1
dehydration
fluids that exacerbate 1
and Jacob’s Crackers 1
Denmark 1, 2
depression
answer to 1
commonest illness in Britain 1
swimming with dolphins and 1
Desaga, Peter 1, 2
Descartes, René 1
Dev, Nanak 1
Devon, Earl of 1
Dewar, James 1
diamonds 1, 2, 3, 4
Dickens, Charles 1
Dickin, Maria 1
Diderot, Denis 1
digestive biscuits 1
fishy taste of 1
Dio Chrysostom 1
Diolkos 1
Dionysus, virgin birth of 1
diseases
AIDS 1, 2, 3
and anti-bacterial agents, 1
argyria 1
bubonic plague 1, 2, 3, 4
cholera 1, 2
dengue fever 1
diarrhoea 1, 2
elephantiasis 1
encephalitis 1
in English Civil War 1
filariasis 1
herpes 1
kuru 1
leprosy 1
malaria 1, 2, 3
pneumonia 1, 2
scurvy 1, 2
smallpox 1, 2
syphilis 1
tetanus 1
tuberculosis 1
yellow fever 1, 2
dishwasher, invention of 1
Disney, Walt 1
Dixon, Joseph 1
Dockwra, William 1
dodo, extinction of 1
dogs
brave 1
Canary Islands named after 1
colour perception 1
domestication 1
and earthquakes 1
evolution of 1
Isle of (London) 1
kneeling on corgis 1
mating habits of 1
meat of 1
St Bernards 1
smallest 1, 2
sounds of 1
in space 1
and violin strings 1
years equal to one human year of 1
dolphins 1
drinking habits of 1
smartness of 1
swimming with 1
use by military 1
Doubleday, Abner 1
Druids 1, 2
Dubois, Raphael 1
Duchenne, Guillaume 1
Duchesne, Ernest 1
Duckworth, Frank 1
Duckworth scale 1
Dunning, Edwin Harris 1
Dvořák, Antonín 1
dwarf planets 1, 2
e pluribus unum 1
history of 1
ear wax 1
Earth
and Atlas’ hands 1
beliefs about shape of 1
discovery of roundness of 1, 2
distance to Space 1
driest places 1
formation of 1
galaxies visible from 1
heaviest living thing 1
largest living thing 1
lightning strikes 1
lush places of 1
magnetic field, and bees 1
mantle 1, 2
moons of 1, 2
orbit of 1, 2, 3
percentage of water in 1
radius of core 1
rotation of, and day-length 1
earthquakes 1
in Britain 1
largest 1
measurement of 1
Easter Bunny 1
eating, risk of swimming after 1
Ecuador 1, 2, 3
Edison, Thomas 1, 2, 3
inventions of 1
Edward VI, King 1
Edward VII, King 1, 2
Efexor 1
eggs
industry 1
largest 1
Egypt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
biscuits in 1
courier system in 1
earliest glass artefacts 1
polar bears in 1
Sphinx’s nose 1
Tutankhamun’s curse 1
Einstein, Albert 1, 2, 3, 4
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1
Elcano, Juan Sebastián 1
electroception 1
Electronic Numerical Integrator
and Computer (ENIAC) 1
element, densest 1
elephant bird 1
elephants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
as largest land mammal 1
sensitivity to colour 1
sleep requirement of 1
not domesticated 1
Elizabeth I, Queen 1, 2, 3
Elizabeth II, Queen 1, 2
Ellis, William Webb 1, 2
endangered species 1, 2
Engel, Gerhart 1
Engels, Friedrich 1
Enoch 1
equals sign, origin of 1
equilibrioception 1
Erasmo (saddle-maker) 1
‘Eros’, statue of 1
Eskimos 1
accuracy of nomenclature for 1
and igloos 1
number of words for snow of 1
reach Scotland 1
Eton College 1
European earwig, penises of 1
Eve 1
Evelyn, John 1
Everard, John Courtenay 1
eye-patch, Nelson’s 1
fairy tales 1
Faraday, Michael 1, 2
Farynor, Thomas 1
Faulkner, William Cuthbert 1
feet, size of 1
feminists, ‘bra-burning’ of 1
fence-makers, deviousness of 1
Fermi, Enrico 1
Fiji 1
fingernails, post-mortem growth of 1
Finland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
fish
and digestive biscuits 1
fossilised 1
and guano 1
fishermen 1
Fitch, John ‘Crazy’ 1
flamingos, pinkness of 1
Fleming, Alexander 1
Fleming, Ian 1, 2
fluoride 1
flush toilet, invention of 1
food
berries 1
brioche 1
chicken tikka masala 1
chillies 1
chop suey 1
curry 1
digestive biscuits 1
e pluribus unum 1
fortune cookies 1
French toast 1
goose 1
haggis 1
ice cream 1, 2, 3
Jaffa Cakes 1
Marmite 1
nicotine in 1, 2
nuts 1
pasta 1
porridge 1
potatoes 1, 2
Quaker Oats 1
Spam 1
and suicide in Lithuania 1
swimming after eating 1
Swiss rolls 1
and tooth d
ecay 1
unusual meat dishes 1, 2
unusual serving times 1
vegetarianism 1
vending machines 1
vomitaria 1
Football Association 1
Fox, George 1
Fragonard, Jean 1
France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Bastille and 1, 2
biscuits and 1
cannibalism in 1
cave paintings in 1
champagne and 1
cravats in 1
English lands in 1
French toast invented in 1
