QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance

by John Lloyd

  hardness, measuring of 1

  Harold Godwinson 1

  Harold, King 1, 2

  harpoons 1

  Harrington, John Walker 1

  Hastings, Battle of 1, 2

  Hays Code 1

  head

  losing body heat from 1

  weight of 1

  heart

  donating of by living person 1

  first transplant 1

  restarting a stopped 1

  heart rate

  effect of fear on 1

  slowing down 1

  heart surgery 1

  heartbeats 1

  heights, fear of 1

  Heine, Heinrich 1

  helical staircases 1

  Helmholtz square 1

  Henry I, King 1

  Henry IV, King 1

  Henry VI, King 1, 2, 3

  Henry VII, King 1

  Henry VIII, King 1, 2, 3

  hernia 1

  Herodotus 1

  heroin 1

  Hickey, John 1

  Hill, Sir Rowland 1

  Himmler, Heinrich 1

  Hinduism 1, 2

  Hitchcock, Alfred 1

  Hitler, Adolf 1, 2, 3

  Hockney, David 1

  Holland 1

  homing pigeons 1

  homosexuality, and age of consent 1

  Honduras, oranges in 1

  Honey badger 1

  honeymoon rhinitis 1

  hormones 1

  horned helmets 1

  horns

  animals with 1

  humans growing 1

  horseshoe crab 1

  House, Clinton 1

  houses, smallest 1

  Howard, Lord 1, 2

  Hubbard, Paul 1

  Huesman, Tony 1

  humans

  comparison with chimpanzees 1

  first record of drinking alcohol 1

  growing horns 1

  loss of fur 1

  and Neanderthals 1

  hundred 1

  Hundred Years War 1, 2, 3

  Huns 1, 2

  hurricanes 1

  huskies 1

  Huxley, T.H. 1

  Huygens, Christiaan 1

  hyperactivity 1

  hypothalamus 1

  hypothermia 1

  hypsometry 1

  ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ phrase 1

  ice, falling from aeroplanes 1

  ice cubes, contamination with ‘faecal matter’ 1

  Ichneumon wasp 1, 2

  Ikeda, Professor Kikunae 1, 2

  immortality 1

  India

  religions of 1

  Romani in 1, 2

  insects, finding new species of in gardens 1

  insomnia 1

  International Criminal Court (ICC) 1

  International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union 1

  Inughuit people 1

  Iraq war 1

  Irish language 1

  iron, stiffness of 1

  Iron Age 1

  Italy 1

  railways 1

  Iwerks, Ub 1

  Jainism 1

  Japan 1, 2

  banknotes 1

  emoticons used in 1

  and football 1

  and inemuri 1

  3-star restaurants 1

  war with China (1937–45) 1

  jellyfish 1

  and immortality 1

  treatment of stings by 1

  Jenkins, Professor David 1

  Jesse, Otto 1

  Joan of Arc 1

  John F. Kennedy Memorial 1

  John II, King of Portugal 1

  John Paul II, Pope 1, 2

  Johnson, Boris 1

  Johnson, Samuel 1

  Dictionary 1

  Jones, Steve 1

  Jonson, Ben 1

  judges, British 1

  Julia Creek dunnart 1

  Jung, Carl 1

  Jupiter 1

  K1 1

  K2 1

  Kanakuri, Shizo 1

  Karakorum range 1

  Karloff, Boris 1

  Kekulé, August 1

  keratin 1, 2

  Kerr family 1

  Keynes, John Maynard 1

  Kidd, William 1

  Kiesselbach, Wilhelm 1

  killer whales 1

  kilts 1

  Kingsley, Rev. Charles 1

  Kittenger, Joseph 1

  Kleitman, Dr Nathaniel 1, 2

  Knox, Father Ronald 1, 2

  knuckle cracking 1

  Kodak 1

  König, Peter 1

  Krakatoa, eruption of 1

  Kraken Mare lake (Titan) 1

  Kwok, Dr Robert Ho Man 1

  Lack, David 1

  lactose tolerance 1

  Ladbrokes 1

  lake, largest 1

  Lanfray, Jean 1

  Lang, Gerhard 1

  language

  official 1

  spoken in ancient Rome 1

  Latin 1, 2

  as official language in Vatican 1

  latitudinal libration 1

  laurel wreath 1

  lavatories 1

  on aeroplanes 1

  and hygiene 1

  injuries while on 1

  lead, hardness of 1

  Leaning Tower of Pisa 1

  Lebensprüfer (’Life-prover’) 1

  Lebistina beetle 1

  Leeuwenhoek, Anton van 1

  Lent 1

  Leo XIII, Pope 1

  lepers, carrying bells 1, 2

  leprosy 1

  letterboxes 1

  lexical-gustatory synaesthesia 1

  libration 1, 2

  lichens 1

  Lilienthal, Otto 1

  lingua franca 1, 2

  Linnaean Society 1

  liver 1

  Llanfair PG 1

  London 1

  London Fire Brigade 1

  longitudinal libration 1

  ‘loo’ 1

  see also lavatories Lorenzini, Stefano 1

  lorikeet 1

  lost, going round in circles when 1

  lottery 1

  Louis XIII, King 1

  Lovelace, Ada 1

  Lusitania, sinking of (1915) 1

  Luxembourg 1

  lying 1

  give-aways 1

  McCay, Professor Clive 1

  McClelland Royal Commission 1

  Macedonia/Macedonians 1, 2

  Macfarlane, Charles 1

  MacMahan, Dr Jamie 1

  Mafia 1

  Magna Carta (1215) 1, 2

  magnetoception 1

  Mahavira 1

  mammals

  and heartbeats 1

  most aggressive 1

  smallest 1

  mangoes, speeding up ripening process 1

  Mansfield, Lord 1

  Manx Shearwater 1, 2

  Mao Zedong 1, 2

  Maralinga nuclear tests (Australia) 1

  Mariani, Angelo 1

  Marie Byrd Land 1, 2

  Marmite 1

  marngrook (‘game ball’) 1

  Marryat, Captain Frederick 1

  Mars 1, 2, 3, 4

  marula tree 1

  Marx, Karl 1

  Mary I, Queen 1

  Mary, Queen of Scots 1

  Mather, Graham 1

  Matilda, Queen 1, 2

  mating

  mayflies 1

  octopus 1, 2

  snakes 1

  Max Planck Institute for

  Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen) 1

  mayflies 1

  Mediterranean 1

  size 1

  tides 1

  Melton Mowbray 1

  Melville, Herman

  Moby Dick 1

  Omoo 1

  menstruation, vicarious 1

  Merian, Maria Sibylla 1

  Mertz, Xavier 1

  mesophere 1

  Messalina, Empress 1

  Messinian Salinity Crisis 1

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sp; meteorites 1

  Metronidazole 1

  Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator 1

  mice, species of British 1

  Michelin man 1

  Michelin stars 1

  Michelin Tyre Company 1

  Mickey Mouse 1

  micro-frog 1

  microwave ovens 1

  microwaves 1

  military success, and France 1

  Milk Marketing Board 1

  Milton, John 1, 2

  Milton Keynes 1, 2

  minerals, creation of 1

  mink 1

  mints 1

  mirages 1

  mockingbirds 1

  Mohs, Friedrich 1

  Mohs Hardness scale 1

  Molotov (Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin) 1

  Molotov cocktails 1

  Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (1939) 1

  Mongolians 1, 2

  monkey-pump 1

  monosodium glutamate see MSG

  Montgomerie, Lieutenant Thomas 1

  Moon 1

  view from Earth 1

  More, Sir Thomas 1

  Morris, Reverend Marcus 1

  Morris, Sir Parker 1

  Morris, Steve 1

  Morton, Charles 1

  mosses 1

  Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) 1

  Moulin Rouge 1

  mountains

  estimating height of 1

  ‘in a high place’ notices 1

  world’s second highest peak 1

  Mpemba, Erasto 1

  MSG (monosodium glutamate) 1, 2, 3

  Munsters, The 1

  Murray, Dr Stewart 1

  mushrooms 1

  Musk ox 1

  Muslims, in India 1

  Mussolini, Benito 1

  mycology 1

  naming, of new species 1

  Naples 1

  Napoleon 1, 2

  height of 1

  ‘Napoleon complex’ 1

  narcotics 1

  Natural History Museum 1

  Nautilus pompilius 1

  Nazis 1

  Neanderthals 1, 2

  Nelson, Horatio, height of 1, 2

  Netherlands 1

  see also Dutch New Labour laws 1

  new towns 1

  New Zealand 1

  Newcastle Brown Ale 1

  Newton, Humphrey 1

  Newton, Sir Isaac 1, 2

  Newton, Wayne 1

  Nichols I, Tsar 1

  nightmares, and eating cheese 1

  Nile, River 1

  nitrous oxide (laughing gas) 1

  Nixon, Richard 1

  no-man’s-land 1

  noctilucent clouds 1

  Normans 1, 2, 3

  north, finding of in a forest 1

  North Korea 1

  North Sea 1

  North Star (Polaris) 1

  nosebleeds

  causes 1, 2

  and death of Attila the Hun 1

  treatment of 1

  ‘not enough room to swing a cat’ phrase 1

  Nubian people 1

  Obama, Barack 1

  oceans, temperature of 1

  octopus 1, 2

  Odo, Bishop of Bayeux 1

  oil 1

  Olympic Games 1

  perfect 1 score 2

  sports no longer included 1

  opiods 1

  opium 1

  oranges, colour of 1

  Orbison, Ray 1

  organ transplants 1

  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit 1

  Ouroboros 1

  ovum 1

  Owen, Jennifer 1, 2

  Oxford English Dictionary 1

  oxygen 1

  oxytocin 1

  ozone layer 1

  Pacioli, Luca 1

  Paget, Stephen 1

  pandas 1

  pandemics 1

  panspermia 1

  papal infallibility 1

  paper money 1

  Papua New Guinea 1

  parachute, opening of 1

  paraesthesia 1

  Paris, Michelin stars 1

  Parker Morris standards 1

  Parliament Acts (1911/1949) 1

  Parthenon 1

  Pascal, Blaise 1

  Pasteur, Louis 1

  peanuts, avoiding of in bars 1

  Peary, Admiral Robert E. 1, 2

  Peary Land 1

  Pemberton, John Stith 1

  Pen-tailed tree shrew 1

  penguins 1

  penicillin 1

  penises

  Argentinian Lake Duck 1

  snake’s two 1

  Penny Black stamp 1

  Penny Red stamp 1

  Peterlee 1

  Petition of Right Act (1628) 1

  Pharnaces II, King 1, 2

  phi 1

  Phidias 1

  Philip II, King of Spain 1

  Phoenicians 1

  phosphoric acid 1

  photic sneeze reflex 1

  pilchards 1

  Pinker, Stephen 1

  pins and needles 1

  Pins and Needles (musical) 1

  pirates 1, 2

  Pius XII, Pope 1

  place names, longest 1

  plague 1, 2, 3

  Plane Crazy 1

  Plantagenet, House of 1

  Plato, Timaeus 1

  Pliny the Elder 1, 2

  Plough (Big Dipper) 1

  ploughman’s lunch 1

  Ploughman’s Lunch, The (film) 1

  Pocohontas 1

  poisoning, by Vitamin A 1

  ‘polar bear effect’ 1

  Polyphemus 1

  Pompey 1, 2

  Pope 1

  Poppaea (wife of Nero) 1

  Post Office 1

  postcards 1

  postcodes 1

  Potter, Beatrix 1

  Powhatans 1, 2

  praetors 1

  preformationism 1

  premature burial 1

  prison uniforms, striped 1

  progesterone 1

  Progressive Muscle Relaxation 1

  prostitutes 1

  Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status 1, 2

  Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status 1

  Ptolemy I 1

  Ptolemy XII 1

  Ptolemy XIII 1

  public speaking, fear of 1

  puffins 1, 2

  Puffinus puffinus 1

  Pythian Games 1

  Quinion, Michael 1

  radar 1

  radiation 1

  radio plays, world coming to an end broadcasts 1

  radioactivity 1

  radium 1

  railways, Italian 1

  rainfall 1

  Ransome, Arthur 1

  Rapid Eye Movement (REM)

  sleep 1

  rats 1

  magnetic 1

  rattlesnakes, on television 1

  Rawlinson, Thomas 1

  Raytheon 1

  razor blade, as compass 1

  Reagan, Nancy 1

  recessions, and suicide 1

  Red Sea 1

  Rehn, Ludwig 1

  Reith, Lord 1

  Renaissance Bug see Halobacteria

  Rentokil 1

  Representation of the People Act (1969) 1

  reproduction 1

  and budding 1

  see also mating

  Rescue Annie 1

  restaurants, and Michelin stars 1

  resuscitation 1

  Richard III, King 1, 2

  Roberts, Andy 1

  Roe, Donald 1

  Rolfe, John 1

  Roma 1

  Romani 1

  Romans/Roman Empire 1, 2

  army/legions 1

  conquering of Rome by Goths (410 AD) 1

  eating of dormice 1

  fighting of Huns 1

  and glass 1

  and hair 1

  invasion of Britain 1

  language spoken in Rome 1

  sacking of Rome
by Vandals (455) 1

  treatment for insomnia 1

  Roosevelt, President Theodore 1, 2

  rope-climbing Olympians 1

  Rothschild, Lord 1

  rubber balls 1

  Russian Revolution (1917) 1

  rust 1

  Rutzen, Michael 1

  St Andrew’s Day 1

  salt 1

  Samaritans 1

  sardines 1

  satellite navigation 1

  Saturn 1, 2, 3

  sauna 1

  Scarfe, Gerald 1

  Schatz, Albert 1

  Schimper, Anna 1

  Schuetz, George and Edward 1

  Scotland, wearing of kilts 1

  Scott, Sir Walter 1, 2, 3

  Scythians 1

  seawater, freezing of 1

  Second World War 1, 2, 3

  Sellmer, Richard 1

  semen 1

  sensory substitution 1

  Sequin, Albert 1

  serfdom 1

  Settlement Act (1701) 1

  sewage, polluting of beaches 1

  sex

  sneezing during 1

  see also mating

  Shakespeare, William 1, 2

  Henry VI Part (1) 1

  sharks

  and tonic immobility 1

  tracking by 1

  Shaw, George Bernard 1, 2

  shearwater 1

  sheep-counting 1, 2

  Sheffield 1

  Sheffield FC 1

  Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 1

  Shima Marineland Aquarium (Japan) 1

  shivering 1

  Sikhs, in India 1

  silkworms 1

  Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) 1

  skin 1

  breathing through 1

  effect of drinking water on 1

  shedding of dead 1

  Skipsea (Yorkshire), planned atomic bomb explosion 1

  slavery, in England 1

  sleep 1

  and dreaming 1

  and eating cheese 1

  REM (rapid eye movement) 1

  slim appearance

  and black clothes 1

  and stripes 1

  smell 1

  smiling 1

  Smith, John 1

  Smyrna 1

  Smyth, Admiral W.H. 1

  snakes

  beating heart of cobra 1

  rattlesnakes on television 1