The Second Book of General Ignorance (46 page)

Table Alphabeticall
1

tapestries
1

tartan
1

taste

fifth (umami)
1
,
2

and tongue
1

TATT (‘tired all the time’) syndrome
1

Tattersall, Ian
1

tautonyms
1

tea
1

tectonic plates
1

teeth, effect of fizzy drinks on
1

Telford
1

Telford, Thomas
1

temperature

coldest recorded in England
1

country with widest range of
1

in oceans
1

on Titan
1

of water
1

Temple, Frederick
1

testosterone
1
,
2
,
3

Thames helmet
1

Thatcher, Margaret
1

Thing, The
(film)
1

Thirty Years War
1

Thompson, Dr Peter
1

Thomsen, Christian Jürgensen
1

Three-Age System
1

3-D
1
,
2

Thrombosis Institute
1

thujone
1

Tibet
1

tidal locking
1

tides, Mediterranean
1

Titan
1

titan (bank note)
1

Titanic
1

toe cleavage
1

toilet
1

see also
lavatories Tokyo, Michelin stars
1

tongue

swallowing of
1

and taste
1

tongue map
1

Tours, Battle of (732)
1

Towton, Battle of (1461)
1

trains
1

transient paraesthesia
1

Tre Skillin Yellow stamp
1

treasure maps
1

trees
1

Trehane, Sir Richard
1

Trollope, Anthony
1

troposphere
1
,
2

Troy weight
1

tuberculosis
1
,
2

Tuf Tuf Club
1

Tunisia
1

Turpin, Dick
1

Turritopsis nutricula
1

Twain, Mark
1
,
2
,
3

umami
1
,
2

Unger, Donald L.
1

United States

burning of American flags
1

constitution
1

electoral system
1

and English language
1

and First World War
1

Flag Code
1
,
2

orange producer
1

Pins and Needles Day
1

plane crashes
1

Presidents of
1

and sinking of
Lusitania
1

and ‘stiff upper lip’ term
1

toilet hygiene
1

use of gavel
1

weight of average citizen
1

Uranus
1

urine

frozen
1

and treatment of jellyfish stings
1

US Embassy (Grosvenor Square)
1

Uys, Jamie
1

vampire bats
1

Varah, Chad
1

Vasari, Georgio
1
,
2

Vatican
1
,
2
,
3

lowest age of consent
1

Venetian glass
1

Venezuela
1

‘
veni, vidi, vici
’ phrase
1

Venus
1

Vermouth
1

Versailles, Treaty of
1

vertebrae
1

vertigo
1

Vertigo
(film)
1

Viking helmet
1

Vin Mariani
1

vinegar, and jellyfish stings
1

Virgil,
Aeneid
1

viruses
1

vision
1
,
2

Vitamin A poisoning
1

Vitruvius
1

voles
1

von Baer, Karl Ernst
1

von Helmholtz, Hermann
1

von Hipper, Admiral Franz von
1

von Rosenhof, Johann Rösel
1

Vulgar Latin
1

Waksman, Selman
1

Wales
1

Walk, R. D.
1

Wall Street Crash (1929)
1

Wars of the Roses
1
,
2

Washington, George
1

wasps,
Ichneumon
1
,
2

water

boiling point
1

boiling point on mountains
1

drinking of
1

freezing of
1

saltiest
1

strangeness of
1

water voles
1

Waterloo, battle of
1
,
2

Watson, James
1

Watusi cattle
1

weather forecasting, invention of
1

Weems, Mason Locke
1

Weimar Republic
1

Weismann, August
1

Welles, Orson
1
,
2

Wellington, Duke of
1
,
2

Westminster, Duke of
1

whale-tail
1

whalers
1

whales
1

Blue
1
,
2

killer
1

White, Gilbert
1

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
(play)
1

Wicked Lady, The
1

wigs
1

worn by Romans
1

Wilberforce, Samuel
1

Wilhelm II, Kaiser
1

William the Conqueror
1

Wilson, Frank J.
1

Wind in the Willows
(Grahame)
1

windows
1

and keeping cool
1

Wizard of Oz, The
1

Wodehouse, P. G.
1

Wolfenden, Sir John
1

women

showing of cleavage
1

and testosterone
1

Women’s Institute
1

Wonder Woman
1

World Health Organization (WHO)
1
,
2

wormwood
1

wrecking
1

Wren, Sir Christopher
1

Wright Brothers
1
,
2
,
3

Y chromosome
1

Yacoub, Magdi
1

yaks
1
,
2

Yan Tan Tethera
1

yoga
1

Yorkshire Air Museum
1

Yorktown, siege of (1781)
1

Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
1

yurt
1
,
2

Zanclean Flood
1

Zappa, Frank
1

Zela, Battle of (47
BC
)
1
,
2