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How many states are there in the USA?
- Title Page
- FOREWORD | Stephen Fry
- FO(U)R(E) Words | Alan Davies
- INTRODUCTION | John Lloyd
- How many wives did Henry VIII have?
- How many nostrils have you got?
- Where is the driest place on earth?
- Where are you most likely to get caught in a hailstorm?
- Where is the highest mountain?
- What’s the name of the tallest mountain in the world?
- What’s the largest living thing?
- What’s the biggest thing a blue whale can swallow?
- Which bird lays the smallest egg for its size?
- How long can a chicken live without its head?
- What has a three-second memory?
- What’s the most dangerous animal that has ever lived?
- Do marmots kill people?
- How do lemmings die?
- What do chameleons do?
- How do polar bears disguise themselves?
- How many galaxies are visible to the naked eye?
- What man-made artefacts can be seen from the moon?
- Which of these are Chinese inventions?
- Where did Marco Polo come from?
- What is Croatia’s most lasting contribution to world business?
- Who introduced tobacco and potatoes to England?
- Who invented the steam engine?
- Who invented the telephone?
- What’s quite interesting about Scotland, kilts, bagpipes, haggis, porridge, whisky and tartan?
- Where does Chicken Tikka Masala come from?
- Is French toast from France?
- Who invented champagne?
- Where was the guillotine invented?
- Where was ‘La Marseillaise’ written?
- How many prisoners were freed by the storming of the Bastille?
- Who said, ‘Let them eat cake’?
- How well do you know the Swiss?
- What does a St Bernard carry round its neck?
- What goes hunk-hunk?
- What noise does the largest frog in the world make?
- Which owl says ‘Tu-whit, tu-whoo’?
- What did Darwin do to dead owls?
- Can barnacles fly?
- When does ‘ring-a-ring o’ roses’ date from?
- What were Nelson’s last words?
- Which eye did Nelson wear his eye-patch on?
- How many senses does a human being have?
- How many states of matter are there?
- What is the normal state of glass?
- Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
- Which metal is the best conductor?
- What’s the densest element?
- Where do diamonds come from?
- How do we measure earthquakes?
- What’s the commonest material in the world?
- What does the Moon smell like?
- Does the Earth go round the Moon or the Moonround the Earth?
- How many moons does the Earth have?
- How many planets are there in the solar system?
- How would you fly through an asteroid belt?
- What’s in an atom?
- What’s the main ingredient of air?
- Where would you go for a lungful of ozone?
- What colour is nicotine?
- What speed does light travel at?
- How do moths feel about flames?
- How many legs does a centipede have?
- How many toes has a two-toed sloth?
- How many eyes does a no-eyed, big-eyed wolf spider have?
- How many penises does a European earwig have?
- Which animals are the best-endowed of all?
- What’s a rhino’s horn made from?
- Which African mammal kills more humans than any other?
- Where do most tigers live?
- What would you use to overpower a crocodile?
- What is the bravest species of animal?
- Name a poisonous snake.
- What’s three times as dangerous as war?
- What killed most sailors in an eighteenth-century sea battle?
- Which war killed the highest proportion of British soldiers?
- What’s the word for Napoleon’s most humiliating defeat?
- Who blew the nose off the Sphinx?
- What’s the name of the Piccadilly Circus statue in London?
- What did Nero do while Rome burned?
- What’s more likely: being killed by lightning or by an asteroid?
- How many people died in the Great Fire of London?
- How did Roman Emperors order the death of a gladiator?
- What was interesting about the birth of Julius Caesar?
- What’s a vomitorium for?
- What did the Romans like to wear?
- What happened to most people accused of witchcraft in England?
- What is the Number of the Beast?
- Where does the word ‘assassin’ come from?
- Which crime did Burke and Hare commit?
- What are chastity belts for?
- What was Tutankhamun’s curse?
- Where does the V-sign come from?
- What did feminists do with their bras?
- What colour is the universe?
- What colour is Mars?
- What colour is water?
- What colour was the sky in ancient Greece?
- How much of the Earth is water?
- Which way does the bathwater go down the plughole?
- What do camels store in their humps?
- Where do camels come from?
- Who is America named after?
- How many states are there in the USA?
- Who was the first American President?
- What were George Washington’s false teeth made from?
- Whose official motto is e pluribus unum?
- Why do deaf Americans feel at home in Paris?
- How do the Cherokee pronounce ‘Cherokee’?
- What did Buffalo Bill do to buffaloes?
- How does the US government care for its precious sequoia groves?
- Where was baseball invented?
- How did the game of rugby begin?
- What’s the only sport invented entirely in the USA?
- What do you call someone from the United States?
- What was Billy the Kid’s real name?
- What do we have Thomas Crapper to thank for?
- What was Mozart’s middle name?
- How did Mark Twain get his name?
- What was the surname of the Swiss Family Robinson?
- How did Nome in Alaska get its name?
- What is the name of the capital city of Thailand?
- What’s the world’s largest city?
- What’s the largest lake in Canada?
- What’s the single largest man-made structure on Earth?
- How many times can you fold a piece of paper in half?
- Where’s the coolest place in the universe?
- When did the most recent Ice Age end?
- Who lives in igloos?
- Would you call someone an Eskimo?
- How many words do Eskimos have for snow?
- What did human beings evolve from?
- Who coined the phrase ‘the survival of the fittest’?
- Who invented the ball-point pen?
- What do we use to write on a blackboard?
- Where does the equals sign come from?
- What did Robert Bunsen invent?
- What’s made of celluloid?
- Who invented rubber boots?
- What Edison invention do English speakers use every day?
- Was the first computer bug a real insect?
- What is the most likely survivor of a nuclear war?
- What’s the best use for Marmite?
- Which is the hottest part of a chilli?
- Where do tulips come from?
- How many crocuses does it take to make a kilo of saffron?
- What can you tell about a man from his shoe size?
- What drives human sperm wild?
- Why do racing cyclists shave their legs?
- What was the first invention to break the sound barrier?
- What kind of music charms snakes most?
- What are violin strings made from?
- What’s the best floor of a building to throw a cat from?
- Why did the dodo die out?
- What buries its head in the sand?
- What’s at the middle of a pearl?
- Where do gorillas sleep?
- What’s the commonest bird in the world?
- What’s the ‘sport of kings’?
- What’s Britain’s smallest bird?
- What animal are the Canary Islands named after?
- What’s the smallest dog in the world?
- How do dogs mate?
- How did Catherine the Great die?
- What surprised John Ruskin on his wedding night?
- How long do your fingernails and hair grow after death?
- What did Atlas carry on his shoulders?
- How high is Cloud Nine?
- What makes champagne fizz?
- What shape is a raindrop?
- What produces most of the earth’s oxygen?
- What were First World War German uniforms made from?
- What sophisticated mechanism enabled the first successful landing on an aircraft carrier at sea?
- How many muscles do you have in your fingers?
- Who discovered penicillin?
- Is a virus a germ?
- What causes stomach ulcers?
- What does your appendix do?
- What does your appendix do?
- What is the worst thing to eat for tooth decay?
- What are guinea pigs used for?
- What was the first animal in space?
- Which has the most neck bones, a mouse or a giraffe?
- How long have the Celts lived in Britain?
- Who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe?
- Who was the first to claim that the Earth goes round the Sun?
- Who invented the Theory of Relativity?
- What shape did Columbus think the Earth was?
- What shape did medieval people think the Earth was?
- Who first discovered that the world was round?
- Why do bees buzz?
- What has the largest brain in comparison to its size?
- How much of our brains do we use?
- What colour is your brain?
- What effect does alcohol have on brain cells?
- What do dolphins drink?
- What was James Bond’s favourite drink?
- What shouldn’t you drink if you’re dehydrated?
- What contains the most caffeine: a cup of tea or a cup of coffee?
- Why was the dishwasher invented?
- What kind of fruit are Jaffa Cakes made from?
- What do digestive biscuits do?
- How was Teflon discovered?
- Which organisation invented Quaker Oats?
- What shouldn’t you do twenty minutes after eating?
- How does television damage your health?
- What do newborn babies like best?
- How much sleep should you have every night?
- What will be the biggest killer in the world by 2030?
- What illness do British doctors treat most often?
- Is the answer to depression just to ‘walk it off’?
- Which country has the world’s highest suicide rate?
- Which uses more muscles, smiling or frowning?
- Was Hitler a vegetarian?
- Which nation invented the concentration camp?
- In what year did World War II end?
- Who was the most dangerous American in history?
- What valuable commodity gives the US the legal right to seize foreign territory?
- Which aeroplane won the Battle of Britain?
- When did the last survivor of the Crimean War die?
- How many dog years equal one human year?
- How long is a day?
- What’s the longest animal?
- What happens if you cut an earthworm in half?
- What’s the loudest thing in the ocean?
- Why are flamingos pink?
- What colour is a panther?
- What makes an animal see red?
- What colour were the original Oompa-Loompas?
- What colour were Robin Hood’s tights?
- What rhymes with orange?
- What colour are carrots?
- Do carrots help us see in the dark?
- What do bananas grow on?
- What is coffee made from?
- Which of the following are berries?
- Which of the following are nuts?
- Who goes gathering nuts in May?
- What’s inside a coconut?
- What did Captain Cook give his men to cure scurvy?
- Who discovered Australia?
- What does ‘kangaroo’ mean in Aboriginal?
- What is ‘pom’ short for?
- What’s the biggest rock in the world?
- What were boomerangs used for?
- What’s wrong with this picture?
- Which religion curses people by sticking pins into dolls?
- What are you doing when you ‘do the Hokey-cokey’?
- What’s the unluckiest date?
- How many Wise Men visited Jesus?
- Where does Santa Claus come from?
- What do Bugs Bunny, Brer Rabbit and the Easter Bunny have in common?
- What were Cinderella’s slippers made from?
- Where do loofahs come from?
- What’s the strongest wood?
- What do you get if you suck your pencil?
- Have you ever slid down a banister?
- Where was the log cabin invented?
- Where did Stone Age people live?
- What was the first animal to be domesticated?
- What was odd about Rudolf the Red-nose Reindeer?
- Where do turkeys come from?
- Who was born by Immaculate Conception?
- Was Jesus born in a stable?
- How many commandments are there in the Bible?
- How many sheep were there on Noah’s Ark?
- Who’s the oldest man in the Bible?
- Where were the first modern Olympics held?
- Why is a marathon 26 miles and 385 yards long?
- What does the Queen say to someone she’s knighted?
- Why do Spaniards lisp?
- Who was the first King of England?
- What did they call the man who won the battle of Hastings?
- Who fought at the battle of Culloden?
- Which was the last country invaded by Scotland?
- Where do Panama hats come from?
- Can you name an Irish saint?
- What nationality was the Duke of Wellington?
- Who was Britain’s first Prime Minister?
- Who invented the Penny Post?
- What do you get when you’re 100 years old?
- EPISODES
- WHAT IS QUITE INTERESTING?
- INDEX
- About John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
- Copyright
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