The Second Book of General Ignorance (42 page)

Caesar, Julius
1
,
2

hair-loss problems
1

invasion of Britain
1

‘
veni, vidi, vici
’ phrase
1

Caesar (surname), origin of
1

Caesarian section
1

Calabria (Italy)
1

Cameron, David
1

Canada
1
,
2

cancan
1

cancer
1
,
2

Cape Agulhas
1

Cape of Good Hope
1

Capone, Al
1

Captain America
1

carbon dioxide emissions
1

cars

impact of speed cameras on accidents in
1

optimum driving speed for fuel efficiency
1

case law
1

Case of Proclamations (1611)
1

Caspian Sea
1

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico
1

Cassini-Huygens space probe
1
,
2

cat flap
1

Catholics
1
,
2
,
3

Cawdrey, Robert
1

Cayley, Sir George
1

Celts
1

Challenger Deep (Pacific)
1

Chaloner, William
1

Chamorro people
1

Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite
1

Charles the Hammer
1

Charles VI, King of France
1

Charles VII, King of France
1

Charming Jenny
1

Chateau de Chambord
1

cheese
1

and dreaming
1

Stilton
1

Cheese Mites
1

Chilcote, Captain
1

China

banknotes
1

football
1

and glass
1
,
2

inventions
1

war with Japan (1937–45)
1

Chinese Restaurant Syndrome
1

chocolate
1
,
2

cholera
1
,
2

Christians, in India
1

Christmas
1

chrysalis
1

Church of England, and Darwin’s theory of evolution
1

Churchill, Winston
1
,
2

Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
1

‘clan tartans’
1

Clarke, Arthur C.
1

Clarkson, Jeremy
1

cleavage
1

Cleopatra
1
,
2

Cleveland, Stephen Grover
1
,
2

cloaca
1
,
2

clouds

highest
1

weight of
1

coal
1

cobra, beating heart of
1

Coca-Cola
1
,
2

cocoon
1

coefficient of restitution (COR)
1

coins

biting of
1

counterfeit
1

tossing of
1

cold

response of body to
1

tips for survival in
1

colds
1

Collings, Dr Virginia
1

Com
ă
neci, Nadia
1
,
2

combined sewer overflows (CSOs)
1

comets, collision with earth
1

compass, razor blade as
1

Computed Tomography (CT) scan
1

computers, first
1

Connery, Sean
1

constitution

Britain
1

United States
1

contubernium
1

cool, keeping
1

Cornish wreckers
1

Coroners and Justice Act (2010)
1

council elections (2010)
1

counterfeiting, and coinage
1

cracked knuckles
1

Creasy, Sir Edward
1

Crick, Francis
1

cricket, and coin tossing
1

Criminal Law Act (1967)
1

Crova, Cavaliere Carlo
1

Crusaders
1
,
2

cuju
1

Curie, Marie
1

Cutler, George E.
1

Cuvier, Georges
1

da Vinci, Leonardo
1
,
2

Dan Dare
1

Darfur
1

Darwin, Charles
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Origin of Species
1
,
2

David, Wayne
1

Davies, Paul
1

de Vito, Danny
1

Dead Sea
1
,
2

death, legal definition of
1

death rattle
1

décolletage
1

Deering, John
1

Defoe, Daniel
1

defibrillators
1
,
2

dehydration
1
,
2

density, measuring of
1

Depp, Johnny
1

depth perception
1

Dewey, Melville
1

diamond dust
1

diamonds, hardness of
1

diamorphine
1

Dias, Bartolomeu
1

dictionaries
1

Dinka
1

diplomatic immunity
1

diseases, carried by rats
1

Disney, Walt
1
,
2

disputed land
1

distance, judging of
1

diurnal libration
1

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
1
,
2

dob-dobs
1

Doctrine of Papal Infallibility (1870)
1

dolphins, and sleep
1

Domesday Book
1

Don Juan Pond (Antarctica)
1

donkey’s milk
1

Donne, John
1

dormice
1

Dover
1

Dowson, Ernest
1

Drake, Sir Francis
1
,
2

dreams/dreaming

by animals
1

and cheese
1

Du Pont, John
1

Duchenne, Guillaume
1

duck-billed platypus
1

Dumas, Alexander
1

dummy, used for resuscitation
1

dust, household
1

dust mites
1

Dutch
1

national anthem
1

origin of
1

e-numbers
1

Eagle
1

ear
1

evolution of
1

Earth

atmosphere of
1

bombarding of by meteorites
1
,
2

colliding of comets with
1

creation of minerals on
1

crust
1

magnetic field
1

view of Moon from
1

earthworms
1

Easter
1

Easter Act (1928)
1

Eaton, Shirley
1

eavesdropping
1

Ebert, Friedrich
1

Ebola virus
1

Ebsen, Buddy
1

echolocation
1

Eden, Anthony
1

Edgar the Ætheling
1

Edward the Confessor
1

eggs
1

Egypt (modern)
1

Egyptians, ancient
1
,
2

and Cleopatra
1

and glass
1

elephants

and dreaming
1

‘intoxication’ of
1

Elizabeth I, Queen
1
,
2

embassies, foreign
1

embroidery
1

emoticons
1

English language

as an official language
1

spelling reform
1

words introduced to
1

Epic of Gilgamesh
1

equinoxes
1

Estonia
1

ethylene
1

Eton
1
,
2

Etruscan shrew
1

eugeroic drugs
1

euphemisms
1

‘Eureka!’
1

European Football Championships
1

European law
1

Everest, Mount
1

Everest, Sir George
1

evolution, Darwin’s theory of
1

Eyam (Derbyshire)
1

eyelashes, follicle mites in
1

eyes

and estimating depth and distance
1

importance in indicating genuine emotions
1

and smiling
1

vibrating of
1

eyesight, bat’s
1

Eyser, George
1