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The schnauzer in Hammett’s The Thin Man (1934).
221B Baker Street 87
Abbreviations & acronyms 13
Alice in Wonderland syndrome 134
Alliterative acrostic 39
Alphabet minute 152
Anagrams for ten presidents 144
Andrews Sisters 76
Antonomasia 125
Appellations for Margaret Thatcher 87
Army slang abbreviations 62
Australian big things 66
Banknotes 91
Beachcombing 32
Beaufort scale 32
Bed names and sizes 115
Benford’s Law 45
Blanketing a stretcher 138
Burns 149
Caesar salad 139
Catchphrases from The Goon Show 80
Catholic Church order of precedence 36
Characters in language 58
Childhood diseases 148
Closest stars to Earth 47
Collective nouns, animals 149
Comets 91
Continents in order of size 122
Countries sharing borders 17
Damper when camping 67
Deaths in London, 1665 111
Decathlon events 139
Definitions in lying 25
Defunct US National Football League teams 62
Demonyms 113
Devil’s Dictionary 142
Dewey Decimal System 126
Diseases named for their discoverers 44
Doctor Fell 10
Eight maxims of strategy 23
Emancipation Proclamation 56
Epigraph, foreword, preface, introduction, acknowledgments 1
Essential minerals and amino acids 28
Euphemisms for dying 104
Fabergé eggs 25
Famous Five 23
Fantastic Four 49
Fat content in KFC 151
Fates of notorious outlaws 74
Field sports slang 38
Fifteen creatures in space 59
Five basic ballet positions 95
Five forces 106
Five key texts of the occult 126
Five pillars of Islam 143
Five rivers of the underworld 121
Foreign words for leader 49
Fortune-telling techniques 22
Foundation dates for world airlines 122
Four horsemen of the apocalypse 9
Fourteen major naval engagements 69
Francis the talking mule 28
French republics 35
Fujita scale 97
G’s 134
Gandhi’s seven deadly sins 152
Gang of Four 67
Geological time 115
German chancellors 74
Giant rat of Sumatra 106
Goldwynisms 104
Governments 71
Great Eastern 58
Guitarists 106
Gulliver’s travels 21
Harmonic series 80
High denomination notes 92
Hints to golfers 38
How organisms associate 77
How to fold a broadsheet 119
How to keep a slave 146
How to measure a child’s feet for shoes 72
How to open an oyster 129
Husbands of Zsa Zsa Gabor 109
Idiots, morons, imbeciles, cretins 125
Isms 116
Japanese dumping phrases 135
KAL 007 30
Key stock market indices 77
“La Marseillaise” 33
Labors of Hercules 118
Latin palindromes 132
Logical fallacies 123
Mark Twain 79
Marx brothers 8
Memorable country song titles 140
Mercalli Scale 86
Metabasis 145
Mnemonics 96
Moldings 150
Morse Code 35
Musical tone, properties 116
Naming icebergs 83
Naming of dinosaurs 11
National Book Award winners, fiction 129
Newspaper slogans 28
Nicknames of African national football teams 92
Nine worthies 29
Noble eightfold path of Buddhism 35
Norse gods 127
Notes in public circulation 91
Noteworthy cats and their owners 46
Not written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 40
Numerical prefixes 108
Ohm’s Law 68
Origami swan 63
Origins of Oz 64
Parents’ days 78
Parrhesia 48
Personalities of Sybil 108
Phar Lap 89
Philanthropic enterprises of Andrew Carnegie 136
Phobias 48
Phonetic alphabets 145
Phrenology 101
Pi 84
Poems of Muhammad Ali 110
Poets laureate 19
Political structure of Oceania 31
Polyhedra 43
Popular knots 55
Postisms 18
Precipitation intensity guide 10
Principles of kosher wine-making 87
Qualities of objects 87
Received ideas 90
Reflectiveness of paint 89
Reptiles of the Antarctic 29
Rodgers and Hammerstein 121
Roman exclamations 83
Roman numerals 139
Royal bynames 29
Said of Don King 17
Said of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 132
Sails on a standard three-masted ship 24
Saints 99
Santa’s reindeer 83
Seven against Thebes 18
Seven bridges of Konigsberg 94
Seven dwarfs 141
Seven sacraments 84
Seven wonders of the world 40
Seventeen detective sidekicks 147
Shipboard watches 26
Signs of the zodiac 81
Some American associations 75
Some American politicians who became the bases for fictional characters 36
Some average pH values 143
Some early Chinese inventions 141
Some elephant facts 85
Some Elvis Presley statistics 100
Some popular patent medicines 72
Some quilt designs 111
Some remarks of Niccolo Machiavelli 92
Some remarks of Ronald Reagan 103
Some statements of defiance 73
Some systems of vine training, viticulture 138
Songs with television/TV in the title 128
Space music 120
Speeds of light 64
Stages in a bullfight 137
Stages of sleep 2
Sturgeon’s Law 88
Suicide notes 65
Superheroes 114
Temperature conversion 85
Ten people best known for a common expression 105
Ten rock ’n’ roll graves 26
Ten titled cricketers 144
Ten toasts 15
Testing an egg’s freshness 149
Thirty songs containing radio in the title 3
Thirty-two teeth 118
Three Investigators 72
Three men in a boat 11
Three musketeers 133
Top ten novels 76
Torino Scale 117
Traitor broadcasters 77
Turkish flirtation phrases 133
Twelve men to walk on the moon 8
Twelve months 14
Twenty songs featuring philosophers in their titles 148
Twenty-one mottoes 4
Twenty-six political assassinations 50
Two political handshakes 37
Types of adze 10
Types of anxiety 55
Ungsromans 64
United Nations charter 27
Unusual chess openings 114
Unusual measures 143
Varieties of clubfoot 105
Vice presidents 6
Views on book reviewing 159
Vitamins 68
Warren Buffett way 67
Water distribution on Earth 79
Weapons of the Brady Gang 109
Wedding toasts 141
Why the Antarctic is colder than the Arctic 71
Winston Churchill, code names 138
Wives of Henry VIII 38
Wodehouse moguls 16
Works of Joseph Haydn 150
World’s greatest depths 114
World’s ten biggest employers 23
World’s ten tallest mountains 107
Yiddish putdowns 47