David Wallechinsky - The Book of Lists

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Abbandando, Frank ‘The Dasher’, 1

Abbey, Edward, 1

Abbott & Costello, 1

Abbott, Jack Henry, 1

Abdullah, Crown Prince, 1

Accardo, Tony ’Joe Batters’, 1

Acker, Jean, 1

Acree Jr, Alfred, 1

actors, 1

becoming politicians, 1

and great roles, 1

Olympic medalists as, 1

see also movies

Adams, Douglas, 1

Adams, John, 1

Adams, Richard, 1

Adamson, Stuart, 1

Addington, Henry, 1

Adelman, Kenneth, 1

Adler, David, 1

Adler, William M., 1

Adoula, Cyril, 1

Adren, Sharon, 1

Afghan Mujahedin, 1

Agee, James, 1

Agrippina the Younger, 1

Aguilera, Christina, 1

Aguirre, Lope de, 1

aircraft, 1, 2

Aiuppa, Joseph ’Ha Ha’, 1, 2

Akkad, Moustapha, 1

Al-Bashir, Omar, 1

al-Fayed, Dodi, 1

Al-Mussallat, Subha Tulfah, 1

Alba, Felipe de, 1

Alba, Thea, 1

Albritton, Cynthia, 1

alcohol, 1

Alcott, Louisa May, 1

Alderman, Israel ’Icepick Willie’, 1

Aldiss, Brian, 1

Alexander the Great, 1, 2, 3

Alexander VI, Pope, 1

Alexander, Jason, 1

Alexander, Texas, 1

Ali, Hadji, 1

Ali, Monica, 1

Allen, Paul, 1

Allen, Woody, 1, 2, 3

Allende, Salvador, 1

alligators, 1, 2

Allison, Audrey, 1

Allison, Joe, 1

Alvarez, Santiago, 1

Aman, Zeenat, 1

Amberg, Louis ’Pretty’, 1

American Academy of Otolaryngology

Museum, 1

Amin, Idi, 1

Amirah, Che, 1

Amorth, Father Gabriel, 1

Amory, Cleveland, 1

Amos, Tori, 1

Anderson, Lindsay, 1, 2

Anderson, Pamela, 1

Andress, Ursula, 1

Andrews, Julie, 1

Angelou, Maya, 1, 2

Angola Mercenary Force, 1

animals, 1

before the law, 1

children and wild, 1

crime, 1

discovery of large, 1

eating humans, 1

extinction, 1, 2

lake and sea monsters, 1

lifespan of, 1

penis lengths of, 1

preservation of, 1

rights, 1, 2

strange behaviour of, 1

unusual mating habits, 1

Anker, Julian, 1

Anne, Queen, 1

anthems, 1

Antique Vibrator Museum, 1

ants, 1, 2

aphrodisiac foods, 1

Appel, George, 1

Arago, Jacques, 1

Arbenz, Jacobo, 1

Arbuckle, Fatty, 1

Archimedes, 1

Aretino, Pietro, 1

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 1

Arkin, Alan, 1

Arlen, Richard, 1

Armen, Jean Claude, 1

arms import/export, 1

Arnaz, Desi, 1

Arnold, Benedict, 1

Arnold, Hannah Waterman, 1

Arnold, Roseanne, 1

Art Ensemble of Chicago, 1

Art and Science of Love , 1

Arthur, Jean, 1

arts, 1

art attack, 1, 2

barmy quiz questions, 1

blues songs, 1

Bob Dylan lines, 1

country songs, 1

drummers of note, 1

early names of bands, 1

found unexpectedly, 1

gigs, 1

jazz musicians, 1

national anthems, 1

theatre productions, 1

variety acts, 1

works painted over, 1

worst song titles, 1

wretched performers, 1

Ashe, Arthur, 1

assassination, 1

Atkins, Chet, 1

Atkins, Dr Robert, 1

atomic bombs, 1, 2

attic events, 1

Attila the Hun, 1

Atwood, Margaret, 1

Atzerodt, George, 1

Auad, Carlos Henrique, 1

Aubrey, John, 1

Austen, Jane, 1, 2

authors see literature

Axelrod, Robert, 1

Baartman, Saartje, 1

Babb-Sprague, Kristen, 1

Babington, R., 1

Bacall, Lauren, 1, 2

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1, 2, 3

Bach, Richard, 1

Bacon, Francis, 1

Baer, Jo, 1

Bailly, Jean, 1

Baird, John Logie, 1

Baker, Josephine, 1

Baldwin, Evelyn, 1

Ball, Lucille, 1

Balliett, Whitey, 1

balloons, 1, 2

Balzac, Honoré de, 1

Band, Albert, 1

bands, early names of, 1

Bangles (band), 1

Bankhead, Tallulah, 1

Barclay James Harvest, 1

Bardot, Brigitte, 1, 2

Barents, Willem, 1

Barnes, Lee, 1

Barnett, Doris, 1

Barnum, P.T., 1, 2

Barrett, Andy, 1

Barrymore, Drew, 1

Barrymore, Earl of, 1

Barrymore, John, 1

Barton, Roy, 1

basketball, 1

Basra Mass Poisoning, 1

bathtub events, 1, 2, 3

Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1

Baudelaire, Charles, 1

Bauer, Steve, 1

Bauhaus (band), 1

Bay of Pigs Invasion Force, 1

Beach Boys, 1

Beadle, Jeremy, 1

bears, 1, 2, 3, 4

Beat movement, 1

Beatles, 1

Beckett, Samuel, 1, 2

Beckham, David, 1, 2

bed, working in, 1

Beeck, Robin, 1

Beer, Stafford, 1

Beery, Wallace, 1

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1, 2, 3

Bell, Margaret, 1

Bellin, Howard, 1

Bellini, Giovanni, 1

Belokas, Spiridon, 1

Belov, Sasha, 1

Belushi, John, 1, 2

Benchley, Peter, 1

Bennett, John G., 1

Bentham, Jeremy, 1, 2

Bentzen, Ole, 1

Berezhnaya, Elena, 1

Berg, Alban, 1

Berger, Stuart M., 1

Bergerac, Cyrano de, 1

Bergkamp, Dennis, 1

Bergman, Ingrid, 1, 2

Bering, Vitus, 1

Berlin, Irving, 1

Berlin Wall, 1

Bernhardt, Sarah, 1

Bernstein, Leonard, 1

Best, George, 1

bestiality, 1

Bethune, Thomas ’Blind Tom’, 1

Biaka-Boda, Victor, 1

Bible, 1, 2, 3, 4

Bierce, Ambrose, 1

Biggins, Joe, 1

Bill Hayley and His Comets, 1

Bill W., 1

billionaires, 1

bin Laden, Osama, 1, 2, 3

Bircher-Brenner, Max, 1

birds, 1, 2

Bishop, Jesse Walter, 1

Bissell, Richard, 1

Black Sabbath, 1

Blackfoot, J.D., 1

Blades, James, 1

Blake, Amanda, 1

Blake, William, 1

Bland, Sir Christopher, 1

Blatty, William Peter, 1

Bloch, Mark, 1

Block, Mandy, 1

Blondie, 1

Bloody Mary, 1

blues songs, 1

Boardman, Peter, 1

body parts, 1, 2

Bogart, Humphrey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bok, Christian, 1

Bokassa, Jean-Bedel, 1

Bolan, Marc, 1

Bonaparte, Joseph, 1

Bonaparte, Lucien, 1

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bond, Edward, 1

Bond, James (bird expert), 1

Bonham, Jon, 1

Bonington, Sir Chris, 1

books see literature

booksellers, 1

Boone, Daniel, 1

Boone, Richard, 1

Booth, John Wilkes, 1, 2, 3

Booth, Mary Ann Holmes, 1

Borah, William, 1

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1, 2