by A. J. Jacobs
Taiping Rebellion compared with
classification of body types
colonialism, percentage of evil in
communism, foxhunter’s cofounding of
Complete Family News (newsletter)
compulsions, unkickable
conversational gambits:
“a-ak” not helpful in
of AJ Sr.
internal “ding” heard at onset of
knowledge in
at Mensa events
in ninety minutes with Senator Kennedy
“Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?”
see also evasion strategies; knowledge displays
cooking, coriander in
coral snakes, identification of
coriander
crab soup topped with
corpses, sale of
courtship, see romance and courtship
Crapper, Thomas, myth of
Crossfire, AJ as reticent debater on
cross-referencing, meaningful
crossword puzzles, another debacle
cruelty, in boy’s camps
Cruise, Tom, EB silent on
cucumbers, “vampirelike lecherous creature” from Japan obsessed with
curiosity, about everything
curses, usefull
Dalton School:
AJ’s revisit to
ethical relativism discovered at
dances:
Saint Vitus
tarantella
Dante Alighieri, video dating prescribed for
death:
of family member
metaphors for
obituary read before
passions moderated by contemplation of
preservation of body after
after reading EB
unusualforms of
see also burial; corpses
death penalty, AJ in Columbia debate on
DeBakey, Michael
as EB reader
definitions:
of “ambergris”
of “anti-neutrino particle”
of “axillism”
of “berry”
of “book”
of “erythrocyte”
of “fruit”
of “haboob”
of “inch”
of “infix”
of “intelligence”
of “jacks and jills”
of “kilogram”
memorizing of
of “meter”
of “mushrooming”
of “mutualism”
of “ooze”
of “pachycephalosaurus”
of “peninsula”
of “peon”
of “reading”
of “riot”
of “suicide”
of “tarantella”
of various rhetorical devices
of “wergild”
déjà vu, jamais vu vs.
Delfin, John, crossword philosophy of
depression, evolutionary role of
Descartes, René:
cross-eyed–women fetish of
joke about bartender and
as proto-Freudian
Disclosures and Remedies Under the Security Law (Jacobs Sr.)
divorce, Pueblo-style
dodo bird, scattered remnants of
Doherty, Shannen, marriage spans of
Doone, Lorna, cookies confused with
Douglas, Cousin, language corrected by
dreams:
creative
self-fulfilling
duplicity:
of biblical Jacob
of males in courtship strategies
earth:
locating AJ on
search for intelligent life on
time taken by rotation of
unrestrained outlay of facts about
Earth Mother, as fertility goddess
Easter Bunny, background and character of
Ebbinghaus, Herman, “forgetting curve” of
Ebert jokes
Ecclesiastes
E! channel
$8000 question, audience thanked for answer to
Einstein, Albert
see also relativity
embalming:
Egyptian recipe for
as loophole in wife’s will
Eminems, miniversions of
Encyclopaedia Britannica:
admirable anality of
alphabetical sequence of
bloopers in
brilliant quotations helpful in getting into
as bug killer
card games clarified by
career ideas in
cat issues of
chamber music as an unseemly soft spot of
cross-referencing in
dedication of
dispassionate approach of
diversityof everything in
electronic applications of
Eleventh Edition of
“erythrocyte” found in, too late for Millionaire
even-handedness of
excitement about diacritics at
facts, not that many, missing from
Fifteenth Edition of
First Edition and founders of (Macfarquhar, Smellie, and Bell)
flexibilitya lesson of
glories of
gravitas added to room by
great books coverage in
Greek history favored by
handy-phrase translations in
hard-to-forget book titles in
indexing department of
instant wisdom in
on itself
legal knowledge in
main sections of
marginal utility theory in
material aspects of
medical afflictions found in
as noble pursuit
nothing evidently left out of
other readers of
phonetic guides not found in
physicality of
purchase and arrival of
racism in
randiness of
randomness of
reading of, see Operation Britannica
repetition in
romance in
scatology in
self-help guidance in
stereotypes broken by
superior putz’s insult of
ten best ways to get into
Thirteenth Edition of
unauthorized tweaking of
uneven alphabetical coverage in
unorthodox uses of
unusual grounds for entry into
vintage and classic editions of
visit to HQ of
weird and crude facts in
worldview of
“encyclopedia”:
derivation of
ligature sometimes seen in
encyclopedias, earliest, longest, strangest, etc.
“Encyclopedia Twit-annica”
Encyclopédie (Diderot et al.)
Engels, Friedrich, ideological dualism of
Enlightenment, Eleventh Edition as culmination of
entertainment:
bearbaiting as
musicals about trains as
nonstop
Entertainment Weekly
article on box office prices in
catching colds at
Cats given send-off at
confession of crush at
Oscars covered in
Senator Kennedy not a longtime subscriber to
trend seeking at
eponymy:
avoidance of
Chauvin’s contribution to
engineering achievements and
legends of
misspellings and
“sandwich” or “Morris,” if you prefer
erythrocyte, defined on Millionaire
Esquire:
AJ’s job at
article ideas at
article on uncommon fetishes in
; baseball talk sidestepped at
Christmas party at
Cosmo vs.
fashion consciousness at
“The Fire Next Time” and
humor ventured at
lichen saluted in
new perspective gained at
screwups at
speech making at
sports conversations at
ethics:
“is” vs. “ought” in
Tolstoyan
utilitarian vs. deontology in
ethnic groups:
baldness compared in
Ostrogoth-American
etymological underground
eunuchs, operatic
evasion strategies:
create a distraction
I’ll-get-back-to-you trick
evolution, of typewriter
extinction, of passenger pigeons
facts:
battle of
fudging of
movie-interrupting
swimming vs. drowning in
Trebek’s favorites
as trophies of the hunt
weird and crude
world packed with
failures:
in astronomy
of cosmos
in crossword puzzles
in Hitler assassination attempt
in Millionaire
at Waterloo
fame:
names forgotten by
screwups recorded by
see also celebrities; greats
families:
buttercup
eminence in
hippy
Family Feud, crossword puzzle–themed version of
Farrow, Dave, memory course of
fashion, brief history of
fertility
collectibles and
of efficiency guru
experimenting with rituals of
of rabbits
fetishes:
breast
for cross-eyed women
gum
for organization
in speed reading
Fibonacci series, Boggle scored with
1582, ten days skipped in
flagellation, fertility promoted by
flirty fishing, gospel and herpes spread by
folklore, elves in
food:
in buffalo merchandise wars
catered
in eating contest
ecstasy and
foreign, Carry Nation’s assault on
greasy Italian finger
Italian wedding
ordering of, in Italy
restaurant
restrictions on
war over
washed by raccoons
football, how to talk about
form, good or bad, in chess
44, number of insanity attacks suffered by Charles VI of France
42,649, number of red deer killed by ruler of Saxony
Franklin, Benjamin, reasons to name yourself after
freezing point, misguided determination of
Freud, Sigmund, Marx preferred to
Frost, Robert, Harvard connection of
“fucking,” infixing of
gagaku, Korean name for
Galton, Francis
games:
cards
charades
humiliation
invented
number
Simon Says
six-degrees-of-separation
see also crossword puzzles; word games
Garbo, Greta, little-known resume item of
gasoline, best time for purchase of
Genevieve:
Alaskan crab legs sent as gift from
dustup delegated to
genius(es):
animosity between
capacity for bad behavior among
counterintuitive facts about
of Einstein
fresh air required for
linguistic
in Mensa
psychological problems ascribed to
temperamental
thoroughly balanced
see also Mensa(ns)
germaphobia
g-forces, protection from
gnomons
God:
fertility, of the Week
in Taiping Rebellion
waiting for stars to spell out
golf balls, dimples on
Google(ing):
addiction to
EB vs.
for “erythrocyte”
“Jacobs” in
graduate thesis ideas:
clothing colors and world history
“The Scarlet Number”
grahamcracker, curious inventor of
Grandma, word police on trail of
Grant’s Tomb, waiting to be asked about
grease, types of
Great EB, The (Kogan)
greats:
compulsions of
cousins favored in marriage of
interesting lives of
Greeks, ancient
hair:
in Bible
dreadlocks
Jew-fro
mohawks
haircuts:
army crewcut, origin of
five-thousand-year-old
happiness, reaching peak of
Hare and Burke, corpse sales and service by
Harington, John, flush toilet fathered by
Harper’s Index
Harvard University, notable graduates of
head-bobbing
head flattening
head-snapping technique
health concerns:
cholesterol in
disturbing facts in
germaphobia in
hypochondria and
pickles in
Helen of Troy, what she might launch today
hemorrhoids, famous fatal case of
heredity:
in Jacobs family
of worldview
herpes, spiritual spread of
HiQ societies
history:
cinnamon and chocolate in
constants in
contradictions in
few black-or-white hats in
figures lost to
flexibility an advantage in
Greek, favored by EB
Greeks vs. Romans in
interwovenness of
luck’s huge part in
pamphleteer’s place in
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in
terrorism in
Hitler, Adolf, failed assassination attempt on
Hoeflin, Ron:
HiQ societies founded by
as Millionaire lifeline
philosophical pursuits of
Hoiberg, Dale
Hollywood:
antigerbil gossip in
Aztec idea stolen by
founding of
humility plan for
see also movies
Holmes, Sherlock, organized mind of
Homo sapiens, faith in success of
Houdini, Harry:
Conan Doyle’s feud with
fact checking on
name chosen by
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (Beuys)
human beings, interaction with
humiliation games
humor:
“being there” as aid to
about Burbank
see also jokes
Hustler, EB compared with
Huxley, Aldous, EB habit of
hypochondria, denial of
hypocrisy, uses of
illnesses, breakthrough
Impact of Rule 10b-5 (Jacobs Sr.)
impatience, advantages of
income, Mensan unsteadiness of
“index,” indexing of
indexes, wit in
Indonesia, rare cone shell of
infixes, examples of
inform
ation:
appetites for
counterintuitive
haboob
inaccurate
memory limited for
optimism-inspiring
quest for meaning in
risk in sharing of
trees vs. forest of
see also knowledge
insults:
EB-worthy
finger
underdog group co-opting of
intellectual competition
intelligence:
crystallized vs. fluid
defining of
Francis Bacon’s pursuit of
Hasidic competition and
in HiQ societies
wisdom vs.
see also IQ
international criminal law, editing article on
interviews, for Millionaire
inventors, close-but-no-cigar
IQ:
high, balancing on one foot associated with
in marveling at keys
see also genius(es); intelligence
IQ tests
Iraq:
embedding in
war with
Italy, Rick and Ilene’s Jewish wedding in
Jacob, of Bible fame
Jacobs, A. J.:
in the As
Beavis moments overcome by
brain atrophy of
brain damage feared by
confrontation avoided by
conversation stopping ascribed to
courtship strategy of
crossword debacle of
cultural prejudices of
debating techniques of
depression of
epistemology bypassed by
ethical relativism eschewed by
evasion strategies of
exposure courted by
facial feedback tried by
fashion issues of
favorite compulsions of
full name of
Gandhi as heralding hope for
hidden allusions missed by
hypochondria denied by
hypothetical Britannica entry for
intellectual rise and decline of
Jeopardy off-limits to
journalistic start of
as late sleeper
Marxist school days of
memorizing system of
Mensa membership of
Millionaire trials of
motion efficiencies of
at Ns in Venice
nude posing of
as one-time smartest boy in the world
overstuffed mind of
parts of speech apparently an issue for
religious inclination of
remembering name of
rhetorical devices favored by
sending wine to
as seventy-five trillion cells, for a start
two-thirds of historical event attended by
unintended atonality of
uniqueness as goal of
Jacobs, Arnold. J., Sr.:
achievement of
AJ’s Britannica entry for
AJ’s feat hailed by
AJ’s interaction with
as beach-chair scholar
buffalo fabrications of
Byzantine practical jokes of
children’s FAQs known to
ethical relativism as seen by
Genghis fixation of
high school education of
interaction with
on light speed
mid-Bs reached by
missing kids of