100 Things

Lots of radio silence recently, for which I can only apologise.

My beloved old laptop (the dino-puter) has died a flamboyant death, in a torrent of virus'. 27 in total, the poor dear. So until I can get to John Lewis (other department stores do exist) to get a replacement, I will be limited to clandestine work time and weekend posting ops only.

With this in mind, I give you the following. Do stick with it. There's some corkers in there. My favourites are 37, 41, 78 (what a guy!) and, of course, 100.

1. More than 99

2. Less than 101

3. 10²

4. C, to the Romans

5. 1100100 in binary

6. Boiling point of water

7. Atomic number of fermium

8. Years in a century

9. Number of tiles in a scrabble set

10. Telephone number for the operator

11. Number of yards on an American Football field

12. Top marks!

13. Address of oldest live music club in London

14. Number of years in the Hundred Years War (give or take ...)

15. Centimeters in a meter

16. FTSE

17. Film, staring Mylene Dizon

18. Age of Bob Hope when he died

19. √ 10,000

20. Average IQ

21. Hecto

22. Sum of the first four cube numbers (1+8+27+64)

23. Sum of the first ten odd numbers (1+3+5+7+9+11+13+15+17+19)

24. The year Pliny The Younger came to power

25. Number of Senators in the US Senate

26. Telephone number for the Police in Greece

27. Years of Solitude, by Garcia Marquez

28. ... Years Ago by the Rolling Stones

29. Haircut ...

30. The dollar bill with Jefferson on it

31. The road that goes over Tower Bridge

32. The size of the biggest Bank of England note in circulation (but only in Scotland)

33. The number of runs in a century in cricket

34. The number of jiffies in a second

35. "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusions is false. The 100th time I am right." Albert Einstein

36. Number of zeros in a googol

37. Amount, in pounds, paid to Tony Hart for designing the boat design on the Blue Peter badge.

38. Speed that a sneeze travels out of the nose

39. The number of pairs of shoes that I own (roughly)

40. The distance a wolf covers in a day, in miles

41. The number of people who choke on a ball point pen in America every year

42. Ikhulu in Zulu

43. A ton in cockney rhyming slang

44. One less than there are red balloons

45. Dear Jane's debut album

46. The sum of the first nine prime numbers (2+3+5+7+11+13+17+19+23)

47. An octadecagonal number

48. Number of pounds in a hundredweight

49. Pennies in a pound, cents in a dollar, cents in a Euro, etc

50. The number of years from now that the Byrds sang about

51. Miles per hour = speeding ticket

52. Bus route from Elephant and Castle to Shadwell

53. Cheapest beach holiday currently listed on Expedia

54. Distance from my house to Bristol

55. Cost of a Picasso in dollars (and in millions)

56. An area of land big enough to sustain 100 families

57. The number of surnames which 85% of Chinese people have

58. 1/5 the distance that the Proclaimers would walk

59. The number of fingers and toes in my family

60. Sexual acts performed each day worldwide (in millions)

61. Times a human heart beats in a minute and a half

62. Different vocal sounds that a cat can make

63. Take offs and landings at Heathrow in two hours

64. Passengers through Clapham Junction train station every three minutes

65. Years since George V came to the thrown

66. The number of men for every 102 women in Canada

67. Hours spent online to compile this list

68. The sum of two prime numbers (47+53)

69. Men diagnosed with breast cancer each year

70. Home of Winnie the Pooh

71. Very bright light!

72. Blood vessels in the back of your hand

73. The distance (in feet) that a squirrel can fall without hurting itself

74. Breeds of cats

75. Languages spoken in Canada

76. Calories in a teaspoon of peanut butter

77. Number of times lightening strikes the Earth per second

78. The distance Larry Lewis ran in 17.8 seconds in 1969. Aged 101!

79. The distance Usain Bolt ran in 9.69 seconds in 2008. Aged 22!

80. Years that Sleeping Beauty slept for

81. Years that Rip Van Winkle slept for

82. Pounds (in millions) of coffee bought by Starbucks each year

83. Average weight of a hippo (in pounds) at birth

84. Live tarantulas in Raiders of the Lost Ark

85. Length (in feet) of the longest car ever made

86. Bottles of beer on the wall

87. Section in the library containing books on philosophy and psychology

88. Speed that lava flows out of a volcano

89. Years to wait to see a agave plant flower

90. Record for the most number of hoops hula'd in one go

91. Watts of electricity generated by a 2x4ft solar panel

92. Grams of water to dissolve 37g salt

93. Feral cats recently found to be living in Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyland

94. 100 birds = good feng shui

95. Years since the death of Mark Twain

96. Number of times I've heard someone say "hung parliament" so far today

97. KISS FM

98. Cost of The Angel Islington in Monopoly

99. The number of facts on this list

100. The number of posts that I've now written