The 5 W's: What?
An Omnium-Gatherum of Moby-Dick & the Möbius Strip, the Theremin & The Hague, Umlauts & Unguents, Space Food & Sea Monkeys & More of Life's Incidentals
Published on 14. June 2011
128 pages
978-1-4027-9211-3 (ISBN)
Description
Musical instruments in an orchestra, Pulitzer Prize categories, and events in an Olympic decathlon: this is an entertaining and enlightening diverse anthology of facts. From the longest word currently listed in any Oxford dictionary to inventions, fashions and ketchup ice cream, all the sundries of life appear on these vivid pages.
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Erin McHugh
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- OSCAR AND THE OSCARINIS
- POLITICAL PARTY
- COP TALK
- STERLING SERVICE
- MAD FADS
- WHO-AND WHAT-AM I?
- THE FEATHER LAW
- THE PULITZER PRIZE
- THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
- THE NOBEL PRIZE
- "I SAY, OLD CHAP"
- AMERICA'S CUP?
- SPEED RACKING
- WHAT DID YOU SAY?
- MUSICAL JEWELS
- DR. BUNTING TO THE RESCUE
- WHAT ARE THE 6,469,952 BLACK SPOTS ON THAT SCREEN?
- SOMNAMBULISM
- SOME KIND OF HOT
- PORTMANTEAUS
- OH, REINDEER!
- SWORN STATEMENT
- A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE FAIR FOWL
- NO-WAY BAY
- WHAT IS BEYOND BEYOND?
- SOME JACKPOT!
- SNAKE-EATING SNAKES
- ADDING COMPLICATIONS
- HALLS OF FAME
- IT'S FLOTSAM OR JETSAM
- DID I DREAM THAT?
- WORDS OF WISDOM
- STEP RIGHT UP, LADIES AND FLEAS!
- WINNING WORDS AT THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE
- IT OUGHTA BE ILLEGAL
- "POWDER OF SYMPATHY"
- THE LAST WORD ON DADAISM
- USEFUL YIDDISH PUTDOWNS
- TEN STEPS TO A DECATHLON MEDAL
- WHAT WAS SERVED AT THE LAST SUPPER?
- CATS ENTERTAINMENT!
- CONTINENTAL DIVIDES
- RELATIVE RELATIONSHIPS
- ORDER UP!
- LETTERS FROM THE PAST
- METALLIC COMBINATIONS
- DID HE GO TO BURGER KING?
- THE RICHTER EARTHQUAKE SCALE
- FROM BAD TO WORSE
- COURTSIDE MAGIC
- MOODY BLUES . . . AND GREENS
- DISORIENTATION
- THE DOW-RE-MI
- THE MONASTIC HOURS
- MR. SHERIDAN'S WRITE STUFF
- SECRET STASH
- AAAACH-HOW?
- ENDANGERED
- THE TEN PLAGUES
- TAKING MEASURE
- FEELING FRIGHTENED?
- THE TARTAN
- ART FROM THE SEA
- THAT IS SO HARD
- BUT, OFFICER . . .
- HERE COMES THAT SOUND AGAIN
- HOW HOT IS HOT?
- DISASTROUS
- CHOPSTICKS, MUSICAL AND OTHERWISE
- WORTH WAITING FOR
- BURNING CALORIES
- MASTERS OF THE HOUSE
- LAST WORDS TO LIVE BY
- COMPARISON OF DIAMOND AND DIAMOND SYNTHETICS
- ANIMAL ONOMATOPOEIA
- MORSE CODE
- NEON NOTATIONS
- DEATH ROW MENU
- DOWNRIGHT BALMY
- MOTHER GOOSE'S DAYS OF BIRTH:
- POETIC FEET
- POETIC LINE LENGTH
- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PANCAKES
- WORLD MOTOR VEHICLE PRODUCTION
- A GOOD TIP
- IT'S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS
- ON FIRE
- WHAT'S IN A NAME
- TOP TEN BRIGHTEST STARS
- THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
- MAGIC 8 BALL MESSAGES
- MAGNETIC PERSONALITY
- HOW HIGH?
- EXECUTED
- AIN'T SUPERSTITIOUS?
- STARS AND STRIPES WHENEVER
- THINGS GOD MADE DURING EARTH'S SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION
- GRAY SKIES
- -OF-THE-MONTH CLUBS
- THE VERMILLION GATE BRIDGE
- THE 1909-11 T206
- THE BEST-SELLING BOOKS OF ALL TIME
- PATENTLY ABSURD?
- MAC WORLD
- THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
- SAYS WHO?
- ECHOES OF THE ALPS
- GLOBAL EXHALE
- LUCKY (AND SACRED) SEVEN
- WHO IS THIS EMILY, AND WHAT IS HER LIST?
- SWIM WITH CARE!
- WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
- REMEMBER YOUR ANNIVERSARY?
- NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
- THE (EXTRA)ORDINARY OLIVE
- PETS IN THE WHITE MOUSE . . . ER, HOUSE
- TRULY PUZZLING
- TEA TOTALING
- THE PERFECT FOOD-IN EVERY SIZE
- HOW MUCH?
- WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?
- STRIPES AND SOLIDS
- MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES ACROSS THE U.S. IN 2003
- WHAT WERE THEIR RANKS?
- COLD VERSUS FLU
- MASCOTS
- GREAT (NICK)NAMES IN SPORTS
- SEXUAL HEALING?
- THE FIRST BOOK
- WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE?
- OXYDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
- MIRANDA RIGHTS
- SLOT TALK
- EXACTLY HOW SPECTACULAR?
- WHAT FOOD GOES WITH TANG?
- ARRGGGH! POISON!
- PARTY PLANNING
- WATCH AND EARN
- RELIGION AND SPORTS-TOGETHER AT LAST!
- TEN-HUT!
- SO BAD THEY'RE GOOD
