• Gastronomic world records broken in 1971: 437 clams in 10 minutes, 1lb unpipped grapes in 86 seconds, 12 whole lemon quarters in 162 seconds, 60 pickled onions in 15 minutes 12 seconds, 1 quart of milk in 6 seconds, 2 pints of beer drunk while upsidedown in 45 seconds
• Herbs in The Herbs: Parsley, Dill, Sage, Sir Basil, Lady Rosemary, Constable Knapweed, Bayleaf, Aunt Mint, Mr Onion, The Chives, Tarragon
• The year in various calendars: AM 5786, AD 2026, AM 1742, AH 1447, BS 1432, SH 1404
• Archers characters who've appeared in more than 200 episodes in the 2020s: Alice 332, Susan 268, Tracy 261, Emma 260, Helen 248, Lillian 241, Kirsty 238, Lynda 237, Brian 234, Jazzer 233, Fallon 228, George 223
• Things I bought 40 years ago today: 3 pairs of white socks, 'Happy Birthday' banner (reduced in closing down sale), 2 birthday cards, stamps, soluble asprin.
• Refreshment outlets in the Millennium Dome: Acclaim, AMT Espresso, Aroma, Bakers Oven, Costa, Great American Bagel Factory, Harry Ramsdens, Hot Bites, Internet Exchange, Juicepiration, Main Square Cafe, Meridian Cafe, McDonalds, New Covent Garden Soup Co, Mezzanine Cafe, Opa John's Famous Wrolls, Street Bites, t.fresh, Trade Winds Food Court, World Bites, Yo! Sushi
• Letters that appeared half as often on Smarties lids: q, z
• The shortest films to win an Oscar for Best Picture: Annie Hall (1h33m), Marty, Hamlet, The Broadway Melody, The Artist, The Lost Weekend, Casablanca, The French Connection, It Happened One Night, Kramer vs Kramer (1h45m)
• Paris Métro stations that opened on 3rd February: Billancourt, Marcel Sembat, Pont de Sèvres
• Departments on the ground floor at Grace Brothers: Perfumery, Stationery and leather goods, Wigs and haberdashery, Kitchenware and food
• Sponsors of the Rugby League Challenge Cup: State Express, Silk Cut, Kellogg's Nutrigrain, Powergen, Leeds Met Carnegie, Tetley's, Ladbrokes, Coral, Betfred
• Words you can make out of squirrel: lurers, quires, risque, rulers, squire, squirl, surlier
• Unlikely Batman Exclamations: Holy Armadillos! Holy Chocolate Eclair! Holy Interplanetary Yardstick! Holy Knit One Purl Two! Holy Mashed Potatoes! Holy Priceless Collection Of Etruscan Snoods! Holy Reverse Polarity! Holy Tuxedo!
• Vegetarian restaurants in Rutland: Castle Cottage Cafe, Don Paddy's, Hitchen's Barn, Jashir, Sarpech, Soi, The Blonde Beet, The Mad Turk
• English constituencies where over 98% of the population is white: Torridge and Tavistock, Whitehaven and Workington, North Northumberland, Tiverton and Minehead, Penrith and Solway, North Norfolk, Thirsk and Malton, Easington, Bridlington and The Wolds, Bishop Auckland, Staffordshire Moorlands
• Crevasse fields in Queen Maud Land: Hamarglovene, Jutulgryta, Jutulpløgsla, Kråsen, Styggebrekka, Trollkjelen, Ulendet
• London museums that closed in the last 10 years: British Dental Association Museum, City of London Police Museum, Clowns Gallery Museum, Firepower!, Greenwich Heritage Centre, Jewish Museum, London Motor Museum, London Motorcycle Museum, Museum of Army Music, Pollocks Toy Museum, Royal London Hospital Archives
• 5 things I did 25 years ago today: downloaded songs off Napster, loitered on IRC, drove to Essex, watched marmalade bubble, performed surprisingly well in a remembered digits test
• Anagrams of SI units: Adrian, twat, coolbum, nemesis, slate, sluices, yarg, restive
• Years I've been alive that aren't UK dialling codes: 01965, 01966, 01973, 01976, 01979, 01990, 01991, 01996, 01998 and all subsequent years
• Stations opened in the last three years: Reading Green Park, Marsh Barton, Thanet Parkway, Portway Park & Ride, Headbolt Lane, Brent Cross West, East Linton, Leven, Cameron Bridge, Ashley Down, Ashington, Seaton Deleval, Newsham, Blyth Bebside, Beaulieu Park
• Words that are animals backwards: doc, flow, god, kay, lee, mar, reed, stab, star, sung, tang, tarps
• Daily newspapers, cheapest first: i, Mail, Sun, Star, Express, Mirror, Times, Guardian, Telegraph, FT, Racing Post
• Watch With Mother shows broadcast on Tuesdays: Andy Pandy, Bizzy Lizzy, Trumpton, Mary Mungo & Midge, Bagpuss, Mr Men, Bod, Thomas, How Do You Do!
• Tetley teabag pack sizes: 1, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 80, 100, 120, 160, 200, 240, 250, 400, 420, 440, 600, 800, 1100, 1540
15 lists but I'm not telling you what they are (before 10am)(one guess each)
• ✅Capital cities more than 2000m above sea level: La Paz, Quito, Bogotá, Addis Ababa, Thimphu, Asmara, Sanaa, Mexico City, Tehran
• ✅No 1 singles about days of the week: Sunday Girl, I Don't Like Mondays, Freaky Friday, Funky Friday, Saturday Night, Saturday Night At The Movies
• ✅Square-numbered chemical elements: H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, Ir, Gd, Tl, Fm
• ✅Shakespearean characters beginning with N: Nathaniel, Nerissa, Nestor, Nicanor, Norfolk, Northumberland, Nurse, Nym
• Stars with negative magnitude: Sirius, Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Arcturus
• ✅Names of more than one book of the Bible: Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Corinthians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Peter, John
• ✅Yellow Mr Men: Happy, Funny, Bounce, Nonsense, Skinny, Mischief, Brave
• ✅European constitutional monarchies: Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK
• ✅Lyons Maid ice lollies in 1973: Apple Jack, Captain Cody, Choco, Fab, Freak Out, Jack of Diamonds, Jelly Terror, Jungle Jim, Lemon and Lime Squeeze, Mivvi, Orange Maid, Red Devil, Score, Smash, Zoom
• ✅Essex islands: Cindery, Cobmarsh, Foulness, Great Cob, Havengore, Hedge-end, Horsey, Lower Horse, Mersea, New England, Northey, Osea, Pewit, Potton, Rushley, Skipper's, Wallasea
• ✅Prime numbered bus routes in Croydon: 109, 127, 157, 197, 353, 359, 367, 433, 439, 463
• ✅Countries that have hosted the Winter Olympics but not the Summer Olympics: Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina (as Yugoslavia)
• ✅Local authority districts adjacent to Buckinghamshire: West Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes, Central Bedfordshire, Dacorum, Three Rivers, Hillingdon, Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead, South Oxfordshire, Cherwell
• ✅Inanimate constellations: Antlia, Ara, Caelum, Carina, Circinus, Corona Australis, Corona Borealis, Crater, Crux, Eridanus, Fornax, Horologium, Libra, Lyra, Mensa, Microscopium, Norma, Octans, Pictor, Puppis, Pyxis, Reticulum, Sagitta, Scutum, Sextans, Telescopium, Triangulum, Vela
• ✅98-storey buildings: Central Park Tower, Chongqing International Land-Sea Center, KK100, Trump International Hotel and Tower
