The fact library
All 976 facts from Erebus, each with the made-up scene and memory hooks that help it stick. The facts are real; the stories are there so the names, dates and places have something to hold on to.
Trivia
History, science, film, sport and more.
- History134The emperor who split the job four ways · Thirty years, then peace · An eye for an eye, in stone
- Science124The first programmer wore lace · Why tungsten is W · A seahorse in your head
- Geography112The volcano at the bottom of the world · The deepest bike ride · Deeper than Everest is tall
- Technology100The web was born at a physics lab · The first message crashed · The @ in email
- Space15The beeping ball · Lakes that aren't water · Where a day outlasts a year
- Nature25The biggest animal ever · Nought to sixty in three seconds · The fastest animal on Earth
- Television75The time traveller who arrived the day after Kennedy · The yellow family named after his own · The chemistry teacher in the desert
- Film25The first paying cinema audience · You ain't heard nothin' yet · The first Best Picture
- Music7He couldn't hear the applause · A symphony before his ninth birthday · The red priest
- Art10Clocks like melted cheese · The handyman who stole a smile · The view from the asylum window
- Literature10The king of kings, in pieces · A ghost story by the lake · Tilting at windmills
- Mythology25An eye for wisdom · The hammer that always comes back · Gods in the calendar
- Sports78The extra bit for the royals · Back to Athens · Peach baskets on the balcony
- Food & Drink25A pizza for a queen · Not Julius · Only from Champagne
- Math6The spiral from the leaning tower · Pi's birthday party · The textbook that lasted 2,000 years
- Words8Forty days off the coast · The word that went to work · A mouse in your arm
Countries of the world
Where each country sits, its shape, its flag and its name.
- Caribbean13The crocodile in the Caribbean · The king's town under the blue mountains · The first free Black republic
- Caucasus3The other Georgia · Waving at Ararat · The capital below the sea
- Central Africa8The shrinking lake · Free town on the equator · Saint Thomas and the prince
- Central America7Temples in the jungle · The English-speaking corner · The goose with the gulp
- Central Asia6Geese on every peak · The biggest place without a beach · The door that won't stop burning
- East Africa14The gatekeeper of the Red Sea · Where the two Niles meet · The modernist capital on the Red Sea
- East Asia6The red hero in the cold · The big main island · The soul of the peninsula
- Europe45The one with the sea in it · The croissant on the Adriatic · The bunch of grapes between two neighbours
- Middle East15One foot in each continent · A rose-red city and a sliver of sea · The cedar on the flag
- North Africa6A green ribbon through the sand · Not Casablanca, not Marrakesh · Africa's top tune
- North America4A city on an Aztec lake · Fifty stars and a washing line · The longest coastline and an otter
- Oceania12The compromise capital · The bottom of the world, in wellies · Eight hundred languages
- Pacific1A lake full of jellyfish
- South America12The chili pepper on the coast · Sure, I'm Dutch · Champions from the start
- South Asia7Happiness in the Himalayas · The flag that isn't a rectangle · India's teardrop
- Southeast Asia11The one that lost its coast · Two pieces on Borneo · The long S with the capital up top
- Southern Africa11My lawn by the lake · A tutu on a mountain · The country named after a desert
- West Africa16The capital that sounds like baby talk · The river worm · The eye of the Sahara