Winners
These are the ten best pound-for-pound breadwinners of the Atlanta Olympics.
| Country | medals won | One medal for each: | |
| 1. | Tonga | 1 | 106,000 people |
| 2. | Bahamas | 1 | 276,000 |
| 3. | Jamaica | 6 | 408,000 |
| 4. | Australia | 41 | 440,000 |
| 5. | Cuba | 25 | 447,000 |
| 6. | Hungary | 21 | 488,000 |
| 7. | New Zealand | 6 | 591,000 |
| 8. | Belarus | 15 | 689,000 |
| 9. | Namibia | 2 | 770,000 |
| 10. | Netherlands | 10 | 814,000 |
At the leaner end of the table are: | |||
| Russia | 63 | 2,341,000 people | |
| United States | 101 | 2,606,000 | |
| Great Britain | 15 | 3,904,000 | |
| Japan | 14 | 8,945,000 | |
| China | 50 | 24,140,000 | |
| Indonesia | 4 | 49,601,000 | |
| India | 1 | 935,487,000 | |
Top 50 Movies
This is a list that was published in Britain around the Millenium.
I don't remember who ran the survey, but it's a good list.
- Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back
- The Godfather/The Godfather (Part II)
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Pulp Fiction
- Some Like It Hot
- Gladiator
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Blade Runner
- Schindler's List
- Goodfellas
- Jaws
- Psycho
- Apocalypse Now
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- The Matrix
- Casablanca
- The Usual Suspects
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Citizen Kane
- Raging Bull
- ET
- Taxi Driver
- The Life of Brian
- Singin' in the Rain
- LA Confidential
- The Wizard of Oz
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Kes
- Vertigo
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Fargo
- Gone with The Wind
- Trainspotting
- The Full Monty
- The Graduate
- Alien
- The Silence Of The Lambs
- Withnail and I
- The Great Escape
- Toy Story
- The Third Man
- Four Weddings And A Funeral
- The Sound Of Music
- Fitzcarraldo
- Deliverance
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Chinatown
- The Exorcist
- Annie Hall
One Hundred Words
The book Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report by Susie Dent (2004, Oxford University Press) examines new words in the English language. It also offers this following list of "words of the year" for the last 100 years – taken from the new words that appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary of that year.
| 1904: | hip |
| 1905: | whizzo |
| 1906: | teddy bear |
| 1907: | egghead |
| 1908: | realpolitik |
| 1909: | tiddly-om-pom-pom |
| 1910: | sacred cow |
| 1911: | gene |
| 1912: | blues |
| 1913: | celeb |
| 1914: | cheerio |
| 1915: | civvy street |
| 1916: | U-boat |
| 1917: | tailspin |
| 1918: | ceasefire |
| 1919: | ad-lib |
| 1920: | demob |
| 1921: | pop |
| 1922: | wizard |
| 1923: | hem-line |
| 1924: | lumpenproletariat |
| 1925: | avant garde |
| 1926: | kitsch |
| 1927: | sudden death |
| 1928: | Big Apple |
| 1929: | sex |
| 1930: | drive-in |
| 1931: | Mickey Mouse |
| 1932: | bagel |
| 1933: | dumb down |
| 1934: | pesticide |
| 1935: | racism |
| 1936: | spliff |
| 1937: | dunk |
| 1938: | cheeseburger |
| 1939: | Blitzkrieg |
| 1940: | Molotov cocktail |
| 1941: | snafu |
| 1942: | buzz |
| 1943: | pissed off |
| 1944: | DNA |
| 1945: | mobile phone |
| 1946: | megabucks |
| 1947: | Wonderbra |
| 1948: | cool |
| 1949: | Big Brother |
| 1950: | brainwashing |
| 1951: | fast food |
| 1952: | Generation X |
| 1953: | hippy |
| 1954: | non-U |
| 1955: | boogie |
| 1956: | sexy |
| 1957: | psychedelic |
| 1958: | beatnik |
| 1959: | cruise missile |
| 1960: | cyborg |
| 1961: | awesome |
| 1962: | bossa nova |
| 1963: | peacenik |
| 1964: | byte |
| 1965: | miniskirt |
| 1966: | acid |
| 1967: | love-in |
| 1968: | It-girl |
| 1969: | microchip |
| 1970: | hypermarket |
| 1971: | green |
| 1972: | Watergate |
| 1973: | F-word |
| 1974: | punk |
| 1975: | detox |
| 1976: | Trekkie |
| 1977: | naff all |
| 1978: | trainers |
| 1979: | karaoke |
| 1980: | power dressing |
| 1981: | toyboy |
| 1982: | hip-hop |
| 1983: | beatbox |
| 1984: | double-click |
| 1985: | OK yah |
| 1986: | mobile |
| 1987: | virtual reality |
| 1988: | gangsta |
| 1989: | latte |
| 1990: | applet |
| 1991: | hot-desking |
| 1992: | URL |
| 1993: | having it large |
| 1994: | Botox |
| 1995: | kitten heels |
| 1996: | ghetto fabulous |
| 1997: | dot-commer |
| 1998: | text message |
| 1999: | |
| 2000: | bling bling |
| 2001: | 9/11 |
| 2002: | axis of evil |
| 2003: | sex up |
| 2004: | chav |
Top Ten at Ten 1/1/86
| 10. | Take me home (Phil Collins) |
| 9. | I'd die to be with you tonight (Jimmy Barnes) |
| 8. | Hole in my shoe (Neil from the Young Ones) |
| 7. | We built this city (Jefferson Starship) |
| 6. | Take on me (A-ha) |
| 5. | Don't go (Pseudo Echo?) |
| 4. | Walk of life (Dire Straits) |
| 3. | Don't look down (Go West) |
| 2. | Working class man (Jimmy Barnes) |
| 1. | Election day (Arcadia) |
| plus | |
| I'm your man (Wham!) | |
| Close to me (The Cure) | |
| Say I'm your No 1 (Princess) | |