The Quite Incredible Number List: 101-200
| 101 | In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Room 101 is the basement torture chamber in the Ministry of Love, in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to their own worst nightmare, fear or phobia, with the objective of breaking down their resistance. It was named after a conference room at the BBC's Broadcasting House. | bobwilson |
| 102 | The Empire State Building has 102 floors. | Strawberry |
| 103 | Haydn's Symphony No.103 in E Flat Major is nicknamed "Drum Roll" in English and "Mit dem Paukenwirbel" in German. | Albert Terry |
| 104 | 104 is the number of guns on Nelson's flagship HMS Victory. | Strawberry |
| 105 | The town of Dubna in Moscow Oblast, Russia, was officially inaugurated in 1956, together with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, where various outstanding physicists of the 20th century used to work. In recognition of the work done in discovering and investigating a number of elementary particles and heavy nuclei there, the chemical element with atomic number 105, dubnium (Db), was named after the town in 1997. | Sophie.A |
| 106 | 106 is the Australian national emergency telephone number for those who use telecommunications devices for the deaf. | Ed. |
| 107 | The British Aerospace Harrier II GR7A is a GR7 with an uprated Rolls-Royce Pegasus 107 engine. | Ed., originally PDR |
| 108 | Stonehenge is 108 feet in diameter. | Strawberry |
| 109 | The Messerschmitt Bf 109 (also known as the Me 109) was developed as part of the German model forces in the mid 1930s, but by the start of WW2 it was becoming rather dated, and attempts to upgrade it resulted in weight growth that gave it some nasty handling vices (especially on landing). | PDR |
| 110 | The 110 Above Festival is held at Gopsall Hall Farm in Leicestershire. | Ed. |
| 111 | NHS 111 is a non-emergency medical public helpline in England. | Strawberry |
| 112 | 112 is the emergency number to dial across most of Europe -- even the UK phone system will allow it! | tetsabb |
| 113 | 113 is the Argentina time telephone number. | Strawberry |
| 114 | Launched at 14:39 GMT on 26 July 2005, STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. | Sophie.A |
| 115 | 115 is the atomic number of moscovium, officially named in November 2016 after the Moscow Oblast, where it was first synthesised. It previously had the temporary name of "ununpentium". | Strawberry |
| 116 | The 116 is an American Southern Christian hip hop collective. | Ed. |
| 117 | 117 is the number to call Guardia di Finanza for customs/financial/border police in Italy. | Strawberry |
| 118 | In 2006 Ray Parker Jr took part in a commercial for the directory enquiries company 118 118, using the theme tune of Ghostbusters, which he sang in the original film. The lyrics were adapted to "If there's something strange, going through your head, Who Ya Gonna Call? 118!", a little oddly since dialling "118" wouldn't have connected you to anything (being the prefix for several competing directory enquiries providers). | Ed., suggested by Sophie.A |
| 119 | 119 is the number to report children/youth at risk in France. | Strawberry |
| 120 | 120 is the age at which Moses died, thus the Hebrew blessing for old age ""עד מאה ועשרים שנה" -- "to one hundred and twenty years." | sjb |
| 121 | A Chinese checkers board has 121 holes. | Strawberry |
| 122 | Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall was the first of two Roman fortifications built across Great Britain, the second being the Antonine Wall. | Sophie.A |
| 123 | Gordon and Susan Robinson were among the original residents of 123 Sesame Street. | Albert Terry |
| 124 | London Buses route 124 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, running between Eltham, Southend Crescent and Catford, St Dunstan's College. | Strawberry |
| 125 | The M125 bomblet was a US chemical submunition designed to deliver the nerve agent sarin. It was brought into service in 1954 with the M34 cluster bomb as part of the first US air-delivered nerve agent weapon. | Sophie.A |
| 126 | Gilgamesh purportedly lived to 126. | Strawberry |
| 127 | 127 Hours is a 2010 biographical adventure film co-written, produced and directed by Danny Boyle. The film stars James Franco as mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah in April 2003. | Sophie.A |
| 128 | Ross 128 is a red dwarf star, eleventh closest star system to the Solar System. | Strawberry |
| 129 | A catalogue of approximately 850 stars, thought to have been compiled in 129 BC, was made by Hipparchus, denoting the positions of these stars on a unique co-ordinate system. | Sophie.A |
| 130 | The 130 nanometre process is a semiconductor process technology. | Strawberry |
| 131 | Iodine-131, also called radioiodine (though many other radioactive isotopes of this element are known), is an important radioisotope of iodine. Its uses are mostly medical and pharmaceutical. It also plays a role as a major radioactive hazard present in nuclear-fission products, and was a significant contributor to the health effects from open-air atomic bomb testing in the 1950s, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. | Sophie.A |
| 132 | According to Wikipedia as at August 2023, Mongolia ranks #132 in world population. | Strawberry |
| 133 | Since 1967, the second has been defined to be the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. | Sophie.A |
| 134 | Armenia ranks #134 in world population. | Strawberry |
| 135 | An angle of 135° is called sesquiquadrate. | Sophie.A |
| 136 | Whose Line Is It Anyway? ran on Channel 4 from 1988 to 1998 with 136 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 137 | To the nearest whole number, 137 is the value of the reciprocal of the fine-structure constant. | Sophie.A |
| 138 | Qatar ranks #138 in world population. | Strawberry |
| 139 | In the year 139 Zhang Heng, the chinese astronomer and inventor of the world's first water driven armillary sphere, died. | dr bartolo |
| 140 | 140 was the original Twitter entry character limit, based on the text messaging limit. (Twitter is now known as X.) | Strawberry |
| 141 | The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a military strategic airlifter in service with the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force. Introduced to replace slower piston-engined cargo planes such as the C-124 Globemaster II, it was designed to requirements set in 1960 and first flew in 1963. The aircraft remained in service for almost 40 years until the USAF withdrew the last C-141s from service in 2006, after replacing the airlifter with the C-17 Globemaster III. | Sophie.A |
| 142 | Botswana ranks #142 in world population. | Strawberry |
| 143 | In the same list, Lesotho ranks 143 in world population. | GL5 |
| 144 | The TV series Here's Lucy ran on CBS from 1968 to 1974 with 144 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 145 | 145 is the fourth number that is the sum of two different pairs of squares. | dr bartolo |
| 146 | M-146 was a former state highway route in Michigan. | Strawberry |
| 147 | 147 is the highest break that can be achieved in a frame of snooker in which no foul shots are made. The fastest 147 break in a major snooker tournament was made by Ronnie O'Sullivan, who took 5 minutes 20 seconds to achieve the feat against Mick Price in the first round of the 1997 World Snooker Championship. | Sophie.A |
| 148 | The TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ran from 1990 to 1996 with 148 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 149 | The A149 is a major route in Norfolk, linking Kings Lynn to Great Yarmouth. It runs via the coast rather than on a more direct route such as the A47. The eastern section runs through The Broads. | Sophie.A |
| 150 | Equatorial Guinea ranks #150 in descending world-population order. | Albert Terry |
| 151 | Bacardi 151 is a discontinued brand of over-proof rum. The 151-proof liquor has an alcohol content of 75.5%, compared to the usual 35%-40%. | Tas |
| 152 | The TV series Combat! ran from 1962 to 1967 with 152 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 153 | The distinct prime factors of 153 add up to 20, and so do the ones of 154, hence the two form a Ruth-Aaron pair. | Tas |
| 154 | The US TV series Hazel ran from 1961 to 1966 with 154 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 155 | AD 155 was the first year of Yongshou era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. | Tas |
| 156 | The Lucy Show ran from 1962 to 1968 with 156 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 157 | 157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is also a balanced prime. (In mathematics, a sexy prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by six. For example, the numbers 5 and 11 are both sexy primes, because they differ by 6. If p + 2 or p + 4 is also prime, then the sexy prime is part of a prime triplet.) | Tas |
| 158 | The Dick Van Dyke Show ran from 1961 to 1966 with 158 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 159 | The London Bus route 159 runs from Streatham to Paddington, via Westminster. | Tas |
| 160 | Above the mediumwave broadcast band, 160 metres is the lowest radio frequency band allocation available to amateur radio operators in most countries. | Strawberry |
| 161 | Bahrain and Brunei each have coastlines that are 161 kilometres in length. | Tas |
| 162 | 162 is the total number of baseball games each team play during a regular season in Major League Baseball. | Strawberry |
| 163 | The G.W.R 163 Auto Trailer Coach Trust was based at the Cambrian Railways Society in Oswestry. | Tas |
| 164 | E.164 is a standard defining a general format for international telephone numbers. | Ed. |
| 165 | Camp 165 was a WWII POW camp, situated in the Scottish Highlands, that housed some of the most hardline Nazis captured. | Tas |
| 166 | Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom, on Broadway between 165th and 166th Streets, in New York City on February 21, 1965. | Strawberry |
| 167 | Martina Navratilova has 167 top-level singles titles, a record for any player in the open era. | Ed. |
| 168 | Bangkok's official name, transliterated into English, has 168 letters: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. | Tas (amended) |
| 169 | 169 is the number of nonequivalent starting hands in the card game Texas Hold 'Em. | Strawberry |
| 170 | For 170 days, every morning of the school year, Dale Price waved off his son's school bus wearing a different fancy dress outfit. His son was extremely embarrassed. | Zebra57 |
| 171 | Mission: Impossible ran from 1966 to 1973 with 171 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 172 | 172 = 444 in base 6. | Ed. |
| 173 | The Bob Cummings Show ran for 173 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 174 | Alpha Cancri, a star system in the constellation Cancer, is approximately 174 light years from Earth. | Sophie.A |
| 175 | Rosie and Jim ran on CITV from 1990-2000 with 175 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 176 | A solar day on the planet Mercury lasts about 176 Earth days. | Sophie.A |
| 177 | Water Rats ran from 1996-2001 with 177 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 178 | Rheinberger's Horn Sonata in E flat major was his Op. 178. | Zebra57 |
| 179 | The A179 is the main access road from the north into Hartlepool. | Ed. |
| 180 | 180 is the highest score that can be achieved in a single turn in darts. | Zebra57 |
| 181 | 181 Eucharis is a large K-type Main belt asteroid. | Strawberry |
| 182 | Turk 182 is a 1985 American action comedy-drama film directed by Bob Clark. | Zebra57 |
| 183 | TAKI 183, a former New York City graffiti artist with an address on 183rd Street, featured in Bomb It, a documentary. | Strawberry |
| 184 | Ordnance Survey Landranger Map Sheet 184 features Salisbury and The Plain. | Zebra57 |
| 185 | Lucky Ladders was a daytime game show which aired on ITV from 1988-1993 for 185 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 186 | The address of Fortnum & Mason is 181-186 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 9EH. | Zebra57 |
| 187 | Selianitika is a Greek coastal village located 187 km west of Athens. | Strawberry |
| 188 | The London Transport 188 Bus runs from North Greenwich Station (near to the O2 Arena) to Russell Square via Waterloo. | Zebra57 |
| 189 | 189 Phthia is a bright rocky main belt asteroid. | Strawberry |
| 190 | Heinz Peppa Pig Snap Pots are available in packs of 2 x 190 grams. | Ed., based on Zebra57 |
| 191 | 191 Peachtree Tower at 191 Peachtree Street is the fourth tallest skyscraper in Atlanta. | Strawberry |
| 192 | 192.com is a free directory enquiry service, named after the former BT directory enquiries number. | Zebra57 |
| 193 | Night Court ran on NBC from 1984 to 1992 with 193 episodes. | Strawberry |
| 194 | The World Health Organization has 194 member states. | Ed. |
| 195 | According to Worldometer, there are 195 countries in the world as of 2023, including two that are not members of the United Nations (the Holy See and the State of Palestine). | Ed. |
| 196 | Sweet Child o' Mine (1987) by Guns N' Roses ranked 196 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. | Zebra57 |
| 197 | The Cosby Show ran on NBC from 1984-1992 with 197 episodes (201 episodes in syndication). | Strawberry |
| 198 | Star Trek Voyager episode 198 features the Borg and their arch-enemies Species 8472. | Zebra57 |
| 199 | For many years, the A199 was a local road in Edinburgh, running between Leith in the north and Joppa on the city's eastern fringe. Improvements to the A1 since the 1980s have seen the A199 extended further east on no less than three occasions as it has taken over the course of most of the old A1. It now runs for 26.2 miles from Leith to the Thistly Cross roundabout in Dunbar. | Ed. |
| 200 | A cholesterol level of 200 and below is considered "Desirable level corresponding to lower risk for heart disease". | Strawberry |
