Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Scotland]

As well as the aforementioned qat there are numerable others, the three most common that I play are SUQ, QAID and QADI. Also words like burqa. And whilst qwijibo might not be in there, QWERTY is.

I've always played Scrabble allowing English words only. Suq, qaid and qadi are all Arabic words. Suq in English would be souk, wouldn't it?

Entrepreneur for example would be allowed (though I don't know how you would get it down), but fromage wouldn't be. I've never seen anyone try to play one of the above Arabic words.

 

[Jethro!]

Due to effects if Earth's gravity on the space-time fabric the clocks in the GPS orbiting satellites need to be adjusted by 38 nano seconds per day otherwise the global positioning system will be wrong by an accumulating factor of nearly 10km per day!

General relativity in the real world.

 

[Mofra]

in 2011 a donkey stood for mayor in Bulgaria

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042988/Donkey-stands-town-hall-post-Bulgarian-election.html

 

[Nothing]

I've always played Scrabble allowing English words only. Suq, qaid and qadi are all Arabic words. Suq in English would be souk, wouldn't it?

Entrepreneur for example would be allowed (though I don't know how you would get it down), but fromage wouldn't be. I've never seen anyone try to play one of the above Arabic words.

Suq and souk are synonyms.

They are English words of Arabic descent. Do you allow CWM (as mentioned previously in this thread)? AA (Hawaiian)? QI (Chinese)? What about olde English? Thee? Thine?

Where do you draw the line (personally I draw it at the Scrabble dictionary)?

Scrabble is about knowing obscure words and being able to form them.

 

[HBF]

The wingspan of a B-52 is 52 metres

Brain Royal finished his AFL career on 199 games and 299 goals

You can't lick your own elbow

And 75% of people will now try to lick their elbow.

 

[worbod]

In the same way that a cat is a feline and a dog is a canine, the thrush is classified as a turdine.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

In the same way that a cat is a feline and a dog is a canine, the thrush is classified as a turdine.

Fish are Piscine hence Pisces, a Dolphin is a Delphine and a Bear is Ursine hence Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

A horse is an ungulate.

 

[Flash of power]

Driving was done on the left-hand side of the road in Sweden until 1965. The conversion was done on a weekday at 5pm when all traffic stopped to switch sides. This time was chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would've gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realise the day of the changeover.

And even more interesting is that road accidents decreased in the weeks following the change over.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

And even more interesting is that road accidents decreased in the weeks following the change over.

Perhaps explained by people being extra-cautious after the change. Any idea how it went long term?

 

[Flash of power]

Perhaps explained by people being extra-cautious after the change. Any idea how it went long term?

Pretty successful from what I understand, I heard an expert interviewed about it and the reasons that Australia should consider swapping.

 

[chargers 09]

No one has ever drowned swimming between the flags (perhaps not pointless).

2 Australian track and field records which stand today where completed before man landed on the moon.
Peter Norman still holds Australia's 200 metre records (20.06), this was when he claimed silver at the Mexico City Olympics. The other is Ralph Doubell in the 800 metre race.
For those who don't know this was when the two American's who came 1st and third held a "Black Panther" salute during the US national anthem, monumental event obviously.

 

[Gough]

Winston Churchill was Archie MacLaren's f** during the latter's final year at Harrow.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

The phrase "rule of thumb" comes from an old English law which stated it was illegal to beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

 

[EdgeOfReason]

You can make sausages healthier by injecting them with bacteria from a baby's poo.

 

[Gough]

You can make sausages healthier by injecting them with bacteria from a baby's poo.

You can do that, I'm having unhealthy bangers.

 

[EdgeOfReason]

I prefer them the unhealthy way myself. Sausages looking like poo is bad enough; having them contain poo would just about tip me over the edge.

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

Unless it was going to extend my life expectancy by an extra 20 years, no way in hell am I letting baby poo anywhere near sausages.

 

[True__Believer]

I prefer them the unhealthy way myself. Sausages looking like poo is bad enough; having them contain poo would just about tip me over the edge.

Lucky you don't know what REALLY goes in them lol.

 

[Hudu Gurusingha]

1 in 2 smokers die from their habit. On average, smoking reduces a smokers lifespan by ten years.

 

[kickazz]

1 in 2 smokers die from their habit. On average, smoking reduces a smokers lifespan by ten years.

Not sure that is pointless trivia TBH.

 

[Richo is God]

I prefer them the unhealthy way myself. Sausages looking like poo is bad enough; having them contain poo would just about tip me over the edge.

What if someone gave you a sausage containing poo, however you were unaware and actually preferred it to non poo sausages. Would you try it again?

 

[iluvparis]

What if someone gave you a sausage containing poo, however you were unaware and actually preferred it to non poo sausages. Would you try it again?

Yes

 

[Gough]

There was a Pakistani cricketer of the 1950s called Duncan Sharpe, he now lives in Cranbourne. Possibly he even shades our own Quivorir as it's most famous resident.

 

[The Slitherin' Snake]

There was a Pakistani cricketer of the 1950s called Duncan Sharpe, he now lives in Cranbourne. Possibly he even shades our own Quivorir as it's most famous resident.

You could have just stopped at the bolded part and that would have been interesting enough