Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Gough]

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before is the only Smiths song to have a guitar solo in it.

Shoplifters of the World Unite has a bit in the middle.

 

[Beerfish]

Shoplifters of the World Unite has a bit in the middle.

Shut up Gough!

 

[sdfc]

Mayo is reputed to be indirectly named after one of Hannibal's brothers.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

That would be a big part of it - but also the war was very costly and bringing them home full stop would have been an effort. Many were sold off, but unfortunately only the younger fitter ones. The older ones would have been euthanised.

Flemington racecourse has a race meeting every ANZAC day, and the ceremony commemorates the service of not only the soldiers but the horses too.

Quite a few of the Anzac soldiers who were particularly attached to their horses chose to kill them and bury them before they left Europe.

Food was in short supply when the war ended and they were pretty certain their horses would be killed by the locals for food after they’d left, which they didn’t like the thought of.

Remember reading a detailed account of one digger describing a day where a big group of them took their horses out to a field, shot them and buried them. Said he’d seen all sorts of horrors but that was the memory that haunted him the most, for whatever reason.

 

[emuboy]

It is of course not easy to send spacecraft to any planet, minor planet or moon but from physics alone it is easier to send a probe to Pluto rather than the much closer Mercury.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Downward escalators are powered by the weight of the passengers.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

Downward escalators are powered by the weight of the passengers.

If no one is on them, do they stay stationary, or does the accumulated energy stay in reserve?

 

[Moonwatcher]

If no one is on them, do they stay stationary, or does the accumulated energy stay in reserve?

Powered by electricity in that case. It's more like regenerative braking in a car.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

Whitney Houston was offered the role of Sondra on The Cosby Show, but declined because she wanted to pursue her music career.

 

[Roobs321]

Federer & Hewitt played doubles together at 1999 Wimbledon.

 

[Gough]

Someone born in '33 was 45 in '78.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Someone born in '33 was 45 in '78.

I know this but why the pop culture fascination with this?

 

[Gough]

I know this but why the pop culture fascination with this?

They're all rpms of records, LPs are 33, singles 45 and 78 was the early format.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

They're all rpms of records, LPs are 33, singles 45 and 78 was the early format.

THANK YOU!

I refused to ask anyone before now because I thought it was something I should've known and thought I'd get ridiculed by it but this helps a great deal.

I wish I was around in the '70's.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

That pleasant rain smell actually has a word.

Petrichor.

There's also a specific word that describes the warmth of the sun. Apricity.

 

[Bulldog Joe]

Someone born in '33 was 45 in '78.

They were also 56 in 89 and their birthday was on the day of the week they were born on both occasions

 

[RedmanWasHere]

They were also 56 in 89 and their birthday was on the day of the week they were born on both occasions

On this, whatever year you turned 28yo, the day of the week you turned 28yo was the day of the week you were born.

 

[Frank Bunn]

On this, whatever year you turned 28yo, the day of the week you turned 28yo was the day of the week you were born.

Except if you were born in Jan or Feb 1899 or 1900.

 

[Mofra]

Federer & Hewitt played doubles together at 1999 Wimbledon.

50% of Roger Federer's name is "er"

 

[Roobs321]

50% of Roger Federer's name is "er"

Lleyton Hewitt’s name also begins and ends with a double consonant which is kind of neat

 

[Gough]

Lleyton Hewitt’s name also begins and ends with a double consonant which is kind of neat

His dad Glyn is the same.

 

[raskolnikov]

Someone born in '33 was 45 in '78.

My mum was born in 33.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

William Keith Kellogg, founder of Kelloggs and his brother, John Harvey Kellogg, both died at 91yo.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Further, the Kelloggs' logo is from William's signature.

 

[JackOutback]

While the Kellogg's name remains on cereals, the company hasn't been called that for nearly two-and-a-half years. It's Kellanova now.