Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Power Raid]

November 25, 2012 was the first day since 1960 that there was no murder or manslaughter in New York City.

holy shit

when will the US stop and accept they have a problem?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

holy shit

when will the US stop and accept they have a problem?

If those murder victims all had guns they could have stopped themselves from being murdered.

 

[Reynolds Number]

Professional fart sniffer is an occupation in China and employees of this type can earn US $50,000 a year.

 

[Power Raid]

Professional fart sniffer is an occupation in China and employees of this type can earn US $50,000 a year.

Troy Buswell has excellent credentials and may have a successful career post politics

 

[Reynolds Number]

And lots of ladies desperate for his services.

 

[ioppolo]

I have to put up with my own farts, where's my 50k a year?

 

[worbod]

Something else from the Northern Territory News.
You'd need to have a steady hand, or hands.

 

[pebblestone]

Well, technically the highest Mountain in Australia is not Mt Kosciusko - it's Mawson Peak on Heard Island (one of Australia's territories).

There is a higher peak in the Australian Antarctic Territory, but the Antarctic territories are a bit more fuzzy regarding control etc, and no one really claims ownership of them.

But how high is the peak of Mawson Peak?

 

[wally funk]

2745m vs 2228m, Mawson Peak well on top of Mt Kosciuszko.

 

[GreyCrow]

Interesting experiment this morning.

I was making toast and a piece dropped to the ground and landed on the unbuttered side. So I dropped it again and again to see what the result would be. Every time it landed on the unbuttered side.

Why?

I hadn't buttered yet

 

[Wallaby]

There is a magnetic mineral called magnetite that several animals have in their skeleton (in crystal form). Animals that have this include birds, salmon and bees. Even some bacteria have this.

There is a theory that the animals use this to help them navigate during migration. This is called magnetoception.

The REALLY interesting thing is that humans have this too - a tiny crystal of magnetite placed perfectly - in a nasal bone right between the eyes. Maybe it helped primitive humans in migration between hunting and feeding grounds.

 

[SportsCentre]

There is a magnetic mineral called magnetite that several animals have in their skeleton (in crystal form). Animals that have this include birds, salmon and bees. Even some bacteria have this.

There is a theory that the animals use this to help them navigate during migration. This is called magnetoception.

The REALLY interesting thing is that humans have this too - a tiny crystal of magnetite placed perfectly - in a nasal bone right between the eyes. Maybe it helped primitive humans in migration between hunting and feeding grounds.

Could be where "follow your nose" came from all those years ago.

 

[SugarShane]

The researchers on Pointless have to verify each fact by three different sources, and Wikipedia can't be one of them.

The biggest winning jackpot ever on Pointless was £24,750 and was won by David Hammond Williams and his son Jonathan.

Because Pointless co-host Richard Osman has very poor vision, he can't read an autocue. Instead he writes and learns his own script for each show.

 

[Mofra]

The word "gullible" does not appear in any official English dictionary.

 

[GreyCrow]

The word "gullible" does not appear in any official English dictionary.

 

[Forward Press]

The longest Formula 1 circuit ever used (in an official F1 World Championship race) was a street circuit in Pescara, Italy. Each lap was 25km long (modern F1 circuits tend to be about 5km long) and the road was often bumpy and narrow. It held one official F1 World Championship race in 1957 before it was abandoned for being too dangerous.

The Las Vegas F1 Grand Prix was held in 1981 and 1982 in the car park of the Caesars Palace casino. The first edition was won by Australian driver Alan Jones (also Australia's last F1 championship winner).

Following the 1955 disaster at Le Mans, the Swiss banned circuit motor racing in the country - although a vote was successfully passed in Swiss Parliament to lift the ban, it has not been ratified and thus the ban is ongoing.

 

[Procrastinator35]

There is a magnetic mineral called magnetite that several animals have in their skeleton (in crystal form). Animals that have this include birds, salmon and bees. Even some bacteria have this.

There is a theory that the animals use this to help them navigate during migration. This is called magnetoception.

The REALLY interesting thing is that humans have this too - a tiny crystal of magnetite placed perfectly - in a nasal bone right between the eyes. Maybe it helped primitive humans in migration between hunting and feeding grounds.

More interesting, learned & relevant rather than pointless.

Be interesting to find out if it's more pronounced in males than females also, given our more pronounced spatio-awareness & compass abilities.

 

[Wallaby]

Unfortunately, it is pretty much a vestigal remnant - almost certainly useless. It seems unlikely that humans have any way of sensing a magnetic field. In other words, while the magnetite is certainly affected by an existing field, there is no way we can sense any molecular changes within the magnetite.

So - pointless

 

[Procrastinator35]

Unfortunately, it is pretty much a vestigal remnant - almost certainly useless. It seems unlikely that humans have any way of sensing a magnetic field. In other words, while the magnetite is certainly affected by an existing field, there is no way we can sense any molecular changes within the magnetite.

So - pointless

Oh?.....Many traditional societies of the hunter/gatherer variety would beg to differ.

The magnetic component of the masculine male psyche is well known about in both traditional religions & traditional folk-lore.

An excellent book on the very phenomenon is 'Iron John' by Robert Bly.....Attenuating one's antenna to the earths magnetic fields is neither pointless nor useless....It is in fact, a traditional male rite-of-passage.

 

[Wallaby]

I got interested in what you said, so I did some research (I am not a scientist, but I spent a lot of time at the University of Google and Wikipedia).

Let's say - it's complicated. There is some research going on by a few institutes. There are two possible areas of interest - one is magnetite, the other is proteins called cryptochromes (yes, I cut-and-pasted). These are used in birds etc and are found in the eye. They have done some tests on flies, removed the cryptochromes, and the flies lost their magnetoception. But then they replaced the cryptochromes with human ones into the flies eyes, and they worked! So human cryptochromes can work - but that's a physical reaction only.

But the next step is where is the neural pathway? How can humans sense changes in a magnetic field? We have found pathways it in pigeons and bats - but there is no obvious pathway in humans, or part of the brain that seems able to detect this.

(I don't think Robert Bly has very much scientific to say on the matter, however. He is very important in the 'Men's Liberation', 'New Consciousness' movement - but he has no evidence that ancient tribes ever used magnetoception. Maybe they did - maybe not.)

Ok - if mods want to move this out of Pointless Trivia - I'm fine with that. I love learning about new sh!t.

 

[Scotland]

I remember hearing once that W.G. Grace is the only FC cricketer in history to be dismissed for every score between 1 and 100.

Can anyone confirm this? Gough?

 

[Gough]

I remember hearing once that W.G. Grace is the only FC cricketer in history to be dismissed for every score between 1 and 100.

Can anyone confirm this? Gough?

Would be news to me, and even if it wasn't true I'm sure that the good Doctor would have claimed it, he never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

 

[Mofra]

Roy C Sullivan is the only recorded human being to have been struck by lightning 7 times. He later committed suicide.

 

[Scotland]

He was dimissed 1,374 times in 1,478 innings so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

124 100+
251 50-99
1,103 0-50
(104 N.O.)

 

[worbod]

Laurel and Hardy are known as Dick and Doof in Germany, and as Gog and Cokke in Denmark.