Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[worbod]

Don't you mean ahorcate?

Well, if you're correct, my trivia really has been pointless.

 

[worbod]

Uncopyrightable and Dermatoglyphics are the two longest words in the English language not to repeat any of the letters.

 

[worbod]

There are Air Guitar championships, and in 2010 the first World Air Sex Championships were held in Texas. Contestants had to simulate sex on their own with no props.

 

[Eagle Wrath]

A sperm cell from a mouse is bigger than an elephants.

 

[DroopStDanny]

"SOS" by ABBA is the only charting song where both the artist's name and the song title are palindromes.

 

[worbod]

The word 'cleavage' was not used in relation to breasts until a 1946 article in Time magazine. Before then it meant 'the rendering apart of something'.

 

[Freofalcon]

The word 'cleavage' was not used in relation to breasts until a 1946 article in Time magazine. Before then it meant 'the rendering apart of something'.

So motorboating is a form of cleavage?

 

[DroopStDanny]

The Beach Boys' album 20/20 contains covers of three songs written by convicted murderers.

Cotton Fields - Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter)

I Can Hear Music - Phil Spector

Never Learn Not to Love - An uncredited reworking of a song called Cease To Exist written by Charles Manson.

 

[worbod]

A male lion can mate up to 50 times in one day. (Can you feel the love tonight?)

 

[worbod]

The record for kicking yourself the most times is held by Richard Kavanagh. Richard, an Englishman, kicked himself in the head 60 times in 38 seconds.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&...=ee4uO2qtUnY&usg=AOvVaw1r3VqOheTjW-g4Pa92LA5Y

 

[worbod]

The capuchin monkey of South America will only mate with a female if she throws a stone at him.

 

[Perth gal]

Bower birds like to decorate their nests with blue objects.

 

[Moonwatcher]

This is popular over on the death list thread so... I'll try to double my likes.

John Young is the only person to be reprimanded for smuggling a corned beef sandwich into space.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Though probably impossible, a hole in one on a par five is called a Condor.

https://www.pga.com/news/golf-buzz/odds-hole-in-one-albatross-condor

The pga website is willing to acknowledge this one.

 

[worbod]

This is popular over on the death list thread so... I'll try to double my likes.

John Young is the only person to be reprimanded for smuggling a corned beef sandwich into space.

I had never heard of John Young the astronaut. I had to Google "John Young astronaut" to clarify that the former host of Young Talent Time had no connection to NASA.

 

[Moonwatcher]

I had never heard of John Young the astronaut. I had to Google "John Young astronaut" to clarify that the former host of Young Talent Time had no connection to NASA.

It's amazing that someone could fly a spaceship to the moon, land it, spend three days living as one of only 2 humans on the moon, and not have been heard of.

 

[Jack Stevens]

It's amazing that someone could fly a spaceship to the moon, land it, spend three days living as one of only 2 humans on the moon, and not have been heard of.

I guess not everyone is a Moonwatcher

 

[Moonwatcher]

Upon returning home the crew of the Titanic were paid up until the minute of the sinking and no more.

 

[wally funk]

Jesus. I mean, maybe hazard pay/compensation wasn't a thing a hundred years ago, but that's just cruel.

 

[Gough]

Thinks to Google I know it's Alan Paton's 115th birthday today.

 

[wally funk]

Thinks to Google I know it's Alan Paton's 115th birthday today.

Ironically, I just had to google who Alan Paton was

 

[Mr X]

Ironically, I just had to google who Alan Paton was

He’s dead. But would have turned 115 today apparently

 

[Mr X]

John Tyler was the 10th President of America, born in 1790.

He has 2 living grandchildren.

 

[kickazz]

Trafalgar Square is the most landed on space in monopoly.

 

[kickazz]

Art was once an Olympic event