Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[RedmanWasHere]

Post 1001 of this thread goes to the cars and their subsidiaries.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Surprised ford doesn't own more.

 

[kickazz]

Surprised ford doesn't own more.

They used to. Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercury, Aston Martin, big chunks of Mazda, Volvo.

 

[SmAshmoto]

Theodore Roosevelt's mother, and wife died on the same day.

This was his diary from that day.

 

[bkozican]

Post 1001 of this thread goes to the cars and their subsidiaries.

Volkswagen going alright by the looks of it

 

[exe ex machina]

The sky is still blue, the clouds still come and go....yet something is different.

 

[worbod]

A cougar has no fixed mating season. It is capable of breeding at any time of year.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

A cougar has no fixed mating season. It is capable of breeding at any time of year.

So that explains why there's so many 50 year old's with 29 year old's

 

[worbod]

So that explains why there's so many 50 year old's with 29 year old's

That's the response I was waiting for.

 

[worbod]

The longest known palindromic word in any language is saippuakivikauppias (19 letters), which is Finnish for a dealer in lye (caustic soda).

 

[Wallaby]

Hull City.

Of all the professional teams in the EPL, and the four levels of the Championship, this is the only one with a name that has zero letters that can be coloured in.

 

[Marklar_33]

Hull City.

Of all the professional teams in the EPL, and the four levels of the Championship, this is the only one with a name that has zero letters that can be coloured in.

Hully shit! That's amazing!

 

[Procrastinator35]

Hull City.

Of all the professional teams in the EPL, and the four levels of the Championship, this is the only one with a name that has zero letters that can be coloured in.

Explains why it's such a drab & dreary place then.

 

[edgie]

Speaking of companies and their subsidiaries, here's the 6-pack and a half of alcohol.

Raises more questions than it answers.
Fosters and Crown Lager owned by different mobs but both still brewed by CUB?
MolsonCoors is different to MillerCoors but MillerCoors own Molson?

 

[worbod]

In the third Test of the 2000 series between England and West Indies, Alec Stewart scored a century in his 100th Test on the same day the Queen Mother turned 100 (August 4).
This game was also Michael Atherton's 100th Test. In the fifth Test of this series Atherton scored the 100th 100 by an Englishman in Tests versus West Indies.

 

[The Dice Man]

The origin of the distress signal 'Mayday' came about in the 1920's from the french phrase, "m'aider", meaning 'help me'.

 

[BALKAN]

m'aider *tips fedora*

 

[GreyCrow]

This thread is now 424 days old

 

[Gough]

Neil Young was part of the firstly largely white band to sign to Motown records.

 

[GreyCrow]

Knowing that he'd always be known as "the second man on the moon", Neil Armstrong handed Buzz Aldrin a small, unpublicised consolation: Aldrin was the first person to pee on the moon.

(Well technically not on the moon, but pee whilst standing on the moon).

May as well have pissed on earth. Still get that same warm feeling

 

[GreyCrow]

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Typing something that has already been posted is called relevance syndrome

 

[GreyCrow]

There were four consecutive years in which the winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar had the initials M.S.

1978: Maggie Smith (California Suite)
1979: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1980: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
1981: Maureen Stapleton (Reds)

4 consecutive Olympics started with the letter M

1968: Mexico City
1972: Munich
1976: Montreal
1980: Moscow

 

[GreyCrow]

That is a pretty awesome stat. My own grandfather and I span 3 centuries...(as in 1800s,1900s,2000s)But I think that would be common right now.

Correct. My grandfather was born 1896

 

[worbod]

Four countries have (or soon will have) hosted the World Cup and the Olympics within a three year period:

Mexico 1968 (Olympics) and 1970 (World Cup)
West Germany 1972 (Olympics) and 1974 (World Cup)
United States 1994 (World Cup) and 1996 (Olympics)
Brazil 2014 (World Cup) and 2016 (Olympics)

 

[Wallaby]

There is an original Gold Medal from the 1956 Olympics still unclaimed. The Men's single sculls was held (as all rowing events were) at Lake Wendouree in Ballarat. The winner was Vyacheslav Ivanov. As he stood on the podium after the event, having received his Gold Medal, he was so happy he started throwing his medal up and catching it. You guessed it - he dropped it - into Lake Wendouree. He dived in after it, but couldn't find it. Eventually, the IOC awarded him another medal (and he won the sculls in 1960 and 1964, so he didn't exactly miss out).

Nevertheless, there is still a Gold Medal lying somewhere in the mud of Lake Wendouree - there have been several attempts to find it, and when the lake has been dry (as it has been a few times - the most recent being just a few years ago), it was possible to see people out with the metal detectors, still searching for the elusive medal.