Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Gough]

Maybe not pointless considering what happened in the next couple of years but in 1860 one in seven Americans belonged to another American.

 

[Moonwatcher]

 

[Dinsdale]

 

[Gough]

Gram Parsons hasn't been inducted into the Country Music or Rock and Roll Hall of Fame making him arguably the most infuential artist not to have been inducted into either.

 

[Quivorir]

Never heard of him.

 

[Gough]

Never heard of him.

He pretty much invented country rock, or Cosmic American Music as he called it. Genius.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Apollo 15's LEM Falcon, hit the moon so hard on landing that it cracked and buckled the engine bell. Apollo 15 and 17 had longer engine bells due to both LEMs being heavier.


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It seems that the Apollo 15s decent stage booster did not hit the ground but was buckled by thrusting too close to the ground.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Has been a big month to be a Moonwatcher

 

[Moonwatcher]

There was a three-week period when Kirk Douglas and Rasputin were both alive at the same time.

 

[troybe]

Elon Musk is African-American


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[Forward Press]

Elon Musk is African-American


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So is Charlize Theron.

 

[akkaps]

Cameron Diaz is part Latinx

 

[troybe]

Cameron Diaz is part Latinx

Did her last name give it away


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[akkaps]

Did her last name give it away


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She doesn't look it.

 

[emuboy]

There are countries starting with Q and Z, the two highest points value letters in Scrabble, but none starting with W or X and only one with O.

There is Western Sahara and if counting the members of the United Kingdom separately there is Wales.

 

[ComicSansHumour]

Gram Parsons hasn't been inducted into the Country Music or Rock and Roll Hall of Fame making him arguably the most infuential artist not to have been inducted into either.

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[emuboy]

There are chemical elements starting with every letter of the alphabet except for J, Q and W. However the element Tungsten (74) was originally called Wolfram, and therefore it appears as a W on the periodic table. The letters J and Q do not appear on the periodic table at all.

 

[akkaps]

There is Western Sahara and if counting the members of the United Kingdom separately there is Wales.

Western Sahara is a disputed territory and does not hold UN status.

 

[akkaps]

The MLB is the only mixed gendter league of the big four sports in the US. Although women have been drafted to squads, we are yet to see s woman take the field.

 

[Registered User]

Among the tons of stuff my late grandmother left behind was a receipt for some furniture, etc, from 1965. She paid 200 quid for a Simpson washine machine, 159 quid for a lounge suite, and 86 quid for a Simmons Mattress. I found a pre-decimal inflation calculator. In today's money (well, 2018, because that's as far as the calculator goes):
200 pounds = $5,427
159 pounds = $4,315
86 pounds = $2,334.

I reckon that's a lot. I should've hit her up for more coins when I was little.

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Tell all ya friends. Ha.

I hope that washing machine lasted a long time. I think it did.

 

[Registered User]

Ken Fletcher played with Tim Watson, who played with Dustin Fletcher, who played with Jobe Watson, who I thought was gunna play with Mason Fletcher, but he didn't. Boo. Ha. Yeah nah

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Pineapple translates to "Anana" or "Ananas" in every other language.

 

[emuboy]

The last time the Northern Territory had daylight saving was in 1944 when it was mandatory in Australia due to World War 2.

 

[Wallaby]

The original term for the element Aluminium was Aluminum. This was the name chosen by the discoverer, Englishman Humphrey Davey. It followed standard naming conventions for other elements like Molybdenum and Platinum that had similar oxides (Aluminium was extracted from alumina - the naturally occurring oxide).

However, only a couple of years after its discovery, another famous British scientist Thomas Young insisted that the element should be named Aluminium - why? - because it 'sounded better'. He preferred names ending in -ium, like Sodium, Barium etc. Young was well regarded at the time, and so his idea caught on. There was a bit of both names being used over time around the world - when Webster's Dictionary used Aluminum, it became the US standard. Both names were still used around the world, although except for the US, Aluminium was more popular.

Aluminium was only formal listed as the correct name in the 1990s (after years of very heated arguments), although Aluminum was still accepted as an alternative.

Although it's fun to laugh at US constant mangling of the English language, there's a pretty good argument that they got this one right.

 

[the fly]

The original term for the element Aluminium was Aluminum. This was the name chosen by the discoverer, Englishman Humphrey Davey. It followed standard naming conventions for other elements like Molybdenum and Platinum that had similar oxides (Aluminium was extracted from alumina - the naturally occurring oxide).

However, only a couple of years after its discovery, another famous British scientist Thomas Young insisted that the element should be named Aluminium - why? - because it 'sounded better'. He preferred names ending in -ium, like Sodium, Barium etc. Young was well regarded at the time, and so his idea caught on. There was a bit of both names being used over time around the world - when Webster's Dictionary used Aluminum, it became the US standard. Both names were still used around the world, although except for the US, Aluminium was more popular.

Aluminium was only formal listed as the correct name in the 1990s (after years of very heated arguments), although Aluminum was still accepted as an alternative.

Although it's fun to laugh at US constant mangling of the English language, there's a pretty good argument that they got this one right.

I thought that the original name was Alumium.