Trivia thread...

[Wolverine]

Thought I'd get a trivia thread going. I'm always looking under fruit juice lids, people's beer bottle lids and so forth.

I thought I'd share the love...

First one:

The Beach Boys were the founders of surf rock; however, only Dennis Wilson knew how to surf, and he died of drowning in 1983.

[Wolverine]

Flags, flown to symbolize mourning, are flown at half-staff, not half-mast. A sail flies on a mast, a flag flies on a staff.

[Wolverine]

Diamonds are close, but they really aren’t forever. Diamonds are actually unstable at our comfortable temperature and pressure. Every diamond above ground is very, very slowly altering into graphite, another form of pure carbon.

[Wolverine]

Venus and Uranus rotate on their axes in a different direction than the other six planets.

I was gonna say something but I won't...
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[skichic]

it's time for lunch graemlins/outtahere.gif

[Bear]

Wow and I thought I was bored today. You obviously take the cake on this one Wolvy. :eek:

[Wolverine]

How can you tell snail tracks from slug tracks? While your typical garden slug leaves a continuous trail of slime in its wake, snails leaves more of a dotted line, since they move forward in an up-and-down fashion, kind of like an inchworm.

[Bear]

Wax will get rid of the snail trial for you.

[Wolverine]

Ferruccio Lamborghini made tractors until he went to Enzo Ferrari to complain about a Ferrari he bought. Lamborghini felt snubbed by Ferrari and decided to get into the sports car business.

[Wolverine]

Geologists believe that about half the unmined gold in the world is in South Africa

[Wolverine]

The French Kiss isn’t from France, it’s a slur against the nation. In the 1920s, the English derided the French as the kind of people who’d go around sticking their tongues where they didn’t belong.

[kneedeep]

Q. what time peice has the most moving parts ?

[Total punter]

Hour glass????

[Woodster]

Sundial?

[kneedeep]

the hour glass has it wd

[kneedeep]

but the sundial has the least smile.gif

[Snowine Buff]

Q: How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

[BLB]

depends

[Jay]

No sense living in a world of what if's.

[Wolverine]

The shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie Psycho is composed of more than 90 shots seen from 70 different camera angles. It took Hitchcock and his crew an entire week to film it. To put that into perspective: The entire film took only six weeks.

[Wolverine]

Stephanie Kwolik’s name might not ring a bell, but she’s responsible for saving thousands of lives. In 1965, she invented Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests.

[Wolverine]

Charles Richter, the American scientist who developed the Richter scale, was an avid nudist. Rumors persist that his wife was so distressed by his penchant for hanging out naked that she divorced him because of it.

[Wolverine]

The first seedless grapes were kind of an accident. Thousands of years ago in the Middle East, a random genetic mutation caused a group of grapes to spontaneously abort their own seeds before the seeds could develop hard casings. The result: spitless produce. To reproduce the fruit, a sly farmer simply cloned the vine (with no seeds, there’s nothing to plant)—meaning that all seedless grapes today are direct descendants of that one mutated grape vine.

[Wolverine]

Oddly enough, the very first high heels were made for soldiers in the 1500s who needed a way to keep their feet snugly tucked into their stirrups while riding on horseback

[Wolverine]

Despite the title of his song “Für Elise”, Beethoven didn’t even know an Elise, at least according to most historians. Beethoven had hideous handwriting—to the point that some scholars speculate the song was actually written “for Therese,” one of several women who turned down a marriage proposal from the notoriously lovesick maestro.

[skichic]

<marquee>I think this is more annoying than a ticker thread</marquee>

[Wolverine]

Dr. John Dee, a 16th century predecessor to James Bond, supposedly used the code 007 to send messages to Queen Elizabeth. The two zeros meant “for your eyes only.”

[Wolverine]

The first lotions and moisturizers date back to 3000 BC, when people in the Near East used whipped ostrich eggs and crocodile dung to keep their skin looking fresh.

[Paul Oberin]

Ah, now I see why they banned you from that other place. ;)

[Wolverine]

The world’s largest exporter of beef isn’t the United States; it’s Australia

[Wolverine]

Seashell fossils have been found high in the Himalayan mountains, suggesting that the land was once underwater.

[Wolverine]

During a 1992 state dinner, President George H. W. Bush, ill with the flu, lost his lunch in the lap of the Japanese prime minister. Oddly enough, Bush’s faux pas coined a slang word, bushusuru, which translates as “to do the Bush thing,” meaning “to vomit.”

[Wolverine]

Not a single fatal U.S. airline accident occurred in the 2002 calendar year

[Snowine Buff]

Fact: your cat's breath smells of cat food.

[Wolverine]

Dimples may be cute, but they are an inherited genetic flaw. They are caused by a fibrous band of tissue that connects the skin to an underlying bone.

[Wolverine]

John Batterson Stetson improved upon the basic design of the ten-gallon hat by forming the brim so that it kept the wind out of his face, and the rain off of his neck. He also allowed for an air chamber above the head to help keep it cool, and constructed the hat in such a way that it could be used to haul water and fan fires.

Hence the famous yankee akubras known as the Stetson.

[Wolverine]

Braces go all the way back to ancient Egypt. In fact, archeologists have found several mummies with crude metal bands wrapped around their teeth.

[skichic]

hope you're recycling the empties graemlins/cold.gif

[Wolverine]

che?

[skichic]

well that's ^^^^ a cr.apload of bottle tops!

[Azz]

OK, I am not having anymore to drink tonight, strange things going on here............ :confused:

[Paul Oberin]

Moderators doing a little house cleaning, keeping it family friendly.

[Azz]

Cheers Paul graemlins/snowatchrocks.gif

[popshuvit]

damm.. there aint any trivia under the bottle of red I just opened.

[Podlettte]

none under the mixed berry and custard pie either!

[Jahoota]

Originally posted by Wolfster:
Thought I'd get a trivia thread going. I'm always looking under fruit juice lids, people's beer bottle lids and so forth.

I thought I'd share the love...

First one:

The Beach Boys were the founders of surf rock; however, only Dennis Wilson knew how to surf, and he died of drowning in 1983. and clearly trivia under bottle tops is highly inaccurate. The beach boys are NOT the founders of surf rock. Not by a long shot.

[Wolverine]

mmm...

Xena, depends on how heavily laden be the bird?

[Xena]

Wolfster, what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[Wolverine]

Ok now I'm losing my mind...
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[Xena]

The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow depends on many factors and parameters. For example, an African Swallow would tend to travel at a different velocity than an European Swallow. Furthermore, their flight patterns are different, so their instantaneous velocity at a given point will almost always be different. However, technological advances have given way to being able to use swallows to transport husked coconuts across large distances, enabling us to use coconuts on a daily basis, provided we have a large contingent of willing swallows ready to make a nonstop convoy for X amount of time, or however long we wish. Swallows can also be modified, as attaching a 50 newton rocket propulsion system on a 1 kg swallow will result in an acceleration of 50 m/s(2), which is of course negating any air resistance, since swallows have been recorded as outer space fliers. I hope i cleared any doubts about this matter.

[karen97]

Originally posted by Xena:
Wolfster, what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Who cares, it's better to spit graemlins/cold.gif

[Wolverine]

graemlins/big_laugh.gif Karen..

I got a mate who's got a tatoo of a swallow near his nether regions...

[Xena]

Well, you can't spit when the swallow is 'unladen'.

[Wolverine]

*cough*
wanna bet?
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[Snowine Buff]

Nver mix ur alco drinks :(