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I am going to a quiz tonight. Give me facts

129 replies

PseudoBadger · 28/02/2019 07:50

I am good on music, ok on geography and current affairs. Ok on Premier league and World Cup football.
Please share random/useless facts that may be in a quiz?

OP posts:
99point9FahrenheitDegrees · 28/02/2019 08:00

We had to name all five of Girls Aloud last time. Also the baby meerkat is called Oleg. And Michael Vaughan played for Yorkshire. I am out quizzing tonight too and hope you are one of my team mates as am shocking at football.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 28/02/2019 08:14

A pregnant fish is called a twit.

TheCumbrian · 28/02/2019 08:16

There is actually only one lake in The Lake District.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 28/02/2019 08:19

Kenneth Grahame wrote The Wind in the Willows

bagpiss · 28/02/2019 08:21

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
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Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs
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Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

Good luck op.

JaneJeffer · 28/02/2019 08:25

Rami Malek won the Oscar for Best Actor playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody while Olivia Colman won Best Actress for The Favourite.

JaneJeffer · 28/02/2019 08:27

Playing Queen Anne!

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:32

National bird of India is the peacock/peafowl.

Who won the Rugby world cup 2018? Ireland

Leader of the House of Commons? John Bercow

First female elected to the Houses of Parliament? Constance Markievicz

Get your cricket and kings in order.

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:35

coulrophobia is a fear of clowns

Who did England defeat in the 1966 football world cup final? The 1966 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium, London, on 30 July 1966 to determine the winner of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth FIFA World Cup. The match was contested by England and West Germany, with England winning 4–2 after extra time to claim the Jules Rimet Trophy

PrestonsFlowers · 28/02/2019 08:35

Pocahontas is buried in Gravesend.
P&O, as in the ferries stands for Pioneer and Orient

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:36

Who wrote Paddington? Michael Bond.

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:38

National bird of New Zealand? Kiwi (origin of Kiwi commonly thought to be the fruit)

BertrandRussell · 28/02/2019 08:40

The only British prime minister to be assassinated was called Spencer Percival.

PrestonsFlowers · 28/02/2019 08:40

Kneehighim
There wasn't a Rugby World Cup in 2018, it runs every 4 years. There is one this year and it's being played in Japan.
Ireland won the 6 Nations in 2018

kennythekangaroo · 28/02/2019 08:40

Dory in Finding Nemo is a blue tang.

OpiesOldLady · 28/02/2019 08:40

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the milky way, according to DP.

All polar bears are left handed and they have skin that's black.

Pig penises are corkscrew shaped.

Holidayshopping · 28/02/2019 08:41

Tawny owl females twit and the males twoo!

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:41

Baby fox?
Baby swan?
What is the name of a badger's home?

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:42

Woops, was talking about the 6 nations!

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 28/02/2019 08:45

What goes too-wit too-woo? (or possibly a recording of this sound)

The answer is NOT a tawny owl.
The correct answer is a PAIR of tawny owls.

(not bitter at all about being denied extra points 25 years ago)

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:45

Rio Olympics 2016: Team GB medal tracker as Rio 2016 total beats London 2012. Great Britain have set an Olympic record by winning 67 medals at the Rio 2016 Games, two more than they managed at London 2012.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 28/02/2019 08:46

@Holidayshopping snap!
(I'm really slow at posting)

Moana123 · 28/02/2019 08:48

What is the only independent country ending in the letter h?

Bangladesh

Kneehigim · 28/02/2019 08:48

Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick

FriendOrFaux · 28/02/2019 08:49

P&O stands for Peninsular and Orient.
All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
Antarctica is technically a desert.
First Prime Minister was Robert Walpole.