I am going to a quiz tonight. Give me facts

[PseudoBadger]

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?

Have forgotten the answers but learn the names of all Spanish art galleries, and all their contents.

Unless you want to be shamed by a know-it-all teen.

Also, literature questions will all be on films. And film questions will all be pre-1960.

1984: British ice couple score Olympic gold. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have been crowned the Olympic ice skating champions after scooping gold in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

Childish Gambino won a Grammy for This Is America.

Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years.

The first country to land a space craft on the moon was the USSR.

The rival gangs in West Side Story are the Sharks and the Jets

France’s longest land border is with Brazil

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The film went on to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards at the 48th Oscar ceremony. These include the Best Actor for Jack Nicholson, Best Actress for Louise Fletcher, Best Direction for Forman, Best Picture, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman

If you travel West on the Panama Canal you start in Pacific and finish in the Atlantic (totally counter intuitive) www.thoughtco.com/direction-of-ships-through-panama-canal-4071875

Expect Oscars and Brit Awards to feature heavily.

France’s longest land border is with Brazil

Explain this one to me!

The shard is 310 meters tall

The dot above a lower case i and j is called a tittle.

Fastest Insect I the world is Tiger Beetle.
Smallest City population in UK is St.Davids.

Harry Potter is usually a question somewhere in there.

Tittle has made me giggle lol.

The most popular song in 2018 was God’s Plan by Drake

First female bishop in Cumbria was consecrated yesterday- Reverend Doctor Emma Ineson. She’s now the Bishop of Penrith. Amazingly it was only 4 years ago that the first CofE bishop was consecrated- Right Reverend Libby Lane who was installed as Bishop of Stockport but has recently (11th Feb) been announced as Bishop of Derby.

No idea why those facts stick out to me, possibly because I watched breakfast news for several hours yesterday morning whilst waiting for the coffee to kick in. It still hasn’t 😂

What city was called New Amsterdam?

What is Nylon short for?

Bloody amazing stuff!

The largest organ in the body? The skin

The most common street name in the U.K.? High street

What was Enid Blyton's real name? Darrell Waters

What is the theory of relativity? E=mc2

How many bones are in the human body? 206

I love quizzes, haven't been to one for years. My dad was on loads on the tele when I was a kid

What was Enid Blyton's real name?Darrell Waters

Do you have a link for that??

Darrell Rivers was the main character in Malory Towers but I’m pretty sure Enid Blyton’s real name is Enid Blyton!

The Southern lights are called the Aurora Australis

Sweden has a land border with which countries?

Phoebe counted 66 colours in her bedroom.

(Those in the know, you're welcome for the ear worm )

but I’m pretty sure Enid Blyton’s real name is Enid Blyton!

Google agrees!!

The aboriginal word for Ayres rock is Uluru

Angel has the longest escalators on the underground