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?

I just did a quick Oscars, Brits and Baftas revision

No song drawn at number two in the running order has ever won the Eurovision Song Contest.
Cyprus is the country to have entered most times without winning.

A mule is a female horse and male donkey cross. A hinny is a female donkey male horse cross.

The world's largest producer of tyres is... Lego

1985: Three different Number One singles with the same title: The Power of Love

South Africa does not have a capital city.

No British Prime Minister has ever been to an English university other than Oxford or Cambridge.

I love the fact about the Panama Canal. It's mind blowing to hear it, but then when you look on a map it makes sense.

"P&O, as in the ferries stands for Pioneer and Orient"

No

Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

And Qantas is Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Services

@TaMereAPoilDevantPrisu this is a guess, but Rwanda? (I know they're really hot on equality)

Leader of the House of Commons? John Bercow

No, Bercow is the Speaker. Andrea Leadsom is the Leader

In the episode "Smith and Jones", Dr Who meets Martha Jones. The hospital they are in is transported to the moon.
When you see the empty space where the hospital stood, it is actually the site of St Thomas' Hospital in London (opposite the Houses of Parliament).

if you hear twit twoo of an owl it is actually 2 owls talking to each other. the female says twitt, the male answers her hoo hooooo

Postman pats real name is Mr Patrick Clifton.

only one lake in The Lake District.

^^

If you travel east from New York you land in Portugal

Russia has boundaries with 14 countries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (via the Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea.

Following on from the fact about Herman

Following on from the fact about Herman Melville writing Moby Dick, the singer Moby is his great-great-great-great (and breathe...) nephew and is named after the book.

Oops! Maybe that was a sort of reverse echo

[waves smelling salts at MissTook] don't panic, there are many many large bodies of water in the Lake District, but only one (Bassenthwaite Lake) is actually officially called a lake.

Cherie Blair's Great Great Great Great Uncle was John Wilkes Booth who shot President Lincoln

There's always one about whose birthday is it today.

7 of the 10 wealthiest human beings who have ever existed were Normans (that’s their nationality, not their names .

According to QI anyway ........

A rope of spider silk as thick as a pencil could stop a Boeing 747 mid-flight.

I suspect from a lot of these facts that there must be some other fans of No Such Thing As A Fish on this thread...😆

First episode of coronation street was on the 9th December 1960.
Thinking day is the 22nd February and is lord and lady baden powells birthday.