To ask for your most useless fact?

[NotChrisTarrant]

Rather importantly, I’ve been named Christmas Quiz Master 2019.

This is a ridiculous tradition in our family to have the most bonkers quiz, names go in the hat for Quiz Master and this year I lost won!

So can you please share the most useless piece of information /fact you know?

I will beat the bastards this year. It’s my year!

Last year my sister had a quiz which consisted of us having to name that tune.... after she played it on a bleeding recorder. It was terrible and fantastic - yes there was lots of wine.

Which famous composer’s son is lead singer of the band “toto”?

I used to be 5'6" tall.

What was Noel Edmunds swap shop number.
018118055.

But I don’t know our home phone number.

I can give you endless facts about UK Scouting.

Such as Scouts can get a Pulling badge.
There is no camping badge in Cubs.
Beavers need 6 Challenge badges to get their Chief Scout Award

@Dilkhush Cleave is not the only word that does that. The word sanction was the first other one I thought of, then I did a quick Google and found dozens here - a list that could form the basis of a question op

@uharefouxisci Thank you, this is completely fascinating and has sorted my reading for the evening. I'm particularly struck that Factoid appears on the list, very appropriately in this case!

Not really a quiz question but this is a link to the world population clock which is live. Fascinating to watch the numbers tick round www.worldometers.info/world-population/

You can't lick your own elbow.

The eyes are the only body part that don't change size.

As in, if you farted 605 times, you would die? Or if you inhaled 605 farts?!

Or heard them?

@AdaColeman 365. 12 Days of Christmas

I can lick my elbow!

Most toilets flush in E flat.

Montana is the only one of the 48 contiguous US States not to have had a battleship named for it,

The lesser tree-shrew doesn't sleep.

Oops, that wasn't true... I don't know where I got that from. 😳

Neither Liverpool nor Everton have beaten a team above them in the league this season

reddit.app.link/6L9aVpayz1 20k of them....beware you may lose hours

What's postman pats surname?
Clifton
Where was the last dual in Scotland held?
Auchtertool
Do Scottish people have a larger or smaller toe next to the big toe?
Larger as in the Olden days it's was for balance walking on the hills
I'll think of more later

What is a gossypiboma

Something a surgeon leaves in your body after surgery

Female giraffes are so disinterested in sex that they will often walk away halfway through, leaving the male to crash to the ground.

So I suppose my useless fact is that male giraffes don’t really bring it in the bedroom.

Marzipan contains cyanide

The number google is 10 to the power of 100, i.e. 1 followed by 100 zeros.

No a googOL is, Google is a search engine with a spelling error. But that would give you another question.

Ayers Rock has been called Uluru for decades in Australia, it is officially Ayres Rock / Uluru but on TV and in newspapers Ayer Rock is usually dropped. Recently the local Aboriginal tribe (Pitjantjatjara Anangu) have succeeded in stopping people climbing it as it is a sacred site and they do not climb it themselves. I suppose it would be a bit like using Westminster Abbey to practice rock climbing.

The longest country name with no repeated letters is Switzerland.

What is the name of the murder victim in Cluedo?

Dr Black