The Uselsess Trivia Archive

If you would like to submit you're own pearls of wisdom please e-mail me (manleys@yap.dcs.gla.ac.uk).

You can also try this weeks Trivia quiz- this month it is on television.

1. The Artist Formerly Known As Prince has often made public his contract problems with Warner Brothers. The cover of the Purple Medley has a hidden message saying Help Me.
2. A black hole has no hair. This is a very important theorem apparently since it many other laws in black hole physics are based on this.
3. Venus was once thought to be a lush jungle world. Nowadays we know that an unprotected person on the surface would be crushed, broiled, corroded before he or she could suffocate.
4. Harrison Ford was once a carpenter.
5. LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emmision of Radiation.
6. The USA has more lawyers than the rest of the world put together!
7. The dye saffron comes from the crocus.
8. Forest Gump is now the 3rd highest grossing film ever, it's just passed Star Wars.
9. Dolphins are mammals, not fish.
10. The Enola Gay was the name of the bomber which dropped the atomic bomb which levelled Hiroshima.
11. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid.
12. According to particle physics electrons and other elementary particles have no internal structure and therefore cannot be split. However som simple experiments in quantum mechanics can force elementary particles to take more than one route from one place to another. i.e. the one particle splits to go in all the directions available. (please don't e-mail me with any attempts to explain this since I know all about it having just studied quantum physics for 4 years.
13. Apparently at a wedding in Sudan, a number of the guests saluted the bride &groom by firing their guns into the air. One guest with an AK-47 automatic rifle managed to fall off his camel and kill several other guests.
14. Jean Alesi finally managed to get a first place finish at the Canadian Grand Prix, It was his 91st race, he won it on his birthday in car no. 27, the same number as Gilles Villeneuve, the first GP winner at Canada. Also the win put Ferrari back on top as the racing team with more F1GP wins than any other, - they beat McLaren incidently.
15. Also Michael Shumacher is the first German driver to have won a German grand prix race.
16. Bill Gates is the Antichrist FACT!
17. The last fact is not entirely true.
18. The current superbowl Champions The San Francisco 49'rs have just been beat in the first pre-season exhibition game....
19. England should not have won the 1966 world cup. Scientists have proved that the ball did not go in for the winning goal. Oh yeah, and Scotland beat them in the next game that they played after the final.