I do plan to write about the rest of my weekend trip, but I won’t have time to sort out the photos for my next post before going to the quiz tonight, so for today you’ll have to make do with some more Tuesday trivia. Here are today’s 10 random facts.
- The Sesame Street character Oscar the Grouch was originally orange. He became green in Season 2.
- Sir Cliff Richard (birth name Harry Rodger Webb) will release his 100th album on 11 November 2013. He is is the only artist to have had at least one UK top five album in each of the last seven decades (1950s-2010s).
Mr. Banks, is that you? (Photo: Wikipedia) - James Avery, who plays Will Smith’s uncle (Philip Banks) on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was also the voice of Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series.
- Botanically speaking, a strawberry is not a berry… but a banana is.
- Depending on the species, a jellyfish is between 95 and 98% water.
- A group of hyenas is known as a Cackle – very appropriate!
- Kazahkstan is the largest landlocked country by area. At 2,727,300 square kilometres (1,053,000 sq miles), its territory is larger than Western Europe!
- The Michelin Man has a name… it’s Bibendum, or Bib for short.
- Tina Turner’s real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
- The Visitors album by Abba was the first CD to be produced, in 1982
Knew a couple of these, but not most. Fascinating stuff!
Let’s see if any come up at the quiz 😀 (Actually, the Michelin Man one already has).
Very interesting! I only knew the Tina Turner one! Now I just need to find a pub quiz!
Don’t you have an Irish pub there? All our Irish pubs do them, but only the one we go to is what I consider a “proper” pub quiz.
Yeah, we have four Irish pubs! None of them do a quiz as far as I know though. I organised one a while ago but it was too stressful wondering if anyone would show up!
Booo 😦 Three of our four Irish pubs do a “Quiz” that consists of handing out a piece of paper with questions on then collecting them in and reading out the answers at the end. At the one I go to, the quiz master reads out the questions… the way it’s meant to be!
Yeah, that’s the proper way! Good luck tonight!
Love trivia. The hubby used to run a trivia show on Tuesdays with some of his friends and he’s a fountain of knowledge for “useless” facts. 🙂
Your hubby would be a very useful member of our team then! 😉
Oscar was orange? Whoa…. I wonder why they changed him. Maybe he was brighter than BIg Bird.
Or orange was too cheerful for a grouch?
Haha, those are awesome. I love learning facts like that!
Trivia is so fun 😀
Thank you for these – that’s 10 things I didn’t know before! 🙂
Glad you liked them. There’ll be more next month 😉