hyacinth_black wrote:

LOTS OF TRIVIA EXCEPT FOR ONE THAT I DID NOT KNOW BEFORE

Thats pretty impressive

The only one I knew before was the Alfred Hitchcock one.

Now for more fun facts:

Male scorpions fertilised the female ones by coming on the ground and dragging the female over it?

That in Sardinia, the local delicacy is maggots on pecorino cheese?

If you were placed on top of Mt. Everest without the weeks of acclimatising, you would suffocate within a few minutes from the lack of oxygen?

More people die from eating sharks than from being eaten BY sharks?

That scientists have been trying to genetically engineer actual Blue Roses without any true success?

Last edited by Tamago (12-29-2006 09:36:40 PM)

This thread has the potential to make me sad.

Anyway I heard a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. It's a legume so in the same family as beans.

(The bit about Donald Duck is false, by the way. )

Haha, Yeah, Tamago, this board would clean up on a trivia game. Want some more Disney stuff? Sure ya do:

Lilo and Stitch was the first animated film since Bambi to use watercolor backgrounds (Disney film at least)

In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston was originally supposed to be the hunter that killed Bambi's mother (this was scrapped, because  they thought it might be too traumatizing)

Susan Egan is the first actress to have played a Disney heroine on stage and in film -as the voice of Megara in Hercules, and as Belle on Broadway.

Beauty and the Beast is the first time that a movie and a stageshow based on the movie have opened on the same day (Beauty and The Beast LIVE! at Disney MGM Studios (one of the places I used to work , hence why so much BatB trivia)

Beauty and The Beast was the first animated feature to ever be nominated for Best Film Oscar

Walt Disney was given a special Achievement Oscar for his work on Snow White -it consisted of one regular sized statue, and seven "dwarf" Oscars (presented by Shirley Temple).

Chris Sanders, the creator, producer and lead animator for Lilo And Stitch was the lead designer for Mulan, as well as a chief story artist for -duh dun duh- Beauty and the Beast! (When I was very serious about working in animation, he was my hero -he still is )

The Little Mermaid was the last hand animated feature produced by Disney. Starting with Beauty and the Beast, the switch was made to the original animation program, CAPS. Still, The Little Mermaid has the distinction of having the first attempt by Disney of computer animation -a very brief scene where Ariel is running down the staircase jsut in time to hear Eric's announcement of his wedding to "Vanessa."

The sidewalks at EPCOT are a pink concrete specifically mixed to make grass look greener.

Also, botanists, or whatever they're called when they make new plants, at WDW created a spcial strain of grass that grows about 1 inch per year in typical florida weather -it's vacumed every night.

Ask me about a disney film. I can probably tell you something you don't know. But stick with animated features -that's kinda' my specialty.

p.s. what's in a screaming orgasm? the drink, I mean. ;)

I'm afraid the blue rose thing isn't true anymore - they were successfully engineered in 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_rose

You can buy them here, http://www.blueroseflorist.com/ but they only ship to the Toronto area.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Several species of African frogs can swap genders.

The first mahou shoujo anime to air was Mahou no Princess Minky Momo.

Bustenhalter is the German word for bra.

In Chicago on St. Patrick's Day they dye the river green.

Appalachian State University won the D-II NCAA Football Championship this year, for the second year in a row; they defeated UMass Amherst to win.

The sports rivalry among the North Carolina universities of UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State, and Wake Forest is known as Tobacco Road, although it is generally confined to their basketball teams.

Speaking of NC State, when they were defeated by Georgia Tech in a football game at home during the early 1990's the Georgia Tech team took down one of the goalposts, carried it up the berm, and carried it off into the night down the street.

Evgeni Plushenko won the silver medal in Men's Figure Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

The Boston Red Sox were originally known as the Boston Americans, and then the Boston Somersets, before officially becoming known as the Red Sox in 1907.

The Moravians, a Christian denomination, actually broke with the Catholic Church before the Protestant Reformation.

Well, Snopes does confirm some things to be true. And The Straight Dope is great for random things too.

morosemocha wrote:

p.s. what's in a screaming orgasm? the drink, I mean. ;)

1 part Vodka
1/2 part Kahlua
1 1/2 parts Baileys Irish Cream

I wish I knew what was involved in making a 'Fake Orgasm' but I am unaware of whats involved.

ShatteredMirror wrote:

I'm afraid the blue rose thing isn't true anymore - they were successfully engineered in 2004.

Shatter-kun I checked those sites and they say that they didn't create a true Blue rose, ther nearest was a dark burgundy rose and the other site mentions that they use white rose buds that are cut from the plant and cultivated in a blue solution for a short time so that the blue colour can grow into the petals.

So they cannot create a true Blue Rose just yet.

A Day Without Me wrote:

Several species of African frogs can swap genders.

Well did you know that the Australian Barramundi fish are all born male but grow up to become female? (I guess that makes me a reverse human barramundi then)

Wow! there sure has been a lot of freaky trivia been displayed recently..... cool!

The air speed velocity of an African sparrow is eqivelent to...ah hell if I know.

I'm with Lightace, I know pleanty of random facts, but trivia wise...
Maybe if I can think of a topic I can raddle of some things.

The Chik-Fil-A Bowl is the new name for what was formerly known as the Peach Bowl

Duke University's football team has lost twenty games in a row over two seasons.

Georgia Tech's school colors are known as the Old Gold and White.

The two schools that Wake Forest University's football team lost to in the regular season lost their bowl games (Clemson lost to South Carolina, and VaTech to Georgia).

Although UNC-Chapel Hill's sports teams are called the Tarheels, their mascot is actually a ram.

Elon University opened their law school this year.

North Carolina A&T hosts the Air Force ROTC unit of 13 area colleges.

The University of Tennesee at Knoxville uses a lottery system to determine which students can get tickets to home football games despite boasting the largest college football stadium in the nation.

UT-Knoxville's football stadium seats 107,000 people.

Rice University has the smallest undergrad class of all NCAA Division-I schools.

morosemocha wrote:

Cary Grant's real name was Archibald Leach, and in the movie Arsenic and Old Lace, there was a tombstone with that name on it, in his honor.

There was also a nice reference to it in "His Girl Friday"--Grant said something along the lines of "THAT'S WHAT OLD ARCHIE LEACH SAID TO ME BEFORE HE DROPPED DEAD." I couldn't stop laughing.

Tamago wrote:

That HTML was invented in 1989?

Are you kidding me? That was the year I was born. I knew me'n HTML were meant for each other. We have so much in common!

The main impediment to the creation of a useful rail-gun is the overheating of the gun which causes the rails to melt.

Samsung has phased out the service light feature on their cellphones.

People actually drive better after having one drink than they do when they have no drinks.

Nessy wrote:

Tamago wrote:

That HTML was invented in 1989?

Are you kidding me? That was the year I was born. I knew me'n HTML were meant for each other. We have so much in common!

Nope! I'm not kidding and I'm glad that this tidbit of information has made your day