Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Exe Gesis]

 

[Reynolds Number]

The last Blockbuster Video store in Australia, in Morley WA just closed down. There is only one Blockbuster left in the world.

 

[Reynolds Number]

Maoris and other Polynesians originated from the Taiwanese indigenous peoples.

 

[ioppolo]

Maoris and other Polynesians originated from the Taiwanese indigenous peoples.

You can see the correlation, not too surprising really

 

[Gough]

The last Blockbuster Video store in Australia, in Morley WA just closed down. There is only one Blockbuster left in the world.

Friday nights at the video store blueing with your family about what videos to rent was a rites of passage thing for 80s kids.

 

[GreyCrow]

Solved by the 6 weeklies for $10 deal

 

[Gough]

Solved by the 6 weeklies for $10 deal

Then you'd forget to take them back and before you knew it you had to travel to Salisbury to find a video shop you didn't have fines at.

 

[PT Bar None]

Friday nights at the video store blueing with your family about what videos to rent was a rites of passage thing for 80s kids.

Friday nights in the Katherine video store (there was just the one) during the 90's. You wanted to hit it up straight after work. Otherwise you'd be stuck with Ernest goes to the Beach. Again.

 

[Exe Gesis]

nostalgia is a terrible thing

 

[Scotland]

Shane Woewodin holds the AFL record for the highest average number of games played per season. Surprising considering he only played 11 finals in 9 years.

That's highest average number of games, not highest number of average games.

 

[Mr X]

Shane Woewodin holds the AFL record for the highest average number of games played per season. Surprising considering he only played 11 finals in 9 years.

That's highest average number of games, not highest number of average games.

That record belongs to Jordan Murdoch

 

[Mofra]

Liam Picken finishes his career on 198 games - 99 wins, 99 losses.
Brian Royal finished on 199 games and 299 goals.

 

[Scotland]

Picken played 4 games and 194 practice games AFAIC.

 

[Mofra]

Italy produces more Kiwifruit each year than New Zealand does

 

[SaltPeter]

Italy produces more Kiwifruit each year than New Zealand does

Kiwifruit are in fact Chinese Gooseberries, imported to NZ from China in the early 1900's

 

[worbod]

In 1853 in Pennsylvania an all women's university was established named Beaver College. It changed its name in 2001.

 

[DroopStDanny]

 

[Exe Gesis]

 

[Gough]

Explains sex on coke and some of the bad choices made.

 

[The Goon]

Italy produces more Kiwifruit each year than New Zealand does

Kiwifruit doesn’t come from New Zealand, it’s just a rebrand of Chinese Gooseberries.


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[Exe Gesis]

Kiwifruit doesn’t come from New Zealand, it’s just a rebrand of Chinese Gooseberries.


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http://time.com/4662293/kiwifruit-chinese-gooseberry-new-zealand-history-fruit/

 

[Exe Gesis]

 

[Exe Gesis]

Eighteen sixty-nine

 

[akkaps]

By adding the phoneme /n/ to the start of the number ‘eight’ of these languages, it produces the word ‘night’.

Language | translation of eight | translation of night\
French | huit | nuit\
German | acht | Nacht\
Dutch | acht | nacht\
Spanish | ocho | noche\
Portuguese | oito | noite\
Norwegian | åtte | natt\
Swedish | åtta | natt\
Romanian | opt | noapte\
Afrikaans | agt | nag\
Italian | otto | notte\
Latin | octo | noctis\
Hindi | aath | raat\
Punjabi | atha | rata

 

[RedmanWasHere]

$185.85 is the highest/lowest amount of money using only one piece of each money type's value.

Someone else can word this better than me.