69 Ways To Be A Trivia God

Hope your new year got off to a great start. Congratulations on making it to another one. As we look forward to what this year holds and bask in our plans to make it a fantastic one, let’s not forget to count our blessings.

One year’s parties are behind us while another year’s parties waits in the wings. So while my brain tries its best to vacation, we both want to help you build up your trivia for all of the parties you will attend this year. (See, my brain is always thinking ahead. Get it?)

Continue your celebration and enjoy.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

There are no turkeys in Turkey.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

In Hong Kong, a woman whose husband cheats on her has the legal right to kill him, but she is only allowed to use her bare hands.

In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

85 percent of men who died of heart failure during intercourse turned out to have been cheating on their wives.

In India, it is cheaper to pay for a prostitute than it is to buy a condom.

A brand of condoms was named after pharaoh Ramses, who had more than 160 children.

The woman who holds the record number of child births had 69 children.

Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.

The youngest parents in the world were eight and nine and they lived in China around the year 1910.





The U.S. government claims to have no knowledge of aliens, yet Title 14, section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. They mate up to 50 times a day.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

The average number of quills on a porcupine is 30,000.

The average hen lays 227 eggs a year.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. (Please don’t clip your hair to taste it.)

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet. (So why not put a note in there reading, “What are you looking for?)

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight."

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase mind your P's and Q's"

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless they had consent of the King (unless they were in the Royal Family.) When anyone wanted to have a baby, they had to get consent from the King and the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door which read Fornication Under Consent of the King.

12 newborns are given to the wrong parents daily.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.

315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.

A mayfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling.)

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

Moths are not really attracted to light, they fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

People are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

Ancient Egyptian Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes to show their ‘pure’ devotion to the images of the gods.

The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.

A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.