Useful Useless Trivia Trivia Quiz

Answer: 336

The number of dimples on a golf ball can range from 300-500, however, the most common on a regulation golf ball is 336. There are 108 double stitches on a baseball. An American dime has 118 ridges around the edge and there are about 270 bones at birth but some are eventually fused together. In adulthood the body has 206 bones.

Answer: Queen Isabella of Spain

Queen Isabella of Spain was the first women to appear on a US Postage stamp. She appeared on seven issues in 1893. Martha Washington was the first American women to appear on an eight cent stamp in 1902. Pocahontas appeared on a five cent stamp in 1907 and Clara Barton appeared on a three cent stamp in 1948. There were other women who appeared on stamps from Pocahontas to Clara Barton.

Answer: Maine

Maine is the only state in the USA that has only one syllable. There is a US territory that has one syllable and that is Guam. Utah has two syllables U-tah, Ohio has three syllables O-hi-o and Iowa has three syllables I-o-wa.

Answer: They are former names of English Kings

Their birth names are James Paul McCartney (James I and II) , John Winston Lennon (King John), Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr)- (King Richard I, II and III) and George Harrison (King George I - VI).
John's father was named Alfred and George's father was named Harold.

Answer: Gaggle

The name for geese when in flight is "skein". A "troop" is a group of baboons and a "cloud" is a group of grasshoppers.

Answer: 10:10

The main reasons why they are at 10:10 is that it is symmetrical and the brain adapts to this. Plus, in this position, any key markings on the watch, like name or brand logos etc. can be easily seen.

Answer: Mohammed/Muhammad

It is estimated that their are over 150 million men and boys named Mohammed/Muhammad in the world. Li/Lee are the most common surnames in the world. James and Mary are the most common Christian names for boys and girls in the US based on the records over the past 100 years (1918-2017) by Social Security Card applications.

Answer: Princess Anne

Timothy Laurence (a naval officer) married Princess Anne in December 1992. Timothy retired in 2011 as a Vice Admiral. Whitney Houston married singer and song-writer Bobby Brown in 1992 and they divorced in 2007. Michelle Robinson married the future US President, Barack Obama, on October 3, 1992. Courtney Love married Kurt Cobain on February 24, 1992 in Hawaii. They were married until his death in 1994.

Answer: 20

"Rip Van Winkle" was a short story by Washington Irving about a young farmer who went into the forest with his dog and came across some dwarfs. They gave him some liquor and he fell asleep for 20 years.
"Sleeping Beauty" was to sleep for 100 years before being waked by a kiss from a Prince. In 1964 Randy Gardner kept awake without any stimulants for 264 hours (11 days). Six year old Elaine Esposito went into hospital in 1941 for a routine operation. She went into a coma for 37 years and 111 days. She was dubbed the "Sleeping Beauty".

Answer: 11

The fleet consisted of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict ships. The fleet left England for Rio de Janiero, then Capetown and arrived in Botany Bay 252 days later. 1420 people of men, women and children embarked on the voyage of which 789 were convicts.

There were three ships (Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria) when Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492 for the new land. There were 250 ships involved from Great Britain and Germany during the WWI "Battle of Jutland" in May/June 1916. The Second Fleet to Australia consisted of six ships (one Royal Navy escort, four convict and one supply ship) arriving in Sydney Cove in mid 1790.