Pub Trivia Thread

Valentino Rossi, (born February 16, 1979 in Urbino),is an Italian professional motorcycle racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with 9 Grand Prix World Championships to his name.Rossi is first in all time 500 cc/MotoGP race wins standings, with 77 victories, and second in all time overall wins standings with 103 race wins (behind Giacomo Agostini with 122).

Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi (born October 23, 1966) is an Italian racing driver. He won two CART championship titles in North America during the late 1990s. He also had a less successful career as a Formula One driver. More recently, he has attracted widespread praise for his return to competition in the aftermath of a crash in 2001 that resulted in the amputation of his legs. He returned to racing less than two years after the accident, competing in the FIA World Touring Car Championship for BMW Team Italy-Spain between 2003 and 2009.

One of his most famous wins came at Laguna Seca for the final race of the 1996 season, where he conducted a highly risky overtaking move at the Corkscrew corner (known to many racing fans as 'The Pass' the maneuver was banned for future years), on race leader Bryan Herta, having fought his way through the field.

Alex has also completed multiple marathons in the handbike class including the 2007 NY marathon.

(the mans a legend)

The 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley,California,was the first sporting event to feature an instant replay.

Croquet was an event at the 1900 Olympic Games.

Margerine is actually grey.its dyed yellow to look like butter.

Iconic American cigarettes marlboro are named after Londons Great Marlborough street where they were first made.

John Surtees, OBE (born 11 February 1934 in Tatsfield, Surrey) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver from England. He remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels.

With:-
3 Grand Prix motorcycle racing world Championships in the 350cc class -
1958,1959,1960
4 Grand Prix motorcycle racing world Championships in the 500cc class -
1956,1958,1959,1960

1 Formula One World Championship - 1964

More babies in Britain are born on christmas eve than on any other day of the year.

Every year,Americans spend a total of nearly £17billion on beer.

OJ Simpson was the original choice to play Arnold Schwarzenegger's role in The Terminator.

In Singapore,its illegal to sell chewing gum.

Tom Selleck was originally cast as Indiana Jones for the movie "Raiders of the lost ark" by George Lucas, but Tom could'nt get released from his contract at CBS who produced Magnum P.I.

so after Steven Spielberg suggested Harrison Ford again who was his first choice, Lucas gave in and Harrison Ford was cast 3 weeks before filming started.

on average over the past year,a new chemical has been invented or discovered every 2.6 seconds.

statistically,you have a 1 in 20000 chance of being murdered...lol a cheerful thought.

A ufo is spotted every three minutes.Oh look there goes one.lol

A shuttlecock can reach speeds of 200mph when smashed in a rally.