Fionnuala and I went to a table quiz last night at our local rugby club, a fundraiser for Adam’s rugby tour to South Africa in 2020. There was a tremendous turnout and the event raised more than £1500 towards the trip. Fionnuala had a couple of cheeky glasses of wine while I stuck to the Diet Coke. Most surprising of all was that our team finished 2nd out of 17 entrants. Not bad considering our initial target was to ‘not finish last.’
I don’t know about you but isn’t it amazing the amount of useless information we cart about in the deepest recesses of our minds. Facts and figures that serve absolutely no purpose other than they pop into your head at times such as this. I found this during the sports round last night. Random facts about football, cricket and lacrosse. Lacrosse! I know nothing about lacrosse but, there I was, answering a question about it yesterday evening.
The same applied to the other team members, dragging obscure trivia from their noggins regarding geography, music and food and drink. Questions about cheese phobias, obscure African rivers and how many U.K. number one singles the Spice Girls had. Nine, no less! The human mind truly is a sponge, soaking up all this nonsense and spewing it out years down the road.
Our team ended up winning nine bottles of wine. That’s one for each Spice Girls hit. Plus Mrs Black won two store vouchers in the accompanying ballot. I felt like a high roller swaggering out of a Vegas casino as we trudged back to the car afterwards, laden down with our spoils of war. The wine will keep Fionnuala going until late 2022. Here’s to useless information and the mysteries of the human mind.
Is your mind full of useless information?
Black Thoughts 
Congratulations on a fantastic result. You are absolutely right about the trivia we store away. I’m not sure how we do it, but the brain is an incredible thing. ☺
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Absolutely nothing is useless.
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That’s true I guess.
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It’s amazing how much is up there in our heads until it starts spilling out. Why can’t I remember my passwords??? Looked like a great way to support your son’s passion.
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It was. I have to write all my passwords down and then I’ve forgotten where I’ve written them 😂
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OMG, I have so much useless information in my head I’m often embarrassed to let people know I’ve got the answer to that obscure question being raised. I’m known for this in my family and I take no credit with being gifted (?) for this kind of memory.
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We need you on our quiz team 😂
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Yes I’ve got a garbage bin brain. It’s stuffed full of useless facts. I’m quite useful at quiz nights. I think it is also handy to have being a writer.
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If I ever visit New Zealand we should enter a quiz 😊
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My husband is the well that we dive into for all kinds of “useless” information. As for me, I have a hard time recalling people’s names at the appropriate times. Oof! 😂
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Women are too busy organising their husbands lives to remember such nonsense 🙂
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Sigh… not this woman…. well, mostly not! 🙄
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Your post made me chuckle because it’s so true! Can’t remember the important things but trivia seems to be readily available.
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I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Thank you.
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Ahhh, forgetfulness, one of the few blessings of old age -we forget important stuff, but we also are cleansed of useless info. Now, what was the question, Stephen?
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I’ve no idea 😂
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I am always teasing my hubby about this. His trivia knowledge is quite something.
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Us men have our uses 😂
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You do indeed LOL
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Wowsers you clever lot! Well done 😄
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My brain is so full of useless information there is no room for anything else!
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Snap! 😂
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Haha! We call my mom the Fount of Useless Information.
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It’s Mother’s Day today in the U.K. Tell her Happy Mother’s Day from me.
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Ok, I will!
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So glad you both had fun!! I am a fountain of useless knowledge. Did you know a giraffe’s tongue is black?
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I think I did actually. But that’s good to know 😂
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