Complete the useless fact, if you can!

It’s the Trivia show that useless facts always wanted to have!

Fill in the blanks to posted incomplete useless facts. After doing so, If the fact is not fully explained, add the needed context.

As always, feel free to add your own as well.


There are 293 ways to _________ A US _________ .

Of Giraffe, Buffalo, and Gorilla, the only one that does not have an **appreciated ** reason to say three times in a row is __________ .

There are 293 ways to bribe a US Senator.

I would have thought the number would be much higher than that.

The giraffe, since the scientific name of the American buffalo is Bison bison bison and that of the Western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

There’s actually a pretty good reason to say Buffalo more than three times in a row, given that this is a grammatically correct sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. :smiley:

I posted that one, knowing “Gorilla gorilla gorilla” and winterhawk’s buffalo (Ad nauseam.)

I Didn’t know that Bison … was the same way.

Let me see if I can parse that:
“Bison from upstate New York whom other bison from upstate New York confuse, themselves confuse other bison from upstate New York.”

And the first one is that there are 293 ways to change a US dollar.

Only one in 400 (adjective) (plural noun) is female.

We have a winner! :slight_smile:

Orange cats.

I think that’s one in ten. But it’s funny, that’s the first thing I thought, too. Cause I used to have one, my dear Miss Tigress.

Hmm…bearded persons?

My guess was either colorblind or hemophiliac people. But it could probably also be “mechanical engineers”.

Ding. But I got that secondhand off the SDMB recently, so YMMV.

Only one in 400 people on the internet who claims to be female is female?

I don’t know if you’re joking or not here, but there’s no way that’s a true fact, even if it’s what the answer is.

I’ve known enough claimed women that are confirmed women online relative to the claimed and confirmed men online that I’d be extremely surprised if that were the case.

You can play Tetris on (machine).

Cell phones? Office building lighting panels? Babbage analytical difference engines? I’m not sure there’s ever been any information-processing machine that hasn’t had Tetris ported onto it.

There are 293 ways to leave a US lover.

(Since Paul Simon wrote the song, inflation has struck!)

And a new one:

In chess only the queen cannot … …

… be attacked by the king.