Complete the useless fact, if you can!

[Elendil_s_Heir]

What’s a discovered check (other than something from your bank which you’re surprised to find at the bottom of a drawer)?

[Chronos]

Discovered check is when you make a move that puts your opponent in check, but he’s in check from some other piece from the one you moved. For instance, if I have my rook in one corner of the board, and the enemy’s king is in an adjacent corner, with nothing in between except my bishop, if I move my bishop, then the king will be in check from the rook.

[glee]

@Elendil_s_Heir

What’s a discovered check (other than something from your bank which you’re surprised to find at the bottom of a drawer)?

@Chronos

Discovered check is when you make a move that puts your opponent in check, but he’s in check from some other piece from the one you moved. For instance, if I have my rook in one corner of the board, and the enemy’s king is in an adjacent corner, with nothing in between except my bishop, if I move my bishop, then the king will be in check from the rook.

Quite so.

And if the piece moving out of the way (to reveal check) gives check itself, that’s called ‘double check’.

Next one:

In international sport, America would play the Cook Islands at …?

[Alive_At_Both_Ends]

@glee

In international sport, America would play the Cook Islands at …?

Rugby union?

[Sternvogel]

@glee

Quite so.

And if the piece moving out of the way (to reveal check) gives check itself, that’s called ‘double check’.

Next one:

In international sport, America would play the Cook Islands at …?

As I recall, the Cook Islands has an Association football (soccer) team, which could theoretically play the USA in the World Cup if both sides advanced through regional qualifying.

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@Sternvogel

As I recall, the Cook Islands has an Association football (soccer) team, which could theoretically play the USA in the World Cup if both sides advanced through regional qualifying.

Ah, I didn’t know that.
I’ve actually seen both the US and the Cook Islands in the same international sporting event. If they didn’t play, it was only because they were in different qualifying pools.

@Alive_At_Both_Ends

Rugby union?

Right, but I need a little more detail…

[Larry_Mudd]

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. averred that he often found himself “thinking fond thoughts of Marlene [Dietrich],” prompted by observations of waitstaff carrying salad vinaigrette. This Proustian association was a consequence of __________________.

[DMC]

@Larry_Mudd

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. averred that he often found himself “thinking fond thoughts of Marlene [Dietrich],” prompted by observations of waitstaff carrying salad vinaigrette. This Proustian association was a consequence of __________________.

Must you be such a douche?

[Dead_Cat]

@DMC

Must you be such a douche?

[Trepa_Mayfield]

Springs1?

[Indistinguishable]

involuntary memory

[DMC]

@Dead_Cat

I was hoping that Larry Mudd would catch that right away, as I thought he might get a laugh out of it, but to clear things up…

@Vanity Fair

Dietrich, on the other hand, was an intrepid and pliant lover. When her daughter asked her later in life why she had had so many sexual partners, Marlene responded with a shrug and said, “They asked.” She clearly thrived on pleasing her partners and didn’t believe in condoms, finding men “so grateful when you tell them they don’t have to wear it.” Once she discovered diaphragms, she called them “the greatest invention since Pan-Cake makeup.” Until then, she had sworn by her secret weapon against pregnancy: douching with ice-cold water and wine vinegar, which she carried with her by the case everywhere she went. (Decades later another of her co-stars and grand amours, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., warmly recalled their “lovely liaison,” adding, “You know, sometimes when I am in a restaurant and a waiter walks by with a salad vinaigrette, I’ll find myself thinking fond thoughts of Marlene.”)

[DMC]

Key West is the city with the most _________________ cats per capita in the U.S.

[Trepa_Mayfield]

@DMC

Key West is the city with the most _________________ cats per capita in the U.S.

Feral?

[gonzomax]

@DMC

Key West is the city with the most _________________ cats per capita in the U.S.

6 toed

[DMC]

@gonzomax

6 toed

Polydactyl cats is indeed correct.

If you have _______________, you either have three _____________, or you’ve got something that will soak up quite a bit of water.

[glee]

@glee

In international sport, America would play the Cook Islands at …?

@Alive_At_Both_Ends

Rugby union?

Right, but I need a little more detail…

**In international sport, America would play the Cook Islands at Rugby Union …? **