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CELEBRITY TRIVIA

CELEBRITY MISCELLANEOUS

(149 ENTRIES)

1)
Alberto Ascari, the Italian motor racing driver was very superstitious about the number 13. He was also terrified of black cats and would refuse to drive past one on the road. Instead he would turn his car around and go another route.

2)
Ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, thought that animals were created from a mixture of rotting flesh and mud.

3)
Racing driver, Johnny Herbert, who came 5th in the 1989 United States Grand Prix, was refused car hire in the US because he was under the age of 25.

4)
Olympic athlete, Roger Black, was not allowed out of the house when he was a young boy because of a heart defect.

5)
The Duke of Wellington once played for the All Ireland cricket team against Garrison in 1792, scoring 5 and 1.

6)
British comedian Alexei Sayle once had a job as a school dinner lady.

7)
Ancient philosopher, Aristotle, was very fond of eating camel meat.

8)
Forty four years after Captain Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition in 1912, an expedition in 1956 found a tin of Edam cheese left in the snow. When it was opened the cheese was still fit to eat.

9)
The champagne, Dom Perignon, is named after a blind Benedictine monk.

10)
Frenchman Nicephore Niepce, who took the world's first photograph was ironically almost blind.

11)
Laszlo Biro, the inventor of the ball point pen lost an absolute fortune after he forgot to patent his invention in the USA.

12)
Joseph Gayetty, who invented toilet paper in 1857, had his name printed on every sheet.

13)
British engineer James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine, was twice arrested for flashing in public.

14)
Alfred Nobel, the man who gave his name to the Nobel Peace Prize, was also responsible for inventing dynamite, the substance used to kill more people than anything else in the world.

15)
Thomas Crapper invented the modern flushing toilet during the 1880's.

16)
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb held nearly 1,300 patents by the time he died. He also had only three months of schooling during his entire lifetime.

17)
Sir Isaac Newton, the man who named the colours of the spectrum and discovered gravity named seven colours of the spectrum, even though indigo is barely distinguishable as a separate colour, because seven was his favourite number.

18)
French mathematician Blaise Pascal locked himself in his room for several days when he was a child and wouldn't allow anyone in. When he finally emerged he had worked out all of Euclid's geometrical theorems for himself.

19)
George Stephenson, the railway pioneer, once told MP's that trains would never go faster than 12 miles per hour. This was to allay public fears that if you went faster than 12 mph it would cause mental disorders.

20)
American escapologist Harry Houdini was actually the first person to fly solo in Australia. He had to teach himself how to drive so that he could get to the airfield , but after that he never drove again.

21)
Charles Lindbergh, the American aviation pioneer, took only four sandwiches with him to eat when he made his famous transatlantic flight.

22)
Captain Joshua Slocum, who became the first person to sail solo around the world in 1898, was actually a non-swimmer.

23)
It cost explorer, Christopher Columbus, less to equip and undertake three voyages of discovery to the new world, than it costs to buy a new car now.

24)
Henry Ford, the famous motor car manufacturer, was totally obsessed by his diet. During his lifetime he campaigned for synthetic milk, insisting that cows were on the verge of obsolescence because they were unhygienic.
He also maintained that eating sugar was tantamount to committing suicide because it's sharp crystals would probably cut a person's stomach to shreds.
He was also an advocate of the soya bean, once wearing an entire suit made from soya based products.

25)
Howard Hughes, the American Billionaire and Hollywood producer showed some strange behaviour during his lifetime.
He once dated some of the most beautiful women in the world including Elizabeth Taylor, Ginger Rogers, Ava Gardner and Lana Turner but during the last 15 years of his life he became a total recluse.
When he married his second wife he insisted that they have separate bedrooms and even separate refigerators.
He became obsessed with hygiene and never allowed anyone else to touch his food, not even his wife.
His doctor was only allowed to examine him from the other side of the room.
After he divorced his wife, Hughes lived in a bungalow in the desert near to Las Vegas and hired mormons to be his bodyguards to protect him from contamination. He was so terrified of germs that the few visitors he had were forced to stand in chalk drawn square outside the house before being allowed near the front door.
Hughes would never touch anything without first wrapping his hands in paper tissue.
He also stored all of his own urine in metal containers, labelling and dating each one of them.
Hughes then began living in a succession of anonymous hotel rooms when his desert retreat became too public, moving secretly in the dead of night strapped to a stretcher.
The windows of his hotel rooms were always darkened with tape and the only furniture he owned was a bed, a chair and movie equipment on which he watched the film 'Ice Station Zebra' starring Rock Hudson, 150 times.
Sometimes for days on end Hughes would eat only ice cream, staying with one flavour until all the parlours in the area ran out.
Only twice in ten years did he allow a barber to trim his hair and a manicurist to attend his nails. His beard hung down to his waist.
He only ever met three people between 1961 and his death in 1976.

26)
The infamous Marquis De Sade was the son of a nun.

27)
Monica Lewinski, the famous mistress of President Bill Clinton, was once voted 'The girl most likely to get her name in lights' while she was at school.

28)
Albert Einstein, the famous physicist, could not speak fluently when he was nine years old, which made his parents think that he was retarded.

29)
Walt Disney, the famous cartoonist, use to wash his hands every two minutes.

30)
Aristotle Onassis, once the richest man in the world started out working as a dishwasher in a restaurant in Buenos Aires.

31)
Notorious womaniser, Casanova, spent the final 13 years of his life working as a librarian.

32)
The famous lover, Casanova once met a pretty 17 year old girl named Leonilda. Wanting to get married, Casanova was introduced to her mother who fainted on the spot on seeing her future son-in-law.
The woman had been one of Casanova's sexual conquests 17 years earlier and he was about to marry his own daughter.

33)
In 1768, the famous English explorer, Captain Cook, lost nearly half his crew to scurvy during his first voyage to the South Pacific.

34)
Rasputin, of Russia, also known as the Mad Monk, close friend of the Tsar, had his penis hacked off after his assassination.

35)
British TV presenter and comedian, Vic Reeves, was once sacked from his job on a pig farm after it was found he wasn't strong enough to carry the 200lb bags of pig feed across the yard.

36)
British comedian and actor, Alexei Sayle, was once fired from his job as a school caretaker in Fulham after he was caught going home early when he should have still been working.

37)
British naval hero, Lord Horatio Nelson, the man who orchestrated the beating up of the French during the Battle of Trafalgar purchased 375 gallons of Port, in todays money worth £50,000, 6 weeks before the battle.

38)
In Hollywood, California, USA, Dr. Steven Hoefflin, plastic surgeon to the stars, went on trial after California's Medical authorities brought a case against him.
The court heard how Hoefflin had fondled Michael Jackson's genitals while under anaesthetic, saying "You know he's never used it!"
He also allegedly made slurs about Don Johnson's manhood, sniggering "Why would such a beautiful woman like Melanie Griffith settle for that?"

39)
Music rep, Bill Graham, who organised some of the biggest concerts in history including "The Rolling Stones", "Bruce Springsteen", "Jimi Hendrix", "U2" and many, many more was a bit of a miser.
Although a millionaire many times over, he would often be found on his hands and knees picking up any loose change that the crowd had dropped under their seats during a concert.
Graham once complained to an open-mouthed musician, "What a cheap crowd! I only got $5.98 today!"

40)
Billy Butlin, the famous Englishman, who created the huge holiday empire, Butlins, in the 1950's, always gave the impression that he was a clean cut family man type.
In real life he was a womaniser and when he was younger, a gangster. It was also rumoured that Billy always carried a cut throat razor for his own protection.

41)
Dr. J Harvey Kellogg, the brother of the corn flake king, Will Keith Kellogg, was convinced all of his life that a daily enema was essential for complete will being, even to the point of opening a huge clinic devoted to regular arse purges!

42)
Jocelyn Wildenstein, famous for her badly done plastic surgery, stunned the world with her demands from her husband during their bitter divorce.
She insisted on having their New York townhouse, French Chateau, 66,000 acre ranch in Kenya, the enormous art collection, and a gulfstream jet plane so that she could fly to Paris anytime to go shopping with her pet monkey and five greyhounds.
Her claim mainly rested on the fact that she was unable to make toast or even boil an egg!

43)
Thomas a Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 12th century England was once a master beer brewer at St. Albans Abbey. He was so well regarded for his skills that he led a brewers delegation to France in 1158.

44)
British TV newsreader, Fiona Armstrong was once conned out of £17,000 in an ostrich farming scam that she promoted.
Thousands of investors were told that they would make a 270% profit over five years if they paid £10,000 for a stud bird that would produce chicks to meet the huge demand for ostrich meat.
£5,000,000 was eventually siphoned off before anyone knew was happening!

45)
The father of British TV presenter Nicholas Parsons was a doctor and actually delivered Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

46)
British comedian Vic Reeves shares the same birthday as his father and his grandfather.

47)
British Supermodel Naomi Campbell never knew who her father was.

48)
The father of American escape artist Harry Houdini, was a rabbi.

49)
The father of British TV personality Michael Parkinson, was a miner.

50)
The father of Jackie Onassis was a homsexual.

51)
The mother of British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson made her living from selling Paddington Bear products.

52)
Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, Harry Houdini and Sir Isaac Newton all had a fixation with their mothers.

53)
US General Douglas MacArthur was made to dress as a girl for the first years of his life.

54)
British TV personalities Leslie Ash, Susan Hampshire, Anthea Turner and billionaire Sir Richard Branson all once suffered from dyslexia.

55)
Here are a few facts about the Barbie doll.
Her name is Barbara Millicent Roberts and if she was lifesize her measurements would be 39-23-33, she would be 7ft 2in tall and she would have a neck that is twice the length of a normal human being's neck.

56)
British nurse Florence Nightingale used to travel everywhere she went with a pet owl in her pocket.

57)
British actor Shane Richie lost his virginity when he was 12 years old.

58)
British nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow had to share a bed with his three younger brothers when he was living at home.

59)
British TV celebrity Johnny Vaughan is an honorary Redcoat at Butlins.

60)
US founding father Benjamin Franklin owned the very first bathtub in America!

61)
The philosopher Jeremy Bentham was very fond of his pet teapot.

62)
In 1933 the cartoon character Mickey Mouse received more fan mail than any human performer ever did.

63)
It was estimated that during their first year of marriage Aristotle Onassis spent more than $20 million dollars on Jackie Kennedy.

64)
US Billionaire Howard Hughes used to store his urine in large glass bottles in a garage near to his home.
He paid an assistant to account for and look after them.

65)
US cartoonist Walt Disney's middle name was Elias.

66)
US Billionaire Howard Hughes consumed the equivalent of 3,000 codeine tablets between 1966 and 1970.

67)
Christopher Columbus and Francis Drake owned their own slaves.

68)
Sigmund Freud suffered with very bad constipation most of his life.

69)
Car maker Henry Ford grew marijuana.

70)
Frank Lloyd Wright, the famous architect, once designed a buiding that was 1 mile high with 528 floors and decks for up to 300 helicopters.

71)
Sigmund Freud's wife doted on him so much that she would always put the toothpaste on his toothbrush for him.

72)
Wild West star Buffalo Bill is the most filmed star of all the western characters. He actually played himself 5 times.

73)
Popeye the sailor man was the very first cartoon character to have a statue erected in his honour. It was fixed in place with a mixture of cement and spinach.

74)
Aristotle Onassis used to work as a telephone operator before becoming the richest man in the world.

75)
Mary Stopes, the famous sex and birth control campaigner first learned about sex when she was 29 years old!

76)
Nobel prize winner Marie Curie's cat was poisoned to death after it crept into a cupboard in which an experiment was being housed.

77)
Howard Hughes's staff once left the air conditioning on in an empty house for eight years because Hughes had not told them to turn it off.

78)
US inventor and revolutionary Benjamin Franklin was actually a member of the Hellfire Club which organised elaborate orgies and satanic rites.

79)
Pythagoras firmly believed that some human souls were reincarnated into beans after death.

80)
English scientist Sir Isaac Newton used to solve problems in his sleep.

81)
17th century English scientist Francis Bacon believed that warm water froze more quickly than cold water!

82)
Galileo actually blinded himself because he looked at the sun for too long while using one of the first telescopes.

83)
The famous explorer Captain Cook was not the very first European to discover Australia. There were at least three people who landed there before him.

84)
When Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb became lovers they both exchanged pubic hair with one another.

85)
Cesare Borgia's wedding night was almost ruined by a practical joker who substituted his normal pills for a bunch of laxatives!

86)
Lord Byron's daughter turned out to be a brilliant mathematician who eventually helped to invent the very first computer.

87)
Epicurus, the ancient philosopher, was teaching female as well as male students in 300BC.

88)
US aviator Charles Lindburgh had a special fuel tank built onto the front nose of his plane during his historic flight across the Atlantic.
This was because if he had a crash he would not be crushed to death. It made visibility so difficult that he had to use a periscope to see where he was going.

89)
The Duke of Wellington was 83 years old when he began his last affair with another women.

90)
Artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci actually came up with the idea of the parachute in 1480. It took another 400 years before they were actually used by anyone.

91)
Contrary to popular belief Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet.

92)
Sigmund Freud was so terrible at working out the railway timetables that he always took a companion with him wherever he travelled.

93)
British radio D.J. Kid Jenson is related to author Robert Louis Stevenson.

94)
American General Colin Powell is related to King Edward I of England.

95)
British TV host Jonathon Ross is a collector of comic books.

96)
British radio D.J. Steve Wright is a collector of old radios.

97)
British comedian Vic Reeves is a collector of animal skulls.

98)
British TV host Michael Barrymore is a collector of tin plate toys.

99)
US actor Dustin Hoffman is a collector of antique toys.

100)
British actor Sid Owen is a collector of old fruit machines.

101)
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer is a collector of dried insects which she paints and frames.

102)
US comedienne Joan Rivers has her own brand of jewellery.

103)
Irish dancer Michael Flatley once had his legs insured for 25 million pounds.

104)
British comedian Ken Dodd once had his teeth insured for 4 million pounds.

105)
Famous British stargazer Sir Patrick Moore served as a navigator with Bomber Command during World War II and eventually reached the rank of flight lieutenant.

106)
Mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary served as a navigator in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.

107)
British TV star and radio D.J. Sir Jimmy Saville spent his time as a Bevin Boy in the coal mines during World War II.

108)
Motor racing commentator Murray Walker was a tank driver during World War II.

109)
British TV presenter Anthea Turner was bullied at school because of her posh accent.

110)
British comedian Norman Pace was bullied at school because he was too small.

111)
British musician Victoria Beckham was bullied at school because of her wealthy background and also because of her facial spots.

112)
British Supermodel Kate Moss was nicknamed "Mosschops" when she was at school.

113)
American Supermodel Cindy Crawford was nicknamed "Crawdaddy" when she was at school.

114)
US director Steven Spielberg was nicknamed "Retard" when he was at school.

115)
US Supermodel Elle Macpherson was nicknamed "Smelly Elly" when she was at school.

116)
British TV gardener Charlie Dimmock was nicknamed "Charlie Bubbles" because of her very curly hair.

117)
British TV presenter Davina McCall was nicknamed "Div" when she was at school.

118)
British TV presenter Jeremy Beadle was once expelled from school for hanging a pair of trousers on a flagpole.

119)
British TV star Dale Winton was named after the actor Dale Robertson.

120)
British TV star Gloria Hunniford was named after the actress Gloria Swanson.

121)
US TV star Oprah Winfrey was named after a character in the Bible called Orpah. Her name was misspelt on her birth certificate.

122)
US TV star Joan Rivers's real name is Joan Molinsky.

123)
Fashion designer Calvin Klein's real name is Richard Klein.

124)
British comedian Harry Hill's real name is Matthew Hall.

125)
US magician David Copperfield's real name is David Kotkin.

126)
British comedian Vic Reeves's real name is Jim Moir.

127)
US TV star Queen Latifah's real name is Dana Owens.

128)
Supermodel Elle Macpherosn's real name is Eleanor Gow.

129)
British TV star Bobby Davro's real name is Robert Nankeville.

130)
British TV star Les Dennis's real name is Leslie Heseltine.

131)
British TV host Jonathon Ross once appeared in a TV ad for Rice Krispies when he was a child.

132)
British actress and musician Patsy Kensit once appeared in a TV ad for Birds Frozen Peas when she was a child.

133)
British TV host Keith Chegwin once appeared in a TV ad for Marathon Chocolate (Snickers) when he was a child.

134)
US TV host Queen Latifah was once a power forward on two State Championship Basketball Teams when she was at high school.

135)
US author Dr. Benjamin Spock competed at the 1924 Olympics and won a gold medal in the rowing event.

136)
British TV presenter Roy Walker was once a champion hammer thrower.

137)
Australian TV presenter and musician Rolf Harris was once the Junior Backstroke Champion of All Australia in 1946.

138)
British TV host Sir David Frost once had a Trial for Nottingham Forest Football Club.

139)
British TV presenter Des O'Connor once had a trial with Northampton Town Football Club.

140)
British comedian Eddie Large once had a trial with Manchester City Football Club.

141)
British comedian Stan Boardman once had a trial with Liverpool Football Club.

142)
British TV presenter and actor Angus Deayton once had a trial with Crystal Palace Football Club.

143)
British TV chef Gordon Ramsay played twice for Rangers Football Club.

144)
British TV presenter Stuart Hall once had a trial with Crystal Palace Football Club.

145)
British TV presenter Roy Walker worked on a shipyard and also on the QE2 before becoming famous.

146)
British TV gardener Charlie Dimmock worked as an apple picker and an airport check-in clerk before becoming famous.

147)
British TV presenter Mariella Frostrup worked as a press officer for the British Band UB40 before becoming famous.

148)
British TV presenter Davina McCall worked as a singing waitress in Paris before becoming famous.

149)
British TV presenter Melinda Messenger worked as an air stewardess before becoming famous.