This lovely young lady fresh out of teachers' college had introduced a trivia quiz each morning in the classroom to get the students brains working and it was young Dud's turn.

The students giggled among themselves, but nobody ventured an answer, while the poor young teacher just sat there wondering why she hadn't had the forethought to read the questions before each student asked them.

"Come-on!" urged young Dud who was getting impatient with his classmates.

"OK young Dud, where do you find the curliest hair on women?" ventured the teacher, knowing she had to get this over and done with.

"Fiji, Miss."

Trivia questions and quiz nights are a bit of fun aren't they?

I have been invited again by the good people of Burrawang to write the questions for their annual quiz night this Saturday.

The night is always a lot of fun with a packed hall full of people chatting, sipping wine and having a laugh in the old School of Arts, while supporting this local community hall fundraiser.

While preparing the questions my mind drifted back to a former work colleague, Peter Meline, who had a head full of useless information.

Peter has a smart brain and knows his professional stuff, but also has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the weirdest facts you could ever imagine. While waiting for meetings to start or chatting at morning tea I learned so much rubbish from him over the years.

Gems like, "Geoffrey, did you know that the female genitals of a human are almost identical to that of a Dugong."

Thanks for sharing that mate.

But he also told me so many other amazing things. I don't know if he just made them up, but they sounded convincing, so here goes with some of the things he told me over the years.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

A female ferret will die if it goes on heat and cannot find a mate.

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo.

Celery has negative calories, meaning it takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Bats always turn left when leaving a cave. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' toilet during a dance.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Rats and horses can't vomit. A cat's urine glows under a black light.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

And speaking of trivia, I read an article that said it takes food seven seconds to pass from the mouth to the stomach and the length of a penis is three times the length of your thumb.

A human hair is strong enough to support 3 kg and your femur is as hard as concrete.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's and women blink twice as much as men. Amazingly, it said we use 300 muscles just to keep on balance when we stand. The article concluded by suggesting that by now a woman would have read this entire paragraph, whereas your average bloke will still be either looking at his thumb or trying to lick his elbow.

Anyhoo, I might see you out at Burrawang on Saturday night for a bit more trivia, a chat and a glass of wine.