Manchester Evening News from Manchester, Greater Manchester, England • 77

REMEMBER IT ACTOR Jonathon Morris was born (1960) Actress Diana Rigg was born (1938) Politician Iain Macleod died (1970) Turkish forces invaded northern Cyprus (1974) The 11th Olympic Games opened in Berlin (1936) Euston Station opened (1937) Equipment from the space probe Viking 1 landed on Mars (1975) SCREENS FOR IT TEN films for hypochondriacs: Deaf Smith And Johnny Ears Always In My Heart Giant Leeches Hot Lead and Cold Feet Feet First Guts and Glory Hot Blood Rib The Limping Man The Corpse Came COD possible from a patch 4ft by 3ft in 15 minutes Rock hurling: Up to 45000 residents of Pandhura India divide into two teams and throws rocks at each other until sunset In 1989 the left four dead and 616 injured Slime-jumping: an occasional competition in Castleford Idaho where contestants leap into a 600-gallon vat of gooey lime green gelatine to hunt for a marble at the bottom Amazing facts at your fingertips For wacky lists you Just beat IT SPOOF IT FOUR mickey taking pop songs: Lick A Smurp for Christmas by Father Abraphart and the Smurps (Jonathan King) mocked the record Compiled by George Dearsley Leader of the pack: ex-girl guide Sinitta above n-n-naughty spoofer Rory Bremner left pioneering Chatsworth MIX IT TEN completely useless pieces of information to break the ice at parties: The first ever false teeth were made of ivory Chatsworth House Derbyshire was the first stately home to have a bathroom with hot and cold running water A £5 note is approximately five and three quarter inches long The average British coin stays in circulation for 25 years It takes a crematorium on average 90 minutes to bum a corpse Around 75000 umbrellas are lost every year on buses and tube trains Indian ink actually comes from China One third of the population eat with their fingers The dragonfly has the best eyesight of any insect An omelette from a single ostrich egg could feed 12 people by Father Abraham and the Smurfs N-N-Nineteen Not Out by The Commentators (Rory Bremner) mocked Paul hit Nineteen Leader of the Pack by The Joan Collins Fan Club (Julian Clary) mocked the original hit by the Shangri-Las The Chicken Song by the cast of Spitting Image mocked Agadoo by Black Lace PASS IT CELEBRITY level passes: Anneka Rice (10) Prince Edward (9) Annie Lennox (7) Phillip Schofield (6) Paul Daniels (5) Gary Lineker (4) Steve Wright (3) Richard Branson (None) ORBIT TEN pop groups who are out of this world: Moontrekkers Midnight Star UFO Starship MARRS Planet Patrol Bill Haley and the Comets Georgia Satellites Moonshake Sunshot WOGGLE IT FORMER girl guides: Gloria Hunniford Sinitta Helen Sharman Judith Chalmers Kim Wilde Glenda Jackson Mandy Rice-Davies Anna Massey Virginia Bottomley EXERCISE IT FIVE real oddball sports: Mine-biking: racing through underground mines in Cornwall on mountain bikes Wadlopen: walking at speed at low tide between the islands around Pieterbusen in the Netherlands Worm charming: competitors must coax as many worms as 5 July 20 1994 MEN Magazine.