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The Raven wrote:I'm over 771,033,600 seconds old!

Played son!

My full name gives me a Scrabble score of 28!

It gives you a Scrabble score of 0, actually. Proper nouns aren't allowed.

(And don't tell me about that stupid new version where they are allowed - that's not Scrabble in my eyes!)

He could play "THE" and "RAVEN" separately though.

And your name would only score you 28 if you played it on its own and didn't touch any bonus squares. It could score any number of points depending on where you played it, and what it intersected with.

Root wrote:It gives you a Scrabble score of 0, actually. Proper nouns aren't allowed.

(And don't tell me about that stupid new version where they are allowed - that's not Scrabble in my eyes!)

My first name is playable as it describes a narrow valley normally found in Scotland!

Plus you could use the shortened version of my middle name "WILL"

Yep, WILLIAM is a legal word. I just didn't know what your name was

Mussorgsky, Van Buren... mornington crescent?

Rowing and Tug-of-War are the only two Olympic sports in which you win by traveling backwards.

The slow bicycle race is the only sport you win by coming last

The Raven wrote:Rowing and Tug-of-War are the only two Olympic sports in which you win by traveling backwards.

what about swimming backwards!

palkanetojiala31 stultissimus est, quod non intellegens est. Sed callidus sum.

Tug-of-war hasn't been an Olympic sport since 1908 (funnily enough I discussed this with The Raven on our full network challenge).

A British team are reigning champions (City of London police)

Whether you are swimming backstroke or freestyle (or anything else, for that matter), you're not really moving "forwards" or "backwards", more like "upwards", in the direction of the head-to-toe axis of your body. That's the same whether you're lying on your front or your back.

There are, however, Olympic disciplines besides rowing where the athlete moves backwards, though perhaps not for the whole duration. High jumping, for example, with the Fosbury Flop.

Anyway, speaking of slow bicycle races:

Alfie and Bertha were having an argument about who had the slowest bicycle. They both thought their own bicycle was slower. They agreed to have a race to settle it, but when the race started, neither of them moved away from the starting line. How did they resolve the situation? Answer below (copy and paste it somewhere to see it).

They swapped bikes.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in the universe is in a laboratory on Earth (unless aliens have beaten us).

In 1999 a temperature of 100 pK was achieved (Tenth of a billionth of a degree off absolute zero)

To put that in context, imagine a massive temperature scale stretching from America to Britain, with room temperature at one end and absolute zero at the other. That temperate is within a width of a pencil from absolute zero!

^ That was achieved in Finland However, I don't think it's possible to say it was the coldest temperature ever recorded in the universe, as we don't know the entire contents of the universe.