Stranger than fiction

If there is one thing that fascinates men, it's needless trivia. These mind-boggling facts fill conversations during evenings of pub banter and gigabytes of emails.

Mark Mason, author of 'The Importance of Being Trivial', says: "Trivia reawakens the child in all of us. When we hear that the greyhound goes from 0-45mph in one second it gives us a sense of the wonder in the world".

But do you know the real facts from the outrageous inaccuracies? Take the quiz and become a useless information mastermind.