TRIVIA BITS

 

• Pregnancy in humans lasts on average about 270 days (from conception to birth).
• President Kaunda of Zambia once threatened to resign if his fellow countrymen didn't stop drinking so much alcohol.
• Princess Ann was the only competitor at the 1976 Montreal Olympics that did not have to undergo a sex test.
• Professor Moriarity was Sherlock Holmes' archenemy.
• Prussic acid, in a crystalline powder called Zyklon B, was used to kill in Germany's gas chambers. The gas would paralyse the victim's lungs, causing them to suffocate.
• QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is an  acronym, for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service.
• Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.
• Queen Victoria was one of the first women ever to use chloroform to combat pain during childbirth.
• Quinine is an alkaloid extract of the bark of the Cinchona tree.
• Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America.