TRIVIA BITS 31 MAY

 

• If you have the Midas touch, you have the ability to make money.
• In the book “The Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens, Sam Weller is Mr Pickwick’s valet.
• In the nursery rhyme “Baa, Baa Black Sheep”, the little boy lived down the lane.
• In the TV Sitcom “Happy Days”, the eldest Cunningham child was Charlie “Chuck” Cunningham.
• Mars was the Roman God of War.
• Media mogul, Kerry Packer, had as his personal motto “never complain, never explain.”
• Mystery author Agatha Christie’s maiden name was Miller.
• Proverbially, “absence makes the heart grow fonder”.
• Queen rock star Freddie Mercury died in 1991.
• Ricky Gervais played David Brent in the UK version of “The Office”.