TRIVIA BITS 03 JUN

 

 

• The Sardinian delicacy Casu Marzu requires the necessary ingredient of maggots.
• The song “Big Spender” comes from the Broadway show “Sweet Charity”.
• The Spanish word Hombre means Man.
• The town of Prypiat in Ukraine was built 1970 to house the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant. It was abandoned in 1986.
• There are four syllables in a quadrisyllabic word.
• Tom Jones’ hit song “The Green Green Grass of Home” starts with “The old town looks the same; As I step down from the train.”
• Tragic star-crossed lovers’ death ultimately uniting their feuding families is the story-line of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”.
• Veteran Australian Tennis player Ken Rosewall is nicknamed Muscles.
• Vodka Citron, Cointreau, fresh lime juice and Cranberry juice are ingredients for the cocktail “Cosmopolitan”.
• Will Ferrell’s basketball team in the movie “Semi-Pro” was The Flint Tropics.