TRIVIA BITS 10 JUN

 

 

• The River Avon flows through the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
• The expression “up the creek and without a paddle” means you are in predicament or in trouble.
• Napoleon Bonaparte advocated “six hours of sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool”.
• Beginning and ending with “und” is the world underground.
• The characters Theseus, Hermia and Lysander appeared in the Shakespearean play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”.
• Swedish actor Great Garbo’s final movie was “Two-Faced Woman”.
• Brigadoon is a Broadway musical about a Scottish town that disappears and returns every 100 years.
• The epic poem “Paradise Lost” was written by John Milton.
• The musical direction “con delore” means “with sadness: sorrowfully”.
• A mihi is a formal Maori greeting.