Friday, June 15, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 15 JUN

 

  • Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic was born in 1992 in Germany.
  • Jack fell down and broke his crown in the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill.
  • The giraffe has the longest tail of any land mammal.
  • The Rudder is the vertical plate or board for steering a boat.
  • Shinkansen is the word generally used for the renowned Japanese bullet train.
  • The airline LOT operates from Poland.
  • Tom Jones’ hit The Green Grass of Home starts “The old home town looks the same; As I step down from the train”.
  • Maggots are the ingredient necessary to make the Sardinian delicacy casu marzu.
  • Tandoori is an Indian clay oven used for tasty cooking.
  • Cherries go into the making of Kirsch.

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