Wednesday, July 18, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 18 JULY

 

  • Bloody Mary is a character from the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific.
  • Playing Rocky Graziano in the 1956 movie Somebody Up There Likes Me was Paul Newman.
  • In Germany a Freeway is called an Autobahn.
  • Fortissimo is a musical direction meaning Very Loudly.
  • Lisbon is the capital of Portugal.
  • The title role in the 1994 Academy Ward winning movie Forrest Gump was played by Tom Hanks.
  • The resort city of Acapulco is in Mexico.
  • Born in Melbourne on May 21, 1930 was former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
  • The play A Streetcar Named Desire was written by Tennessee Williams in 1947 and for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.
  • Dunk Island is off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland.

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