TRIVIA BITS 01 AUGUST

 

• Being bald means you are suffering from calvities.
• There are eight colour groups on a Monopoly board.
• In the Harry Potter series of books, Hermoine Granger’s cat is named Crookshanks.
• Klagenfurt International Airport is in Austria.
• In Ballet, pirouette is used to describe spinning on one foot with pointed toes.
• When a piece of turf is cut out of the ground by a golf club striking a ball, the turf is called a divot.
• The substance which is extracted during the mashing process of brewing beer is called Wort.
• The traditional purpose of a binnacle is to hold the ship’s navigational equipment.
• In the movie Rainman, Dustin Hoffman says he would be willing to fly on Qantas because of its safety record.
• The first dog to orbit the earth was Laika - a Soviet space dog who was eventually the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.