TRIVIA BITS 04 AUGUST

 

• A brontometer records the activities of thunderstorms and was invented by Richard, of Paris in 1890.
• The Bull and Bear are used metaphorically to describe the movement of financial market trends.
• The heat of Chilli Peppers is measured on the Scoville scale. The scale is named after its creator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville whose method, devised in 1912, is known as the Scoville Organoleptic Test
• In the NATO phonetic alphabet the letter C is represented by Charlie.
• A patzer is the name given to a poor player in the game of chess probably from the German word Patzer bungler or from patzen to blunder. First Known Use: 1959
• The Munich Olympic Games in 1972 will always be remembered for the terrorist attack by Palestinian terrorists during which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, a West German police officer, and five terrorists were killed.
• The maiden name of US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s mother was Moon.
• The North African nomadic inhabitants known as Tuareg are known as the people of the veil because the men wear the veil.
• The Melbourne Cup is known as the “race that stops the nation” in Australia.
• The Tallahatchie Bridge in Money, Mississippi is celebrated in the 1967 Bobbie Gentry song Ode to Billie Joe collapsed in 1972.