Monday, August 6, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 06 AUGUST

 

  • Nova Scotia is a province of Canada.
  • Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains.
  • The North and South Islands of New Zealand are separated by the Cook Strait.
  • A medical condition that shares its name with a 1958 movie is Vertigo - Vertigo from the Latin vertō "a whirling or spinning movement" and is a subtype of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary
  • The common name for the card game vingt-et-un is blackjack.
  • The collective name for a group of lawyers is eloquence - an eloquence of lawyers.
  • 63 nations in 1971 signed an agreement in ceremonies in London, Moscow and Washington to ban nuclear weapons from the ocean floor.
  • An alternate name for a pumpkin is shared by a sport – squash.
  • After more than two decades in a South African jail, Nelson Mandela was released in 1990.

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