TRIVIA BITS 07 AUGUST

 

• To buy Bond Street on a London Monopoly board you will need to pay out GBP320.
• The Great Bear Lake is in Canada.
• In the popular comedy series The Black Adder, the title role was played by Rowan Atkinson.
• Mad Hatter’s Disease is caused by contact with the element mercury.
• The South American capital Quito (Ecuador) is named after the Quitu people.
• WHO, the United Nations agency, stand for World Health Organisation.
• Nine series of the sci-fi TV series The X-Files featuring Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) were produced.
• Vulcan is a name shared by a Kawasaki motor cycle, a bomber and a fictional humanoid species.
• NASA Scientists estimated in 2006 that a golf ball travelled more than 1.6 million kms after being struck by Russian cosmonaut Mikhal Tyrurin.
• In 1867 Russia sold Alaska to the USA under The Alaska Purchase being the acquisition of the Alaska territory by the United States from Russia by a treaty ratified by the US Senate. The transfer ceremony took place in Sitka on October 18, 1867. Russian and American soldiers paraded in front of the governor’s house; the Russian flag was lowered and the American flag raised amid peals of artillery.