Trivia Bits 29 November

 

• Frank Barone was the family patriarch in the Television series Everybody Loves Raymond.
• Sean Connery’s biography is titled Neither Shaken Nor Stirred.
• Swiss women gained the right to vote in every canton in 1990.
• Cispontine means on the north side of the Thames Bridges in London.
• The term for the home of an otter is the holt.
• The Murray River is the longest river in Australia at 2520km, combining with the Darling and Upper Darling Rivers to form the Murray-Darling basin. The Murray Darling extends over 15% of the continent, and serving 4 States and the ACT with water. The Murray also supports about 1/3 of Australia's agricultural production, supports 50% of Australia's sheep and croplands, and 25% of beef and dairy herds, contains about 62% of the country's irrigated land and supplies 50% of South Australia's water.
• The collective name for the 11^th, 12^th and 13^th holes at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia is Amen Corner.
• Microbiologists wear protective clothing to ward off germs and bacteria.
• Famed Australian cricketer Don Bradman had a middle name of George.
• The Hague is home to the International War Crimes Tribunal.