Trivia Bits 03 January

 

• The Lockie Leonard series of children’s novels in the 1990’s were written by Tim Winton.
• Julian, the son of Beatle John Lennon, said that his father told him that he ”came out of a whiskey bottle on a Saturday night”.
• Australian state Victoria was the last state to give in 1908 the vote to women.
• Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 128,000, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin has grown from a pioneer outpost and small port into one of Australia's most modern and multicultural cities.
• The capital of the US state of Nevada is Carson City.
• Topaz in its purest state is colourless.
• When you nictate you are briefly shutting your eyes.
• In the early 20^th Century, Alfred Deakin as an anonymous correspondent for the London Morning Post , wrote report criticising his own actions as Prime Minister.
• Snoopy, in the comic strip Peanuts, has been promoted as the world’s most famous Beagle.
• Covent Garden, a district noted for its former vegetable and flower market, is in London.